David Colacci

Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigned herself to the fact that she may never find a suitable mate. A human lie detector, any falsehood?no matter how subtle?sets her blood racing. And most people, to one degree or another, hide behind a façade. Including her business titan father?s new ?consultant,? Jake Salter. His careful conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. But it is with his help...

For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk?s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace?especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone?s mind...

Venice’s Commissario Brunetti takes on his “most difficult and politically sensitive case to date” in the gripping New York Times–bestselling series (Booklist).
 
In Death and Judgment, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard...

"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--

A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condition that enables him to see people's emotional words as colored shapes?green trapezoids of envy, red squares of deception . . . Another good man lies dead in a blood-splattered Ford Explorer?an ex-cop-turned-ethics...

Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti investigates when a Romanian housekeeper is falsely accused of murdering her employer.

A priest recently returned from years of missionary work has made a personal request of Commissario Guido Brunetti-but the police detective suspects the man's motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in Venice, and it's possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Inspector Vianello, along with their wives, decide to go undercover....

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro seems devastated by his son's death ; but while both he and his apparently-estranged wife seem convinced the boy would not have...

Down and out lawyer, Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay, dead, but his friend, Dismas Hardy, isn't so sure. Hardy has to find out, because a stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill Ingraham and Hardy.

In this classic adventure novel, first published in 1873, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 pound wager set by his friends at the Reform Club - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman and his manservant immediately set off.