Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...

Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60. When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband--the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss--comes instantly under suspicion. But Andy Dalziel, the gloriously vulgar savant of the Mid-Yorkshire police force, has some other ideas, and all of them center on the local rugby club--the town's social center, and Mary Connon's preferred hunting ground....

By day an assistant at a prestigious London art house, Judith Rasleigh is at night a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars. She's transformed her accent and taught herself about wine -- and the art of discretion. When her efforts at a better life are destroyed, Judith accompanies one of the champagne bar's biggest clients to the French Riviera -- and finds a chance to recreate herself.

A vintage video store clerk, who dreams of his life being more like his favorite movies, finds his life turned upside down when he meets a real femme fatale.

An alluring seductress is suddenly exposed to the world, including her enemies, by a voyeuristic photographer who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.

"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love -- "Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead). They've always been friends, and they...

When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs was behind bars, he found escape by creating "Cool world", a cartoon series featuring the voluptuous vixen by the name Holli Would. But the 'toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool world with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. A hard-boiled detective warns Jack of the law: 'Noids don't have sex with doodles. Live action and animation.

"The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two... The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale."--Back cover.

The final book in the epic FATALE saga by Brubaker and Phillips. All the threads have come together, and the mysterious immortal Femme Fatale Josephine has one last chance to escape her fate.

Nicholas Lash lost everything when he met Josephine, and now her trail of secrets leads him to mid-'90s Seattle, and the tragic story of a struggling grunge band, and the beautiful woman with amnesia who stumbles into their world. Is she their muse? Will she save them from "One-Hit Wonder" status? Or is she something much worse, especially since there's a psycho killer hunting her?