A story of the Jazz Age; a woman is accused of a double murder where the victims were dismembered and concealed in trunks bound by train for LA.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Novel, 240 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Simon & Schuster - 2009 - ISBN: 1416599096 / 9781416599098
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Arellano, Robert
Havana Lunar
A young doctor comes to the aid of a teenage girl on the run from her pimp; when the pimp and his muscle come after them, they are plunged into the catacombs of Havana's criminal underworld.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
When a college professor hunting for nine unknown Robert Johnson recordings goes missing in the Delta, blues historian Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a seventeen-year-old hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley. Includes bonus material plus a brand-new Travers story, 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down'.
Awards: ♦ Last Fair Deal Gone Down: Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Short Fiction
Novel, 230 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1998)
Brixton Brothers #1: The Case of the Case of the Mistaken Identity
Ages 8 and up. When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of the Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel
Novel, 179 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Simon & Schuster - 2010 - ISBN: 141697816X / 9781416978169
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Cristofano, David
The Girl She Used to Be
In Witness Protection since she was six, Melody's had many names. When the Mafioso sent to hunt her down knows her real identity, it's a dangerous thrill that Melody can't resist. He insists she's a pawn in the government's war against the Bovaro family, but can she trust this vicious stranger?
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Novel, 241 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Grand Central - 2010 - ISBN: 0446582212 / 9780446582216
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Gautreaux, Tim
The Missing
After WWI, Sam returns to New Orleans to work as a floorwalker; when a little girl disappears from the store on his shift, he embarks on a journey to piece together what happened to her.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 375 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Vintage - 2010 - ISBN: 0307454681 / 9780307454683
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George, Kathleen
Richard Christie #4: The Odds
With Homicide head Richard Christie in the hospital, it falls to Potocki and Greer to help Narcotics investigate when a young boy on Pittsburgh's North Side dies of a suspicious overdose.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 343 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312573235 / 9780312573232
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Gruley, Bryan
Starvation Lake #1: Starvation Lake
When pieces from a fatal snowmobile accident are discovered a decade later five miles from the scene, small-town newspaper editor Gus Carpenter takes on the case.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
His twin sister has been missing for a year, but Johnny is certain she is still alive, and determined to find her. Then a second child goes missing - and Johnny's hunt leads him into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence going back more than a hundred years.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 419 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's Griffin - 2010 - ISBN: 0312642369 / 9780312642365
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Highsmith, Patricia - of interest: Schenkar, Joan
The Talented Miss Highsmith
Biography covering everything from her unusual personal life to her prolific writing life. Schenkar had access to Highsmith's closest friends, and to her archives.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Memoir/Biography ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work ♦ Finalist for the 2009 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction
Nonfiction, 684 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Picador - 2011 - ISBN: 0312363818 / 9780312363819
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Hill, Russell
The Lord God Bird
1949: A teenage couple from Illinois, obsessed with finding the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, are pursued by local hunters deep in the Louisiana bayous; they find refuge with an ancient black man.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
After cleaning a suicide scene in Malibu, Webster gets a call from the dead man's daughter; she and her thug half-brother have another big mess that needs cleaning on the QT.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 319 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
The popular mystery writer looks at the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and at the writers who satisfy it, examining the genre from top to bottom.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work
Nonfiction, 198 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Vintage - 2011 - ISBN: 0307743136 / 9780307743138
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Lehane, Dennis (editor)
Boston Noir
Eleven original stories set in Boston, MA.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Fear and Loathing
Exit Interview == Lynne Heitman
Animal Rescue == Dennis Lehane
The Place Where He Belongs == Jim Fusilli
Dark Waters == Patricia Powell
Part II: Skeletons in the Closet
Femme Sole == Dana Cameron
The Dark Island == Brendan DuBois
The Reward == Stewart O'Nan
The Cross-Eyed Bear == John Dufresne
Part III: Veils of Deceit
The Oriental Hair Poets == Don Lee
The Collar == Itabari Njeri
Turn Speed == Russ Aborn
About the Contributors
Awards: ♦ Femme Sole: Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Short Fiction ♦ Animal Rescue: Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Short Fiction
Stella Hardesty runs a sewing shop in rural Missouri, with a sideline convincing abusers to stop battering their women. When Chrissy Shaw's young son disappears - along with her no-good husband - Stella and Chrissy set out to find the boy.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Recommended by Elizabeth.
Novel, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2010 - ISBN: 0312643233 / 9780312643232
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Locke, Attica
Black Water Rising
When he saves a woman from drowning, her secrets ensnare lawyer Jay Porter in a murder investigation that could cost him his practice, his family, and even his life.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Novel, 427 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Detective Harry Hole investigates the death of his old flame Anna, while also trying to track down a gang of robbers who are getting more ruthless with each hit.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Harper - ISBN: 0062119699 / 9780062119698
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ID: #New016841
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Nesbo, Jo
Harry Hole #4: Nemesis
Detective Harry Hole investigates the death of his old flame Anna, while also trying to track down a gang of robbers who are getting more ruthless with each hit.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 474 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061655511 / 9780061655517
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Nunn, Malla
Emmanuel Cooper #1: A Beautiful Place to Die
In 1952 South Africa, English detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation into an Afrikaans police officer's murder is hampered by the Afrikaner Secret Police campaign to capture Black Communists.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 373 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Washington Square Press - 2009 - ISBN: 1416586210 / 9781416586210
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Penzler, Otto (editor)
The Lineup
Mystery writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives.
Contents
Introduction == Otto Penzler
Jack Taylor == Ken Bruen
Jack Reacher == Lee Child
Hieronymus Bosch == Michael Connelly
Charlie Parker == John Connolly
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike == Robert Crais
Lincoln Rhyme ==Jeffery Deaver
Inspector Morse == Colin Dexter
Charlie Resnick == John Harvey
Bob Lee Swagger == Stephen Hunter
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus == Faye Kellerman
Alex Delaware == Jonathan Kellerman
Dismas Hardy == John Lescroart
Tess Monaghan == Laura Lippman
Rambo == David Morrell
Mallory == Carol O'Connell
Spenser == Robert B. Parker
Lou Boldt == Ridley Pearson
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt == Anne Perry
Aloysius X. Pendergast == Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
John Rebus == Ian Rankin
Precious Ramotswe == Alexander McCall Smith
Copyright Acknowledgments
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work
Anthology, 406 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Back Bay - 2010 - ISBN: 0316031941 / 9780316031943
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Pintoff, Stefanie
Simon Ziele #1: In the Shadow of Gotham
New York City, 1905: Detective Simon Ziele and Columbia University criminologist Alistair Sinclair investigate the murder of math student Sarah Wingate.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author ♦ Winner of the 2008 Mystery Writers of America / Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Award
Novel, 381 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2010 - ISBN: 0312628129 / 9780312628123
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Scotti, R.A.
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa
The story of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa, and the investigation of the crime.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nonfiction, 241 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Vintage - 2010 - ISBN: 0307278387 / 9780307278388
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Springer, Nancy
Enola Holmes #5: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
Ages 8 and up. 14-year-old Enola comes home to find her landlady Mrs. Tupper has been kidnapped. Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it?
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel
Novel, 162 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Puffin - 2011 - ISBN: 0142416908 / 9780142416907
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Strange, Marc
Joe Grundy #2: Body Blows
Ex-boxer Joe Grundy investigates the murder of his boss Leo Alexander's live-in servant and not-so-secret lover; Leo's past serves up more surprises than Grundy bargained for.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Novel, 311 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Castle Street - 2009 - ISBN: 1554883903 / 9781554883905
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Tyler, L.C.
The Herring-Seller's Apprentice
Ethelred Tressider is a mystery writer with problems. His nosy agent has a passion for real-life mysteries, and gets stirred up when Ethelred's ex-wife goes missing and Ethelred starts behaving in an extremely peculiar fashion.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
