Epicenter: 84 books

Two Kenyans who entered the U.S. with forged UN documents are killed. UN auditor Vermeulen suspects crimes worse than fraud. After riling “The Broker” in Newark, he follows the clues to Vienna. Hustler Earle Jackson soon regrets trying to con the Broker. Using the dead Kenyon’s passport, he flees to Nairobi. Both men are now the targets of a vast and vicious criminal network.

A popular mariachi singer is found shot and buried south of Santa Fe near Cerrillos, putting him in the jurisdiction of Detective Rick Romero and Forensic Psychologist Jemimah Hodge. Eduardo Sanchez had a massive ego that could well have gotten him killed, considering his penchant for reckless womanizing. However, as the weeks pass, the trail grows cold.

When her opera-fundraiser brother is charged with killing a donor, mezzo-soprano Renata Radleigh must clear his name. The victim invented a lucrative vaccine, and in visiting the medical center, Renata finds an unexpected ally: a handsome young man in PR. Their snooping will take her beyond the small world of grand opera and into the big-money, high-risk pharmaceutical development game.

Still kicking herself in the pants for ever getting married in the first place, twenty-something crime statistician Marcie Rayner does a turnaround. She divorces her philandering husband and trades her desk job in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a temporary role as an investigative assistant in New Ulm. Never...

A young woman is gunned down on the same night Son of Sam strikes elsewhere in Queens. The New York press and police drop everything to pursue the psycho killer, leaving Coleridge Taylor to tell Martha’s story. As he closes in on the mystery, a blackout sets off an orgy of looting and arson. Can Taylor stay alive until the lights come on?

This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge set in Fairbanks, Alaska--a once thriving little mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast territory in 1934. As Jack's dad liked say, no matter what direction you went out of town, you soon...

Grace Church is once again in turmoil. First Father Robert is displaced from the old rectory by a thrift store, then a young man volunteering at the shop is shot dead while on duty. Though well-loved, Nick had a criminal past. Did his past catch up with him? When an explosion and vandalism follow, the priest and his staff can’t help but wonder: will the killer strike again?

Reminiscent of the best of Annie Dillard, Mary Carr and Sebastian Junger, Leslie Leyland Fields' Alaskan memoir is an inspiring narrative of life in the wild. SURVIVING THE ISLAND OF GRACE is a beautiful and haunting memoir of a woman who left the East Coast and moved to Alaska looking for a new life....

Start with an unlucky number. Throw in a romantic location. Include a dashing Frenchman and an uncompromising professor. And you have all the ingredients for a passport to murder. This semester, it seems that Professor Prather’s dreams are about to come true. Ever since she was a young girl, she’s...

A surprising number of rich guys in Sedona, AZ, are falling to their deaths. With so many similar “accidents,” the victims had to have been pushed. Fearing that he too will take a fatal plunge, billionaire Ackerman hires Matt and Helene to investigate. To keep their client safe, the PIs will have to be on their best game. Too bad their last case in Taos took such a heavy toll.

When PI Mac McClellan’s girlfriend convinces him to join the Palmetto Paranormal Society, he becomes embroiled in a case of whooodunnit. The society president, while investigating an old hotel, is found dead at the foot of the stairwell, his neck broken. The man’s secretary and current squeeze...

During the annual meeting of the Mayflower Society at D.C.’s Continental Club, Kit Marshall is pressed by her future mother-in-law to set a wedding date and choose a venue. A reprieve comes when the head of the society, a multimedia tycoon, is murdered. The prime suspect is Kit’s fiancé’s father....

When Renata Radleigh stumbles over a corpse in London, she fears the death has something to do with her brother Don’s boss, a secretive billionaire speculator. Don is acting as his front-man in St. Louis, Missouri, buying up and renovating a borderline slum. Renata’s beau Peter digs around and...

A Detroit detective and an Orthodox priest team up to solve two mysteries unfolding in the Santa Fe area: a missing person’s case involving a teenage girl and the ritualistic murder of a young nun. Their dangerous quest will require them to delve into the secret lives of Trappist monks and alienated...