David "Bugs" McKenna, a charming rogue with a checkered past, lands a job as hotel detective in Ragtown, Texas. But his luck takes a turn for the worse when he owes a favor to the local sheriff and gets entangled with his employer's alluring and dangerous wife. Get ready for a wild ride of trouble, humor, and unexpected twists.

From Columbus to George W. Bush, the bestselling coauthor of America’s Dumbest Criminals leads us through the many mythconceptions of our nation’s history in this lively book, exposing lots of entertaining moments of idiocy and inanity.

The Georgian romance that launched the career of the New York Times bestselling author is “the sort of tale which leaves us breathless with delight.” —Boston Evening Transcript

“Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic.” —Katie Fforde

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a harrowing story of danger, loyalty, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the people we love most.

A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this “fresh, funny [and] thoroughly enjoyable mystery” by the author of the Gideon Oliver series (Publishers Weekly).

After centuries of captivity, vampire Isabeau St. Croix emerges to seek revenge against the man who turned her. But after meeting a fellow bloodsucker from a noble family, she finds herself pulled into the shadowy world of undead politics—and into a war that could bring about the end of the vampire realm.

Hunter Wild attends the secret Helios-Ra Academy, training as a vampire hunter. When she receives an invitation to attend the coronation of vampire queen Helena Drake, she’s surprised to think of vampires as something other than evil prey. After her fellow students are struck by a mysterious illness, Hunter will have to turn to an unlikely ally: Helena’s son, Quinn Drake. . .

How can you trace a family line back through the early modern period and perhaps into the Middle Ages? Jonathan Oates’ clearly written new handbook gives you all the background knowledge you need in order to go into this engrossing area of family history research.

A Miami homicide detective closes in on a shattering secret in this police procedural from the Pulitzer Prize–winning “queen of crime” (USA Today).

“A stunning tour de force...Gripping drama for all collections.” —Library Journal

When a monk reveals a terrible sin in what he thinks is a deathbed confession and then survives, it’s up to a uniquely deductive Benedictine brother to help the man make things right.

“Each addition to the series is a joy. Long may the Chronicles continue.” —USA Today