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A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past 13 centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject--

In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But as he begins to understand more about Alex, he starts to realise she is no ordinary victim. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

Ballantine Books, New York : ©1987.

Wm. Morrow, New York : ©1993.

Maddy and Alex try to solve the mystery of the murder of an evil stepmother.

Delta Trade Paperbacks, New York, N.Y. : 1997, ©1995.

When his secret gay lover is killed during a series of grisly murders, Emmy Award-winning news reporter Todd Mills finds that everything he has worked for is threatened and desperately seeks the truth.

Dell, New York : 1992, ©1990.

DIF, New York : ©1990.

Morrow, New York : ©1992.

Maddie Phillips, a forensic psychiatrist, tries to help her brother Alex search for the murderer of his lover, Toni.

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : [1993], ©1992.

Delacorte Press, New York, N.Y. : ©1997.

In Minneapolis, TV reporter Todd Mills covers the abduction of a congressman by AIDS victims, incensed by the congressman's proposal to cut funding for AIDS research. The group plans to infect the congressman with their blood.

Dell, New York : 2000, ©1999.

Gay detective Steve Rawlins of Minneapolis investigates the murder of a homosexual, suspecting a Hollywood actor. But is his suspicion based on detection or emotion? The actor stole Rawlins' lover.

Kensington Pub. Corp., New York : 1990, ©1989.

D.I. Fine, New York : ©1989.

Two gay men, one a journalist, the other a detective, team up to find the murderer of a gay policeman in Minneapolis. A portrait of the city's gay community by the author of Hostage.

Two gay men, one a journalist, the other a detective, team up to find the murderer of a gay policeman in Minneapolis. A portrait of the city's gay community by the author of Hostage.

Viking, New York : 2006.

This novel is a fictionalized account of the mysterious life and death of the notorious Rasputin, as told by his daughter, Maria. Rasputin was a Russian mystic and adviser to the Romanovs, the Russian imperial family. In this story, Maria is interrogated by the provisional government on the details of her father's death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where her father's powerful influence over the throne is unsettling to all levels of society and the threats to his life are no secret. With vast conspiracies mounting against her father, Maria must struggle with the discovery of Rasputin's true nature -- his unbridled carnal appetites, mysterious relationship with the empress, and rumors of involvement in secret religious cults -- to save her father from his murderers. Swept away in a plot much larger than the death of one man, Maria finds herself on the cusp of the Russian Revolution itself.

Dell, New York : 1995, ©1994.

Kensington Pub. Corp., New York : 1984, ©1983.

Viking, New York : 2003.

Presents a novel based on the 1918 Bolshevik revolutionary murder of Czar Nicholas II and the rest of the Russian royal family as told from the perspective of the event's only surviving witness, a young kitchen boy.

Avon, New York, N.Y. : ©1986.

Viking, New York : 2008.

Pavel, a vengeance-seeking villager, joins an underground group that assassinates the grand duke of Russia, irrevocably affecting the life purpose of his widow, Elisavyeta.

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : ©1996.

Delta Trade Paperbacks, New York, N.Y. : 1997, ©1996.

When his former college girlfriend--who like him, is gay--re-enters Todd's life, she brings mystery and danger and also reawakens the twenty-year-old memory of the death of one of his fraternity brothers.