Uncle Edgar's Newsletter 96
Recently Received & Forthcoming Books
Alphabetical by Author
Haywood, B.B.
Candy Holliday #3: Town in a Wild Moose Chase
The Winter Moose Fest is in full swing when the sighting of a white moose - and rumors of a dead body found in the woods - send Candy scrambling to separate fact from fiction before she finds herself in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer. Includes recipes.
Novel, 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425246175 / 9780425246177
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016735
$7.99
Henry, Sara J.
Troy Chance #1: Learning to Swim
When she sees a small child tumbling from a ferry, Troy Chance dives in without thinking, and rescues him. Determined to protect him and find out what happened to him, she uncovers a world of wealth, privilege, and heedless indulgence, where the murder of a child is not unthinkable.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2011 Agatha Award for Best First Novel ♦ Winner of the 2012 Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
Novel, 289 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her secret double Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too 'indisposed' - wasted - to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (uber-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public - and from Cherry herself. The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink - the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp - and now he's heading for Miami to find her. Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does?
Novel, 421 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Grand Central - 2012 - ISBN: 0446556130 / 9780446556132
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016628
$7.99
Hickam, Homer
The Dinosaur Hunter
Beneath the earth of the Montana badlands lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections - and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon Mike Wire will have to combine everything he learned as a homicide cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.
Novel, 308 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
St. Martin's Griffin - 2012 - ISBN: 125000196X / 9781250001962
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016273
$14.99
Higgins, George V.
Cogan's Trade
When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Boston mob enforcer Jackie Cogan is called in to 'handle' the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks, Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the Boston underworld.
Novel, 216 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1974)
Sean Dillon must track down the Irish commander of a Taliban team that ambushed and killed a group of US Army Rangers and a British medical team in Afghanistan.
Novel, 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Berkley - 2011 - ISBN: 0425244865 / 9780425244869
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016500
$9.99
Highsmith, Patricia
The Cry of the Owl
Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can't keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and he finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely sure whether he should.
Novel, 327 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1962)
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145159 / 9780802145154
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014441
$14.00
Highsmith, Patricia
Eleven
Short stories of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.
Contents
Foreword == Graham Greene
The Snail-Watcher
The Birds Poised to Fly
The Terrapin
When the Fleet Was in at Mobile
The Quest for Blank Claveringi
The Cries of Love
Mrs. Afton, among thy Green Braes
The Heroine
Another Bridge to Cross
The Barbarians
The Empty Birdhouse
Collection, 191 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1970)
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145302 / 9780802145307
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New014440
$14.00
Highsmith, Patricia
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
Ten stories of nuclear holocaust, psychotic politicians, plagues of cockroaches, carcinogenic fungi, and roving hordes of the criminally insane - all unfolding amid merrily rendered slaughter and mayhem.
Contents
Introduction == Wells Tower
The Mysterious Cemetery
Moby Dick II; or The Missile Whale
Operation Balsam; or Touch-Me-Not
Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN Committee
Sweet Freedom! And a Picnic on the White House Lawn
Trouble at the Jade Towers
Rent-a-Womb vs. the Mighty Right
No End in Sight
Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper
President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag
Collection, 256 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1987)
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145639 / 9780802145635
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015307
$14.95
Highsmith, Patricia
The Tremor of Forgery
1960s: Howard Ingham, in Tunisia to gather material for a film he's writing, becomes concerned when the girlfriend he left behind doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and the filmmaker who hired him fails to join him. Amid the tea shops and alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, and the beaches and hotels frequented by international tourists, will Ingham's morality survive the withering heat?
Novel, 289 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1969)
Grove Press - 2011 - ISBN: 0802145647 / 9780802145642
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015306
$14.95
Hilton, Matt
Joe Hunter #4: Cut and Run
Ex-CIA and Special Ops, Joe Hunter made a lot of enemies during his covert career - but none worse than the powerful man he left for dead in South America. Now, seven years later, someone with Hunter's face has embarked on a killing spree in Florida.
Novel, 404 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Harper - 2011 - ISBN: 0062079948 / 9780062079947
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015185
$9.99
Hunter, Maddy
Password to Peril #7: Dutch Me Deadly
Emily escorts her group of feisty Iowa senior citizens to the Netherlands. Joining them is the class of 1951 from Bangor, Maine, complete with old rivalries. Emily's hopes for an uneventful trip are dashed when the rude tour director is flattened by a speeding bicyclist and the Bangor class bully turns up dead in an Amsterdam canal.
