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Atlantis Foundby Clive CusslerISBN 0399145885 (0-399-14588-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Attorneyby Steve MartiniISBN 0399145362 (0-399-14536-2)
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The Aviatorsby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0399133801 (0-399-13380-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aviators'Book summary:1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the U. S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, a force critical to its chances of success, but the obstacles facing it are staggering untrained men, mysteriously failing aircraft, vicious inter-service rivalries. As the hostilities increase, the warriors and the women who love them are swept into the struggle, their personal and professional lives twisting and intertwining as they race against time and the fortunes of war... [via]
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Bankerby Dick FrancisISBN 039912778X (0-399-12778-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banker'Book summary:It is difficult to say where disaster begins, to point towards one particular happening as the first definite step towards distant cataclysm. Looking back, Tim Ekaterin sees the beginning as the day his boss stepped into a fountain. Onwards from there, he comes across people and events as yet unconnected but which, when woven together by time and chance, leads towards violent explosive action and the threat of death. Set in the worlds of thoroughbred racing and merchant banking, the story covers a span of three years, growing from quiet harmless-seeming seeds to a wholly horrific harvest. [via]
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Basilicaby William D. MontalbanoISBN 0399144188 (0-399-14418-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1998by Otto Penzler, Sue GraftonISBN 0395835852 (0-395-83585-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Mystery Stories 1998'Book summary:Of the almost 600 mystery stories published in 1997, guest editor Sue Grafton has selected twenty of the finest for this installment of the acclaimed annual series. Authors range from the established (like Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, and Walter Mosley) to newcomers like David Ballard. All the tales are grounded in mystery fundamentals of crime and (usually) punishment, but each contains some edge or narrative experimentation that sets it apart from the flock. Block's "Keller on the Spot," for example, is a sardonic tale of a killer who saves the grandson of his next hit and winds up questioning his professional path. Stuart Kaminsky's entry, "Find Miriam," is a first-person narrative by Lew Fonesca, a detective who makes his living "finding people, asking questions, answering to nobody." In this case, however, the finding isn't the puzzle--the real puzzle is his client, a troubled husband whose wife has left him without an apparent motive. Throughout, Grafton's tastes run to the literary, and she is fascinated by the cathartic quality of each story. As she writes in her introduction: "Nowhere is iniquity, wrongdoing, and reparation more satisfying to behold than in the well-crafted yarns spun by the writers represented here. While we're plunged into the darkness by their skill and imagination, we're simultaneously reassured that we are safe... from ourselves." --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1998by Sue GraftonISBN 0395835860 (0-395-83586-0)
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1999by Ed McBain, Otto PenzlerISBN 0395939151 (0-395-93915-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Black Noticeby Patricia CornwellISBN 0399145087 (0-399-14508-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Notice'Book summary:It's Christmastime in Richmond, Virginia, but no one seems merry--least of all Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, back for her 10th outing as a crime-solving coroner. Actress Kate Reading also returns, reading her third unabridged audio for Patricia Cornwell's death-drenched series. This one finds Scarpetta still recovering from the murder of her lover and in a generally foul mood as an investigation of a badly decomposed body leads her to INTERPOL, and eventually, Paris. Series regulars Police Detective Pete Marino, recently demoted, and niece Lucy are in equally cantankerous states of mind, resulting in more blue language than Cornwell regulars may be used to. Reading proves she's up to the task, maintaining multiple distinct voices and highlighting the occasional humor in the overwhelmingly dark novel. A London-based stage actress, she captivates the listener without careening into melodrama. (Running time: 12.5 hours, 8 cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
Black Sundayby Thomas HarrisISBN 0399114432 (0-399-11443-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Blackoutby John J. NanceISBN 039914594X (0-399-14594-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackout'Book summary:The master of the airplane thriller and bestselling author of Pandora's Clock is back in his most harrowing adventure ever.
Reviewers have called John J. Nance "a wonderful storyteller"(Chicago Tribune) who gives readers the kind of book they want: "so compelling it's tough to look away" (People), "more addictive than morphine" (The Dallas Morning News), "the non-stop read of your life" (Rocky Mountain News).
As his new thriller Blackout begins, a Boeing 747-400 rises through a beautiful Hong Kong sunset on its way to Los Angeles. But within minutes, the plane is rocked by an explosion outside the cockpit that leaves one pilot dead and another blinded. The huge jet shudders through its descent while hundreds of passengers hold on for their lives.
