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Andrus, James  
John Stallings #2: The Perfect Prey
During spring break in Jacksonville, Florida, pretty girls are everywhere. None of them suspect that, for the guy they're flirting with, it's hunting season. Detective John Stallings must find the psychopath leaving a trail of blond, blue-eyed murder victims.  
Novel, 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Pinnacle - 2011 - ISBN: 0786022167 / 9780786022168  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New016620 $6.99
Beaton, M.C.  
Agatha Raisin #21: Busy Body
When a Health and Safety Inspector, who had ruled that all of Carsely's traditional holiday decorations are unsafe, turns up stabbed to death with a kitchen knife, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.  
Novel, 278 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC  
St. Martin's - 2011 - ISBN: 031253650X / 9780312536503  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New014393 $7.99
Block, Lawrence  
The Night and the Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories
Signed by the author on the title page. Eleven stories featuring the unlicensed New York PI.
    Contents
  • Growing Up with Matt Scudder: An Appreciation == Brian Koppelman
  • Out the Window
  • A Candle for the Bag Lady
  • By the Dawn's Early Light
  • Batman's Helpers
  • The Merciful Angel of Death
  • The Night and the Music
  • Looking for David
  • Let's Get Lost
  • A Moment of Wrong Thinking
  • Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen
  • One Last Night at Grogan's
  • About These Stories
 
Collection, 237 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand  
Telemachus Press - 2011 - ISBN: 1937387321 / 9781937387327  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New016587 $20.00
Bradley, Alan  
Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring Without Mustard
Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues, clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce investigates a pair of crimes: the bludgeoning of an old Gypsy fortune-teller suspected of abducting a local child years ago; and the murder of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce drawing room.  
Novel, 391 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC  
Bantam - 2011 - ISBN: 0385343469 / 9780385343466  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New016382 $15.00
Brokaw, Charles  
Thomas Lourds #2: The Lucifer Code
Lourds is kidnapped by a ruthless group who are hunting a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos, which could bring about the end of the world - or stop it.  
Novel, 486 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
Forge - 2011 - ISBN: 0765360691 / 9780765360694  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New014395 $9.99
Brown, Rita Mae  
Mags & Baxter #1: A Nose for Justice
A Wall Street has-been, thirty-two-year-old Mags arrives at her great-aunt Jeep's ranch to reassemble her life. But with a pipe-bombing at the valley's water pumping station, a string of local murders, and the discovery of a 19th-century skeleton buried in Jeep's barn, Mags and Deputy Pete Meadows have a lot of mysteries to solve - and Mags' dachshund Baxter and Jeep's shepherd mix King will have to team up to protect their humans.  
Novel, 321 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
Ballantine - 2011 - ISBN: 0345511824 / 9780345511829  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015442 $7.99
Burke, James Lee  
Robicheaux #06: In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead
The skeletal remains of a black man that have washed up in the Atchafalaya swamp take detective Dave Robicheaux back to an unsolved murder that he witnessed in 1957.  
Novel, 471 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1993)  
Pocket - 2011 - ISBN: 1439167605 / 9781439167601  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015711 $9.99
Campbell, Karen  
Anna Cameron #3: Shadowplay
When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to a new division, her new boss turns out to be a tyrant. With her career and personal life both threatening to implode, the gang-related murder of a young Asian boy and an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter.  
Novel, 467 pages, Trade Paperback, Later Printing  
Hodder & Stoughton UK - 2010 - ISBN: 1444700448 / 9781444700442  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015283 $12.95
Cannell, Stephen J.  
Shane Scully #10: The Prostitutes' Ball
A decadent Hollywood party, at a mansion that was the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years earlier, yields the dead bodies of an acclaimed producer and two prostitutes, all shot with the same gun. A single spent casing that doesn't match the rest leads Detective Scully and his new partner Hitch to a story of love, murder, suicide, and one of the biggest financial frauds in LA history.  
Novel, 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC  
St. Martin's - 2011 - ISBN: 031254927X / 9780312549275  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New014391 $9.99
Carparelli, Felicia  
Murder in the Library
Who killed Hieronymus Wilde? Was it his archenemy, his mistress, his wife, or the women in his past? When his body is found on the floor of Violetta Aristotle's department at the Midwestern University Library, the solution to the murder hinges on one of Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases.  
Novel, 236 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand  
MX Publishing - 2011 - ISBN: 1908218401 / 9781908218407  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New016050 $19.95
Carrington, Tori  
Sofie Metropolis #5: Love Bites
Sofie is retained by the neighborhood vampire to prove he isn't responsible for a recent string of grisly murders, and her mother talks her into looking for a missing woman neither of them knows.  
