Monika Blaich Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Kate Fansler verschlägt es aus New York City den Sommer über in die ländliche Idylle der Berkshires. Hier in Araby soll sie den Nachlass des amerikanischen Verlegers von James Joyce sichten. Doch dann wird die unsympathische Nachbarin Mary Bradford erschossen aufgefunden, und Kate lässt die Korrespondenz des berühmten irischen Autors liegen, wild entschlossen, den Mörder zu finden.

When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel's couch--with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her brilliant friend killing anyone is preposterous, but proving it seems an impossible task. For Janet had no friends, no lover, no family. Why, then, should someone feel compelled to kill her? Kate's analytic techniques leave no stone unturned--not even the one under which a venomous killer once again lies coiled and ready to strike. . . .

Ook al jagen ze op een seriemoordenaar, de politie in een Amerikaanse stad bestaat in de eerste plaats uit mensen van vlees en bloed.

Andrew Beckett, a hot-shot lawyer, is fired from his law firm when he develops AIDS. He hires a former adversary, personal-injury lawyer Joe Miller, to sue for damages and help win back his job. This book has been made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.