When medical student Ming misplaces the head of her cadaver midway through dissection, readers should be prepared for a graphic, yet touching and often tragic, glimpse into the challenges of a medical career. Ming and her classmates Sri,... Read More

The best place to go on that ever-important first date should involve some element of excitement, the author says. She shares that bit of wisdom as part of fifty-eight techniques she’s designed to help the average person find their Mr.... Read More

Four women have turned up dead in Manhattan, each shot through the right eye with a .45 caliber pistol. Although police detective Dave Dillon is convinced he’s dealing with a serial killer, he can’t find enough common denominators... Read More

Enthusiastic overindulgence in drugs and/or alcohol has characterized the lifestyles of many artists of all persuasions, but not since De Quincy has a writer made what amounts to a religion of the pleasures and pains of intoxication. A... Read More

If fiction is the art of painting pictures in words, Seebohm’s historical novel, "The Innocents" fascinates with its hues. The book opens with a sepia-toned portrait of the Crosby twins’ retreat from the debutante life of Edwardian... Read More

Conventional wisdom has it that college-educated women account for the single largest segment of the book-buying market, with privileged thirty-somethings (single, married, or married-with-children) at the heart of this demographic: good... Read More

A horrific boating accident kills a man in a pleasure boat and two children in a kayak. The children’s father watched them die, and he believes that the driver of the Pacer Marine test boat, which struck the other two craft at a high... Read More

“A dilemma often has more than one ethically defensible response and always leaves you wondering,” writes the author, a Denver obstetrician-gynecologist and nationally known medical ethicist. Abrams, who also served as chair of the... Read More