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The Alibiby Sandra BrownISBN 0446519804 (0-446-51980-4)
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Almost the Truthby Margaret YorkeISBN 0446404799 (0-446-40479-9)
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Ask the Cards a Questionby Marcia MullerISBN 0445408499 (0-445-40849-9)
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Bad Companyby Liza CodyISBN 0446307386 (0-446-30738-6)
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returnsby Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn VarleyISBN 0446385050 (0-446-38505-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'Book summary:If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller--known recently for his excellent Sin City series and, previously, for his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil--is probably the supreme contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon character into a hero for our times. In his introduction the great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argues that only someone of Miller's stature could have done this. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task.
Miller went far beyond the call of duty. The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Firstly it does keep the core elements of the Batman myth intact, with Robin, Alfred the butler, Commissioner Gordon and the old roster of villains, present yet brilliantly subverted. Secondly the artwork is fantastic--detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, psychotic. Lastly it's a great story: Gotham City is a hell on earth, streetgangs roam but there are no heroes. Decay is ubiquitous. Where is a hero to save Gotham? It is 10 years since the last recorded sighting of the Batman. And things have got worse than ever. Bruce Wayne is close to being a broken man but something is keeping him sane: the need to see change and the belief that he can orchestrate some of that change. Batman is back. The Dark Knight has returned. Awesome. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Bertie & the Crime of Passionby Peter LoveseyISBN 0446403687 (0-446-40368-7)
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Bertie and the Seven Bodiesby Peter LoveseyISBN 0445408588 (0-445-40858-8)
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The Big Fixby Roger L. SimonISBN 0446300438 (0-446-30043-8)
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Black Is the Color of My True Love's Heartby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400726 (0-446-40072-6)
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Bloodhoundsby Peter LoveseyISBN 0446405353 (0-446-40535-3)
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The Blue Hammerby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0446358851 (0-446-35885-1)
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The Body in Blackwater Bayby Paula GoslingISBN 0446403199 (0-446-40319-9)
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Bootlegger's Daughterby Margaret MaronISBN 0446403237 (0-446-40323-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bootlegger's Daughter'Book summary:This first novel in Maron's Imperfect series, which won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 1993, introduces heroine Deborah Knott, an attorney and the daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger. Known for her knowledge of the region's past and popular with the locals, Deb is asked by 18-year-old Gayle Whitehead to investigate the unsolved murder of her mother Janie, who died when Gayle was an infant. While visiting the owner of the property where Janie's body was found, Deb learns of Janie's more-than-promiscuous past. Piecing together lost clues and buried secrets Deb is introduced to Janie's darker side, but it's not until another murder occurs that she uncovers the truth. [via]
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Brother Cadfael's Penanceby Ellis PetersISBN 0446404535 (0-446-40453-5)
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Case Is Closedby Patricia WentworthISBN 0446344710 (0-446-34471-0)
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The Caveby Anne McLean MatthewsISBN 0446520616 (0-446-52061-6)
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The Caveman's Valentineby George Dawes GreenISBN 0446517224 (0-446-51722-4)
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The Cheshire Cat's Eyeby Marcia MullerISBN 0445408502 (0-445-40850-2)
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Child's Playby Reginald HillISBN 0446345334 (0-446-34533-4)
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The Color of Nightby David LindseyISBN 0446523615 (0-446-52361-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Night'Book summary:Former intelligence officer Harry Strand learns that a secret agent can never retire--and never surrender. A widower, he has started his life over and fallen in love with Mara Song, a beautiful Asian art collector. But Harry's peaceful world is shattered when he discovers a shocking videotape of his wife's death in Mara's tape collection. [via]
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A Conversation With the Mannby John RidleyISBN 0446528366 (0-446-52836-6)
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The Copenhagen Connectionby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446364835 (0-446-36483-5)
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The Copper Peacock and Other Storiesby Ruth RendellISBN 0446400556 (0-446-40055-6)
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A Dead Man Out of Mindby Kate CharlesISBN 0446404322 (0-446-40432-2)
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Death and the Joyful Womanby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400688 (0-446-40068-8)
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Death Beside the Seaby Marian BabsonISBN 0446360104 (0-446-36010-4)
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Double Homicideby Faye Kellerman, Jonathan KellermanISBN 0446532967 (0-446-53296-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Homicide'Book summary:Two short novels by a couple who've each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who's luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author's full-length efforts, Double Homicide nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson's brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe's trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author's gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won't stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Drowning Poolby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0446358894 (0-446-35889-4)
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Edwin of the Iron Shoesby Marcia MullerISBN 0445409029 (0-445-40902-9)
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Fallen into the Pitby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403180 (0-446-40318-0)
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Final Designby Noreen GilpatrickISBN 0446403245 (0-446-40324-5)
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The Fire Carrierby Jean HagerISBN 0446403873 (0-446-40387-3)
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Flight of a Witchby Ellis PetersISBN 0446401463 (0-446-40146-3)
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The Fourth Durangoby Ross ThomasISBN 0445409150 (0-445-40915-0)
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Fugitive Colorsby Margaret MaronISBN 0446403938 (0-446-40393-8)
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Games to Keep the Dark Awayby Marcia MullerISBN 0445408510 (0-445-40851-0)
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Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bearby Ed McBainISBN 0446519898 (0-446-51989-8)
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Going Wrongby Ruth RendellISBN 0446400289 (0-446-40028-9)
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The Iciest Sinby H. R. F. KeatingISBN 0446400629 (0-446-40062-9)
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Kahawaby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0446403431 (0-446-40343-1)
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Killshotby Elmore LeonardISBN 0446350419 (0-446-35041-9)
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King & Jokerby Peter DickinsonISBN 0446403091 (0-446-40309-1)
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Last Act in Palmyraby Lindsey DavisISBN 0446404748 (0-446-40474-8)
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The Lion's Gameby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446520659 (0-446-52065-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lion's Game'Book summary:John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted émigré mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too.
Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI's sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey's match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad's methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad's and Corey's points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we're not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we're sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad.
The New York Times put DeMille's social satire on a par with Edith Wharton's, and he's great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he's on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book's real bad guys wear the priciest suits.
DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like The Lion's Game, he's earned it. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Lostby Gary DevonISBN 0446344893 (0-446-34489-3)
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McBain's Ladies Tooby Ed McBainISBN 0445408936 (0-445-40893-6)
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The Mexican Tree Duckby James CrumleyISBN 0446404071 (0-446-40407-1)
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Monkey Wrenchby Liza CodyISBN 0446404578 (0-446-40457-8)
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The Moving Targetby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0446358983 (0-446-35898-3)
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Murder in the Titleby Simon BrettISBN 0446359548 (0-446-35954-8)
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Murder in the White House: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 0446314889 (0-446-31488-9)
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Murder on Capitol Hillby Margaret TrumanISBN 0446315184 (0-446-31518-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on Capitol Hill'Book summary:Between them, Senator Cale Caldwell and his blue-blooded wife controlled as much power on Capitol Hill as the law would allow. Sadly, it wasnt sufficient to protect him from a killer, even surrounded by his friends at a champagne reception in his honor.
The senators murder wasnt the familys first brush with violence. Only two years ago, a niece had been murdered, her killer never found. But when attorney Lydia James, counsel to a senate committee investigating the tragedy, suggests there might be a connection between the two deaths, shes voted down fast. Yet strange rumors persist. The senators death could benefit many people, among them a bitter political adversary, an ambitious talk show host, and a master of spin who makes even murder look
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Naked Once Moreby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446360325 (0-446-36032-5)
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Night Train to Memphisby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446515868 (0-446-51586-8)
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Not Dead, Only Resting: A Charles Paris Mysteryby Simon BrettISBN 0446359521 (0-446-35952-1)
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On the Edgeby Peter LoveseyISBN 0445408634 (0-445-40863-4)
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Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyesby Marcia MullerISBN 0446400335 (0-446-40033-5)
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The Piper on the Mountainby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400718 (0-446-40071-8)
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Plum Islandby Nelson DemilleISBN 044651506X (0-446-51506-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plum Island'Book summary:Nelson DeMille's narrative engine is one of the best in the business, and it chugs away in grand style in this story of buried treasure and biological warfare on a tiny spit of land off Long Island. As told by a wry, wounded New York City detective who is drafted to explore a couple of murders, Plum Island is a rich pudding of flavorful (if familiar) ingredients, including a ferocious storm at sea. Other DeMille epics in paperback include By the Rivers of Babylon, The General's Daughter, The Gold Coast, Spencerville, and Word of Honor. [via]
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The Rich Detectiveby H. R. F. KeatingISBN 0446403822 (0-446-40382-2)
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The Right Jackby Margaret MaronISBN 0446404179 (0-446-40417-9)
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Romanceby Ed McBainISBN 0446518042 (0-446-51804-2)
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Scent of Evilby Archer MayorISBN 0446403350 (0-446-40335-0)
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The Seersucker Whipsawby Ross ThomasISBN 0446401692 (0-446-40169-2)
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The Serial Killers Clubby Jeff PoveyISBN 0446578428 (0-446-57842-8)
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A Series of Murdersby Simon BrettISBN 0446359491 (0-446-35949-1)
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The Shape of Dreadby Marcia MullerISBN 0445409169 (0-445-40916-9)
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Shooting at Loonsby Margaret MaronISBN 0446404241 (0-446-40424-1)
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Silent Sonby Gallatin WarfieldISBN 0446517259 (0-446-51725-9)
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Silhouette in Scarletby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446364827 (0-446-36482-7)
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Situation Tragedyby Simon BrettISBN 0446359564 (0-446-35956-4)
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The Snares of Deathby Kate CharlesISBN 0446401951 (0-446-40195-1)
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Something in the Waterby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0446404462 (0-446-40446-2)
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Star Trapby Simon BrettISBN 0446359599 (0-446-35959-9)
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Stone Kissby Faye KellermanISBN 0446530387 (0-446-53038-7)
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Street Dreamsby Faye KellermanISBN 0446531316 (0-446-53131-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Street Dreams'Book summary:While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer CindyDecker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital. Now, the hunt is on for the mother, more than likely a desperate girl in need of medical attention. Armed with advice from her overworked detective father, Cindy searches through inner-city Hollywood, following a treacherous trail filled with drug lords. But with each new lead, the twisted journey gets darker, battering Cindy's complex personal relationships-and endangering her very life. When Decker andDecker join forces, can this edgy duo put personal issues aside to catch a vicious culprit before he strikes again? [via]
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The Summonsby Peter LoveseyISBN 0446403695 (0-446-40369-5)
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There Was a Little Girlby Ed McBainISBN 0446517399 (0-446-51739-9)
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There's Nothing to Be Afraid Ofby Marcia MullerISBN 0445409010 (0-445-40901-0)
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There's Something in a Sundayby Marcia MullerISBN 0445408650 (0-445-40865-0)
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Three Blind Miceby Ed McBain, Evan HunterISBN 0446400351 (0-446-40035-1)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
Traitor's Bloodby Reginald HillISBN 0446347191 (0-446-34719-1)
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V for Vendettaby David Lloyd, Alan MooreISBN 0446391905 (0-446-39190-5)
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Watchmenby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 0446386898 (0-446-38689-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen'Book summary:Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to gather praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
A Q&A with Dave Gibbons on the Making of Watchmen
Question: You were tasked with drawing new illustrations of key shots from the new Watchmen film. Was it a difficult challenge to re-imagine your work in this movie format?
