Uncle Edgar's October Bestsellers
(alphabetical by author)
Albert, Susan Wittig
Cottage Tales #7: The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
Beatrix Potter's friend Grace has been receiving anonymous letters threatening her good name; Beatrix must investigate quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip. Includes recipes.
Novel, 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 042524380X / 9780425243800
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014316
$7.99
Bentley, Jennie
Do-It-Yourself #5: Flipped Out
A local news anchor is thrilled to have his home's renovation filmed for a TV show. But when the man is murdered, Avery will have to nail the killer fast. Includes home renovation and design tips.
Novel, 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244075 / 9780425244074
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015348
$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
To escape her hateful brother, Georgie agrees to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. When a wedding guest is poisoned, it's up to Georgie to save the nuptial festivities.
Novel, 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425243745 / 9780425243749
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014311
$7.99
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
Signed by the author on the title page. As sheriff Hack Holland and deputy Pam Tibbs look for the bandits who tortured a man to death in the desert, it becomes clear that serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins is also back in the area.
Novel, 463 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Simon & Schuster - 2011 - ISBN: 145164311X / 9781451643114
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015404
$26.99
Camilleri, Andrea
Inspector Montalbano #13: The Potter's Field
An unidentified corpse is found near Vigata, a Sicilian town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian of Sicilian origin who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers a pertinent story from the Bible, and slowly finds his way to the solution of the crime.
Novel, 277 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Penguin - 2011 - ISBN: 0143120131 / 9780143120131
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014753
$15.00
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
Carl, JoAnna
Chocoholic #10: The Chocolate Pirate Plot
When Lee and her husband take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're boarded by a band of pirates. The town is amused by the mischievous buccaneers. But when a body washes up on shore, Lee has to figure out the truth behind the Warner Pier Pirates.
Novel, 231 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. Before he started walking and became a vigilante, there was a last case, a breaking point, a twist in Reacher's life that he never saw coming.
Carmela and Ava are building a giant monster puppet for a Halloween parade when they overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler. A few minutes later, they find Brett dead, but Carmela has known Jekyl for years; someone is framing him for murder, and she's determined to find the real killer. Includes scrapbooking tips and recipes.
Novel, 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244024 / 9780425244029
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015343
$7.99
Dunnett, Kaitlyn (aka Emerson, Kathy Lynn)
Liss MacCrimmon #4: The Corpse Wore Tartan
At a supper in honor of Scotland's beloved poet Robert Burns, long-held grudges among the members of the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society lead to murder.
Novel, 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
When a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage, it appears to be a straightforward suicide. Inspector Erlendur, also haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, embarks on an unofficial investigation. His discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.
Novel, 314 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Picador - 2011 - ISBN: 0312610599 / 9780312610593
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014882
$15.00
Kelly, Sofie
Magical Cats #2: Sleight of Paw
When the body of elderly Agatha Shepherd is found near a local cafe, librarian Kathleen Paulson knows her cats' magical abilities will give them access to clues without arousing suspicion - it will take a bit of furtive investigation to catch the killer.
Novel, 327 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Signed by the author on the title page. During a houseboat vacation on remote Lake of the Woods, a gale strands Cork and his daughter on an island. In an old cabin, they find the body of a teenage girl who has been tortured and killed. And in a nearby hiding place they find a hungry, dehydrated baby boy. In the Northwest Angle, pursued by powerful people intent on securing the child, Cork realizes that to save his family, he must solve the mystery surrounding the boy.
Assigned to review a new steakhouse, fill-in culinary reporter Jordan McAllister ends up a murder suspect when her waiter turns up murdered outside her home, with her name and number in his pocket. Includes recipes.
Novel, 278 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244040 / 9780425244043
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015344
$7.99
Parker, Robert B.
Spenser #38: Painted Ladies
Spenser agrees to provide protection during a ransom exchange - money for a stolen painting. When he fails to protect his client and the painting remains stolen, he enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves.
Novel, 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley - 2011 - ISBN: 0425243621 / 9780425243626
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014305
$9.99
Patterson, James
Alex Cross #17: Cross Fire
The Mastermind is back, and he's about to destroy everything and everyone Alex Cross loves.
Novel, 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Inspector Gamache #2: A Fatal Grace (UK title: Dead Cold)
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the murder of a much-hated woman who recently moved to Three Pines.
Novel, 311 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312541163 / 9780312541163
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New011618
$14.99
Penny, Louise
Inspector Gamache #3: The Cruelest Month
When some of the Three Pines villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a seance at the old Hadley house, one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or murder?
Novel, 311 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2008)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312573502 / 9780312573508
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New012911
$14.99
Russell, Christine & Christopher
Warrior Sheep #1: The Quest of the Warrior Sheep
Ages 9 and up. An object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with her sheep friends on Eppingham Farm. The sheep are convinced that an ancient ovine prophecy is being fulfilled. They must go North (so to Scotland, perhaps?) on a mission to aid Lord Aries, Sheep of all Sheepdom, in his battle against the powers of darkness in the shape of Lambad the Bad. Thus the Eppingham Posse of Rare Breed Warriors is born. In fact, the silver object is a mobile phone, dropped from a hot air balloon by Luke and Neil, who have been stealing bank money over the internet. They need that phone back to hide the evidence. And no band of woolbags is going to stand in their way!
Ages 9 and up. A strange monster called Red Tongue has threatened all Rams, Ewes, and Lambs. The Warrior Sheep know it's up to them to stop him. And so the Warrior Sheep head to America, to the desert and the hot air of Las Vegas. But they have a crazy scientist following them, and Tod and Gran have been slung in jail by a overzealous sheriff. Can the Warriors give Professor Boomberg the slip and stop the sheep-killing monster?
Virgil's investigation into the murder of a farmer at a Minnesota grain elevator uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.
Novel, 405 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley - 2011 - ISBN: 0425243931 / 9780425243930
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015340
$9.99
Sandford, John
Virgil Flowers #5: Shock Wave
When a superstore chain sets its sights on a Minnesota river town, local merchants and environmentalists both want to stop it, but their protests don't seem to be slowing the project down. When a bomb goes off on the top floor of the company's headquarters, and another at the construction site, Virgil must find out who's behind the bombs.
Novel, 388 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Putnam - 2011 - ISBN: 0399157697 / 9780399157691
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014897
$27.95
Swanson, Denise
Scumble River #14: Murder of a Creped Suzette
Plans to build a country music theater in Scumble River fall flat when a singer is murdered, with motives and suspects stretching back decades.
Novel, 252 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Inspector Kari Vaara investigates when a beautiful Somali's body is found mutilated in a Lapland snowfield; the vicious killing may be a hate crime, a sex crime - or both.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Novel, 292 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425238830 / 9780425238837
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New011774
$14.00
Westlake, Donald E. (writing as Stark, Richard)
Parker #19: Flashfire
Parker's in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions; when things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped - and forced to rely on a civilian to survive.
Novel, 278 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2000)
University of Chicago Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0226770621 / 9780226770628
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016165
$15.00
Wilson, F. Paul
Repairman Jack #15: The Dark at the End
The stage is set for Jack's massive assault. He knows he's got just one shot to take out Rasalom. But he must also safely retrieve Dawn Pickering's child and minimize collateral damage. Luckily, he has a foolproof plan.
