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About the Authorby John ColapintoISBN 0060194170 (0-06-019417-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italyby Ann CornelisenISBN 0030632544 (0-03-063254-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Aristotle Detectiveby Margaret DoodyISBN 0060110864 (0-06-011086-4)
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The Associateby Phillip MargolinISBN 0060196254 (0-06-019625-4)
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The Attending Physicianby R.B. DominicISBN 0060110732 (0-06-011073-2)
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Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mysteryby Batya Gur, Vivian EdenISBN 0060195738 (0-06-019573-8)
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Big Kiss-Off of 1944by Andrew BergmanISBN 0030117968 (0-03-011796-8)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The Black Seraphimby Michael Francis GilbertISBN 0060152206 (0-06-015220-6)
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The Blackheath Poisoningsby Julian SymonsISBN 0060142111 (0-06-014211-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blackheath Poisonings'Book summary:The descendants of Charles Mortimer, the Collards and the Vandervents, share two mansions on Blackheath. Despite their wealth and position, they are a family cursed by bad luck from which no generation is exempt. Roger Vandervent, the manager of the family business, dies from food poisoning. [via]
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Blue Blood: A Debutante Dropout Mysteryby Susan McBrideISBN 0060563893 (0-06-056389-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Body of a Girlby Michael GilbertISBN 0060115238 (0-06-011523-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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A Brother's Bloodby Michael C. WhiteISBN 0060186674 (0-06-018667-4)
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Cadillac Beachby Tim DorseyISBN 0060556943 (0-06-055694-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cadillac Beach'Book summary:And busting out of Chattahoochee State Hospital ... without his meds! The thrill-killing Floridaphile needs to get to the bottom of his bookie grandad's bizarre 1964 death -- not to mention launch "Serge & Lenny's Florida Experience," the new Miami specialty tour venture he's cooked up with his best brain-dead druggie-buddy. It's all good. For Serge A. Storms, anyway. Not so much for anyone else.
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Cat Chaserby Elmore LeonardISBN 0060512229 (0-06-051222-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Child's Playby Reginald HillISBN 002551590X (0-02-551590-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Chinese Gold Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0060152060 (0-06-015206-0)
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Cinnamon Skinby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0060149906 (0-06-014990-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cinnamon Skin'Book summary:When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed....
"Proves again that MacDonald keeps getting better with each new adventure."
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Citizen Vinceby Jess WalterISBN 0060394412 (0-06-039441-2)
Hardcover, Regan Books
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City Primevalby Elmore LeonardISBN 006008958X (0-06-008958-X)
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Courting Troubleby Lisa ScottolineISBN 0060185147 (0-06-018514-7)
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Dangerous Curvesby Peter CheyneyISBN 0020310501 (0-02-031050-1)
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Death Claimsby Joseph HansenISBN 0030574846 (0-03-057484-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Claims'Book summary:If this Corvette-cool, drumskin-taut policier leaves you marveling at its incorporation of a totally rugged, sexy, openly gay sleuth into a style and milieu that reads deliciously like Chandler, Hemingway, and Jacqueline Susann all in bed together, then get this: Hansen wrote it not at the turn of this century--which has gay characters popping up in books and movies and on TV in all sorts of stereotype-busting ways--but, remarkably, in the 70s! Indeed, it was the second in what became Hansen's series of Southern California-set whodunits featuring insurance-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is not without his own lost loves and private demons--and yet never without his cigarette, glass of whiskey (neat, of course), and enough terse, manly stoicism to make Steve McQueen look like Richard Simmons. The Brandstetter series has acquired something of a cult following over the 30 years that Hansen developed it (Death Claims is the second title in its U.S. revival courtesy of Alyson Publications, although many more are currently in print by No Exit Press, available on Amazon's U.K. link) and this slim, no-slack volume, which followed up Fadeout, the series debut, makes it delightfully clear why. Everything you could want in a gay-inflected murder mystery set in golden-haired SoCal in the Nixon years is here: A middle-aged rare-books dealer whose doped-up body is found washed up on the coast, his shrewish ex-wife, his lovely young bibliophile girlfriend, and his angelically beautiful and adoring actor son. Don't forget the imperiously queeny head of the local repertory theater; the confirmed-bachelor superstar of a TV western and the blind, Bible-thumping mother who rules his life; a seedy young hospital orderly who smuggles morphine to addicted patients; and a couple of small-time academics obsessed with the lost notebooks of Thomas Wolfe.
