Articles about Nancy Pickard, James Ellroy, Nevada Barr, Nero Wolfe, James R. Benn, global gumshoes, book collecting; more.
Magazine, 72 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
KBS Communications - 2009 - ISBN: mystscene111
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Aird, Catherine
Inspector Sloan #05: His Burial Too
Inspector Sloan is called to a tiny Calleshire village when a man is found crushed to death by a marble statue in a church tower; a prominent industrialist is murdered next.
Novel, 159 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1973)
Rue Morgue - 2009 - ISBN: 1601870388 / 9781601870384
Book Condition: New.
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Albert, Susan Wittig
Cottage Tales #5: The Tale of Briar Bank
When Mr. Wickstead meets his death near Sawrey, only his dog Pickles knows what happened. Includes recipes.
Novel, 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230279 / 9780425230275
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Alderman, P.J.
Port Chatham #1: Haunting Jordan
Jordan Marsh discovers that the Victorian house she just bought comes with two garrulous ghosts who want her to look into a century-old murder.
Novel, 421 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592106 / 9780553592108
Book Condition: New.
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Alexander, Bruce
Sir John Fielding #01: Blind Justice
London, 1768: Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding, founder of the Bow Street Runners, takes in orphaned thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, who assists in the investigation of an aristocrat's suspicious death.
Recommended by Elizabeth.
Novel, 314 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1994)
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425232743 / 9780425232743
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$15.00
Ames, Delano
Jane & Dagobert Brown #2: Murder Begins at Home
When their hostess at a New Mexico ranch is stabbed to death, the Browns work with the local deputy to discover which of their fellow guests killed her.
Novel, 191 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1949)
Rue Morgue - 2009 - ISBN: 160187037X / 9781601870377
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Andrews, Donna
Meg Langslow #10: Six Geese A-Slaying
Parade organizer Meg and wise man Chief Burke must solve the murder of the local curmudgeon who was playing Santa and save the annual Christmas parade.
Novel, 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312536119 / 9780312536114
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$6.99
Arruda, Suzanne
Jade del Cameron #4: The Leopard's Prey
Heading home to British East Africa to help collect wild animals for American zoos, Jade's task is complicated by the discovery of a merchant's murdered body at a local coffee plantation.
Novel, 370 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Twenty-six stories featuring the world's greatest detective, by Derek Wilson, Peter Tremayne, Claire Griffen, Edward D. Hoch, David Stuart Davies, Barbara Roden, John Gregory Betancourt, Denis O. Smith, Guy N. Smith, Eric Brown, Simon Clark, Michael Moorcock, Barrie Roberts, Robert Weinberg and Lois H. Gresh, Stephen Baxter, Peter Crowther, Basil Copper, H.R.F. Keating, David Langford, Roger Johnson, Amy Myers, Martin Edwards, Michael Doyle, Zakaria Erzinclioglu, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and L.B. Greenwood. (Note: the copyright page lists this as a revised and updated edition, but the stories are from 1997 or earlier, and the appendix of apocryphal Holmes stories has not been updated since the 1997 edition.)
Anthology, 586 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1997)
When an old friend turns up dead, Storm Kayama must find her son before the killers do; Ian Hamlin investigates the disappearance of an Oahu shipping magnate's son.
Novel, 282 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
On a trip to Kahului, Hawaiian attorney Storm Kayama discovers that the Yakuza are exploiting underage girls there, and eliminating anyone who dares to oppose them.
Down-and-out East Village detective Payton Sherwood investigates the death of a legendary PI, and uncovers connections to a Ukrainian sex ring and a runaway hedge fund manager.
Novel, 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Hard Case Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 084396121X / 9780843961218
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Baldacci, David
Camel Club #4: Divine Justice
With their leader Oliver Stone in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save one of their own.
Novel, 523 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Trapped at the mall by a snowstorm that cuts off power and phone lines, Maggy leaves her coffeehouse to look for a meal; what she finds is the mall owner's dead body.
Novel, 188 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Severn House - 2009 - ISBN: 0727867350 / 9780727867353
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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Barbieri, Maggie
Murder 101 #3: Quick Study
When a friend asks her to find his nephew, English professor Alison Bergeron enlists the assistance of her boyfriend, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford, only to discover that the missing boy has turned up dead in the Hudson, a suspicious suicide.
Novel, 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312376766 / 9780312376765
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Barr, Nevada
Anna Pigeon #06: Blind Descent
Anna must face her crushing fear of confined spaces when a friend is injured in a cave in Carlsbad Cavern Park.
Novel, 321 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1998)
Berkley - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230635 / 9780425230633
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Barrett, Lorna (aka Bartlett, Lorraine)
Booktown #3: Bookplate Special
After putting up with her uninvited college roommate for weeks, Tricia finally kicks Pammy out, only to have her turn up dead that same day. Includes recipes.
Novel, 301 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425231194 / 9780425231197
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Barron, Stephanie
The White Garden
Jo Bellamy arrives at Sissinghurst to study the White Garden, hoping to heal the wounds of her gardener grandfather's suicide. Her quest takes her into the troubled life of Virginia Woolf, whose connection to the White Garden was devastating.
Novel, 324 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553385771 / 9780553385779
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Bartlett, Allison Hoover
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The story of an infamous rare book thief, his victims, and the book dealer with a penchant for detective work who was driven to catch him.
Erin, an old friend from vet school, calls for the first time in years; Jessie investigates when she learns Erin has been murdered.
Novel, 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2008 - ISBN: 0553590375 / 9780553590371
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Baxter, Cynthia
Reigning Cats & Dogs #8: Murder Had a Little Lamb
Jessica and Nick's wedding is interrupted by the murder of Nick's long-lost cousin; all clues lead to an exclusive private school in Long Island.
Novel, 367 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592378 / 9780553592375
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Bayard, Louis
The Black Tower
19th century Paris: Medical student Hector Carpenter and criminal turned policeman Eugene Vidocq are drawn into a dangerous search that leads them to the true story of what happened to Louis XVII, long presumed to have died a brutal death in the dreaded Temple prison of Paris.
Novel, 352 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pietro Brnwa is a hitman for the mob, now in witness protection. Dr. Peter Brown has a talent for medicine and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. New patient Eddy Squillante thinks that Peter and Pietro might just be the same person . . .
Novel, 304 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Back Bay - 2009 - ISBN: 0316032212 / 9780316032216
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Beaton, M.C.
Agatha Raisin #19: A Spoonful of Poison
Agatha investigates when poisoned jam kills two people at a nearby village's church fete.
Novel, 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312943504 / 9780312943509
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Bebris, Carrie
Mr. & Mrs. Darcy #3: North by Northanger, or, The Shades of Pemberley
A summons to Northanger Abbey involves the young couple in intrigues that threaten the Darcy legacy and good name - and Mr. Darcy's freedom as well.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2007 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Romantic Suspense ♦ Winner of the 2006 Romantic Times Award for Best Historical Mystery
Novel, 318 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 0765323826 / 9780765323828
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Bebris, Carrie
Mr. & Mrs. Darcy #4: The Matters at Mansfield
A family crisis draws Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy to Mansfield Park, where they become ensnared in a complex game of marriage machinations, star-crossed lovers, deceit, mistaken identity, and murder.
Novel, 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 0765358034 / 9780765358035
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Benn, James R.
Billy Boyle #3: Blood Alone
Landed in Sicily in advance of the main Allied invasion force to enlist the cooperation of the Mafia, Billy awakens in a field hospital with amnesia. Before he can remember his name and his mission, several people are murdered.
Novel, 313 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Hired to eliminate Cleveland's widespread crime and corruption, famed lawman Eliot Ness finds his new job complicated by the discovery of a series of carefully dissected corpses.
Novel, 388 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
A series of baffling murders plague an elite group of American travelers on an around-the-world tour; when the tour arrives in Hawaii, Chan takes over the investigation from a flummoxed Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard.
Novel, 334 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1930)
Academy Chicago - 2009 - ISBN: 0897335945 / 9780897335942
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Biggers, Earl Derr
Charlie Chan #6: Keeper of the Keys
Summoned to Lake Tahoe to investigate the matter of a long-missing child, Chan becomes embroiled in a murder inquiry when an opera singer is shot to death during a party.
Novel, 251 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1932)
Academy Chicago - 2009 - ISBN: 0897335953 / 9780897335959
Book Condition: New.
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Billingham, Mark
In the Dark
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car, which swerves into a bus stop. It seems that a gang initiation has cost the life of an innocent victim. But the reality is far more sinister.
Novel, 401 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061432768 / 9780061432767
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Bork, Lisa
Broken Vows #1: For Better, For Murder
When a dead body tumbles out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom, the crime brings Jolene face to face with her almost-ex-husband, Deputy Ray Parker, whose suspicions are raised when wads of cash and a knife sheaf turn up in her home.
Cass & Max-Ernest #2: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
Ages 8 and up. The kids stumble upon the Museum of Magic, and get caught up in an adventure involving a Sound Prism, the nefarious Lord Pharaoh, and a homunculus who could unlock the secret for which they've been searching.
Novel, 385 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Little, Brown - 2009 - ISBN: 0316113689 / 9780316113687
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Boucher, Anthony / Green, Denis
The Casebook of Gregory Hood
Lost Classics #28. Fourteen complete, never-before-published scripts from the Golden Age radio detective drama, featuring a wealthy San Francisco importer and man-about-town who is drawn into mysterious cases as an amateur sleuth.
Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects that a frat boy on trial in Milwaukee for piracy is an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt; his wife Melissa gets caught in the middle of a verbal firefight at a literary conference.
Novel, 228 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Hired to help a pair of scrappy Wisconsin political activists, Rep and Melissa Pennyworth find themselves investigating a midshipman's mugging, a domestic violence case, and the murder of one of their clients.
Nine months after adopting a baby, Jack and Melissa are devastated when their daughter's teenage birth father and her grandfather, a powerful Denver judge, seek to put aside the adoption. Jack and Melissa suspect their motivations are sinister, and will risk everything to protect their child.
Novel, 350 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 031236573X / 9780312365738
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Brandreth, Gyles
Oscar Wilde #3: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
Embarking on a lecture tour in the US, Wilde meets P.T. Barnum, is involved in a saloon shootout, and entertains Broadway's brightest stars. Aboard an ocean liner for Paris, he becomes entangled with the LaGrange acting dynasty, whose frequent random tragedies add up to a horrifying secret.
A former forensic anthropologist and an outdoor guide search for clues to seven deaths in the Oregon wilderness. As desire burns between them, a killer closes in.
Novel, 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Commissario Alessandro Cenni learns that the death of a woman in a small Umbrian village may be linked to WWII Venice and the forgery of millions of British pounds.
Novel, 298 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When a Master of Hounds is murdered, a popular vet dies suspiciously, and a pet food manufacturer disappears, it's up to Sister Jane and her circle of human, canine, and equine friends to stop the crime spree.
Novel, 276 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
The Divas take a break from wine, chocolate, and gossip to help Bitty Hollandale clear her name after she finds her philandering ex-husband dead in the foyer of an antebellum Mississippi home.
Novel, 304 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Bell Bridge Books - 2009 - ISBN: 0982175655 / 9780982175651
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Bruen, Ken
Once Were Cops
An exchange program sends an Irish cop - who is also a psychopath teetering on the edge of insanity - to become a member of the NYPD.
Novel, 294 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312540175 / 9780312540173
Book Condition: New.
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Bruen, Ken / Coleman, Reed Farrel
Tower
Signed by Reed Farrel Coleman on the title page. Low-level wiseguys from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, with little ambition and less of a future, Nick and Todd become players in the destruction of an international crime syndicate. Their paths are littered with the corpses of cops, snitches, lovers, and killers.
Portland detective Archie Knox's latest murder investigation is derailed when he learns that serial killer Gretchen Lowell has escaped from prison.
Novel, 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312943830 / 9780312943837
Book Condition: New.
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Cain, Chelsea
Archie Sheridan #3: Evil at Heart
Publisher's signed edition with signature on front endpaper; 'Signed 1st Edition' sticker on front of jacket. Gretchen is still on the loose, and Archie is still hospitalized after his ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong. They've entered a detente of sorts - Archie has agreed not to kill himself if she agrees not to kill anyone else. Then a zealous fan of Gretchen's pays homage to the Beauty Killer by luring Archie and reporter Susan Ward to the scene of a grisly murder. At least they hope it's the work of someone new, for the prospect of Gretchen breaking her promise to him is more than Archie can bear.
Novel, 306 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312368488 / 9780312368487
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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$24.99
Caine, Leslie
Domestic Bliss #7: Holly and Homicide
When designer Erin Gilbert is accused of strangling a building inspector with a strand of Christmas lights, the only way out is to turn detective. Includes home decorating tips.
Novel, 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440245036 / 9780440245032
Book Condition: New.
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Camacho, Austin S.
Russian Roulette
A Russian assassin forces Washington, DC, professional troubleshooter Hannibal Jones to investigate a wealthy Algerian who has stolen the heart of the woman the assassin loves.
A prominent London psychoanalyst uses his wealthy clients' case studies as material for his fiction writing; his decision to exploit a patient's breakdown causes his dark past to spin out of control.
Chicago PI Ray Dudgeon takes what he thinks is an easy case, investigating an open-and-shut murder, but finds the victim was actually involved in covert intelligence.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2009 Dilys Award ♦ Finalist for the 2009 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
Novel, 292 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061128708 / 9780061128707
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Child, Lee
Jack Reacher #09: One Shot
Reacher teams up with a beautiful young defense lawyer to find the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings behind a lethal sniper attack.
Novel, 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2005)
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440246075 / 9780440246077
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$9.99
Childs, Laura
Scrapbooking #6: Death Swatch
Signed by the author on the title page. Scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is having a wild night at a Mardi Gras party - until she finds a float designer murdered on a balcony. Includes scrapbooking tips and recipes.
Novel, 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230759 / 9780425230756
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Clare, Alys
Aelf Fen #1: Out of the Dawn Light
1087: Lassair is asked to use her unique talents in a search across East Anglia for a five-hundred-year-old treasure with a terrifying power of its own.
Novel, 213 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Severn House - 2009 - ISBN: 0727867636 / 9780727867636
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New006022
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Clark, Mary Higgins / Clark, Carol Higgins
Alvirah & Regan #4: Dashing Through the Snow
Alvirah and Regan, in Branscombe, NH, for the Festival of Joy, set out to discover what's amiss when a market worker disappears and a winning lottery ticket isn't redeemed.
Novel, 253 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pocket - 2009 - ISBN: 1439130086 / 9781439130087
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Clemens, Judy
Grim Reaper #1: Embrace the Grim Reaper
Grief-stricken Casey Maldonado is drawn to a small Ohio town, where her companion Death encourages her to investigate the suspicious death of a single mother.
Eight years after his wife was taken, a message appears on Dr. David Beck's computer - a phrase that only he and his wife know.
Novel, 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2001)
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440245907 / 9780440245902
Book Condition: New.
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Coel, Margaret
Catherine McLeod #1: Blood Memory
Denver investigative reporter Catherine McLeod is targeted by a killer when she pursues the truth concerning an Arapaho and Cheyenne claim for millions of acres of ancestral lands.
Novel, 311 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230260 / 9780425230268
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Cohen, Stuart Archer
The Army of the Republic
In a corrupt America reeling from an economic collapse, a twenty-something urban guerrilla and a billionaire entrepreneur face off in a struggle for the future.
Novel, 422 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Picador - 2009 - ISBN: 0312429053 / 9780312429058
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New004953
$15.00
Colbert, Curt (editor)
Seattle Noir
Anthology of original noir stories set in Seattle, by Thomas P. Hopp, Bharti Kirchner, Stephan Magcosta, Robert Lopresti, Kathleen Alcala, Simon Wood, Patricia Harrington, Curt Colbert, Paul S. Piper, R. Barri Flowers, Brian Thornton, Skye Moody, Lou Kemp, and G.M. Ford.
Signed by the author on the title page. PI Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of a up and coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman two year ago.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2006 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Novel, 212 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2005)
Harry Bosch #14 / Mickey Haller #2: The Brass Verdict
Defense attorney Mickey Haller and detective Harry Bosch team up to catch a Hollywood lawyer's killer.
Novel, 547 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Grand Central - 2009 - ISBN: 0446401196 / 9780446401197
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Connelly, Michael
Harry Bosch #15: 9 Dragons
Signed by the author on the title page. Detective Harry Bosch and the LAPD Asian Crime Unit investigate a killing tied to a Hong Kong triad; when his daughter disappears in Hong Kong, Bosch heads there to find her.
Novel, 374 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Little, Brown - 2009 - ISBN: 0316166316 / 9780316166317
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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$27.99
Cornwell, Patricia
Kay Scarpetta #16: Scarpetta
Accepting an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta investigates the story of an injured patient in Bellevue's criminal psych ward, who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
Novel, 579 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230163 / 9780425230169
Book Condition: New.
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Cotterill, Colin
Dr. Siri Paiboun #5: Curse of the Pogo Stick
Auntie Bpoo, the transvestite fortune-teller of Vientiane, Laos, has foretold that the seventy-three-year-old newlywed Dr. Siri and his equally mature bride will have children by the end of the year. When Siri helps Hmong villagers in peril, the prediction comes true.
Novel, 240 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Clare is hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for her ex's wedding; people close to the Bridezilla begin to suffer fatal accidents.
Novel, 350 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230767 / 9780425230763
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New005403
$7.99
Crawford, Isis
Simmons Sisters #5: A Catered Halloween
Thrilled to cater a haunted house fundraiser, Bernie and Libby discover ghosts aren't the only unwanted guests when a murderer strikes. Includes recipes.
Novel, 327 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Living quietly in exile in Madrid; ex-spy Alec Milius finds himself embroiled in an international conspiracy when a prominent Basque politician goes missing.
Novel, 336 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Griffin - 2009 - ISBN: 031236640X / 9780312366407
Book Condition: New.
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Cutler, Judith
Frances Harman #3: Still Waters
While struggling with home improvements and her boyfriend's troublesome daughter, DCS Fran Harman must solve the case of a man who fell from a hotel window. Did he jump, or was he pushed?
Novel, 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pepper is forced to be part of local reality TV show Cemetery Survivor; the ghost of a wrongly convicted killer needs her help to clear his name.
Novel, 291 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230740 / 9780425230749
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de Castrique, Mark
Sam Blackman #1: Blackman's Coffin
Ex-Marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson offers Iraq war veteran Sam Blackman a chance to use his CID skills - if he can stop feeling sorry for himself. When she turns up murdered in the river, Sam sets out to solve the crime.
Novel, 255 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Sam and his partner open a detective agency. First client: an elderly woman wants them to retrieve a manuscript she stole decades ago, and deliver it to F. Scott Fitzgerald's heirs.
Dedicated cop Bill Corde's life slips into terror when a college girl's killer befriends Bill's wild, learning-impaired daughter and convinces her to run away with him.
Novel, 517 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1993)
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592807 / 9780553592801
Book Condition: New.
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Deaver, Jeffery (editor)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009
The best stories from the past year.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction == Jeffery Deaver
Rust == N.J. Ayres
My Interview with the Avenger == Tom Bissell
Winning == Alafair Burke
Big Midnight Special == James Lee Burke
Beanball == Ron Carlson
Father's Day == Michael Connelly
Pretty Little Parasite == David Corbett
Meantime, Quentin Ghlee == M.M.M. Hayes
Two Thousand Volts == Chuck Hogan
Manila Burning == Clark Howard
Down Home Blues == Rob Kantner
My Son == Robert McClure
Free Radicals == Alice Munro
Dear Husband == Joyce Carol Oates
Wanted Man == Nic Pizzolatto
Kamila and the King of Kandy == Garry Craig Powell
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Stump of a Tree == Randy Rohn
Autopsy results from a car crash plunge Constable Smith and Sgt. Winters into the world of sexual predators, recreational drugs, privilege, and high living.
A small-time grifter, hired to impersonate a South American strongman, plots to get away with his pay, the man's sultry mistress, and a cache of stolen loot.
Novel, 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Hard Case Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0843961228 / 9780843961225
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New005221
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Dickinson, Peter
Jimmy Pibble #4: Sleep and His Brother
The McNair Foundation is a charitable institution set up to care for cathypnic children. But behind its closed doors stand shadowy figures whose motives are far from charitable.
Novel, 212 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1971)
AD 313: Claudia investigates when a proposed debate between rival Christian factions at Emperor Constantine's villa leads to murder, an attack on the villa, and the theft of a relic.
Novel, 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2004)
Headline UK - 2005 - ISBN: 0755307798 / 9780755307791
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New005808
$8.95
Donachie, David
John Pearce #4: A Flag of Truce
1793: Pearce and the Pelicans help transport renegade French sailors to an Atlantic port; while they are gone, Admiral Hotham fixes a court martial where Captain Barclay is found innocent for lack of evidence.
Novel, 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Charlie's Aunt Daisy, a Ute shaman, has been seeing visions of a murdered woman ever since Charlie announced his engagement; Charlie, Daisy, and Lila must find out what it all means.
Novel, 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312945051 / 9780312945053
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Downing, David
John Russell #2: Silesian Station
1939: British journalist John Russell agrees to work for American intelligence in order to be granted American citizenship. He agrees to work for the Nazis in order to free his girlfriend from the Gestapo. And when the Nazis want him to pass false intelligence to the Soviets, he secretly offers his services to the Soviets instead.
Novel, 306 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Darcy returns to San Francisco to assist Leo Garson in his new zendo, haunted by the disappearance of her brother Mike; when someone else she cares about vanishes, she fears the past is about to repeat itself.
Novel, 264 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
London, 1925: DCI Alex Fletcher and his wife Daisy investigate when a dead body is found in the communal garden near their new house.
Novel, 294 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312598653 / 9780312598655
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Edwardson, Ake
Erik Winter #1: Death Angels
Sweden's youngest Chief Inspector teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of young British and Swedish tourists.
Novel, 297 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Penguin - 2009 - ISBN: 0143116096 / 9780143116097
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Englert, J.F.
Bull Moose Dog Run #3: A Dog at Sea
Seeking clues to Imogen's whereabouts, Randolph and his owner Harry embark on a canine cruise; murder ensues, and Randolph must catch the killer.
Novel, 269 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440245419 / 9780440245414
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Escober
Chaos
Plagued by blackouts, nightmares, and uncontrollable violent acts, British soldier Alex Fisher returns from Bosnia, and begins a globetrotting attempt to distance himself from the demons in his head.
When she finds the woman's favorite brooch clogging a sink, Georgiana fears the former town librarian may have been permanently retired.
Novel, 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230791 / 9780425230794
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Evans, Mary Anna
Faye Longchamp #4: Findings
On a dig near her family plantation in Florida, Faye's joy is interrupted when her mentor is murdered and her field notes are stolen; another murder launches her on a treasure hunt connected to Marie Antoinette and the history of the Confederacy.
Novel, 259 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Charlie Howard #2: The Good Thief's Guide to Paris
Mystery writer and burglar Charlie Howard agrees to show a novice how to break into an apartment. The next day, Charlie is hired to steal a painting at the same address. Coincidence?
Novel, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312578059 / 9780312578053
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Fleming, Ian (writer) / Hern, Anthony (adaptation) / O'Donnell, Peter (adaptation) / Gammidge, Henry (adaptation) / McClusky, John (artist)
The James Bond Omnibus
Black & white. Eleven of Bond's most dangerous missions in comic strip form.
Signed by the author on the title page. When the owner of a kitschy holiday carnival is found dead in his office, it turns out that quite a few people had reason to wish him ill; bakery owner Hannah Swensen investigates. Includes recipes.
Bryant & May Peculiar Crimes Unit #6: The Victoria Vanishes
Detective Arthur Bryant arrives at a crime scene to find a warm corpse and a vanished pub. The Victoria Cross Pub has gone astray, and the street itself appears to have aged a hundred years since Bryant saw it the night before. Is the elderly detective finally losing his mind? Or is London's deadliest killer stalking the city's oldest watering holes, daring the Peculiar Crimes Unit not only to unmask him, but to catch him as well?
Novel, 325 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553589563 / 9780553589566
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Galenorn, Yasmine
Chintz 'n' China #4: A Harvest of Bones
Medium Emerald O'Brien and her friends must delve into the past to reveal secrets of the dead, lay them to rest, and ring in the autumn.
Novel, 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2005)
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425207269 / 9780425207260
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Galenorn, Yasmine
Chintz 'n' China #5: One Hex of a Wedding
Her fiance is wounded by gunfire, her ex becomes the prime suspect, and her maid of honor is being stalked. It's up to medium Emerald O'Brien to divine if the incidents are related.
Novel, 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425211177 / 9780425211175
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Gaspar, Stephen
To Know Evil
AD 999: Scholarly Brother Thomas seeks the truth about a series of suspicious death at a Benedictine monastery. An ancient Gnostic codex discovered there threatens to shake the foundations of the Church.
Albert Savelkoul, the Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, has power, money, an aristocratic wife, and a high-maintenance mistress. A wonderful life - until Opus Dei takes a less than benevolent interest in it.
Commander Jana Matinova of the Slovak police force searches for a ruthless killer and the beautiful young Russian woman he is determined to either capture or destroy.
Novel, 328 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When a former star athlete is murdered at her thirtieth high school reunion, Gerry must employ all her skills to reconstruct the crime scene.
Novel, 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230805 / 9780425230800
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Grafton, Sue
Kinsey Millhone #11: K Is for Killer
Her investigation into the ten-month-old suspicious death of a woman's beloved daughter leads Kinsey into a netherworld of unavenged murder and damaged survivors.
Novel, 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1994)
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312373120 / 9780312373122
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Grafton, Sue
Kinsey Millhone #12: L Is for Lawless
Investigating why the military has no record of a recently deceased neighbor's WWII service leads Kinsey to a decades-old mystery, and puts a psychopath on her trail.
Novel, 343 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1995)
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312373139 / 9780312373139
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Graham, C.S.
Jax & Tobie #2: The Solomon Effect
Remote viewer Tobie Guinness and loose-cannon CIA agent Jax Alexander race to connect the dots between an impending catastrophe and a nightmare created decades earlier by Nazi scientists.
Novel, 377 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061689351 / 9780061689352
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Grant, Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.)
Shadow #27: The Python / The Shadow, the Hawk and the Skull
The Python: Lamont Cranston falls victim to the crushing power of The Python.
The Shadow, the Hawk and the Skull: The Dark Avenger and a new female agent battle two master villains.
Omnibus, 128 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1935 / 1940 )
Shadow #28: Master of Death / The Rackets King / The Purple Girasol (story)
Plus 'The Purple Girasol', a lost story by Gibson.
Master of Death: The Shadow follows a bizarre murder trail that leads to the walking dead, a living skeleton, and a collector of diabolical killing techniques.
The Rackets King: The Shadow and his agents protect New York from an underworld war conducted by a crime czar.
Omnibus, 128 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1933 / 1938)
Court Gentry is a legend. And he always hits his target. But now, instead of killing for a living, he's going to have to kill to stay alive.
Novel, 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Jove - 2009 - ISBN: 051514701X / 9780515147018
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Greenwood, Kerry
Corinna Chapman #2: Heavenly Pleasures
When her gourmet chocolate turns out to be full of chili sauce instead of violet cream, Corinna wonders who could be sabotaging the gourmet shop, and why. She investigates, with the help of her lover, her apprentice, her neighbors, and the advice of an intelligent cat.
Novel, 241 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Bakery owner Corinna Chapman is distressed when a malnourished corpse turns up, along with a strange cult that denies the flesh and eats only famine bread. Includes recipes.
Corinna is understandably nervous when her bakery faces competition from a cut-rate franchise just down the street. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daniel is making excuses, and Corinna is worried about his absence - and about a strange outbreak of madness which seems to be centered on Lonsdale Street. Includes recipes.
At St. Kilda's flower festival, first a flower maiden and then Phryne's daughter Ruth go missing. To save them, Phryne must confront elephants, brothel life, and an old lover.
Novel, 249 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Phryne is invited to the Last Best party of 1928 at a manor house; hashish, hot jazz, and cold drinks all seem like good clean fun until three people are kidnapped; Phryne must puzzle her way through the cryptic clues of the scavenger hunt to retrieve the hostages and save the party from further disaster.
Novel, 266 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
1929: Looking into a suspicious death and the fate of a long-lost illegitimate child, Phryne follows eerie leads that bring her face to face with the conquest of Jerusalem by General Allenby and the Australian Light Horse, kif smokers, spirit guides, pirate treasure maps, and ghosts.
Chellis Beith, a literary researcher, is bedevilled by every woman in his life: his lost love, his best friend's dotty ex, his two vanished mothers - and his menacing boss, a celebrated writer who becomes involved with the dark side of fiction.
Mitch McDeere's new law firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, and arranged a mortgage. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice - if he wants to live.
Novel, 527 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1991)
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440245923 / 9780440245926
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Grisham, John
A Time to Kill
Young Mississippi attorney Jake Brigance struggles to defend Carl Lee Hailey, a black man accused of killing the two white men who beat and raped his 10-year-old daughter.
Novel, 655 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1989)
Dell - 2009 - ISBN: 0440245915 / 9780440245919
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Hale, Bruce
Chet Gecko #13: Hiss Me Deadly
Ages 8 and up. Principal Zero hires Chet to investigate the disappearance of valuable items from Emerson Hicky Elementary - including Mama Gecko's pearls.
Novel, 118 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
1777: Richard Cutler, a young man from Massachusetts, ships out with John Paul Jones to avenge his brother's impressment and later execution by the British Navy. On the high seas, in England, France, and in the Caribbean, and on the battlefield of Yorktown, Cutler proves his mettle and wins the love of a beautiful English aristocrat.
Novel, 440 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Cumberland House - 2008 - ISBN: 1581826605 / 9781581826609
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Harper, Tom
The Lost Temple
For three thousand years, the world's most dangerous treasure has been lost. Now the code that reveals its hiding place is about to be broken.
Novel, 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312943571 / 9780312943578
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Harris, C.S.
Sebastian St. Cyr #4: Where Serpents Sleep
1812: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, enlists St. Cyr's help in investigating the murders of eight prostitutes.
Novel, 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
George Young is an attorney for an insurance firm; the founder's wife asks George to uncover the true circumstances leading to her son's violent death.
Novel, 174 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Thus (first published in a different form by The New York Times Magazine)
Picador - 2009 - ISBN: 0312428936 / 9780312428938
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Hart, Carolyn
Bailey Ruth #1: Ghost at Work
Bailey Ruth was always great at solving mysteries - why should her death change that? Now a member of Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, she heads back to Earth to help out when the pastor's wife finds a dead body on her porch, and the pastor becomes a suspect.
Novel, 323 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Avon - 2009 - ISBN: 0061745340 / 9780061745348
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Hart, Ellen
Jane Lawless #16: Sweet Poison
Jane is at wit's end keeping her restaurants running while working on her father's gubernatorial campaign; when a campaign volunteer is killed, Jane must bring the killer to justice to salvage her father's political career.
Novel, 307 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312375263 / 9780312375263
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Hart, Ellen
Jane Lawless #17: The Mirror and the Mask
Jane has decided to train as a PI. Her first job seems simple: find Annie Andrews' father. She succeeds, but begins to feel that there's a lot more to this story.
Novel, 305 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312375271 / 9780312375270
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Havill, Steven F.
Posadas County #07: Out of Season
Elderly undersheriff Bill Gastner investigates when the sheriff dies in a plane crash and the coroner finds that the pilot was killed by gunshots from the ground.
Novel, 270 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2001)
Sheriff English, facing a tough reelection, must deal with a student gunman who has taken hostages at a school and the seizing of a nearby farm by a private army. And when his only available deputy is involved in an accident with the teen choir, Englishman needs to clear up one little thing: Benteen County doesn't have a teen choir.
Novel, 229 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. A surveillance video showing the murder of a young woman leads Ellie Foreman to money laundering and the deadly price of dealing in diamonds.
Novel, 285 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2004)
One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker's explodes. The reported cause is a gas leak, but when a little girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah - a young married woman, bored with her life - becomes obsessed with finding her.
Novel, 317 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2003)
A woman is killed by a train and her lover doesn't show up at the funeral. PI Zoe Boehm is hired to find him. Attempting to unlock the woman's secrets, Zoe finds more and more questions.
Novel, 285 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2004 HC
When Zoe Boehm agrees to track down the the masked men who robbed a jewelry shop, she's hoping to pay off the taxes she's avoided. She's not expecting to wind up in a coffin.
Novel, 318 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC
Jaime is trying to find his lover Miro, who is missing - along with a huge sum of money intended for reconstruction work in Iraq. Those outside the nursery school where Jaime has taken hostages would like him silenced.
Novel, 352 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
A blackmailer is threatening to expose the sordid events of her cousin Ronnie's teenage years - can Claire preserve Ronnie's reputation and keep her out of harm's way?
Novel, 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1996)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312384637 / 9780312384630
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Heyer, Georgette
Inspector Hannasyde #1: Death in the Stocks (alternate title: Merely Murder)
The universally disliked Andrew Vereker's corpse is found in evening dress, locked in the stocks on the village green; sorting out the supects proves a challenge.
Novel, 314 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1935)
When Silas Kane's body is found at the foot of a cliff, his heir is shot, and the next in succession receives death threats; the main suspect appears to be an eighty-year-old lady.
Novel, 323 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1937)
No one was near the murder weapon at the time the shot was fired. Everyone seems to have motive and means. Nobody's alibi holds up. And then there's the blackmail plot . . .
Novel, 364 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1939)
DS Andy Dalziel is recuperating at a seaside resort, where a pair of powerful landowners have very different plans for putting the town on the map; a bizarre murder brings CI Peter Pascoe to the scene.
Novel, 519 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061451940 / 9780061451942
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Hill, Suzette A.
Oughterard #3: Bone Idle: The Case of the Vicar and the Prancing Pig
Reverend Oughterard has managed to elude arrest (for now), but panics when another murder occurs. Embarrassing complications ensue, and world-weary cat Maurice and intrepid mongrel Bouncer must once again help him escape trouble.
Hillerman, Tony - of interest: Hillerman, Anne / Strel, Don
Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn
Full-color photos; each chapter focuses on a specific Hillerman novel, and features excerpts plus Hillerman's own insights. His daughter Anne provides material from her conversations with her father, offering an intimate look at the author and his work.
Nonfiction, 176 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061374296 / 9780061374296
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Hornsby, Wendy
Maggie MacGowen #6: In the Guise of Mercy
LA Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen fulfills her detective husband's final request by taking a fresh look at the decade-old unsolved disappearance of a teenage boy.
