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Airframeby Michael CrichtonISBN 0963192574 (0-9631925-7-4)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airframe'Book summary:Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn't want her to find the truth. Airframe bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton's readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com's Airframe feature and read an excerpt from the book! [via]
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The Anodyne Necklaceby Martha GrimesISBN 0896214869 (0-89621-486-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Any Given Momentby Laura Van WormerISBN 1551660911 (1-55166-091-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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At Riskby Stella RimingtonISBN 1400079810 (1-4000-7981-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Baby Farmby Karen HarperISBN 1551665204 (1-55166-520-4)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Backcountry Snowboardingby Christopher Van TilburgISBN 0898865786 (0-89886-578-6)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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Beside the Still Watersby Charles MeyerISBN 0963114948 (0-9631149-4-8)
Softcover, Syan Books
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The Big Bounceby Elmore LeonardISBN 0922890021 (0-922890-02-1)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library
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Blessed Are the Mercilessby Charles MeyerISBN 0963114956 (0-9631149-5-6)
Softcover, Stone Angel Books
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Blood Testby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0913165743 (0-913165-74-3)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books
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The Bone Paradeby Mark NykanenISBN 1401300189 (1-4013-0018-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The Bookman's Promiseby John DunningISBN 1416513205 (1-4165-1320-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Bottomsby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0892967048 (0-89296-704-8)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bottoms'Book summary:Joe Lansdale, author of several horror novels, Westerns, and some outrageous thrillers, is something of a cult writer. The Bottoms, which may be the breakout book that moves Lansdale beyond the genre category, is a resonant and moving novel. Though there is a mystery at its core, it is at heart a coming-of-age story, with a more literary bent than Lansdale usually demonstrates.
Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a series of events that occurred in his 11th year, when the mutilated, murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where his father was the local constable. Harry and Tom, his younger sister, find the first one. Only their father, Jacob Crane, seems to care about finding justice for the victims, who are dismissed out of hand as unimportant by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which warns Jacob off any further investigations. Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man, a creature who's said to lurk beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River, where the first body was found. In fact, the Goat Man has something to do with the murders, and the secret of who he is and what he really did is the key to the unsolved slayings. But that takes second place to the artfully explicated character of Jacob and Harry's changing relationship with him in the course of the loss of his boyish innocence. This is a masterfully told story and a very good read. --Jane Adams [via]
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Bury the Leadby David RosenfeltISBN 089296782X (0-89296-782-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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California Moonby Catherine LaniganISBN 1551665786 (1-55166-578-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Canyoneering: Beginning to Advanced Techniquesby Christopher Van TilburgISBN 0898867045 (0-89886-704-5)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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The Cardinal of the Kremlinby Tom ClancyISBN 0896212440 (0-89621-244-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Circular Staircaseby Mary Roberts RinehartISBN 1426409265 (1-4264-0926-5)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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Clear and Present Dangerby Tom ClancyISBN 0896219429 (0-89621-942-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Constant Gardenerby John Le CarreISBN 1416503900 (1-4165-0390-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constant Gardener'Book summary:There were those who feared that the end of the Cold War would deal a fatal blow to the creativity of many first-rate thriller writers who specialised in this territory. In the case of John le Carré, this would have meant the loss of not only Britain's finest thriller writer, but a serious novelist of quite as much literary gravitas as any of his mainstream contemporaries. Certainly, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold remains as utterly compelling today as when it was written, whereas such post-cold war le Carré themes as financial double-dealing seemed to inspire him less than the world of shifting identity he had dealt in so skilfully. But with The Constant Gardener, we have the author once again firing on all cylinders. The characterisation is as elegant and expressive as ever, the prose as limpid and forceful. But, most of all, le Carré has found a theme quite as pregnant as any he has handled in the past: the malign, deceptively ameliorative world of global pharmaceuticals. In the new novel, the customary themes of betrayal and danger are explored in a narrative that exerts a total grip throughout its considerable length. His protagonist, Justin Quayle, is an unreflective British diplomat whose job in the British High Commission in Nairobi suggests one of Graham Greene's dispossessed protagonists trying to survive in the sultry corruption of foreign climates. President Arap Moi's Kenya is a country in the grip of AIDS, while political machinations maintain a deadly status quo. When Quayle's wife (who has taken more interest in what is happening around her than her husband) is killed, his investigation of her murder leads him into a murky web of exploitation involving Kenyan greed and a major pharmaceutical company eager to promote its "wonder cure" for tuberculosis. As Quayle looks deeper into the company which his wife had been investigating, all he has carefully built around him begins to crumble. The steady accumulation of tension and rigorous delineation of character is emblematic of le Carré at his finest, and it is a tremendous pleasure to find the author so resolutely back on form, fired with a real sense of anger at the duplicity of the modern world:
"Specious, unadulterated, pompous Foreign Office bullshit, if you want its full name... trade isn't making the poor rich. Profits don't buy reforms. They buy corrupt government officials and Swiss bank accounts".
