Stephen White

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 newest Supreme Court justice--may have gone missing. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he joins FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake to solve the riddle...

In this explosive conclusion to a decades-long saga, Alan Gregory is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. He must reconsider what he has long believed about trust and love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief. To protect himself, Alan must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside...

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...

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An HMO in Boulder, Colorado, refuses to pay for experimental treatment which might save a little girl with a heart ailment. When the HMO's director is murdered, suspicion falls on the girl's sister. Psychologist Alan Gregory investigates.

In a community theater in Boulder, Colorado, a man is tortured and left to bleed to death atop a concert piano. Psychologist-investigator Dr. Alan Gregory, a friend of the victim, finds that the man's belongings point to a mysterious hidden life. By the author of Higher Authority.