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10 LB. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 042519745X (0-425-19745-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '10 LB. Penalty'Book summary:One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis's long and celebrated career (he's won three Edgar Awards, the Silver Dagger, the Gold Dagger, a Cartier Diamond Dagger, and was named the 1996 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) is the freshness that he brings to each of his novels. Though every one of his 30-plus works of fiction has drawn from some aspect of the world of horses, Francis turns this constraint into a powerful source of inspiration. In 10 Lb. Penalty Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben's relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George's campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George's life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.
Francis's lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author's best fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0439099404 (0-439-09940-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]
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Anonymous Rexby Eric GarciaISBN 0425188884 (0-425-18888-4)
Softcover, Prime Crime
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Auto Focusby Robert GraysmithISBN 0425189023 (0-425-18902-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Bernini Bustby Iain PearsISBN 0425191893 (0-425-19189-3)
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Big Troubleby Dave BarryISBN 0425184129 (0-425-18412-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Trouble'Book summary:Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.
Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur's yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar & Grill, which has no grill and actually sells guns and bombs to an offshoot of the Crips and Bloods called the Cruds, and to Penultimate (which plans to conquer Cuba). But when dim thugs Eddie and Snake rob the Jolly Jackal and Arthur tells them it's a Russian mob front selling bombs, the proprietor snorts, "Bombs, pfft! No bombs! Is bar."
Can Snake and Eddie spirit a suitcase nuke through Miami, "where most motorists obeyed the traffic and customs of their individual countries of origin"? Can Eliot and cop Monica Rodriguez save the day? And how do the 300-pound hallucinogenic Enemy Toad, the 13-foot-long python Daphne, highway goats, and the Denture Adventure seniors' theme park fit in? Everything fits perfectly, including a few dark passages new to Barry's work. But one warning: if you read this book while drinking milk, at some point it will spurt out of your nostrils. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Black Fly Seasonby Giles BluntISBN 0425209571 (0-425-20957-1)
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Bleeding Heartsby Susan Wittig AlbertISBN 0425214850 (0-425-21485-0)
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Blood Sportby Dick FrancisISBN 0425199169 (0-425-19916-9)
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Bloody Bonesby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425205673 (0-425-20567-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloody Bones'Book summary:When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop. [via]
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Boltby Dick FrancisISBN 0425202887 (0-425-20288-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bolt'Book summary:[via]Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit's nemesis has plans to knock him off the trackand plant him under it.
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Break Inby Dick FrancisISBN 0425199932 (0-425-19993-2)
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Broken Preyby John SandfordISBN 0425204308 (0-425-20430-8)
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Casual Rex: A Novelby Eric GarciaISBN 0425183394 (0-425-18339-4)
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425188361 (0-425-18836-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Chamomile Mourningby Laura ChildsISBN 0425206181 (0-425-20618-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chamomile Mourning'Book summary:Another tempest in a teapot from the national bestselling author of The Jasmine Moon Murder.
At Charleston's Spoleto festival, teashop owner Theodosia Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain. But rain proves to be the least of her problems after a local auction house owner plummets from a balcony to his death-and it looks like someone helped him over the edge.
With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia investigates and uncovers a criminal enterprise of art forgery, fraud--and murder--that leads her into the murky swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Now, she's hot on the heels of a criminal who plans on showing her just how dangerous it is to stick her sensitive nose where it doesn't belong. [via]-
Circus Of The Damnedby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425201392 (0-425-20139-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circus of the Damned'Book summary:The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.
Mystery fans will love the tightly plotted, Paretsky-esque action, and horror fans will love just about everything in this unusual series. [via]
Click Here for Murderby Donna AndrewsISBN 0425195295 (0-425-19529-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Compromising Positionsby Susan IsaacsISBN 0425216195 (0-425-21619-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Compromising Positions'Book summary:The brilliant debut that's sold over a million copies-now in trade paperback for the first time![via]
Rediscover the "wonderfully funny, deliciously mean" (New York Times) novel that launched Susan Isaacs' New York Times bestselling career-and introduced Long Island housewife Judith Singer, her most beloved character. Judith is smart and funny, with a gorgeous husband and wonderful kids. She's also incredibly bored, having put her Ph.D. plans on hold for a life of housekeeping and nose-wiping. So when a local dentist is found murdered, and the police suspect her neighbor, that's all the excuse Judith needs to jump in and begin her own investigation. It seems the deceased periodontist was quite the Don Juan of the PTA, with a habit of taking incriminating photos. In between school runs and making dinner, Judith is drawn deeper into the case-and closer to the sexy police detective in charge.More editions of Compromising Positions:
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Crewel Yuleby Monica FerrisISBN 0425206351 (0-425-20635-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crewel Yule'Book summary:Part-time sleuth and full-time owner of the needlework shop Crewel World, Betsy Devonshire likes to have a hand in anything crafty-from knitting to solving crime. In this latest yarn in the bestselling series, Betsy prepares for a chilling holiday season filled with mistletoe-and murder.
