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82 Desireby Julie SmithISBN 0804116997 (0-8041-1699-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Abracadaverby Peter LoveseyISBN 0786228024 (0-7862-2802-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Arms of Nemesisby Steven SaylorISBN 0804111278 (0-8041-1127-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves.
To Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge. And as the hour of the massacre approaches, Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen just may lead to his own destruction...
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At Riskby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0786285605 (0-7862-8560-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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B Is for Burglarby Sue GraftonISBN 0805016325 (0-8050-1632-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'B Is for Burglar'Book summary:Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.[via]
Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.
Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.
It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.
A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.More editions of B Is for Burglar:
Bad Business: Library Editionby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0786264780 (0-7862-6478-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christieby Pam McAllister, Dick RileyISBN 0804467331 (0-8044-6733-1)
Softcover, Ungar
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Betrayal in Deathby Nora Roberts, J. D. RobbISBN 0786233974 (0-7862-3397-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Blue Screenby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0786285591 (0-7862-8559-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Born in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0786285389 (0-7862-8538-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born in Death'Book summary:Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallass caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend Mavis, even if it means throwing the dreaded baby shower. . . But Mavis needs an even bigger favor now. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in her class, has gone missing, just days before her due date not even showing up at the shower at Eve and Roarkes place that shed been looking forward to so much. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family. When Eve enters Tandys apartment and finds Maviss shower gift wrapped and ready on the table - and Tandys packed hospital bag still on the floor - her spine starts tingling. Normally, this would be turned over to Missing Persons. Eve has more than enough on her plate trying to find out who murdered Natalie Copperfield and her fiancé, both employed at a highly prestigious accounting firm. But Mavis wants no one but Eve on the case - and Eve cant say no. Shell have to track Tandy down while tracing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the citys richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against a particularly vicious killer. Luckily, she has her multimillionaire husband Roarkes expertise to help with the numbers-crunching. But as he mines for the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all-too-real danger in the flesh-and-blood world. [via]
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Burning Angelby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889047 (0-7868-8904-7)
Softcover, Hyperion
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Cadillac Jukeboxby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889187 (0-7868-8918-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cadillac Jukebox'Book summary:One of Burke's series of crime stories set in the Louisiana bayou country, this story chronicles the difficult mission of Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux to confirm the guilt of a redneck named Aaron Crown in the killing of a civil rights leader back in the 1960s, and to find out what Crown's recent arrest has to do with an upcoming gubernatorial election. His task becomes mired in the history and inbred politics of New Iberia and thwarted by a ghoulish hit man who crawls out of the swamps to silence police informants. A wild story with enough oddball characters to make it interesting and worthwhile. [via]
The Cavalier Caseby Antonia FraserISBN 0792708172 (0-7927-0817-2)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Christine Fallsby Benjamin BlackISBN 0805081526 (0-8050-8152-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Cold Lightby John HarveyISBN 0805020462 (0-8050-2046-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Copper Peacock and Other Storiesby Ruth RendellISBN 0792712633 (0-7927-1263-3)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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A Creative Kind of Killerby Sandra Scoppettone, Jack EarlyISBN 078670229X (0-7867-0229-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Cutting Edgeby John HarveyISBN 0805054979 (0-8050-5497-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Dead Man's Ransomby Ellis PetersISBN 0786218290 (0-7862-1829-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Death Bedby Stephen GreenleafISBN 0803717016 (0-8037-1701-6)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Death of a Cad: A Hamish Macbeth Mysteryby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804102252 (0-8041-0225-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Hamish Macbeth Mystery.
When Paul and Trixie Thomas move to the village of Lochdubh, Trixie jumps into things with a vengeance. She organizes an anti-smoking league, promotes vegetarian cooking, even starts a birdwatching society. It's too much . . . too perfect. It doesn't feel like the old Lochdubh anymore. So when Trixie is murdered, not everyone is exactly devastated.
Constable Macbeth, head over heels in love with beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, must interrupt his romance at the most inopportune time to solve the mystery. But how to do that when the list of suspects includes the entire town? [via]More editions of Death of a Cad: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery:
- Death of an Outsider: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery: ISBN 0804104875 (0-8041-0487-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Death of a Perfect Wife: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery: ISBN 0804105936 (0-8041-0593-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Death of a Cad: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery: ISBN 0804102252 (0-8041-0225-2)
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Death of a Dudeby Rex StoutISBN 0786219041 (0-7862-1904-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Death of a Ghostby Margery AllinghamISBN 0786704411 (0-7867-0441-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Devil's Noviceby Ellis PetersISBN 0786216689 (0-7862-1668-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Distant Dangerby Janwillem Van De Wetering, Mystery Writers of AmericaISBN 0800772016 (0-8007-7201-6)
Hardcover, Wynwood Press
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Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconsciousby Ronald R. ThomasISBN 0801496942 (0-8014-9694-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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First Eagleby Tony HillermanISBN 0786216255 (0-7862-1625-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Flesh & BloodISBN 0786713593 (0-7867-1359-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
Find This BookBook summary:After his wife's betrayal and his own retirement from the force, Detective Inspector Elder has fled as far as possible to go in England without running out of land. But he is haunted by the past and in particular by the unsolved disappearance of sixteen-year-old Susan Blacklock back in 1988. Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, convicted just one year later for the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, remain the prime suspects in Elder's mind, and when he hears of Shane's early release from prison, he feels compelled to leave his safe haven and to revisit the scene of the crime. When Shane breaks parole and disappears and yet another young girl is horribly murdered, Elder's involvement becomes crucial. McKiernan seems to still wield a frightening power over his ex-partner even from his prison cell, and the new murder bears all the hallmarks of their earlier crime. Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate Elder battles his own demons as he and his family are inexorably drawn into the very heart of the crime in this breakthrough novel from John Harvey, winner of the first-ever Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author.[via]More editions of Flesh & Blood:
Flowers for the Judgeby Margery AllinghamISBN 0786702915 (0-7867-0291-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Game: A Mary Russell Novelby Laurie R. KingISBN 0786261617 (0-7862-6161-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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In the early days of 1924, Mary Russell and her partner Sherlock Holmes are given an urgent task by his brother Mycroft: Find a British spy gone missing along India's northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy's name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago; one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O'Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him - Kim. [via]
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The Garden of Eden And Other Criminal Delightsby Faye KellermanISBN 0786289651 (0-7862-8965-1)
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Glimpses of the Moonby Edmund CrispinISBN 0802753914 (0-8027-5391-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Great Legendby Rex StoutISBN 0786704438 (0-7867-0443-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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He Who Fears The Wolfby Karin FossumISBN 0786272163 (0-7862-7216-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Holy Thiefby Ellis PetersISBN 0792717430 (0-7927-1743-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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House of Bluesby Julie SmithISBN 0804113424 (0-8041-1342-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Hundred-Dollar Baby: Library Editionby Robert ParkerISBN 0786288221 (0-7862-8822-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hundred-Dollar Baby: Library Edition'Book summary:A client from a decades-old case reaches out to Boston PI Spenser-but can he rescue troubled April Kyle once more?
Longtime Spenser fans will remember that once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle-a beautiful teenage runaway who turned to prostitution to escape her terrible family life. The book was 1982's Ceremony, and, thanks to Spenser, April escaped Boston's "Combat Zone" for the relative safety of a high-class New York City bordello. April resurfaced in Taming a Sea-Horse, again in dire need of Spenser's rescue-this time from the clutches of a controlling lover. But April Kyle's return in Hundred-Dollar Baby is nothing short of shocking.
When a mature, beautiful, and composed April strides into Spenser's office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call-girl operation in Boston's Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser's approval, it takes her a moment before she can ask him, again, for his assistance. Her business is a success; what's more, it's an all-female enterprise. Now that some men are trying to take it away from her, she needs Spenser.
