Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 96
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms #13: Electric Barracuda
His mounting body count has put a police task force on his trail, but Serge has a more pressing personal matter to attend to: his grandfather's old Miami Beach gang is suddenly broke, their life savings vaporized. They have a good idea who's behind it, but it's up to Serge to do something about it. Especially since it involves one of his special obsessions: Al Capone's little-known escapades in the Everglades.
Novel, 357 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
William Morrow - 2012 - ISBN: 0061876917 / 9780061876912
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016783
$14.99
dos Santos, Jose Rodrigues
The Einstein Enigma
A manuscript, mysteriously entitled The God Formula and penned by Albert Einstein, contains a cryptogram that leads to a search for the most elusive secret of the universe.
Novel, 485 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0061719315 / 9780061719318
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015111
$14.99
Downie, Ruth
Ruso #4: Caveat Emptor (UK title: Ruso and the River of Darkness)
Back in Britannia, Valens finds Ruso a job: tracking down a Roman tax collector and the money he collected, both gone missing. The investigation leads Ruso and Tilla into the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of rebel queen Boudica.
Novel, 338 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
April 1945: To find out if his son Paul and girlfriend Effi are still alive, John Russell seeks permission to enter Berlin as a journalist with the advancing Red Army. When the Soviets arrest him as a spy, things look bleak - until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into Berlin behind German lines.
Novel, 340 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Ordered to gather intelligence on each other, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a KGB colonel, fall in love; together they must thwart a plot to replace the Soviet state with a new Russian Empire.
Novel, 453 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2009)
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062085875 / 9780062085870
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015186
$9.99
Dryden, Alex
Anna Resnikov #2: Moscow Sting
When British spy Finn is killed by a Russian assassin, his MI6 chief wants answers he can only get from Finn's ex-KGB widow, Anna.The intel Finn accessed is so confidential that the KGB are willing to kill to protect it. To ensure her freedom and protect her child, Anna must uncover the full truth.
Novel, 450 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Harper - 2012 - ISBN: 0062086251 / 9780062086259
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016825
$9.99
Dumas, Margaret
Charley #2: How to Succeed in Murder
Charley Fairfax - heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed - is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. Then Jack is hired to investigate a San Francisco software company where executives are dying, and Charley decides she should go undercover to find the killer by getting a job there. Jack isn't exactly crazy about the plan, but Charley is determined. They're starting to get the hang of this marriage thing. If only people would stop trying to kill them, they might even get to take a honeymoon.
Novel, 269 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC
When Bob flies to Flagstaff, Arizona, to track down his sister's missing husband - and his best friend - Alan Thunderhawk, he finds more than he bargained for, including a twenty-year-old unsolved murder and a boy who claims to be Alan's son.
Novel, 213 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
North Star Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0878394486 / 9780878394487
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015863
$14.95
Dunn, Carola
Daisy Dalrymple #19: Anthem for Doomed Youth
1926: When three bodies are found in shallow graves just outside London, DCI Alec Fletcher is given two urgent orders: solve the murders quickly, and keep his wife Daisy away from the case. Luckily, she's off visiting their daughter's school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of things.
Novel, 289 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2012 - ISBN: 1250002575 / 9781250002570
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016267
$14.99
Dunn, Matthew
Will Cochrane #1: Spycatcher
Intelligence agent Will Cochrane - working on a joint mission for the CIA and MI6 - is out to capture a brilliant and ruthless Iranian spy. Will intends to use someone from the man's past to flush him out, but soon discovers that his adversary is much more treacherous than anyone he has ever faced.
Novel, 521 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Harper - 2012 - ISBN: 0062037862 / 9780062037862
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016833
$9.99
Eagland, Jane
Wildthorn
Ages 14 and up. 19th-century England: Locked away in a madhouse. They strip her naked. Undo her whalebone corset. They take her identity, call her Lucy Childs. She has no one, nothing. But, she is still seventeen - still Louisa Cosgrove, isn't she? Who has done this unthinkable deed? Louisa must free herself, in more ways than one; be her true self, solve her own twisted mystery, while falling into an unconventional love.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 23nd Annual Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult
Novel, 350 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Graphia - 2012 - ISBN: 0547577362 / 9780547577364
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015670
$8.99
Eastland, Sam
Pekkala #2: Shadow Pass (UK title: The Red Coffin)
1939: When a top military engineer is found dead next to the weapon he was working on, Stalin enlists Inspector Pekkala to look into the murder, putting Pekkala on a collision course with the Soviet secret police and the USSR's deepest military secrets. What he's about to learn could put Stalin and his Communist state under for good - and bury Pekkala with them.
