Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes' brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen's servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh. Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen's life. But the circumstances of the two victims' deaths also call to Holmes' mind the terrible murder—in Holyrood—of "The Italian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary's vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination. Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Caleb Carr's brilliant new offering takes the Conan Doyle tradition to remarkable new heights with this spellbinding tale.

A cryptic telegram summons Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr.Watson to Edinburgh, where the brutal killings of a renowned architect and hisforeman in the royal palace of Holyrood may be the first clues of a plot againstQueen Victoria’s life. The murders are also ghostly echos of the killing,three hundred years earlier, of the Italian secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots. Caleb Carr, author of the critically acclaimed The Alienist,turns his imagination across the ocean and the greatest fictional detective ofVictorian England: Sherlock Holmes. Chilling and brilliant, Caleb Carr’slatest offering has won praise for its satisfying innovation while remainingtrue to the legacy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A wild fling with her boss’s brother leaves a young woman expecting much more in this sexy billionaire romance. A quiet evening in Manhattan turns into an electrically charged encounter when billionaire tycoon Luca O’Hagan finds himself alone with his brother’s beautiful assistant. The attraction he feels for Alice cannot be ignored; he has to have her . . . . Alice can’t help falling for the powerful and sexy Luca. Yet when he proposes a marriage of convenience, she refuses. As irresistible as he may be, she is determined to marry for love. But perhaps she’s been too hasty—she’s just discovered she’s having his child!

Secretary Angie has secretly been in love with her boss, Riccardo, for years. But Riccardo is rich and incredibly handsome. There is no way a man who dates beautiful woman after beautiful woman would ever notice plain old Angie. Just as Angie resolves to move on from her painful one-sided love, Riccardo suddenly gives her a red dress to wear to the office Christmas party. Though hesitant, Angie appears at the party all dolled up, only for Riccardo to give her a fiery look and shoot icy, accusing words: "What are you trying to do?"

To arrogant Italian Gabriel Gessi, Rose has always been his plain, sensible secretary. But when she returns from vacation with a stunning new look, Gabriel decides he wants to take her out of the boardroom and into his bedroom! And the plain-Jane secretary— Rose has been in love with her gorgeous boss for years, but her resolve to try and forget him weakens when they begin working more closely together—on a secluded Caribbean island!

The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game. No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world’s most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.