City of Ice

Author	C.C. Benison
ISBN	0553574787

Housemaid Jane Bee's summer duties run to dusting the props for a week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, the Queen's favorite haunt. But the Investiture of the new Knights of the Garter ends up combining pomp with a extremely unpleasant circumstance.... Mild-mannered art curator Roger Pettibon is found...

Author	Claire Letemendia
ISBN	0771052707

It is 1642, and Laurence Beaumont has just returned to England after six long years fighting — and avoiding fighting — in the European Wars. Having fled his home to escape the responsibilities of his noble birthright, he has been a lowly infantryman in Spain, a spy for the Germans, and a cardsharp...

Author	Lucian K. Truscott IV
ISBN	0451190475

This is a long novel, set in West Point during the Vietnam war years. There is much exposition and backstory. The gay stuff was handled with a tender mixture of disgust and wonderment. In his closing speech, our young hero seems to be saying that one could not draw the line between gayness and other facets...

Author	Richard Paul Russo
ISBN	0441013899

This is the second book I've read by the author and, though it definitely isn't as good as Ship of Fools, I found myself enjoying it quite a lot. I'm fairly new to scifi, I know world building is suppose to be a huge element and there was some of that in the book, but I think Russo's main strength is in his writing...

Author	F. Paul Wilson
ISBN	0446604739

Julie Gordon, a leading research scientist at the age of 27, has created the most exciting virtual reality program ever--a computer-enhanced, 3D voyage into the mind. When she receives the news that her estranged twin sister Samantha is in a coma, she realizes that her sister is dying, and no one can...

Author	Colin Harrison
ISBN	0312979665

Jack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well-paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife's murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget.

Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on...

Author	Peter C. Newman
ISBN	0140067205

In many ways it is amazing that the Hudson's Bay Company survived. This book covers the HBC from its rather inauspicious beginnings in the mid 17th century to the threshold of modern times in the mid 19th century. It is difficult to imagine a more inhospitable geography, where trees were stunted if they...

Author	Anthony Hyde
ISBN	0140083987

In his widely acclaimed, intelligently written first novel, Anthony Hyde gives us the thrilling story of a search -- from Canada to Georgetown to Paris to Leningrad, and finally to an isolated Russian village -- for a missing man, a missing fortune, and the key to a tantalizing mystery half a century...

Author	Anthony Bidulka
ISBN	1894663977

Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur ... and private detective Russell Quant's newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on this family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his...

Author	Melodie Campbell
ISBN	1459801253

Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately she's also "the Goddaughter," and, as she tells her new friend Pete, "you don't get to choose your relatives." And you can't avoid them when you live in Hamilton and they more or less run the place....

Author

Howard Shrier

Toronto investigator Jonah Geller is at a low point in his life. A careless mistake on his last case left him with a bullet in his arm, a busted relationship and a spot in his boss's doghouse. Then he comes home to find notorious contract killer Dante Ryan in his apartment — not to kill him for butting into...

Author

Ingrid Black

Five years ago, the serial killer known as the Night Hunter vanished without trace after murdering five women. Now another killer claiming to be the notorious Ed Fagan is back prowling the streets of Dublin in search of new victims - but Saxon, former FBI agent turned true crime author, knows that it can’t...

Author	Bari Wood
ISBN	0380720973

Eve Klein was born wtih a "gift" she doesn't want. It drove her husband away and her mother to suicide. It forces her to see things...to know things.

In her mind, she can see the pain, the terror, the blood. and the eyes-- cold and merciless, alive...yet dead.

Destiny has brought her to...

Author

Suzanne Vermeer

Suzanne Vermeer is het pseudoniem van de in juni 2011 overleden auteur Paul Goeken. In 2002 debuteerde hij met zijn eerste thriller onder zijn eigen naam. Na vier titels ontstond het idee om daarnaast andere boeken onder pseudoniem uit te brengen. All-inclusive (2006) was het eerste boek op naam van...

Author	Susan Howatch
ISBN	0751533920

Miss Howatch's Wales-based coven is cosy indeed; the attendants of that oddly magnetic young man, Tristan Poole, are middle-aged and anxious to please, although they're apt to foul up their assignments. The group inhabits the Court of Walter Colwyn under the guise of a natural foods society. Poole...

Author	Pip Vaughan-Hughes
ISBN	0752868616

England, 1235, and Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk. Struggling to keep his soul fairly clean and worrying most about resisting the local girls, he inadvertently stumbles headlong into vicious trap. Framed by a sinister Templar Knight for a brutal murder of a church official and...

Author	Gail Bowen
ISBN	0771014872

Verdict in Blood is Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into – and out of – trouble.

In...

Author	Loes den Hollander
ISBN	9061123550

Het begon een paar weken geleden. Sandra stond voor de etalage van een schoenenwinkel in de Leidsestraat. Er stonden geen mensen naast haar. Ook niet achter haar, zag ze, toen ze achterom keek. Dat was vreemd, want ze had het gevoel dat er iemand in de buurt was. Sinds die middag heeft ze regelmatig de indruk...

Author	Mignon F. Ballard
ISBN	0312376677

It’s Christmastime in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone’s Throw, South Carolina, but amid all the caroling, cookies, and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the holiday season.

Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and welcome boarder with longtime...

Author	Evan Hunter
ISBN	0340598859

"A special occasion" "(Entertainment Weekly)" in the celebrated career of Evan Hunter, "Criminal Conversation" goes deeper than most suspense fiction dares -- inside the intimate, sensual secrets of lovers...

In a chic apartment hidden within a working class neighborhood, Sarah and...

Author	Carlene Thompson
ISBN	0312984626

Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the rumors behind her back, Blaine Avery is focused on managing her late husband's finances and raising her adolescent stepdaughter...until...