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Now a statewide troubleshooter, Detective Lucas Davenport is plunged into a murder investigation that involves a Russian corpse, 50-year-old bullets, and some high-level government connections.

Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before, but never one quite like this.

Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop.

Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation.

On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered.

Years agos, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hit-woman in the business.

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him.

Team Secrets of the Navy SEALs is written especially for business professionals who want to make it in today's extremely aggressive business environment.

This clever little volume was devised to provide hints on setting a modest but “well-ordered table” for the “young and inexperienced mistress of a household where a moderate income renders economy

The particular emphasis on varieties of seafood in The New England Cook Book, including specific recipes for cod, halibut, striped and sea bass, black fish, shad, salt cod, fish cakes, lobsters and

Published in 1830 in Watertown, New York, and then in 1831 in Canada (where it became Canada’s first cookbook), this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection stresses American cooking