This year's needlework convention is tragically interrupted when one shop owner tumbles nine stories to her untimely death. Now Betsy, Godwin, and other knitting hands must unravel the clues that will put the killer to rest...for a long winter's night. [via] -
Danse Macabreby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425207978 (0-425-20797-8)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danse Macabre'Book summary:Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Times bestselling series.
These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby. [via]More editions of Danse Macabre:
Dark Placeby Aaron ElkinsISBN 0425204022 (0-425-20402-2)
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A Deadly Secret : The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durstby Matt BirkbeckISBN 0425192075 (0-425-19207-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Death in Paradiseby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0425187063 (0-425-18706-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Death on the Downsby Simon BrettISBN 0425186369 (0-425-18636-9)
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Deciderby Dick FrancisISBN 042519938X (0-425-19938-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decider'Book summary:[via]Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0439295750 (0-439-29575-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The classic, chilling tale of a legendary double life, with an introduction from best-selling author Garth Nix.[via]
Respectable citizen by day . . . killer by night? This is Robert Louis Stevenson's harrowing tale of good and evil -- caught in the same person.More editions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
Dragon Tearsby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425208435 (0-425-20843-5)
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The Edgeby Dick FrancisISBN 0425204391 (0-425-20439-1)
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Field of Thirteenby Dick FrancisISBN 042519499X (0-425-19499-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Field of Thirteen'Book summary:This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of 10 Lb. Penalty and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis's racetrack milieu. In "Dead on Red," a jealous jockey named Davey Rockman hires Emil Jacques, a French assassin and gun collector, to kill the famed rider who stole his job; but Rockman is haunted by his deed much in the same way as is the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Raid at Kingdom Hill" tells of Tricksy Wilcox's scheme for a not-so-bright bomb scare, a plan that still might yield the payoff of a lifetime. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. The Kentucky Derby story, "The Gift," follows Fred Collyer, a drunken writer who overhears plans for a major racing swindle and struggles against alcohol to publish the story by his deadline. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig's Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race-meeting judge.
Poe, who most historians of literature credit as the creator of the short story, declared that a good short story should have nothing extraneous. Francis's stories, for the most part, obey Poe's dictum. Each character and description fits tightly into an unfolding plan so that the mystery or twist is revealed with a satisfying economy of words. While Field of 13 will appeal to Francis loyalists, newcomers, too, will find much to relish in the short fiction of this mystery grand master. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Flesh & Bloodby John HarveyISBN 0434012238 (0-434-01223-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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A Flicker of Doubtby Tim MyersISBN 0425210561 (0-425-21056-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Flying Finishby Dick FrancisISBN 0425205258 (0-425-20525-8)
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Fox Evilby Minette WaltersISBN 0425214923 (0-425-21492-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fox Evil'Book summary:When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Why have James and Ailsa cut their children out of their wills? What happened in the past to create such animosity within the family? And why is James so desperate to find his illegitimate grandchild?Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose concern deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge ...Why? Because they're a motive for murder? [via]
The Franchise Affairby Josephine Tey, Margaret TarnerISBN 0435272330 (0-435-27233-0)
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Grave Sightby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0425212890 (0-425-21289-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grave Sight'Book summary:Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064872 (0-439-06487-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone. [via]
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Hidden Richesby Nora RobertsISBN 0425197220 (0-425-19722-0)
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Home Bodyby Gerry BoyleISBN 0425201805 (0-425-20180-5)
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Homicide by the Rich and Famous: A Century of Prominent Killersby Gini ScottISBN 0425211312 (0-425-21131-2)
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Honest Illusionsby Nora RobertsISBN 0425186199 (0-425-18619-9)
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How To Marry A Murdererby Amanda MatetskyISBN 0425204006 (0-425-20400-6)
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In the Company of Liarsby David EllisISBN 0425204294 (0-425-20429-4)
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Incubus Dreamsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425198243 (0-425-19824-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incubus Dreams'Book summary:As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams (2004) is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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Interlude in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425210626 (0-425-21062-6)
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Latte Troubleby Cleo CoyleISBN 0425204456 (0-425-20445-6)
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The Laughing Corpseby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425204669 (0-425-20466-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laughing Corpse'Book summary:Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing. [via]
