When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a funicular railway in downtown LA, there's not a detective in the city who'll touch the case.
Murdered on the eve of a lawsuit on behalf of Michael Harris, Elias' specialty was prosecuting cases of police brutality, corruption and racism. Like every other cop, Harry Bosch believed Harris guilty as accused of rape and murder of a twelve year old girl. Elias' civil action was supposed to expose the LAPD and reveal the real killer. Now it's all down to Bosch - and it means digging deep into a minefield of suspicion and hate buried in his own backyard.

When an irresistible body meets an immovable bathing suit - something's got to give...
Until Dianne signed up with a suspect modelling agency, weight ad wolf-whistles had been her main problems - plus wondering who was peeking at her nude sunbathing.
Why was this gorgeous blonde with lots and lots of figure being asked to put on weight?
Perry Mason looked the situation over and found it easy on the eye - the hard part came later when Dianne was held for murder. If she was innocent, why was she lying?

Collected here for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduce you to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers, cardsharps, bank robbers - even a 'he school-ma'rm'. In these pages L'Amour brings to life such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney, One-eared Tim and the gunfighter Kim Sartain.

George and Lennie are itinerant farm workers - one of nimble wits, the other of huge physique - whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. Labouring from dawn until dusk they both have a dream to keep them going. That one day, they'll have enough money to buy a small ranch of their own and keep cows and chickens and rabbits. But even his best friend and mentor can't save Lennie from his worst enemy - his own strength ...

Pearl Louis Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets - about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate intervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before she flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending on who is telling the tale....... Thus begins a story that takes us back to Shanghai in the 1920s, through WWII, and the harrowing events that lead to Winnie's arrval in America in 1949.

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.

Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to live a normal American life.
For the next thirty years Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But, just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.

Detective Frankie Daniels hates her life - well, what's left of it. After a romance with the wrong man goes bad, the tough Atlanta police detective finds herself 'transferred' to Nowhere, USA. Purdyville, South Carolina, is tantamont to a sentence of death by boredom for the street-smart, chain-smoking cop. The crime rate here is beyond low.....almost as low as Frankie's self esteem.
When Frankie arrives to find her rental home in flames, she proceeds to chew out one of the locals - only to realize she's just told off her new boss, the annoyingly gorgeous and smug Sheriff Matt Webber. But Matt is more intrigued than angry at his new deputy. He suspects life in Purdyville is going to get very interesting indeed, he especially after he watches her take down the local tough guy in two seconds flat.

LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery.
But LuAnn won't do it. Less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson's offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems her only hope. However, ten years later, LuAnn secretly returns to the Unites States to begin a new life with Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky as her own. But a canny reporter has picked up her trail, as have the FBI - and Jackson.

The problem with being a bounty hunter is that it's all on the job training.And Stephanie Plum is still learning the ways to get yourself killed. Take the case of Maxine Norwicki......
When Maxine failed to turn up for her day in court, Stephanie was given the task of bringing her in. Simple. Except Maxine's boyfriend has now begun receiving mysterious coded notes from the runaway that hint at buried treasure....