Geraldine Brooks

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.

When Lassie's Scottish master dies, the loyal dog remains by his grave, prompting a heated conflict in the small community as to the dog's fate. A moving family classic based on a true story.

It's hard to say what creates more tension in Cry Wolf, the nerve-tingling atmosphere or the romance between Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn. Sandra, a recent widow who visits her husband's family for the first time, finds herself drawn to a man she knows she should fear: her husband's remote, controlling uncle (Flynn). He seems to know secrets about the eerie cries, the laboratory and why his nephew was buried in a closed coffin. Can Sandra uncover the truth before a second death occurs?

A factory girl becomes the mistress of a Park Avenue lawyer who will give her everything except a marriage proposal.