For a country that's been described as an intelligence black hole, North Korea sure has a lot of recent books that try to show daily life there. A search for the new "North Korea Confidential" at...

Steve Martini's latest book to feature attorney Paul Madriani begins with a seemingly easy case, but quickly turns deadly. Alex Ives needs Madriani's help when he's accused of vehicular...

John Lescroart has written a terrific courtroom mystery as the main series characters take a backseat to defense attorney Rebecca Hardy, daughter of regular Dismas, who takes on a case involving Greg...

Each of his literary outings has been a huge hit, both with critics but also - especially - with readers who even when not fans of Maltese literature flocked to his inimitable style of evocative,...

St George is one of the most revered saints in the Maltese islands, and the legend of St George slaying the dragon has been recounted to generation after generation. Yet, to date there was no local...

Picture books are great fun in themselves, but when they also help to encourage children towards a practical skill, then the book becomes twice as desirable. And which parent of young children hasn't...

At the dawn of the 20th century the Parisian district of Montmartre was still largely rural, a hillside village dotted with windmills, vineyards and tumbledown shacks. There, a ragtag band of...

  Chucky Taylor's 2008 trial in Miami federal court was a sort of homecoming for a young man whose adolescence in Florida had been like so many others bored with the suburbs and longing for...

David Baldacci has written another thriller that will have readers engaged from the first page. Amos Decker, a stellar athlete who made it to the NFL, experienced a helmet-to-helmet collision on...

The compelling "Pleasantville" continues Attica Locke's insightful look at African-American life in Houston, where politics, race and classism converge in myriad ways. Locke sets her third novel...