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Adam, Paul  
Paganini's Ghost
Violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione searches for a long-lost instrument that was possessed by famed violinist Niccolo Paganini.  
Novel, 275 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2010 - ISBN: 0312383851 / 9780312383855  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006538 $24.99
Alexander, Karl  
Time After Time
H.G. Wells uses his time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper to 1979 San Francisco, where he must save the city - and a lovely young woman - from the depraved killer.  
Novel, 286 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1979)  
Forge - 2010 - ISBN: 0765326221 / 9780765326225  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006510 $14.99
Amidon, Stephen  
Security
A security guard investigates a college student's claim that she was sexually assaulted at a wealthy man's house.  
Novel, 276 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Picador - 2010 - ISBN: 0312429312 / 9780312429317  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006578 $15.00
Armstrong, Lori  
No Mercy
On medical leave from the Army, sniper Mercy Gunderson heads home to South Dakota, and investigates the death of a Native American boy whose body is found on her family's land.  
Novel, 305 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Touchstone - 2010 - ISBN: 1416590951 / 9781416590958  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005525 $25.00
Atherton, Nancy  
Aunt Dimity #14: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
When a Renaissance festival sets up shop in Finch, Lori Shepherd discovers a sinister stalker, a jealous saboteur, and an evil assassin behind the scenes. With some of Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance, she has to prevent the medieval revelry from ending in modern-day tragedy.  
Novel, 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Penguin - 2010 - ISBN: 0143116584 / 9780143116585  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006719 $7.99
Atkinson, Kate  
Jackson Brodie #3: When Will There Be Good News?
Three lives intersect unexpectedly: a woman who witnessed an appalling crime thirty years ago; a nanny whose employer has gone missing; and an ex-detective whose train trip is fatally interrupted.  
Novel, 388 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Back Bay - 2010 - ISBN: 0316012831 / 9780316012836  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005149 $13.99
Ault, Sandi  
Jamaica Wild #3: Wild Sorrow
Jamaica searches for a wounded mountain lion and her cubs; winter temperatures threaten the lions - and Jamaica herself, as she's stalked by a killer.  
Novel, 293 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Berkley Prime Crime - 2010 - ISBN: 0425232638 / 9780425232637  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006733 $14.00
Axler, James  
Deathlands #90: Prophecy
Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists find themselves on a path of strange prophecy in the shifting landscape of the Great Plains.  
Novel, 317 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Gold Eagle - 2010 - ISBN: 0373626002 / 9780373626007  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005914 $6.99
Baldacci, David  
Absolute Power
Plus bonus short story 'No Time Left'.  
Novel, 678 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1996)  
Vision - 2010 - ISBN: 044656656X / 9780446566568  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New007575 $9.99
Barr, Nevada  
13-1/2
Divorced with two daughters, Polly Farmer falls in love with Marshall Marchand, then learns he is really Dylan Raines, incarcerated 25 years ago at the age 11 for the axe-murder of his parents.  
Novel, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Vanguard Press - 2009 - ISBN: 1593155530 / 9781593155537  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New007577 $25.95
Barton, Beverly  
Dead by Midnight
An Alabama sheriff must protect his high-school sweetheart from a killer who stalks his victims and shoots them at close range.  
Novel, 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Zebra - 2010 - ISBN: 1420100513 / 9781420100518  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006672 $7.99
Bartulin, Lenny  
Death by the Book (Australian title: A Deadly Business)
A customer asks bookseller Jack Susko to find as many copies as possible of some obscure poetry, then burns the books. But soon, books aren't the only thing disappearing.  
Novel, 249 pages, Hardcover, 1st US Edition  
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2010 - ISBN: 0312559720 / 9780312559724  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006544 $24.99
Bauer, Belinda  
Blacklands
Obsessed with finding the body of an uncle who disappeared as a child, twelve-year-old Steven writes a letter to the man convicted of killing him.  
Novel, 221 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Simon & Schuster - 2010 - ISBN: 1439149445 / 9781439149447  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005522 $23.00
Bayard, Pierre  
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong
Reinvestigating The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bayard uses the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key to unravel the mystery, demonstrating that Holmes - and Doyle - got it wrong.  
Nonfiction, 193 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Bloomsbury - 2009 - ISBN: 1596916443 / 9781596916449  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New004959 $14.00
Beaton, M.C.  
Hamish Macbeth #25: Death of a Witch
Hamish MacBeth returns from holiday to find that a charming witch supplying dangerous potions has come to Lochdubh; when she is murdered and he is the prime suspect, he must work to clear his name  
Novel, 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Grand Central - 2010 - ISBN: 0446615498 / 9780446615495  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006167 $6.99
Beaton, M.C.  
Hamish Macbeth #26: Death of a Valentine
Wedding bells are in the air for police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, but he develops pre-nuptial jitters as he and his fiancee, constable Josie McSween, investigate a woman's murder.  
Novel, 246 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Grand Central - 2010 - ISBN: 0446547387 / 9780446547383  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005169 $23.99
Berenson, Alex  
John Wells #3: The Silent Man
When an attack on him leaves his fiance badly injured, CIA agent John Wells tracks his adversaries to Russia and Europe, where he uncovers an Islamic terrorist plan.  
Novel, 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Jove - 2010 - ISBN: 0515147532 / 9780515147537  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006774 $9.99
Berney, Lou  
Gutshot Straight
Signed by the author on the title page. An ex-con and a housewife, on the run from the mob, head for Panama, looking to unload valuable religious artifacts of questionable provenance.  
Novel, 291 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
William Morrow - 2010 - ISBN: 0061766046 / 9780061766046  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006220 $24.99
Berry, Jedediah  
The Manual of Detection
An unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams.

