booksellers and bookselling

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally--an American Secret Service agent--and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorost-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for the legendary lost treasure of Napoleon Bonaparte can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy.

Examines the life of Jeff Bezos, creator of the Amazon.com online retailer of books, music, and other items.

A career biography of Jeff Bezos, founder of the Internet bookstore Amazon.com, discussing the phenomenal growth of the company since its inception and its expansion to include other products, and looking at the influence of Amazon on the way the world conducts business.

Bookseller Claire Malloy, unsuccessful in her attempt to talk Emily Parchester down from the tree the retired teacher has camped out in to protest a developer's plan to clear cut the land, decides to investigate when the developer is murdered and his daughter, a teenager mother, is accused of the crime.

Claire Malloy attends a mock murder weekend at the Mimosa Inn. The entertainment is interrupted by the discovery of a real corpse. Claire stumbles from one clue to the next determined to unravel the plot.