The story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.

At 11:05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Jow Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before a subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped up against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta. the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position.....

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market, Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home......

Rebecca' was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. But what happened next? After the tragic fire at Manderley what did fate hold in store for the evil Mrs Danvers and the fatally flawed Maxim de Winter? What would be the destiny of Maxim's second wife, Rebecca's successor, the beautiful but lonely Mrs de Winter?

This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Her ordinary life is made extraordinary in the telling.

Sana'a, North Yemen. Breakaway terrorist Aba Hassan unveils his ruthless plan to unite the leaders of the Palestine movement. A final devastating act of terrorism.....with the Palestine state as the prize....... This time there will be no single outrage. No targeted attack. Instead, a breathtaking all-out assault on the consumer markets of the West, resulting in hysteria no government will be powerful enough to control - or ignore.....

Mary Ashley, a bright young professor and mother of two, is appointed US ambassador to an Iron Curtain Country. But even before she takes up her post, unseen and powerful enemies - including the sinister Angel, assassin par excellence - plot her destruction. From the White House to the romance of Paris, from Rome to the shady menace of Bucharest, the action races.

Adam Hall is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately?

The year is 2021. For twenty-five years no child has been born. Nor will there be any more children for infertility has spread like a plague and the human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the young are violent and the old despairing. Theo Faron, an Oxford historian and cousin of the Warden, leads a solitary, self absorbed life in this ominous atmosphere. But when he is approached by a group of dissenters, Theo is involved in unimaginable horrors and faced with agonizing choices that may change the future of mankind