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The Apprenticeby Tess GerritsenISBN 0345447867 (0-345-44786-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprentice'Book summary:The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns-and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. THE APPRENTICE It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her-literally and figuratively-she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . . Filled with superbly created characters-and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark- The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
The Bartholomew Fair Murdersby Leonard TourneyISBN 0345343700 (0-345-34370-0)
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Bedford Squareby Anne PerryISBN 0345432983 (0-345-43298-3)
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The Big Dig: The $10 Million Search for Oak Island's Legendary Treasureby D'Arcy O'ConnorISBN 034535558X (0-345-35558-X)
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The Big Scratchby Christopher ReedISBN 0345353919 (0-345-35391-9)
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Blues in the Nightby Rochelle Majer KrichISBN 0345449711 (0-345-44971-1)
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A Caress of Twilightby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0345423429 (0-345-42342-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Caress of Twilight'Book summary:Faerie princess and private detective Meredith Gentry juggles love, sex, intrigue, magic, and more in this witty and sensual novel from Laurell K. Hamilton. Merry has her hands full: she's desperate to conceive a child and thereby claim the Unseelie throne; she's the target of intrigue from both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts; her newest client is an exiled goddess with a secret that could get them all killed; and a hideous fey force that alarms even her formidable lover-warriors is loose in Los Angeles.
A Caress of Twilight is infused with Hamilton's characteristic appealing blend of sex, magic, wit, and romantic dilemma. The mystery takes a back seat to the concerns of Faerie power and politics, making the book less balanced, but Merry's growth in leadership and power, along with a bang-up ending, won't leave fans disappointed. Readers new to Hamilton might be advised to start with A Kiss of Shadows or the extremely popular Anita Blake series. --Roz Genessee [via]
The Case of the Careless Cupid/a Perry Mason Mysteryby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345392264 (0-345-39226-4)
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The Case of the Careless Kittenby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345362233 (0-345-36223-3)
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The Case of the Dubious Bridegroomby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345341864 (0-345-34186-4)
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The Case of the Green-Eyed Sisterby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345378725 (0-345-37872-5)
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The Case of the Hesitant Hostessby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345378717 (0-345-37871-7)
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The Case of the Long-Legged Modelsby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345378768 (0-345-37876-8)
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The Case of the One-Eyed Witnessby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345392256 (0-345-39225-6)
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The Case of the Perjured Parrotby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345346858 (0-345-34685-8)
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The Case of the Sleepwalker's Nieceby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345371461 (0-345-37146-1)
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishopby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0345356802 (0-345-35680-2)
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Chronicles of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345368991 (0-345-36899-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of Pern'Book summary:Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection. [via]
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Cruel As the Graveby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0345441443 (0-345-44144-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cruel As the Grave'Book summary:April 1193. Englands King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richards younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal queens man, Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddlers daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangells craven killer to justice? [via]
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Crystal Lineby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345384911 (0-345-38491-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Line'Book summary:"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."
LOCUS
When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.
From the Paperback edition. [via] 
Death in a Tenured Positionby Amanda CrossISBN 0345340418 (0-345-34041-8)
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Dragonquestby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345419375 (0-345-41937-5)
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Dragonriders of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345340248 (0-345-34024-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonriders of Pern'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey's Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of thread, a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn't fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey's epic series: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. [via]
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Dragonsbloodby Todd J. McCaffreyISBN 0345441257 (0-345-44125-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonsblood'Book summary:In Dragons Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation. That writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey. Together, they penned a triumphant new chapter in the annals of the extraordinarily popular Dragonriders of Pern. Now, for the first time, Todd McCaffrey flies alone. And Dragonsblood is proof that the future of Pern is in good hands. After all, dragons are in his blood. . . .
Never in the dramatic history of Pern has there been a more dire emergency than that which faces the young dragonrider Lorana. A mysterious fatal illness is striking dragons. The epidemic is spreading like wildfire . . . and the next deadly cycle of Threadfall is only days away. Somehow, Lorana must find a cure before the dragonsincluding her own beloved Arithsuccumb to the sickness, leaving Pern undefended.
The lyrics of an all-but-forgotten song seem to point toward an answer from nearly five hundred years in the past, when Kitti Ping and her daughter Wind Blossom bred the first dragons from their smaller cousins, the fire-lizards. No doubt the first colonists possessed the advanced technology to find the cure for which Lorana seeks, but over the centuries, that knowledge has been lost.
Or has it?
For in the distant past, an aged Wind Blossom worries that the germs that affect the fire-lizards may one day turn on larger preyand unleash a plague that will destroy the dragons, Perns only defenders against Thread. But as her people struggle to survive, Wind Blossom has neither the time nor the resources to expend on a future that may never arriveuntil suddenly she uncovers evidence that her worst fears will come true.
Now two brave women, separated by hundreds of years but joined by bonds transcending time, will become unknowing allies in a desperate race against sickness and Threadfall, with nothing less than the survival of all life on Pern at stake. [via] -
Dragonsdawnby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345362861 (0-345-36286-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonsdawn'Book summary:After 7 weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, the newest novel of the Dragonriders of Pern series is finally in paperback. Chronicling the first settlers of Pern, this is the story of the colonists' efforts to breed dragons to fight the deadly Thread before the lush planet is destroyed. "Dragonphile alert! Anne McCaffrey is back. . .Must reading for fans of the series."--San Diego Tribune. HC: Del Rey. [via]
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The Driftby John RidleyISBN 0345443489 (0-345-44348-9)
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Familiar Spiritsby Leonard TourneyISBN 0345343727 (0-345-34372-7)
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The Final Judgmentby Richard N. PattersonISBN 034540498X (0-345-40498-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Final Judgment'Book summary:Richard North Patterson frequently rejects the label "legal thriller" for his novels, and The Final Judgement works hard to transcend this limiting category. A cleverly assembled murder mystery told with rich prose ("Moonlight refracted on the still, obsidian waters of the lake and traced the pines and birches and elms surrounding it. The only sound Brett heard was the rise and fall of James's breathing.") and filled with a cast of quirky small-town New Englanders, the novel ultimately succeeds through Patterson's talents as a writer, not just as a plotter.
As in many of Patterson's best novels, The Final Judgement draws on flashback sequences to ground the story and establish key characters. Forty-five-year-old Caroline Masters, a minor figure in Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child is the narrative center, and much of the suspense in the novel derives from the slow unwrapping of her past--the death of her mother and estrangement from her father. In the opening of the novel, Caroline is waiting for a message from the White House appointing her to the U.S. Court of Appeals, when, instead, her long-distant father gives her a call. Her niece has just been named the primary suspect in the murder of her boyfriend. The college-age Brett Allen was found naked, passed out from drugs and alcohol, with a knife in her hand, and covered in her boyfriend's blood. The family wants Caroline to return to New Hampshire to defend the girl.
The perils that face Caroline multiply quickly. By taking the case, Caroline clearly jeopardizes her chances for the Court of Appeals appointment. And by returning home, she must inevitably face the accumulated memories and resentments of the New Hampshire crowd, including Caroline's high-school boyfriend who is the prosecuting attorney. But her niece's life is at stake. Ultimately, The Final Judgement is a tale of the deep and twisted history of a New England family, but it is told in a captivating style that is--despite Patterson's reservations about the rubric--"thrilling." --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Final Judgmentby Richard North PattersonISBN 034540761X (0-345-40761-X)
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Goneby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452615 (0-345-45261-5)
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A Guilty Thing Surprisedby Ruth RendellISBN 0345348117 (0-345-34811-7)
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Half Moon Streetby Anne PerryISBN 0345433270 (0-345-43327-0)
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Havana Bayby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345390458 (0-345-39045-8)
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Heartstonesby Ruth RendellISBN 0345348001 (0-345-34800-1)
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The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens : A Secret Victorian Journal, Attributed to Wilkie Collinsby William J. PalmerISBN 0345382528 (0-345-38252-8)
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Hotel Paradiseby Martha GrimesISBN 0345394259 (0-345-39425-9)
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I'll Be Leaving You Alwaysby Sandra ScoppettoneISBN 0345382692 (0-345-38269-2)
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The James Joyce Murderby Amanda CrossISBN 0345346866 (0-345-34686-6)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of Henry James. But when her next-door neighbor is murdered, and all her houseguests are prime suspects, her idyll turns prosaic, indeed.... [via]More editions of The James Joyce Murder:
Killer in the Rainby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0345351851 (0-345-35185-1)
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A Kiss of Shadowsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0345423402 (0-345-42340-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Kiss of Shadows: Library Edition'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton revitalized vampires, werewolves, and zombies in the popular Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books. In this new series, she updates faeries. A Kiss of Shadows introduces Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a faerie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. Merry, who's part sidhe (elvish), part brownie, and part human, never really fit in. She's short, not skilled in offensive magic, and mortal because of her human blood. These are real liabilities when your family, especially aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, is out to kill you. Merry has been in hiding for three years, living in Los Angeles and working for the Grey Detective Agency, which specializes in "supernatural problems, magical solutions." A new case sets her against a man who uses forbidden magic to seduce fey women and drain their power. A plan to trap him goes awry and Merry's cover is blown. Now Andais knows where she is. But things have changed in Andais's court, and Merry is changing too.
