Renaissance Literary Talent: 60 books

Judith Gould continues the story of the Hale family in her new novel of sizzling romance and corporate intrigue. On opening night of businesswoman Dorothy Anne Hale Cantwell's new luxurious San Francisco Hotel, she loses the man who was her whole life--her husband Freddy. Now, a mysterious group of...

Brand new ebook edition including 39 black and white photos! David Brown, a self-made millionaire by the age of thirty-two, had a seemingly perfect life: a lucrative business, a beautiful young wife and a daughter who loved him very much. His life changed drastically after his wife was shot...

To survive in this world, you've got to come to an accommodation, a compromise - an arrangement. For sexual and emotional survival, you need a marriage. For economic survival, you need a job, a career, success. This is the stunning, unforgettable story of one man crashing out of his arrangement....

It's not all fun and sun in the Greek islands. For Miranda Kalli, a young, idealistic archeologist working in a Manhattan gallery of ancient art and antiquities, the invitation to participate in an archeological dig in the Aegean is irresistible, truly a gift from the gods. But the...

“Think for a moment what paper means to people. How ubiquitous it is in everyday life….A material of paradoxes, it can be used and abused in a thousand ways and still be the same under its skin. It is the embodiment of man’s achievement, yet it is as transient and as flimsy as tissue…. In...

The threat of Libya's Colonel Quaddafi to explode a three-megaton nuclear bomb hidden in New York, unless an autonomous Palestinian state is immediately established, affects the lives of ordinary citizens, politicians, secret agents, and terrorists.

Pursuing their respective dreams at Burghley's, Manhattan's most prestigious art auction house, three beautiful women are thwarted by a master criminal who threatens their futures at the moment they reach the pinnacle of success.

Cornell Woolrich is "our greatest writer of Suspense Fiction" - Francis Nevins, Woolrich biographer. Mystery in Room 913 is one of Woolrich's short stories that could really be classified as a novelette based upon it's length. Set in New York, a place he lived with his mother, and...

Black Alibi is classic Woolrich, a creepy tale of suspense. The story revolves around Kiki Walker, a second-rate American singer who becomes a sensation in South America known for her beauty and wildly red hair. Her press agent arranges for her to parade up and down the streets with a "tamed"...

“Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.” —Newsday This novel, written in 1948 is the last installment of the so-called Black Series which includes "The Bride Wore Black", "The Black Path of Fear", "The Black Angel",...

"Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Cornell Woolrich is "our greatest writer of Suspense Fiction."...

The six novels of Cornell Woolrich’s famous Black Series—The Bride Wore Black (1940), The Black Curtain (1941), Black Alibi (1942), The Black Angel (1943), The Black Path of Fear (1944) and Rendezvous in Black (1948)—are the pinnacle of the era’s noir crime fiction writing. At a time when...