Newsletter #44 December, 1998 - February, 1999
| | RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING MYSTERIES Alcorn, Alfred Murder in the Museum of Man ("hilarious satire of academic life & contemporary social issues, a stew of murder cannibalism, political posturing & high camp") | $13.00 |
| Amos, Beth | Second Sight (when blinded journalist Marlie Kaplan starts to recover partial vision, her new ability leads to murder, deception & nightmare;PBO) | $6.50 |
| Ashley, Mike_ed | The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (anthology of short Holmesian pastiches by Baxter, Greenwood, Keating, Moorcock, Myers, Tremayne, Wilson, more) | $10.95 |
| Banks, Russell | Affliction (in NH mill town, ex_high school football star/well_digger/cop is driven to sudden criminal acts during deer season) | $13.00 |
| Barnes, Alan/Hearn, Marcus | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! The Unofficial James Bond Companion (media reference; detailed history of Bond on screen, behind_the_scenes look & rare info on unofficial spin_offs, Bond_influenced show,more) | $23.95 |
| Bound, Mensun | Lost Ships (non_fiction; subtitled "The Discovery & Exploration of the Ocean's Sunken Treasures") | $35.00 |
| Brown, Janice | The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L Sayers (criticism; exploration of major works, use of popular genres to examine sin/redemption, social applications, parallels between personal/chrctr attitds) | $35.00 |
| Cose, Ellis | The Best Defense (defense lawyer Felicia Fontaine takes case of businessman accused of killing Hispanic rival in affirmative action dispute but prosecutor is ex_flame) | $24.00 |
| Dinallo, Greg | Touched by Fire (arson investigator Dan Merrick has hands full in S Ca fire season, but now someone's mailing firebombs to genetic biologist Lila Graham__why?; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Fassbender, Tom/Pascoe, Jim | By the Balls, by Dashiell Loveless (noir_reminiscent, mapback bowling mystery, with illustrations) | $5.95 |
| Frisbie, Thomas/Garrett, Randy | Victims of Justice (non_fiction; 1983 murder of Jeanine Nicario sparked wavage war between prosecutors & attorney over Election Year conviction of innocent men; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Grafton, Sue/Penzler, Otto_eds | The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (anthology includes MH Clark, Mosley, Block, McInerney, Westlake, more; hc avail $25) | $13.00 |
| Greenberg, Alvin | How the Dead Live (collection of tales of people who use tactics from humor to hallucination to fight mortality; PBO) | $14.00 |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Cedars (movie tie_in reprint) | $13.00 |
| Harr, Jonathan | A Civil Action (movie tie_in reprint) | $14.00 |
| Heggan, Christiane | Deception (daughter of controversial architect believes his death was murder, teams up with ex_homicide detective & ex_husband to prove it; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Hemlin, Tim | Catered Christmas (grad student/chef Neil Marshall 4, enjoys grandpa's Christmas until finding out he's wanted for murder__meantime, Neil must cater 4 parties; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Katz, Jamie | Dead Low Tide (resort town lawyer Dan Kardon insists on digging deeper into college kid's shooting death, putting him at head of killer's list; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Kaye, Marilyn | Replica 1: Amy, Number Seven (young adult; young Amy starts to realize her abilities are anything but normal & the people around her behaving strangely__who is she, really?; PBO) | $0.99 |
| Kaye, Marilyn | Replica 2: Pursuing Amy (young adult; after encounters with mom's boyfriend & Dr Jaelski, Amy decides she must find the others like her before it's too late; PBO) | $3.99 |
| Lawson, Philip | Would it Kill You to Smile? (Will Keats follows ventriloquist father's wishes to bury him with dummy, but is haunted by dummy & disinterment reveals it's missing & mystery is afoot) | $22.00 |
| Leppart, Jerry | Headwaters (CIA analyst Phil Soran enlists Native American St Paul cop to stop Iraqi surgeon/terrorist from leaking Prairie Island nuclr waste int Mississippi; signed; PBO) | $14.95 |
| Leppek, Christopher | The Surrogate Assassin (Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson head for the US to uncover the truth behind Pres Lincoln's assassination 16 years later; signed) | $24.95 |
| MacLeod, Ian R | The Great Wheel (in near future, English priest who's lost his faith but still tends north Africa city's poor investigates their deaths, confronts politics, poverty) | $24.00 |
| McKinney, Meagan | In the Dark (when Alyn learns her wealthy aunt's disappeared days before they were to meet, she delves into menacing surroundings to discover her fate) | $23.00 |
| Mezrich, Ben | Reaper (virologist Samantha Craig/paramedic Nick Barnes track deadly terrorist_ developed virus that travels from computer to computer to user) | $6.99 |
| Mitcheltree, Tom | Dataman (information specialist Tom "Dataman" Walkinshas asked to help solve murders of spray_painting teens, finds leads to another computer wizard) | $22.95 |
| O'Kane, Leslie | Play Dead (dog psychologist Allie Babcock's first client leads to investigation of owner's apparent suicide, bringing her to killer's attention; PBO) | $5.99 |
| O'Reilly, Bill | Those Who Trespass (NY Det Tommy O'Malley & tabloid reporter Ashley Van Buren compete to crack murders of series of high_level TV executives & correspondents) | $24.00 |
| Ouaknin, Marc_Alain | Mysteries of the Alphabet (non_fiction/reference; journey through recorded history, tracing evolution of alphabet & its precursors) | $27.95 |
| Partnoy, Alicia | The Little School: Tales of Disappearance & Survival (memoir of Argentine student activist abducted & taken to concentration camp of torture, murder; 2nd Ed) | $14.95 |
| Pence, Joanne | Cooks Overboard (food writer Angie Amalfi/detective Paavo Smith take romantic, getaway sail to Acapulco, but then suspicious events lead to murder; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Picknett, Lynn/Prince, Clive | The Templar Revelation (religion/occult; investigation of ancient, secret religion that challenges orthodox beliefs of Christ's identity, ties with Eastern mysticism) | $15.00 |
| Rapp, Adam | The Buffalo Tree (13_year_old detention center inmate is determined to get out with body & spirit intact__if he can) | $10.00 |
| Sayers, Dorothy L | Two Plays About God & Man (associational; omnibus edition of two plays by Sayers, a Faustian drama & a Nativity play) | $14.95 |
| Trocheck, Kathy Hogan | Strange Brew (Atlanta PI/cleaning lady Callahan Garrity's attempts to clear neighborhood character of yuppie microbrew owner's murder lead to even deadlier developments) | $5.99 |
| Vrettos, Theodore | The Elgin Affair ("The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treaures and the Passions it Aroused", non-fiction) | $13.95 |
| Walsh, John/Lerman, Philip | No Mercy (non_fiction; host of TV's "America's Most Wanted" details most astonishing manhunts__both catches & misses__of his career; PBO) | $24.00 |
| Weeks, Kent | The Lost Tomb (archaeology; archaeologist tells tale of discovering tomb of Ramesses II's sons built at time of Israelite exodus from Egypt) | $27.50 |
| Wesson, Marianne | Render Up the Body (ex_prosecutor/rape crisis center director Cinda Hayes is assigned to rape/murder convict's death row appeal & reluctantly realizes he may be innocent) | $6.99 |
| Wilson, John | The Disappearance of Lyndsey Barratt (adversaries journalist Julie Adams & Insp Frank Illiffe investigate deaths of gang members who 7 years earlier attacked woman who then disappeared) | $6.50 |
| Woods, Stuart | Swimming to Catalina (Stone Barrington gets desperate call from ex_girlfriend's fiance & agrees to help search for her, but soon realizes nothing & no one can be trusted) | $6.99 |
DUE BY DECEMBER 10
| Adler, Elizabeth | Sooner or Later (heiress & ex_NY cop/vineyard owner find each other, but desperate stranger is out to destroy them) | $6.99 |
| Allard, Kent | The Mad Chopper (non_fiction; man who raped teen & cut off her arms is released to kill again; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Allen, Irene | Quaker Indictment (Clerk of Quaker Meeting Elizabeth Elliot 4, visits Seattle friend, but friend's disappearance leads her into morass of murder, government radiation coverup) | $5.99 |
| Allen, Steve | Die Laughing (Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows discover murdered comedy king during aged ex_vaudeville star's funeral, realize one of assembled star comics must be culprit) | $5.99 |
| Allen, Steve | Murder in Hawaii (when Steve & Jayne guest star on new hit detective show in Hawaii, it seems like vacation__until the stalking & murders begin) | $22.00 |
| Bernhardt, William | Extreme Justice (attorney Ben Kincaid 7, quits law for jazz combo, but when once_famous singer's murdered at club's anniversary gala, he must return to practice) | $6.99 |
