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10 Lb. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 0515123471 (0-515-12347-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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1st to Dieby James PattersonISBN 0446696617 (0-446-69661-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '1st to Die'Book summary:The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the city's medical examiner. The two women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA, form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage Patterson.
"What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?" the killer muses to himself early in the narrative. "Am I capable of doing it? Do I have what it takes?" Answering his own question, he embarks on a murderous spree that takes him from the bridal suite in a Nob Hill hotel to a honeymoon destination in the Napa Valley and thence to a wedding reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Dispatching his victims on the happiest day of their lives, he purposefully leaves enough clues for his distaff trackers to discover his identity and put him behind bars. But just when the women think they've got the case all wrapped up, the killer turns the tables on them in a bloody denouement that even the most discerning reader won't see coming. Patterson, author of the popular Alex Cross mysteries, promises future adventures for the Women's Murder Club, which may give him an opportunity to develop his heroines' characters more completely and win new fans among those who prefer their detectives in high heels and lipstick. --Jane Adams [via]
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 0613354478 (0-613-35447-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then There Were None'Book summary:Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. [via]
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Black Dogby Stephen BoothISBN 0671786040 (0-671-78604-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dog'Book summary:A neat little psychological thriller in the Barbara Vine tradition, debut novelist Stephen Booth's smart, spare suspense story introduces Detective Constable Ben Cooper, an up-and-coming English policeman who fears he'll never be able to fill the shoes of his father, a police sergeant who died a hero's death on the job in Ben's own precinct. Diane Fry, Ben's new partner, is an ambitious woman who's just been transferred to the Edendale force. She's jealous of Ben's familiarity with the locals, who won't tell her anything but treat Ben like a beloved son. The pair is teamed up to investigate the brutal murder of a 15-year-old girl whose parents, like Fry, are outsiders. The old man who finds Laura Vernon's body is an enigmatic, close-mouthed man who obviously knows more than he's telling, but even Ben can't budge Harry Dickinson from his determination to keep the real story of what happened in the dark woods of England's brooding Peak District to himself. Laura's father is anxious to pin the crime on a local boy who may have had sexual designs on her and who's conveniently gone missing. But the search for the killer turns up the dark secrets of the Vernons as well as a number of other suspects who keep Ben and Diane guessing until the last page of this well-written, carefully paced, and deeply atmospheric novel. A strong first showing from a writer worth watching, with a protagonist who'd be good company in a return engagement. --Jane Adams [via]
Black Fridayby James PattersonISBN 0613277430 (0-613-27743-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Black Marketby James PattersonISBN 0671610872 (0-671-61087-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Blind to the Bonesby Stephen BoothISBN 074323796X (0-7432-3796-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind to the Bones'Book summary:Family troubles of all shapes and surprises keep the cops hopping and the tension high in English novelist Stephen Booth's fourth Ben Cooper/Diane Fry mystery, Blind to the Bones.
The most affecting of this novel's three plot lines concerns the disappearance of university student Emma Renshaw, who was last seen more than two years ago while on her way home to Derbyshire. Unable to accept that their daughter isn't merely late on the train, that she's more than likely dead, Howard and Sarah Renshaw have gone to extraordinary lengths to find her, consulting psychics and "bombarding the police with theories and suggestions, pleas and demands"--all for naught. But then, suddenly, Emma's blood-stained mobile phone is found, and the Renshaws' faith seems finally to be rewarded. Or is this just another opportunity for disappointment? Meanwhile, Detective Constable Cooper--posted temporarily (he hopes) to a rural crime squad--is investigating burglaries around the depressed old village of Withens, when the battered corpse of one of Emma's ex-housemates turns up on the nearby moors, his face blackened with theatrical make-up and stolen goods left behind in his car. Inquiries lead Cooper to a clannish local family with a history of trouble-making, and put him in the sights of a shadowy group called the Border Rats.
