A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance. Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living...

"Cuando la detective Kate Marshall encuentra el cuerpo sin vida de un joven en el embalse de Shadow Sands, las autoridades califican el suceso como un 'tr̀gico accidente'. Sin embargo, algo no cuadra. ¿Qǔ hac̕a all̕ en mitad de la noche? ¿Y c̤mo pudo ahogarse si era campe̤n de nataci̤n? Pronto, las pruebas llevar̀n a Kate y a su socio, Tristan Harper, hasta un descubrimiento mucho m̀s oscuro: la v̕ctima de Shadow Sands es solo la l͠tima...

Winter Intersession is in full swing, and campus is buzzing over the concert celebrating the bell tower's reopening. The building has been shuttered for twenty-five years, and Dr. Sophie Knowles is shocked to learn why -- a student leapt from it to her death. Troubled by the secrecy surrounding the case, Sophie performs some quick calculations and is left with a nagging question: Was it really suicide? And when one of Sophie's favorite students is...

"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome...