Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 101
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Mystery Scene #127
Articles about Michael Connelly, Nancy Springer, Joanna Carl, courtroom thrillers; reviews; more.
Magazine, 68 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
KBS Communications - 2012 - ISBN: mystscene127
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New021529
$7.50
Adler-Olsen, Jussi
Department Q #2: The Absent One (UK title: Disgrace)
Signed by the author on the title page. A closed case lands on Detective Carl Morck's desk: a brother and sister were murdered two decades ago, and one of the suspects, a privileged boarding school student, confessed. Irregularities in the case files lead Morck to a homeless woman with secrets that certain influential people would kill to keep buried.
Novel, 406 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Plume - 2013 - ISBN: 0142196835 / 9780142196830
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New022165
$16.00
Aird, Catherine
Inspector Sloan #08: Some Die Eloquent
As the doctor said, it's not so important what Miss Wansdyke died from as to whom she left a quarter of a million pounds. Inspector Sloan agrees.
Novel, 159 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1979)
Rue Morgue - 2012 - ISBN: 160187071X / 9781601870711
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New019877
$14.95
Allan, Barbara (aka Collins, Max Allan & Collins, Barbara)
Trash 'n' Treasures #06: Antiques Disposal
When Brandy and her mother Vivian win an abandoned storage unit's contents, the good news is a rare vintage cornet. The bad new is the recently stowed body of Big Jim Bob. When the duo finds another stashed victim, the hunt is on for the killer.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2013 Nero Award
Novel, 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
An Enchanted Village celebration is cut short when the cake delivery boy is found dead. Now his ghost has imprinted on Darcy - they're bonded until she can untangle the thicket surrounding his murder.
Novel, 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Trouble arrives from Nate Romanowski's past, and it may be the battle of his life - and Joe's. Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad, and a colleague did something terrible. Now that man is high up in the government, and out to eliminate anyone with knowledge of his wrongdoing. He'll strike at Nate's friends to draw Nate out - which makes the entire Pickett family a target.
Novel, 446 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Berkley - 2013 - ISBN: 0425250652 / 9780425250655
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New022015
$9.99
Camilleri, Andrea
Montalbano #15: The Dance of the Seagull
Inspector Montalbano is watching a seagull do an odd dance on the beach outside his home when the bird suddenly drops dead. Then he learns that his right-hand man Fazio is missing, last seen on the docks working on a case. Setting out to find him, Montalbano discovers that the seagull's dance of death may provide the key to understanding a macabre world of sadism, extortion, and murder.
Novel, 277 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Penguin - 2013 - ISBN: 0143122614 / 9780143122616
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New020606
$15.00
Conant, Susan
Dog Lovers #19: Brute Strength
Lately, it seems wherever Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and acquaintances are dying under mysterious circumstances. Then Holly's own life is threatened. Can the brute strength of her beloved malamutes Rowdy, Kimi, and Sammy protect her?
Novel, 216 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2011)
Severn House - 2012 - ISBN: 1448360137 / 9781448360130
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New021471
$8.99
Cotterill, Colin
Jimm Juree #2: Grandad, There's A Head on the Beach
Jimm has mixed feelings when a head washes up on the beach near their southern Thailand home. It's tragic, of course, but it could be the sort of sensational murder that would help her journalism career. Now all she has to do is find out who was murdered, and why.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 324 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2013 - ISBN: 1250025184 / 9781250025180
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New020743
$15.99
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 (originally published in 2010)
Severn House - 2012 - ISBN: 1448360145 / 9781448360147
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New021470
$8.99
Downing, David
John Russell #5: Lehrter Station
Paris, November 1945: Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin and John Russell are entangled in a Soviet intelligence net. Their only way out is to come up with something important enough to make a deal with the Americans.
Novel, 378 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
The judges for a prestigious literary prize are whittling away at the shortlist when the chair of the committee dies in suspicious circumstances. Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness Jack Troutbeck to step into the chair. A killer targeting the judges doesn't worry the baroness - it's the prospect of modern literature that fills her with dread. But as the judges resume their task, the killer also resumes work.