Novel, 309 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Bantam - 2012 - ISBN: 0553593242 / 9780553593242
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016377
$15.00
Ebersohn, Wessel
Bukula & Gordon #1: The October Killings
Twenty years ago, soldier Leon Lourens saved Abby Bukula from the white security team that killed her anti-apartheid activist parents. Now he has come to Abby for help. Someone is killing members of the team. Abby turns to Yudel Gordon, a white prison psychologist, for help in untangling the web of politics, identity, and history.
Novel, 312 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312552734 / 9780312552732
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014879
$14.99
Egeland,Tom
Relic: The Quest for the Golden Shrine
A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery, but nobody knows where. One determined man sets out to find the artifact and to trace its origins. His quest takes him to a scientific intelligence organization in London, a Middle Eastern outpost, and a Crusaders' castle in a French village, as layer by layer he reveals the religious mysteries inside the Shrine of Sacred Secrets.
Novel, 418 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
John Murray UK - 2011 - ISBN: 0719521734 / 9780719521737
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015271
$11.95
Eisler, Barry
John Rain #7: The Detachment
Colonel Scott Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, offering a multi-million dollar payday for the 'natural causes' demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who plan to launch a coup in the US. But for a job this big, Rain will need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner Dox, Ben Treven, and Larison. These four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace. But first, they'll have to survive each other.
Novel, 296 pages, Trade Paperback, (no indication of edition)
Thomas & Mercer - 2011 - ISBN: 1612181554 / 9781612181554
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016588
$14.95
Ellis, David
Jason Kolarich #2: Breach of Trust
Chicago attorney Jason Kolarich's attempt to find out who killed his confidential informant Ernesto Ramirez lands him in the middle of an FBI probe of the corrupt governor of Illinois.
Novel, 546 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425245861 / 9780425245866
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016710
$9.99
Ellis, Robert
Lena Gamble #3: Murder Season
Called to a double homicide at a hangout for Hollywood celebs, Detective Gamble learns one of the victims was the politically connected club owner, and the other was just acquitted of killing his sixteen-year-old neighbor in LA's latest trial-of-the-century. Was the teen's angry father serving up some justice, or is something bigger in play?
Novel, 321 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 0312366175 / 9780312366179
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014800
$25.99
Evanovich, Janet
Stephanie Plum #17: Smokin' Seventeen
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but it's clear that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it's time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie's mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who's just returned to town. Lula is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir 'bake-off'. And Morelli's old-world grandmother is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts 'the eye' on Stephanie.
Novel, 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Bantam - 2011 - ISBN: 0345527704 / 9780345527707
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015454
$8.99
Fabiano, Laurie
Elizabeth Street
Novel based on the author's family history. In the early years of the 20th century, Giovanna hopes to make a new start in the new world. In the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City, she makes friends, starts a family, and take pride in a growing business. But when her modest success draws the attention of the brutal extortionists of the notorious Black Hand gang, she will have to fight to save her family.
Novel, 383 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 Trade PB
While renovating a cabin in the woods of northern Minnesota, Betsy finds a skeleton. She investigates, and discovers the site of a World War II POW camp, a mysterious crocheted rug, and clues to a decades-old crime. Includes a counted cross-stitch pattern.
Novel, 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244962 / 9780425244968
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016502
$7.99
Fforde, Jasper
Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the RealWorld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday, asking her to pretend to be the real Thursday, and travel as an emissary to the warring factions. Her trip up the mighty Metaphoric River reveals a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld.
Novel, 367 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Penguin - 2012 - ISBN: 0143120514 / 9780143120513
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016573
$16.00
Fielding, Joy
Now You See Her
On a trip to Ireland, a newly divorced woman sees a young woman she thinks is her daughter - supposedly dead in a canoeing accident two years earlier but whose body was never found - and embarks on a desperate search for the truth.
Novel, 411 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Pocket - 2012 - ISBN: 141658532X / 9781416585329
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016942
$7.99
Finder, Joseph
Nick Heller #2: Buried Secrets
The search for a failed hedge fund manager's abducted daughter leads Nick to a conspiracy that reaches the government's highest levels.
Novel, 477 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
St. Martin's - 2012 - ISBN: 125000036X / 9781250000361
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016127
$9.99
Fingerman, David
Playing the Hand She's Dealt
Signed by the author on the title page. Louise Miller, an unemployed ex-cop with a gambling problem, arrives home from the casino to find her front door unlocked and a corpse sitting on her sofa. The dead man is Walter Farkos, a man she arrested shortly before resigning from the Minneapolis Police Department, and his killer is out to draw Miller into a sadistic game of cat and mouse.
Novel, 259 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
Aurelia Marcella #1: Shadows in the Night (original title: Get Out or Die)
Roman Britain, AD 91: Aurelia Marcella runs an inn on the road to York. It's a peaceful life, until she and her Roman friends find themselves under attack from a native war-band bent on driving all Romans out of Britain. Can they stop the band's masked leader before the countryside rises in open rebellion?
Novel, 358 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2003)
