Restored To Death

Restored To Death by Nancy Bell

Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or beating, hard crime here is rare. That changes when Dora Hughes, Jackson's shrewish sister-in-law, is bludgeoned and strangled to death while sunbathing on her patio. Dora's henpecked husband, Ron, is accused of the crime.

Bookmarked For Death

Bookmarked For Death by Lorna Barrett

Once a struggling town, Stoneham, New Hampshire is now enjoying a renaissance--thanks to booksellers like Tricia Miles, proprietor of Haven’t Got a Clue. It’s a great place to find a good mystery to read--or to solve …. To celebrate her bookstore’s anniversary, Tricia Miles hosts a book signing for bestselling author Zoe Carter. But the event takes a terrible turn when the author is found dead in the washroom.

The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material. It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which the writer was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt (from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Celtic myth of the Salmon of Wisdom). English editions of the book were published in the USA and UK in May 2002, exactly one year after the author's death.

Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people.

Donald G. Kylecombines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores

* the origins and historical development of the games

* who the victims were and why they were chosen

* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses

* the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence

* the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians.

Death Threads

Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past-and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk's age-old Southern pride standing in the way of justice, she knows it's time to unravel the mystery.