April claims to be in the dark about who it is that's trying to shake her down, but with a bit of legwork and a bit more muscle, Spenser and Hawk find ties to organized crime and local kingpin Tony Marcus, as well as a scheme to franchise the operation across the country. As Spenser again plays the gallant knight, it becomes clear that April's not as innocent as she seems. In fact, she may be her own worst enemy. [via]More editions of Hundred-Dollar Baby: Library Edition:
The Hunt Clubby John LescroartISBN 0786282894 (0-7862-8289-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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I Is for Innocentby Sue GraftonISBN 0805010858 (0-8050-1085-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Jack Be Quick and Other Crime Storiesby Barbara PaulISBN 078621919X (0-7862-1919-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Jewel That Was Oursby Colin DexterISBN 0804109818 (0-8041-0981-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Justice Hallby Laurie R. KingISBN 0786239530 (0-7862-3953-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justice Hall'Book summary:A lost heir, murder most foul, and the unexpected return of two old friends start Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes--spouses and intellectual equals--on an investigation that takes them from the trenches of World War I France to the heights of English society. In this sixth entry in Laurie King's award-winning series, fans will find the Baker Street sleuth mellowed by age and marriage yet still in possession of his deductive abilities and acerbic wit, and, in Mary Russell, a surprisingly apt companion for the legendary detective.
Justice Hall brings back two colorful characters from earlier in the series: Bedouins Ali and Mahmoud Hazr (now known as Alistair and Marsh), who last appeared in O Jerusalem. At their request, Holmes and Russell take up the trail of the doomed heir to Justice Hall, who has been executed for cowardice in the bloody trenches of France. As the detectives strive to make sense of his death and to locate another heir to the family title, an attempt is made on the life of the man who's soon to be welcomed as the new duke. Holmes and Russell soon realize something sinister is afoot, and that they must untangle a web of deceit to discover which of the many suspects is taking steps to shorten the line of inheritance. Once again, King's satisfying tale stays true to the spirit of Conan Doyle's original stories while extending them into new terrain. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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King Solomon's Carpetby Barbara VineISBN 0792710592 (0-7927-1059-2)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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L Is for Lawlessby Sue GraftonISBN 0805019375 (0-8050-1937-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Last Rites : A Novelby John HarveyISBN 0805041508 (0-8050-4150-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Living Proofby John HarveyISBN 0805020454 (0-8050-2045-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Lonely Heartsby John HarveyISBN 0805054944 (0-8050-5494-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Lost Get-Back Boogieby James Lee BurkeISBN 0807113344 (0-8071-1334-4)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Get-Back Boogie'Book summary:The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth novel had received a record 111 rejection letters. "LSU Press put me back in the game and turned my career around," Burke says. The novels and stories Burke had written during those years of rejection eventually became the stuff of the Dave Robicheaux series, which has earned him two Edgar Awards.
