The serial killer and the World's Fair In his new best seller, "The Devil in the White City," popular historian Erik Larson braids together three narrative strands involving serial murder, political assassination and architectural history. FULL STORY
Potter publisher revises sales program The U.S. publisher of the "Harry Potter" series has revised a controversial program that sells books directly to students. Retailers had complained they were losing business. FULL STORY
Review: 'Old Flames' scorchingly clever British authors have made significant contributions to two genres of popular fiction -- the detective story and the spy novel. Now comes a British writer who offers another contribution by combining the two into the detective/spy novel. John Lawton's work "Old Flames" is an intriguing synthesis of the genres, a mystery yarn wrapped inside a tale of espionage. FULL STORY
