Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

They couldn't be any more different Poppy Thompson: The self-proclaimed homeliest woman in town, she deals with animals for a living rather than people. Bren Price: The ever-proper minister's wife, she does everything her husband tells her, but lately her best just isn't good enough. They'd never even spoken to one another until a surprise inheritance brings them together. A fortune in sparkling jewelry could give them what each desires most-Poppy's...

This new crime thriller takes amateur sleuth Diana Pool deep into Southern California's underworld to uncover the mystery of a diamond-encrusted scorpion-and the reason for the murders that follow in its wake.One afternoon while standing outside her newly renovated Malibu house, Diana Poole sees a woman across the highway waving at her, but Diana doesn't recognize her. Still waving, the woman walks into the oncoming cars and is killed instantly. Why...

In this adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea," the prince is ready for marriage but the Queen is more concerned with her jewelry collection.

"To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has...

While five little mice at Mouseford Academy are looking for their missing biology professor they dive to a haunted shipwreck off Whale Island to find a rare diamond that was lost when the ship sank.

"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...

On the Fourth of July, Tess and her friends find a myserious brooch at the Wayfarers Inn. When Tess takes it to a jeweler for appraisal, it is stolen before he can find a clue about its origins. As the Inn crowd digs into the mystery, they learn that among their current guests are the descendants of a man suspected, one hundred and fifty years ago, of stealing this same brooch.

Thinking that luck--rather than hard work--has helped her succeed on the court and at school, ten-year-old Mia panics and turns to her twin brother for help when her lucky gold basketball goes missing from her charm bracelet.