The first in the BIG STONE GAP series. The ultimate Small Town American novel, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.

* In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.

Piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife and his life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a piano. So begins the journey of Edgar across Europe, the Red Sea, India, Burma and at last into the remoteness of the Shan States.

* A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters, this is the first of four 'Botswana' titles are both beautiful and charming.

Seventeen years had passed since Jean Timberlake's body had been found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he'd changed his tune. Kinsey Millhone was called in to solve the case - then she stumbled on the dark secrets of a family's buried past.

A novel spanning late 1940s small-town America and the New York media world of the 1970s, by the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAFE. It tells the story of a television interviewer with emotional and drink problems who was abandoned as a teenager by her mother.