As he makes his rounds, a night watchman hears birds calling, insects buzzing, and vehicles roaring by, while a stray kitten keeps him company.

An annotated copy of Dante's Inferno, found at the scene of the crime, may contain the clues Brunetti needs to solve the murder - and uncover who is ruining the waters of Venice's lagoon. But Brunetti needs the help of his wife, Paola, a professor of literature, and his daughter, Chiara, who should be doing her Latin homework. Over long lunches, on secret boat rides, and in quiet bars, as the weather heats up, the flowers come into bloom, and the...

At the end of The monkey wrench gang Hayduke is left clinging to a cliff. Now he's off to stop Goliath, the world's largest earth-moving machine.

Ben Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, and to sketch the wider political forces that keep half a million refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, City of Thorns tells an urgent human story.

A night watchman is found dead in the Mummy Room of the British Museum, a look of horror frozen on his face. Before Amelia can respond, a pair of dissolute aristocrats with shady pasts appear in her life, together with supernatural curses.

Barnes' famous experimental novel tells of a young woman, Robin Vote, in 1920s Paris, who first marries the "Baron" Felix Volkbien, and later has love affairs with two women.

Close to the town of Aurora, Minnesota, lies an ancient 200-acre expanse of great white pines, revered by the Anishinaabe tribe as "Our Grandfathers". When an explosion kills a night watchman at the nearby mill of a wealthy industrialist, it's obvious that suspicion will fall upon tribe members.

"In a troubled realm, city watchman Willet Dunham begins to investigate a mysterious murder, and after a powerful encounter with a dying priest, he leaves with few answers but a rare gift"--

Two brothers encounter a lone wolf on the spot where each summer night before they had signaled their friend the fire watchman up on the mountain tower.

Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks--with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being 'trigger-happy.' he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective's assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary....