New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: ';Hard to put down' (Library Journal). For most of the 20th century,savings and loa

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. "An Unsuitabl...(展开全部)

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two years old, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required ti delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it i...(展开全部)

P.D.詹姆斯 （P.D.James，1920-2014） 英国作家，她在英文世界享有极高的声誉，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”。自其创作以来，获奖无数，其中包括推理小说界的两个最高奖项——“钻石匕首奖”和“大师奖”。她是为数不多的同时拿下两项大奖的作家之一。此外，她也是继柯南•道尔、阿加莎• 克里斯蒂后，被请进“国际犯罪小说名人堂”的第三位作家。 她一生写了20本书，创造了亚当•达格利什和科迪莉亚• 格雷两个著名人物，其中达格利什是与夏洛克• 福尔摩斯齐名的大侦探，科迪莉亚• 格雷是推理小说史上著名的女侦探，并启发了许多作品，《名侦探柯南》女二号灰原哀即取名自这位可爱的格雷小姐（Gray, 意为“灰”）。 P.D.詹姆斯的作品极具文学性，她获得了伦敦大学等八所高校获得荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会主席、艺术委员会文化片区主席、布克文学奖评委主席，其文...(展开全部)

"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"―NPR "A revelation."―Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing co...(展开全部)

A newly arrived immigrant to New York experiences a series of devastating misfortunes. Just as he begins to lose his faith in God, something comes along to restore his faith, a miracle that will have the reader rejoicing.

'An explosive new book' Daily Mail '[A] careful, comprehensive interrogation of every major Facebook scandal. An Ugly Truth provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: it confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details you need to cut through the company's spin' New York Times ______...(展开全部)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER// WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARD A Book of the Year: Fortune, Foreign Affairs, The Times (London), Cosmopolitan, TechCrunch, WIRED “The ultimate takedown.” –New York Times Book Review Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that...(展开全部)

“The ultimate takedown.” – New York Times Book Review Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive account of Facebook’s fall from grace. Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five yea...(展开全部)