Alix Thorssen owns an art gallery, is on call as an expert for the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies and lives in Wyoming. It's a nice life until her brother-in-law is arrested for murder on the Salish reservation in Montana. Professor Wade Fraser had a reputation as a violent man - there've been previous assault charges against him - and he was also known as having little patience with people who exploited the Native Americans. He was known to have argued with Shiloh Merkin, the woman found with her throat cut. Called her and her friends some vile names. The knife that caused the wound was Fraser's. Open and shut. Surrounded by chanting New Age Indian wannabes, traditional Salish, and...

Just because Jonny Knobel hasn't touched the accordion for years means nothing to his father and his beloved polka band. After years in the city, small-town Minnesota whiplashes Jonny until he runs into the college girls doing field work next door. The mysteriously rude Isabel Yancey, the crew chief, arrives with her own fresh heartache. Can two such different people see eye to eye? A story about second chances, this is a novel of 20-somethings in search of a fresh start. Romance, humor, and the heartache of growing up make All Your Pretty Dreams a unique journey through the hearts and minds of young adults searching for the keys to happiness in a complicated world. The beauty of...

Behind the golden stone walls of a village in southwest France, American Merle Bennett finds solace from her grief while renovating her late husband's ancestral home. But things don't go as planned. Soon any calm she feels in her French summer is overshadowed by secrets from the past. A crumbling house, a deranged squatter, unfriendly and violent villagers, a surprise in the garden house -- it makes a girl almost wish for the sleepy suburbs. But Merle can't go home until all is resolved, one way or another.In Blackbird Fly, her first suspense novel, Lise McClendon reveals her love of both the French countryside and the intimacies and drama of family, in a book novelist Jenny Siler calls...

An anthology of stories edited by Michael Connelly Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows for sure what's real and what isn't in the miles of neon and scorching heat. Las Vegas is considered the ultimate players destination-no matter what your game. Almost anything is available-for a price, mind you, and sometimes losers walk away from the tables with even less than just an empty wallet or purse-sometimes they don't walk away at all. Now the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times-bestselling author Michael...