New York Rule #1: Don’t get involved. Samantha Leiffer already has a self-centered self-help guru for a mother, a cadre of off-kilter Greenwich Village pals, and an ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with women and men. She doesn’t need more grief. But when she accidentally spies two people dumping a dubious-looking ice chest into the Hudson, she has an unsettling feeling about its contents. . . . New York Rule #2: Don’t make eye contact. So, not being the kind of girl to let some psycho get away with murder, Sam sets out to unravel a mystery—and is soon being stalked by a sinister, shadowy figure who’s wearing one-of-a-kind mirrored contact lenses. . . . New York Rule #3: If you must break Rules #1 and #2, get some help from New York’s Finest. Now, aided by a hard-as-nails (but still very hot) homicide detective, Sam is poking into some unsavory places—and finding out more creepy stuff than she ever wanted to know. . . . New York Rules #4 and #5: Don’t expect anything to be what it seems . . . and when necessary, fight like hell. "Punchy, comic, and clever, Hide Your Eyes will blow your mind."—Lisa Gardner "A smart, snappy piece of deviltry."—Perri O'Shaughnessy

Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from “the best of mystery writers” (The New Yorker). A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End. Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself “one of the finest ‘golden age’ crime novelists” (Sunday Telegraph). “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky “Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.” —Times Literary Supplement

Includes an excerpt from the author's Taking Eve.

The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher.

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can be seen with one's eyes closed.

LYRICS FOR ALL TIMES. TIME REVEALS / TIME HEALS Being is best felt in a song.

Carmen West likes to paint.Art, she believes, makes up for the lack of light in her. Even if it comes in the form of a boy who carries the sun in his eyes.Asa San Román is afraid his looks are all that he'll be liked for.He's reckless, sometimes hotheaded, incredibly passionate and likes to drown him-self in whatever takes the insecurities away. Carmen is satisfied living with her heart under wraps, but then she meets Asa, who wears his on his sleeve-and he reminds her that even after the darkest of nights, comes the breaking of light.Asa is fine with trying to erase parts of his identity, but then she meets Carmen, the girl with midnight hair and thundercloud eyes-who teaches him that beauty doesn't lie in the colour of his skin, but runs soul-deep instead.Asa and Carmen fall into place beside each other like two halves of a jigsaw puzzle-perfectly into place.But then one of them embarks on a journey of self-love while the other still struggles to admit they have too many open wounds that need healing.And when two people, regardless of the intensity of their feelings, are in complete-ly different points of their lives......is love really enough?