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Black and Blueby Ian RankinISBN 0783884435 (0-7838-8443-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:"I'm a peeper, he thought, a voyeur. All cops are. But he knew he was more than that: he liked to get involved in the lives around him. He had a need to know which went beyond voyeurism. It was a drug. And the thing was, when he had all this knowledge, he then had to use booze to blank it out..." In his ninth outing, Edinburgh's glowering and tenacious Inspector John Rebus finds a unique way of cutting back on alcohol. Convinced that Rebus might lie or try to destroy evidence in the reopened case of a man convicted of a murder he probably didn't commit, the investigating officer assigns him a babysitter. Luckily, the minder is one of Rebus's old mentors, Jack Morton, a former drinking buddy now waging a successful battle against the bottle. Rebus and Morton burn off energy and anger repainting Rebus's apartment, while trying to clear Rebus's name and exploring the connection between a recent string of murders and a real-life Scottish serial killer of the 1970s known as Bible John. The cases take Rebus to Aberdeen and an oil platform in the North Atlantic, but as usual the main action happens within the mind and soul of Rankin's meticulously crafted creation. Previous entries in the memorable Rebus series are also available, including Let It Bleed, Hide and Seek, Knots and Crosses, Mortal Causes, and Tooth and Nail. [via]
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Blind Justiceby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0708936067 (0-7089-3606-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Booked to Dieby John DunningISBN 0743410653 (0-7434-1065-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Booked to Die'Book summary:Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge.
Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop -- all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now, Janeway's life is about to start a precarious new chapter as he attempts to find out who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains.
Includes information on John Dunning's new Cliff Janeway novel, The Bookman's Promise, coming soon in hardcover from Scribner [via]
The Bookman's Promiseby John DunningISBN 0743476298 (0-7434-7629-8)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bookman's Promise'Book summary:Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of Denver bookman-author John Dunning and the award-winning crime novel series that helped to turn the nation on to first-edition book collecting.
First, it was Booked to Die, then The Bookman's Wake. Now John Dunning fans, old and new, will rejoice in The Bookman's Promise, a richly nuanced new Janeway novel that juxtaposes past and present as Denver ex-cop and bookman Cliff Janeway searches for a book and a killer.
The quest begins when an old woman, Josephine Gallant, learns that Janeway has recently bought at auction a signed first edition by the legendary nineteenth-century explorer Richard Francis Burton. The book is a true classic, telling of Burton's journey (disguised as a Muslim) to the forbidden holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Boston auction house was a distinguished and trustworthy firm, but provenance is sometimes murky and Josephine says the book is rightfully hers.
She believes that her grandfather, who was living in Baltimore more than eighty years ago, had a fabulous collection of Burton material, including a handwritten journal allegedly detailing Burton's undercover trip deep into the troubled American South in 1860. Josephine remembers the books from her childhood, but everything mysteriously disappeared shortly after her grandfather's death.
With little time left in her own life, Josephine begs for Janeway's promise: he must find her grandfather's collection. It's a virtually impossible task, Janeway suspects, as the books will no doubt have been sold and separated over the years, but how can he say no to a dying woman?
It seems that her grandfather, Charlie Warren, traveled south with Burton in the spring of 1860, just before the Civil War began. Was Burton a spy for Britain? What happened during the three months in Burton's travels for which there are no records? How did Charlie acquire his unique collection of Burton books? What will the journal, if it exists, reveal?
When a friend is murdered, possibly because of a Burton book, Janeway knows he must find the answers. Someone today is willing to kill to keep the secrets of the past, and Janeway's search will lead him east: To Baltimore, to a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with a very stuffed shirt, and to a pair of unorthodox booksellers. It reaches a fiery conclusion at Fort Sumter off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.
What's more, a young lawyer, Erin d'Angelo, and ex-librarian Koko Bujak, have their own reasons for wanting to find the journal. But can Janeway trust them?
Rich with the insider's information on rare and collectible books that has made John Dunning famous, and with meticulously researched detail about a mesmerizing figure who may have played an unrecognized role in our Civil War, The Bookman's Promise is riveting entertainment from an extraordinarily gifted author who is as unique and special as the books he so clearly loves. [via]
Brother Cadfael's Penanceby Ellis PetersISBN 0783811756 (0-7838-1175-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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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]
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Cause of Deathby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0783817924 (0-7838-1792-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cause of Death'Book summary:Patricia Cornwell's heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta's involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace. [via]
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Chasing Vermeerby Blue Balliett, Brett HelquistISBN 0786270071 (0-7862-7007-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chasing Vermeer'Book summary:In the classic tradition of E.L. Konigsburgs From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, debut author Blue Balliett introduces readers to another pair of precocious kids on an artful quest full of patterns, puzzles, and the power of blue M&Ms. Eleven year old Petra and Calder may be in the same sixth grade class, but they barely know each other. Its only after a near collision during a museum field trip that they discover their shared worship of art, their teacher Ms. Hussey, and the blue candy that doesnt melt in your hands. Their burgeoning friendship is strengthened when a creative thief steals a valuable Vermeer painting en route to Chicago, their home town. When the thief leaves a trail of public clues via the newspaper, Petra and Calder decide to try and recover the painting themselves. But tracking down the Vermeer isnt easy, as Calder and Petra try to figure out what a set of pentominos (mathematical puzzle pieces), a mysterious book about unexplainable phenomena and a suddenly very nervous Ms. Hussey have to do with a centuries old artwork. When the thief ups the ante by declaring that he or she may very well destroy the painting, the two friends know they have to make the pieces of the puzzle fit before its too late!
Already being heralded as The DaVinci Code for kids, Chasing Vermeer will have middle grade readers scrutinizing art books as they try to solve the mystery along with Calder and Petra. In an added bonus, artist Brett Helquist has also hidden a secret pentomino message in several of the books illustrations for readers to decode. An auspicious and wonderfully satisfying debut that will leave no young detective clueless. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Dark Placeby Aaron ElkinsISBN 0802755658 (0-8027-5565-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Dark Roomby Minette WaltersISBN 0771087780 (0-7710-8778-0)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Room'Book summary:As readers of The Echo have already discovered, Walters knows how to spin a fine web of terror and psychological deception out of the most familiar ingredients. This brooding and engrossing book, just out in paperback, begins with that slightly frayed item of genre linen, the heroine waking up in a hospital and not remembering how she got there. But Walters quickly sets a lively, inventive table: not only has Jinx Kingsley forgotten her auto accident, but also the murders of her fiancé and her former best friend that preceded it. Of course Jinx didn't do it, and of course Walters will get her off the hook--or will she? [via]
Death in the Cloudsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0708917380 (0-7089-1738-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Death of an Expert Witnessby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219627 (0-7432-1962-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of an Expert Witness'Book summary:The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are all experts in violent death, accustomed to the smell of the mortuary. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again. [via]
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Deception on His Mindby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 078621144X (0-7862-1144-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deception on His Mind'Book summary:In Deception on His Mind Sergeant Barbara Havers places herself at the center of an investigation in Essex concerning the mysterious death of a recently arrived immigrant from Pakistan. Although still recovering from the broken ribs and nose (received at the end of In the Presence of the Enemy), Havers convinces herself that she needs to stay on the job in order to help her neighbor Taymullah Azhar and his elfin daughter Hadiyyah who have a familial connection to the dead man. As is typical with Elizabeth George's novels (this is the 10th in a popular and powerful series), the murder and its investigation are the central feature of the story. But in this case they are also the means by which she explores the Pakistani experience in a foreign and not always friendly culture. As Havers herself notes, the food may well have improved in Britain with an increasingly diverse population, but that same population has "engendered a score of polyglot problems." Whether or not the dead man is a victim of a racially motivated crime is only one of the questions Havers tries to sort out. The result, with George's typically complex characterizations and deft plot turns, is a deeply satisfying novel. Fans of Havers's superior officer, Thomas Lynley, and his lady love Helen Clyde will be disappointed as the two are off on their honeymoon. But with Lynley out of the picture, Havers, with her prickly personality, caustic tongue, and sound investigative skills, comes well and truly into her own. Nitpickers might question one aspect of the final denouement--motive and opportunity are securely in place but the means are on the outskirts of unbelievable. Still, the book is a rich and enjoyable one that continues to tickle the imagination well after it has been shelved amidst other favorites. --K.A. Crouch [via]
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Died in the Woolby Ngaio MarshISBN 0786217723 (0-7862-1772-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Died in the Wool'Book summary:One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husbands wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction - packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead... [via]
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Dixie City Jamby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889004 (0-7868-8900-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmesby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0743423925 (0-7434-2392-5)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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The Dragon Rebornby Robert JordanISBN 0765305119 (0-7653-0511-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Reborn'Book summary:The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.[via]
Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?
Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?
Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.
Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...
Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....More editions of The Dragon Reborn:
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Driving Forceby Dick FrancisISBN 0718134826 (0-7181-3482-6)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Driving Force'Book summary:A retired steeplechase jockey and owner of a fleet of motor horseboxes finds an unwelcome corpse on his doorstep after one of his drivers picks up a hitchhiker. Follows COMEBACK. [via]
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Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0802733573 (0-8027-3357-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Falconer and the Great Beastby Ian MorsonISBN 0753159384 (0-7531-5938-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Final Deductionby Rex StoutISBN 0754037061 (0-7540-3706-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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First Eagleby Tony HillermanISBN 0786216255 (0-7862-1625-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crimeby Jasper FfordeISBN 0786290013 (0-7862-9001-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime'Book summary:Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second adventure from the inimitable Jasper Fforde
Five years ago, Viking introduced Jasper Fforde and his upsidedown, inside-out literary crime masterpieces. And as they move from Thursday Next to Jack Spratts Nursery Crimes, his audience is insatiable and growing. Now, with The Fourth Bear, Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading.
The Gingerbreadmanpsychopath, sadist, genius, and killeris on the loose. But it isnt Jack Spratts case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jacks poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Mole. Last to see her alive? The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersens wood.
But all is not what it seems. How could the bears porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Why did Mr. and Mrs. Bear sleep in separate beds? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldys death as a freak accident?
Jack answers all these questions and a few others besides, rescues Mary Mary from almost certain death, and finally meets the Fourth Bear and the Gingerbreadman face-to-face. [via]
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From Potter's Fieldby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0684195984 (0-684-19598-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Potter's Field'Book summary:Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault's home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City. [via]
From Potter's Field/Large Printby CornwellISBN 0684813181 (0-684-81318-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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From the Two Riversby Robert JordanISBN 0765341840 (0-7653-4184-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Two Rivers'Book summary:An American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults[via]
A VOYA Best Books for Young Adults
For Rand alThor and his pals, life in the sleepy village of Emonds Field has been pretty dull. Until the appearance on festival night of Moiraine, a mysterious woman who claims to be an Aes Sdeaia magician who can wield the One Power. Soon after, the village is attacked by Trollocsa savage tribe of half-men half-beasts. Rands father is nearly killed. But for Rand, the news gets worse. It was not the village the Trollocs were after, Moiraine tells him. It was you, Rand.
Rand and his friends are forced to flee. But his escape will bring him face to face with the Dark One...the most powerful force of evil in the universe.More editions of From the Two Rivers:
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughterby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0785730397 (0-7857-3039-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Haunted Monasteryby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 068417975X (0-684-17975-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Hermit of Eyton Forestby Ellis PetersISBN 0708918859 (0-7089-1885-9)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hermit of Eyton Forest'Book summary:After the death of Lord Ludel, his son Richard, a student at the Benedictine Abbey, becomes the new lord of Eaton. Meanwhile, a hermit has taken up residence in Eyton Forest, a holy man's arrival causes confusion among the Monks, Richard disappears, and a corpse is found in the forest. It is time for Brother Cadfael to leave his peaceful herb garden and track down a ruthless murderer. Unabridged. September '98 publication date. [via]
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Highgate Riseby Anne PerryISBN 0708930131 (0-7089-3013-1)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Highland Laddie Goneby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0727844180 (0-7278-4418-0)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Hunt Beginsby Robert JordanISBN 0765348438 (0-7653-4843-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunt Begins'Book summary:Since they were boys, Rand and his friends have heard the tales of the Great Hunt of the Horn. Fabulous tales of hunters and of a legendary horn that can raise the dead heroes of the ages.[via]
But no sooner is the horn found then it is stolen.
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I, the Juryby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0792702794 (0-7927-0279-4)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 0783802803 (0-7838-0280-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Italian Secretaryby Caleb CarrISBN 0786715480 (0-7867-1548-0)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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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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The Jupiter Mythby Lindsey DavisISBN 0712680446 (0-7126-8044-6)
Hardcover, Century
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The Lamorna Winkby Martha GrimesISBN 0786223243 (0-7862-2324-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Letter of Maryby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783880677 (0-7838-8067-7)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Letter of Mary'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes and his scholarly companion Mary Russell are caught up in an exciting mystery when an archaeologist leaves them with a treasured find, a papyrus supposedly written by Mary Magdalene. When the archaeoligist winds up dead and someone attempts to make off with the artifact, Holmes and Russel become embroiled in a rollicking story filled with political intrigue and highbrow sleuthing. The level of writing hasn't been higher in this Laurie King series. [via]
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The Lighthouseby P. D. JamesISBN 0739325582 (0-7393-2558-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lighthouse'Book summary:A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.
This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. Jamess novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. [via]More editions of The Lighthouse:
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Locked Roomsby Laurie R. KingISBN 0786277017 (0-7862-7701-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. This time the first couple of detection travel to San Francisco to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again - lost somewhere in Russell's past. [via]
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Miniature Mysteriesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0800852516 (0-8008-5251-6)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Murder in the Queen's Armesby Aaron ElkinsISBN 0802756263 (0-8027-5626-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Queen's Armes'Book summary:"Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question won't stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a thirty-thousand-year-old parieto-occipital calvareal fragment? Yet someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human skull from a musty museum in Dorchester. Then, thirty miles away, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing tensions and suspicion at a dig that had already seethed with suspicion, rivalry, and mistrust. Could there be a connection between a hot bone and a cold-blooded murder?" [via]
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New Threads in the Patternby Robert JordanISBN 0765348446 (0-7653-4844-6)
Softcover, Starscape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Threads in the Pattern'Book summary:In this second part of the tale after The Hunt Begins, Rand al'Thor-- reluctantly drawn into the quest to recover the Horn of Valere--must face something even more frightening that the Myrddraal and Trollocs: his own true identity.[via]
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On Beulah Heightby Reginald HillISBN 0708990568 (0-7089-9056-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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One Corpse Too Manyby Ellis PetersISBN 0786210729 (0-7862-1072-9)
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One for the Moneyby Janet EvanovichISBN 0684196395 (0-684-19639-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One for the Money'Book summary:Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She has to say that her Miata has been repossessed and that she's so poor at the moment that she just drank her last bottle of beer for breakfast. She has to say that her only chance out of her present rut is her repugnant cousin Vinnie and his bail-bond business. She has to say that she blackmailed Vinnie into giving her a bail-bond recovery job worth $10,000 (for a murder suspect), even though she doesn't own a gun and has never apprehended a person in her life. And she has to say that the guy she has to get, Joe Morelli, is the same creep who charmed away her teenage virginity behind the pastry case in the Trenton bakery where she worked after school.
If that hard-luck story doesn't sound compelling enough, Stephanie's several unsuccessful attempts at pulling in Joe make a downright hilarious and suspenseful tale of murder and deceit. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) characters join the story, including Benito Ramirez, a champion boxer who seems to be following Stephanie Plum wherever she goes.