| Berry, Carole | Death of a Downsizer (office temp Bonnie Indermill was hoping latest job would turn permanent, but then the dreaded CEO turns up murdered & evidence points to Bonnie; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Birmingham, Ruth | Fulton County Blues (Atlanta PI Sunny Childs 2, investigates death of late father's Vietnam vet friend, but starts to realize the truth may ruin father's memory; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Bland, Eleanor Taylor | Done Wrong (black Det Marti MacAlister returns to Chicago to uncover truth behind undercover_cop/husband's murder after his name keeps cropping up in new murders) | $5.99 |
| Bland, Eleanor Taylor | See No Evil (black Det Marti MacAlister 6, finds investigation of girl's murder, risk to homeless man almost make her miss threat to family from killer from past) | $5.99 |
| Cercone, Karen Rose | Coal Bones (1906 Pittsburgh Det Milo Kachigan/reporter Helen Sorby 3 probe mining death that has big business, organized labor & immigrant workers t deadly odds; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Cobb, James H | Sea Strike (Navy Commander Amanda Garrett 2, must take her stealth destroyer into heart of Communist China to stop nuclear holocaust) | $6.99 |
| Cooper, Susan Rogers | A Crooked Little House (Texas romance writer EJ Pugh faces down husband's family in defence of sister_in_law accused of murder, but truth could destroy her life; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Coughlin, William J | The Judgment (lawyer Charley Sloan juggles cases of framed deputy police chief & children's bodies laid out in snow outside Detroit) | $6.99 |
| Crombie, Deborah | Dreaming of the Bones (biographer asks Supt Duncan Kincaid & Sgt Gemma Jones to help prove poet's suicide was murder & despite their skepticism, new evidence points to truth; Edgar Nominee) | $5.99 |
| Daheim, Mary | The Alpine Kindred (small_town Washington newspaper publisher Emma Lord 11, probes treasure_linked family feud that erupts into arson & murder; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Davis, Rankin | Hung Jury (jury's about to convict Dr Jennifer Fox of murder when the Prime Minister's warned terrorists hold his brother & only Fox's acquittal will save hm;PBO) | $6.99 |
| Davis, Val | Flight of the Serpent (archaeologist Nicolette Scott 2, finds reporter's plane wreck & joins his grandfather to probe gov't deception, illegal expermnts, WWII B_24 Lbrtr;PBO) | $5.50 |
| DeLoach, Nora | Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle (black SC social worker Grace Covington (4) & daughter Simone investigate buried infant, missing baby & mother's murder, & dig up dangerous secrets) | $21.95 |
| Douglass, Keith (CA Mobley wrote) | Carrier 12: Chain of Command (military adventure; Adm Wayne & USS Jefferson plan counterattack against N Vietnam while Adm Magruder sets off into jungle to find father; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Du Brul, Jack B | Vulcan's Forge (geologist/ex_commando Philip Mercer's in hotseat as friend's daughter's kidnaping leads to deadly secrets behind nuke_built volcano, social/ political unrest) | $6.99 |
| Elm, Joanna | Delusion (true_crime writer Kate McCusker & Det Mike Travis investigate murder of media mogul's wife; must unravel unexpectedly dangerous web of intrigue) | $6.99 |
| Englade, Ken | Everybody's Best Friend (non_fiction; Main Line wife/mother murdered by husband; PBO) | $6.50 |
| Gorman, EJ | Senatorial Privilege (DA Amy McGuire struggles with loyalty to revered senator when she realizes he's behind push to convict her brother of murder__why?) | $6.99 |
| Haney, Lauren | A Face Turned Backward (in ancient Egypt, Lt Bak's 2 assigned to search Nile river traffic for contraband elephant tusks but the secrets he finds threaten him with doom;PBO) | $5.99 |
| Herman, Richard | Force of Eagles (thriller reprint) | $6.99 |
| Hogan, Chuck | The Blood Artists (rival scientists who allied to contain virulent virus with extreme methods face its stronger, mutated reemergence & 1 survivor's blood may be only answer) | $6.99 |
| Hynd, Noel | The Prodigy (horror; virtuoso pianist's tortured by mentor's vengeful spirit that insists he pay for talent by murdering woman he loves) | $5.99 |
| Jackson, Hialeah | The Alligator's Farewell (hearing_impaired Yale prof Annabelle Hardy inherits dad's Miami PI agency, winds up investigating radioactive corpse with bizarre partner; PBO) | $5.99 |
| James, PD | A Certain Justice (Scotland Yard Cmdr Adam Dalgliesh & team must solve locked_room murder of celebrated barrister after murder suspect's acquittal) | $7.99 |
| Johnstone, William W | Survival in the Ashes (post_apocalyptic adventure reprint) | $5.99 |
| Kaye, Marilyn | Replica 3: Another Amy (young adult; Amy meets her double, but they're dangerously opposite; PBO) | $3.99 |
| Koontz, Dean | Fear Nothing (genre crossing; young man is forever united with the night; perhaps the author's best book) | $7.99 |
| Lira, Gonzalo | Counterparts (FBI agent Margaret Chisolm, known for savage rage when pushed too far, is teamed with low_level CIA agent to find international assassin) | $6.99 |
| Lordon, Randye | Say Uncle (lesbian PI Sydney Sloane 5, agrees to help cousins clear her estranged uncle of arson & murder, but finds he's withholding truth; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Lovejoy, William H | Flash Factor (handful of Americans counterattack when motherlode of oil off Brunei is seized by rebels; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Magnuson, Mike | The Right Man for the Job (black man & white farm boy working as inner city repo men meet challenge of resistant customer with ever more devious & brutal methods) | $13.00 |
| Malmont, Valerie S | Death, Lies & Apple Pies (Tori Miracle & cats 2, set off to judge Amish country Apple Butter Festival with police chief Garnet Gochenaueer, but murders intervene; recipe included) | $5.99 |
| McGovern, Jimmy/Holliday, Liz | Cracker: One Day a Lemming Will Fly (TV tie_in; troubled police psychiatrist Edward Fitzgerald 3, probes for truth in boy's murder, teacher's apparent guilt, but it's murkier than expcted) | $5.99 |
| Monfredo, Miriam Grace | The Stalking Horse (librarian Glynis Tryon heads south to help Pinkerton Detective_niece whose 1st assignment lands her in midst of plot against government on eve of Civil War) | $5.99 |
| Parkinson, Dan | The Fox & the Fury (historical naval adventure reprint) | $4.99 |
| Peters, Ralph | The Devil's Garden (relief worker/senator's daughter vanishes in lawless, oil_rich nation & Lt Col Evan Burton must find her despite gangsters, zealots, spies, warlords) | $6.99 |
| Piccirilli, Tom | The Dead Past (upstate NY town Felicity Grove seems quiet, but Jonathan Kendrick's eccentric grandma Anna finds plenty of trouble__this time a dead body in her trash) | $5.99 |
| Reich, Christopher | Numbered Account (Nicholas Neumann's search for father's killer leads to work in Swiss bank where money & deals tighten noose with same criminality that killed father) | $7.99 |
| Reynolds, Father Brad, SJ | Cruel Sanctuary (Father Mark Townsend 3, caught up in assault & murder of teen runaway, must find real killer while suspected by police & parish; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Ryan, Charles | Track of the Bengal (ex_Special Forces officer on freighter carrying mercury_ based nuke realizes terrorists objective as soldiers, spies, strategists struggle to find them;PBO) | $6.50 |
| Seeley, Mabel | The Beckoning Door ('50 reprint; mid-Minnesota resort setting) | $22.00 |
| Seeley, Mabel | The Chuckling Fingers ('42 reprint; North Shore of Lake Superior setting) | $22.00 |
| Skinner, Robert | Cat_Eyed Trouble (1938 New Orleans nightclub owner Wesley Farrell 2, grapples with murder & deception; "moody mystery rich with...allure & threat") | $5.99 |
| Skinner, Robert | Daddy's Gone A_Hunting (New Orleans nightclub owner Wesley Farrell 3, confronted with series of murders that arouse deceptions of past & turn friends into enemies) | $22.00 |
| Uhnak, Dorothy | Codes of Betrayal (half_Irish, half_Italian cop, Nick O'Hara's inability to bring child's killer to justice send him into downward spiral of vengeance) | $6.99 |
| Veith, George J | Code_Name Bright Light (Vietnam/POW rescues/non_fiction) | $6.50 |
| Warner, Penny | Right to Remain Silent (deaf reporter Connor Westphal 3, must race clock to clear deaf man charged with murder & still get paper out on time; PBO) | $5.50 |
| Woods, Stuart | Orchid Beach (ex_Army Maj Holly Barker takes deputy police chief post in small FL town with Doberman Daisy & investigates spate of murders of friends, co_workers) | $25.00 |
DUE BY MID_DECEMBER
| Aird, Catherine | Stiff News (Insp CD Sloane believes letter received posthumously by old woman's son indicates she was murdered in nursing home catering to ex_WWII regiment members) | $21.95 |
| Anders, Donna | Another Life (woman convinced abusive husband's planning her murder escapes, changes ID, still gets death threats) | $6.99 |
| Andrews, Donna | Murder With Peacocks (Meg returns to hometown for summer to help arrange 3 family weddings, coping with zany relatives, bizarre demands, but unpopular guest's murder is topper) | $24.95 |
| Anthony, Michael David | Midnight Come (lay Church of England official Richard Harrison investigates murdered body found in locked room, as village mounts production of Marlowe's"Dr Faustus") | $22.95 |
| Ashford, Jeffrey | Loyal Disloyalty (Richard Adeane begins so suspect his brother_in_law of woman's rape, but hesitate's to betray ex_wife's confidence) | $20.95 |
| Axler, James | Deathlands 44: Crucible of Time (post_apocalyptic adventure) | $5.99 |
