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Written in 1868 and considered the first English mystery story, the moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty originally stolen from a shrine in India.

Presents Stephanie Plum, a gritty female detective from New Jersey.

Sold into prostitution as an orphan, Angel has never believed in love. Then Michael Hosea pursues her, showers her with unconditional love, and marries her.

Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson must ensnare a modern-day killer, a bogus spiritualist, and a predatory debutante in the awesome Valley of the Kings.

Amelia hopes to rekindle some of the old fire with Emerson in a return journey to Amarna, Egypt where they met 13 years before.

A single word was scrawled across the wall in blood red letters. Holmes and Watson are deducing again.

When Father Tim finds a battered nativity scene in an antique shop, something stirs within him.

Sara's terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with a famous man, former pro football player Adam Black.

Hannah Swensen's supplies are delivered daily by Ron LaSalle, whom she often passes on her way to work.

There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity.

After years of wandering from whim to whim, thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche.

Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity .