Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 96
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Berry, Steve
Cotton Malone #7: The Jefferson Key
Malone risks his life to foil an attempt to assassinate the US President, only to find himself at odds with a secret society of pirates that was founded during the American Revolution. Plus bonus story 'The Devil's Gold'.
Novel, 570 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
The renovation of a historic San Francisco home is hindered by the owners, who insist on sticking around, and by some ghosts, who want to stop the work entirely. When a crotchety neighbor turns up dead, Mel is a suspect, and will have to restore her reputation as well as the building.
Novel, 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Darcy has just discovered she hails from a long line of Wishcrafters - witches who cast spells by wishing. She's come to Enchanted Village to learn her trade, but finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.
Novel, 299 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When a childhood friend is shot down while trying to make amends, as called for in AA's famous 12 Steps, Matthew Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his own path toward recovery - and get him killed.
Novel, 319 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Business is booming at Harlow's dressmaking boutique, even with her great-grandmother's ghost hanging around the shop. When a local golf pro is found stabbed with dressmaking shears, the new town deputy suspects Harlow.
Novel, 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues, clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce investigates a pair of crimes: the bludgeoning of an old Gypsy fortune-teller suspected of abducting a local child years ago; and the murder of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce drawing room.
Novel, 391 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Bantam - 2011 - ISBN: 0385343469 / 9780385343466
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016382
$15.00
Brady, Jacklyn
Piece of Cake #2: Cake on a Hot Tin Roof
Pastry chef Rita Lucero's Mardi Gras party turns funereal when one of her guests is found dead after a fight with Rita's uncle. Rita must find the real killer to clear her uncle's name. Includes recipes.
Novel, 297 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425246221 / 9780425246221
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016740
$7.99
Brandon, Ali (aka Stuckart, Diane A.S.)
Black Cat Bookshop #1: Double Booked for Death
Darla has inherited her aunt's Brooklyn bookstore, and smarter-than-thou bookstore cat Hamlet. When a bestselling author meets an untimely end during a store event, it's ruled an accident - until Hamlet digs up a clue that seems to indicate otherwise.
Novel, 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244970 / 9780425244975
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016504
$7.99
Brennan, Allison
Lucy Kincaid #3: If I Should Die
Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her PI boyfriend Sean Rogan pursue an arsonist into an abandoned mine shaft - and stumble upon the perfectly preserved remains of a murder victim. Plus novella 'Love Is Murder'.
Novel, 499 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Blotto & Twinks #2: Blotto, Twinks, and the Dead Dowager Duchess
1920s: At a weekend house party, a murder is announced. One of the guests has the gall to accuse Corky, so ducal scions Blotto (handsome, honorable, not the sharpest knife in the drawer) and Twinks (quite a brainy girl) have no choice but to find the real murderer and clear their chauffeur's good name. And also, you know, keep Corky from hanging and so on. Their sleuthing will take them to an opium den, a crumbling Scottish castle, and - most thrillingly - the headquarters of the evil League of the Crimson Hand.
On the trail of a notorious terrorist, CIA operatives overstep their boundaries, and the ultimate weapon falls into the wrong hands. Danny Freah and his team scramble to recover it, while Whiplash director Jonathon Reid tries to uncover the secrets behind the original mission's failure.
Novel, 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0061713023 / 9780061713026
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015189
$9.99
Brown, Graham
Danielle Laidlaw #3: The Eden Prophecy
When a rogue geneticist is tortured and killed, his old friend Hawker teams up with NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw to find the killers and track down the secrets his dead friend may have lost or sold. From the streets of Paris to an underground auction in the catacombs of Beirut to the merciless deserts of Iran, Hawker and Danielle find themselves hunting a cult leader whose scientific arsenal could lead humanity to a new Eden - or unleash hell on Earth.
Novel, 389 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2012 - ISBN: 0345527801 / 9780345527806
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016466
$7.99
Bruen, Ken
London Boulevard
Ex-con Mitchell's violent past catches up with him, and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister is threatened, he is forced to act.
Novel, 250 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312650426 / 9780312650421
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016862
$14.99
Bryan, Mollie Cox
Cumberland Creek #1: Scrapbook of Secrets
When the quiet of Cumberland Creek, Virginia, is shattered by a young mother's apparent suicide, stay-at-home mom Annie Chamovitz and her scrapbooking friends band together to find out what went wrong. Includes scrapbooking tips.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2012 Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Novel, 279 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless - but handsomely paid - private assignment.
Novel, 230 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Creme de la Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 1780290144 / 9781780290140
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015235
$28.95
Burdette, Lucy (aka Isleib, Roberta)
Key West Food Critic #1: An Appetite for Murder
After applying for a job, Hayley Snow discovers her new boss would be the woman she caught in bed with her boyfriend. Hayley becomes a murder suspect when the woman is killed by a poisoned key lime pie. Includes recipes.
Novel, 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When her former boyfriend, cattle rancher Cole Tucker, is arrested for murder, Washington, DC, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian digs her cowboy boots out of her closet and flies to his defense. She is certain of his innocence - until he abducts her during a daring courthouse escape.
Novel, 328 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
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, 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's - 2011 - ISBN: 1250004128 / 9781250004123
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016117
$7.99
Cain, Chelsea
Archie Sheridan #4: The Night Season
Portland detective Archie Sheridan goes after a serial killer who has been poisoning people and then dumping them in the Willamette River flood waters.
Novel, 335 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
St. Martin's - 2011 - ISBN: 0312619774 / 9780312619770
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016114
$7.99
Campbell, Karen
Anna Cameron #3: Shadowplay
When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to a new division, her new boss turns out to be a tyrant. With her career and personal life both threatening to implode, the gang-related murder of a young Asian boy and an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter.
Ages 10 and up. In the trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish, and no one seems to care. At first quirky outcasts Lady Di and Tom Jones barely notice the disappearances themselves - until their beloved math tutor Mrs. Clarke is abducted. She has left them clues to her whereabouts in the form of equations that lead them all over the trailer park, through hidden tunnels under nearby 'Mount Trashmore,' and into the Folsom Energy Plant itself, where Lady Di and Tom Jones and a gang of other misfits uncover the sordid truth about what's really happening on their island.
Novel, 259 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Given a chance to restore a rare first edition of a fairy tale, Brooklyn is delighted - until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. When she decides to find out who sold the book, and return it to its rightful owner, she winds up tangled in a murder plot.
Novel, 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Ages 9 and up. The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son, after all. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series of cryptic boxes are left for him, leading him to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances. Leo had better be quick on his feet, because the fate of the building he loves is at stake, and so is Leo's own future!
Who killed Hieronymus Wilde? Was it his archenemy, his mistress, his wife, or the women in his past? When his body is found on the floor of Violetta Aristotle's department at the Midwestern University Library, the solution to the murder hinges on one of Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases.
Novel, 236 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
