When two women are found strangled in the studio of a London artist, including the wife of Dr. Kristian Beck, who is accused of the killing, William Monk, his wife Hester, and their close friend, Lady Callandra Daviot, set out to clear their friend's name.
Richard Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, with penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organizations, and view their role of leaders.
Anne Smith's death had been sudden and unexpected. She and Robert Smith had been married 38 years, and to all their friends the couple had seemed forever inseparable. To console Robert (and themselves), several of his longtime friends decided to take this still young-at-heart widower off to St. Tropez, to soothe his grief in the warm French sun. When Robert arrives at the villa with a nimble, long-legged aspiring actress, his buddies begin to wonder if it's time that they shed their mournful inhibitions too.
This fantasy novel by the author of "Weaveworld" describes a race to find the secret of "The Art" - a state of being or consciousness which allows its owner to transcend their humanity and enter into a heightened spiritual state - between Fletcher and the evil-intentioned Jaffe.