Kat Bronsky, an FBI agent and terrorism specialist, is assigned the hunt for a Global Express business jet seen nearby prior to the attack. Could the explosion have been a cruel twist of fate? Or could the phantom Global Express have employed some new kind of weapon? Bronsky tracks the Global Express crew across the Pacific to the American Northwest and a breathless, edge-of-the-seat showdown. [via]More editions of Blackout:
Blindsightby Robin CookISBN 0399136452 (0-399-13645-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Bone Deepby David WiltseISBN 039914093X (0-399-14093-X)
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Borrower of the Nightby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0396067697 (0-396-06769-7)
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The Breakerby Minette WaltersISBN 0399144927 (0-399-14492-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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By the Pricking of My Thumbby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396088635 (0-396-08863-5)
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The Cardinal of the Kremlinby Tom ClancyISBN 0399133453 (0-399-13345-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin'Book summary:Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--America's highest agent in the Kremlin--and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the world to the brink of peace--or war. [via]
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The Cat Who Blew the Whistleby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399139818 (0-399-13981-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Blew the Whistle'Book summary:Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder in a railroad tavern. 150,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Cat Who Came to Breakfastby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399138684 (0-399-13868-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Cat Who Lived Highby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399135545 (0-399-13554-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Lived High'Book summary:For amateur sleuth Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese detective companions, Koko and Yum Yum, a trip to the city 'down below' brings not only rosy memories of good times, but also a whole heap of trouble ...A plea for help from SOCK, a tenants' organisation determined to save the decaying art deco glory of the Casablanca apartment building from the philistine attentions of the developers, is no strain on the trio's talents. But macabre bloodstains beneath Qwill's penthouse rug prove to be a telling message from SOCK's former leading light. It appears that Dianne Bessinger was stabbed to death in a lovers' tiff, but the combined twitching of Qwill's and Koko's curious whiskers proves that all is not what it seems. Only when Qwill begins to investigate the suicide of Dianne's killer do the strands of the mystery unravel ...but will Koko sniff out the truth in time to return the Casablanca to it's original glory? [via]
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The Cat Who Robbed a Bankby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399145702 (0-399-14570-2)
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Cat Who Said Cheeseby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399140751 (0-399-14075-1)
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The Cat Who Sniffed Glueby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 039913381X (0-399-13381-X)
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The Cat Who Tailed a Thiefby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 039914210X (0-399-14210-X)
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The Cat Who Went Undergroundby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 039913431X (0-399-13431-X)
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Chains of Commandby Dale BrownISBN 0399138226 (0-399-13822-6)
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Chanceby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399141340 (0-399-14134-0)
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Chromosome 6by Robin CookISBN 039914207X (0-399-14207-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chromosome 6'Book summary:The mutilated body of a notorious underworld figure leads forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton to a mysterious group in Africa that uses state-of-the-art medical technology for sinister purposes. 350,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild, Mystery Guild, & Doubleday Main. [via]
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Clear and Present Dangerby Tom ClancyISBN 0399134409 (0-399-13440-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clear and Present Danger'Book summary:CIA man Jack Ryan, hero of Patriot Games, finds that he will probably never have a boring summer: The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen. Tom Clancy's new thriller is based on America's war on drugs... and the covert--and shocking--U.S. response. [via]
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Clockersby Richard PriceISBN 0395537614 (0-395-53761-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Contagionby Robin CookISBN 0399141065 (0-399-14106-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contagion'Book summary:When not one but three different extremely rare diseases kill several patients at a New York hospital, forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton suspects it's more than just coincidence. He thinks there's a connection between the appearance of the mysterious microbes responsible for the deaths and the HMO that owns the hospital--the same HMO that once destroyed his flourishing medical practice. Is Americare deliberately killing off its sickest patients--those who cost the most money to treat? Or is there an even more sinister motive behind the strange goings-on at Manhattan General, not to mention the attempts on Jack's life? And what is beautiful Terese Hagen, the hard-driving creative director of a Madison Avenue ad agency, doing in the middle of this slightly muddled, but still engrossing, tale of greed, medicine, and mayhem? Like Michael Crichton, whose Andromeda Strain remains the classic in the genre, Cook is sometimes heavy-handed when it comes to character development, and his fulminations about the dangers of managed care often get in the way of the plot. Still, Contagion will make you think twice about taking your next case of flu to the ER instead of your own bed. --Jane Adams [via]
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Counterattackby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 039913493X (0-399-13493-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Critical Massby Steven Paul MartiniISBN 0399143629 (0-399-14362-9)
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0396070809 (0-396-07080-9)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crocodile on the Sandbank'Book summary:Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. [via]
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0396079636 (0-396-07963-6)
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Curtainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396071910 (0-396-07191-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Curtain'Book summary:Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on his old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career. [via]
The Dark Roomby Minette WaltersISBN 0399140786 (0-399-14078-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Dark Starby Alan FurstISBN 0395510643 (0-395-51064-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Day of Reckoningby John KatzenbachISBN 0399134492 (0-399-13449-2)
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Death Comes As the Endby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396081096 (0-396-08109-6)
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Death of a Unicornby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394741005 (0-394-74100-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Debt of Honorby Tom ClancyISBN 0399139540 (0-399-13954-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Debt of Honor'Book summary:Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse.[via]
He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage.
Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths -- America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion.
When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U. S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action.
As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully-integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is -- Jack Ryan, the new President's National Security Advisor. 
Double Deuceby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399137211 (0-399-13721-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Elephants Can Rememberby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396067425 (0-396-06742-5)
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Evil Under the Sunby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396080170 (0-396-08017-0)
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Executive Ordersby Tom ClancyISBN 0399142185 (0-399-14218-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Executive Orders'Book summary:Tom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appointed vice president, a slot he doesn't hold for long when he lands in the Chief Executive's chair. He goes after the Iranians and then tries to piece together the country and his life the only way he knows how--with a fury that we've grown accustomed to in Clancy's intricate, detailed, and accurate stories of warfare and intrigue. [via]
Family Honorby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399145664 (0-399-14566-4)
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Firestormby Nevada BarrISBN 039914126X (0-399-14126-X)
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God Save the Childby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395199557 (0-395-19955-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Save the Child'Book summary:Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. [via]
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Hammettby Joe GoresISBN 0399116001 (0-399-11600-1)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Hugger Muggerby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399145877 (0-399-14587-7)
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Hush Moneyby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399144587 (0-399-14458-7)
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Ill Windby Nevada BarrISBN 0399140158 (0-399-14015-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ill Wind'Book summary:The ruins of Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park provide a place of solace for Anna Pigeon until their beauty is tainted by death. By the author of Track of the Cat and A Superior Death. Lit Guild & Mystery Guild. [via]
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Judas Goatby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395266823 (0-395-26682-3)
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The Last Precinctby Patricia CornwellISBN 0399146253 (0-399-14625-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Precinct'Book summary:Patricia Cornwell's legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on causing her grievous physical or psychological harm.
The 11th Scarpetta novel, The Last Precinct, doesn't add any new names to the second roster. Instead, in a sweeping narrative gesture toward retrospection (less-than-fervent fans might whisper "or stagnation"), the novel depends largely on ground already covered in its predecessors, Black Notice and, to a lesser extent, Point of Origin. All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay's niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay's lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as Black Notice came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past.
Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley's murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder of the Last Precinct (an odd, ill-defined organization that is, in the words of its motto, "where you go when there is nowhere left"), and on her willingness to examine her own fears, misconceptions, and anything-but-altruistic motives. The most important setting in this novel is not the morgue--it's the living room where Kay's therapist forces her to address (you guessed it) "unresolved issues."
The novel's focus on Kay's emotional evolution does not, unfortunately, mask the leaps of illogic that pepper the plot's murky stew. More disturbing than these occasional lapses, however, is the feeling that Cornwell has written herself into a corner. The Scarpetta of The Last Precinct is a far cry from the irritably independent woman of previous books. Her often over-inflated musings are more tiresome than tantalizing. Cornwell's impressive track record makes this excursion a bit disappointing, but that same record means that loyal fans will race to acquire the book anyway and that the odds of her returning to her usual stellar form next time are (hurrah!) favorable. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Last Precinctby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0399146393 (0-399-14639-3)
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Line of Fireby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0399136711 (0-399-13671-1)
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The Long Goodbyeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Goodbye'Book summary:Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. [via]
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Lord Mullions Secretby Michael InnesISBN 0396080057 (0-396-08005-7)
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Mallory's Oracleby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0399139753 (0-399-13975-3)
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Mortal Stakesby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395219698 (0-395-21969-8)
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396087035 (0-396-08703-5)
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Night Passageby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399143041 (0-399-14304-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Passage'Book summary:Fans often feel uneasy when the creator of a popular character ventures into new turf, and sometimes their trepidation is justified. But readers of Robert B. Parker's immensely popular Spenser series can breathe a sigh of relief: while Night Passage doesn't feature Spenser, his usual gang of associates, or a Boston setting, it's vintage Parker--fast, witty, suspenseful, and engaging. Told in short, crisp chapters, it's the story of Jesse Stone, a 34-year-old ex-cop who just lost his L.A. policeman's job and his marriage due to a drinking problem. The book opens as Stone leaves California for his new job as chief of police in the picturesque town of Paradise, Massachusetts.
