The Murphy Homes housing development was located in the heart of West Baltimore until the city demolished the homes in 1999. The four-building, fourteen stories high, was once notorious for crime, drugs, and murder. Most of the unemployed, crack-addicted residents that lived at Murphy Homes were trapped in a life of crime with nowhere to go, but the graveyard. Their children's lives were destroyed. Born to a crack-addicted mother, young Shaun Jones...

Retired intelligence analyst Casey Collins takes a pre-season package tour to the Greek island of Crete. Her bargain vacation should be a perfect way to escape February's chilly darkness, soak up Mediterranean sunshine, and study Minoan history and culture. But she runs into two problems. First, she finds that none of the other tour group members will converse in her native language. And they don't understand her broken version of theirs. Luckily,...

Extrait: "C'est un rêve. Ne m'interrogez pas; je vous le montre comme je l'ai eu; regardez-le. Il m'a semblé que c'était le soir. Le fenêtre d'une chambre o je me trouvais était ouverte. Le soleil y regardait avec des yeux mourants, et paraissait dire encore aux six bâtons presque blancs qui, debout, brillaient par le haut dans la chambre: Lumières, vous pâlirez! Et en effet le soleil et les lumières étaient comme le diamant avec le stras." À...

The cemetery's newest arrival seems more surprised to find herself dead than a woman in her seventies should be. Her mourners exhibit an equally perplexing level of shock.Robert and Clothilde, the resident ghosts, investigate the woman's unfinished business as usual, but before long, another newcomer joins them. And another one.And another…Quiet companionship becomes a thing of the past while our ghost detectives battle an invisible and intangible...

5 gripping, action-packed spy stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding spy stories in this one volume.Includes:A Spy In RomeOur Woman In ParisMystery and Crime In SpaceThe 12:30 To St PancrasA Most Unfortunate Case of Spy nappingLove spies? Love great stories? Connor gives you both layered on thick in this amazingly fun collection.

In Men I'm not Married To Dorothy Parker's famous wit is on full display as she describes nine men that she did not marry. Some of the descriptions are long and involved others are but a single line such as "Lloyd wears washable neckties." Delightful and funny!

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie's short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It's an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans. Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet...

This book tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Carthage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfill his destiny: to found the Roman people.

Explore exotic new worlds in the celebrated and enduring classic of space travel on a cosmic scale, Ole Doc Methuselah mixes equal parts of vivid action, spectacle and mystery and a broad vein of humor to chronicle the voyages and exploits of Ole Doc Methuselah and his unique alien companion, Hippocrates. Ole Doc journeys through the universe as a member of the elite Soldiers of Light, a heroic physician who fights the disease, corruption and social/political...

From the author of the "sophisticated and erudite" Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled...