Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 96
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Mystery Scene #121
Articles about Val McDermid, supernatural mysteries, more.
Magazine, 68 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
KBS Communications - 2011 - ISBN: mystscene121
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016010
$7.50
Aames, Avery
Cheese Shop #3: Clobbered by Camembert
Charlotte is setting up for the Winter Wonderland fair when an old friend is found dead in her assistant Rebecca's cottage. Suspicion falls on Rebecca's boyfriend, a honeybee farmer. While the town buzzes with gossip, can Charlotte catch the killer? Includes recipes.
Novel, 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 042524587X / 9780425245873
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016739
$7.99
Abbott, Jeff
Sam Capra #1: Adrenaline
When an unknown enemy sets him up as a traitor, agent Sam Capra escapes from the CIA, and goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who kidnapped his pregnant wife.
Novel, 488 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Grand Central - 2012 - ISBN: 0446575186 / 9780446575188
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016621
$7.99
Adams, Ellery
Books by the Bay #3: The Last Word
The Bayside Book Writers are excited when a bestselling novelist comes to town to work on his next book - until he's strangled to death. The investigation could spell doom for one of Olivia's dearest friends.
Novel, 299 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425245004 / 9780425245002
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016505
$7.99
Alden, Jami
Hide from Evil
When his death-row conviction was overturned, Sean Flynn retreated where he believed the past couldn't come back to haunt him - until prosecutor Krista Slater showed up. She can't forgive herself for convicting an innocent man, but when another murder reveals chilling new facts about the case, she must turn to Sean for help.
Novel, 398 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Grand Central - 2011 - ISBN: 0446572799 / 9780446572798
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015330
$7.99
Allen, Jeffrey
Stay at Home Dad #1: Stay at Home Dead
When he finds a dead body in his mini-van, Deuce Winters ends up number one suspect. After all, the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex-girlfriend. To clear his name, Deuce will need a little help from his high-powered attorney wife Julianne.
Novel, 283 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
In the early 1960s, the English coastal town of Saltey, long a hidey-hole for all manner of villains, is being overrun by teenage gangs. But that's not why Albert Campion has persuaded Lugg to take up residence. His interest lies in a just-out-of-prison thief who has gone to ground there, and in the newly revived story of the Saltey Demon.
Novel, 227 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1968)
During spring break in Jacksonville, Florida, pretty girls are everywhere. None of them suspect that, for the guy they're flirting with, it's hunting season. Detective John Stallings must find the psychopath leaving a trail of blond, blue-eyed murder victims.
Novel, 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When a Jacksonville, Florida, girl goes missing, Detective Stallings' investigation turns up parallels to his own daughter's disappearance years earlier. Then, one by one, bodies are discovered - all young women, all strangled.
Novel, 380 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
After losing her job as a journalist, forty-five-year-old Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at a North Carolina literary agency. When a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room, Lila discovers a series of threatening letters, and is determined to find out who wrote him off.
Novel, 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425246191 / 9780425246191
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016737
$7.99
Arthurson, Wayne
Leo Desroches #1: Fall from Grace
Edmonton journalist Leo Desroches doesn't look like a Native, but his mother was Cree, and he understands the problems of indigenous Canadians of the First Nations. When he's assigned to cover the murder of a young Native prostitute, his article starts a chain of events that leads him to a much bigger story - one that could bring down the entire police department . . . or get Leo killed.
Novel, 316 pages, Hardcover, 2nd Printing
Forge - 2011 - ISBN: 0765324172 / 9780765324177
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016213
$25.99
Ashley, Mike
The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction
Twelve stories (eleven original, one reprint) set from Bronze-Age Britain to Medieval Venice to 1930s New York.
Contents
Copyright Acknowledgements
Introduction: Return to the Crime Scene == Mike Ashley
Archimedes and the Scientific Method == Tom Holt
Something to Do with Diana == Steven Saylor
Eyes of the Icon == Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
Night of the Snow Wolf == Peter Tremayne
Jettisoned == Deirdre Counihan
A Fiery Death == Ian Morson
Hide and Seek == Tony Pollard
The Fourth Quadrant == Dorothy Lumley
Brodie and the Regrettable Incident (of the French Ambassador) == Anne Perry
Forty Morgan Silver Dollars == Maan Meyers
Trafalgar == Charles Todd
Dead of Winter == Richard A. Lupoff
Anthology, 467 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Ages 10 and up. A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner's daughter Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence - they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered. Inside the briefcase, the kids find clues that take them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an ancient object so powerful that legend says even a Roman emperor couldn't control it.
Novel, 291 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Ages 10 and up. Harvey, Elettra, Mistral, and Sheng discover a series of four postcards, written in code years ago by the murdered professor who sent them on their quest in Rome. The cards send the kids all over New York City, through old libraries and abandoned tunnels, in search of the Star of Stone, an ancient object fundamentally connected to the earth. But a new set of villains is out to stop them.
Novel, 290 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
1943: When children discover a skeleton at the edge of a field, and Buddy Oglesby disappears along with the money from the War Bond rally, Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers are soon on the case.
Novel, 262 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312614756 / 9780312614751
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014798
$24.99
Barbieri, Maggie
Murder 101 #6: Physical Education
After the coach dies of a heart attack during the game, English professor Alison Bergeron is forced to take over the women's basketball team. It isn't long before she suspects that the death was no accident.
Novel, 342 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312593295 / 9780312593292
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014794
$24.99
Barnard, Robert
Charlie Peace #9: A Charitable Body
After his wife is asked to oversee a stately home, Yorkshire cop Charlie Peace ends up helping her investigate when a woman's remains turn up in a nearby lake; it becomes clear the historic manor hides a grim secret dating back to the years between the two World Wars.
Ages 8 and up. Twelve-year-old Steve Brixton's detective services have been in high demand - and he's about to get a call of great personal importance. MacArthur Bart, author of Steve's beloved Bailey Brothers series, has been kidnapped, and Steve is the only twelve-year-old detective who can find him.
Novel, 226 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Simon & Schuster - 2011 - ISBN: 1416978186 / 9781416978183
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015797
$5.99
Barr, Nevada
Anna Pigeon Prequel: The Rope
1995: Thirty-five years old, heartbroken, and fresh off the bus from New York City, Anna Pigeon arrives at Glen Canyon as a seasonal employee. After going for a hike on her day off, she wakes up trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, with no supplies and no clear memory of how she got there.
Novel, 357 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2012 - ISBN: 0312614578 / 9780312614577
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016214
$25.99
Bartlett, Lorraine (aka Barrett, Lorna)
Victoria Square #2: The Walled Flower
A young couple's dream home becomes a nightmare when a skeleton is discovered inside the walls. The bones belong to Heather Winston, who disappeared twenty-two years ago. Heather's aunt, a jewelry vendor, asks Artisans Alley manager Kate Bonner for help finding the murderer. Includes recipes.
Novel, 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425246167 / 9780425246160
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016734
$7.99
Barton, Beverly
Dead by Nightfall
When his wife disappears, Griffin Powell will need all the resources of the Powell Agency to track down her captor, a sadistic madman who has used his wealth to fund a series of depraved hunts.
Novel, 436 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When a body is found floating in the harbor of a rural fishing village, Gunnhildur's investigation leads her to a web of corruption involving Iceland's business and banking communities.
Novel, 330 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Recently promoted to Reykjavik's Serious Crime Unit, Sergeant Gunnhildur hunts for an escaped convict who is violently settling old scores. As she also investigates the murder of a fitness guru, she learns that the guru and the convict shared some influential friends, and some unsavory secrets.
Fifteen years ago, Wes tried to rescue a pilot from a downed fighter, and discovered something that could get him killed. Now he finds himself up against the US military, with someone tracking his every move, as he tries to untangle the web of lies and secrets surrounding the crash.
Novel, 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Dell - 2012 - ISBN: 0440245621 / 9780440245629
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016468
$7.99
Baughman, Christopher
Off the Street
Baughman and the Las Vegas Pandering Investigation Team wage war against the pimps who kidnap, trick, and beat women into a life of prostitution. Plus guidance on how parents can protect their daughters from these predators.