Despite the selkies, brownies, goblins, and ogres in this book, it's not for children. The fey are "creatures of the senses"--and in the Unseelie court, sex and pain go together. Merry is sexually adventurous and surrounded by gorgeous, powerful males, most of whom want her badly. She's politically savvy and no coward, though she's not the warrior Anita is. Hamilton fans and readers of adult fairy tales like Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy will want to give Merry a look. --Nona Vero [via]
Knaves Templarby Leonard D. TourneyISBN 0345373359 (0-345-37335-9)
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The Last Detectiveby Robert CraisISBN 0345451902 (0-345-45190-2)
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Lovely in Her Bonesby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345360354 (0-345-36035-4)
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Low Treasonby Leonard TourneyISBN 0345343689 (0-345-34368-9)
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Macpherson's Lamentby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345384741 (0-345-38474-1)
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The Man Who Tried to Get Awayby Reed StephensISBN 0345363574 (0-345-36357-4)
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Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing : A Lord Meren Mysteryby Lynda S. RobinsonISBN 0345395328 (0-345-39532-8)
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*The New York Times Book Review
The small group gathered at Lord Meren's country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai, Meren's cousin-in-law, falls victim to murder--an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True, she had myriad lovers and a scorpion tongue, but why was her body arranged so meticulously, as if for sleep? The most dreadful possibility is that the crime has to do with Lord Meren's awesome undercover mission for the pharaoh, for which his feast of rejoicing is in part a cover. This mission cannot, must not, fail. Ruthlessly stripping bare the deepest secrets of the nest of cobras who are his nearest relatives, Meren finds the thread that leads to the truth and the unmasking of a shocking crime in the court of the living god. . . .
"As Robinson deftly juggles ancient Egyptian political intrigue and a riveting mystery, she proves again her mastery of the historical whodunit."
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Murder at the God's Gateby Lynda S. RobinsonISBN 034539531X (0-345-39531-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the God's Gate'Book summary:"DELIGHTFUL. . . Robinson makes ancient Thebes come alive as she describes the personalities, clothing, golden jewelry, the intrigue, and the smells of the desert, the terrors of a hippo hunt."
--San Francisco Examiner
When a priest dies in a mysterious fall from atop a statue of Tutankhamun, many consider the death a fateful one for the fourteen-year-old pharaoh and his reign.
Indeed, the Hittites are already at Egypt's borders, and the enemies of the late heretic pharaoh Akhenaten have transferred their implacable hatred to the young pharaoh. Concealed by the luxury of the court at Thebes lie viciousness, evil, and murder. Not even Lord Meren--the confidential inquiry agent who must see to the boy king's safety--can name the master plotters. But until the enemies of the living god are destroyed, neither his body nor his soul is safe from their deadly poison. . . .
"Robinson knowledgeably instructs readers in the cultural and political life of a fascinating period in history while entertaining us with a puzzling plot, accessible characters, and the domestic details of their daily lives."
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Murder at Union Stationby Margaret TrumanISBN 0345444906 (0-345-44490-6)
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Murder in the Place of Anubisby Lynda S. RobinsonISBN 0345389220 (0-345-38922-0)
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My Sweet Untraceable Youby Sandra ScoppettoneISBN 0345391624 (0-345-39162-4)
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Nerilka's Storyby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345419588 (0-345-41958-8)
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Nimisha's Shipby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345434250 (0-345-43425-0)
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Old Saxon Bloodby Leonard D. TourneyISBN 0345357655 (0-345-35765-5)
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Paying the Piperby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345345185 (0-345-34518-5)
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Pegasus in Spaceby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345434676 (0-345-43467-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pegasus In Space: Library Edition'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey is best known for The Dragonriders of Pern, but her loose Talents series about superpsychics has been running almost as long. It began with the near-future To Ride Pegasus, continuing a couple of generations later in Pegasus in Flight. Book 2 introduced a crowd of new characters, notably the paralyzed boy Peter whose telekinetic talent can move not only his body without help from his ruined nervous system, but--with practice--even lift payloads into orbit.
Pegasus in Space follows directly, with mayhem and mutiny, at the opening of a manned space station, which Peter and talented friends helped build. Further hassles ensue during his training for space haulage work: obstructive bureaucrats, crooked suppliers, murder attempts, and skillful sabotage. McCaffrey specializes in feel-good adventure SF, full of romance, warm friendships, and hearty meals. Somehow her villains never quite convince, though, and their evil deeds are so rapidly annulled that the story rarely builds up much suspense. Meanwhile, the orphan girl Amiriyah who's adopted into Peter's family has a mysterious, subtle talent of her own, one that we soon guess will change his life. Our young hero's ambitions foreshadow later far-future books in the series (beginning with The Rowan) in which "kinetics" hurl cargo across huge interstellar gulfs. While most people think his talent needs careful conservation, Peter has already teleported supplies to the moon and has secret plans for Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of Jupiter. It all makes for an agreeable, lightweight read. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Playbackby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0345349334 (0-345-34933-4)
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Players Boy Is Deadby Leonard TourneyISBN 0345343719 (0-345-34371-9)
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Plots and Errorsby Jill McGownISBN 0345433130 (0-345-43313-0)
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Polar Starby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345367650 (0-345-36765-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Polar Star'Book summary:Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for.... [via]
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Poseidon's Goldby Lindsey DavisISBN 0345380258 (0-345-38025-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poseidon's Gold'Book summary:"GREAT STUFF...A classic hard-boiled, smart-mouth detective who happens to work in ancient Rome."
--Molly Ivins
Los Angeles Daily News
After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.
Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions...
"AN INTRIGUING TALE...COMPULSIVE READING."
--Roanoke Times & World-News
"A VIVIDLY REALIZED IMPERIAL ROME--NOISY, DENSE AND DANGEROUS."
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Power Playby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345387813 (0-345-38781-3)
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Rainbow's Endby Martha GrimesISBN 0345394267 (0-345-39426-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End'Book summary:"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection--or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest. And while his good friend Melrose Plant pursues inquiries in London, Jury delves deeper into the more baffling elements of the case, discovering firsthand what the guide books don't tell you: that the Land of Enchantment is also a landscape ripe with tragedy, treachery, and murder.
"RAINBOW'S END is itself a literary rainbow. It's the skillful blend of mystery and comedy and pathos, a Martha Grimes trademark, that makes this visit with Richard Jury and company so memorable and satisfying."
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Restoreeby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345351878 (0-345-35187-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoree'Book summary:Sara had been torn from Earth by a nameless black force and taken to Lothar where she was forced to care for a strange man, who she discovered was the Regent. She escaped in panic, and become a fugitive in a world of multiple evils.... [via]
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Search the Seven Hillsby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345344383 (0-345-34438-3)
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Seven Dialsby Anne PerryISBN 0345440080 (0-345-44008-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Dials'Book summary:London detective Thomas Pitt is investigating the murder of a junior diplomat by a notorious Egyptian woman and her lover, a senior Cabinet minister involved in negotiating the conflict between Egypt's cotton growers and England's textile industry. Lovat, the diplomat, once served in Egypt, and to unravel the mystery of his death, Pitt travels to Alexandria, where he finds that the beautiful Ayesha Zakhari is not who she appears to be--and that Lovat's murder may be tied to an old crime which, if exposed, could set the Middle East aflame. While Pitt is in Egypt, his wife, Charlotte, occupies herself with a more mundane matter--the disappearance of a valet whose sister is a friend of the Pitt's housemaid. It's not long before the reader realizes the connection between the two crimes; meanwhile, Perry layers this smoothly plotted mystery with a fascinating history of Egypt in the days of the British Empire and the religious and economic tensions whose repercussions still resonate more than a century later. Perry, the author of two Victorian-era series (the other stars investigator William Monk), does her usual fine job of bringing the colorful time period alive, helped along by the details of domestic life provided by her protagonists' wives, interesting and accomplished women who have lately played all but equal roles in solving their husbands' cases. --Jane Adams [via]
Sick of Shadowsby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345356535 (0-345-35653-5)
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Sins of the Fathersby Ruth RendellISBN 0345342534 (0-345-34253-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sins of the Fathers'Book summary:It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . . [via]
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Skies of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345434692 (0-345-43469-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skies of Pern'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey's Pern series has been running successfully for so long that most of the Dragonriders' original problems have been solved. In The Skies of Pern, she confronts her standard cast of characters with the consequences of those solutions, consequences that are a whole new set of problems. Now that the Red Star has been pushed to another orbit, there will only be a few more ravenous Threads descending from it for them and their dragons to fight--and what role will that leave for them? They have successfully reclaimed Earth's lost technology--and suddenly everyone with a craft that might be outmoded, or who is phobic about surgery, is on the rampage, sabotaging and smashing and making up rumors. These fundamentalist Abominators are sure that something terrible will happen if the old ways are not gone back to--and sure enough, fire descends, on cue, from the skies.
