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While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a lover. Amelia turns sleuth.

Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after...

Anne is thrilled when her old High School friend Tami Bates returns to Blue Hill for a visit and she has an intriguing mystery for Anne. In the pocket of a costume she purchased at an auction, Tami found a note that mentions the legendary missing play by Hugh Bettridge. The note is signed by Edie Summers and indicates Anne's aunt had the missing play. Anne agrees to look for it. She quixkly learns several other people are also searching for the manuscript...

When a powerful storm blows through Blue Hill, Anne's children are rescued by a drifter named Jack Kendall. Anne doesn't want this stranger near her children, but they immediately grow attached to him, enthralled by stories of his adventures. Jack claims to have known Aunt Edie, but Anne finds his stories too outrageous to be true. As Jack works his way into the hearts of Blue Hill's residents, she tries to figure out what he wants - and if he can...

The High Rise Private Eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor's binoculars.

Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. His new case: investigate a cop named Jamie Breck. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.

Nicola Ferris, while on a walk in Crete, stumbles upon a shepherd's hut guarded by a Greek. Inside, she finds a young Englishman wounded. In her determination to help, she is drawn into his dangerous situation.

Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....

It is a rainy day in London's Camden Passage when Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury meets a pretty and strangely troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth. He is drawn into a passionate affair with her-and becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness, to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Posing as an eccentric librarian-hardly...

The British Ambassador is poisoned, his valet-chauffeur disappears and high American and British officials put the brakes on a Washington captain of detectives who is getting too close. A major cover-up is in the making, so the captain and his girlfriend decide to investigate on their own.