Awards:
♦  Winner of the 2010 William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book

 
Novel, 278 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Penguin - 2010 - ISBN: 0143116517 / 9780143116516  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006718 $15.00
Best, S. Payne (Captain)  
The Venlo Incident: A True Story of Double-Dealing, Captivity, and a Murderous Nazi Plot
1939: Best, a top MI6 agent is captured by an SS ambush, along with a list of British undercover agents, and spends five years in Nazi concentration camps.  
Nonfiction, 260 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1950)  
Skyhorse Publishing - 2009 - ISBN: 1602399468 / 9781602399464  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006646 $14.95
Black, Cara  
Aimee Leduc #09: Murder in the Latin Quarter
Signed by the author on the title page. A Haitian woman arrives in Paris, claiming to be Aimee's illegitimate sister. Aimee's partner Rene is wary, but Aimee embraces the woman, then finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics that lead to murder.  
Novel, 317 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC  
Soho Crime - 2010 - ISBN: 1569476217 / 9781569476215  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005688 $14.00
Black, Cara  
Aimee Leduc #10: Murder in the Palais Royal
Signed by the author on the title page. Aimee's partner has been shot, and eyewitnesses have identified her as the culprit. A mysterious deposit has been made to their firm's bank account. Two murders ensue. And somehow it's all connected to a youth Aimee sent to jail years ago.  
Novel, 291 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Soho Crime - 2010 - ISBN: 1569476209 / 9781569476208  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005689 $25.00
Blehm, Eric  
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
The story of the US Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds while protecting Hamid Karzai, soon to become the first democratically elected leader of Afghanistan.  
Nonfiction, 375 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Harper - 2010 - ISBN: 0061661228 / 9780061661228  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006254 $25.99
Blossom, Andrew (editor) / Castleberry, Brian (editor) / De Haven, Tom (editor)  
Richmond Noir
Twelve original stories set in Richmond, Virginia.
    Contents
  • Foreword == Tom Robbins
  • Introduction
    Part I: Nevermore
  • The Rose Red Vial == Pir Rothenberg
  • Homework == David L. Robbins
  • Gaia == Mina Beverly
  • Texas Beach == Dennis Danvers
    Part II: Numbers
  • The Battle of Belle Isle == Clay McLeod Chapman
  • A Late-Night Fishing Trip == X.C. Atkins
  • The Heart Is a Strange Muscle == Laura Browder
  • The Fall Lines == Dean King
    Part III: Neurosis
  • Playing with DaBlonde == Tom De Haven
  • Midnight at the Oasis == Anne Thomas Soffee
  • Untitled == Meagan J. Saunders
  • Marco's Broken English == Conrad Ashley Persons
    Part IV: Nonsuch
  • The Thirteenth Floor == Howard Owen
  • Mr. Not == Hermine Pinson
  • The Apprentice == Clint McCown
  • Editors' Acknowledgments
  • About the Contributors
 
Anthology, 270 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition  
Akashic Books - 2010 - ISBN: 1933354984 / 9781933354989  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New005654 $15.95
Bova, Ben  
Able One
Can an experimental defense system stop North Korean missile strikes?  
Novel, 398 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765323869 / 9780765323866  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New006531 $24.99


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