| Babson, Marian | The Company of Cats (gossip maven Annabel Hinchby_Smythe's lured to computer billionaire's flat, but finds him murdered & joins with his cat & her family to find truth) | $20.95 |
| Brown, Sandra | Sweet Anger (newscaster Kari Wynne searches for truth behind husband's death, connection to DA Hunter McKee, who destroyed husband's reputation but arouses her desire) | $6.50 |
| Charyn, Jerome | Citizen Sidel (NY Mayor Isaac Sidel's on VP short list, but immediate worries are police captains' feud, dead cop on prowl, ex_mayor in madhouse, gang on killing spree) | $23.00 |
| Dixon, Franklin W | Hardy Boys Casefiles: Collector's Edition (young adult; omnibus edition of #55, 58 & 59; PBO) | $4.99 |
| Dixon, Franklin W | Hardy Boys are the Clues Brothers 10 (young reader) | $3.99 |
| Dubowski, Cathy & Mark | Nickelodeon: Mystery Files of Shelby Woo 10: High Wire ( young reader; suspicious accident at circus draws Shelby's attention; PBO) | $3.99 |
| Dunnigan, James F/Nofi, Albert A | Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War (non_fiction/military history; subtitled "Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know", from origin of C4 to Top Gun school to Montagnard Mercenaries) | $27.50 |
| Eichler, Selma | Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame ("queen_sized" PI Desiree Shapiro 6, agrees to investigate death of ex_lover's bride, but drug_smuggling suspicions conflicts with cops' suspicions of client;PBO) | $5.99 |
| Faherty, Terence | The Ordained (ex_seminarian Owen Keane 5, probes vanishing of 3 sect members, suspecting paroled killer despite sect's belief in 2nd Coming fulfilled) | $4.99 |
| Gordon, Alan R | Thirteenth Night (set years after Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Fool's Guild jester Feste must again match wits with nemesis Malvolio, this time over Duke of Orsino's murder) | $23.95 |
| Grace, Tom | Spyder Web (ex_SEAL/computer expert Nolan Kilkenny gets caught up in CIA & FBI hunt for info pirates who've stolen CIA's secret intel_gathering project) | $25.00 |
| Gregory, Sarah | The Best Defense (Dallas lawyer Sharon Hays 3, meets old friend now Hollywood star, who turns hires Sharon to defend her when dead body's found in her room; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Hall, Patricia | Perils of the Night (Yorkshire reporter Laura Ackroyd/CI Michael Thackeray find her undercover prostitution investigation & his prostitute_murder case converging) | $22.95 |
| Heffernan, William | The Dinosaur Club (downsized executive joins cohorts determined to strike back; "funny, sad, clever") | $6.99 |
| Hill, Reginald | Killing the Lawyers (black British PI Joe Sixsmith 3, must disprove suspicions he killed lawyers while protecting threatened track star) | $4.99 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Nancy Drew Notebooks 28 (young reader) | $3.99 |
| Kehret, Peg | The Blizzard Disaster (young reader; time_travellers Warren & Betsy set out for 1940 MN blizzard for report, but find way home is frozen; PBO) | $3.99 |
| Klempner, Joseph | Flat Lake in Winter (criminal defense lawyer Matthew Fielder tries dropping out, but death_penalty murder case against "slow_witted orphan" youth brings him back to fray) | $24.95 |
| Lauria, Frank | Zorro: Skull & Crossbones (media tie_in; Zorro takes on raiders, discovers pirate & plot to assassinate Gen Santa Anna; PBO) | $4.50 |
| Lawrence, Martha C | Aquarius Descending (psychic PI Elizabeth Chase 3, goes undercover in cult to investigates boyfriend's ex_fiance's disappearance, but may have met her match) | $23.95 |
| Leib, Franklin Allen | The House of Paine (desperate parents hire millionaire ex_Vietnam tunnel rat to retrieve kidnapped daughter, but legal system must still cope with aftermath of his tactics) | $23.95 |
| Maron, Margaret | Killer Market (Judge Deborah Knott 6, subs for NC judge during huge home decor show, but when ex_classmate's dead son_in_law appears on display, she takes on murderer) | $6.50 |
| McBain, Ed | The Last Best Hope (attorney Matthew Hope's search for client's missing husband leads to world of kinky sex, games, high_class theft, turns to 87th Pct's Carella for help) | $7.50 |
| Michaud, Stephen G/Hazelwood, Roy | The Evil That Men Do (non_fiction; FBI profiler Hazelwood relates his exploration of sexual criminals' minds in his most famous cases) | $25.00 |
| Miller, John A | Causes of Action (lawyer Claude McCutcheon agrees to help Vietnam pal uncover truth of computer company's misdeeds but friend's on run & son's left with Claude as company gets deadly) | $23.00 |
| Morgan, Mary | Willful Neglect (lawyer Noah Richards takes on case of black child's death during operation, uncovers indifference & racism leading to arson & murder) | $4.99 |
| Mrazek, Robert J | Stonewall's Gold (young man discovers long_guarded secret & sends him on limit_testing adventure in final months of Civil War) | $22.95 |
| Olden, Marc | Fear's Justice (racist, sexist NYPD Det Fear Meaher bends rules & morals, but must turn to enemy when lover, another cop's wife, is killed) | $6.50 |
| Pendleton, Don | Executioner 241: Evil Reborn (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Pendleton, Don | Stony Man 38: Enemy Within (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Pike, Christopher | Master of Murder (young adult horror; fan letter claiming to know teen's ID as bestselling author is only the start; PBO) | $4.50 |
| Pool, James | Hitler & His Secret Partners: Contributions, Loot (& Rewards (non_fiction; expose of banks & people who funded 3rd Reich) | $14.00 |
| Poyer, David | Thunder on the Mountain (in 1936 Pennsylvania, strikers led by WT Halvorsen & CIO organizer clash with oil company & strikebreaker during terrible winter on forest's edge) | $25.95 |
| Prado, Benjamin | Never Shake Hands With a Left_Handed Gunman (remaining young people of Barcelona group recount character, nature of their vanished leader, their efforts to find him; punchy, noir_like dialogue") | $19.95 |
| Randisi, RobertJ/Matthews, Christin | Murder is the Deal of the Day (used bookseller Gil & home_ shopping show host Clair Hunt are just settling into happy 2nd marriage when murders tied to Claire's show threaten all) | $21.95 |
| Rule, Ann | The End of the Dream (non_fiction; bond between 4 'golden boys' shattered by one's greed, twisted desire; PBO) | $7.50 |
| Scott, Willard/Crider, Bill | Murder Under Blue Skies (renowned weatherman looks forward to retiring to run B&B, but poisoning at his opening gala puts a damper on plans) | $6.99 |
| Tucker, James | Abra Cadaver (amateur magician Dr Jake Merlin discovers missing roommate in anatomy lab & hunts for truth despite deception, greed, Pittsburgh underworld; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Walker, Dale L | Legends & Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West (non_fiction; examination of myths & mysteries incl Meriweather Lewis' unexplained death, Davy Crockett's fate, killing of Crazy Horse, more) | $14.95 |
| White, Stephen | Critical Conditions (psychologist Dr Alan Gregory 6, looks into teen girl's suicide motives, learns ill stepsister's may die w/o denied treatment, then HMO exec's murdered) | $7.50 |
| Wilson, Ian | Shakespeare: The Evidence (non_fiction; literary investigation/biography of greatest Shakespearean debates: play authorship, sexuality, grave's curse, more) | $19.95 |
| Wood, Barbara | Perfect Harmony (when killer uses Charlotte's herbal remedy company's product to kill, then demands she confess, she tracks killer & uncovers her secret past) | $6.99 |
| Zumbro, Ralph | Tank Sergeant (military non_fiction/Vietnam) | $6.99 |
DUE BY THE END OF DECEMBER
| Braun, Lilian Jackson | The Cat Who Saw Stars (Quill & cats look into rumors of extraterrestrial kidnapping of stray backpacker; audio avail $17.95) | $22.95 |
| Bull, Bartle | Cafe on the Nile (in 1935 Cairo, Mussolini's armies, hunters, adventurers converge on one cafe & change history) | $26.00 |
| Connelly, Michael | Angels Flight (Det Harry Bosch must investigate murder of black lawyer hated by LAPD for racism & brutality lawsuits, on eve of high_profile trial, as wife disapears; audio $24) | $25.00 |
| Halligan, Kathleen_ed | Women of Mystery III (anthology from EQMM & AHMM incl Rendell, Hess, Muller, Maron, Paretsky, Cross, more) | $24.00 |
| Holden, Craig | Four Corners of Night (Police Officers Bank Arbaugh/Mack Steiner investigate case of missing girl that begins to tie to unsolved disappearance of Arbaugh's daughtr 7 yrs ago) | $23.95 |
| Holden, Craig | The River Sorrow; The Last Sanctuary (trade paperback reprints) | $11.95 |
| James, Bill | Halo Parade (DCS Colin Harpur 3, puts cop undercover in drug gang, setting stage for murder & revenge; "crackling dialogue & seamy people") | $10.00 |
| James, Russell | Count Me Out (participant in armored van robbery disappears, pursued by his bosses who try to get to him through his brother & daughter) | $10.00 |
| Kanon, Joseph | The Prodigal Spy (when Nick Kotlar decides to visit ailing father in 1969 Prague, 19 years after fleeing McCarthy inquiries, he learns truth of past events,ongoing conspiracy) | $25.00 |
| Kellogg, Marne Davis | Nothing But Gossip (Wyoming Marshal Lilly Bennett 4, prepares for her wedding, but must investigate murders among the rich & philandering at the same time) | $21.95 |