The novels title is also the name of the song that Iry Pareta honky-tonk musician, Korean vet, and ex-conwants to write to hold his memories of a "more uncomplicated time," before the war, before prison. The book opens the day thirty-year-old Iry leaves Louisianas Angola state penitentiary, after serving two years for manslaughter, and follows him to Montana, where he hopes to stay cool and out of trouble by working hard on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. Iry finds the fresh start he seeks, joins a weekend band, and even falls in love. But the Riordan familys problems deal Iry a new sort of trouble with some ultimately tragic consequences.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie is a novel about loyalty and friendship, betrayal and loss. It is about essentially good people and their attempts to define the value of their lives and to find their place in a changing, complicated world. And it is the work of James Lee Burke at the top of his form. [via]
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Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - Lost Get-Back Boogie: ISBN 0786881011 (0-7868-8101-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - Lost Get-Back Boogie: ISBN 0786889349 (0-7868-8934-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Lost Get-Back Boogie: ISBN 0805005412 (0-8050-0541-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Lost Get-Back Boogie: ISBN 0807113344 (0-8071-1334-4)
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- Lost Get-Back Boogie: ISBN 080713032X (0-8071-3032-X)
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The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Storiesby Bill Pronzini, Martin Harry GreenbergISBN 0786713712 (0-7867-1371-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories'Book summary:With its roots in the American private-detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private-eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are thirty of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female sleuths and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune. This collection features old favorites and new contributions from masters of the genre, past and present, including Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault, and many more.[via]More editions of The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories:
The Man Who Smiledby Henning Mankell, Laurie ThompsonISBN 0786293195 (0-7862-9319-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Medieval Structure: The Gothic Vaultby James H. AclandISBN 0802018866 (0-8020-1886-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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N Is for Nooseby Sue GraftonISBN 0805036504 (0-8050-3650-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'N Is for Noose'Book summary:"Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a flash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Millhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star of Sue Grafton's popular "alphabet" mysteries; the book is 'N' Is for Noose. If Kinsey had had just a smidgen of foresight, she would never have taken her current case, handed down to her from her on-again, off-again flame and comrade in arms, Robert Dietz. We encounter the two this time out after Deitz's knee surgery, as Kinsey drives his "snazzy little red Porsche" back to Carson City, where she checks out his digs for the first time. To her surprise, he lives in a palatial penthouse, which--under the unspoken bylaws of investigative etiquette--she qualmlessly snoops through. They sit around for a fortnight playing gin rummy and eating peanut butter and pickle sandwiches together, but perennially single Kinsey grows wary: "It was time to hit the road before our togetherness began to chafe."
She heads off to meet Dietz's former client, Mrs. Selma Newquist, a devastated widow whose makeup tips seem to come from Tammy Faye Baker. Her husband Tom Newquist, a detective himself, had been working on a mysterious case when he abruptly died of a heart attack. Selma suspects foul play, but bless her, she isn't the brightest star in the sky and can't figure out what Tom was working on even though he's left behind enough paper to fill a recycling truck. Kinsey digs right in and roams the sleepy, one-horse town of Nota Lake for clues, interviewing a colorful cast of in-laws and locals. Beneath the quaint, quiet, country veneer, she unearths a bubbling hotbed of internal strife and familial double-dealing. Was Tom covering up for his partner? Is Selma protecting someone? Grafton's knack for gritty details and realistic characters ("[Selma's] skin tones suggested dark coloring, but her hair was a confection of white-blond curls, like a cloud of cotton candy"), coupled with the fast-paced, believable story line, makes for another delightful, entertaining read. --Rebekah Warren, Bestsellers editor [via]
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O Is for Outlawby Sue GraftonISBN 0805059555 (0-8050-5955-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Is for Outlaw'Book summary:Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her.
Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey's self-disclosure--something she's infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey's character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart.
A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton's clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed." --Rebekah Warren [via]
Police at the Funeralby Margery AllinghamISBN 0786701692 (0-7867-0169-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Predatorby Patricia CornwellISBN 0786281634 (0-7862-8163-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snow-bound Boston. The psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.
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Quiet as a Nunby Antonia FraserISBN 0792716906 (0-7927-1690-6)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print
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Raffles the Amateur Cracksmanby HornungISBN 0792701577 (0-7927-0157-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raffles the Amateur Cracksman'Book summary:A collection of stories about crime that involves sophistication, wit and genius. In this amazing anthology Hornung introduces Raffles as protagonist. A cricketer by profession, he is a skilled thief who specializes in stealing jewels yet apparently lives a respectable life. It is intriguing to see how Hornung shows that there is honour among thieves and even they live by some rules. Mind-blowing! [via]
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Religious Convictionby Grif StockleyISBN 080411255X (0-8041-1255-X)
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The Remorseful Dayby Colin DexterISBN 0804119546 (0-8041-1954-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Remorseful Day'Book summary:Over 13 novels and a popular television series later, Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse has taken his place alongside Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, Philip Marlowe, and a handful of other famous sleuths. Like most of them, Morse possesses an uncanny intelligence, especially in matters of crime and crosswords, but Dexter has always made sure that his detective remains fully a man--flawed and uncertain despite an outward bravado. In this final, difficult story, Morse's humanity unfolds much as his cases do: with the slow revelation of secrets and surprises that frequently catch the reader off guard.
