There's the Durango in Colorado, the one in Mexico, and the one in Spain; then there's the fourth one- the California town where the Franciscans forgot to fund a mission. Now, all it has going for it is the climate- and its hideout industry. Kelly Vines, a disbarred attorney, and his father-in-law Jack Adair, a former judge just released from prison, are in the market for some isolation- since whoever put Adair...

"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, who has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...

"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"--