--Barry Forshaw (This Review refers to the hardback edition of this title) [via]More editions of The Constant Gardener:
Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890390 (0-922890-39-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Curse of the Pharaohs/Collectorsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890404 (0-922890-40-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0893406066 (0-89340-606-6)
Softcover, J. Curley
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Darkroomby Eleanor Lewis, Wynn BullockISBN 0912810203 (0-912810-20-3)
Hardcover, Lustrum Press
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The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 089966184X (0-89966-184-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. [via]
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Death Of An Expert Witnessby P. D. JamesISBN 1417617543 (1-4176-1754-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Deer Leap: A Richard Jury Novelby Martha GrimesISBN 0896217132 (0-89621-713-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Deja Dead : A Novelby Kathy ReichsISBN 1416510559 (1-4165-1055-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Devices & Desiresby P. D. JamesISBN 1400076242 (1-4000-7624-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devices & Desires'Book summary:National Bestseller
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career. [via]More editions of Devices & Desires:
The Dirty Duckby Martha GrimesISBN 0896215725 (0-89621-572-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Disordered Mindsby Minette WaltersISBN 1405034173 (1-4050-3417-3)
Softcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disordered Minds'Book summary:Slowly but surely, Minette Walters has been building up her reputation as one of the UK's most penetrating and distinctive purveyors of the psychological thriller. Disordered Minds will add even more lustre to her name. Such books as Fox Evil and Acid Row demonstrated Walters' reluctance to repeat herself in terms of narrative, and her easy command of the various social groups in her novels (upper middle or council estate) is more sure than that of her colleagues and peers.
Disordered Minds builds on her rich mélange of gifts and continues to strip-mine darker areas of the human psyche than most contemporary novelists--literary or otherwise--are keen to tackle. It's the 1970s: a man dies in prison after a controversial conviction for killing his grandmother. Howard Stamp, an educationally subnormal young man, takes his own life, and the case generates movements claiming Stamp's innocence. Anthropologist Jonathan Hughes digs deeper than the police had originally done, and when Jonathan's path crosses that of the elderly George Gardener, long an advocate of the hapless Stamp's innocence, Gardener co-opts Jonathan in an attempt to clear the dead man's name. But there are some frightening consequences, such as the fact that the real killer will not like being put in the frame again.
