Crown Publishing Group

A NovelThe setting is Milwaukee, Wisconsinif not Americas heart, then at least its liverhome to an array of breweries and abandoned factories and down-on-their-luck Eastern European immigrants. The year is 1989.Revolutions are sweeping through the nations of the Eastern Bloc. Communism is unraveling. And nobody feels this unraveling more piquantly...

A NovelIn this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murdercase one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong.The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still...

A NovelWhen lightning strikes, lives are changed.BECCAOn a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed hernot her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mothernot even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck...

A NovelThe Conjurers Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cooks second expedition to the South Seas, a single specimen was captured, preserved, and brought back...

Hell exists.In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called...

A NovelEnduring friendships and long-held vendettas come alive against the splendor and decadence of eighteenth-century Venice.In 1775 Veniceknown to outsiders as the brothel of Europethe tradition of mask-wearing has allowed adultery and debauchery to flourish. But Marietta and Elena, two dear friends at the Ospedale della Piet, a world-famous...