Arcade Publishing imprint: 222 books

In nineteenth-century Norway, a woman’s life is shaped and shadowed by a childhood tragedy: “Spellbinding . . . haunting” (Publishers Weekly). Dina carries a terrible burden: at the age of five, she accidentally caused her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm,...

A mesmerizing novel of love, trauma, and sibling rivalry: “Marvelously rich . . . steeped in European history and charged by present-day anxieties” (Publishers Weekly). At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy...

A midwestern reporter uncovers a scientist’s quest to create the fountain of youth in this gripping exploration of genetics, philosophy, and human desire. In the not-so-distant future, a renowned, elderly scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice. When Kansas City Star reporter...

An “engaging international thriller” set on India's rugged Tibetan frontier (Kirkus Reviews). The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie is home to everyone from Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters to missionaries, tourists, and spies. It is there, in a top-secret facility,...

A controversial professor is murdered in London in this novel from “a master of mysteries” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Following her ordeal in the stakeout at the Silvermeadow supermall, Det. Sergeant Kathy Kolla is on leave, so haunted by past events that she’s tempted to quit the force...

**The “**fourth raucous adventure” of the Murray Whelan Mystery from the author of Nice Try features “the charming and reckless Australian political adviser” (Publishers Weekly).   Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election is looming, and his days as advisor to Angelo Agnelli, minister...

In modern-day London, a descendant of the legendary founder of Communism is murdered, and two Scotland Yard sleuths are on the case.   A notorious curmudgeon, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock has his doubts about Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, a young neophyte to the legendary Scotland Yard,...

A “cleverly devious” mystery that sends two Scotland Yard detectives into an upscale spa that may be a crime scene (Los Angeles Times). Following Barry Maitland’s first mystery, The Marx Sisters, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock of Scotland Yard...

A museum exhibit celebrating the art of killing turns deadly in this “fiendishly clever pitch-black comedy” skewering the contemporary Italian art world (The Australian). Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a...

This thriller about a Pakistani police officer racing to save a kidnapped American offers “a gripping portrait of a casually corrupt city” (The New York Times Book Review). Days before the American president is about to visit Karachi, Pakistan, an American journalist is kidnapped. His captors...

A leading voice on Asian affairs and genetics delivers a “stellar and well-paced” techno-thriller that “fans of sci-fi and mystery will definitely enjoy” (Portland Book Review). Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the...

A New York Times Notable Book chronicling the nineteenth-century scandal of the Elgin Marbles, their removal from the Parthenon, and Lord Elgin’s harrowing fate. As the Napoleonic Wars raged in the first years of the nineteenth-century, Scottish diplomat Lord Elgin committed one of the most...

A mystery spanning thousands of years—and a compelling study of early mankind and the first sparks of human artistic creativity.   Thirty thousand years ago, our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible?...

“Here’s Leonardo, raw and unmediated, on art, color, anatomy, astronomy and much more**” (Los Angeles Times).** Towering across time as the creator of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance...