"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...

Roman Hasford, isolated in bitter grandeur after he hires a professional killer to exact revenge, must deny any legitimate continuation of his proud family.

Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

"A young woman in 1970s Arkansas is charmed by the owner of a fishing camp, but is wary of his potential connections to several local crimes."--Provided by the publisher.

In Arkansas, lawyer Gideon Page agrees to defend a black accused of murdering his Chinese employer. Page thinks the Chinese was killed by people who wanted his meatpacking factory, which he refused to sell, and that the black man was framed.

Bookseller and sleuth Claire Malloy is asked by a supposedly dead cousin to save her from a blackmailer. It turns out cousin Veronica did not die after murdering a movie producer, but is living under an assumed name. Trouble is, someone has found out and wants a million dollars to remain silent. By the author of Busy Bodies.

On a honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt, with her new husband, Lt. Peter Rosen, teenage daughter Caron, and Caron's best friend Inez, Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy suddenly finds her honeymoon turned upside down when the two girls are chased through back alleys by unknown pursuers and a blonde college student is kidnapped by two young men on horseback.

It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the...