A violent crime clan, corrupt lawmen, and deranged evangelicals will rue the day they targeted Bob Lee Swagger's daughter Nikki.
Novel, 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pocket - 2009 - ISBN: 1416565140 / 9781416565147
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Huston, Charlie
Joe Pitt #5: My Dead Body
As Vampyre civil war rages in Manhattan, an old acquaintance ventures into the sewer system to track down Joe and pull him back to the surface.
Novel, 315 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Del Rey - 2009 - ISBN: 0345495896 / 9780345495891
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Hyatt, Elise
Daring Finds #1: Dipped, Stripped, and Dead
After starting a furniture refinishing business, Dyce Dare goes dumpster diving for discarded furniture, and uncovers a corpse.
Novel, 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230783 / 9780425230787
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Iggulden, Conn
Emperor #3: The Field of Swords
The time has come for Caesar to enter the political battleground of Rome. Strengthened by the love of an older woman - and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus - Caesar battles the armies of the wilderness. When the fighting is over, Julius will face the greatest threat yet - a man who wants Rome for himself.
Novel, 466 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2005)
Delta - 2009 - ISBN: 0385343426 / 9780385343428
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Iggulden, Conn
Emperor #4: The Gods of War
Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads his battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills.
Novel, 383 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
Delta - 2009 - ISBN: 0385343574 / 9780385343572
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Indridason, Arnaldur
Reykjavik #4: The Draining Lake
Investigating a skeleton in a lake takes Inspector Erlendur back to the Cold War era, when left-wing students went to study in East Germany, a Communist state teaming with spies and informants.
Novel, 323 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Picador - 2009 - ISBN: 0312428588 / 9780312428587
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Izner, Claude
Victor Legris #1: Murder on the Eiffel Tower
1889: A woman collapses and dies on the brand new Eiffel Tower. Was it a bee sting, or is there a more sinister explanation? Young bookseller Victor Legris is determined to solve the mystery.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2003 Michel Lebrun French Thriller Prize
Novel, 292 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312581610 / 9780312581619
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Jaffarian, Sue Ann
Ghost of Granny Apples #1: Ghost a la Mode
Divorced mom Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother solve mysteries of the past - starting with Granny's own unjust murder rap in the final days of the Gold Rush.
Thirty-nine stories from 2007, by John Mortimer, Ray Banks, Amy Myers, Brian McGilloway, Natasha Cooper, Keith McCarthy, Alexander McCall Smith, Judith Cutler, Kevin Wignall, Kate Ellis, Ann Cleeves, Peter Tremayne, Stella Duffy, Marilyn Todd, Bill James, Nicholas Royle, Michael Pearce, Danuta Reah, John Rickards, Zoe Sharp, Martin Edwards, Roz Southey, H.P. Tinker, Peter Turnbull, Ken Bruen, Robert Barnard, David Bowker, Donna Moore, Margaret Murphy, Allan Guthrie, Anne Perry, Chris Simms, Edward Marston, Colin Dexter, Martyn Waites, Andrew Taylor, Andrew Martin, Peter Lovesey, and Christopher Fowler.
Anthology, 524 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in when an investigative journalist is strangled at a plastic surgeon's private clinic; it appears the murder could be connected to a horrific crime that took place almost 350 years ago.
Novel, 352 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Vintage - 2009 - ISBN: 0307455289 / 9780307455284
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James, Steven
Patrick Bowers #1: The Pawn
Environmental criminologist Patrick Bowers uses geospatial technology to analyze the time and space in which a crime takes place. Called to the mountains of North Carolina to consult on a gruesome murder, he finds himself in a deadly duel with a serial killer who seems to transcend Patrick's analytical powers.
Novel, 427 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Onyx - 2009 - ISBN: 0451412796 / 9780451412799
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Jance, J.A.
Ali Reynolds #4: Cruel Intent
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence, and catches the attention of the real killer.
Novel, 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pocket - 2009 - ISBN: 141656635X / 9781416566359
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Kava, Alex
Maggie O'Dell #6: Exposed
Signed by the author on the title page. A killer targets FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham, using a deadly virus that causes death from a million internal cuts.
Novel, 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
MIRA - 2009 - ISBN: 0778326403 / 9780778326403
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Kellerman, Jonathan
Fox & Reed #1: True Detectives
When PI Aaron Fox is hired to find a missing 20-year-old, he discovers that his estranged half-brother, cop Moses Reed, is also on the case.
Novel, 462 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
In 1944, a US submarine was hit by its own faulty torpedo. The survivors struggled to stay alive 180 feet beneath the surface while the Japanese dropped depth charges. With their air running out, some of the crew chose to make an ascent through the escape hatch. Nine survived, but were captured, tortured, and beaten by the Japanese.
Nonfiction, 270 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Da Capo Press - 2009 - ISBN: 030681790X / 9780306817908
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Khadra, Yasmina
Inspector Llob #4: Dead Man's Share
When Lt. Lino is arrested for the attempted murder of his ex's wealthy boyfriend, Inspector Llob must face down the corrupt Algerian government to find out what actually happened that night. His investigation forces him to delve deep into his country's brutal past.
At a 'How to Host a Murder' party at her Aunt Winnie's Cape Cod B&B, the local wealthy miser ends up an unscripted victim. Elizabeth Parker must unearth old secrets and new motives to clear her aunt's name, and contend with her childhood nemesis, Peter McGowan, and her suspicions about his family's interest in Winnie's Inn.
Novel, 308 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312537565 / 9780312537562
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Killian, Diana
Mantra for Murder #2: Dial Om for Murder
When one of A.J.'s celebrity yoga students is killed and another is accused of the crime, it's up to A.J. to find the real killer.
Novel, 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425227057 / 9780425227053
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Kingsbury, Kate
Pennyfoot Hotel #16 / Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas #4: Ringing in Murder
A mysterious fire breaks out in an upstairs room, killing the Christmas mood - and two guests. Cecily is dead-set on solving the mystery.
Novel, 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 Trade PB
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425231208 / 9780425231203
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Krueger, William Kent
Cork O'Connor #09: Heaven's Keep
Signed by the author on the title page. When a charter plane carrying Cork's wife goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that she is gone forever. But is she? When evidence shows the pilot was not the man he claimed to be, Cork heads to Wyoming, where he battles the interference of forces determined to throw him off the trail - permanently.
In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego PI Alvaro Hickey investigates stories about visits from the Holy Virgin - who wants the Baja California campesinos to vote the corrupt PRI out of power.
Novel, 234 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When ex-Sweet Potato Queen Brett Sawyer's daughter Tillie - who's been doing drugs and turning tricks - needs a rescue, Hap and Leonard hit the road for Hootie Hoot, OK.
Novel, 242 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1998)
When a client rewards him with a cruise, Hap convinces Leonard to come along. When their cruise ship sails on without them, they're stranded in Playa del Carmen with nothing but their misfortune and Leonard's ridiculous new hat, and quickly find themselves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence. When they return to East Texas, they find that trouble has beaten them back.
Novel, 319 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2001)
Home from the Iraq war, Carson Statler takes a job at the local paper, where he uncovers notes on a cold case murder that draws him into a murderous web of blackmail and deceit.
Novel, 287 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When his father's former law partner is murdered, the cops ask Kyle questions about his father's death; an encounter with a former client of his father's sends Kyle looking for answers that lead to the highest pinnacles of power.
Novel, 390 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061143499 / 9780061143496
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Laurie, Victoria
Psychic Eye #7: Doom with a View
When psychic Abby Cooper helps the FBI locate three missing college students, her intuition tells her these weren't random abductions, and she sets out to find the kidnapper.
Novel, 314 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When the man playing the Grim Reaper is killed, Renaissance reveler Jessie Morton must find the lord, lady, or serf whodunit.
Novel, 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230309 / 9780425230305
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Lawson, Mike
Joe DeMarco #3: House Rules (UK title: Dead on Arrival)
In the wake of a narrowly avoided terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and the shooting down of a plane aimed at the White House, a Virginia senator proposes to deport all non-citizen Muslims. Speaker of the House John Mahoney sends investigator Joe DeMarco to uncover the truth about the attacks.
Novel, 374 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Grove Press - 2009 - ISBN: 0802144195 / 9780802144195
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Lehane, Dennis
The Given Day
At the end of WWI, two families - one black, one white - are swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.
Novel, 702 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
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
When Brunetti investigates the murder of two Venetian fisherman, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept the offer of his boss' beautiful secretary to visit her relatives there to search for clues.
Novel, 239 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Penguin - 2009 - ISBN: 0143116207 / 9780143116202
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Leon, Donna - of interest: Sepeda, Toni
Brunetti's Venice
Follow in the footsteps of Commissario Guido Brunetti on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice's churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos.
