new york

The authors, founders of "Jinx," the magazine of worldwide urban adventure, narrate stories of their experiences exploring some of the unknown and unseen places in New York City's infrastructure, from subway tunnels to rooftops.

A memoir of Ashok Rajamani, who at the age of twenty-five suffered from an brain aneurysm, which he thankfully survived despite continuing physical and emotional problems.

Examines the mystery surrounding Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day at the end of World War II, describing the people who claimed to be in the photograph and their backgrounds.

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother.

Thirty-six-year-old television producer Marian Caldwell seems to have built the perfect life for herself, but when Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old-girl with a key to Marian's past, shows up at the door, both women begin a path to self-discovery.

The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.

Detective Mac Taylor wonders if he has encountered the perfect crime when his investigation of the death of a middle-aged man found in the elevator of an upscale building on the Upper East Side yields no bullets, no DNA evidence, and no motive, while Taylor's colleagues Stella Bonasera and Danny Messer try to figure out how a witness being held in protective custody in a locked hotel room ended up dead.

Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.

Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.