As always, Walters is interested in far more than the simple mechanics of crime-novel plotting: Despite their differences, Jonathan Hughes finds that the backward Stamp is still something of a doppelganger of himself, mirroring his own disturbed childhood and sense of alienation, while the background of a pending conflict in Iraq throws the personal dramas sharply into relief. This is Walters at her disturbing best. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Doll in the Gardenby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0899198481 (0-89919-848-1)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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The Five Bells and Bladeboneby Martha GrimesISBN 0896211258 (0-89621-125-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Godwulf Manuscriptby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0893402184 (0-89340-218-4)
Softcover, L P Books
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Hallowed Murderby Ellen HartISBN 0931188830 (0-931188-83-0)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hallowed Murder'Book summary:Jane Lawless is a woman at a crossroads - her lover has left, she has finally recovered from a vicious attack sustained last year, and the holidays are closing in. With no one to help her ring in the new year, Jane reluctantly agrees to accompany her good friend Cordelia Thorn on a peculiar holiday trip: Cordelia's estranged sister, Broadway star Octavia Thorn, has asked them to attend her wedding.[via]
Octavia getting married is no surprise - she's done it three times before - but her candidate for hubby #4 certainly is. Roland Lester is a reclusive eighty-three-year-old retired Hollywood director, a relic from the golden age of Tinseltown with a controversial past. No one can understand how the two met, much less fell in love. When the bodies start to drop, Jane realizes it might not be love at all that brought the young diva and the aged director together, but something much deeper, and perhaps more sinister.
Delving deep into film history, Jane finds unsettling connections between Roland and a murder that was never solved. Finding out what happened 40 years ago could be the key to unlock the mystery of Octavia's curious marriage, but laying bare such long-buried secrets also promises grave consequences for everyone involved.More editions of Hallowed Murder:
I Am the Only Running Footmanby Martha GrimesISBN 0896217744 (0-89621-774-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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If Tomorrow Comesby Sidney SheldonISBN 0896216381 (0-89621-638-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The James Joyce Murderby Amanda CrossISBN 0896213730 (0-89621-373-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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The Jerusalem Innby Martha GrimesISBN 0896216047 (0-89621-604-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Judas Goatby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0893402206 (0-89340-220-6)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc
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The Jupiter Mythby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892967773 (0-89296-777-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jupiter Myth'Book summary:Lindsey Davis' popular Marcus Didius Falco series continues with a classic noir tale of gangsters, gladiators, and romance. For Falco, an attempt at relaxing while visiting his wife Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious when a murder is discovered. King Togidubnus, the renegade henchman of Rome's vital ally, has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well-leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco must defuse. Making matters worse, the town has become a magnet for criminals from Rome...and one murder leads to others. With the army turning a blind eye, Falco and his partner Petronius must lead the hunt for gangsters intent on taking over the city. From the wharves beside the River Thamesis to the old haunts of organized crime back home in Italy, Falco and Petronius face danger and death in every corner. Will they be able to return order to the city before they lose everything they hold dear? [via]
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The Killings at Badger's Driftby Caroline GrahamISBN 0917561414 (0-917561-41-4)
Hardcover, Woodbine House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killings at Badger's Drift'Book summary:A television tie-in set in the quiet English village of Badger's Drift, where an unwilling Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is dragged into the investigation of the killing of a popular spinster. First published in paperback in 1989 and now reissued. From the author of DEATH OF A HOLLOW MAN and MURDER AT MADINGLEY GRANGE. [via]
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0896217302 (0-89621-730-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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The Little Drummer Girlby John Le CarreISBN 0896214656 (0-89621-465-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 089340330X (0-89340-330-X)
Softcover, J. Curley
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The Man With a Load of Mischiefby Martha GrimesISBN 0896215148 (0-89621-514-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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Mark Twain Murdersby Edith SkomISBN 0933031173 (0-933031-17-3)
Hardcover, Council Oaks Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain Murders'Book summary:Skulduggery was afoot in the campus library at Midwestern University. Sinister students were razoring pages from periodicals and stealing obscure essays for their term papers. A bookish thief was making a bundle smuggling out valuable first editions for resale. And in the South Tower, a killer was stalking a coed.
