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The Annotated Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton, Martin Gardner

ISBN 0898707447 (0-89870-744-7)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr

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This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novel's anarchists as symbols of our God-given free will, and the mysterious Sunday as representing Nature, with its strange mixture of good and evil when considered as distinct from God, as a mask hiding the transcendental face of the creator. The book also includes a bibliography listing the novel's many editions and stage dramatizations, as well as numerous illustrations that further illuminate the text. Gardner's annotating of Chesterton's famous novel is a delight. His notes bring Edwardian London to life, and he offers exciting new insights into the novel's meaning. - Joseph Pearce, Author, Tolkien: Man and Myth Gardner is a gift to anyone interested in genuine literary scholarship. He magnifies the fascinating pictures seen through the gorgeous window that is a Chesterton novel. - Michael Coren, Author, Gilbert: The Man Who Was G. K. Chesterton Gardner's annotations provide everything required for the study and enjoyment of Chesterton's best novel, a grand thriller. - John Peterson, Editor, Father Brown of the Church of Rome Martin Gardner's skill in combining math, science, philosophy and literature has produced more than sixty books of diverse natures, including two novels and a collection of short stories. Some of his other annotated works include The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Ancient Mariner. For 25 years he was the writer of mathematical games for Scientific American. [via]
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Blood Work
by Michael Connelly

ISBN 0316153990 (0-316-15399-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company

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Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.
In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's.
As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before. [via]
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Bolt
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0425202887 (0-425-20288-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The hero of Francis' bestselling Break-In now gets involved in finding a cruel killer of horses, loses the women he loves to an aristocrat, and is menaced by an aspiring arms merchant. 2 cassettes. [via]
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The Cat Who Played Brahms
by Lilian Jackson Braun

ISBN 0515090506 (0-515-09050-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.
With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a longtime family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight, Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwilleran hooks on to a murder mystery. Soon Qwilleran enters into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...
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The Cat Who Turned on and Off
by Lilian Jackson Braun

ISBN 0515087947 (0-515-08794-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action--with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.
When Qwilleran decides to do a feature story on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors--as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career--and the life--of one of Junktown's leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he's right.
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Catering to Nobody
by Diane Mott Davidson

ISBN 1574902040 (1-57490-204-0)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler

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MEET THE CATERER WHO WHIPPED UP THE
MULTIMILLION-COPY MYSTERY SERIES
AS GOLDY SOLVES HER FIRST MURDER!

Diane Mott Davidsons winning recipe of first-class suspense and five-star fare has won her and caterer Goldy critical raves and a regular place on major bestseller lists across the country. In Goldys tantalizing debut, she serves up a savory dish of secrets, suspicions, and murder....

INCLUDING NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED RECIPES

Catering a wake is not Goldys idea of fun. Yet the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast including Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. And her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered...until her ex-father-in-law gynecologist Fritz Korman is struck down and Goldy is accused of adding poison to the menu. Now, with the Department of Health impounding her leftovers, her ex-husband proclaiming her guilt, and her business about to be shut down, Goldy knows she cant wait for the police to serve up the answers. Shell soon uncover more than one family skeleton and a veritable stew of unpalatable secretsthe kind that could make Goldy the main course in an unsavory killers next murder! [via]
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Deadly Decisions
by Kathleen J. Reichs

ISBN 0671028367 (0-671-02836-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist with one of the longest commutes in fiction--from North Carolina to Montreal. She works in both places, and in this third outing (after Déjà Dead and Death du Jour) she manages to make a riveting (if a bit too coincidental) connection between a skull in Montreal and the partial skeleton of a teenager--dead since 1984--in North Carolina. Linking them is a 9-year-old girl shot on a Montreal street, the victim of a war among members of an outlaw motorcycle gang in eastern Canada. Another piece of the puzzle is provided by Tempe's visiting nephew, who is fascinated by the biker culture and is drawn into the mystery Tempe's trying to solve:

"Know anything about Slick?" asked Kit.
"He doesn't look like the pick of the litter."
"Yeah, even from that motley litter." He flipped the picture. "Heck, this guy croaked when I was 3 years old."
There were two more photos of Slick's funeral, both taken from a distance, one at the cemetery, the other on the church steps. Many of the mourners wore caps riding their eyebrows, and bandannas stretched to cover their mouths.
"The one you've got must be from a private collection." I handed Kit the other pictures. "I think these two are police surveillance photos. Seems the bereaved weren't anxious to show their faces."
The science is as accurate as the author can make it. Kathy Reichs's own background--as forensic anthropologist for the chief medical officer of North Carolina and director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec--ensures verisimilitude of place and procedure and creates a believable milieu. Fans of Patricia Cornwall will enjoy this solidly written suspense thriller, while those of a less scientific bent, who don't mind a somewhat lagging pace, will skip the details and concentrate on Reichs's fluid writing. All readers will enjoy the way Tempe puts the pieces of the puzzle, as well as the bodies, together. --Jane Adams [via]
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Deadly Decisions: A Novel
by Kathy Reichs

ISBN 0684859718 (0-684-85971-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist with one of the longest commutes in fiction--from North Carolina to Montreal. She works in both places, and in this third outing (after Déjà Dead and Death du Jour) she manages to make a riveting (if a bit too coincidental) connection between a skull in Montreal and the partial skeleton of a teenager--dead since 1984--in North Carolina. Linking them is a 9-year-old girl shot on a Montreal street, the victim of a war among members of an outlaw motorcycle gang in eastern Canada. Another piece of the puzzle is provided by Tempe's visiting nephew, who is fascinated by the biker culture and is drawn into the mystery Tempe's trying to solve:

"Know anything about Slick?" asked Kit.
"He doesn't look like the pick of the litter."
"Yeah, even from that motley litter." He flipped the picture. "Heck, this guy croaked when I was 3 years old."
There were two more photos of Slick's funeral, both taken from a distance, one at the cemetery, the other on the church steps. Many of the mourners wore caps riding their eyebrows, and bandannas stretched to cover their mouths.
"The one you've got must be from a private collection." I handed Kit the other pictures. "I think these two are police surveillance photos. Seems the bereaved weren't anxious to show their faces."
The science is as accurate as the author can make it. Kathy Reichs's own background--as forensic anthropologist for the chief medical officer of North Carolina and director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec--ensures verisimilitude of place and procedure and creates a believable milieu. Fans of Patricia Cornwall will enjoy this solidly written suspense thriller, while those of a less scientific bent, who don't mind a somewhat lagging pace, will skip the details and concentrate on Reichs's fluid writing. All readers will enjoy the way Tempe puts the pieces of the puzzle, as well as the bodies, together. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Devil in Music
by Kate Ross

ISBN 0140263640 (0-14-026364-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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With flawless period detail and a dapper English detective reminiscent of Lord Peter Wimsey, Kate Ross is charming fans of Anne Perry and Elizabeth George--and earning a loyal following of mystery readers eager to accompany Julian Kestrel from adventure to satisfying adventure. Traveling on the Continent with his ex-pickpocket valet, Kestrel finds himself caught up in the mysterious and murderous world of the opera. Four years ago, the Italian marquis Ludovico Malvezzi was murdered, and Orfeo, the young English tenor he had been training for a career on the glittering operatic stage, disappeared. As Kestral is irresistibly drawn into the baffling case, he encounters suspects at every turn: a runaway wife and her male soprano lover; a liberal nobleman at odds with Italy's Austrian overlords; a mocking Frenchman with perfect pitch; a beautiful, clever widow who haunts Kestrel's dreams; and the missing Orfeo, the penniless protg who just might be a political agent. And when the killer strikes again, Kestrel's quest for answers spirals into a crescendo of passion, danger, and music as he risks becoming a ruthless murderer's next victim. [via]
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Driving Force
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0449221393 (0-449-22139-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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When a hitchhiker picked up by one of his drivers is later found murdered, ex-jockey Freddie Croft, the owner of a profitable fleet of horse vans, is drawn into the mystery. By the author of Comeback. 275,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Eight
by Katherine Neville

ISBN 0345366239 (0-345-36623-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in 1972 ... and 1790. In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to Algeria at the behest of the accounting firm where she is employed, is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for centuries.
In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination. She eventually comes into contact with the major historical figures of the day, from Robespierre to Napoleon, each of whom has an agenda.
The Eight is a non-stop ride that recalls the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones as well as the historical puzzles of Umberto Eco which, since its first publication in 1988, has gone on to acquire a substantial cult following. [via]
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El ocho
by Katherine Neville, Susana Constante

ISBN 8440616368 (84-406-1636-8)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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Before computer expert Cat Velis can leave for her new job in Algeria, a mysterious fortune-teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for the pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years. Created in the south of France in 1790, the chess set is rumored to contain the secrets behind alchemy, freemasonry, and cosmic forces. But long ago two convent girls hid the valuable chess pieces all over the world because the game played with all of the pieces is dangerously powerful.
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The Firm
by John Grisham