The novel begins with events now a year old. Yvonne Hamilton had been found in her home murdered--handcuffed and naked. The Thames Valley Police had supposed robbery, but their suspects had dissolved and all the leads had dried up. A year later, while Morse is on furlough, two anonymous calls to Chief Superintendent Strange open the possibility of a new line of inquiry. Strange wants his best man on the case. Morse, however, shows a surprising reluctance to embroil himself in what seems to be a classic Morsean puzzle. When he finally does reopen the investigation, his unorthodox approach worries even his longtime sidekick, Sergeant Lewis--who begins to suspect that his boss has a personal connection to the victim. What could Morse be up to? And--as many readers will be asking throughout--what could possibly bring his career to a close?
Like the work of few other mystery writers, Dexter's Morse series has consistently blended the dignity of high art with the grimness of crime and punishment. While it's a cliché to say that he transcends the genre, he has certainly expanded its range to novels that entertain while they instruct--even when that instruction is grammatical. The Remorseful Day is indeed a remorseful farewell, a delicately handled conclusion to a series that will now remain artfully complete, not lingering beyond its time. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Roller-Coasterby Michael GilbertISBN 0786702206 (0-7867-0220-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Roman Bloodby Steven SaylorISBN 0804110395 (0-8041-1039-5)
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One unseasonably warm spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to investigate a murder. Sextus Roscius is accused of killing his own father. This, in a society rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy, where neither citizen nor slave can be trusted to speak the truth. But even Gordianus is not prepared for the spectacularly dangerous fireworks that will attend the resolution of this ugly, delicate case.... [via]More editions of Roman Blood:
The Rose Rentby Ellis PetersISBN 0786225696 (0-7862-2569-6)
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Rough Treatmentby John HarveyISBN 0805054960 (0-8050-5496-0)
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Running Scaredby Ann GrangerISBN 0786221747 (0-7862-2174-7)
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The Second Chairby John LescroartISBN 0786263024 (0-7862-6302-4)
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The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0804111359 (0-8041-1135-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History : A Novel'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever. "It takes my breath away". (Ruth Rendell). "Enthralling ...image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' "Bacchae" set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction"...forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled...ferociously well-paced...remarkably powerful". ("The New York Times"). Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College. She is a novelist, essayist, and critic and author of "The Little Friend". "The Secret History" has been translated into twenty-four languages. [via]
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The Stargazeyby Martha GrimesISBN 078621788X (0-7862-1788-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stargazey'Book summary:It all starts with two unlikely passengers on the same number 14 Fulham Road bus--Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury and a glamorous blonde woman in a sable coat. He can't keep his eyes off her, and when she disembarks, Jury follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace. He loses her in the fog, however, and when she's found shot to death in the herb garden of the palace, the game's afoot--especially since the victim may only look like Jury's blonde, but not be her at all. Two glamorous women in priceless fur coats in an obscure little museum in the London suburbs on the same foggy autumn night? Well, maybe. Or maybe not. The plot ultimately involves chicanery in the art world, a family of Russian émigrés, a missing Chagall, an international female assassin, a couple of unsettlingly strange young girls, and a hilarious send up of a stuffy English men's club. The tale serves a hearty helping of Grimes's usual interesting, not to say eccentric, characters. Among the most consistently fascinating of these is Jury's aristocratic friend Melrose Plant, a direct descendant of Lord Peter Wimsey and other wealthy, titled, amateur English detectives. Fans of Grimes's previous Superintendent Jury capers--each of which takes its name from an English pub--will enjoy the jokes, and new readers will appreciate the author's dry wit, her sharp eye for British oddities, and the way she turns an ordinary police procedural into a cozy little study of the national character. The Jury series began with The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981) and has included The Deer Leap (1985), The Horse You Came In On (1993), The Case Has Altered (1997), and several other tales. --Jane Adams [via]
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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA And the Bush Administrationby James RisenISBN 0786286512 (0-7862-8651-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State of War: The Secret History of the CIA And the Bush Administration'Book summary:The winter holidays are usually a quiet time for news, but the December 2005 revelations of the Bush administration's extensive, off-the-books domestic spying program by New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau made headline after headline, raising criticism from both sides of the aisle and an immediate, unapologetic response from President Bush himself. On the heels of those scoops comes Risen's State of War, which goes beyond his Times stories to provide a wide-ranging, if anecdotal, "secret history" of U.S. intelligence following 9/11.
