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4th of Julyby James Patterson, Maxine PaetroISBN 0316710601 (0-316-71060-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vetby M. C. BeatonISBN 0312092423 (0-312-09242-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Apachesby Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0345422511 (0-345-42251-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apaches: A Novel of Suspense'Book summary:Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.
Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.
With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller Sleepers returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet. It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.
One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.
There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.
Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.
Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like Sleepers, it is a book that will never be forgotten.
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The Apprenticeby Tess GerritsenISBN 0345447867 (0-345-44786-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprentice'Book summary:The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns-and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. THE APPRENTICE It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her-literally and figuratively-she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . . Filled with superbly created characters-and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark- The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
The Bar on the Seineby Georges Simenon, David WatsonISBN 0143038311 (0-14-303831-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Big Bad Wolfby James PattersonISBN 0316743844 (0-316-74384-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Big Blowdownby George P. PelecanosISBN 0312242913 (0-312-24291-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Windowby Raymond Chandler, Diane JohnsonISBN 0375415017 (0-375-41501-7)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Raymond Chandlers first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.
The Big Sleep, Chandlers first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector.
In all three novels, Chandlers hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establish his claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to the pantheon of literary art. [via]More editions of The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window:
Blast from the Pastby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0345416309 (0-345-41630-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Bonecrackby Dick FrancisISBN 0330234471 (0-330-23447-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonecrack'Book summary:At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father's precious horses, racing stable and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to take charge of the stables, Neil can tell no-one about his ordeal. Vicious threats and horrible violence against his horses become a day-to-day reality and he is forced to comply with his blackmailer's wishes. Trapped in a war of attrition, Neil realises he must find a way to stop these criminals before his nerve gives out. After all, a choice between his integrity and his life is no choice at all... [via]
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Border Crossingby Pat BarkerISBN 0312420196 (0-312-42019-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Border Crossing'Book summary:Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten-year-old on the basis of Tom's testimony, and assessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his lifebeginning with his pastTom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the child murderer's case.[via] -
Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0151768439 (0-15-176843-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call for the Dead'Book summary:Called by Time magazine, ''the premier spy novelist of his time and perhaps of all time,'' John le Carre has raised the spy novel to a new height. Call for the Dead is his first novel and the one in which we meet the world's most famous undercover operative, George Smiley.
The cast of characters includes a bright, twisted former hero of the German underground, a once beautiful woman with a terrifying secret, a high-ranking pompous fool of a bureaucrat, and a suspect British civil servant. The protagonist, George Smiley, is bitter, weary--he has seen too much and done too much--yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. [Call for the Dead was made into a 1966 film named The Deadly Affair.] [via]More editions of Call for the Dead:
The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848620 (0-226-84862-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Chinese Gold Murdersby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848647 (0-226-84864-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Clinicby Jonathan KellermanISBN 034546074X (0-345-46074-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Clutch of Constablesby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312970846 (0-312-97084-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A Cold Heartby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452569 (0-345-45256-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cold Heart'Book summary:In Cold Heart, the latest thriller from bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Alex Delaware picks up on clues missed even by his closest friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. Leave it to this canny shrink to figure out that the only thing two otherwise unconnected murder victims have in common (they're both artists making comebacks after early career burnouts) may hold the key to their deaths. Even for Alex, this unlikely link is a stretch, especially since Baby Boy Lee was stabbed outside a nightclub and Julie Kipper was bludgeoned in the bathroom of an art gallery. But when a concert pianist dies on the eve of his greatest triumph, Alex is sure that the murders are not only the work of the same killer but also connected to the unsolved slayings of a Boston ballerina and an L.A. rock singer. By an even greater coincidence, two of the victims were tangentially involved with Alex's former lover, Robin Castagna, which provides the good doctor a few well placed paragraphs to ruminate on what went wrong in their romance as well as rescue her from the serial murderer who's targeted her as his next victim.
