The author, co-founder of Women Writers of Color, offers this story about a New York district attorney who returns to her childhood home in New Mexico, where she meets a man who makes her question everything she values.

Kole Omotoso, one of Nigeria's major writers, is always provocative. His writing is informed by a passionate concern for society and politics in Nigeria. This major work is a blend of fact and fiction dramatizing the first one hundred years of Nigeria. Most of the characters and incidents inthe book are real; the narrative is conceived and written as a novel. The story covers riots, uprisings, private hopes and griefsand coup d'etats -a history marred by violence, with an outcome satisfactory to none. The book was received as a major contribution to African writing, in its innovative style, and was awarded Special Commendation in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1989 , which described it as providing a more profound understanding than is available in conventional history books and novels.

Crime reporter Allison Shure is recruited by the new police chief to shed some light on a cold case. The murder of town socialite Martha Bernard occurred a decade earlier, and shocked the quiet community of Fallwood, Connecticut. But when Allison's investigation uncovers the trail of a serial killer two decades in the making, she is soon his next target.

Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.

In this 1960 Edgar Award-winning thriller, a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger.