A collection of essays from the Roman Stoic philosopher, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world.

This companion to the bestselling The Hero Within outlines twelve archetypal patterns that can aid inner development and the quest for wholeness.

In this classic mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series, the beleaguered D.A. tackles one last case of murder and mayhem in rural California.

An archaeologist and a Boston detective team up on a deadly investigation that reaches back to ancient Ireland in this romantic suspense thriller.

From a New York Times bestselling author, a romantic thriller featuring a bounty hunter haunted by the brutal murder of her father when she was a teen.

A murder on the unforgiving Icelandic coast unearths a dark past in this thriller by the acclaimed author of Last Rituals.

Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries A.D., but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.

Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate.

In this Depression-era noir series debut, a politician’s murder leads a Chicago crime reporter to a conspiracy involving the Cubs’ race for the pennant.

An odd couple of detectives descends on New Orleans to search for a missing heiress in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.

A PI hunts for the truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicide in this novel by an author who "strikes a deft balance between his extraordinary South Florida setting and an engrossing tale of inhumanity and greed" (Publishers Weekly).

“Backs up its detailed police procedure with entertaining, quirky characters.” —People

New York Times bestseller

Griswold Forsythe II wants to know which greedy, conniving relative is making off with his family treasures. Archy McNally takes on the curious case of a thief with exquisite taste. But things take a nasty turn when Griswold is murdered.

From a British Golden Age author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” Sir John Appleby solves an art world crime (The Times Literary Supplement).

An artist juggles her complicated love life as she plans an outdoor quilt show in rural Wisconsin in this novel of love, friendship, and crafting.

In The Basement Quilt, the debut novel by Ann Hazelwood, you got to know the family and friends of Ann Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs are as familiar as your own. In this follow-up book, Ann and her fiancé start house-hunting…or is that haunting?

A Manhattan doctor is brutally murdered in his office. He was bludgeoned just a few feet from where his nurses were working, but no one was seen entering or leaving. It’s an impossible murder, and it will take more than a doctor to stop this kind of sickness. The case will be solved thanks to one of the great marvels of the twentieth century: the collective minds of Mr. and Mrs. North.

New York Times bestselling author

A journalist tracks escaped Nazi Martin Bormann in this World War II thriller by the author of The Eagle Has Landed and Rain on the Dead. An electrifying investigation exposes the unwitting role of five Allied POWs in Bormann’s escape plot as the Nazi regime crumbled. Now, with help from a surviving POW, this journalist follows history’s twists and turns to a final, shocking conclusion.

A Spanish homicide detective is drawn into a tangle of danger and international conspiracy after a gangster is killed by the Russian mafia.

“Few writers—in any genre—can match Wilson’s depth of character and plot or his evocation of place and of history.” —The Boston Globe