Stephen White

Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors - a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife - the couple hosts a dinner party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine - only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped?

As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students, including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and the newest Supreme Court Justice, may have gone missing. Kidnapped? Terrorism? The authorities aren't sure, but the high-profile disappearances draw the attention of the CIA and the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team.

Alan Gregory finds his family targeted by brilliant murderer Michael McClelland when the latter is released from the Colorado State Mental Hospital, a situation that is complicated by McClelland's detailed knowledge about Alan's innermost secrets.

New Orleans D.A. Kirsten Lord and her daughter are taken into the witness protection program after her husband's murder. In Boulder, they meet Carl Luppo, a former Mob assassin, who makes it his job to protect the two of them.

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White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society in the Middle Ages which is impressive in its breadth and illuminating in its detail. By examining the practice whereby gifts of land were approved by the giver's relatives, he suggests novel ways of looking at early medieval law, kinship, land tenure, and gift exchange. White shows that laudatio parentum...

When a surprise package arrives from Miss Vera Goode containing her new book on manners. Barney's friends question why minding their manners is so important. Barney helps his pals brush up on the rules of etiquette by bring Mother Goose rhymes to life.