Crown Publishing Group

A Ruby Murphy MysteryHaving drifted through thirty-three years of life, Ruby Murphy has put down roots in a rootless place: Coney Island. A recovering alcoholic who is fanatical in her love for animals and her misanthropic friends, Ruby lives above a furniture store and works at the musty Coney Island Museum. One day, Ruby is on the subway heading...

A NovelScott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestornow, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could...

The Possibly True Story of Classic Rock's Greatest RobberyIn July 1973, Led Zeppelin played three sold-out shows at New Yorks Madison Square Garden. Before the final performance, $203,000 of the bands money went missing from a safe deposit box at the Drake Hotel in what was called the single highest deposit box theft in the citys history. The...

A Margaret of Ashbury NovelThe unforgettable Margaret of Ashbury returns in the second book of the trilogy that began with A Vision of Light.Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. She is carving out a life for herself and her daughters despite the...

Sometimes the hardest boundaries to see . . .are the ones youve already crossed.Twenty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Delanne is teaching English in France but having a tough time stretching his measly paycheck one month to the next. When hes not worrying about his bar tab, hes struggling with the language, trying to justify his countrys imperialist actions...

A NovelRuth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture...