Speaking Volumes: 953 books

Whidbey, the lovely little island in Puget Sound, was a small world that could be quickly filled with cruel gossip or haunting memories. Yet Ginger Cowan had stayed on long after Deuin MacPherson had married her, confessed on their wedding night he'd been unfaithful, and left for Chicago. She'd gone...

She was a true peach. Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams—movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery, the brilliant critic whose daily column she read...

"Baja California is no place for a woman alone," said the arrogant stranger. Mark Chavira was too handsome by far. And far too self-assured. But Joey Scott pointedly ignored his disturbing stare and set out for La Paz, Mexico. All too soon she would be forced to accept the shelter—and...

Yes—she couldn't deny it—she still wanted him. But it could never be as it had been before. A few short years ago Stacie Smythe had been his student at the university. Awed by his brilliance, overwhelmed by her own desire, she had become his wife. She had married him...then left him to...

BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? When Clint Adams happens upon three lovely ladies alone on the trail, it looks like time for some community service—Gunsmith style. But when these love-starved cats start fighting over the Gunsmith, he's ready to saddle up... Turns out the women are connected...

Bill Worden had been sheriff of Grant County for eleven years, yet now he was faced with the toughest twenty-four hours of his life. He had always succeeded in keeping things quiet between the ranchers and the farmers—but that was before he had a prisoner to hang: Ed Lake, a convicted murderer. Now...

The railroad is coming to the West—and every swindler and scalawag in the Wyoming Territory is out to make hay while the sun shines. But when they kill one of the Gunsmith's friends and shoot up another, it's time for him to take a stand. What Clint Adams doesn't know is that the town is...

Detective John Dark is back for what could easily be his toughest assignment yet. Hired as a body guard for a group of exotic dancers, Dark thinks he is in for easy money and easy kicks. But nothing is ever easy for Dark, and he is soon faced with an enemy with the power of time travel. When the exotic...

John Dark has a one night stand with Elizabeth Bathory. He's infected by her with something that makes him exhibit the symptoms of being a cross between a vampire and a werewolf. The only cure for this condition is to travel back to the middle ages, back to Bathory's home, and kill her before any...

Totem Lake had never seen the likes of the Giant Bare-Knuckle Fist-fighter Night Knuckles. The people of Totem Lake never imagined The Dark Magic that Dr. Abner had at his command. Before they were through The Hungry Dead would walk the Earth and The Old West would never be the Same.

From the acclaimed author of The Dutchman and The House on Mulberry Street comes another darkly thrilling mystery rooted in New York's historic past. In November 1864, Manhattan mirrors the tumult of the Civil War. Bowery toughs rub shoulders with fashionable theatergoers, crippled veterans...

When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage. Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police...

FARGO IS COMING For two years, thirteen men in San Lorenzo had feared the return of killer Ben Fargo. For the day they had sentenced him to rot in Canon City Prison, he had sworn to get even with them. Now Fargo had escaped and nothing could stop him. Hate in his blood, a six-shooter in his...

‘Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page’-Guardian FOR ONE SCOTTISH COP THE BEAT IS ABOUT TO GET DARK AND VERY BLOODY . . . Dl Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe—putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's...