A Pasadena scoutmaster on a hike discovers the dead body of a young woman who was the object of an extensive police search

The Eyes of Buddha (Virgil Tibbs mystery novel)

Literature & Fiction

Ball, John Dudley

United States

Harpercollins

Detective Tibbs of the Pasadena police force finds himself in a web of hard drugs and Red Chinese agents following the murder of a wealthy Chinese importer

Five Pieces of Jade

Cops and robbers: An investigation into armed bank robbery

A. Deutsch

Dr. Flavia de la Torre, a sociologist, ends up as bait for 2 serial killers

The Van: A Tale of Terror

St Martins Pr

March 1943, at the height of World War II, a newly commissioned B-17 bomber is nearing the west coast of Greenland.   Flown by a carefully picked crew, it is carrying a piece of vital secret cargo that under no circumstances can be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy.   Caught by an unexpected and fearfully violent Arctic storm, the pilot is forced to crash-land on the vast, awesome Greenland Ice Cap. The crew is saved, but the plane itself and the ultrasensitive cargo it is carrying are swallowed by another great storm and disappear.   Three decades later Lieutenant Scott Ferguson, the pilot of a ski-equipped Air Force C-130, discovers an unknown B-17 rigidly frozen on an all-but-unexplored section of the ice cap. Ferguson is bound for Thule Air Base, named for Ultima Thule—the end of the earth. Only 960 miles from the North Pole, in the extreme Arctic, Thule is one of the most exotic places on earth—and one of the most remote. It sits squarely on the bomber and missile route from the Soviet Union to the United States and Canada.   When he reports his find, Ferguson receives sudden orders from the Pentagon: go back to the frozen bomber, get inside, and recover, if possible, a certain piece of cargo.   This, the first book about Thule and the people who are stationed there, is filled with the vastness, the danger, and the fascination of the very high Arctic. And, from the first page to the last, it is a story about aircraft and the men who fly them. When Lieutenant Ferguson and his crew set about to recover the yellow color-coded crate from the wreck of the B-17, they open the door to more adventure and extraordinary flying than even Ferguson's lively imagination can conceive. For that was not an ordinary B-17…

Phase three alert: A novel

Little,Brown

Johnny Get Your Gun (also known as Death for a Playmate) is the third in the Virgil Tibbs mystery series that began with In the Heat of the Night. In this story, a nine-year-old boy, lonely after a family move, shoots an older child who stole something from him, thus igniting the militant blacks and racist whites of 1960s Pasadena into a black-white conflict involving riots, brutalities, a chase through Disneyland, and a heart-warming as well as heart-breaking scene toward the end of the book that takes place in a baseball park of the California Angels. Here you will find childhood gone awry, racism that ought to shock but in context does not (we know it too well), and political conflicts that add fuel to the fire.

Johnny Get Your Gun: A Novel (Virgil Tibbs mystery novel)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Little,Brown & Co

Who murdered the importer? Was it Yumeko, the beautiful half-black, half-Japanese girl who lived with him? Johnny Wu, a rich Chinese-American? Another customer? Or a political enemy from overseas?Homicide detective Virgil Tibbs finds himself in the middle of a deadly situation involving hard drugs, Communist Chinese agents, and the exotic settings of the jade trade as he coolly tracks down the murderer.

This thoughtful and entertaining novel reveals what happens when a controversial Church of England bishop proposes a universal religion, convening leaders of all the world's religions in one place. What happens when the Orthodox Jews meet the Moslems, how the Christian Scientists get along with the Sunni sect of the Buddhists, what transpires when a strict young Anglican priest falls in love with a Buddhist Thai beauty, and finally, how the conference is shatteringly resolved - these are all parts of John Ball's provocative, inspiring and immensely exciting novel, The Fourteenth Point.

The Fourteenth Point

Little. Brown and Company

In this haunting novel, John Ball returns to the setting he evoked so beautifully in his earlier success, Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms. Set against the exquisite landscape of rural Japan, The Winds of Mitamura weaves an engrossing contemporary story of how people from radically different backgrounds seek in individual ways for respect, mutual understanding, and love.   Peter Storm, an assistant professor of sociology, receives the plum assignment of his career: to study at first hand the effects of modern technology on a remote Japanese rice farming village. His partner on the project is a young black graduate student named Marjorie Saunders. Because the sponsors of the project do not want "expert" preconceptions to interfere with fresh observations, both Peter and Marjorie are ignorant of a crucial prejudice: the rural Japanese have a deep-rooted fear of dark-skinned people. Worst of all, the inhabitants of this particular village, Mitamura, have a very special reason to dread blacks—a reason that almost costs Peter and Marjorie their lives.

The Winds of Mitamura: A Novel

The eyes of Buddha

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The Eyes of Buddha (Virgil Tibbs mystery novel)

Five Pieces of Jade

Cops and robbers: An investigation into armed bank robbery

The Van: A Tale of Terror

Phase three alert: A novel

Johnny Get Your Gun: A Novel (Virgil Tibbs mystery novel)

Five Pieces of Jade

The Fourteenth Point

The Winds of Mitamura: A Novel

The eyes of Buddha