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10 Lb. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 1568955251 (1-56895-525-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '10 Lb. Penalty'Book summary:One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis's long and celebrated career (he's won three Edgar Awards, the Silver Dagger, the Gold Dagger, a Cartier Diamond Dagger, and was named the 1996 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) is the freshness that he brings to each of his novels. Though every one of his 30-plus works of fiction has drawn from some aspect of the world of horses, Francis turns this constraint into a powerful source of inspiration. In 10 Lb. Penalty Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben's relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George's campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George's life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.
Francis's lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author's best fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Asimov's Mysteriesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449210758 (0-449-21075-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asimov's Mysteries'Book summary:Asimov's Mysteries, published in 1968, is a collection of 14 short stories by Isaac Asimov, all of them science fiction mysteries (although, as Asimov admits in the introduction, some are only borderline). The stories were all originally published in magazines between 1954 and 1967. Four stories in the collection feature the character of Wendell Urth, who is a leading extra-terrologist (an expert on alien worlds and life originating on them). Urth is eccentric in that he has a phobia of all mechanical forms of transport (an exaggeration of Asimov's own aversion to flying). Physically Urth resembles Norbert Wiener. He appears in the stories when he is consulted by an agent of the Terrestrial Bureau of Investigation, H. Seton Davenport, in cases which have him baffled - a parallel with the way in which Inspector Lestrade consults Sherlock Holmes. In a fifth story in the collection, The Dust of Death, Asimov shows Davenport a generosity that Conan Doyle never extended to Lestrade in demonstrating the former's ability to solve a case for himself without outside assistance. [via]
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Basket Caseby Carl HiaasenISBN 044661193X (0-446-61193-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basket Case'Book summary:Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, the mysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comeback album. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed with death since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yen for our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him. Put them in the hands of a master like Carl Hiaasen, who adds his trademark flourishes (who else would use a frozen lizard as a weapon?) to a creaky plot like this one, and the result is a winner. Florida is full of caper writers with journalistic credentials, and plenty of them have a deft hand with quirky characters, but no one in the genre is better than Hiaasen. --Jane Adams [via]
Borrower of the Nightby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380733390 (0-380-73339-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borrower of the Night'Book summary:This title features a new heroine from the creator of the internationally bestselling "Amelia Peabody" series. A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of sixteenth century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two perilous possibilities: either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits the place...or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find. [via]
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- Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0727846647 (0-7278-4664-7)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0792706528 (0-7927-0652-8)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0812523555 (0-8125-2355-5)
Softcover, Tor Books - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0396067697 (0-396-06769-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 079270651X (0-7927-0651-X)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0816161518 (0-8161-6151-8)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall - Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0380733390 (0-380-73339-0)
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- Borrower of the Night: ISBN 0727846647 (0-7278-4664-7)
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Break Inby Dick FrancisISBN 0449207552 (0-449-20755-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Break In'Book summary:A thriller in which a champion steeplechaser puts himself into a perilous situation when a smear campaign in the gutter press threatens to ruin his twin sister's life. [via]
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192839179 (0-19-283917-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Cat Who Lived Highby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 051510566X (0-515-10566-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Lived High'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jim Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the murder of Dianne Bessinger, the founder of an organization out to save an old apartment house, the Casablanca, from the real-estate developers who plan to tear it down. [via]
Cat Who Said Cheeseby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515120278 (0-515-12027-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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- Cat Who Said Cheese: ISBN 0399140751 (0-399-14075-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Cat Who Said Cheese: ISBN 0606126481 (0-606-12648-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Cat Who Said Cheese: ISBN 0783816316 (0-7838-1631-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Cat Who Said Cheese: ISBN 0515120278 (0-515-12027-8)
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- Cat Who Said Cheese: ISBN 0399140751 (0-399-14075-1)
The Cat Who Wasn't Thereby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515111279 (0-515-11127-9)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Ceremony in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425157628 (0-425-15762-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony in Death'Book summary:Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong--and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...[via]More editions of Ceremony in Death:
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City of Bonesby Michael ConnellyISBN 0446611611 (0-446-61161-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Bones'Book summary:Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry's still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it.
In City of Bones, Connelly's eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood's Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he's fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn't the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Dance Hall of the Deadby Tony HillermanISBN 1568496958 (1-56849-695-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance Hall of the Dead'Book summary:Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuñi, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, of the Navajo Tribal Police, tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuñi. Compelling, terrifying, and highly suspenseful, Dance Hall of the Dead never relents -- from first page till last.
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- Dance Hall of the Dead: ISBN 0816154333 (0-8161-5433-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Dance Hall of the Dead: ISBN 0922890722 (0-922890-72-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Dance Hall of the Dead: ISBN 0922890749 (0-922890-74-9)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Magazine - Dance Hall of the Dead: ISBN 1568496958 (1-56849-695-8)
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- Dance Hall of the Dead: ISBN 0816154333 (0-8161-5433-3)
A Darkness More Than Nightby Michael ConnellyISBN 0786228210 (0-7862-2821-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Dead To The Worldby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1596880163 (1-59688-016-3)
Hardcover, Large Print Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead To The World'Book summary:From Emma Bull's War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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A Death in Chinaby Carl Hiaasen, William D. MontalbanoISBN 0375700676 (0-375-70067-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Death in China'Book summary:An American investigating his mentor's murder finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and treachery in China, where even tomorrow's weather is a state secret. From a nightmarish interrogation to assassination by cobra, A Death in China takes readers on a trip with no rest stops through a world of claustrophobic mistrust and terrifying danger. [via]
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Deciderby Dick FrancisISBN 0330335685 (0-330-33568-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decider'Book summary:[via]Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
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Ghostwayby Tony HillermanISBN 0896216330 (0-89621-633-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Godwulf Manuscriptby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1568493177 (1-56849-317-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godwulf Manuscript'Book summary:For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. [via]
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Guardian of the Horizonby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0061032468 (0-06-103246-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guardian of the Horizon'Book summary:A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 19071908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror.
Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend Tarek, prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only the Emersons can provide.
Driven by loyalty -- and a fear that the evil forces opposing Tarek's rule will now exploit the royal heir's grave illness -- the family sets off in secret for the land time forgot -- a mountain fortress from which they narrowly escaped ten years before. Braving the treacherous desert climate on a trek fraught with danger at every turning, guided only by a crumbling map, the Emersons are unaware that deception is leading them onward into a nest of vipers -- where a dreadful fate may await. For young Ramses, forced to keep his growing love for the beautiful Nefret secret, temptation along the way may prove his ultimate undoing. And a dark past and grim obligation have ensnared Nefret once again, as she is helpless to save those she loves most from the prison of the Lost Oasis.
Guardian of the Horizon is rich with suspense, surprises, unforgettable characters, and the intoxicating atmosphere that has earned its author the coveted title of Grand Master two times over. The remarkable Elizabeth Peters proves once again that, in the world of historical adventure fiction, she is truly without peer.
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High Windowby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758269 (0-394-75826-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Window'Book summary:Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio dramatization of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, worldweary, wisecracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable, and very missing, along with one very valuable old coin. But for some reason the interested parties didn't seem too interested in finding either of them. Especially when the trail led to the underworld and beyond. And by then Marlowe was knee deep in dead men...[via] 
The League of Frightened Menby Rex StoutISBN 0553762982 (0-553-76298-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Man With a Load of Mischiefby Martha GrimesISBN 0451410815 (0-451-41081-5)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 0786226951 (0-7862-2695-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Night Workby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553578251 (0-553-57825-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Work'Book summary:Laurie King's first Kate Martinelli mystery, A Grave Talent, won Best First Novel honors from both the Mystery Writers of America and the British Crime Writers' Association. In this fourth installment in the series, King once again displays her talent as both a prose stylist and a masterful plotter in a case that proves to be personally harrowing for her heroine.
While attending a school play one evening, Detective Martinelli gets what appears to be a routine page about a homicide. The murder victim is James Larsen, an airport baggage handler found in the Presidio, handcuffed, strangled, and with stun-gun burns on his chest. And apparently he had a sweet tooth, given the candies found in his pocket. When it comes out that Larsen was an abusive husband whose wife now lives in a shelter, Martinelli's list of suspects takes a distasteful turn. Could the perpetrator be connected with the Ladies of Perpetual Disgruntlement, the group of secretive women (or men) who've lately been terrorizing abusers and rapists around the city with their humorous, updated version of the tar-and-feather treatment? Could it be Larsen's wife, a mousy woman who, nonetheless, is clearly harboring some secrets? Could it be Roz Hall, Martinelli's social crusading feminist minister friend? In each case, rage would be justified, but not murder.
When two additional murder victims with similar profiles--and pockets full of candy--surface, the San Francisco media takes an interest in this latest instance of vigilante justice. The investigation is further complicated by Roz's very public interest in the case of a young Indian bride who she believes was murdered. As Martinelli and her partner Al Hawkins try to sort through the mire of emotional entanglements, personal politics, and public scrutiny, King deftly maneuvers her tale through several carefully crafted turns. The novel is also threaded with Hindu spirituality and images of the dark goddess Kali, a vengeful figure perfectly appropriate in a novel about victimized women striking back. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Pelican Briefby John GrishamISBN 0385339704 (0-385-33970-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:In suburban Georgetown, a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief. To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it's political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder-a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one person-an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate-she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief-someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. [via]
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- The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0440214041 (0-440-21404-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0375433481 (0-375-43348-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0385421982 (0-385-42198-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0385423543 (0-385-42354-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday - The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0385339704 (0-385-33970-4)
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- The Pelican Brief: ISBN 0440214041 (0-440-21404-1)
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The Pelican Briefby Robin Waterfield, John GrishamISBN 0582417961 (0-582-41796-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. [via]
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The Regatta Mystery and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425100413 (0-425-10041-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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- The Regatta Mystery: And Other Stories: ISBN 0440173361 (0-440-17336-1)
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Softcover, G K Hall & Co - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories: ISBN 0396088058 (0-396-08805-8)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories: ISBN 0816145954 (0-8161-4595-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories: ISBN 0425100413 (0-425-10041-3)
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- The Regatta Mystery: And Other Stories: ISBN 0440173361 (0-440-17336-1)
A Right to Dieby Rex StoutISBN 0553240323 (0-553-24032-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Shadows in Bronzeby Lindsey DavisISBN 0517576120 (0-517-57612-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows in Bronze'Book summary:Rome. AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, is keeping busy tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed coup, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way ticket down the Appian Way - bumping into trouble, treason and Helena Justina, a senator's daughter he's trying hard to forget. [via]
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Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mysteryby Meg CabotISBN 0060525118 (0-06-052511-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery'Book summary:Heather Wells Rocks!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .
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Skinny Dipby Carl HiaasenISBN 1587248271 (1-58724-827-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinny Dip'Book summary:Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.
You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "Gods septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead.
As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Straightby Dick FrancisISBN 042520846X (0-425-20846-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight'Book summary:Injured steeplechase jockey Derek Franklin must recover $1.5 million worth of missing diamonds and find out who wanted his brother dead-or else his career won't be the only thing in danger of being cut short. [via]
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- Straight: ISBN 0515134651 (0-515-13465-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Straight: ISBN 0449217205 (0-449-21720-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Straight: ISBN 0399134700 (0-399-13470-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Straight: ISBN 0816149917 (0-8161-4991-7)
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Three Complete Novelsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399141278 (0-399-14127-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Thus Was Adonis Murderedby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0140063102 (0-14-006310-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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To Love and Be Wiseby Josephine TeyISBN 0684006316 (0-684-00631-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Love and Be Wise'Book summary:Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own? [via]