| Kerr, Philip | The Second Angel (in plague_ridden world of moon_walk centennial, untainted blood is currency with federal reserve on moon, set for destruction by the man who designed it) | $25.00 |
| Koontz, Dean | Seize the Night (suspense; when children disappear from Moonlight Bay, Christopher Snow sets out to find them despite disorder that restricts to night movement; follow up to Fear Nothing ) | $26.95 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup 3 (associational; omnibus reprint of Westerns "Valdez is Coming" & "Hombre") | $12.95 |
| McKay, Gardner | Toyer (neurologist Maude Garance finds caring for victims of manipulative, diabolical psychopath is not enough & decides she must stop him, whatever the cost) | $24.00 |
| Plimpton, George_ed | The Writer's Chapbook (reference; "compendium of writers' opinion, wit & advice", includes Roth, Parker, Faulkner, Capote, White, Angelou, Borges, Williams, Doctorow, Hemingway,) | $18.95 |
| Robertson | Booth (illustrated novel based on historical record follows coming_of_age of John Surratt, manipulated into helping John Wilkes Booth assassinat Pres Lincoln) | $12 |
| Siler, Jenny | Easy Money (Allie Kerry agrees to pick up computer disk at Seattle bar, but finds contact's body, winds up on run from setup for CIA agent's & drugrunner's murders) | $24.00 |
| Whitehead, Colson | The Intuitionist (black elevator inspector Lila Mae Watson, one of faction detecting faults w/intuition, goes underground to investigate crash, find writings of founder) | $19.95 |
DUE BY JANUARY 10
| Adams, T/Brooks_Mueller, M/Shaw, S | Eye of the Beast (non_fiction; story of serial killer James Wood) | $6.50 |
| Barron, Stephanie | Jane & the Genius of the Place (Jane Austen 4, sets off for Canterbury Races but attention turns from racing to murder of beautiful equestrienne) | $22.95 |
| Belsky, RG | Playing Dead (journalist Joe Dougherty 2, learns convicted serial killer's dying secret__kills were orchestrated by wealthy college friends who still play game;PBO) | $6.50 |
| Block, Barbara | The Scent of Murder (pet shop owner Robin Light 4, searches for late husband's illegitimate daughter who's suspected of murder) | $5.99 |
| Block, Lawrence | Hit Man (Keller makes a living killing people but wants a life_will his attempts work out?;"odd & appealing combination of the hard_boiled, the surreal & the whimsical") | $6.99 |
| Braidhill, Kathy | Chop Shop (reprint/non_fiction; story of funeral home heir's greed, mutilated corpses & sold body parts) | $5.99 |
| Burton, Robert A | Cellmates (sf crossover; Artie Singleton learns he's one of 10 clones & one of them is killer determined to be rid of brothers so he can be unique) | $6.50 |
| Carter, Paula | Leading an Elegant Death (domestic "artiste" Hillary Scarborough teams up with undomestic ex_law student Jane Ferguson to solve crimes & decorating disasters; includes recipe; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Clancy, Tom/Pieczenick, Steve_cr | Tom Clancy's Net Force: Deadliest Game; Virtual Vandals (young adult; in 2010, team of troubleshooting teens are recruited by security agency w/in FBI to control the world's new superpowers__computers; PBO) | $4.99 |
| Conant, Susan | The Barker Street Regulars (dog writer Holly Winter & malamutes befriend aged Holmes fan & gather clues to truth when her relatives start falling victim to murder & scams) | $5.99 |
| Cook, Robin | Toxin (when Dr Kim Reggis' daughter falls ill from contaminated burger, he launches investigation into USDA complicity with slaughterhouse industry) | $7.99 |
| Cross, Amanda | The Puzzled Heart (when husband's kidnapped, English prof Kate Fansler (12) & Det Harriet Furst struggle to appear compliant with demands while tracking culprits & reasons) | $5.99 |
| Dams, Jeanne M | Holy Terror in the Hebrides (Dorothy Martin 3, finds Hebrides vacation turning into busman's holiday when priest's fall from cliff turns out to be murder) | $5.99 |
| Davis, Patrick A | The General (Lt Col Charlie Jensen learns that Air Force general's murder in Vietcong style is linked to crimes reaching into top ranks of government) | $6.99 |
| DePoy, Phillip | Easy as One, Two, Three (Georgia Det Flap Tucker 3, searches wild Appalachians & old tragedys for missing young girl; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Dockery, Kevin/Fawcett, Bill_eds | The Teams: An Oral History of the US Navy SEALS (military non_fiction) | $6.50 |
| Douglass, Keith | Seal Team Seven 7: Deathrace (military adventure; Murdock & SEAL platoon must team with warhead expert Katherine Garnet to stop Iran from building nuclear devices; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Doyle, Robert C | A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in US Military History (military history) | $6.50 |
| Ellroy, James | Clandestine (reprint; young cop on rise in '50s LA, Fred Underhill's ambition's fueled by serial murder case leading to corruption, betrayal & murder) | $12.00 |
| Ford, GM | Slow Burn (Seattle PI Leo Waterman 4, hired as security for restaurant convention but assignment monitoring steakhouse competitors & food critic lands him in the soup) | $5.99 |
| Grisham, John | The Street Lawyer (Michael's encounter with homeless man leads to realization the law firm he's struggling to rise in has deadly secrets that change his life) | $7.99 |
| Harrod_Eagles, Cynthia | Killing Time (Insp Bill Slider (6) asked for help by cross_gender, erotic male dancer, but when dancer's killed he probes for link to popular constable's attacks) | $5.99 |
| Hartzmark, Gini | Rough Trade (lawyer Kate Millholland 5, struggles to control chaos when Milwaukee football team's debt_ridden owner's found murdered & son aims to move team; PBO) | $6.50 |
| Heller, Jane | Crystal Clear (Arizona's New Age mecca turns out to harbor murder; "blends romance, mystery & wit") | $5.99 |
| Hess, J/Gorman, E/Greenberg, MH_eds | Crime After Crime (anthology; the best short mysteries of the year, by Perry, Paretsky, McBain, Rendell, Muller, Pickard, more) | $5.99 |
| Hoyt, Richard | Tyger! Tyger! (ex_CIA agent James Burlane's hunt for tiger poachers & underworld tiger_parts traffickers leads to killer of women who has a tiger fetish) | $5.99 |
| Jance, JA | Breach of Duty (Seattle Det JP Beaumont 14, gets new partner Sue Danielson, but their investigation of old woman's murder is shattered by terrifying series of events) | $23.00 |
| Johnstone, William W | Hatred in the Ashes (post_apocalyptic adventure, #27) | $5.99 |
| Kelleher, Michael & CL | Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer (non_fiction; profiles of female serial killers__overlooked by standard annals, harder to apprehend, motivated by more complex issues) | $5.99 |
| King, Laurie R | The Moor (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes 4, are summoned to the moor where he'd exposed the Baskerville Hound & spectral sightings are recurring) | $5.99 |
| Knief, Charles | Sand Dollars (retired Navy officer/PI John Caine 2, hired to investigate software mogul's death & embezzling at firm, lands in hotbed of sex, Mexican_border politcs) | $5.99 |
| Krich, Rochelle | Blood Money (LA homicide Det Jessica Drake realizes elderly man's death is tied to his concentration camp tattoo, Swiss banks & her own past) | $23.00 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Cuba Libre (high adventure, history, romance in Cuba during Spanish_American War) | $7.50 |
| Lewis, Sherry | No Place for Memories (senior sleuth Fred Vickery 6, reluctantly attends high school reunion, only to find himself suspected of hated boyhood rival's murder; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Lovett, Sarah | A Desperate Silence (forensic psychiatrist Dr Sylvia Strange 3, shelters mute Chicano girl after suspicious car crash, but learns drug lord's hitman is after them both) | $5.99 |
| MacDougal, Bonnie | Angle of Impact (corporate lawyer Dana Svenssen's photos of amusement park disaster where daughters were threatened prove air crash was no accident) | $6.99 |
| Marr, John S, MD/Baldwin, John H | The Eleventh Plague (Dr Jack Bryne realizes someone's recreating the ten biblical plagues, but when the killer frames him as culprit, he must foil both authorities & killer) | $6.99 |
| Medawar, Mardi Oakley | Witch of the Palo Duro (1866 Kiowa leader Tay_bodal 2, must uncover truth behind missing healer & dead horses before fear of witchcraft destroys the Band) | $5.99 |
| Meier, Leslie | Valentine Murder (small_town mom Lucy Stone 5, attends first library board meeting only to find librarian murdered & further probing turns up shocking, deadly secrets) | $20.00 |
| Mezrich, Ben | Fertile Ground (when fertility doctor & ER resident/wife tie number of infertile men to rash of Ebola_like deaths, they uncover deadly, high_tech cabal) | $24.00 |
| Nava, Michael | The Burning Plain (gay Hispanic defense attorney Henry Rios 5, delves into serial murders involving courthouse, movie studios, mayor's office & may implicate him) | $5.99 |
| Pade, Victoria | Divorce Can be Murder (divorced mom Jimi Plain volunteers for divorce support group, but group members start dying, she must find killer before she's next; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Palmer, Michael | Miracle Cure (Dr Brian Holbrook's excitement at joining miracle drug trials team sours when patient death, vanished records indicate something's very wrong) | $7.50 |
