Washoe County Library System

Jack Glass is the murderer - we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders, the reader will be surprised to find out who done it and how he did it. And, by the end of the book. our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, this is another bravura performance from Roberts....

"Nomi and Zee are Local Borns--their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty. In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers...

When the exiled Prince Oksada is poisoned while confined to the penal colony on Sado Island, Sugawara Akitada is called in by the emperor's minions to take on an undercover investigation into the crime, but when he stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy, his own life could be forfeit, in a mystery set against the backdrop of eleventh-century Japan.

In a novel of sweeping narrative power unequaled since her own beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough returns to Australia -- this time with the story of its birth. At the center of her new novel is Richard Morgan, son of a Bristol tavern-keeper, devoted husband and loving father, sober and hardworking craftsman. By the machinations of fate and the vagaries of the 18th-century English judicial system, he is consigned as a...