Inside Tim Johnston's new collection of prose, readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark and often darkly funny..

Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he's usually..

June Han is a starving 11-year-old refugee fleeing military combat during the Korean War when she is separated from her seven-year-old twin siblings. Eventually brought to an orphanage near Seoul by American soldier Hector Brennan, who is still reeling from his father's death, June slowly recovers from her ni..

Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose toolbox of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll: the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he's found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grif..

In the 10th book to feature P.I. Aimée Leduc, she must go to New York to meet a previously unknown brother. Before she can even leave, dogged Inspector Melac arrests her for the nonfatal shooting of her partner, René Friant. A woman impersonating the stylish PI entered the Leduc Detective office and shot Re..

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline int..

Roque Montalvo is stuck in a California backwater helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest Roque's uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Badgered by his street-hardened cousin, Roque agrees to bring the old man home, rel..

Written as a letter to her children, Lift is a tender, intimate and robust portrait of risk and love, and the difficulties and rewards of being a parent. Corrigan weaves together three stories of real-life adults willing to experience the emotional hazards and rich rewards of raising children. She serves it u..

Justin Fisher appears to have the perfect life: a beautiful wife, a baby son, and a glamorous job. But beneath this charmed existence lies a dark secret: Justin's past is a puzzle with missing pieces. On his search for truth, he finds a headstone claiming that he died before his third birthday. And so begins..