The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Written by Stieg Larsson
Translated by Reg Keeland

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $24.95

National Bestseller

An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle... Read more >

The Private Patient

Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $25.95

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The Lost Art of Gratitude
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $23.95

The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie.

Isabel’s son, Charlie, is now of an age—eighteen months—to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel’s surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying... Read more >

Full Cupboard of Life/In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: December 23, 2008
Price: $28.00


Full Cupboard of Life
In the fifth book in the prodigiously successful series, traditionally built, eminently sensible Mma Precious Ramotswe continues her enterprise at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana, a country that is indeed fortunate.

Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should... Read more >

Blue Shoes and Happiness/The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
More From the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $28.00

Blue Shoes and Happiness
From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comes this seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series featuring Botswana’s best-loved detective.
Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve people’s problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the... Read more >

The Lighthouse

Written by P. D. James

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $27.95

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated... Read more >

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $21.95

In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a... Read more >

The Sunday Philosophy Club
An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $21.95

With The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the best-selling and beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, begins a wonderful new series starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie.

Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business... Read more >

Nature Girl

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $28.95

Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands... Read more >

Lethal Legacy
A Novel
Written by Linda Fairstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $26.95

In Linda Fairstein’s outstanding new novel, the New York Public Library houses dazzling treasures—and deadly secrets.

When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare... Read more >