They came to The Stranger House. And death followed close behind.

For over 500 years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to all manner of travellers. People like Sam Flood, a brilliant young Australian mathematician, who believes that anything t[...]

The New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . .Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniver[...]

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or[...]

Still recovering from a near-fatal bomb blast, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is eager to get back up to speed--and loses an entire day in the process.Agreeing to help Gina Wolfe search for her missing husband--a policeman who vanished years earlier under a very dark cloud--"Fat Andy" doesn't realize t[...]

She said . . .Caedmon of Larkspur is the most loathsome lout I have ever encountered When my sisters and I arrived at his castle, we were greeted by servants and children running wild, while Caedmon lied abed after a night of ale. No doubt there will be another child soon, because I must admit he's[...]

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Princess Scorned Princess Drifa can certainly see whySidroc Guntersson is a living legend--on battlefield and in bedchamber both.But the King of Stoneheim's willful daughterpitches a royal fit when she learns of the truereason for the virile Viking's passionate attentions.A [...]

In southern Greece in 2004, a close-knit group of archaeologists searches for the buried traces of a formidable ancient power. A student running from a failed marriage and family, Ben Mercer is a latecomer to their ranks, drawn to the charisma of the group's members--to the double-edged friendship o[...]

Even fierce Norse warriors have bad days.'Twas enough to drive a sane Viking mad, the things Tykir Thorksson was forced to do--capturing a red-headed virago, putting up with the flock of sheep that follows her everywhere, chasing off her bumbling brothers. But what could a man expect from the sorcer[...]

Lost in the Bayou...Selene has always had three great passions: men, food . . . and Gone With the Wind. Still, the glamorous model always seems to be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot before she chucks i[...]

He was six feet, four of pure, unadulterated male. He wore nothing but a leather tunic, spoke an ancient tongue, and he was standing in Professor Foster Meredith's living room. The medieval historian told herself he was part of a practical joke, but with his wide gold belt, callused hands, and the r[...]

A love potion in a jelly bean? Fame and fortune are surely only a swallow awaywhen Dr. Sylvie Fontaine discovers a chemicalformula guaranteed to attract the opposite sex.Though her own love life is purely hypothetical, the shy chemist's professional future is assured . . .as soon as she can find a h[...]