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifaxby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449208281 (0-449-20828-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax: ISBN 0449208281 (0-449-20828-1)
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The Winter Queenby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter Queen: A Novel'Book summary:Mystery readers should enjoy this story. It is as Russian and as international as caviar and vodka. A crafty tale full of atmosphere, character, and action. [via]
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Ciudad de Huesosby Michael Connelly, Javier Guerero GimenoISBN 8466613463 (84-666-1346-3)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ciudad de Huesos'Book summary:On New Year's Day, detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone that is believed to be humana chance discovery that leads him to evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. Digging through police reports and hospital records, and tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence and a trail into a violent, terrifying world. As the case takes him deeper into the past, and he fights to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown, the investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision. Harry Bosch recibe la orden de acudir a visitar a un doctor que insiste en que ha encontrado un hueso humano cuando paseaba con su perra por las colinas de Hollywood. Acompañado de un equipo de antropólogos forenses, Bosch descubre que el hueso pertenece al esqueleto de un niño que fue asesinado casi tres décadas atrás. Despierta no sólo la conmoción general, sino un inusitado interés dentro del propio equipo de investigadores. A Bosch no le gusta un asunto que, más allá de las típicas complicaciones policiales, denota claros paralelismos con su propia infancia tortuosa. En este escenario, Harry Bosch, cansado de esta lucha que parece no tener fin, tomará una drástica decisión vital.[via]More editions of Ciudad de Huesos:
La Estatua De Bronce / Shadows in Bronzeby Lindsey DavisISBN 8435016250 (84-350-1625-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Huerfanos De Brooklyn/ Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 849793296X (84-9793-296-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Informe Pelicano / The Pelican Briefby John Grisham, Enric TrempsISBN 8408053655 (84-08-05365-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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La Ventana Altaby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420673323 (84-206-7332-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Azazelby B. AkuninISBN 5815900494 (5-8159-0049-4)
Hardcover, Zakharov
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Dunkler als die Nacht.by Michael ConnellyISBN 3453864158 (3-453-86415-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dunkler als die Nacht.'Book summary:Als einer der vorzüglichsten amerikanischen Krimiautoren ist der ehemalige Polizeireporter Michael Connelly natürlich zum virtuosen Umgang mit seinem Stoff in der Lage. Darüber hinaus aber vermag er seiner Handlung eine ungewöhnliche Sogwirkung zu verleihen, die den Leser aus der Rolle des distanzierten Betrachters zur unmittelbaren Anteilnahme zwingt. Connelly gelingt ein nervenaufreibender Spannungsaufbau durch die Verknüpfung scheinbar zusammenhangloser Handlungsstränge, die Konfrontation zweier starker Heldenfiguren und die Verbindung eines monströsen Verbrechens mit dem Hauptwerk des niederländischen Renaissancemalers Hieronymus Bosch.
Harry Bosch ist erfolgreicher Ermittler des Los Angeles Police Department und steht als ermittelnder Beamter im Aufsehen erregenden Mordprozess gegen den Filmregisseur David Storey auf der Seite der Anklage. Storey soll eine Mitarbeiterin in seinem Haus erdrosselt und die Tote dann in ihre Wohnung zurückgebracht haben. Der Angeklagte legt eine Arroganz und Selbstsicherheit an den Tag, die Bosch aufbringt. Sein einziges Ziel kann nur Storeys Verurteilung sein.
Terry McCaleb arbeitete als so genannter Profiler im Dienste des FBI. Seine Aufgabe war es, aufgrund von Tatumständen und Tatorten Täterprofile zu entwerfen, die den Fahndern die Aufklärung von Gewaltverbrechen erleichtern können. Nach einer Herztransplantation musste McCaleb seine überaus erfolgreiche Tätigkeit beenden. Als er in einem verfahrenen Mordfall inoffiziell um Hilfe gebeten wird, wird ihm klar, dass er sich nie wirklich der Faszination des alten Jobs entziehen konnte. Wie ein "trockener" Alkoholiker nach dem ersten neuerlichen Schluck verfällt McCaleb seiner Arbeit wieder mit Haut und Haaren. Zu seiner Überraschung erkennt er nach den ersten Nachforschungen, dass das Verbrechen nach einem Gemälde von Hieronymus Bosch inszeniert zu sein scheint. Und zu seinem Entsetzen entwirft er ein Täterprofil, das nicht nur des Namens wegen auf einen alten Bekannten zu deuten scheint: auf Harry Bosch.
Dunkler als die Nacht ist sicher einer der besten Polizeiromane der letzten Jahre, der sich besonders durch die feine psychologische Ausgestaltung seiner Hauptfiguren und eine buchstäblich haarsträubend spannende Handlung auf höchstem Niveau auszeichnet. Am besten natürlich nachts zu lesen! --Ulrich Deurer [via]
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