Crown Publishing Group

A NovelIf you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans!Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-mans wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchenhes spent the last ten years in Angola Prison for murdering his...

A NovelTake a slasher-movie actress, a Scottish circus clown, an FBI school dropout, a blind heiress, a junk-food-loving millionaire developer, and a Buddha-quoting bluesman, add a couple of murders in a normally sedate retirement community in south Florida, and you get an irresistible tale thats part Carl Hiaasen and part Gabriel Garca Mrquez. It...

A NovelIf theres one point that Jamie McClintock and Nate Goddard can agree upon, its that love is overrated. Jamie doesnt have time for it. Nate doesnt need it. And they certainly dont want it from each other. Jamie, a struggling free-spirited artist, is a devoted single mother who hasnt been in a serious relationship since her boyfriend abandoned...

A NovelHow would it feel to go overnight from living in a trailer park to a twelve-room apartment overlooking Central Park in a landmark Victorian building? This is what happens to housecleaner Tina Finn, who, with her sisters, Alison and Lucy, suddenly comes into possession of the Livingston Mansion Apartment at the Edgewood. The Finn sisters...

A NovelFrancescas father is a well-known painter in the bustling port city of Amsterdam; he is also a gambler. Though their household is in economic chaos, thankfully the lessons she learned in his studio have prepared her to study with Johannes Vermeer, the master of Delft. When she arrives to begin her apprenticeship, Francesca is stunned to find...

A NovelAt the height of the Belle Epoque, Franois Dubon leads a well-ordered life in the bourgeois quarters of Paris' eighth arrondissement. When not busy with his prosperous legal practice, he enjoys both a contented marriage to his aristocratic wife, GeneviAAAa AaAAaAa AaAAAAAaAA AAaAAAaAaAAAa AaAAaAAAaAA!AAAAAaAA!AAaAaAA*ve, and satisfying...