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Originally detective series captivate crime readers everywhere: Michael Connelly's City of Bones (Little, Brown and Company, 4/02) and A Darkness More Than Night (Little, Brown and Company, 2001), featuring Detective Harry Bosch, have sold over 721,400 hardcover copies; and Archer Mayor's Vermont series, featuring Detective Joe Gunther, has sold over 380,000 hardcover and paperback copies combined. As evidenced by the popularity of Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Third Watch, the national market for NYPD crime drama is enormous. A CRUEL SEASON FOR DYING is the first of a two-book deal between Harker Moore and Mysterious Press.

The Last Waltz tells the intriguing story of two generations of the Viennese family that produced some of the best known and best-loved music of the nineteenth century. From nowhere they produced two Waltz kings, a father and three sons, and literally hundreds of instantly recognisable and enduring melodies, such as The Blue Danube Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Voices of Spring and The Radetzky March.Yet this was also a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, and those involved lived in an Austria that witnessed seismic upheavals. An Emperor ill-equipped for leadership struggled to maintain the exalted place of the Austro-Hungarian empire on the European stage, while at the personal level experiencing more tragedy than any man should have to bear: his brother executed, his wife the Empress murdered, his son and heir lost in a double suicide.Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose waltzes to...

In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse — especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.

Мечи эти были выкованы на безжизненной, исхлестанной ветрами горной вершине, в огне, добытом из чрева земли, из металла, упавшего с неба. Их закалила в человеческом поту и человеческой крови рука Вулкана, Бога-Кузнеца. Было Двенадцать Мечей, созданных, как орудия затеянной богами прихотливой игры. Каждый Меч был наделен удивительной силой — побеждать в битве, или умерщвлять еще более страшными средствами… отводить врагу глаза или убивать его душу… даровать неизменную удачу или исцелять…

Ted Bell's first ever e-Book exclusive short story finds Counterspy Alex Hawke in hostile foreign waters, flying at nearly the speed of sound, at an altitude no sane man would dare, piloting an F-16 Viper on a highly covert mission. His task is simple: enter another nation's airspace undetected, meet a secret contact, and find a way to avert a global war. It will take every skill at his command-but there are few as shrewd and savvy as Alex Hawke. When his plane is discovered by enemy radar, he is forced to improvise-or die trying. Alex Hawke. Saving the world one bullet at a time.

In this paranormal romance short story, college student Leon Lambert is God’s gift to women. He is beautiful, charming and happens to be very French. He enjoys surrounding himself with adoring fans who would do anything to obtain a kiss from him, but everything changes when a new girl arrives at their university. She is the most beautiful woman that Leon has ever seen and he is inexplicably drawn to her despite his desire to remain single. But this exotic beauty is hiding a secret, a secret that Leon may not survive to uncover.

Shona Husk's sexy new adult series about emerging rock band Selling the Sun concludes this month with a story about a woman who doesn't want to connect, a man who's forgotten how and the friendships that save our lives. Dan Clarke knows he doesn't have a problem, regardless of whatever his band members, his friends, his family and everyone else thinks. Drinking isn't keeping him from doing what needs to be done, and it helps keep the anger and pain of his ex-girlfriend's betrayal at bay. If only she would stay away as well, but, since the band's return to Fremantle, she's everywhere—on the phone, in his apartment, at his parents' house—begging for another chance, reminding him of how good they had been together, holding him hostage to the past. It's no wonder he needs a beer now and again.Indigo Matthews is all about control: she trains hard, she works hard and she plays hard. Men are for fun, not forever, and she will never end up like her...