Grove Press - 2009 - ISBN: 0802144373 / 9780802144379
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Lewis, Robert
Robin Llewellyn #1: The Last Llanelli Train
Meet Robin Llewellyn, the most apathetic, hopeless private eye ever. He's one step away from the gutter when he gets one last case - and that case smells of money.
A blood splatter expert for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is also a serial killer - but he only kills bad people. When a series of murders bears a striking similarity to his own style, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightened.
Novel, 341 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2004)
Vintage - 2009 - ISBN: 0307473708 / 9780307473707
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Lippman, Laura
Hardly Knew Her: Stories
Seventeen mystery stories, including two featuring Tess Monaghan.
Contents
Introduction == George Pelecanos
Part I: Girls Gone Wild
The Crack Cocaine Diet
What He Needed
Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)
The Babysitter's Code
Hardly Knew Her
Femme Fatale
One True Love
Part II: Other Cities, Not My Own
Pony Girl
ARM and the Woman
Honor Bar
A Good Fuck Spoiled
Part III: My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore
Easy as A-B-C
Black-Eyed Susan
Ropa Vieja
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets
The Accidental Detective
Part IV: Scratch a Woman
Scratch a Woman
Afterword
Awards: ♦ Hardly Knew Her: Winner of the 2008 Anthony Award for Best Short Story ♦ Scratch a Woman: Finalist for the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Short Story ♦ Scratch a Woman: Finalist for the 2009 Anthony Award for Best Short Story
Collection, 290 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Avon - 2009 - ISBN: 0061490962 / 9780061490965
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Lopez, Jonathan
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
Drawing on previously unseen documents, Lopez writes a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger.
Nonfiction, 340 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When the newly crowned Queen of the Dairy is poisoned while her likeness is being carved in Grade A butter, Mira James goes hunting for a killer at the Minnesota State Fair.
When Gemma says she'd like to kill her sleazy boss, two young couples joke about forming a club to execute perfect murders. Then the corpses begin to appear; Inspector Hen Mallin investigates.
Novel, 325 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Scotland Yard's Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray investigate when a series of spiteful practical jokes played on Victorian London music hall performers escalates to murder.
Novel, 233 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1972)
Sergeant Cribb #5: The Tick of Death (previous title: Invitation to a Dynamite Party)
Either anarchists or Irish terrorists are suspected of setting off explosions in public buildings throughout Victorian London. Cribb and Thackeray must foil the plotters.
Novel, 211 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1974)
When body parts show up on the docks of Aberdeen, the police kick off largest manhunt in twenty years, looking for a killer who was acquitted on a technicality.
Novel, 470 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312584075 / 9780312584078
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Madsen, Diane Gilbert
D.D. McGil #1: A Cadger's Curse
With some help from an antiquarian bookseller friend, insurance investigator D.D. McGil slowly pieces together a sordid case of high-tech villainy, which shockingly turns out to be connected to her fiance's mysterious death.
Commissaire Laviolette #2: The Messengers of Death
A Provence handyman finds a letter in a disused mailbox, and mails it. When the recipient is found murdered, Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve the crime.
Novel, 311 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312387571 / 9780312387570
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Maitland, Barry
Brock & Kolla #03: All My Enemies
DS Kolla joins DCI Brock's team, and investigates a vicious murder that seems theatrically staged.
Novel, 298 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition (first published in 1996)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312384009 / 9780312384005
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Maitland, Karen
Company of Liars
1348: Plague ravages London. Fleeing to the countryside, nine travelers tell their stories, concealing truths and exposing lies. To escape, they must trust each other. To survive, they must trust no one.
Novel, 465 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Delta - 2009 - ISBN: 0440244420 / 9780440244424
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Maleeny, Tim
Cape Weathers #1: Stealing the Dragon
When a ship smuggling Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz, its crew murdered with deadly precision, PI Cape Weathers wonders if his friend Sally was the assassin. But Sally is missing, and when Cape starts asking questions, the Triads put a price on his head.
Novel, 305 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes a jump off the roof of his own buildings, the police want to call it suicide, but ex-cop Sam McGowan knows it's murder - and that he and his fellow top-floor neighbors should all be suspects.
When a PI is murdered at a cheap hotel, the Las Vegas CSIs find physical evidence of Detective Jim Brass
Novel, 323 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Pocket - 2009 - ISBN: 1416545174 / 9781416545170
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Maxwell, A.E. (Maxwell, Ann and Evan)
Fiddler & Fiora #1: Just Another Day In Paradise
Fiddler and his ex Fiora investigate the disappearance of Fiora's twin brother, an electronics exporter who seems to have been dabbling in other, more dangerous enterprises.
Novel, 216 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1985)
A call from a Jewish-Iranian friend puts Fiddler up to his eyeballs in Muslim terrorists, an Israeli agent bent on revenge, and a millionaire traitor who sells uranium to America's enemies.
Novel, 231 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1986)
Signed by the author on the title page. Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell track the killer of a government scientist whose horribly burned corpse was found smoldering in a Beijing park; the crime is linked to two other murders that same night.
Novel, 403 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1999)
Signed by the author on the title page. Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell's new case, involving four Chinese men who have been ritually sacrificed, brings Beijing detective Li Yan to the US to help investigate.
Novel, 380 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell wrestle with the demons of their past while they investigate a truck full of dead illegal Chinese immigrants in Texas.
Signed by the author on the title page. Uproar over the Beijing Ripper puts detective Li Yan in the spotlight; the results of Margaret Campbell's autopsy on one of the victims send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Yan starts receiving personal letters from the killer . . .
Vermont special agent Joe Gunther investigates the murder of a deputy killed in the line of duty.
Novel, 273 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312365152 / 9780312365158
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Mayor, Archer
Joe Gunther #20: The Price of Malice
Publisher's signed edition with signature on front endpaper; 'Signed 1st Edition' sticker on front of jacket. Gunther investigates the murder of a child predator, and heads to Maine to help his girlfriend discover if her father and brother were murdered by smugglers they were involved with.
Novel, 308 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312381921 / 9780312381929
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McCoy, Judi
Dog Walker #2: Heir of the Dog
After finding a murder victim in Central Park, Ellie and her terrier mix Rudy help Detective Sam Ryder sniff out clues to the killer.
Novel, 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
First Bradfield's star midfielder is poisoned. Then an explosion rips through the soccer stadium. Is it a terrorist attack? A vendetta against the team? Or something even more sinister?
Novel, 484 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061688975 / 9780061688973
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McDermott, Andy
Wilde & Chase #1: The Hunt for Atlantis
Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her team are about to find that a mysterious organization will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of Atlantis stays submerged.
Novel, 514 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592858 / 9780553592856
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McDermott, Andy
Wilde & Chase #2: The Tomb of Hercules
Nina and Eddie go on a globe-hopping hunt for a tomb containing the remains of the legendary hero Hercules.
Novel, 483 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592947 / 9780553592948
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McFadyen, Cody
Smoky Barrett #3: The Darker Side
FBI special agent Smoky Barrett and her team pursue a serial killer who has set out to prove that everyone has a secret to hide.
Novel, 479 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553591339 / 9780553591330
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McIntosh, Pat
Gil Cunningham #5: The Rough Collier
Scotland, 1493: Gil Cunningham escaped a life in the church to become the Archbishop's Questioner. Accused of causing a man's death by witchcraft, he must solve the crime to save himself.
Novel, 329 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Supreme Court clerk Ben Addison inadvertently shared a classified secret with the wrong listener. Now a blackmailer who made a killing with Ben's information is demanding more.
Novel, 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1997)
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061535680 / 9780061535680
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Millikin, Patrick (editor)
Phoenix Noir
Sixteen original stories set in Phoenix, AZ.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Big Heat
Bull == Jon Talton
The Eighth Deadly Sin == Charles Kelly
Dirty Scottsdale == Diana Gabaldon
Growing Back == Robert Anglen
Part II: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Amapola == Luis Alberto Urrea
Public Transportation == Lee Child
Devil Doll == Patrick Millikin
Torn Snag == Laura Tohe
Part III: A Town Without Pity
Others of My Kind == James Sallis
Valerie == Kurt Reichenbaugh
Blazin' on Broadway == Gary Phillips
It's Like a Whisper == Megan Abbott
Part IV: The Cry of the City
Dead by Christmas == David Corbett
Whiteout on Van Buren == Don Winslow
By the Time He Got to Phoenix == Dogo Barry Graham
Confession == Stella Pope Duarte
About the Contributors
Awards: ♦ Amapola: Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Short Fiction
Oil field disaster expert Erin Neal finds himself up against a new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil and an uncanny ability to destroy drilling equipment.
Novel, 299 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Depressed and traumatized, McCone flees to her ranch in California's high desert country to contemplate her future; a chance encounter with a troubled young Native American woman draws her reluctantly into a murder investigation.