Anne McCaffrey's tales of genetically engineered dragons and a lost colony that has declined into feudalism are ultimately SF rather than fantasy because they are about finding solutions to problems, solutions that involve working with what you are given to start off with; The Skies of Pern is all about elegant solutions to credible problems. --Amazon.co.uk [via]
Southampton Rowby Anne PerryISBN 0345440048 (0-345-44004-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Southampton Row'Book summary:Thomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. Yet Anne Perry's Southampton Row again finds him displaced from his police command, this time to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican.
Charles Voisey, leader of a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle, was defeated by Pitt when he tried (in The Whitechapel Conspiracy) to abolish the British monarchy. Only months later, though, he's back on top, running for a seat in Parliament. Under the auspices of the newly created Special Branch, Pitt is charged with learning whether Voisey has any "unguarded vulnerabilities." The odds against Pitt succeeding are high; Voisey may be "shallow, self-important [and] condescending," but he impresses voters as more charismatic and less controversial than his opponent, Aubrey Serracold, who's also hobbled by his connection to the recent slaying of a popular spiritualist. While Pitt's wife, Charlotte, and their family are safely out of London on vacation, Pitt, aided by the gruff but dogged Inspector Samuel Tellman, his politically astute sister-in law, and Charlotte's resourceful great-aunt Vespasia, seeks to solve the medium's murder before it can derail Aubrey Serracold's campaign.
Perry expertly portrays the volatile British political climate of the 1890s, and by making Pitt and Tellman rivals in their investigation, she further illuminates both men's characters. However, Southampton Row reduces the usually intrepid Charlotte to a hand-wringing irrelevance, and the novel feels too much like an intermediate and inconclusive chapter in a longer story arc. Like Holmes and Moriarty, Thomas Pitt and Charles Voisey appear destined to grapple once more. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
Sweet Death, Kind Deathby Amanda CrossISBN 0345352548 (0-345-35254-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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To Ride Pegasusby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345369971 (0-345-36997-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Ride Pegasus'Book summary:They were four extroardinary women who read minds, healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future--and became pariahs in their own land. A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of the everyday human race...to enter their own!
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Trouble Is My Businessby Raymond ChandlerISBN 034535494X (0-345-35494-X)
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The Vanished Childby Sarah SmithISBN 0345381645 (0-345-38164-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vanished Child'Book summary:New England, 1887. A millionaire is brutally murdered. The only witness, his young grandchild, mysteriously disappears . . . Eighteen years later, in Switzerland, a man with no memory is "recognized" as Richard Knight, the missing child. Thus begins a masterpiece of historical suspense, as one man's obsession leads him toward a shattering truth--and to a killer, still at large. . . .
"Stunning . . . Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Has all the ingredients of a juicy novel: greed, suspicion, love, madness and amnesia. Sarah Smith pulls it all together with a rare talent for telling a complex story in beautifully simple language."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"[A] deliciously intriguing tale. . . An artful literary puzzler featuring the kind of thick period detail and narrative intricacy mastered by Charles Dickens. . . This one belongs on the permanent shelf."
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Vanity Dies Hardby Ruth RendellISBN 0345349520 (0-345-34952-0)
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The Veiled Oneby Ruth RendellISBN 0345359941 (0-345-35994-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Veiled One'Book summary:Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect . . . but will he be able to make him talk? [via]
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Witness of Bonesby Leonard TourneyISBN 0345383192 (0-345-38319-2)
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Wolf to the Slaughterby Ruth RendellISBN 0345345207 (0-345-34520-7)
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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetypeby Clarissa Pinkola EstesISBN 0345396812 (0-345-39681-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'Book summary:The author is not only a Jungian analyst, but a storyteller. She is steeped in the traditions of storytelling from both the Latin and the Hungarian sides of her family, and I very much enjoyed the ways in which she uses this legacy of the storyteller as healer to make her points. I never thought of storytelling in this way before, but reading this book I found it to be true. (I feel that her stories have helped heal me.) I am a storyteller myself, of a sort, so for me the book was a kind of homecoming. If you have ever wondered why fairy tales seem so cruel and peculiar, you will find the answers in this book. Fairy tales have been mangled in the translation, but this author shows you where they came from and what they are really about. While I am a huge believer in free-market capitalism, growth, business, and civilization (as opposed to back-to-nature Green-ery), I have tremendous concerns about the increasingly violent and impersonal nature of our society. This book shows you how to cultivate a healing, loving attitude toward the world without becoming a doormat--quite the contrary, it shows how love can give you more strength and power than you'll ever find in a boardroom. [via]
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