"The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a freewheeling novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean." --Amazon.

"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...

A motorcyclist killed during a robbery leads Detective Superintendent Colin Thane to a multi-million dollar videotape pirating racket.

Glasgow's thick blanket of snow makes it difficult to discover clues to the identity of a knife-carrying murderer.