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?

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 ...

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....

Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back - and, boy has she got man trouble....
First, there's fellow bounty hunter Ranger, currently on the run from a murder rap and requesting Stephanie's help. Trouble is she can't decide if she should turn him in or keep him for herself.
Then there's sexy vice cop Joe Morelli - the man her heart says she's in love with (even though her head says otherwise). He's after Ranger too - but for less romantic reasons....
And now there's another male in her life - he's big, he's orange and he howls when he's left alone.

Business is slow for Stephanie Plum, so when her Uncle Fred goes missing, Stephanie agrees to help look for him. Soon enough, Stephanie realizes that (once again) she's in over her head, and up to her neck in unanswered questions. Stephanie for the first time takes a job with Ranger at his company to make ends meet.
Why are there pictures of body parts in Uncle Fred's house? Why is a nasty bookie following Stephanie around? Could her Uncle's disappearance have something to do with two dollars? Why can't she bring in the certified midget FTA Randy Briggs?
Stephanie's stalker Benito Ramirez, from book one, is released and is back to irritate Stephanie some more.

Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie's life gets shaken up. Max claims he's here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana's now taking his shots in the political ring.. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime - and what Jamie gets is a story that's taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway, could it get any more romantic - or dangerous?

New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War takes Dr Kay Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A scuba diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the medical examiner's office. Was Edding's probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?

Wentworth, Ohio: just a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets and writer Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street it's just a normal summer's day with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats 'tinking', frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But for young Cary Ripton on his paper round it won't be a normal day at all... He notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside the glass door - and he always thought there was something creepy about that nephew of hers, Poplar Street's best kept secret. But Cary doesn't notice the chrome red van idling up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin, and the regulators wil arrive in force. And by the time night falls on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and desperation.