White House chef Olivia Paras and White House sensitivity director Peter Sargeant must work together to solve a double homicide before they become the assassin's next victims. Includes recipes.
Novel, 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425245837 / 9780425245835
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016708
$7.99
Iliffe, Glyn
Odysseus #2: The Gates of Troy
Odysseus wants nothing more than to rule Ithaca in peace, but Helen of Sparta has been abducted by a prince of Troy, and the hosts of ancient Greece are gathering. Odysseus must persuade Achilles to join their cause - for without Achilles, the gates of Troy will never fall.
Novel, 478 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Pan UK - 2010 - ISBN: 0330452525 / 9780330452526
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015293
$12.95
Jaffarian, Sue Ann
Ghost of Granny Apples #3: Gem of a Ghost
Joanna Reid wants to get rid of her late husband Max's ghost. But did the film star die in a car accident, or kill himself? And why has his daughter Lainey repeatedly attempted suicide? It's up to Emma and Granny to find the truth.
Ages 12 and up. Jane wakes up tangled in a rosebush, paralyzed and unable to remember a single detail from the night before. Her mother and friends say the hit-and-run was an accident, but Jane knows someone tried to kill her. As she lies in bed, long-buried memories begin to resurface. Her friends come and go, each with a different version of what happened that night. Jane must use the clues they leave behind to figure out who's really on her side - before the killer strikes again.
Novel, 326 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
A woman and her stepson are gunned down while driving to school. Was the killer really after the woman's husband, notorious drug baron Mansel Shale? When the police chase the shooting suspect into a busy shop, the action turns into a deadly standoff.
Playwright Connor Lawton is known for his sharp writing, and sharper tongue. After an unpleasant encounter, librarian Charlie Harris learns his daughter Laura is subbing for a professor, and her old flame Connor got her the job. When Connor is murdered, Laura is the prime suspect. It's up to Charlie and his cat Diesel to track down the real killer.
Novel, 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2012 - ISBN: 0425246183 / 9780425246184
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016736
$7.99
James, Steven
Patrick Bowers #4: The Bishop
FBI special agent Bowers pits his cutting-edge investigative techniques against the people responsible for a bloody murder spree in the Northeast.
Novel, 493 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 Trade PB
Signet - 2011 - ISBN: 0451235355 / 9780451235350
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016515
$7.99
Jance, J.A.
Ali Reynolds #6: Fatal Error
When Brenda Riley, a friend of Ali's from her California broadcasting days, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a cyber-sociopath, Ali steps away from her new gig as the Yavapai Sheriff's Department media relations officer to go to her friend's aid .
Novel, 405 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Pocket - 2012 - ISBN: 1416566376 / 9781416566373
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New015725
$7.99
Jance, J.A.
Ali Reynolds #7: Left for Dead
When violence from the Mexican drug cartel wars crosses the border into Arizona, severely injuring one of Ali's classmates from the Arizona Police Academy, she investigates with some help from her friend Sister Anselm.
Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont investigates when two corpses are found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building.
Novel, 355 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1991)
Harper - 2012 - ISBN: 0062086367 / 9780062086365
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016828
$9.99
Jance, J.A.
J.P. Beaumont #10: Without Due Process
Five-year-old Junior Weston was hiding in a closet the night his father - a cop known for his honesty - and the rest of his family were killed. He caught a glimpse of the killer's face, and now the little boy's life is on the line unless Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont can put the killer behind bars.
Novel, 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1992)
Harper - 2012 - ISBN: 0062086383 / 9780062086389
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016829
$9.99
Jance, J.A.
J.P. Beaumont #11: Failure to Appear
When his eighteen-year-old daughter Kelly runs away to join a theatrical commune, with plans to marry a thespian, Beau follows her south to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, thereby landing himself a part in a modern-day Greek tragedy when murder enters stage left.
Novel, 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1993)
Harper - 2012 - ISBN: 0062086391 / 9780062086396
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New016830
$9.99
Jance, J.A.
J.P. Beaumont #12: Lying in Wait
Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from J.P. Beaumont's life thirty years ago. Now she is a widow, frightened, desperate, and trapped in a web of murderous greed, and Beau is investigating her husband's homicide.
Novel, 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1994)