Booth's ability over the course of a story to transform some of his least suspicious players into the most devious (or vice-versa) and his appreciative portrayal of England's scenic Peak District both make for engrossing fiction. Blind to the Bones's subtlest but most intriguing element, though, may be its third plot thread, which finds Detective Sergeant Fry's long-lost, heroin-addicted sister turning up in Edendale, where she tries to enlist Cooper's help in convincing the hard-edged Diane to stop looking for her, once and for all. This track answers several questions about DS Fry's past while raising more--and promising new levels of character development in future installments of this series. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Blow Flyby Patricia CornwellISBN 0754087298 (0-7540-8729-8)
Hardcover, Chivers Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blow Fly'Book summary:A New York Times Bestselling Author
The golden touch that has marked Patricia Cornwell's run of number-one bestsellers continues with this arresting new novel featuring Kay Scarpetta, one of thriller fiction's most charismatic and passionate characters. In Blow Fly, Scarpetta steps over the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner comes to a jarring end. Then she receives chilling news: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne -- the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman -- has asked to see her. [via]
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Brat Farrarby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684803852 (0-684-80385-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brat Farrar'Book summary:Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13. Just when it seems that Brat will pull off the deception, he discovers the truth about Patrick's disappearance, a dark secret that threatens to tear apart the family and jeopardize Brat's carefully laid plans. Called "the best of its kind" by the New Yorker, Josephine Tey's classic is a tale of unrelenting suspense and tension. [via]
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The Chimney Sweeper's Boyby Barbara VineISBN 0671034294 (0-671-03429-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy'Book summary:Writing as Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine has earned the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. In The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, Vine proves herself the equal of her alter ego and a master of the psychological thriller--as well as the police procedural--in this riveting novel. Why bestselling novelist Gerald Candless assumed a new identity years before his marriage and the birth of his two daughters isn't revealed until the penultimate chapter of the book, but the effect of his deception on his family drives Vine's deft character studies. In Gerald's wife, Ursula, and his daughters, Hope and Sarah, Vine has created three complex women in the thrall of an equally complicated and compelling man. As Sarah unravels the mystery of her father's deception, Gerald gradually becomes a more sympathetic figure. But Ursula, whose strange marital bargain with Gerald and whose distant relationship with her daughters tug at the heart, stays with the reader long after this distinguished, literary mystery is finished. --Jane Adams [via]
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- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: ISBN 0670879371 (0-670-87937-1)
Softcover, Viking - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: ISBN 060960287X (0-609-60287-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: ISBN 0670879274 (0-670-87927-4)
Hardcover, Viking - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: ISBN 0671034294 (0-671-03429-4)
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- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: ISBN 0670879371 (0-670-87937-1)
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575003561 (0-575-00356-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Come to Griefby Dick FrancisISBN 0515119520 (0-515-11952-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Cover Her Faceby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219570 (0-7432-1957-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Daughters of Cainby Colin DexterISBN 0517700670 (0-517-70067-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughters of Cain'Book summary:Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse has become a favorite of mystery fans in both hemispheres. In each book, Dexter shows a new facet of the complex Morse. In this latest work, Morse must solve two related murders -- a problem complicated by a plethora of suspects and by his attraction to one of the possible killers. [via]
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Dead Beatby Val McDermidISBN 0786209291 (0-7862-0929-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Beat'Book summary:When private investigator Kate Brannigan is asked to find a missing person as a favour, she accepts after all, its got to be better than the last two weeks of staking out houses and warehouses from dawn until midnight, and living on motorway service station food.