Dave Gibbons: I dont think that I actually did many key shots from the film. I had to actually imagine them rather than exactly recreate what was going to be in the movie. But as far as the drawings I did for the licensing purposes, accuracy was the real key so that they looked exactly like the movie. Whereas doing the graphic novel was creating stuff afresh and being very creative, this was more the case of interpreting something that already existed. So it was rather more a commercial art job than a creative thing.
Q: How many scenes from the original graphic novel did you redraw in the new "movie" format?
DG: I kind of did them piecemeal, these licensing drawings. I did do a section of storyboarding for Zack Snyder. There is a part of the movie that isnt in the graphic novel and he wanted to see how I would have drawn it, if it had been in the graphic novel. So I redid the storyboards as three pages of comic on the nine-panel grid, also getting it coloured by John Higgins so it looked authentic. But I think there were probably only 3 or 4 scenes that I drew, which were from the movie.
Q: What was your working method for producing these new illustrations from the film? And how has it changed from when you originally illustrated Watchmen?
DG: When youre producing things from existing material, you have to look at and assemble the references... you know, keep looking backwards and forwards to make sure what youre drawing is accurate to whats in the photos. I did have lots of photos from the movie and in some cases I had more or less the illustration I was going to do in photo form, which made it a lot easier. On others I had to construct it from various references: really just the usual illustrators job of drawing something to reference. And on the original illustrations of Watchmen, I was free to come up with exactly the angles and exactly the costumes and everything that I wanted to. When youve designed a costume and drawn it a few times, you actually internalize it and you find you can draw it without having to refer to reference at all. So in some ways its more creative and in some ways its easier!
Q: In Watchmen: The Art of the Film, there are concept designs by other artists of their visions of your iconic characters. What do you think of their versions and did you offer any guidance while they were working on these?
DG: Its always really interesting to see versions of your characters drawn by other artists. You tend to see things in them that you hadnt noticed before. So I really enjoyed looking at those. I certainly didnt offer them any guidance. The purpose of getting those kinds of drawings done is to get a fresh perspective on what exists. I noticed actually that they really stuck more closely to my original designs than those, but I really enjoyed seeing them.
Q: Watchmen: Portraits is Clay Enoss stunning black and white collection of photos of each character from the Watchmen movie. What was it like looking through this book at all the characters you had conceived years ago now being brought to life by actors?
DG: Its rather interesting; you know if you look at the Watching the Watchmen book you can see these characters as fairly sketchy rough conceptual versions. Then when you look at Clays book you can actually see them right down to counting the number of pores on the skin on the end of their noses! Its incredible high focus! Its like zooming in through space and time to look at the surface of some moon of Saturn or something. I thoroughly enjoyed his book... it had a real artistic quality to it that was really so good. And of course to see these actors who so much are the embodiment of what I drew, that its a tremendous thrill to see them made flesh!
Q: Watchmen: The Film Companion features some stills from the animated version of The Black Freighter. What do you think of the look and design of this animated feature?
DG: It looks really interesting! Although I drew my version in the comic book in a kind of horror-comic style, these are very much in a savage manga style. I think they work really well... theyve got the kind of manic intensity, which I think that work should have and I really cant wait to see the whole feature. Ive seen the trailer for it and that looks great and again theyve used a lot of the compositions that I came up with but just translated them to this kind of very modern drawn animation.
Q: How much time did you spend on the set of Watchmen? Was it a surreal experience to see your work recreated like this?
DG: I was on the set of Watchmen for a couple of days and it really was surreal to walk through a door and then suddenly be in the presence of all these people in living breathing flesh! I was there for what you would call the Crimebusters meeting where they were all there in costume in the same room, which was incredible. They had obviously planned that so I would get to see everyone. It was surreal though quite a wonderful experience to see it come to life.
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