Risen's description of what he says was called "the Program"--the ongoing eavesdropping operation, done with almost no judicial or congressional oversight, on the phone calls and emails of hundreds of Americans (and potentially millions more)--is only a chapter in his larger tale of the recent missteps and oversteps of U.S. intelligence. His evidence ranges from insider White House accounts of Donald Rumsfeld, "the ultimate turf warrior," outmaneuvering his rivals to make the Defense Department the dominant voice in foreign policy, to on-the-ground reports of the administration's willful ignorance of crucial intelligence on the dormancy of Saddam's weapons programs, Saudi support for al Qaeda, and the startlingly rapid transformation of Afghanistan into a "narco-state" under American authority. Some of the episodes he recounts--Saudi security officials with Osama bin Laden screensavers, an Iraqi scientist who had told the CIA his country had no nuclear program watching Colin Powell testify to the UN that they did--would be comical were the stakes less high.
Risen's loyalties are not with the opposition party--he's sharply critical of Clinton's disinterest in the CIA--but with the career field agents who are his best sources. Those agents and their expertise, he argues, have been cast aside, along with the long centrist tradition of U.S. foreign policy and the basic checks and balances of the American system of government, by the Bush administration's radical politicization and militarization of intelligence. He covers a lot of ground in a book of just over 200 pages, some of it familiar from other accounts, and at times his tradecraft anecdotes can be hard to assess without context. But his specific revelations and his well-sourced, angry overview of the way the battles against terror have been fought make for startling, newsmaking reading. --Tom Nissley [via]
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Stregaby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0804109257 (0-8041-0925-7)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0805502645 (0-8055-0264-5)
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Suitable for Framingby Edna BuchananISBN 0786889012 (0-7868-8901-2)
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Suitable for Framing W/the Corpse Had a Familiar Faceby Edna BuchananISBN 0786860472 (0-7868-6047-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 0792481291 (0-7924-8129-1)
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Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Mysteryby Rex StoutISBN 078622049X (0-7862-2049-X)
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The Way Through the Woodsby Colin DexterISBN 0804111421 (0-8041-1142-1)
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Morse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THE TIMES. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, young, and traveling alone, the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play. But without a body, and with precious few clues, the investigation ground to a halt. Now it seems that someone who can hold back no longer is composing clue-laden poetry that begins an enthusiastic correspondence among England's news-reading public. Not one to be left behind, Morse writes a letter of his own--and follows a twisting path through the Wytham Woods that leads to a most shocking murder. [via]More editions of The Way Through the Woods:
Witness In Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0786227168 (0-7862-2716-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witness In Death'Book summary:Opening night at New York's New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high profile, celebrity homicide on her hands. Not only is she lead detective, she's also a witness - and when the press discovers that her husband owns the theater, there's more media spotlight than either can handle. The only way out is to move fast. Question everyone and everything . . . and in the meantime, try to tell the difference between the truth - and really good acting. [via]
Wobble to Deathby Peter LoveseyISBN 0786218681 (0-7862-1868-1)
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