As usual, Kellerman manages to make even a far-fetched plot like this one ring true, but after 17 Alex Delaware mysteries, his series protagonist holds few surprises for the reader, who longs for something to shake Dr. D. out of his smooth complacency. Losing Robin didn't do it--maybe the new woman in Alex's life will. --Jane Adams [via]
Colour Schemeby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312966032 (0-312-96603-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Con Men And Cutpurses: Scenes From The Hogarthian Underworldby Lucy MooreISBN 0140437606 (0-14-043760-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dead Beatby Val McDermidISBN 0312087543 (0-312-08754-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Death at the President's Lodgingby Michael InnesISBN 0140105557 (0-14-010555-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death Is Not the End : A Novellaby Ian RankinISBN 031226142X (0-312-26142-X)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Death to the Landlordsby Ellis PetersISBN 0333131770 (0-333-13177-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Died in the Woolby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312966040 (0-312-96604-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Down by the River Where the Dead Men Goby George P. PelecanosISBN 0312130562 (0-312-13056-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Enter a Murdererby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312966709 (0-312-96670-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, dead-with a gun Arthur himself loaded with blanks. or did he? How the live bullets got there, and why, make for a convoluted case that pits Inspector Roderick Alleyn against someone who rates an Oscar for a murderously clever performance.More editions of Enter a Murderer:
Evidenceby Luc SanteISBN 0374523657 (0-374-52365-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Face on the Cutting Room Floorby Cameron McCabeISBN 0140080856 (0-14-008085-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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From Doon With Deathby Ruth RendellISBN 0345348176 (0-345-34817-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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From Russia With Loveby Ian FlemingISBN 0142002070 (0-14-200207-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Russia With Love'Book summary:[via]Name: Bond, James. Height: 183 cm, weight: 76 kg; slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; scar down right cheek & on left shoulder; all-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower; does not use disguises. Languages: French and German. Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women.
Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia's lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.
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Granta 46by Bill BufordISBN 0140140670 (0-14-014067-0)
Softcover, Granta Books
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A Grave Talentby Laurie R. KingISBN 0312088043 (0-312-08804-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grave Talent'Book summary:Assigned, along with her new partner, to the murders of three little girls, homicide detective Casey Martinelli closes in on a colony of mismatched people living in the wooded hills near the city. A first novel. [via]
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Gun, with Occasional Music: Library Editionby Jonathan LethemISBN 0156028972 (0-15-602897-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gun, with Occasional Music: Library Edition'Book summary:Conrad Metcalf has problems. He has a monkey on his back, a rabbit in his waiting room, and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. (Maybe evolution therapy is not such a good idea.)[via]
He's been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent Oakland urologist. Maybe falling in love with her a little at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, Metcalf finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the inquisitor's Office and the gangsters in the back room of the Fickle Muse.
Jonathan Lethem's first novel is a science fiction mystery. It's funny. It's not so funny.More editions of Gun, with Occasional Music: Library Edition:
Hostage: Library Editionby Robert CraisISBN 0345434498 (0-345-43449-8)
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I Have Lived in the Monsterby Robert K. ResslerISBN 0312964293 (0-312-96429-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Have Lived in the Monster'Book summary:From their gruesome, body-strewn lairs, to the darkest regions of their twisted psyches, Robert K. Ressler shows you serial killers as you've never seen them before.[via]
In his phenomenally successful Whoever Fights Monsters, Robert K. Ressler examined his brilliant twenty-year career hunting down killers for the FBI. Now, delving deeper than ever before into the criminal mind, Ressler recounts his years since leaving the FBI, working as an independent criminal profiler on some of the most famous serial murder cases of our day.
Ingeniously piecing together clues from crime scenes, along with killing patterns and methods, Ressler explains his role in assisting the investigations of such perplexing international cases as England's Wimbledon Common killing, the ABC Murders in South Africa, and the deadly gassing of Japan's subway. We're also witness to Ressler's fascinating, in-depth interviews with John Wayne Gacy, the first and last one America's most prolific serial killer would ever grant, plus a shockingly candid discussion with "cannibal killer" Jeffrey Dahmer.
Daring to understand the depraved minds of serial killers, Robert K. Ressler returns from the deepest abyss with an unforgettable account that is as riveting as it is shocking.More editions of I Have Lived in the Monster:
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I Have Lived in the Monster : A Report from the Abyssby Robert K. Ressler, Tom ShachtmanISBN 0312155522 (0-312-15552-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Have Lived in the Monster : A Report from the Abyss'Book summary:"It seems that when normal life goes into eclipse, the differences in cultural patterns also fade away, and at the outer edges of behavior, deviant patterns are the same, the world over." This absorbing second book from the serial-killer expert who wrote Whoever Fights Monsters has 10 chapters: (1) an unusual Japanese case of a doctor killing his family; (2) examples of the use and abuse of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis by Vietnam veterans; (3) the murder of a Japanese exchange student by a Baton Rouge homeowner; (4) review of patterns found in serial murders, including those in Japan; (5) interview with John Wayne Gacy, seeking to understand his psychology; (6-7) two-part psychological interview with Jeffrey Dahmer, revealing several fascinating new details; (8) two British cases on which the author was asked to consult; (9) investigation of a South African serial killer; (10) the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (sarin nerve gas terrorists) in Japan. [via]
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In the Miso Soupby Ryu Murakami, Ralph F. McCarthyISBN 014303569X (0-14-303569-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Italian Secretaryby Caleb CarrISBN 0312939132 (0-312-93913-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Italian Secretary'Book summary:Although Sherlock Holmes categorically dismissed, in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," supernatural explanations for corporeal crimes ("This Agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. ... No ghosts need apply"), one of the most popular among Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Holmes tales is The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), in which the fate of a Devonshire family supposedly hangs on the savage appetites of an apparitional beast. More than a century later, in The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr again presents the hawk-faced consulting detective with a yarn woven of paranormal plot threads, the mystery this time rooted in the fatal 16th-century stabbing of David Rizzio, a music teacher and confidant to Mary, Queen of Scots.