| Philpin, John/Sierra, Patricia | Tunnel of Night (forensic scientist Dr Lucas & daughter/NYPD Det Lane Frank 2, pursue serial killer cross country & back to FBI Behavioral Studies Unit; PBO) | $6.50 |
| Pieczenik, Steve | State of Emergency (Secretary of State Barbara Reynolds faces seccession threat from mountain states, but learns the web of deceit & betrayal feuling the threat is worse) | $6.99 |
| Rankin, Ian | Black & Blue (Det John Rebus 9, pursues copycat serial killer through Edinburgh's toughest districts to Aberdeen oil rigs, only to realize own family's in danger; Gold Dagger Winner, Edgar Nominee) | $5.99 |
| Ripley, Ann | The Garden Tour Affair (horticulturist Louise Eldridge 4, film of garden tour in historic Connecticut lands her in middle of warring lovers, botanic scams & academic scandal) | $22.95 |
| Roe, Caroline (aka Medora Sale) | Cure for a Charlatan (medieval Spain; blind Jewish physician Isaac of Girona 2, probes deaths of young men marked by sleepwalking & delusions rousing anti_witch hysteria;PBO) | $5.99 |
| Scott, Manda | Hen's Teeth (when Glasgow vet Kellen Stewart learns ex_lover Bridget's died, she & pathologist friend visit Bridget's farm, find suspicious events, bio_medical marvels;US PBO) | $5.50 |
| Seranella, Barbara | No Human Involved (Venice CA car mechanic Miranda "Munch" Mancini finds cleaning up life complicated when she's wanted for murder & it's up to her alone to set things right) | $6.99 |
| Seranella, Barbara | No Offense Intended (when auto mechanic Miranda "Munch" Mancini (2)is drawn into case of ex_lover's drive_by shooting, she resurrects dangerous past associates to learn truth) | $24.00 |
| Seymour, Gerald | Killing Ground (DEA agent Axel Moen's assignment to bring in mafia Don turns inside out when he uses nanny for trap & bureacracy, betrayal threaten to snap it) | $6.99 |
| Shannon, John | The Cracked Earth (John Liffey 2, agrees to look for aging actress' daughter, but finds "the seedy violence of the old City of Angels"; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Stokes, Naomi M | The Listening Ones (tribal sheriff/shaman Jordan Tidewater 2, probes her people's past for clues to seeming_ritual murder of young boy) | $6.99 |
| Walker, Blair S | Up Jumped the Devil (black Baltimore journalist Darryl Billups ignores message warning of white supremacist plots, but when bombs go off he's on the trail of killer) | $5.99 |
| Wilson, Charles | Embryo (desperation & high stakes in high_tech reproduction leads to young lawyer's discovery of unethical experiment's fatal flaw; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Wood, William P | Quicksand (tension between narcotics/organized crime task force head & his superior/wife US Atty worsens when she releases dealer & then her secret op goes wrong) | $5.99 |
DUE BY MID_JANUARY
| Adamson, Lydia | A Cat on Stage Left (actress alice Nestleton 16, paid big bucks for catsitting job, but when catowner is murdered in front of her, decides she must investigate; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Shaman Winter (Albuquerque PI Sonny Baca 3, haunted by dreams of death, disappearance, as nemesis Raven aims to kill him in dreams while kidnapping girls in reality) | $24.00 |
| Axler, James | Deathlands Collector's Edition (post_apocalyptic adventure; prequel to series plus original writer's premise, character profiles, Outlander_Deathlands series connection, more; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Bean, CN | With Evil Intent (Wisconsin CID Capt Rita Trible 2, copes with case of missing children, medical conspiracy & fellow officer's suicide; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Bernhardt, William | Dark Justice (attorney Ben Kincaid 8, can't relax on vacation to Pacific NW town where conservationist accused of murder by ruthless prosecutor asks for help) | $22.50 |
| Bland, Eleanor Taylor | Tell No Tales (suburban Chicago police detective Marti MacAlister 7, juggles seemingly unrelated but brutal murders, while home problems strain partnership) | $22.95 |
| Blum, Howard | The Gold of Exodus:The Discovery of the True Mt Sina (non_fiction; 2 men infiltrate secret Saudi military base to find location of Mt Sinai) | $6.99 |
| Borthwick, JS | My Body Lies Over the Ocean (Sarah Deane/Dr Alex McKenzie 9, join Aunt Julia on extravagant British ocean liner, but must spend trip solving series of murders) | $22.95 |
| Cage, Elizabeth | Spy Girls 3: Nobody Does it Better (young adult; Caylin, Josefina & Theresa's adventures in Seattle get them on the FBI's Most Wanted List; PBO) | $4.50 |
| Carter, Charlotte | Coq au Vin (desperate telegram sends Black American Princess Nanette Hayes to Paris in search for Aunt Viv through jazz clubs, murder & eccentric characters) | $22 |
| Carter, Charlotte | Rhode Island Red (jazz club sax player Nanette Hayes finds undercover cop dead in her apartment, must juggle police suspicion, amorous mobster, eager boyfrind to find killer) | $5.99 |
| Cotler, Gordon | Artist's Proof (ex_cop/artist Sid Shale must return to investigative mode when he's suspected of model's murder) | $4.99 |
| Crais, Robert | Devil's Cantina (PIs Elvis Cole & Joe Pike investigate murder of Joe's ex_lover that leads through LAPD's elite Robbery_Homicide Div & threatens their friendship) | $22.95 |
| Davidson, Grania/Lupoff, Richard_ed | The Investigations of Avram Davidson (collection of "devious & erudite" mysteries by short_story master) | $23.95 |
| Davis, Gibbs | White House Ghostbusters 4: Roosevelt's Revenge (young reader; Molly's mom, the US president, tries to hold state dinner for new space program, but ghosts Teddy & Alice Roosevelt invite themselvs;PBO) | $3.99 |
| DiMercurio, Michael | Piranha Firing Point (Red China navy commander captures Japanese subs in plan to destroy Free China & only US Vice_Admiral, w/Pacific fleet & secret sub, can stop him;PBO) | $6.99 |
| Dixon, Franklin W | Hardy Boys 154 (young adult) | $3.99 |
| Dold, Gaylord | The Devil to Pay (attorney Jack Darwin finds life sliding out of control & turns to new friend to defend him on rape/murder charge, but becomes suspicious of his motive) | $24.95 |
| Glass, Leslie | Judging Time (NYPD Det April Woo 4, investigates double murder of ex_pro football star's wife & best friend, amid media circus & racial tension) | $6.99 |
| Gresh, Lois H/Weinberg, Robert | The Termination Node (Internet security expert Judy Carmody tracks thieves behind cyber_heist of major bank's entire assets, who're eliminating all possible hacker_trackers) | $24.00 |
| Hamill, Denis | 3 Quarters (NY cop framed for wife's murder struggles to clear name, expose secrets) | $6.99 |
| Hess, Joan | Misery Loves Maggody (Sheriff Arly Hanks #11, rushes to mom's bedside when she's hospitalized during Memphis trip & is drawn into murder that occurred during an Elvis tour) | $22.00 |
| Holton, Hugh | The Left Hand of God (Chicago Police Chief Larry Cole 5, juggles investigation of assassination plot against newscaster & teen son's discovery of Olympic game_fix plot) | $24.95 |
| Holtzer, Susan | The Silly Season (Ann Arbor reporter Zoe Kaplan sees apparent UFO & media stampede ensues, but when UFOlogist/professor turns up dead, Lt Karl Genesko must find truth) | $22.95 |
| Huggins, James Byron | Hunter (Hunter, the world's best tracker, pursues genetically engineered super_human monster) | $23.00 |
| Joseph, Mark | Deadline Y2K (computer malfunctions begin spreading disaster at int'l dateline on Jan 1, 2000, but cypberpunk group with solution is up against enemy venture capitalst) | $24.95 |
| Kay, Terry | The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene (young man working in bank's mailroom kidnapped & ransom demand insists $10 mil come from bank rather than parents, but bank refuses & questions start) | $25.00 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Nancy Drew 147 (young adult) | $3.99 |
| Kenney, Charles | The Son of John Devlin (Det Jack Devlin's in middle, assigned to Justice Dept's war on Boston police corruption, opening wounds of dad's 20_year old suicide from cop scandal) | $22.95 |
| Lee, Wendi | Missing Eden (ex_Marine military/PI Angela Matelli 2, agrees to search for Marine mentor's missing daughter but learns she's mixed up in murder) | $4.99 |
| Maracotta, Lindsay | Playing Dead (when animator Lucy Freers' nanny's murdered, she investigates, finding video of another killing involving child;"killer eye for show_business ephemera") | $24.00 |
| Marcinko, Richard/Weisman, John | Rogue Warrior: Option Delta (the Warrior & his SEALs invade Germany to search for lost US nukes; PBO; audio tape avail $18) | $24.00 |
| Marcinko, Richard/Weisman, John | Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha (the Rogue Warrior teams up with SEAL Force Alpha to scuttle China's plans for US) | $6.99 |
| Marston, Edward | Domesday Books VI: The Stallions of Woodstock (Wm the Conqueror's men Ralph Delchard/Gervase Bret are in Oxford to settle land dispute, but must first solve villager's death in high_stakes horse race) | $22.95 |
| Martin, Allana | Death of a Saint Maker (trading post owner Texana & vet Clay Jones 2, investigate murder of itinerant wood carver, uncover drugs, smuggling, poaching, death) | $4.99 |