Novel, 314 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Grand Central - 2009 - ISBN: 0446400378 / 9780446400374
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Myers, Beverle Graves
Tito Amato #4: The Iron Tongue of Midnight
1740: Opera rehearsals at an isolated villa in the hills of the Venetian mainland are disrupted when a stranger is found beaten to death with a clock pendulum.
Novel, 303 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
1742: When a courtesan tumbles over the railing at his latest performance, castrato Tito Amato is thrown into the middle of an investigation that soon turns to scrutiny of his personal life as well. His Venetian neighbors come to regard his household as an immoral den of theatrical riffraff, and disdain his wife Liya as an apostate Jew.
Marshal Guarnaccia #09: The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
A well-known writer is found dead in the Villa Torrini near Florence without a mark of violence on her. Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri must solve the mystery while struggling with a new legal system and a strict diet.
Novel, 192 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1993)
Marshal Guarnaccia investigates the apparently motiveless killing of a quiet, studious single mother, and discovers her father is heavily involved in the sex trade.
Novel, 262 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 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, 474 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061655511 / 9780061655517
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Novak, Brenda
Perfect #2: The Perfect Liar
Victim's rights advocate Ava Bixby discovers that an accused rapist was actually being stalked by the woman who accused him.
Novel, 423 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
MIRA - 2009 - ISBN: 0778327248 / 9780778327240
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Novak, Brenda
Perfect #3: The Perfect Murder
Sebastian Costas tries to unravel the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife and son, convinced that her second husband committed both murders, then faked his own death.
Novel, 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
MIRA - 2009 - ISBN: 0778327256 / 9780778327257
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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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O'Connell, Carol
Bone by Bone
20 years ago his teenaged brother disappeared in the California woods. Oren, an ex-Army CID investigator, returns home for the first time in years and is horrified to learn that his brother's remains are being left on the porch piece by piece.
Novel, 463 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Berkley - 2009 - ISBN: 0425231054 / 9780425231050
Book Condition: New.
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O'Donnell, Peter (writer) / Colvin, Neville (artist)
Modesty Blaise: The Scarlet Maiden: The Scarlet Maiden / The Moon Man / A Few Flowers for the Colonel
Reprints classic black & white comic strips featuring three adventures of detective Modesty Blaise and her trusty henchman Willie Garvin.
In the sleepy town of Archers Rest, Nell is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date with the police chief - who stands her up when a young woman's body is discovered near the river.
Novel, 259 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Plume - 2009 - ISBN: 0452295580 / 9780452295582
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O'Shaughnessy, Perri
Nina Reilly #12: Show No Fear
Takes readers back to Nina Reilly's first murder investigation. Nina is working as a paralegal and attending law school at night, an endeavor that is challenged by an ex-boyfriend's custody battle, her mother's failing health, and a suspicious suicide.
Novel, 436 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Pocket - 2009 - ISBN: 141654867X / 9781416548676
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Palmer, James
The Bloody White Baron
Biography of the sadistic, sinister, and demented Baron Ungern-Sternberg, who conquered Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. His subjects believed him to be an incarnate god of war, destined to restore the greatness of the Mongolian Empire.
1880: The railroad is coming to Leadville, and President Grant is coming to celebrate its arrival. Some folks have wicked memories of the war, others a stake in competing railroads. And Inez Stannert's friend, photographer Susan Carothers, is caught in the deadly crossfire.
Novel, 369 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC
Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War.
Novel, 460 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
A teacher revered by the oppressed is slain; one by one, her orphaned students follow her to the grave; ex-cop Shan Tao Yun leaves his Tibetan sanctuary to search for justice.
Novel, 496 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2001)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312593481 / 9780312593483
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Peace, David
Red Riding #3: Nineteen Eighty
While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. Peter Hunter, an honest cop from Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, he struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity and his life.
Novel, 376 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2001)
Forced to resign from a Manhattan law firm by a drug-related scandal, Joel Devereaux joins the Brooklyn Public Defender's office, where he's assigned to work with the tough and savvy Myra Goldstein on a high-profile murder case. The defendant is a black pot dealer from the projects charged with the murder of a white college student.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2009 Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author
Novel, 341 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
1870: US publisher James Osgood sets out on a transatlantic quest to retrieve the manuscript of Charles Dickens' final novel; he soon realizes that understanding Dickens' lost ending is a matter of life and death, and the hidden key to stopping a murderous mastermind.
Novel, 383 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Random House - 2009 - ISBN: 0812978021 / 9780812978025
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Perez-Reverte, Arturo
Captain Alatriste #4: The King's Gold
Seville, 1626: Alatriste and Inigo accept a risky job from the king, involving contraband gold and a heavily guarded Spanish galleon returning from the West Indies.
Novel, 287 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Plume - 2009 - ISBN: 0452295424 / 9780452295421
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Perry, Anne
Christmas #5 / #6: Silent Nights: A Christmas Beginning / A Christmas Grace
Two Victorian Christmas novellas full of holiday magic - and murder.
Indy heads into the jungles of Haiti to find a fabled black pearl, with German and Japanese agents in hot pursuit.
Novel, 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Del Rey - 2009 - ISBN: 0345506987 / 9780345506986
Book Condition: New.
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Perry, Thomas
Silence
Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out; Till must find her before a pair of assassins do.
Novel, 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Interpol thinks John is behind the theft of one of Egypt's most priceless treasures; John, Vicky, and Schmidt head to the Middle East to find the real culprit.
Novel, 364 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061246255 / 9780061246258
Book Condition: New.
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Piccirilli, Tom
Shadow Season
Literally blinded by violence, ex-cop Finn is now a professor at a girls' prep school; the students are endangered by a pair of criminals stalking Finn.
Novel, 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553592475 / 9780553592474
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Powell, James
A Pocket Full of Noses
Twelve stories featuring four generations of Ambrose Ganelon as they protect the colorful European principality of San Sebastiano from the intrigues of Ludwig Wong and his infamous descendants. Plus a checklist of Powell's mystery writings.
When Clem Fitch and his feisty pet cockerel are found dead, Lois' son Douglas, who lives next door and is involved with Clem's daughter, is a prime suspect.
Novel, 309 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425231178 / 9780425231173
Book Condition: New.
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Raffel, Keith
Silicon Valley #2: Smasher
When he and his wife are run down by a car, Accelnet CEO Ian Michaels must use his brains and business acumen to navigate a deadly trail of hostility, greed, and revenge.
Military Club librarian Antonia Darcy sets out to discover the truth about a little girl who disappeared twenty years early from a house party on the Thames.
Novel, 220 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2006)
Mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Major Hugh Payne visit a boring fan's estate; they find that she is more sinister than dull, and end up having to foil a planned murder.
Novel, 222 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When an old CIA buddy asks him to look into the disappearance of a small plane over the Chesapeake Bay, Ike is catapulted into an international investigation with intimations of terrorism.
In 1932 Hollywood, Lawe works as studio security at RKO. When Jean Harlow's husband turns up dead of a gunshot wound to the temple, Lawe suspects murder.
Novel, 286 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Capital Crime Press - 2009 - ISBN: 0979996031 / 9780979996030
Book Condition: New.
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Robinson, Patrick
Arnold Morgan #10: To the Death
When a bomb explodes in Boston's Logan Airport, the president's most trusted adviser, Admiral Arnold Morgan, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible.
Novel, 445 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
A grieving widower who was suspected of murdering his wife must figure out what's going on when a drunken stranger confesses to a month-old murder and then walks away.
Novel, 333 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312356641 / 9780312356644
Book Condition: New.
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Rowland, Laura Joh
Sano Ichiro #13: Fire Kimono
1700: Sano and Reiko confront dangerous secrets when a long-buried skeleton with mysterious links to the shogun comes to light.
Novel, 297 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312588860 / 9780312588861
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Royal, Priscilla
Prioress Eleanor #5: Forsaken Soul
1273: When Martin the Cooper is poisoned at the local inn, Prioress Eleanor and former apothecary Sister Anne offer to help with the investigation.
Novel, 224 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
A murder at a manor house leads the sheriff to arrest a servant rather than offend the family; when the servant is murdered, Prioress Eleanor undertakes her own investigation.
In the shadows of the park, a predator waits, watches, and then chooses his first victim. For DI Steel, it's a race against time as two more bodies are discovered.
Novel, 350 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
No Exit - 2009 - ISBN: 1842432710 / 9781842432716
Book Condition: New.
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Russell, Sheldon
Hook Runyon #1: The Yard Dog
1940s Oklahoma: Railroad special agent Hook Runyon and his sidekick Runt, the local moonshiner, uncover a plot involving German POWs and stolen art.