For Holmes and his affable annalist, Dr. John Watson, this spirited escapade begins sometime in the late 19th century with their receipt, in London, of an encrypted telegram from Sherlock's eccentric elder brother, Mycroft, "a senior but anonymous government official." It summons them to Edinburgh, Scotland, where architect Sir Alistair Sinclair and his foreman, Dennis McKay, have been slain in the midst of rehabilitating the medieval west tower of the Royal Palace of Holyrood--the very wing where Queen Mary had lived, and where Rizzio had met his brutal, politically motivated end. Mycroft fears these murders portend new threats against Britain's present monarch--the elderly Queen Victoria, who infrequently lodges at the palace--by a known assassin, perhaps in nefarious league with the German Kaiser. En route north, Holmes and Watson are menaced aboard their train by a red-bearded bomb thrower (supposedly a rabid Scots nationalist), only to discover that still greater dangers await them, and others, at Holyroodhouse. The plaintive drone of a weeping woman, cruelly punctured and shattered corpses, a pool of blood "that never dries," and a disembodied Italian voice with unexpected musical tastes all imply the wrath of wraiths behind recent atrocities. But Holmes and Watson deduce that greed, rather than ghosts, may be to blame.
Carr, who earned renown with his historical mysteries, The Alienist (1994) and The Angel of Darkness (1997), apparently intended The Italian Secretary to be a short story; however, he couldn't stop writing. The result is a fleet-footed, atmospherically gothic, and often amusing Holmes tale (with an exposition scene in Watson's bed chamber thats truly priceless), but one that makes scant attempt to enhance our understanding of Conan Doyle's characters--a less ambitious undertaking, in that respect, than Mitch Cullin's concurrently published A Slight Trick of the Mind. And while Carr displays a gift here for adopting another author's literary techniques, it is really his own style and series players that his fans are waiting to see more of in the future. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Kick Backby Val McDermidISBN 0312098367 (0-312-09836-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Kill-Offby Jim ThompsonISBN 0375700358 (0-375-70035-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kill-Off'Book summary:Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days resting on. Others want her to stop her malicious gossip--some of which could ruin lives.
Told from multiple perspectives, The Kill-Off tells the story of a woman not long for this earth--but who will finally take matters into their own hands, and when? THE KILL-OFF was the basis of Maggie Greenwald's critically acclaimed film of the same name. [via]More editions of The Kill-Off:
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Laidlawby William McIlvanneyISBN 015648109X (0-15-648109-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laidlaw'Book summary:An extraordinary debut by a Scottish mystery writer, this cult classic of crime fiction presents Detective Jack Laidlaw, a policeman as complex and self-critical as you'll ever meet. Laidlaw follows the trail of murder investigation deep inot the underbelly of Glasgow, a world he knows the way Phillip Marlowe knew Los Angeles.[via]More editions of Laidlaw:
The Last Sherlock Holmes Storyby Michael DibdinISBN 0345280679 (0-345-28067-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Libraby Don DelilloISBN 0140156046 (0-14-015604-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Libra'Book summary:In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.[via]A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.
