Discuss the potential threat of common poisons and not-so-well known toxins that could turn a safe home into a lethal one. Discover where these sometimes hidden environmental toxins-including carbon, mercury, lead, arsenic and insecticides-can be found, what they can do and how to avoid and reduce these dangers.

Frank Bigelow, on vacation in San Francisco for a few days, is slipped a slow-acting, lethal poison. In the forty-eight hours left to him he frantically seeks to learn who is responsible and why he was poisoned.

In the summer of 2004, Canadian health researchers made a startling discovery in the Chippewa birth records for the city of Sarnia, an hour north of Detroit: for the past decade, female babies had been outnumbering male babies at a rate of 2:1. Further investigation revealed large numbers of miscarriages, a cluster of reproductive cancers in young women, and widespread neurological problems among the band's children. The Beloved Community looks at...

Middle aged private detective Agatha Raisin and her young assistant, Toni, investigate two murders by

"Georgie's new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, it's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to show him off. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of Gothic horror novels--is one of the guests. After the dinner, Sir Mortimer approaches Georgie and asks to borrow her new chef for his upcoming party, .and Georgie and Darcy, her husband, are invited! Just after the banquet several of the guests become...