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The Lunatic Cafeby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425201376 (0-425-20137-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunatic Cafe'Book summary:The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets. [via]
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Martyn Pigby Kevin BrooksISBN 0439295955 (0-439-29595-5)
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Master Of Wolvesby Angela KnightISBN 0425207439 (0-425-20743-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Of Wolves'Book summary:Hailed as exhilarating, * passionate and hot, ** USA Today bestselling author Angela Knights supercharged romances combine heated passion with non-stop action. And shes back with more werewolves and vampiresin a story too hot to handle& Jim London is outraged over the death of his friend, a fellow bounty hunter and werewolfand thinks the police department of nearby Clarkston cooked up a phony story about Tonys murder. The only way to find out is to go undercover. And, in his wolf form, Jim can do that better than anybody...[via]Theres one complication, though. The new police-dog handler, Faith Weston, is sexy enough to bring out the animal in any man&
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Montana Skyby Nora RobertsISBN 0425205754 (0-425-20575-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montana Sky'Book summary:Jack Mercy's three daughters are strangers to each other, but to inherit his huge ranch they must live there together for a year -- a year that will bring them together against a terrifying unknown enemy as well as bringing each of them someone to make their dreams sweeter. A rich, stunning story of family, death, and love. [via]
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Mortal Preyby John SandfordISBN 0425189864 (0-425-18986-4)
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A Murder of Justiceby Robert AndrewsISBN 0425205215 (0-425-20521-5)
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Murder On Marble Rowby Victoria ThompsonISBN 0425198707 (0-425-19870-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder On Marble Row'Book summary:In turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt is again helping police Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy. This time, an arsonist is presumed to have murdered a wealthy industrialist in an explosion. But Sarah and Frank clash over whether the murder was politically motivated because-as she knows and he is about to discover-the marble facades of Fifth Avenue hide as many dark and twisted secrets as any tenement on the Lower East Side... [via]
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Murder on Mulberry Bendby Victoria ThompsonISBN 0425189104 (0-425-18910-4)
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Naked Preyby John SandfordISBN 0425195449 (0-425-19544-9)
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Odds Againstby Dick FrancisISBN 0425198006 (0-425-19800-6)
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Open Seasonby C. J. BoxISBN 042518546X (0-425-18546-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Season'Book summary:Penzler Pick, July 2001: Mystery debuts are both exciting and problematic. Exciting, because one may always be about to discover the next Hammett or Chandler (or so the copywriters and publicists would have us believe), and problematic because originality in such a well-grooved genre is becoming more and more at a premium.
In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J. Box's skill at plotting (the story of greedy business interests and local corruption is fine, but familiar), but rather the character of hero Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, that makes this a series kickoff to remember. Like all the best mystery protagonists, Pickett is stubbornly ready to risk everything when his own personal sense of morality is at stake. But Joe is also a guy who sometimes gets things wrong, and this characteristic of messing up adds a dimension of humanity to the book.
C.J. Box makes the town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming (where Joe and his pregnant wife and his daughters have come to live in a tiny house that could be a lot nicer if Joe only had a job that paid better), come alive to the extent that one can almost smell the crisp mountain air and pine needles. The locals display an impressive array of grudge holding and "don't mess with us" attitudes, but Joe is unwilling to forget he's sworn to uphold and enforce a full battery of laws that many of these neighbors have no intention of obeying.
When a well-known poacher, with whom he has humiliatingly tangled, suddenly turns up dead in his own backyard, Joe finds himself at the top of a downward path that, first, will lead to more bodies and then will put his entire family into peril. Open Season doesn't pull its punches, and Box does allow bad things to happen to good people. Read it and find out how skillfully he handles both his hero's complexities and also the ambiguities inherent in a life dedicated to law enforcement. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Petals of Bloodby Ngugi Wa ThiongoISBN 0435901885 (0-435-90188-5)
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Private Scandalsby Nora RobertsISBN 0425190382 (0-425-19038-2)
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Proofby Dick FrancisISBN 042520393X (0-425-20393-X)
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Q Is for Quarryby Sue GraftonISBN 0425192725 (0-425-19272-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q Is for Quarry'Book summary:Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. --Jane Adams [via]
Reflexby Dick FrancisISBN 0425206955 (0-425-20695-5)
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Rules Of Preyby John SandfordISBN 0425205819 (0-425-20581-9)
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Running Blindby Lee ChildISBN 0425206238 (0-425-20623-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running Blind'Book summary:Before Lee Child's Jack Reacher became a wanderer, stumbling into desperate situations and sorting them out with his two fists and sharp brain, he used his skill for the US Army's military police. When he is accused of a series of killings--women who left the army after sexual harassment proceedings found with their hearts stopped in baths full of camouflage paint--he has to use his skills to clear his name, and to do the Army and FBI's work for them. The near-impossible perfection of Reacher's physique and brain are met here by a puzzle that almost meets the same standard of perfection--the reason he is suspected is simply that perfect detectives are handy patsies for perfect murders, and Reacher is, besides, a man whom those in authority find making them itch...
