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Police Inspector Simona Tavianello and her retired police chief husband stop by a beekeeper’s shop to buy honey and stumble upon a corpse. When Simona discovers that the victim, a biotech engineer, was murdered with her gun, she reluctantly gets involved in an investigation implicating radical environmentalists.

A Lao general eager to find the remains of his missing brother summons the help of a once-dead witch and Dr. Siri Paiboun, the recently retired national coroner. THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE is a thoroughly charming mystery with a healthy dollop of quirk.

According to Police Inspector Avraham, “Regular kids don’t just disappear. They may decide to cut school, to get away from home for a few hours, or be too ashamed to come home because they’ve done something unforgivable. But they don’t simply disappear.” But when a 16-year-old boy inexplicably vanishes from suburban Tel Aviv, the guilt-ridden detective assumes an active role in the inquiry.

Three young people with very diverse backgrounds have been found murdered in three different neighborhoods, each shot with a single bullet, execution style. While his colleagues see little or no connection, Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono smells a rat. He is driven by his instincts and his own troubled recent history.

Kati Hirschel, in her 30s, is the proud owner of Istanbul's only crime bookshop. She has learned the corrupt ways of her adored city and soon takes possession of an apartment obtained with the help of a generous bribe to a government official. All is well until a man is found murdered in her dream apartment and Kati becomes the police's primary suspect.

Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted 13 years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.

In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar collective of Irish youths determined to bring the soul music stylings of James Brown and Percy Sledge to Dublin. These days, the almost-50-year-old Jimmy has a loving wife, four kids, and a recent cancer diagnosis that leaves him feeling shattered and frightened. As he battles his illness on his path through Dublin, Jimmy manages to reconnect with his own past.

THE STING MAN is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Weinberg netted millions and famously dreamed up Abscam --- the infamous FBI-run sting operation of the late 1970s that would bag seven congressmen and one U.S. senator.