Basil King

An acclaimed novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of The Concrete Blonde follows crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy as he tracks down a versifying serial killer who preys on police detectives.

Author's (visually impaired) interpretation and understanding of the Bible.

A historical fiction nove lset in the late 19th century, follows the life of a young man, the son of a wealthy businessman, expected to take over his father's business one day. However, Philip he other plans. He is an artist at heart and dreams of traveling the world to paint and create.

James Parker won't give up on his wife, Bella.Not after everything they've been through together. What started as an unlikely marriage between a blue blood and a rebel blossomed like the gardens Bella cultivates.But she can't remember any of it. Miles from home, afflicted with amnesia, she's safe in the care of a kind doctor--and safe from the memory of the betrayal that made her leave. Now it's up to James to remind her of their wonderful life together, to help her fall in love again...and to help her find the way home.

George Eliot's Gothic story, published the same year as her staunchly realist novel, Adam Bede, continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic narrator. Latimer, one of her least likeable characters, suffers tremendously under his heightened awareness of others' petty and selfish thoughts. Latimer chooses to tell the story of his abilities as a tale of disability, a kind of pathography about his gift. The vehemence of his disgust for human frailties suggests that Latimer's pain derives at least in part from his failure of empathy for others (except at his father's death)--that his discomfort with telepathic communication rests on his resistance to human connection in general. Thus, his uncanny hearing unmasks a kind of sympathetic deafness to others, and his progressive heart disease indexes the shriveling of his capacity for human love and friendship.

The character, Mrs. Winship is a blind older woman in the story.