"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter....

When she is hired to investigate devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, private detective Sharon McCone discovers what her clients are really up to and goes undercover to find the truth.

Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas and her incredible skills with firearms draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant partner...

Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.

"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of...

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks like a routine case ... even boring. But business is slow and private investigator Kinsey Millhone has bills to pay. But it turns out not to be routine after all and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get.

Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.

In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club -- devoted entirely to romance novels -- and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.