"As a rule, the Bureau and the military don't get along too well."
"Well, there's a big surprise. Who the hell do you guys gel along with."
..."You know how it is. Military hates the Bureau, the Bureau hates CIA, everybody hates everybody else...So we need a go-between."
Reacher shrugged.
"I don't know anybody like that. I've been out too long."Lee Child's remorselessly perverse ingenuity is working overtime in this, his fourth book, though like most great puzzles or tricks, his secrets depend a little heavily on mere misdirection. A book this driven by the central character's laconic aggression ought not to be quite as smart as this is, or quite as likeable--Lee Child's clever formula is to make that paradox work. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Second Wind: Library Editionby Dick FrancisISBN 0425206777 (0-425-20677-7)
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Sit, Stay, Slayby Linda O. JohnstonISBN 0425200000 (0-425-20000-0)
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Slay Rideby Dick FrancisISBN 0425196739 (0-425-19673-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slay Ride'Book summary:[via]When a champion jockey disappears--right before a big race and the birth of his child--Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.
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A Small Death in Lisbonby Robert WilsonISBN 0425184234 (0-425-18423-4)
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Smokescreenby Dick FrancisISBN 0425210251 (0-425-21025-1)
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--Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of Peter Sutcliffeby Gordon BurnISBN 0434098272 (0-434-09827-2)
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Steamedby Susan Conant, Jessica Conant-ParkISBN 0425210383 (0-425-21038-3)
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Straightby Dick FrancisISBN 042520846X (0-425-20846-X)
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A Superior Deathby Nevada BarrISBN 042519471X (0-425-19471-X)
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Thyme of Deathby Susan Wittig AlbertISBN 0425203689 (0-425-20368-9)
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To the Hiltby Dick FrancisISBN 042519681X (0-425-19681-X)
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Tom Clancy's Power Play: Wild Cardby Jerome Preisler, Martin Greenberg, Tom ClancyISBN 0425199118 (0-425-19911-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Clancy's Power Play: Wild Card'Book summary:When an anonymous e-mail alerts UpLink Technology's operatives to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort, Pete Nimec goes undercover to investigate. Located off the coast of Trinidad, Rayos del Sol is not just a playground for the world's richest and most powerful people - it's also the headquarters for a joint fiber optic and oil refinery project run by UpLink and Sedco Oil. What Nimec discovers is a plot to drain oil from the United State's strategic petroleum reserve and sell it to outlaw nations. And when the island's highly trained security force is sent to take Nimec out - heaven on earth erupts into hell [via]
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Tricky Businessby Dave BarryISBN 0425192741 (0-425-19274-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tricky Business'Book summary:Dave Barry follows his acclaimed debut novel, Big Trouble, with a book that leads readers into a crazy complexity of money laundering, drug dealing, murder, sex, violence, hijacking, and undercover work-not to mention barbs aimed at overbearing mothers, corrupt officials, inept authorities and, of course, the American crime novel itself. [via]
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Tripwireby Lee ChildISBN 042520622X (0-425-20622-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripwire'Book summary:Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
As in Lee Child's two previous thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, Reacher is soon up to his neck in lethal trouble, this time involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of course), and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew.
But this is not a book by one of the new breed of U.S. thriller writers. Child prides himself on his ability, as an Englishman, to write American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. Tripwire is no exception. Every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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True Betrayalsby Nora RobertsISBN 0425204685 (0-425-20468-5)
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Unnatural Selectionby Aaron ElkinsISBN 0425210057 (0-425-21005-7)
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Waterlandby Graham SwiftISBN 0434753300 (0-434-75330-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waterland'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize [via]
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Whip Handby Dick FrancisISBN 0425203549 (0-425-20354-9)
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Winter House: Library Editionby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0425204650 (0-425-20465-0)
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The Witness at the Weddingby Simon BrettISBN 0425210790 (0-425-21079-0)
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You'Ve Got Murderby Donna AndrewsISBN 0425189457 (0-425-18945-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You'Ve Got Murder'Book summary:Turing Hopper is an Artificial Intelligence Personality, a mainframe computer with a mind like Miss Marple. And when her creator, Zack, begins missing work, the sentient Turing senses foul play... [via]
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