| McBain, Ed | The Big Bad City (87th Precinct detectives investigate the murder of a beautiful young nun & uncover her past as a rock singer) | $25.00 |
| Mills, Deanie Francis | Tight Rope (FBI gets electronic surveillance expert paroled if she infiltrates suspect group, but with cover blown, family in danger, she takes on both co, FBI;PBO) | $6.99 |
| Mosley, Walter | Gone Fishin' (trade paper reprint) | $14.00 |
| Murphy/Sapir | Destroyer 114: Failing Marks (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Nadelson, Reggie | Hop Poppies (ex_cop Artie Cohen 2, is drawn into NY Chinatown murder tied to diamond district, irradiated heroin & Hong Kong_based plot) | $22.95 |
| Patrick, Vincent | Smoke Screen (renegade doctor smuggles deadly virus out of jungle, pursued by spy chief Linwood Cutshaw using ex_cop/jewel thief team, but plan goes way wrong) | $24.00 |
| Pendleton, Don | SuperBolan 65: Four Horsemen Trilogy 1: Initiation (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Prescott, Michael | Comes the Dark (woman has 24 hours to find killer who invokes childhood nightmare, then returns for kill; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Roberts, Gareth/McGovern, Jimmy | Cracker: To be a Somebody (TV tie_in;"surly, enigmatic" police psychologist Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald takes on case of Manchester skinhead accused of Asian shopkeeper's murder) | $22.95 |
| Rosenberg, Robert | An Accidental Murder (retired Jerusalem detective Avram Cohen 4, publishes memoirs that trigger attacks, protege's murder & must confront past before he can stop psychopath) | $22.00 |
| Schechter, Harold | Nevermore (scathing critic Poe savages Colonel/congressman's autobio, but winds up teaming on quest for killer) | $23.00 |
| Silver, Jim | Kill Zone (son of murdered Vietnam vet embarks on a vengeful murder spree) | $23.00 |
| Sloan, Susan R | An Isolated Incident (teen's murder turns Seward Island, Washington, inside out as police & residents confront their prejudices, fears & evil) | $6.99 |
| Sultan, Faye | Help Line (forensic psychologist Portia McTeague 2, takes leave from crime, volunteers for counselling hotline, but multiple murder case draws her back in) | $22.95 |
| Sussman, Susan/Avidon, Sarajane | Audition for Murder (actress Morgan Taylor's relieved enough to get 1st role in months that she ignores play's rumored curse__until the deaths begin) | $23.95 |
| Tremayne, Peter | Suffer Little Children (Celtic nun Sr Fidelma 3, asked to solve 844 murder of Church scholar, friend to 1 Irish kingdom's ruler during visit to another, but must look deeper) | $5.99 |
| Van Adler, TC | St Agatha's Breast (when dying abbey's paintings are stolen, one left seems famed artist's work, archivist Rev Brocard Curtis tries to find provenance but foes resort to murder) | $22.95 |
| Wilhelm, Kate | Defense for the Devil (attorney Barbara Holloway returns to take case of woman whose unwelcome husband returns & is murdered, but case could lead her straight to the Devil) | $24.95 |
| Zandri, Vincent | As Catch Can (grieving wife's death & disillusioned by job, warden Jack Marconi must put whatever's left of life on the line when convicted cop_killer escapes) | $22.95 |
DUE BY THE END OF JANUARY
| Cornwell, Patricia | Southern Cross (NIJ grant sends Police Chief Judy Hammer & aides to Richmond to clean up force, but face uphill battle from cops, city manager & mayor; tape $24.95) | $25.95 |
| Goodis, David | The Moon in the Gutter ('53 noir reprint; stevedore meets & marries slumming socialite he meets in Philadelphis back street; intro by Adrian Wootton) | $11.99 |
| Gorman, E/Greenberg, MH/Segriff, L_ed. | Cat Crimes Through Time (anthology of cat_centered historical mysteries from Douglas, Allyn, Breen, Dawson, Crider, Crowther, more) | $22.95 |
| Gorman, Ed | The Day the Music Died (in 1959 Iowa Judge Eleanor Whitney's investigating lawyer, Sam McCain attempts to prove the Judge's nephew innocent of wife's murder) | $22.95 |
| Johnson, Guy | Standing at the Scratch Line (when 17_yo LeRoi Tremain kills 2 whites in raid on family's smuggling, he's sent away, joins army, becomes avenger from WWI France to NY to OK) | $24.95 |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | Billy Straight (LAPD Det Petra Connor must find 12_yo street child who witnessed murder of TV star's ex_wife ran for life before killer gets him; Alex Delaware cameo) | $25.95 |
| Landesman, Peter | Blood Acre (lawyer who's slowly succumbed to corruption becomes prime suspect in secretary/lover's murder & must face truth of his life) | $23.95 |
| Montalbano, William D | Basilica (ex_cop/Brother Paul assigned to investigate priest's death in Vatican Basilica, uncovers politics, revenge, violence threatening him & new young pope) | $23.95 |
| Orlean, Susan | The Orchid Thief (non_fiction; story of plant thief John Laroche, rare orchids in S Florida swamp, obsessed collectors & Seminole tribe's war with US) | $25.00 |
| Perry, Mark | Conceived in Liberty (non_fiction/military history; dual biography of opposing commanders of Little Round Top conflict at Battle of Gettysburg,) | $15.95 |
| Schiller, Lawrence | Bear No Witness: The Death of JonBenet Ramsey (non_fiction; the story of the investigation, in words of witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, lawyers) | $26.00 |
| Scott, Willard/Crider, Bill | Murder in the Mist (retired weatherman/B&B owner Stanley Waters 2, decides to help with Civil War reenactment, but real gunfire, injuries & murder start him investigating) | $23.95 |
| Tapon, Philippe | The Mistress (in WWII Paris, doctor & nurse/mistress treat occupiers as his family plots for treasure, but when he's arrested in Nazi's death, she outwits his famly) | $23.95 |
| Weinstein, Allen/Vassiliev, Alexand | The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America (non_fiction; reconstruction of Stalin_era Soviet espionage reconstructed from Moscow's message files, personal tales of love, business,defections,murder) | $30.00 |
| White, Stephen | Manner of Death (Dr Alan Gregory learns colleague's death may have been murder, then learns of others & teams w/ex_flame to dig for truth, but killer may get him first) | $23.95 |
| Whiting, Robert | Tokyo Underworld (non_fiction; subtitled "The Fast Times & Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan", follows Nick Zappetti from arrival in 1945 through 80s) | $27.50 |
| Woods, Paula L | Inner City Blues (black LAPD homicide det Charlotte Justice faces down beating & murder during LA riots, putting her at odds w/the LAPD hierarchy, city politics) | $23.95 |
DUE BY FEBRUARY 10
| Angell, Judie | Shirley Holmes 1: TCOT Burning Building; TCOT Ruby Ring (young reader; two cases are solved by Sherlock Holmes' descendent Shirley) | $3.99 |
| Angell, Judie | Shirley Holmes 2: TCOT Blazing Star;TCOT King of Hearts (young reader) | $3.99 |
| Atkins, Leo | Deadbeat ("gentle giant" PI Connor Gibbs hired by 9_year_old boy to find long_lost dad, but why is the dad so determined to stay lost?; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Beaton, MC | Agatha Raisin & the Wellspring of Death (feisty village sleuth Agatha Raisin finds Council chairman dead at natural spring & lands in murky stew of scheming politicians, corprations,ex_fiance) | $5.99 |
| Bergantino, David | Zorro & the Dragon Riders (media tie_in; 4 assassins from Japan are hired by Hidalgo of Cazador to kill Zorro, but poison may be his undoing; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Bowen, Peter | Thunder Horse (Gabriel Du Pre 5?, finds Montana in midst of upheaval when earthquake strikes, developer threatens, dinosaur & burial ground discoveries lead to murder) | $5.99 |
| Braun, Lilian Jackson | The Cat Who Sang for the Birds (Qwilleran & cats Koko & YumYum find spring a great time to practice birdcalling, but murder intrudes) | $6.99 |
| Brown, Rita Mae/Sneaky Pie | Murder on the Prowl (postmistress Harry Harristeen/feline & canine sleuths 6, probe run of false obituaries in local paper that leads to triple murder) | $6.99 |
| Clancy, Tom | Carrier (non_fiction; illustrated behind_scenes look at floating cities that're military strategy linchpins_take_offs & landings, range/power/weapons, more;PBO) | $16.00 |
| Dunlap, Susan | No Immunity (ex_pathologist/PI Kiernan O'Shaughnessy agrees to help ex_colleague with Ebola research & is framed for murder while houseman Brad takes his own case) | $5.99 |
| Estleman, Loren D | The Hider (associational/Western; teen meets legendary old buffalo hunter & dreams of adventure, but helping Indian framed for murder makes them the hunted; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Ferris, Monica (aka Mary Monica Pulver) | Crewel World (Betsy Devonshire's sister's killed in her needlecraft store & Betsy takes over shop, investigation to find killer's pattern;includes embroidery pattrn;PBO) | $5.99 |
| Finder, Joseph | High Crimes (law prof/atty Clair Chapman finds her husband once had different face & name, now is framed for crime, she must defend him in top secret court martial) | $6.99 |
| Fitzwater, Judy | Dying to Get Even (aspiring mystery writer Jennifer Marsh 2, & writers' support group in solving crime among authors, agents, publishers;"suspenseful,mordantly funny"PBO) | $5.99 |
