A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.
The Vampire Armand
: The Vampire Chronicles
by Anne Rice
Hardcover: Oct 1998
Paperback: Sep 1999
The story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire,
The Vanished Man
: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by Jeffery Deaver
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: Jun 2004
A brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve.
Maggie OFarrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, ...
The Vanishing Half
: A Novel
by Brit Bennett
Hardcover: Jun 2020
Paperback: Feb 2022
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vanishing Velazquez
: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
by Laura Cumming
Hardcover: Apr 2016
Paperback: Nov 2016
From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
The Vault
by Peter Lovesey
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
When a skeletal hand turns up in the vault of the Pump Room, followed by the excavation of a skull, Diamond is called upon to solve a series of crimes.
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