Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 110
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Mystery Scene #138
Articles about Rizzoli & Isles; Michael Sears; legal thrillers; more.
Magazine, 68 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
KBS Communications - 2015 - ISBN: mystscene138
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031363
$7.50
Mystery Scene #139
Articles about John Sandford; Cara Black; streaming TV crime; more.
Magazine, 68 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
KBS Communications - 2015 - ISBN: mystscene139
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031959
$7.50
Abel, James
Joe Rush #1: White Plague
In remote Arctic waters, a technologically advanced US sub is adrift and in flames. Marine doctor and bioterror expert Joe Rush and his team are dispatched to rescue the crew and keep the vessel out of enemy hands. But a deadly plague from the past is also trapped on the sub.
Novel, 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2015 HC
Berkley - 2015 - ISBN: 0425276333 / 9780425276334
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New030945
$9.99
Alexander, Tasha
Lady Emily #09: The Counterfeit Heiress
When an actress trying to pass herself off as an heiress is murdered, was the intended victim the actress, or the heiress? And who would want either of them dead? The investigation takes Lady Emily and Colin from London to Paris.
Novel, 292 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2015 - ISBN: 125006743X / 9781250067432
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031123
$15.99
Bai, Xiao
French Concession
1931: In the wake of a visiting Nationalist Party official's assassination, a Franco-Chinese photographer is coerced into spying for the authorities, and discovers that in the devious world of Shanghai, no one is who they appear to be.
Novel, 351 pages, Hardcover, 1st US Edition
Harper - 2015 - ISBN: 0062313452 / 9780062313454
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New030890
$27.99
Becker, James
Knights Templar #1: The Lost Treasure of the Templars (UK title: The Hounds of the Lord)
When antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop finds an indecipherable ancient parchment, she turns to cryptography expert David Mallory for help. What they decode sends them on a hunt for Templar treasure, and through dark church secrets hidden for centuries.
Novel, 499 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Signet - 2015 - ISBN: 0451466462 / 9780451466464
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New028335
$9.99
Bell, Gertrude
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she championed the Arab cause, and became chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. This volume brings together her letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writing.
1944: When an unidentified corpse washes ashore on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner Kaz are assigned to investigate. The beach is home to the top-secret rehearsal for the upcoming D-Day invasion, the area is restricted, and no one seems to know where the body could have come from.
Novel, 325 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Well-heeled dog owners are excited about Nick, a self-proclaimed 'dog whisperer', and anxious to find out what their pets are thinking - until the pooches start spilling their owners' secrets. When Nick turns up dead, his sister asks Melanie to help track down the killer.
Novel, 311 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
When a woman's apparent suicide is connected to a suspicious botanica in the Mission District, the San Francisco police turn to Lily for help. She finds herself facing a confounding mystery and some very powerful magic.
Novel, 317 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
On a voyage to America, Georgie's mother is offered a role by a Hollywood mogul, while Georgie and her beau Darcy investigate a suspected jewel thief. The trail leads to the mogul's Hollywood home - where the mogul winds up dead.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2014 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel ♦ Finalist for the 2015 Bruce Alexander Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery
Novel, 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2015 - ISBN: 042526064X / 9780425260647
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New030845
$7.99
Box, C.J.
Cassie Dewell #2: Badlands
Publisher's signed edition with signature on front free endpaper; 'Signed Copy' sticker on front of jacket. Cassie Dewell is the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad, a tiny town now booming as the oil capital of North Dakota. When the temperature drops to 30 below and a gang war heats up, Cassie realizes she may be in over her head - and the key to it all might be twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard, who has been written off as 'slow' - and who keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.
Novel, 278 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2015 - ISBN: 0312583214 / 9780312583217
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031144
$26.99
Burke, Alafair
Ellie Hatcher #5: All Day and a Night
NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher and her partner JJ Rogan are tapped to reassess the investigation that led to Anthony Amaro's murder conviction. The case takes them, and Amaro's lawyer, to the dead woman's hometown, where a brutal attack makes it clear that someone has gotten too close to the truth.