Novel, 233 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
Severn House - 2011 - ISBN: 1847513085 / 9781847513083  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015220 $15.95
Cawthorne, Nigel  
A Brief History of Sherlock Holmes
A full biography of the author as well as his creation, including his resurrection following his unlikely death at the hands of archenemy Moriarty. Also surveys the world of Holmes, looking at Victorian crime, the real characters behind Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, and the world on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street.  
Nonfiction, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition  
Running Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0762444088 / 9780762444083  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015305 $13.95
Christie, Agatha  
Hercule Poirot #07: Peril at End House
On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Poirot is alarmed to hear a pretty young woman describe her recent accidental brushes with death. The brakes on her car failed, a falling boulder missed her by inches, and an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Then Poirot finds a bullet hole in her sun hat. Can he find the would-be killer before he hits his target?  
Novel, 226 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1932)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062074024 / 9780062074027  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015150 $12.99
Christie, Agatha  
Hercule Poirot #19: Hercule Poirot's Christmas (alternate title: A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas)
Tthe Lee family's Christmas Eve reunion is shattered by a crash of furniture and a wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had a reason to hate the old man.  
Novel, 272 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1938)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062074016 / 9780062074010  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015151 $12.99
Christie, Agatha  
Hercule Poirot #28: Mrs. McGinty's Dead (alternate title: Blood Will Tell)
Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls on her lodger, yet James Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Could the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death? With a desperate killer still free, Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out.  
Novel, 260 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1952)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062074083 / 9780062074089  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015152 $12.99
Christie, Agatha  
Hercule Poirot #37: Elephants Can Remember
On a clifftop, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies - a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past to find answers.  
Novel, 224 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1972)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062074032 / 9780062074034  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015153 $12.99
Christie, Agatha  
Hercule Poirot #39: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Back at Great Styles, the rambling country house where they solved their first murder together, Poirot and Captain Hastings must stop one of the seemingly harmless guests, a five-time murderer, from claiming a sixth victim.  
Novel, 224 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1975)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062074091 / 9780062074096  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015154 $12.99
Christie, Agatha  
Star Over Bethlehem
Short stories and poems celebrating the holiday season, including a retelling of the Christmas story, the fable of a donkey who carries a mother and child safely to Egypt, the tale of a widow who dislikes people until she meets a particular stranger, and more.  
Collection, 204 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1965)  
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 006207430X / 9780062074300  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015155 $12.99
Christie, Agatha - of interest: Cade, Jared  
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (4th edition)
Revised and expanded study revealing why Christie staged her own disappearance, and how it all went terribly wrong.  
Nonfiction, 336 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Thus  
Peter Owen UK - 2011 - ISBN: 0720613906 / 9780720613902  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015288 $19.95
Clare, Alys  
Aelf Fen #4: The Way Between the Worlds
1092: 'Come to me! I need you!' These words bring apprentice healer Lassair awake one morning, certain that one of her loved ones is in danger. When news comes that a nun has been murdered at the abbey where her sister Elfritha lives, Lassair sets off immediately. But the danger she will have to face may be greater than she is ready for.  
Novel, 231 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Severn House - 2011 - ISBN: 0727880977 / 9780727880970  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015236 $28.95
Clark, Mary Jane  
Wedding Cake #1: To Have and to Kill
After agreeing to create a wedding cake for the star of a daytime drama, Piper Donovan finds herself investigating - with the help of a handsome FBI agent - when someone close to the bride-to-be is murdered.  
Novel, 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC  
Avon - 2011 - ISBN: 006199555X / 9780061995552  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015173 $7.99
Cleeves, Ann  
Shetland Island #4: Blue Lightning
Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancee Fran home to Fair Isle to meet his parents. When a local married celebrity, who had an eye for the lads, is murdered, Perez discovers that the suspects are very close to him indeed.  
Novel, 357 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312384440 / 9780312384449  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New014869 $14.99
Cussler, Clive & Dirk  
Dirk Pitt #21: Crescent Dawn
In AD 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious long-lost 'manifest', which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world as we know it.  
Novel, 627 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
Berkley - 2011 - ISBN: 0425242390 / 9780425242391  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015371 $9.99
Dams, Jeanne M.  
Dorothy Martin #10: A Dark and Stormy Night
When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie story ever written, Dorothy should have known better.  
Novel, 183 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC  
Severn House - 2011 - ISBN: 1847513158 / 9781847513151  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New015226 $15.95
Davis, Lindsey  
Falco #02: Shadows in Bronze
Helena Justina has left him in the dust. So when the Emperor Vespasian calls upon him to investigate an act of treason, Falco is more than ready for a distraction. Disguised as an idle vacationer in the company of his best friend Petronius, Falco travels from the Isle of Capreae to Neapolis and then to the great city of Pompeii, where a whole new series of Herculean events - involving yet another conspiracy, and a fateful meeting with his beloved Helena - are about to erupt.  
Novel, 452 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1990)  
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312614233 / 9780312614232  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New014868 $16.99


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