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The ‘book of the dead’ is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. for kay scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in florida, scarpetta decides it’s time for a change of pace. moving to the historic city of charleston, south carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. it seems like an ideal situation, until the murders and other violent deaths begin. a woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. the body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. a sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude and mutilated near piazza navona in rome. scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now. before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names – and the pen may be poised to write her own.

When john met savannah, he knew he was ready to turn over a new leaf. always the angry rebel, he had dropped out of school and enlisted in the army, not knowing what else to do with his life. then he meets savannah. the attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves savannah vowing to wait for john while he finishes his tour of duty. what neither realises is that 9/11 will change everything, prompting john to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country and fellow soldiers. and, sadly, as so often happens when lovers are young and separations are long, savannah falls in love with someone else. ‘dear john…’ the letter reads, and both their lives are changed forever. years later, when john returns to north carolina, he must come to grips with the fact that savannah, now married, is still the only one for him. now john must make the hardest decision of his life…

#1 “new york times “bestseller they call themselves the brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a florida federal prison. one was sent up for tax evasion. another, for skimming bingo profits. the third for a career-ending drunken joyride. meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. or they can use their time in prison to get very rich–very fast. and so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam–while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. a bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. for the brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. because they’ve just found the perfect victim.

Amazon. com’s 2015 best book of the year new york times bestseller barack obama’s book of the year a finalist for the 2015 national book award shortlisted for the 2015 national book critics circle award every story has two sides. every relationship has two perspectives. and sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. at age twenty-two, lotto and mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. a decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

From the author of to kill a kingdom comes the first in a spectacular fantasy duology, in a world thriving with black magic.