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Little Scarletby Walter MosleyISBN 0316073032 (0-316-07303-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Scarlet'Book summary:Watts is smoldering in ruins-and the cops are on Easy Rawlins's doorstep. Easy expects the worst, as usual. But, incredibly, they're asking for his help. A redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet had sheltered a man during the riots. Witnesses later saw him fleeing her building; not long after, Little Scarlet was found viciously murdered. Now, with his old friend Mouse at his side, Easy follows the case's single clue across Los Angeles. The missing man is the key, but he's only the beginning. Hidden in the heart of the city is a killer whose red-hot rage is as fierce as the fires that rocked L.A. [via]
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The Love Song of J. Edgar Hooverby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0345415094 (0-345-41509-4)
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Maigret and the Tavern by the Seineby Georges Simenon, Geoffrey SainsburyISBN 0156551640 (0-15-655164-0)
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Maigret Goes Homeby Georges Simenon, Robert BaldickISBN 0156551659 (0-15-655165-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Maigret Sets a Trapby Georges Simenon, Daphne WoodwardISBN 0156028484 (0-15-602848-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Monsterby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345413873 (0-345-41387-3)
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Memberby Monster K. Scott, Sanyika ShakurISBN 0140232257 (0-14-023225-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Moonraker: Library Editionby Ian FlemingISBN 0142002062 (0-14-200206-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0312925476 (0-312-92547-6)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mummy Case'Book summary:The third in the popular series charting the adventures of Amelia Peabody, this novel follows the Victorian lady sleuth to the "pyramids" of Mazghunah. On her arrival, it seems that the barren area can be of no interest, but a murder in Cairo soon persuades her otherwise. [via]
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Night at the Vulcanby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312966687 (0-312-96668-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Nothing Manby Jim ThompsonISBN 0375700315 (0-375-70031-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Overture to Deathby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312964250 (0-312-96425-0)
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Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her won excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realizes that the murderer might have killed the wrong woman-and may soon stage a repeat performance...More editions of Overture to Death:
Photo Finishby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312973012 (0-312-97301-2)
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Pop Goes the Weaselby James PattersonISBN 0316693286 (0-316-69328-6)
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Positively Fifth Streetby James McManusISBN 0312422520 (0-312-42252-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively Fifth Street'Book summary:In 2000, novelist and poet James McManus was sent to Las Vegas, innocently enough, by Harper's magazine to write a story about the World Series of Poker held annually at Binion's Horseshoe. But then, as so often happens on trips to Sin City, something kind of ... happened. Rather than becoming an objective report, McManus's article evolved into a memoir as he put his entire advance on the line, got lucky with his cards and won a spot in the competition, and came much closer than anyone expected to winning the darn thing. The result, Positively Fifth Street, is just as dazzling, exciting, and disturbing as Vegas itself.
McManus details his battles not only against his opponents but also against "Bad Jim," the portion of his own personality that needs to get in on a poker game in spite of both common and fiscal sense. Besides telling his own story, he relates the considerably more unpleasant tale of Ted Binion, whose grisly death was blamed on Binion's former stripper-girlfriend and her ex-linebacker beau. In the hands of a lesser author, the pursuit of these separate through lines of poker and the seedy personal lives of wealthy casino heirs may have lead readers to wish the author had picked just one subject. But under McManus's careful watch, they're really pretty similar: steeped in adrenaline, mystery, deception, and skating on thrillingly thin ice. Each story underscores the other, a neat little "narrative as metaphor" device, while also painting a vivid picture of Vegas casino life. Poker, as anyone who has lost at it will tell you, is an intricate game and it's nice to see a top-notch author and player relate its finer points in an entertaining style that will appeal even to non-players. The author's hilariously self-aware and at times self-loathing style make Positively Fifth Street a fun read. But beyond that, his account of nearly winning the biggest poker tournament in the world and subsequently watching as the verdicts are announced for Binion's accused murderers makes for a great story. Even if it wasn't the one he was sent there to write. --John Moe [via]
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Primal Fearby William DiehlISBN 0345388771 (0-345-38877-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Primal Fear'Book summary:In Chicago, a sainted archbishop is murdered, mutilated, and dismembered in his rectory. Aaron Stampler, an angelic-looking young man, is found crouched in a confessional, covered with blood, clutching a butcher's knife, swearing his innocence.
