Lee Adams, a Washington private investigator, is on the run, trying to help Faith Lockhart, a young woman who knows too much and who is feared by some of the most powerful men in the world.

A Southern manor holds antique treasures-and criminal secrets-in a mystery novel. When the rural Virginia manor house Wynderly is burgled, antiques appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass is called in to assess the value of the broken or missing antiquities. But the job is more difficult than it first appears. Sterling discovers that the antiques in this ancestral home-turned-museum are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands,...

Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
When a woman turns up dismembered in a landfill, Scarpetta initially suspects the work of a serial killer she’s been tracking. But her investigation turns far more dangerous when she realizes the victim’s skin is covered in an unusual rash—and Scarpetta herself...

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.

Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research,

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High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera.

Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to give away his favorite, Astro.