Novel, 292 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312566700 / 9780312566708
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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Sala, Richard
Cat Burglar Black
Ages 9 and up. Full color. Raised in an orphanage where all the children were trained as thieves and pickpockets, teenaged K. Westree has just been invited to a mysterious boarding school - run by an aunt she never knew she had. At Bellsong Academy, the headmistress, the faculty, and even the students all seem to be in on a secret. Soon, K. is on the adventure of a lifetime, complete with buried treasure, hidden clues, and an ancient secret society of master thieves.
Detective/choir director Hayden Konig faces a murder, a prayer vigil that goes horribly wrong, the return of Brother Hog, Bible School terrorists, and a performance of an unknown Henry Purcell masterpiece.
Novel, 159 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
St. James Music Press - 2009 - ISBN: 0972121153 / 9780972121156
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Sefton, Maggie
Knitting #6: Fleece Navidad
When the town's librarian is murdered, suspicion falls on a widow with a puzzling past, but Kelly and her knitting crew aren't convinced. Includes recipes and knitting pattern.
Novel, 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Mass Market Printing, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 042523116X / 9780425231166
Book Condition: New.
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Sharp, Zoe
Charlie Fox #3: Third Strike
When her surgeon father confesses to gross professional misconduct, Charlie must unravel a deadly concoction of blackmail, treachery, and murder.
Novel, 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312358989 / 9780312358983
Book Condition: New.
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Sidebottom, Harry
Warrior of Rome #1: Fire in the East
AD 255: The Roman imperium is stretched to the breaking point. One man is sent to marshal the defenses of a lonely city and to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power, a man whose very name means war: Ballista.
Landslides are common along the Columbia River Gorge. When the hazard warning for an upscale new development disappears, revealing government and business corruption, investigator Rob Neill and librarian Meg McLean find themselves caught up in the chaos.
Beck and his colleagues scour Stockholm for a demented and deadly rifleman who murdered a brutal police captain in his hospital room. Beck's investigation unearths evidence of police corruption; a sense of responsibility and shame lead him to take a series of drastic steps, which lead to disaster.
Novel, 215 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1972)
To Beck, two seemingly disparate crimes are part of the same puzzle, and solving it becomes the one way he can escape the pain of his failed marriage and the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound.
Novel, 311 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1973)
On vacation on the coast of Portugal, Emma offers her investigative services to the parents of an American minister, who suspect his death was not suicide. But the smaller her suspect list gets, the closer she comes to her circle of very rich - and sometimes very ruthless - friends.
Novel, 196 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1997)
Just jilted, our drag queen meets a hunky, married lawyer. When the lawyer's brother-in-law is arrested for a gigolo's murder, our heroine decides to put her sleuthing and kick-boxing skills to work unraveling the crime.
Novel, 255 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Penguin - 2009 - ISBN: 0143116290 / 9780143116295
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Sprinkle, Patricia
Sheila Travis #7: Deadly Secrets on the St. Johns
When elegant Daphne L'Arken dies at her own party, the Atlanta police call it an accident, but amateur sleuth Sheila Travis feels certain that only homicide could cause Daphne to commit such a social gaffe.
Novel, 247 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1995)
Bella Rosa Books - 2008 - ISBN: 1933523085 / 9781933523088
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Stewart, Mariah
Mercy Street #3: Acts of Mercy
FBI profiler turned Mercy Street operative Sam Delvecchio works with FBI agent Fiona Summers to track down a serial killer who carefully poses his victims.
Novel, 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Black Orchids: Wolfe is lured from his brownstone by the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid, but a diabolically daring murder casts a blight on the proceedings.
The Silent Speaker: When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires turns up dead, Wolfe lays a trap for a killer worth his weight in gold.
Omnibus, 271 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1942 / 1946)
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 0553386557 / 9780553386554
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Stout, Rex
Nero Wolfe: Golden Spiders audiobook
Novel, Audio CD(s), Unabridged - 5 CDs, 6 hours, performed by Michael Prichard
BBC Audiobooks UK - 2007 - ISBN: 157270845X / 9781572708457
Book Condition: New.
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Stout, Rex
Nero Wolfe: In the Best Families audiobook
Novel, Audio CD(s), Unabridged - 7 CDs, 7.75 hours, performed by Michael Prichard
BBC Audiobooks UK - 2009 - ISBN: 1602835632 / 9781602835634
Book Condition: New.
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Stout, Rex
Nero Wolfe: Plot It Yourself audiobook
Novel, Audio CD(s), Unabridged - 5 CDs, 5.75 hours, performed by Michael Prichard
BBC Audiobooks UK - 2008 - ISBN: 1602834903 / 9781602834903
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Stout, Rex
Nero Wolfe: The Silent Speaker audiobook
Novel, Audio CD(s), Unabridged - 6 CDs, 7.5 hours, performed by Michael Prichard
BBC Audiobooks UK - 2009 - ISBN: 1602835640 / 9781602835641
Book Condition: New.
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Talton, Jon
David Mapstone #2: Camelback Falls
When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, historian turned deputy David Mapstone is appointed acting sheriff. A cryptic note scrawled by Peralta before the shooting forces Mapstone to confront his own personal history, and he discovers that the past has deadly consequences.
Novel, 197 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2003 HC
Half a century after his unsolved murder, an FBI agent's badge turns up on a dead transient; historian turned deputy David Mapstone, and his wife Lindsay, star of the sheriff's cybercrimes bureau, investigate the cold case.
Novel, 208 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2004 HC
Fledgling PI Madeline Maclin becomes involved in the mysterious death of an unpopular teacher, and is hired by a gentleman to solve a riddle left to him by his uncle.
A grieving widower seeks answers. Why does his daughter hear voices from those beyond the grave? Why is there a secret room buried in the walls of the barn? And why has deadly misfortune stalked Eel Point, Sweden, for generations, always heralded by a sinister glow from the island's lighthouse?
Novel, 438 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Delta - 2009 - ISBN: 0385342225 / 9780385342223
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Thompson, Richard A.
Herman Jackson #1: Fiddle Game
Signed by the author on the title page. St. Paul bail bondsman Herman Jackson becomes a suspect when a woman who gave him an antique violin as security is murdered in front of his office.
Novel, 236 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. After the bizarre murder of an acquaintance, St. Paul bail bondsman Herman Jackson finds out he's the dead man's sole heir. Jackson wants justice for the man, but he also wants the box of cash. Unfortunately, the killers want it too.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 22nd Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
AD 669: When the High King of Ireland is murdered, Fidelma uncovers an intricate web of conspiracy and deception that threatens to start a civil war.
Novel, 274 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312587414 / 9780312587413
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Vachss, Andrew
Burke #18: Another Life
A slippery man with government connections offers Burke top medical care for the comatose Prof, and clean slates for all concerned. The problem: the two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped, a highly professional snatch with no mistakes, no clues, no ransom note. Burke's job: get the kid back, whatever it takes.
Novel, 272 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
The ritualistically mutilated corpse of a young woman is found; Donovan's inquiries lead him deep into Newcastle's underworld of child-trafficking and prostitution.
Novel, 481 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
When one of the competitors in the Christmas cookie contest is found strangled in a pile of cookies, Phyllis discovers there are a lot of suspects to put on Santa's naughty list. Includes recipes.
Novel, 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 Trade PB
Atlanta travel agent Delilah Dickinson investigates when a murder interrupts her Gone With the Wind group tour and her son-in-law is the number one suspect.
Novel, 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
London, 1383: When his latest client is found murdered in a room that's locked from the inside, Crispin Guest finds himself in the middle of a plot involving a missing religious relic.
Novel, 278 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312580126 / 9780312580124
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Whittington, Harry
To Find Cora (Cora is a Nympho!) / Like Mink Like Murder (Passion Hangover) / Body and Passion
Reprints three classic noir novels, plus a Whittington bibliography.
Omnibus, 319 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1963 / 1965 / 1952)
Stark House - 2009 - ISBN: 1933586257 / 9781933586250
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Wilson, F. Paul
Adversary #4: Reborn
A Nobel Prize-winning genetic researcher has died. His vast fortune and darkest secrets will be passed on to Jim Stevens. But his family and friends are plagued with apocalyptic warnings that the Evil One is coming.
Novel, 366 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2005 HC (revised from 1990 edition)
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 0765321653 / 9780765321657
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Woods, Stuart
Will Lee #7: Mounting Fears
President Will Lee's efforts to select a replacement vice president are hampered by a contender's misdeeds, a rogue CIA agent's plot against the First Lady, and a nuclear threat in Pakistan.
Novel, 36 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Signet - 2009 - ISBN: 0451227751 / 9780451227751
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Wroblewski, David
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents in northern Wisconsin, where they raise and train a special breed of dog. When his father dies suddenly, Edgar tries to prove his Uncle Claude was responsible, but his plan backfires spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness, Edgar comes of age in the wild, accompanied by three yearling dogs. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.
Novel, 562 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