Martin Vail is the brilliant lawyer every prosecutor and politician loves to hate. It is up to him to defend Stampler, the young human monster. But first he must uncover the horrifying truth about the crime. [via]
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Rat Raceby Dick FrancisISBN 0330029665 (0-330-02966-5)
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The Readerby Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375408266 (0-375-40826-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reader'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. --R. Ellis [via]
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The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squadby Stacy HornISBN 0143037293 (0-14-303729-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad'Book summary:An unflinching look at New Yorks most enigmatic crimes and the cops who make it their job to solve them
Between 1985 and 2004, a staggering 8,894 unsolved murders were committed in New York City. Here is the first-ever inside look at the elite NYPD squad that cracks the "unsolvable" cases. Drawing on her unique access to the Cold Case Squad, Stacy Horn follows three tough, indefatigable cops as they sift through the clues to four puzzling murders, from the 1951 strangling of a young wife to a 1996 drug hit that claimed the lives of the parents of three children. As gripping as anything on TVand much, much more authenticThe Restless Sleep is a completely addictive behind-the-scenes account of the people who offer a final resolution for the unavenged. [via]More editions of The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad:
Say It With Poisonby Ann GrangerISBN 0312055064 (0-312-05506-4)
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The Second Inspector Morse Omnibusby Colin DexterISBN 0333566874 (0-333-56687-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Inspector Morse Omnibus'Book summary:This omnibus contains three novels - "Last Seen Wearing", "The Riddle of the Third Mile" and "The Secret of Annexe 3" - featuring the popular fictional detective, Inspector Morse. [via]
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Seven Suspectsby Michael InnesISBN 0140068864 (0-14-006886-4)
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Seville Communionby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0156029812 (0-15-602981-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seville Communion'Book summary:Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. "In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent," he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. "A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen." As in his previous surprise bestsellers--The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In The Seville Communion it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as "you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police." Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's Beat the Devil, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for. [via]
The Silence of the Rainby Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Benjamin MoserISBN 0312421184 (0-312-42118-4)
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Silent World of Nicholas Quinnby Colin DexterISBN 0312724675 (0-312-72467-5)
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Speaker of Mandarinby Ruth RendellISBN 0345302745 (0-345-30274-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker of Mandarin'Book summary:Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members of the group, Wexford finds secrets of greed, treachery, theft, and adultery, leading the distressed inspector to ask not who is innocent, but who is least guilty . . . [via]
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley under Ground, Ripley's Gameby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0375407928 (0-375-40792-8)
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Man'Book summary:Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...[via]More editions of The Third Man:
The Turkish Revolution and the Indian Freedom Movementby Mohammad SadiqISBN 0333904400 (0-333-90440-0)
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An Unkindness of Ravensby Ruth RendellISBN 0345327462 (0-345-32746-2)
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The Vicious Vetby M. C. BeatonISBN 0312939450 (0-312-93945-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vicious Vet'Book summary:Beloved author M.C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. Now here is the second novel in the series that started it all&[via]
A PURR-FECT CRIME IN THE COTSWOLDS
Former London PR agent, Agatha Raisin still hasn't adjusted to village life where the only prospect for a hot evening out is a meeting of the Ladies Society. And since her overtures toward James Lacey--the retired military man next door--have failed, Agatha jumps at the chance to visit the new vet, who's single and good-looking. Although Agatha's tabby hasn't a thing wrong with him, Hodge endures having a thermometer shoved up his bum in the name of romance. Unfortunately his sacrifice is all for naught when the vet is soon found dead next to a high-strung horse.
The police call the vet's demise a freak accident, but Agatha convinces the hard-to-get James Lacey, who's also bored in the Cotswolds, that playing amateur detective might be fun. Unfortunately, just like curiosity killed the cat, Agatha's inept snooping is soon a motivation for murder...
"Anyone interested in a few hours' worth of intelligent, amusing reading will want to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Agatha Raisin."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"I simply love mysteries that have all the requirements necessary to make them great--the characters, the action, the plots, and that thing we call humanity. Beaton has them all in
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 0316182540 (0-316-18254-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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You Only Live Twiceby Ian FlemingISBN 0142003271 (0-14-200327-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Only Live Twice'Book summary:[via]Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalized. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent and, for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree...
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Zodiacby Robert GraysmithISBN 0312898959 (0-312-89895-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zodiac'Book summary:"SHE WAS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL BUT NOW SHE IS BATTERED AND DEAD. SHE IS NOT THE FIRST AND SHE WILL NOT BE THE LAST." Few cases in the history of true crime are as colorful and intriguing as that of Zodiac, the bizarre gunman in an executioner's hood who hunted the streets of San Francisco in the late 1960s and sent dozens of taunting letters to the police. Robert Graysmith provides ample details about the police investigation, including the full text and photos of most of the letters. Zodiac is an excellent starting point not only for the casual reader, but also for those interested in retracing the author's steps in order to pursue their own ideas about who the killer may have been. This book has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle, the very paper in which the Zodiac's eerie messages and cryptograms were published: "Graysmith's taut narrative brings the horror back with jolt upon jolt." [via]
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