| Ford, GM | Last Ditch (when Seattle PI Leo Waterman (5) & "the Boys" clean up Leo's inherited mansion, they find skelton implicating his vanished, ultra_conservative father) | $22.00 |
| Fuhrman, Mark | Murder in Greenwich (non_fiction; reexamines unsolved, 25_year_old murder of wealthy teen friend of Kennedy cousins, includes epilogue w/new developments) | $6.99 |
| Garcia_Aguilera, Carolina | Bloody Secrets (Cuban_American PI Lupe Solano 3, finds search for the killer stalking Cuban refugee getting personal) | $6.50 |
| Glass, Joseph | Eyes (psychic/psychiatrist/criminal profiler Dr Susan Shader helps police catch serial killer, but when he strikes again, she can stop at nothing to find truth) | $6.99 |
| Gorman, Ed/Greenberg, MH_eds | Speaking of Murder, Volume II (non_fiction; compendium of interviews with genre masters include Parker, Mosley, Block, Buchanan, Westlake, Maron, Rathbone, King, Barr, Crais, Estleman, more; PBO) | $12.95 |
| Grippando, James | Found Money (Ryan's discovery of cash in dead father's attic arouses dangerous questions & enemies on path to truth) | $25.00 |
| Grippando, James | The Abduction (presidential race between Atty General Allison Leahy & black general Lincoln Howe ripped apart when she must lead investigation of his daughter's kidnaping) | $6.99 |
| Grisham, John | The Testament (eccentric billionaire wanting to die, burnt_out lawyer & woman living with Brazil tribes collide) | $27.95 |
| Harper, Karen | The Poyson Garden (in 1558, Princess Elizabeth Tudor awaits fate as half_sister Mary's bloody rule wanes, investigates murders at risk of falling victim to master poisoner) | $21.95 |
| Hart, Carolyn | Death in Paradise (retired journalist Henrie O 4, returns to site of husband's fatal accident in Hawaii on suspicion that he was actually murdered) | $6.50 |
| Henry, April | Circles of Confusion (DMV worker Claire Montrose heads to NY for inherited painting appraisal, but too_helpful "assistants" & painting's secrets put her life on the line) | $23.00 |
| Holub, Josef | The Robber & Me (young adult; orphan boy left in forest is rescued by mysterious man, but when he learns of local robberies, wonders about his benefactor) | $4.50 |
| Isenberg, Jane | The "M" Word (community college prof Bel Barrett steps in to find truth when one of her students is accused of murdering the college president; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Jacobs, Jonnie | Motion to Dismiss (San Francisco defense attorney Kali O'Brien (3) faces realization that client may be lying about rape case when victim dies__or is killed) | $22.00 |
| Jacobs, Jonnie | Murder Among Us (single mom/suburban sleuth Kate Austen (3)copes with both killer & meddlesome mother_in_law) | $5.99 |
| James, Donald | Monstrum (2015 Russia: police Insp Constantin Vadim is sent to lead serial murder investigation in Moscow, but gov't intrigue, conspiracies, past jeopardize all) | $6.99 |
| Johnstone, William W | Blood Land (reprint; ex_mercenary Key Lessard returns to Nebraska hometown only to find he must take on neo_Nazi corps in his back yard) | $5.99 |
| Johnstone, William W | Fury in the Ashes (reprint; post_apocalyptic adventure) | $5.99 |
| Jones, Charlotte Foltz | Fingerprints & Talking Bones (non_fiction/young adult; exploration of how real_life crimes are solved, including famous recent & historic cases) | $4.99 |
| Kienzle, William X | The Greatest Evil (Father Koesler 20, "peel[s] back the layers of a puzzle to plumb the tortured depths of the human soul & elegantly solve a mystery") | $6.99 |
| King, Laurie R | A Darker Place (non_series; since personal tragedy, teacher Anne Waverly has infiltrated cults for FBI, now finds lines blurring, her heart & will dangerously at odds) | $23.95 |
| Krich, Rochelle | Fertile Ground (fertility clinic donor's murdered & founder goes missing, his fiance/colleague Dr Lisa Brockman searches for him & finds greed, deceit, conspiracy) | $6.99 |
| Land, Jon | Dead Simple (Blaine McCracken searches for missing mentor & must team up with mentor's daughter to find him, stop terrorist who's using NY hostage with new explosive) | $6.99 |
| Lankford, Terrill | Angry Moon (legendary hit man Ry Caulder intends to quit, but when his targets start turning up alive, he realized he is now the hunted) | $5.99 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Be Cool (filmmaker tries to recover career when dud follows hit leads to lunch with old "associate" that becomes mob hit, allies with LAPD detective huntng Russian mob; sequel to Get Shorty ) | $24.95 |
| Lipinski, Thomas | Steel City Confessions (Pittsburgh PI Carroll Dorsey 3, hired by parish priest accused of killing lover's husband, making Dorsey target of DA's vendetta; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Logue, John | On a Par with Murder (golf writer John Morris/Julia Sullivan 5, probe death of young, new golf star & his enemies; PBO) | $5.99 |
| McCarthy, Gary | Gunsmoke 2: Dead Man's Witness (TV tie_in; Sheriff Matt Dillon must must stop rancher's disinherited son before all his father's friends are killed off; PBO) | $5.99 |
| McCoy, Max | Indiana Jones & the Secret of the Sphinx (Indy must beat mad spymaster to location of legendary book of occult lore & prevent him from rewriting history; PBO) | $5.50 |
| Meyers, Maan | The Lucifer Contract (Tonneman family saga 6: as Civil War rocks New York, reporter Pete Tonneman gets hot lead from barmaid & they join forces to save the Union) | $6.50 |
| Michaels, Barbara | Other Worlds (cozy club turns thrilling when crime specialists discuss poltergeists & murder) | $23.00 |
| Minucci, Frank/Hoffman, William | Brother Frank (non_fiction; autobiographical account of Minucci's journey from mobster to minister) | $5.99 |
| Myers, Tamar | Baroque & Desperate (antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake 5, finds job assessing wealthy family's antique puts her in midst of family tension turned to murder; PBO) | $5.99 |
| Neville, Katherine | The Magic Circle (toxic materials expert inherits manuscript cache when cousin's killed that Emperor Tiberius tried to decipher & holds world_controlling millennial power) | $7.99 |
| Nykanen, Mark | Hush (art therapist's work with mute boy uncovers horrifying abuse & makes them both target of sadistic killer) | $6.99 |
| Paige, Robin | Death at Rottingdean (Victorians Sir Charles & Kathryn Ardleigh 6, take seaside holiday but join Rudyard Kipling in tieing dead body to town's return to smuggling past;PBO) | $5.99 |
| Parry, Richard | The Wolf's Cub (historcl;Nathan Blaylock & mentor/gunslinger Jim Riley 2, search for Nathan's son is blocked by conflict over Alaska_Panama gun smuggling, spies, more) | $6.99 |
| Pears, Iain | An Instance of the Fingerpost (servant girl confesses to murder in 1663 Oxford, but each witness__med student, traitor's son, cryptographer & archivist__fingers different culprit) | $7.99 |
| Perry, Anne | Brunswick Gardens (Victorian London Cmdr Thomas & wife Charlotte Pitt 20, investigate death of feminist, Darwinist, pregnant assistant to respected clergyman) | $6.99 |
| Peters, Dr Bill | First Force Recon Company: Sunrise at Midnight (Vietnam/non_fiction; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Pulitzer, Lisa | A Woman Scorned (non_fiction; story of heiress & murdered, polo_playing lover; PBO) | $6.50 |
| Rogers, Chris | Rage Factor (bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan 2, steps in when revenge & vigilante justice seem to be behind kidnapping, attack on man acquitted of attacks on women) | $23.95 |
| Sayers, Dorothy L/Walsh, Jill Paton | Thrones, Dominations (Sayers' last mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane, completed by Walsh) | $6.50 |
| Simmons, Dan | The Crook Factory (FBI agent Joe Lucas sent by Hoover to 1942 Cuba to infiltrate Ernest Hemingway's amateur spy ring, but is unprepared for results when game trns deadly) | $24.00 |
| Stabenow, Dana | Killing Grounds (Alaska PI Kate Shugak helps out on fishing boat during salmon run but lands murdered body of hated fisherman) | $5.99 |
| Steinberg, Richard | Gemini Man (psychiatrist assigned to learn secrets of man conditioned to kill whose mission against Soviets landed him in gulag, learns he's more than expected) | $6.50 |
| West, Christopher | Death on Black Dragon River (Beijing Det Wang Anzhuang (2) visits rural birthplace, finds party loyalty shaken by investigation of murder that's haunted area for decades; PBO) | $5.99 |
| White, Stephen | Privileged Information (reprint; psychologist Alan Gregory 1) | $5.99 |
| Wright, Sally | Publish & Perish (ex_intelligence agent/Prof Ben Reese must draw on old skills to navigate intrigue when colleague is murdered after claiming treacherous discovery) | $5.99 |
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| Arnold, Catherine | Wrongful Death (defense atty Karen Perry_Mondori 3, probes Senator/brother's supposed suicide but his twin sons take matters into own hands & land in murder; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Atwood, Russell | East of A (PI Payton Sherwood stumbles onto murder, follows trail through Manhattan's Alphabet City & its dusk_to_dawn nightmare of hustlers, cons, addicts, worse) | $22.00 |
| Axler, James | Outlanders 8: Lost Earth Saga 1: Hellbound Fury (post_apocalyptic adventure) | $5.99 |
| Bannister, Jo | Broken Lines (Castlemere (5) police officer trio race against time to find true killer when DS Donovan's suspected of murder) | $22.95 |