Even so, Professor Beth Austin was shocked--and intrigued--to find a handsome FBI agent in the English Department. Soon they had joined forces, delving into the lives of her eccentric colleagues...and straying into the dark shadows of the groves of academe where someone's hands were stained with blood. [via]More editions of Mark Twain Murders:
Medusa: An Aurilio Zen Mysteryby Michael DibdinISBN 1400076080 (1-4000-7608-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 142180901X (1-4218-0901-X)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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Nantucket Diet Murdersby Virginia RichISBN 0896216314 (0-89621-631-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 1400078776 (1-4000-7877-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Let Me Go'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathynow thirty-one years oldlived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbedeven comfortedby their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailshams nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhoodand about their lives now.
A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonanceand takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguros finest work. [via]More editions of Never Let Me Go:
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No Word from Winifredby Amanda CrossISBN 089621740X (0-89621-740-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 1400031346 (1-4000-3134-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'Book summary:Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir.
It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases.
But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT."
The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Old Silent: A Richard Jury Novelby Martha GrimesISBN 0896219909 (0-89621-990-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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One Virgin Too Manyby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892967161 (0-89296-716-1)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Virgin Too Many'Book summary:Marcus Didius Falco is back in another lively first-century historical mystery. The Roman investigator, informer, and imperial spy's snappy patter, romantic leanings, strong sense of irony, and penchant for getting into interesting situations have won Lindsey Davis a growing number of fans. Flush with his earnings from an African adventure (Two for the Lions), Falco's just been rewarded for his service to the empire with an unusual bit of political patronage: he's been appointed to the largely ceremonial position of Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, meaning he's in charge of the care and feeding of a gaggle of sacred geese. This un-Falco-like upward mobility is an opportunity for Marcus to move his patrician wife, Helena Justina, and their toddler out of a tenement and into a home of their own. As much as Marcus scoffs at middle-class pretensions, he's not above leaving his seedy surroundings and providing his family with some of the finer things, if only to show his in-laws that he can. But when Helena's brother falls over a corpse that disappears before it can be identified, Falco tosses the geese some food and gets busy finding the connection between the dead man and a 6-year-old girl who's in line to be chosen as the new vestal virgin. That leads him into intrigue, danger, and a confrontation with a former vestal virgin that almost costs him his life. Well paced, with good dialogue, excellent plotting, and a cast of terrific characters surrounding Falco and Helena, including some familiar from earlier stories, One Virgin Too Many shows Davis in top form. Falco the family man is better company than ever. --Jane Adams [via]
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People of Darknessby Tony HillermanISBN 089621575X (0-89621-575-X)
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A Perfect Evilby Alex KavaISBN 1551665735 (1-55166-573-5)
Hardcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Playmatesby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0896218937 (0-89621-893-7)
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The Poison Oracleby Peter DickinsonISBN 0893406805 (0-89340-680-5)
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Q Is for Quarryby Sue GraftonISBN 1410401634 (1-4104-0163-4)
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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]
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Red Storm Risingby Tom ClancyISBN 0896218856 (0-89621-885-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Storm Rising'Book summary:Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle it out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget.
Hard-hitting, suspenseful, and frighteningly real.
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Rose's Last Summerby Margaret MillarISBN 0930330269 (0-930330-26-9)
Softcover, International Polygonics, Limited
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 1417718153 (1-4177-1815-3)
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A Savage Place: A Spenser Novelby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0896213439 (0-89621-343-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Savage Place: A Spenser Novel'Book summary:TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life. [via]More editions of A Savage Place: A Spenser Novel:
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 1400031702 (1-4000-3170-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. [via]
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The Secret Supperby Javier Sierra, Alberto ManguelISBN 1416544291 (1-4165-4429-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Supper'Book summary:The Da Vinci juggernaut rolls on, this time in the capable hands of a bestselling author in the Spanish-speaking world. The Secret Supper has been ably translated by Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading, that delightful revelation that squiggles on a page are words, and words make stories. Set in 1497 Milan, at the time of the painting of the Cenacolo, or The Last Supper, in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Sierra has created a tale of religious fanaticism, betrayal, murder, Church politics, artistic chicanery and mystery to confound the reader.
