At Maude Daneson’s rooming house, the holiday season has everyone bustling about in anticipation, and Maude herself is planning a glorious Christmas dinner. But when murder strikes close to home, it threatens to chill the festive mood.

Christian Madison and Grace Nguyen must follow the clues left behind by a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who was murdered before he could let the world know of the astounding discovery he made regarding a coded text hidden in human DNA. What follows is a story of global conspiracy and the lengths individuals are willing to go to keep ancient secrets hidden. 

Leigh Wren escaped a life of horror, but the past refuses to let her go. A new killer, mirroring her ex-husband's gruesome methods, targets her and her son. As danger closes in, Leigh must confront her own dark secrets and fight for survival. From a major new voice in suspense, The Killer's Wife is a story driven by psychological insight and harrowing revelations, asking how well you can ever really know the person sleeping beside you.

Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a risky assignment, but it also gives Rei a store discount that allows her to freely indulge her shopaholic tendencies.

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.

"This is just the kind of creative nonfiction that elevates a seemingly arcane topic into popular fare." —Booklist