Select Editions--Volume 2 2010

the long version

The scarecrow: Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him--Library of Congress description. The French gardener: Leaving London to move into a beautiful house in the country, Miranda and David find their marriage succumbing to long-standing conflicts until a mysterious Frenchman arrives to tend their garden, bringing with him a healing energy that is drawn from nature--Library of Congress description. Heaven's keep: When a charter plane carrying Cork O'Connor's wife, Joe, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that his wife is gone forever. But is she?--Library of Congress description. Art of racing in the rain: Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together a family pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.