| Beck, KK | The Revenge of Kali_Ra (bored Hollywood star Nadia Wentworth decides to film "gloriously bad pulp" novel, only to be beset by author's questionable family & fans, mayhem, murder) | $22.00 |
| Black, Ethan | The Broken Hearts Club (NY Det Conrad Voort investigates when one of men in 'broken hearts' support group turns to rage & murder, then continues to kill) | $24.00 |
| Block, Lawrence | The Canceled Czech ('66 reprint; sleepless adventurer Evan Tanner heads for Czechoslovakia to liberate dying man, but Nazi connection turns mission deadly) | $5.99 |
| Brewer, Steve | Dirty Pool (Albuquerque PI Bubba Mabry returns in case of PI competition over millionaire's missing teen while long_missing father reappears to complicate matters) | $23.95 |
| Cooper, George | Poison Widows (non_fiction; examination of 1930s case of charlatan, flimflammer & thug who persuaded immigrant wives to take out insurance on husbands & killed them) | $23.95 |
| Darden, Christopher/Lochte, Dick | The Trials of Nikki Hill (black ADA Nikki Hill's assigned prosecution of black man for female TV celeb's murder, but case starts to unravel in secrets, gangs & power brokers) | $25.00 |
| Davis, Lindsey | A Dying Light in Corduba (ancient Roman PI Marcus Didius Falco 8, attempts to start new business career, but when murder intrudes, he must return to investigating) | $6.99 |
| Dubois, Brendan | The Shattered Shell (Lewis Cole 3, investigates arson in NH seacoast resort hotels with mob_connected "security consultant" while tracking friend's rapist) | $24.95 |
| Elkins, Aaron | Loot (ex_curator Ben Revere finds famous painting from lost truck of Nazi_stolen art & sets out to find rest, but trail is full of hatred, greed & vengeance) | $24.00 |
| Greenleaf, Stephen | Strawberry Sunday (PI John Marshall Tanner 13, recovering from near_fatal wound, learns fellow patient's murder's tied to broader Salinas Valley labor_landowner struggle) | $23.00 |
| Harrison, Jamie | Blue Deer Thaw (MT Sheriff Jules Clement's (4) latest frustrations include berserk bachelor party, frozen drunk, inheritance fight over art collection & friends' wedding) | $22.95 |
| Henderson, Bruce | Trace Evidence: The Search for the I_5 Strangler (non_fiction; how new homicide detective Kate Maulsby built the case against Roger Kibbe as serial strangler; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Hetzer, Michael | The Forbidden Zone (when US scientist informs her Soviet lover/colleague that his twin brother's alive in psychiatric gulag, he takes on deadly Communist apparatus) | $25.00 |
| Land, Jon | The Pillars of Solomon (Ben Kamal returns to investigating when West Bank children disappear, but search converges with Danielle Barnea's investigation of seemingly random murder) | $24.95 |
| Lee, Barbara | Final Closing (MD real estate agent Eve Elliot 2, starts digging after obscene calls to agents & 2 agents murders, but can she find truth before killer stops her?) | $4.99 |
| Lee, Wendi | Deadbeat (Boston PI Angela Matelli 3, finds culprit who used client's identity for fraudulent charges, but when crook turns up murdered, her client's the suspect) | $22.95 |
| Martin, Allana | Death of an Evangelista (trading post owner Texana Jones 3, finds dead man in taxi, narrowly escapes murder charge, but another death involves her in respected family's secrets) | $22.95 |
| McCrery, Nigel | The Spider's Web (Dr Samantha Ryan, asked to do 2nd postmortem on teen killed in joy_ride crash, finds murder evidence, ties to Internet but isn't believd,despite 2nd death) | $22.95 |
| McEwan, Ian | Amsterdam (dead woman's ex_lovers composer, news editor & rising politico, make pact with unseen consequences, disastrous moral decisions & devasting personal impact; Booker Prize Winner) | $21.00 |
| Medawar, Mardi Oakley | Murder at Medicine Lodge (1867 Kiowa healer Tay_bodal must find Army bugler's killer & clear principal chief's name to save peace treaty & prevent war) | $23.95 |
| Meltzer, Brad | Dead Even (Manhattan DA lawyer Sara Tate must take case defended by attorney husband, but each gets threat that if they lose the other will die) | $7.50 |
| Mickelbury, Penny | Where to Choose (lawyer Carol Ann Gibson 2, still recovering from husband's murder, is called back to LA by mother to investigate siege of crime in quiet neighborhood) | $22.00 |
| Peak, John | Mortal Judgment (med school grad/malpractice lawyer Vicki Shea takes on defense of surgeon in wealthy businesswoman's death, but someone is willing to murder t stop her) | $23.95 |
| Pedrazas, Allan | Angel's Cove (Florida beachside pub owner/PI Harry Rice (2) steps in to help bartender find father's killer despite local hostility and turns up deadly dealing) | $4.99 |
| Pendleton, Don | Executioner 242? (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Pendleton, Don | Stony Man 39: Breach of Trust (paramilitary adventure) | $5.99 |
| Racina, Thom | Hidden Agenda (new anchorwoman finds assignments landing her too consistently in hottest stories & as they get more tragic she suspects deadly global conspiracy; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Ridpath, Michael | The Market Maker (rookie British stockbroker's wildly successful 1st transaction draws him into fast lane, but accident series leads him to probe raider's deadly deals) | $6.99 |
| Rogan, Barbara | Suspicion (novelist Emma Roth is forced to confront malevolent characters in computer game who're tormenting her) | $24.00 |
| Scott, Holden | Skeptic (when researcher Dr Mike Ballantine's friend is assassinated, he begins to ask questions leading to ghosts, CIA agent & race against time) | $24.95 |
| Sprague, Gretchen | Death in Good Company (retired lawyer Martha Patterson's pro bono cases bring more chaos & human reality than expected, but when client's murdered she uncovers even more) | $4.99 |
| Stuart, Anne | Shadow Lover (woman coping with dying stepmom & greedy relatives faces supposed long lost stepbrother who's hiding dangerous secrets; PBO) | $6.99 |
| Swindle, Howard | Jitter Joint (alcoholic Dallas Det Jeb Quinlin agrees to enter rehab, but killer stalking the clinic may make staying sober the least of his worries) | $21.95 |
| Tan, Maureen | Run Jane Run (British MI5 agent Jane Nichols 2, called back for mission to rescue MP's kidnapped grandson, only to find ties to parents' murders 30 years before) | $22.00 |
| Thomas, Gordon | Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (non_fiction; covers history & development of Israeli intelligence service, role in famous cases, myth & mystery of organization) | $25.95 |
| Tishy, Cecelia | Jealous Heart (investigative reporter Kate Banning moves to Nashville with daughter for new life, but being pulled into music scene murder wasn't what she had in mind;PBO) | $5.99 |
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| Adamson, Lydia | A Cat of One's Own (Alice Nestleton 17, helps friend choose rogue cat from shelter, but when cat_napping & rescue turn fatal, she must step in to find answers) | $19.95 |
| Amis, Martin | Night Train (Det Mike Hoolihan investigates apparent suicide of commanding officer's daughter, who seemed to have everything Mike doesn't) | $11.00 |
| Cook, Robin | Vector (Drs Jack Stapleton/Laurie Montgomery look into unusual deaths while disgruntled ex_Soviet bioweapon tech/US cab driver decides to lash out) | $24.95 |
| Ellroy, James | Crime Wave:Reportage & Fiction from the Underside of LA (fiction/non_fiction; reopens true crimes from 50s scandal sheets to today, plus novella; PBO) | $12.00 |
| Glass, Leslie | Stealing Time (NYPD Det Sgt April Woo 5, realizes wealthy parents are implicated in child's disappearance in Chinatown, as pressure & secrets collide) | $24.95 |
| Harris, Robert | Archangel (dissipated historian's visit from ex_NKVD officer claiming knowledge of Stalin's death & secret papers turns into murderous quest across Russia, Siberia; audio tape $25.95) | $24.95 |
| Haut, Woody | Neon Noir (reference; explores "Hardboiled Films & Fiction from the 1960s to the Present", incl Ellroy, Leonard, Pelecanos, Paretsky, Hendricks, more; PBO) | $16.99 |
| Himes, Chester | Yesterday Will Make You Cry (restored classic; 1st complete & unexpurgated edition of prison life classic, originally published in 1952 as "Cast the First Stone") | $13.00 |
| Magnuson, James | Windfall (when professor's search for family cat leads him to money cache, life becomes great, until strangers come to town looking for the money) | $22.95 |
| Mortimer, John | The Sound of Trumpets (associational; Leslie Titmuss MP (3) has fallen from political grace as "new centrist" Flitton rises; "biting, mischievous social comedy") | $23.95 |
| Stone, Michael | Token of Remorse (Denver PI Streeter 3, hired to fetch waterbed king's nephew from Mexico, but the sex_shop tycoon robbed of weekly take doesn't want him found__ever) | $5.99 |
| Stone, Michael | Totally Dead (Denver PI Streeter 4, takes on restaurateur/small_time mobster as client, leading to run_ins with new set of lowlifes; "action_packed & darkly humorous") | $21.95 |
| Wilkes, Roger_ed | The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime (non_fiction; leading authors & journalists reopen most baffling unsolve crimes of century) | $10.95 |
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