Janet Evanovich shares an authentic feel for the streets of Trenton in her debut mystery (she developed her talents in a string of romance novels before creating Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery field of the 1990s. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Postmortemby Patricia CornwellISBN 0743477154 (0-7434-7715-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Raven in the Foregateby Ellis PetersISBN 0786224940 (0-7862-2494-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Raven in the Foregate'Book summary:[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]
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It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt. [via]More editions of The Raven in the Foregate:
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The Return of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755106431 (0-7551-0643-1)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This collection of Sherlock Holmes stories will have you leaving lights on and checking behind doors. These tales, first published in the Strand magazine between 1903 and 1905, include: "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist," "The Adventure of the Priory School," "The Adventure of Black Peter," "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter," "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange," and "The Adventure of the Second Stain." "Properly suspenseful, Covell re-creates the awestruck Doctor Watson and the scientific Sherlock Holmes in another of the sleuth's escapades. Covell gives Watson a baronial English accent and renders the unerring Sherlock Holmes in a fittingly aloof, confident tone. To be led through a criminal quagmire by so expert a voice will please any...listener who likes a good mystery." (ALA Booklist) [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0719530156 (0-7195-3015-6)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape
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Roman Bloodby Steven SaylorISBN 0804110395 (0-8041-1039-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roman Blood'Book summary:"Remarkable...Takes the reader deep into the political, legal and family arenas of Ancient Rome, providing a stirring blend of history and mystery, well seasoned with conspiracy, passion and intrigue."
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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 Rosewood Casketby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0783818262 (0-7838-1826-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sacred Clownsby Tony HillermanISBN 0786200154 (0-7862-0015-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sacred Clowns/Thorndike Large Printby Tony HillermanISBN 0786200162 (0-7862-0016-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0688006671 (0-688-00667-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Scold's Bridleby Minette WaltersISBN 0783811314 (0-7838-1131-4)
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A Season of Knives: A Sir Robert Carey Mysteryby P. F. ChisholmISBN 0802732763 (0-8027-3276-3)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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Shakespearean Whodunnitsby William Shakespeare, Mike AshleyISBN 0786704829 (0-7867-0482-9)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespearean Whodunnits'Book summary:Starring Shakespearean detectives Falstaff, Mark Antony, and Orlando, here are twenty new, specially commissioned stories by Steve Lockley, Mary Reed, Steven Saylor, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Crowther, Kim Newman, and many more. The dire deeds in Shakespeare's plays prompt investigations, for instance, into Romeo and Juliet's deaths, Falstaff's setup in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cleopatra's suicide -- "Murder most foul", as the Bard put it. [via]
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Sherlock Holmes Vs. Draculaby John H. Watson, Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0743407148 (0-7434-0714-8)
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Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula : The Adventure of the Sanguinary Countby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0743475089 (0-7434-7508-9)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755334493 (0-7553-3449-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Silence in Hanover Closeby Anne PerryISBN 0708923240 (0-7089-2324-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
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St. Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0786210745 (0-7862-1074-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Peter's Fair'Book summary:MysteryLarge Print EditionStylishly authentic . . . a graceful and informative case for Peters engaging herb-gardening monk. Kirkus ReviewsThe great annual Fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury, a high point in the citys calendar, attracts merchants from far and wide to do business. But when an unseemly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provides, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead, and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful herb garden to test his detective skills once more. [via]
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A Sudden, Fearful Deathby Anne PerryISBN 0786201304 (0-7862-0130-4)
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Sunset Expressby Robert CraisISBN 0786889152 (0-7868-8915-2)
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Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 0792481291 (0-7924-8129-1)
Hardcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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Thyme of Deathby Susan Wittig AlbertISBN 0684195224 (0-684-19522-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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To Ruin a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Courtby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0684862689 (0-684-86268-9)
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To the Blightby Robert JordanISBN 0765342219 (0-7653-4221-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Two for the Doughby Janet EvanovichISBN 0684196387 (0-684-19638-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two for the Dough'Book summary:It's Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel One for the Money.
Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton's burg. He's fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he's just shot his best friend.
With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers kneedeep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.
And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie's irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. Much to the family's chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights.
Fast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the woman who puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli's not one to object.
Low on expertise but learning fast, high on resilience, and despite the help she gets from friends and relatives, Stephanie eventually must face the danger alone when embalmed body parts begin to arrive on her doorstep and she's targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome adversary she's ever encountered. Another case like this and she'll be a real pro.
Two for the Dough is irresistible fun and powerful suspense entertainment from an acclaimed author who is already a national star. [via]
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The Virgin in the Iceby Ellis PetersISBN 0786214791 (0-7862-1479-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Voodoo Riverby Robert CraisISBN 0786889055 (0-7868-8905-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The White Rose Murdersby Michael ClynesISBN 0708932185 (0-7089-3218-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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