The missing person in question is a songwriter, Moira Pollock, and Kates search leads her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But what she doesnt realise, is that finding Moira is just a prelude to murder . . . [via]
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Death in the Cloudsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0708917380 (0-7089-1738-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Death Is Now My Neighbor : An Inspector Morse Novelby Colin DexterISBN 0679774173 (0-679-77417-3)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - Death Is Now My Neighbor : An Inspector Morse Novel: ISBN 0679774173 (0-679-77417-3)
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Deja Deadby Kathleen J. ReichsISBN 0671011367 (0-671-01136-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deja Dead'Book summary:The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery.'Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request antrhopologic expertise.'Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Antrhopology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent disappearances in the city.Despite the deep cynicism of Detective Claudel who head the investigation, Brennan is convinced that a serial killer is at work. Her forensic expertise finally convinces Claudel, but only after the body count has risen...Tempe takes matters into her own hands, but her determined probing places those closest to her in mortal danger. Can Tempe make her crucial breakthrough before the killer strikes again? [via]
Doctor Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0679459618 (0-679-45961-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fatal Voyageby Kathy ReichsISBN 0671028375 (0-671-02837-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatal Voyage'Book summary:When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn't match up with the remains of any of the plane's passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they're linked, she's pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs's earlier books (Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane's manifest, Ryan's partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight's final destination, to stand trial for murder.
As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe's romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author's regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones. --Jane Adams [via]
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- Fatal Voyage: A Novel: ISBN 0743436296 (0-7434-3629-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Fatal Voyage: A Novel: ISBN 0684859726 (0-684-85972-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fatal Voyage: ISBN 0743222814 (0-7432-2281-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fatal Voyage: ISBN 0671028375 (0-671-02837-5)
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- Fatal Voyage: A Novel: ISBN 0743436296 (0-7434-3629-6)
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The Fear Signby Margery AllinghamISBN 0786707550 (0-7867-0755-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fear Sign'Book summary:The challenge of an ancient riddle, a journey to a village accursed, and a corporate mogul in the business of murder prove the Pontisbright family legacy to be a deadly inheritance in this ingenious tale of witchcraft, myth, and mystery. The clues that lead to the solution and the heirlooms, however, do not elude urbane, erudite Albert Campion.[via]More editions of The Fear Sign:
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Freaky Deakyby Elmore LeonardISBN 0688160964 (0-688-16096-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freaky Deaky'Book summary:Wonderfully wicked&a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp.
Chicago TribuneOver-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-makingand detonatingfrom a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonards electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls Leonard, the worlds greatest cops n robbers novelist. The Seattle Times says, Leonard is more than just one of the all-time greats of crime fiction. Hes fast becoming an authentic American icon. No matter where you wish to place the man who created the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TVs hit series Justified, in the pantheon of mystery and noir detective fiction demigodsJohn D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and the likethere is no denying that nobody does it better than the Grand Master Elmore Leonard!
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The Getawayby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679732500 (0-679-73250-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Getaway'Book summary:Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway. [via]
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The Griftersby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679732489 (0-679-73248-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Hanging Valleyby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684193930 (0-684-19393-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hannibalby Thomas HarrisISBN 0613278658 (0-613-27865-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal'Book summary:Horror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book, Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In The Silence of the Lambs, he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.
Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno.
Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice's reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris's weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal's madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice/Hannibal duel, you'll miss what's cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it's all unprecedentedly horrible, you're right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris's secret recipe for success is restraint. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hot Moneyby Dick FrancisISBN 0449212408 (0-449-21240-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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I Is for Innocentby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221512 (0-449-22151-2)
Softcover, Crest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Is for Innocent'Book summary:"One of Kinsey's most electryfing adventures to date...Another irresistible installment of Ms. Grafton's series."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Fired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists he's innocent. But if he is, who's guilty? In trying to learn who's been getting away with murder, Kinsey may be courting her own....
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Innocentby Harlan CobenISBN 045121577X (0-451-21577-X)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent'Book summary:Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he's running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who's stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn't who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter's life. Coben deftly wields a complicated plot involving a missing stripper, a dead gangster, an incriminating videotape, and a couple of agents who aren't quite who they seem to be, while Hunter manages to hold onto his faith in Olivia despite her clouded past and uncertain future. Like all Coben's protagonists, (including the hero of his popular series starring sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar) Hunter is a nice, middle-class New Jersey boy who's still the innocent of the title, despite the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Or was it? That's the moral question at the heart of this tightly constructed thriller, which will no doubt shoot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and deservedly so. --Jane Adams
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219635 (0-7432-1963-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Blood'Book summary:Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. [via]
'J' Is for Judgementby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221482 (0-449-22148-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J Is for Judgment'Book summary:"Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years--until his former insurance agent spots him in a dusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months before, his widow collected on Jaffe's $500,000 life insurance policy--her only legacy since Jaffe went overboard, bankrupt and about to be indicted for his fraudulent real estate schemes. As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe's pseudocide, she explores her own past, discovering that in family matters, as in crime, sometimes it's better to reserve judgment....