Then there's Hansen's language, which falls brilliantly somewhere between homage to and spoof of his thriller-penning forebears, right from the first line--"Arena Blanca was right. The sand that bracketed the little bay was so white it hurt the eyes...gulls sheared a sky cheerful as new denim"--to curt, epigrammatic lines--"The dead are terrible. They won't help you at all. No matter how you loved them"--that can only be said with a cigarette propped out of the corner of one's mouth. In fact, the only thing you could call even remotely stereotypically gay about Hansen's prose (or, indeed, Brandstetter's point-of-view) is its obsession with interior design--but even that remains true to genre ("a wastebasket was alone there like a dwarf prince in a dungeon--royal-purple plastic embossed with gold fleur-de-lis...").
True, none of the supporting characters is really developed beyond colorful stock, and not every gear of the story clicks into place with the elegant exactitude and ever-increasing tension and claustrophobia of the technically perfect mystery novel. But who cares? Dave Brandstetter is too cool to be passed up. He's got a steady enough hand to take a drink with even the most sinister of suspects, he hangs out and talks about relationships with his suave Lothario dad, and he can be sensitive and tender with his longtime lesbian friend Madge without lapsing into total schmaltz. Oh, and of course he's haunted by the boy that got away. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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The Documents in the Caseby Robert Eustace, Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0060550341 (0-06-055034-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Documents in the Case'Book summary:The bed was broken and tilted grotesquely sideways. Harrison was sprawled over in a huddle of soiled blankets. His mouth was twisted ...Harrison had been an expert on deadly mushrooms. How was it then that he had eaten a large quantity of death-dealing muscarine? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder? The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. But they concealed a clue to the brilliant murderer who baffled the best minds in London. 'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters [via]
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End-Gameby Michael Francis GilbertISBN 0060149760 (0-06-014976-0)
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Every Secret Thingby Laura LippmanISBN 0060506687 (0-06-050668-7)
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Exit Linesby Reginald HillISBN 0025515500 (0-02-551550-0)
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Fly On The Wallby Tony HillermanISBN 0060118970 (0-06-011897-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fly On The Wall'Book summary:John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.
Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him. It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John's hands. Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John's car. Then John's car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight. It's up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook, and why anyone would kill for the information it contains. [via]
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Free Fall in Crimsonby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0060148330 (0-06-014833-0)
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The Fury of Rachel Monetteby Peter AbrahamsISBN 0025001302 (0-02-500130-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Gold by Geminiby Jonathan GashISBN 0060114630 (0-06-011463-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gold by Gemini'Book summary:A Joan Kahn Book. Suspense. [via]
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The Good Old Stuffby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0060150386 (0-06-015038-6)
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The Grail Treeby Jonathan GashISBN 0060114622 (0-06-011462-2)
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Gravediggerby Joseph HansenISBN 0030560632 (0-03-056063-2)
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Hangman's Holidayby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0060550333 (0-06-055033-3)
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The Hatchet Manby William MarshallISBN 0030169011 (0-03-016901-1)
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Heartstonesby Ruth RendellISBN 0060157577 (0-06-015757-7)
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The Huntedby Elmore LeonardISBN 0060084065 (0-06-008406-5)
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If You Could See What I Hearby Tom SullivanISBN 0060115343 (0-06-011534-3)
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In a Dark Houseby Deborah CrombieISBN 0060525266 (0-06-052526-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a Dark House'Book summary:An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old
Harriet's awful fears won't be silenced -- as she worries about her
feuding parents, her schoolwork . . . and the strange woman who
is her only companion in this scary, unfamiliar place.Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid -- lovers and former partners -- have their own pressing concerns. But they must put aside private matters to investigate these disturbing cases. Yet neither Gemma nor Duncan realize how closely the cases are connected -- or how important their resolutions will be for an abducted young child who is frightened, alone . . . and in serious peril.