But Paradise isn't as placid as it seems--in fact, it's a festering mass of petty corruption, right-wing militia, sexual scandal, and bad guys who favor strong-arm tactics. Night Passage boasts a delicious, classic setup: the lone lawman, new in town, must make his stand to clean the place up. Stone has been picked for the job because the town fathers figured he'd be weak and malleable; as he gradually pulls himself together, it turns out they have a surprise in store. Stone's qualities may remind you of Spenser's--he's taciturn, fearless, good-looking, and compassionate--and in the end the plot's pleasing complexities get resolved a bit simply. But Robert B. Parker is in fine form in Night Passage, with his smart-aleck wit under control and his prose at its economical best. Spenser fans and Parker neophytes alike will find plenty to enjoy here. And the setting is, after all, not far from Boston--dare we hope for a Spenser-Stone meeting in future books? [via]
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Open Seasonby Archer MayorISBN 0399133984 (0-399-13398-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Season'Book summary:To tie into the December release of Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther hardcover Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, here is a reissue of the debut novel that first introduced Joe Gunther in 1989--out of print since 1991. Gunther investigates the murder of a juror by another juror from a three-year-old case. [via]
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Paper Dollby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399138188 (0-399-13818-8)
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Pastimeby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399136282 (0-399-13628-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastime'Book summary:The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker's electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.[via]This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person--Spenser must search his own soul...
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Playbackby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playback'Book summary:Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
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Playmatesby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399134255 (0-399-13425-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Point of Originby Patricia CornwellISBN 0399143947 (0-399-14394-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point of Origin'Book summary:Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: "Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire," it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped send to a psychiatric facility for going on a murder spree with Temple Gault in Cornwell's earlier book Body Farm. Benton believes that Grethen--who also happens to be the former lover of Scarpetta's niece Lucy--has big plans for a comeback. And before Kay and Benton can leave for their trip and discuss it further, Scarpetta is called upon to don yet another professional hat, that of a "consulting forensic pathologist" for the federal government. Someone has burned a highfalutin horse ranch and all of its contents, including a human being, to the ground. Worse, Grethen has escaped and is on the loose and closer to Kay and her beloved than she knows. Point of Origin, the ninth Scarpetta thriller, is classic Cornwell: rich with detail and strong dialogue, and doused with harrowing twists. [via]
Poirot Loses a Clientby Agatha ChristieISBN 0399136045 (0-399-13604-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Postern of Fateby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396068812 (0-396-06881-2)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Promised Landby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395247713 (0-395-24771-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Rainbow Sixby Tom ClancyISBN 0399143904 (0-399-14390-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Six'Book summary:For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centered, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But as Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has quietly established Ryan's shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late '90s. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.
Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organization code-named "Rainbow." Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French, and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.
Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting, and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team, and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the center of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Red Storm Risingby Tom ClancyISBN 0399131493 (0-399-13149-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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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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Reflexby Dick FrancisISBN 0399125981 (0-399-12598-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Sleep and His Brotherby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394744527 (0-394-74452-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Small Vicesby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399142444 (0-399-14244-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Vices'Book summary:While the rest of us grow older, Spenser seems suspended in perpetual early middle age. Oh, he talks about getting older, but his body is still firm, his muscles toned, and his reflexes are still hair-trigger fine. Even so, it is Spenser's body that betrays him when he is almost killed by an assassin's bullet two-thirds of the way through Robert B. Parker's latest Spenser adventure, Small Vices. Hired to discover the truth behind a four-year-old murder, Spenser soon runs afoul of "the Gray Man," who eventually shoots and partially paralyzes him. Spenser, his stalwart girlfriend Susan, and his almost mythical friend Hawk then hole up in Santa Barbara until the detective can get back on his feet again.
There's never any doubt that Spenser will get back on his feet, or that he will eventually track down the man who shot him and solve the mystery that started the whole ball rolling in the first place. What makes the Spenser mysteries interesting is Spenser himself, the thinking person's private eye, a man of honor and of conscience who understands that every action has consequences. [via]
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Stardustby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399135146 (0-399-13514-6)
Hardcover, Putnam's
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of "stage fright."[via] 
Street of the 5 Moonsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0396075282 (0-396-07528-2)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Sudden Mischiefby Robert B. ParkerISBN 039914370X (0-399-14370-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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A Summer in the Twentiesby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394751868 (0-394-75186-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Superior Deathby Nevada BarrISBN 0399139168 (0-399-13916-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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They Came to Baghdadby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396090117 (0-396-09011-7)
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Thin Airby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399140204 (0-399-14020-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Trouble in Paradiseby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399144331 (0-399-14433-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Walking Deadby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394741730 (0-394-74173-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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