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD
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Killer Inside Meby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733973 (0-679-73397-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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L Is for Lawlessby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221490 (0-449-22149-0)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mysteryby Ian RankinISBN 0684830558 (0-684-83055-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Locked Roomsby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553583417 (0-553-58341-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. This time the first couple of detection travel to San Francisco to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again - lost somewhere in Russell's past. [via]
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Lord Edgware Diesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748733 (0-7857-4873-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Edgware Dies'Book summary:A facsimile first edition hardback of the book of the Thirteen at Dinner film, sporting the original cover and typesetting. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce? To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot's first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family's own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. [via]
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0606309314 (0-606-30931-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Monkeewrenchby P. J. TracyISBN 045121157X (0-451-21157-X)
Softcover, Signet
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Mortal Causesby Ian RankinISBN 0684814978 (0-684-81497-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575008032 (0-575-00803-2)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Mystery Mileby Margery AllinghamISBN 0786701684 (0-7867-0168-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Original Sinby P. D. JamesISBN 0679438890 (0-679-43889-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Sin'Book summary:Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of seemingly impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the venerable Peverell Press. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies-a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of whom apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.
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A Pocket Full of Ryeby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199863 (0-451-19986-3)
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Pop. 1280by J. M. ThompsonISBN 0679732497 (0-679-73249-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0525945563 (0-525-94556-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Red Harvestby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722610 (0-679-72261-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Harvest'Book summary:When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. [via]
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The Safe Houseby Nicci FrenchISBN 0718143051 (0-7181-4305-1)
Softcover, M. Joseph
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The Scold's Bridleby Minette WaltersISBN 0783811314 (0-7838-1131-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Self-Defenseby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0553572202 (0-553-57220-2)
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The Shape of Snakesby Minette WaltersISBN 051513306X (0-515-13306-X)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Stickby Elmore LeonardISBN 0688163408 (0-688-16340-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0762188561 (0-7621-8856-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talented Mr. Ripley'Book summary:One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards.
The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.
Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
A Taste for Deathby P. D. JamesISBN 0571145701 (0-571-14570-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Taste for Death'Book summary:Two bodies, their throats cut, lie in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, is a baronet and a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Adam Dalgliesh, arrives to begin his investigation, one that will expose the darker recesses of the Berowne family history. [via]
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Ten Little Indiansby Agatha ChristieISBN 0573616396 (0-573-61639-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Little Indians'Book summary:Mystery / 8m, 3f / Int. In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead---poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up in this ideal play for schools, colleges and little theatres. [via]
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Unnatural Deathby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0792712641 (0-7927-1264-1)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Unpleasantness at the Bellona Clubby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575003553 (0-575-00355-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Void Moonby Michael ConnellyISBN 0446694258 (0-446-69425-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Way Through the Woodsby Colin DexterISBN 0804111421 (0-8041-1142-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way Through the Woods'Book summary:"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter."
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Morse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THE TIMES. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, young, and traveling alone, the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play. But without a body, and with precious few clues, the investigation ground to a halt. Now it seems that someone who can hold back no longer is composing clue-laden poetry that begins an enthusiastic correspondence among England's news-reading public. Not one to be left behind, Morse writes a letter of his own--and follows a twisting path through the Wytham Woods that leads to a most shocking murder.
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Wednesday's Childby Peter RobinsonISBN 0670847666 (0-670-84766-6)
Softcover, Viking
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