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In the Frameby Dick FrancisISBN 0060113413 (0-06-011341-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Frame'Book summary:Arriving to spend the weekend with his cousin Donald, artist Charles Todd steps into a terrifying scenario. Donald's wife Regina has been brutally murdered and the house ransacked. Among the missing valuables is a painting by Sir Alfred Munnings. [via]
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The Interiorby Lisa SeeISBN 0060192615 (0-06-019261-5)
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It Couldn't Matter Lessby Peter CheyneyISBN 0020310404 (0-02-031040-4)
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Jack and the Beanstalkby Ed McBainISBN 0030621976 (0-03-062197-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'Book summary:When a client is murdered just before hes due to pay forty grand for a bean farm, lawyer Matthew Hope wanders into a world of shotguns, cowboys, dangerous farm beauties, and vanished cash. Praise for the Matthew Hope Mysteries A cracking good read&a solid, suspenseful, swiftly-paced story. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette McBain has a great approach, great attitude, terrific style, strong plots, excellent dialogue, sense of place, and sense of reality. Elmore Leonard [via]
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Killer Smileby Lisa ScottolineISBN 0060514965 (0-06-051496-5)
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Killshotby Elmore LeonardISBN 0060512245 (0-06-051224-5)
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Leaphorn & Cheeby Tony HillermanISBN 0060169095 (0-06-016909-5)
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Lizard in the Cupby Peter DickinsonISBN 0060110414 (0-06-011041-4)
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Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Storiesby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0060137878 (0-06-013787-8)
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Murder Boogies With Elvisby Anne GeorgeISBN 0060198702 (0-06-019870-2)
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Murder on a Kibbutzby Dalya Bilu, Batya GoorISBN 0060190264 (0-06-019026-4)
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Murder on the Gravy Trainby Phyllis RichmanISBN 006018390X (0-06-018390-X)
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Night Watchby Terry PratchettISBN 0060013125 (0-06-001312-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Watch'Book summary:The new Discworld novel Night Watch has the power and energy that characterizes Terry Pratchett at his occasional best, as well as the wild surreal humour he always gives us. Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth--a much nastier city, with an actively deranged Patrician and a sadistic secret police--and finding himself filling in for Keel, the tough honest copper who teaches the young Vimes everything he knows. And, more worryingly, who dies heroically in the insurrection Vimes knows to be imminent. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive--this is Pratchett's plotting at its most thoroughly constructed and wonderfully devious. Ankh-Morpork has for a long time been one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy--here Pratchett gives us a fascinating gloomy glimpse of its past and of the younger selves of some of his best-loved characters, and of the brief-lived People's Republic of Treacle-Mine Road. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Nightwebsby Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. NevinsISBN 006013173X (0-06-013173-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwebs'Book summary:Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales. [via]
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Nightworkby Joseph HansenISBN 0030604869 (0-03-060486-9)
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No Footprints in the Bushby Arthur W. UpfieldISBN 0020259409 (0-02-025940-9)
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No Offense Intendedby Barbara SeranellaISBN 0060192127 (0-06-019212-7)
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Orange Crushby Tim DorseyISBN 0060185775 (0-06-018577-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orange Crush'Book summary:Maybe you can't be too outrageous when the subject is Florida politics, but Tim Dorsey (Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel) manages to go so far over the top in this satirical page burner that even diehard fans of Carl Hiaasen, Laurence Shames, and Dave Barry may find their patience wearing thin after the first couple of chapters. When Republican Governor Marlon Conrad is inexplicably called up by the reserve unit he joined for a reelection photo-op and sent to Bosnia, he suffers a midlife crisis that has his campaign staff totally flummoxed. Not that they're playing with a full deck either; Conrad's closest adviser is a crazed serial killer who happens to be an expert in Florida folklore, and the rest of the boys on the bus--the Orange Crush, Marlon's joyride across the Sunshine State--aren't much saner.