Novel, 350 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Harper - 2015 - ISBN: 006220839X / 9780062208392
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New030904
$15.99
Butler, Dori Hillestad
Haunted Library #5: The Secret Room
Ages 6 and up. Now that Kaz can finally pass through walls without feeling all 'skizzy', he can go explore Beckett's secret room at the back of the library. What he finds there is a mystery he never expected.
Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates #2: The Terror of the Southlands
Ages 8 and up. Despite Hilary's magical know-how and daring, the VNHLP is not convinced she is worthy to be the Terror of the Southlands. When Miss Pimm disappears, Hilary and her crew set off on a high seas adventure to find the missing Enchantress and protect Augusta's magic.
Novel, 319 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Katie investigates when a meeting of the spellbook club is interrupted by a stranger collapsing on the shop floor, mumbling about a voodoo talisman. Includes recipes.
Novel, 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Four deaths in a secluded English community, linked by the fact that their homes were up for sale, lead the police to arrest a shady house agent, but Scottish barrister Rex Graves digs into the victims' pasts and learns that they were not who they appeared to be.
Homicide detective Jimmy Vega investigates when the body of a young Hispanic woman is found fifty miles north of New York City; a note in her bag says 'Go back to your country. You don't belong here.'
Novel, 377 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Daniel Byrne was a Vatican investigator, scrutinizing miracle claims, until an investigation uncovered more troubling human conspiracies. Now he's part of a secretive group searching for truth. When he discovers a new strain of a plague at a covert medical facility, he teams up with disgraced physician Kara Singh to trace the roots of the deadly pathogen.
Novel, 333 pages, Trade Paperback, (no indication of edition)
Thomas & Mercer - 2015 - ISBN: 1477828664 / 9781477828663
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031901
$15.95
Chisholm, P.F. (aka Finney, Patricia)
Sir Robert Carey #7: A Chorus of Innocents
1592: Back in Carlisle, courtier Sir Robert Carey and his henchman Henry Dodd investigate when a very pregnant young woman rides to Lady Widdrington's tower, crying that her clergyman husband has been murdered and she has been raped.
Authorized by the Christie estate. Poirot plunges into a mystery in 1920s London, a diabolically clever puzzle that will test his brilliant skills.
Novel, 302 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
William Morrow - 2015 - ISBN: 0062297228 / 9780062297228
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New030902
$14.99
Clark, Simon (editor)
The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad
Holmes and Watson pursue truth and justice in fifteen original stories set around the globe, from searing deserts to the backstreets of Paris to a sultan's palace to the long Arctic night.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction == Simon Clark
The Monster of Hell's Gate == Paul Finch
The Case of the Maltese Catacombs == William Meikle
The Adventure of the Colonel's Daughter == Denis O. Smith
The Mystery of the Red City == Alison Littlewood
The Doll Who Talked to the Dead == Nev Fountain
A Concurrence of Coincidences == David Moody
The Strange Death of Sherlock Holmes == Andrew Darlington
The Climbing Man == Simon Clark
The Curse of Guangxu == Sam Stone
The Case of the Revenant == Johnny Mains
The Adventure of the Mummy's Curse == Cavan Scott
The Case of the Lost Soul == Paul Kane
The Lunacy of Celestine Blot == Stephen Volk
The Crimson Devil == Mark Morris
The Draugr of Tromsø == Carole Johnstone
The Contributors
Anthology, 476 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Manhattan, 1799: When Quaker Elma Sands was found murdered, suspicion fell on one of her suitors, carpenter Levi Weeks. Bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up to defend him.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nonfiction, 289 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2013 HC
The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw haunted, lethal PI Charlie Parker to Prosperous, Maine. The town and its protectors sense that Parker is a grave threat to the wealthy, sheltered inhabitants of the town. Now Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous - and the secret it hides beneath the ruins of an ancient church - may survive.
Novel, 424 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2014 HC
Pocket - 2015 - ISBN: 1476703191 / 9781476703190
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New031535
$7.99
Cooke, Ronald J.
The Mayor of Cote St. Paul
Depression-era Montreal: Struggling writer Dave Manley's luck turns, for good and bad, when he meets Cherie, a looker who does dirty work for a crime boss. It isn't long before Dave is learning all there is to know about the slot machine and liquor rackets. Dave and Cherie both want out, but there is no easy escape from The Mayor.
Novel, 127 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1950)
