(Book 3, Eriksson Series)An early morning at physical therapy to rehabilitate Helen Eriksson's recent injury turns into a nightmare rife with déjà vu for the Darkwater Bay police department. Helen interrupts an attack on a young woman - the daughter of former Assistant District Attorney David Ireland - on the anniversary of his murder.Helen leaps at the opportunity to finally link a crime to her personal nemesis Danny Datello, long suspected in the murder-for-hire of ADA Ir...

In 529 A.D. Cybele and Diana are the Thelma and Louise of Rome. Both are on the lam to Constantinople, Cybele from her life as a prostitute, and Diana, a socialite, from being framed for the murder of her groom on their wedding night. Despite their contrasting social status, they forge a lasting friendship, ultimately one sacrificing her life to save the other, burying her in a sarcophagus in a burial cave.Dr. Chloe Anderson is head of an archaeology team excavating the Byzantine b...

Emilie Adler, a gifted Hungarian athlete, one of only a handful of Jews who refused to boycott the infamous 1936 Nazi Olympics, wins bronze for Hungary. Eight years later, during the German invasion of Hungary, Adolph Eichmann arrives in Budapest and Emilie is caught up in the Holocaust. Working with Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's special envoy to Hungary, she survives the war years and continues to live in Hungary. But the 1956 Hungarian Revolt is the last straw for Emilie. Determined to esca...

Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no— "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman—he thinks at first she's a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of item...

In "The Lifted Veil," George Eliot navigates the intricate interplay of consciousness and fate through the lens of a chilling psychological narrative. Written in 1859, this novella showcases Eliot's profound exploration of human emotion, employing a rich, lyrical prose style that immerses the reader in the protagonist'Äôs tormented psyche. The story centers on Latimer, a man cursed with the ability to foresee the future, challenging the conventions of Victorian literary realism while delvi...

When Arcadia Jones, a Harvard professor and curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City receives a scrap of what appears to be an old manuscript, she has it carbon dated and confirms that it is from the 1500’s During research, her hunch suggests that the sample is from one of da Vinci’s lost books that were stolen from his protégé, after his death. There is no accompanying letter, only a return address, so her only course of action is to travel to Rome and contact the sender, who c...

It's Halloween, and harmless Kate is once again pursuing her hobby of etching the dead. It's a hobby that has consumed most of her adult life. She's not sure why she does it until she discovers an old New Hampshire cemetery. And it is there, deep in the cemetery that she comes across seven headstones, all in a circle. A round table of the dead if you will. And it is there that she discovers that the graves are of seven young women born of the same day as she and her friends, and all having...

The classic Danish thriller dubbed 'The First Crime Novel.'The trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby took place at Aarhus in 1626. The trial centered around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who was employed at Pastor Quist's rectory. Fifteen years later, in 1622, human remains were unearthed on the grounds of the rectory. The bones were believed to belong to Hovgaard and word soon spread that the Reverend Quist had slaughtered him...

(Eriksson #8) Hedra Dearhart is an outcast with vivid dreams. When she begins writing about her nightmares for English Composition, all she envisions is a high GPA. But someone notices eerie similarities between what she writes and crimes reported in the newspaper. The snag is that the dreams occur before the news breaks. What follows is a head-scratching mystery for the police in Darkwater Bay.

Helen Eriksson's insight shifts gears - from the secrets of others to the mystery of her true identity. When she turns to her father for answers, it nearly destroys her other life. Is Wendell Eriksson the ultimate sinner, or an unqualified saint? Lost in her own doubts and fears, it takes another murder to yank Helen's focus back where it belongs. (Eriksson Novel #6)

Lily is a feisty young businesswoman, seduced by the prospect of turning round a company as a distraction from her messy divorce. She soon finds herself up to her pretty neck in mystery and intrigue – with devastating consequences. Add a gorgeous bodyguard, Brian; his young boss, Ayesha; Mohammed, Ayesha’s damaged husband - plus a couple of villains - and the stage is set for an interesting journey. Lily’s love of animals, ecology and Africa are the theme throughout the book – with fascina...