New Releases by John Burke

Involved in plans to establish the town of Kilstane as a music festival center, Sir Nicholas Torrance faces problems when a corpse is found in the main concert venue. Sent to his aid is Detective Inspector Lesley Gunn, who is still emotionally bruised from their last encounter. She becomes enmeshed not just in a murder investigation, but in musical puzzles taxing all her powers of deduction. John Burke presents an entertaining mystery, and a tantalizing question of whether the laird and the sleuth will at last come together, or whether a tempestuous woman violinist will wreck things for them and others.

Thriller partially set in the Antarctic.

Now in its revised and updated Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the rapidly evolving field of environmental toxicology. The book provides the objective information that health professionals need to prevent environmental health problems, plan for emergencies, and evaluate toxic exposures in patients.Coverage includes safety, regulatory, and legal issues; clinical toxicology of specific organ systems; emergency medical response to hazardous materials releases; and hazards of specific industries and locations. Nearly half of the book examines all known toxins and environmental health hazards. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Building on solid tradition, this book on leadership formation helps lay ministers preach the Word more effectively by growing in holiness themselves and thus encouraging others to grow in holiness.

When high-flying businesswoman Brigid Weir is thrown out by her employers, she plans revenge in no-holds-barred memoirs, and recklessly chooses as ghost writer a figure from her past who may still have his own grudges to bear. Trouble is inevitable once word of the project leaks out.

Murder mystery surrounds the death of a distinguished geologist in a highly recommended guest house.

In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she met Horace Tabor, the Silver King of Leadville, in 1880. Three years later they were free to legalize their passion. Although thirty years separated them, they were well matched in romantic recklessness. If The Legend of Baby Doe is the lowdown on the high jinks of two public lives, it is also the story of a love that survived spectacularly good times and bad. Before bad times came, Baby and Horace went on a spending spree. They built an opulent opera house in Denver and bought an Italian-ate villa. Baby Doe went out bejeweled and ermined, and sat at home alone, snubbed by the social dragons. John Burke has written about the giddy rise of a bonanza king who dreamed of entering the White House with Baby Doe on his arm and about the disastrous fall they took together. Wiped out by unwise investments and the Panic of 1893, Tabor soon died, leaving Baby Doe and their two daughters penniless. Reportedly, his deathbed order was to "hang on to the Matchless," a played-out mine filled with water. She managed to do that for almost four decades, struggling heroically against loneliness, poverty, and heartbreak, and becoming one of the great legends of the American West.

"Amelia Earhart was the first woman to solo across the Atlantic; she broke transcontinental speed records, was the first to solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City and from Honolulu to the Mainland, and pioneered the airline routes. She lost her last gamble trying to fly around the world at the Equator in a two-engine plane without the navigational aids that became available only a few years later. Winged Legend, however, is more than the story of America''s no. 1 pioneer woman flier. It is a penetrating study of a young woman, born on the Kansas frontier, with a childhood shadowed by domestic tragedy, who willed herself to greatness. Hers was an extraordinary career even before she took up flying professionally -- nursing the World War I wounded in Canada, teaching school, working in a Boston settlement house, and meanwhile teaching herself to fly in the rickety, put-put aircraft of the twenties"--