Thrilling new historical fiction starring a scoundrel with a heart of gold and set in the darkest debtors' prison in Georgian London, where people fall dead as quickly as they fall in love and no one is as they seem.
The Devil in the White City
: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Feb 2004
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
As an assistant to the most revered--and hated--woman in fashion, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul...
The Devil's Teeth
: A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: May 2006
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators -- and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them.
The Devil's Wind
by Richard Rayner
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: Jan 2006
Set in 1950s Las Vegas, Rayner uses the unsettling realities beneath Vegas's glossy surfaces as symbols of a deeper and more sinister social corruption.
The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: Mar 2005
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"a torturera man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
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