Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard, who walks the rugged coastline to contemplate his wife's senseless murder, discovers the body of a young man at the base of a cliff and becomes a witness and suspect in the case instead of an investigator.

At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into neurological illness are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected - as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as by the painful ties of familial loyalty. A philosophy professor watches helplessly as his mother sinks into the mysterious depths of an unknown illness. His efforts to understand her gradual deterioration...

Susie B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten, thinking her marriage to a Park Avenue plastic surgeon is perfect, is surprised when he is found dead with an escort and sets out to prove her husband was not an adulterer and uncover who the killer is.

" "Eddie Joyce's terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what's best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A startling and tender portrait of one family's struggle to...

A family of funeral home operators tries to regroup themselves after their patriarch's death, while exploring issues surrounding their personal lives.

A family of funeral home operators tries to regroup after their patriarch's death, while exploring issues sorrounding their personal lives.

"The protagonist, Nat Idle, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after receiving a note warning him to leave immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, whom he has obsessively been mourning"--Provided by the publisher.