As she turns eighteen years old, Rachel Verinder inherits from her uncle a large Indian diamond. Unaware of both how her uncle acquired it and how important the stone truly is, Rachel openly demonstrates it to public during her birthday party. A couple of hours later she realizes that the diamond had been stolen... Considered the first full length detective novel in English, The Moonstone is an engrossing story and a must-read for anyone with the...

Making her way through a Victorian London season in spite of gossip about a self-proclaimed descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, as well as the audacious thefts of several valuable objects that once belonged to the historic queen, Lady Emily Ashton finds herself targeted by a would-be killer who has murdered a fellow socialite.

A woman with a murky past who kills herself - or was it murder? A dying old man cared for by the son he pummeled mercilessly. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring racking up millions in stolen goods, and the spider at the center of the web. And Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.

A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis's mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.

In her efforts to hang on following the disappearance of her stepmother, Casey resorts to anything, including robbery.

When Crazy Horse and Cadillac, two very different but inseparable horses, go missing from the Half Moon Ranch in Colorado, thirteen-year-old Kirstie tries to recover the stolen animals.

Behind the wheel of her hopped-up Blazer, Ida Belle is the queen of the back roads. But when someone tries to kill Hot Rod and steals only black SUVs from his shop, Fortune worries that excessive horsepower is the least of the trouble that comes along with her friend's new ride. When it becomes clear that the car thieves didn't get what they were looking for the first time around, Ida Belle's vehicle becomes their next target. Fortune Redding and...

Thirteen-year-old aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone is accused in a robbery and must fight to clear his name.

"The dinosaur eggs are missing. It is up to the pups to save them."--Page 4 of cover.

When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country, he finds himself thrown into the middle of a deadly feud between two ranchers.