"Love is full of surprises - though few compare to realizing that you're marrying the real-life Santa. April Claus dearly loves her new husband, Nick, but adjusting to life in the North Pole is not all sugarplums and candy canes. Especially when a cantankerous elf named Giblet Hollyberry is killed - felled by a black widow spider in his stocking - shortly after publicly arguing with Nick. Christmastown is hardly a hotbed of crime, aside from mishaps...

"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure...

Estranged couple Lewis and Helen Burke gain insights into the meaning of life and their marriage after Lewis's plane is forced to make an emergency landing in the Congo and he escapes into the rain forest to escape capture by rebels, and Helen defies authorities by setting off, along with her seven-year-old blind son, to find him.

Laurie's romantic honeymoon is ruined when her new husband is called out of town on business and a suspicious man from his past shows up and holds her hostage.

The out-of-order love story between Clare and Henry is as complicated as his attempts to explain his "condition" -- a tendency to get displaced in time when he becomes too emotional. Despite the odds, the woman who has known her husband since she was 6 and he was 40, and the 20 year old man who meets a beautiful redhead for the first time at his library job, manage to make a life and love worth having.

"The nightmare descends on a Tuesday. A routine welfare check on an older married couple turns into something out of a horror movie when their bodies are discovered mutilated inside their house. After two other couples die, it becomes clear that there's a serial killer stalking Hollywood. Dubbed the 'Eastside Creeper', the murderer camps out in crawl spaces of his victims' homes, sometimes for days, before killing them. And then, like smoke, he vanishes....

In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary-a confession that has devastating consequences.

Husband and wife Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought-after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins. Along with her husband's remains, she returns home to the Isle of Lewis, bereft....

Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.

Tibbett takes to the slopes. If I were Scotland Yard, I might be that put-out with Henry Tibbett: He seems never to stay in England for more than about ten minutes, and he's always taking vacations! This time around, he and the ever-pleasant Emmy are holidaying in the Alps when a popular ski instructor gets it in the neck. Everybody in town is eager to point a finger-typically at the victim's wife, who is widely assumed to have had enough of his...