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Death of a Winter Shaker

by Deborah Woodworth

Published: 1997-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION... TO CATCH A KILLER The peaceful Shakers, pledged to hard work, worship and nonviolence could scarcely believe there was a dead body in their herb house. The handsome young drifter known as a "Winter Shaker" had professed to be a Believer to find refuge from th...

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Death of a Writer: A Novel

by Michael Collins

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 307 pages

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From Booker Prize nominee Michael Collins comes ?a wonderfully creepy murder mystery? (People), about a novelist whose last hope for fame may be the deepest secret in his past.�For E. Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary ca...

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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

by Marilynne Robinson

Published: 2005-11-01

Paperback: 280 pages

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In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired...

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Death of An Expert Witness

by P D James

Published: 2002-05-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are all experts in violent death, accustomed to the smell of the mortuary. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.

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Death Of An Intern (Laura Wolfe Mystery Series)

by Keith M. Donaldson

Published: 2011-11-10

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Laura Wolfe, a tenacious beat reporter for The Washington Star, tracks a D.C. serial killer who butchers pregnant women and steals their fetuses, dumping the naked bodies with no identification in an obscure part of the city. When Laura is shown the body of victim number two, she recognize...

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The Death of an Irish Sinner: A Peter McGarr Mystery (Peter McGarr Mysteries)

by Bartholomew Gill

Published: 2002-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requesting that the Chief Superintendent quietly investigate...

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Death of An Ordinary Man

by Glen Duncan

Published: 2005-04-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Nathan's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he can find out how and why he died. A spectral spectator throughout the day of the wake, he listens to his wife, son, daughter, father and best friend, getting to know them like he...

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The Death of George Arthur Palmer

by Russ Jones

Published: 2009-03-09

Paperback: 260 pages

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As J. L. Nevins and George Arthur Palmer fish along the banks of Lake Mira Mar, they take turns telling tales of their past lives, but there was one story that George told that would change his friend's life forever. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, George's story takes the reader to the suburbs of Washington,...

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2011-07-04

Paperback: 76 pages

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To anyone for whom Leo Tolstoy's masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina have stood as giants too daunting to scale, and equally to the many readers who have devoured those novels and are hungry for more, we offer The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Translation by Robert Nesbit Bain

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Death of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales)

by Bernard Cornwell

Published: 2012-01-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The fate of a new nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in this thrilling sixth volume in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified England in danger and his kingdom on the bri...