Splinter the Silence

The next novel in internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid’s hugely successful Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, centered on a series of high-profile suicides of outspoken women who were…

Skin

Pitting tough female police diver Flea Marley and hardboiled detective Jack Caffery against their most twisted foe yet, Skin is one of the most white-knuckled works to date from the…

Sherlock Holmes

“Rennison does a marvelous job of overlaying his own extensive research on clues from Doyle’s tales of Watson and Holmes, deciphering much for this complex, engaging portrait.” —Irene Wanner, The…

The Sexual Outlaw

The Seasons of the Italian Kitchen

“With wit, humor, and enthusiasm, each dish is prefaced with a note about ingredients, comments on its name, and/or asides about just-in-time preparation. The essays interspersed among the recipes provide…

The Seasons of the Angler

“The authors whose work Mr. Seybold has collected in this fisherman’s anthology have created an astonishing variety of effects from their basically limited means–a positive miracle of fishes.” –The Atlantic…

Salam Pax

“He was funny, precise, and brave from a position no one on this side of the crosshairs will ever face. . . . The primary narrative is as gut-twisting as…

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism of [William] Blake’s poetry . ….

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead [is] verbally dazzling . . . the most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable.” —Edith Oliver, The New Yorker…

Rock ’n’ Roll

“One of the great political plays in the English language.”—Sunday Times (UK)…