Novel, 219 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2004)
Reprints the novel inspired by Ellison's experiences going undercover inside a 1950s street gang, plus three thematically-related short stories.
Contents
Web of the City
No Way Out (alternate title: Gutter Gang)
No Game for Children
Stand Still and Die!
Novel, 284 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1958)
Hard Case Crime - 2013 - ISBN: 1781164207 / 9781781164204
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New021207
$9.95
French, Tana
Dublin Murder Squad #4: Broken Harbor
A man and his two young children are dead, and his wife is in intensive care. Mick Kennedy and his rookie partner think the case will be easy, but too many small things can't be explained. The half-dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the family's walls. The files erased from the family computer. The story the wife told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all locks.
Novel, 450 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Penguin - 2013 - ISBN: 0143123300 / 9780143123309
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New022170
$16.00
Grant, Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.)
Shadow #066: Death Clue / Xitli, God of Fire
Plus Shadow radio script 'The Face of Death' by Alfred Bester.
Death Clue: A clue concealed by Joe Cardona prevents the Dark Avenger from stopping serial murders.
Xitli, God of Fire: The Shadow journeys from Mexico City to New Orleans to defeat a murderous Aztec cult.
Omnibus, 128 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1933 / 1937)
In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, the French royalists are quick to exact vengeance for everything since the Revolution. In this seething atmosphere, British spy Malcolm Rannoch learns that his murdered half-sister may have left behind a secret child; he and his wife Suzanne set out for Paris to find the girl.
1889: Scotland Yard has only 12 detectives in the Murder Squad. When one of them turns up dead, the squad's newest hire, Walter Day, is assigned the case. He finds an ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's forensic pathologist. Together they track the killer, who is clearly not finished with the Murder Squad.
Recommended by Elizabeth: Very enjoyable, not too bloody, with an interesting and well-developed cast of characters. I'm delighted that there will be a sequel.
Novel, 422 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Berkley - 2013 - ISBN: 0425261271 / 9780425261279
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New020550
$16.00
Griffiths, Elly
Galloway & Nelson #4: A Room Full of Bones
When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum's curator lying dead. Soon after, the museum's owner is also found dead. Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling, and the mystery of 'The Dreaming' hold the answers to these deaths.
Novel, 344 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
1812: When Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his bride, the fiercely independent Hero Jarvis, find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.
Novel, 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
A body has shown up in Eric Northman's front yard - the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. It's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her, but she's wrong - a devious enemy is out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.
Novel, 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Ace - 2013 - ISBN: 0425256383 / 9780425256381
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New022046
$7.99
Kaehler, Tammy
Kate Reilly #2: Braking Points
Kate wrecks her race car at Road America in Wisconsin, sending a visiting NASCAR star to the hospital, and loses her cool on-camera, then ends the day by discovering her boyfriend with a friend of hers - a dead friend. Her friend's killer is still out there - and aiming at Kate.
Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry, specializing in fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. When he's murdered in his luxurious apartment, the police have no leads, just a possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for Best First Novel ♦ Winner of the 1986 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Novel, 426 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1985)
September 1941: Reinhard Heydrich is celebrating his appointment as Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. All his guests are high-ranking Party members and each is a suspect in a crime yet to be committed: the murder of Heydrich himself. A murder does occur, but the victim is Heydrich's young adjutant, found dead in his room, the door and windows bolted from the inside. Anticipating foul play, Heydrich had already ordered Bernie Gunther to Prague. After more than a decade in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie had jumped ship as the Nazis came to power, setting himself up as a private detective. But Heydrich, who managed to subsume Kripo into his own SS operations, has forced Bernie back to police work. Now, searching for the killer, Gunther must pick through the lives of some of the Reich's most odious officials.
Novel, 401 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Penguin - 2013 - ISBN: 0143122843 / 9780143122845
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New020608
$16.00
Knight, Alanna
Rose McQuinn #7: Deadly Legacy
1901: Rose agrees to deliver a legacy for a neighbor, but the errand turns dangerous when she's attacked on the train, and returns to Edinburgh to find her neighbor dead.
Novel, 348 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
