A woman's harrowing progress from youth to middle age. A woman in a Mississippi Gulf Coast town sues a tobacco company for causing her husband's death. A chance encounter between two Americans at the Ritz changes their lives forever. THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton.
Domestic violence rips apart a young woman's life in a tiny Illinois town.
The ordeals of an assistant district attorney as she prosecutes a college professor for kidnapping his neighbor's child. Political intrigue, sex and murder in Washington's high circles. The private eye Archy McNally probes the murder of a wealthy widower. A lawyer is beleaguered by a homeless man who believes he has been wronged. A woman seeks solace for herself, her daughter and their horse from a wrangler.