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What drove a woman to murder in 1920s New England? "Few readers will be prepared for the surprise that awaits at novel's end" in this Edgar Award–winning novel ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).It was referred to as the Chatham School affair—a tragic event that destroyed five lives, shook a coastal Massachusetts community to its core, and traumatized a boy named Henry Griswald. Now Henry is an aged, unmarried lawyer, and as he writes his will, he recalls...

If you believe that the answer no is but a request for more information and understand that the best closing questions are rhetorical, you understand the basic art of sales. If you can teach that art to others, you have the makings of a good sales manager. But not all good sales managers are equal; some are forward thinking enough to be good leaders as well as managers. To be a leader you have to see failures as opportunities to learn and you have to understand the best way to res...

The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too controversial to be published during his lifetime, it was surreptitiously printed by Spinoza's friends after his death. Nowadays the Ethics is studied in university classes as an exemplary work o...

Every company is recognizing the critical importance of protecting its customer base by raising the bar of its customer service prowess.Excellence in Managing Worldwide Customer Relationships identifies the risks companies face when expanding their business model in both domestic and overseas markets and offers solutions, strategies, and a structure to minimize obstacles when selling to domestic and foreign markets while satisfying customers and developing new business.Thi...

Kathleen returns to her hometown for the funeral of her father. As a child she was fascinated with four o'clocks. The mysterious flowers that her father warned "you can't never get rid of". As an adult she was envious of them. Tired of moving from place to place with her husband, she longed to take root and stay in one place. Most of all, she wanted to say "I'll be here next year".

Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of the most horrific murders in American history.Jerry Alday an...

Will the truth bring peace—or pain? A "once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece" by the Edgar Award–winning author ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists' retreat in New York's quiet, picturesque Hudson Valley. But his purpose for being there is not a pleasant escape. He's been tasked with something more unusual.Long ago, when Riverwood was a private estate, a teenage girl was murdered th...

Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl's killer.The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel for the neighborhood where she died, and only the baby in her belly suggests how she might have gotten there.For Detective Frank Clemons, the scene is far too familiar. Too close to how it was...

A must-read for senior executives navigating global uncertainty, this book delivers a powerful analysis of the trade disruptions triggered by Covid-19 and the broader economic consequences of tariffs. Drawing on deep expertise, the author presents actionable strategies for building resilient, forward-looking business models that can withstand future global shocks.Packed with insights on risk mitigation, cost control, and strategic contingency planning, this guide equips leaders wit...

Five decades after war's end, a rare-books dealer receives a strange visitor.The guns went silent on November 11, 1918, never to fire again. Throughout the 1920s, unrest seethed across Europe, and Fascists battled Communists in the streets of Berlin, but democracy won out. For years, peace has prevailed around the world. But there is a part of Franklin Altman that misses the war.A rare-books dealer living in New York City, Altman has devoted his life to study...

A "gripping" mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness, by the Edgar Award–winning author ( Entertainment Weekly).David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David's sister, Diana, for her superior intelligence. When the old man died, David thought the madness had finally left with him. But the Sears family was not thro...

A photographer struggles to understand a stranger's suicideThere's nothing special about the woman's death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman's attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buyin...