While Conrad's the main character, there are enough second-string oddballs to keep this road trip going until the denouement, a bizarre debate between the governor and his opponent, Gomer Tatum, whose idea of intelligent political discourse is a WWF death match. They include Helmut Von Zeppelin, a multimillionaire who owns most of the politicians in Florida; Jackie Monroeville, a trailer queen determined to get her man into the governor's mansion; and Gottfried Escrow, Marlon's chief of staff. There's plenty of mayhem but not much mystery in this comic novel that proves there can be too much of a good thing. While Dorsey keeps the belly laughs coming, he doesn't stop long enough for the reader to give much of a hoot about any of his characters, much less root for the good guys to win. --Jane Adams [via]
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Perfect Endby William MarshallISBN 0030710626 (0-03-071062-6)
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Petrella at Qby Michael GilbertISBN 0060115394 (0-06-011539-4)
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A Pinch of Snuffby Reginald HillISBN 0060118768 (0-06-011876-8)
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Riding the Rapby Elmore LeonardISBN 0060082186 (0-06-008218-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riding the Rap'Book summary:In this sequel to Pronto, Harry Arno has retired from bookmaking but is still closing out some of his outstanding debts. But then his collection agent, an ex-con by the name of Bobby Deo, goes to pick up $1,800 from Chip Ganz and ends up getting hired for a hostage-taking operation (like kidnapping "in a way," Chip tells him, "only different. A lot different.") When Harry's taken by his own man, it's up to United States Marshal Raylan Givens to track him down, in the same methodically relentless fashion he tracked Harry that time he ran off to Italy. Throw in a henchman named Louis Lewis with plans of his own and an attractive young psychic named Reverend Dawn, and you've got yet another crime story that'll keep you on the edge of your seat--occasionally chuckling to yourself--straight through to the finish. (And bonus points to loyal Leonard fans who can spot the crossover elements from Rum Punch and Maximum Bob.) --Ron Hogan [via]
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Risk: Library Editionby Dick FrancisISBN 0060113022 (0-06-011302-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Risk: Library Edition'Book summary:A crime novel set in the world of horse racing, in which an amateur steeplechase jockey finds himself the target of a vicious persecution for which there appears to be no reason. [via]
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The Ritual Bathby Faye KellermanISBN 0060563753 (0-06-056375-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ritual Bath'Book summary:Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report.Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws, the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of the horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.
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Road To Purgatoryby Max Allan CollinsISBN 0060540311 (0-06-054031-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Road To Purgatory'Book summary:It was probably inevitable that the Oscar-winning 2002 movie adaptation of Max Allan Collins's graphic novel Road to Perdition should spawn sequels, and Road to Purgatoryis the first of those--a gams-and-gunplay historical thriller that picks up the action a decade after the original tale left off.
Michael O'Sullivan Jr., the boy who had tagged along with his gangster father on a road-trip mission of vengeance against Al Capone's Chicago mob, only to see his dad murdered, is now in his early 20s. He no longer carries his birth name, but has become Michael Satariano, the adopted son of Sicilian restaurateurs in DeKalb, Illinois, a town not far from the Windy City. It's 1942, and Michael has just returned to the States from a disastrous military campaign in the Philippines that (at the cost of his left eye) won him the first Congressional Medal of Honor awarded during World War II. Changed by the rigors of battle into an impassive killing machine, Michael finds it hard to settle back into his previous life and settle down with high-school girlfriend Patty Ann O'Hara (she of the dimples and Lana Turner figure). So when former "Untouchable" Eliot Ness, now heading a federal office charged with "safeguarding the health and morale of the armed forces," asks him to take on a perilous undercover gig--infiltrating Capone's syndicate in order to curb its criminal enterprises--Michael can't agree fast enough. He blames the ex-Alcatraz inmate for his father's slaying, and sees in this assignment the prospect for retribution. However, as Michael worms his way into the mob, gaining the trust of Capone lieutenant Frank Nitti, winning the heart of celebrity madam Estelle Carey (a woman with her own risky agenda), and planning a deadly assault on Scarface at his Miami estate, Michael discovers that ascribing blame and exacting justice aren't the easy tasks he'd imagined. He also learns that he's more like his late father than he had realized--a point emphasized in a 1922 flashback, which finds Michael O'Sullivan Sr. rescuing Irish gang boss John Looney and protecting Looney's ruthless scion.