Fra Agostino Leyre, a Papal Inquisitor, is sent to Milan to confirm--or not--the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper. Leonardo is a figure larger than life, literally. A blue-eyed, tall, handsome man, always dressed in white, he is surrounded by faithful students and friends who are his acolytes. His brilliant mind, ranging over a multitude of ideas, has gained him a reputation for "hiding heterodox ideas in paintings apparently pious."
What Father Agostino follows is a labyrinthine path through alliances and rivalries, differences of opinion about Leonardo and a discussion of the heresy of the Cathars. They are a fascinating sect, more extra-Christianity than Christian heretics. Their practices are based on a belief that certain deprivations--primarily food and sex--will purify and make them worthy. Sierra is a very fine guide, taking the reader through palaces and monasteries rife with intrigue and typical of the flowering of intellect that came after the Dark Ages. It is a time when "Suddenly, from one day to the next, Plato's Greece, Cleopatra's Egypt and even the extravagant curiosities of the Chinese Empire that Marco Polo discovered seemed to deserve greater praise than our own Scriptural stories." Dangerous for the incumbency.
A compelling case is made that Leonardo's heretical beliefs are there for all to see in The Last Supper, if only we know how to find them. Sierra gives us the key--and keeps the suspense going right up to the end of the book. It isn't necessary to believe any of it, or even care if it's true, to enjoy this pilgrimage through another time and place. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Sherlock Holmes:The Adventures of the Sussex Vampire and Other Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1417739355 (1-4177-3935-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes:The Adventures of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories'Book summary:Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyles incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 1417618256 (1-4176-1825-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, but his five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. [via]
Skeleton Canyonby Bud JonesISBN 1410704181 (1-4107-0418-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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Some Lie and Some Dieby Ruth RendellISBN 0896215741 (0-89621-574-1)
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The Spy's Wifeby Reginald HillISBN 0893405752 (0-89340-575-2)
Softcover, Chivers Press
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A Taste for Deathby P. D. JamesISBN 1400096472 (1-4000-9647-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Taste for Death'Book summary:When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . . [via]
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The Third Translationby Matt BondurantISBN 1401308414 (1-4013-0841-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Three to Get Deadlyby Janet EvanovichISBN 1417664398 (1-4176-6439-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three to Get Deadly'Book summary:As readers of Janet Evanovich's two previous books about funny, feisty, family-tied bounty hunter Stephanie Plum already know, she operates in "the burg"--a "comfy residential chunk of Trenton, New Jersey, where houses and minds are proud to be narrow and hearts are generously wide open." On this turf, Plum fights for justice and fashion points--this time in pursuit of a beloved neighborhood candystore owner who seems to be moonlighting as an anti-drug vigilante. Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire, but authentic affection for Trenton energizes her prose. Plums in paperback include One for the Money and Two for the Dough. [via]
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Trojan Goldby Elizabeth PetersISBN 089621818X (0-89621-818-X)
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The Turkish Gambit: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060508 (1-4000-6050-8)
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1404337490 (1-4043-3749-0)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Valley of Fear'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am inclined to think- said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times." He was too much absorbed with his own thoughts to give any immediate answer to my remonstrance. He leaned upon his hand, with his untasted breakfast before him, and he stared at the slip of paper which he had just drawn from its envelope. Then he took the envelope itself, held it up to the light, and very carefully studied both the exterior and the flap. [via]
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Who Guards the Princeby Reginald HillISBN 0893405906 (0-89340-590-6)
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The Widening Gyreby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0896215466 (0-89621-546-6)
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The Wisdom of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1421906015 (1-4219-0601-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Father Brown'Book summary:From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs down bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful?After many years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown." Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books. [via]
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La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Windby Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 0974872407 (0-9748724-0-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind'Book summary:Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página. [via]
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