Collins's two decades of experience writing about World War II-era Chicago crime, mostly in his Shamus Award-winning Nate Heller detective series ( Angel in Black, Chicago Confidential), shows in Purgatory's copious period atmospherics and its nuanced portrayals of Capone and company. Though the author tests the bounds of plausibility by letting Michael Satariano escape swift punishment for some of the carnage left behind in these pages, he invests this developing family saga with the sort of generational heartache, conflicted loyalties, and pragmatic betrayals that distinguish genuinely suspenseful gangster epics from the merely barbarous rabble. Road to Perdition fans will not be disappointed. Another sequel, Road to Paradise, is in the works, with a graphic novel prequel, Road to Perdition 2: On the Road, already available. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
Salt Is Leavingby John Boynton PriestleyISBN 0060134275 (0-06-013427-5)
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The Saturday Morning Murderby Batya Gur, Dalya BiluISBN 0060190248 (0-06-019024-8)
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Shaved Fishby Susan GeasonISBN 0044422741 (0-04-442274-1)
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A Shilling for Candlesby Josephine TeyISBN 0020545304 (0-02-054530-4)
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Shutter Islandby Dennis LehaneISBN 006054550X (0-06-054550-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shutter Island'Book summary:Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.
But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels.
Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...
The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.
Because someone is trying to drive them insane ...
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Skeleton Manby Tony HillermanISBN 006056346X (0-06-056346-X)
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Sleep and His Brotherby Peter DickinsonISBN 0060110392 (0-06-011039-2)
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Strangers in Paradise: David's Storyby Terry MooreISBN 0060568518 (0-06-056851-8)
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Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 0060161183 (0-06-016118-3)
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They Never Say Whenby Peter CheyneyISBN 0020310315 (0-02-031031-5)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0060194995 (0-06-019499-5)
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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]
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To Love and Be Wiseby Josephine TeyISBN 0020780605 (0-02-078060-5)
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To The Power Of Threeby Laura LippmanISBN 0060506733 (0-06-050673-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Power of Three'Book summary:The three girls have been inseparable best friends since the third grade -- Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat, the beauty, who also has brains, grace, and a heart open to all around her. But their last day of high school becomes their final day together after one of them brings a gun to school to resolve a mysterious feud. When the police arrive, they discover two wounded girls, one so critically that she is not expected to recover. The third girl is dead, killed instantly by a shot to the heart.What transpired that morning at Glendale High rocks the foundation of an affluent community in Baltimore's distant suburbs, a place that has barelyrecovered from an earlier, more comprehensible tragedy. For the shell-shocked parents, teachers, administrators, and students, healing must begin with answers to the usual questions -- but only if the answers are safe ones, answers that will lead back to one girl and one family and absolve everyone else. For Homicide Sgt. Harold Lenhardt, this case is a mystery with more twists than these grief-stricken suburbanites are willing to acknowledge -- and the sole lucid survivor, a girl with a teenager's uncanny knack for stonewalling, strikes him as being less than honest. What is she concealing? Is she trying to protect herself or someone else? Even the simplest secrets can kill -- and kill again if no one is willing to confront them.Breathtaking in its emotional depth, powerful, provocative, and consistently surprising, Laura Lippman's To the Power of Three carries the crime novel into richer, more fertile territory. It is the crowning achievement to date in an already exemplary literary career. [via]
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Troubleby Michael Francis GilbertISBN 0060157410 (0-06-015741-0)
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Troublemakerby Joseph HansenISBN 0030574870 (0-03-057487-0)
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The Urgent Hangmanby Peter CheyneyISBN 0020310609 (0-02-031060-9)
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Violent Wardby Len DeightonISBN 0060179384 (0-06-017938-4)
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Wailing Windby Tony HillermanISBN 0060194448 (0-06-019444-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wailing Wind'Book summary:To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk -- which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene -- which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI -- which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there.Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.Bernie Manuelito uses her knowledge of Navajo country, its tribal traditions, and her friendship with a famous old medicine man to unravel the first knot of this puzzle, with Jim Chee putting aside his distaste of the FBI to help her. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren't answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind. [via]
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What Came Before He Shot Herby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0060545631 (0-06-054563-1)
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When the Women Come Out to Danceby Elmore LeonardISBN 0060083980 (0-06-008398-0)
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Young Petrellaby Michael GilbertISBN 0060159340 (0-06-015934-0)
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