ISBN 0385319053 (0-385-31905-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The Firm
by Robin Waterfield, Penguin

ISBN 0582418275 (0-582-41827-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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D.W. Moffett uses his youthful voice to outstanding effect in this excellent abridgment of Grisham's bestselling thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. "We're small and very selective... we screened over two thousand third-year law students at the best schools. Only one letter was sent." They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch. Moffett gives an excellent performance, bringing the story to life with vibrant and believable characterizations and a smooth, knowing narrative. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440128994 (0-440-12899-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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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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Grave Secrets
by Kathy Reichs

ISBN 0671028383 (0-671-02838-3)
Softcover, Pocket Star

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Temperance Brennan is helping her Guatemalan colleagues identify the remains of villagers who were "disappeared" 20 years ago when she's called in to consult on four more recent disappearances. Is there a serial killer loose in Guatemala City, or is the fate of the young women who have gone missing--including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador--connected to the murder of a human rights investigator looking into the decades-old massacre? Between the well in Chupan Ya where she unearths the bones of women and children slain in Guatemala's bloody civil war and the septic tank in the capital where the remains of one of the missing girls turn up, Brennan, the protagonist of Reichs's popular series, is literally hip-deep in intrigue. Tempe is a standout in crime fiction's crowded field of forensics experts. One of its more complex and interesting protagonists, she deals with intriguing cases that often cross national borders and has a personal life that's rich in possibilities the author skilfully exploits. Tempe--and Reichs--just keep getting better. --Jane Adams [via]
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La Tapadera / The Firm
by John Grisham

ISBN 840801997X (84-08-01997-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Last Act in Palmyra
by Lindsey Davis

ISBN 0446404748 (0-446-40474-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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The Man Who Was Thursday
by G.K. Chesterson

ISBN 1586170422 (1-58617-042-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr

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In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton

ISBN 1406510068 (1-4065-1006-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Miss Marple
by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0425094863 (0-425-09486-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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A stunningly repackaged omnibus, gathering together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie's most famous creations: Miss Marple. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ' the typical old maid of fiction', Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature - and used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say: 'She's just the finest detective God ever made.' - and many Agatha Christie fans would agree. Appearing for the first time in The Murder at The Vicarage (1930) her crime-fighting career spanned over forty years when she solved her final case in 1977 in Sleeping Murder. With every tale flawlessly plotted by the Queen of Crime herself, these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through her many film and television appearances. [via]
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Murder With Peacocks
by Donna Andrews

ISBN 0312970633 (0-312-97063-3)
Softcover, Minotaur Books

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Three Weddings...And a Murder

So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptuals of three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on the law. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors.

And, in whirl of summer parties and picnics, Souther hospitality is strained to the limit by an offenseive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests' closets. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents--some fatal. Soon, level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arragements and bridal registries to catching a killer--before the next catered event is her own funeral...
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The Narrows
by Michael Connelly

ISBN 0316000736 (0-316-00073-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years.The Poet has returned.Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the Poet-and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too, from an old friend whose husband recently died.The death appeared natural, but this man's ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep.What he finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered. So begins the most deeply compelling, frightening, and masterful novel Michael Connelly has ever written, placing Harry Bosch squarely in the path of the most ruthless and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles's history. This spectacularly dramatic and shocking novel will have Michael Connelly's readers desperately hungry for the next book from 'one of America's best writers' (Cleveland Plain Dealer). [via]
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Nero Wolfe, and Be a Villain
by Rex Stout

ISBN 1555046444 (1-55504-644-4)
Softcover, John Curley

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This intricate case proves portly detective Nero Wolfe's brilliance beyond a shadow of a doubt. A flamboyant radio talk show host and her suddenly very dead guest are just the beginning. As always, assistant Archie provides good humor and serious legwork for his sedentary boss, who fits all the pieces together from his specially constructed leather chair. [via]
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Night Train to Memphis
by Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz

ISBN 0446602485 (0-446-60248-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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Night Train to Memphis is the 5th book in the Vicky Bliss Mystery series.

An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt. But she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11'' of her takes the plunge.

Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as ''Sir John Smythe.'' And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him--with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab in the back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging--a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill. [via]
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The Open Market
by Catherian Nevel

ISBN 0345362403 (0-345-36240-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Prisoner's Base
by Rex Stout

ISBN 0553242695 (0-553-24269-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Second Wind: Library Edition
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0425206777 (0-425-20677-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Dick Francis's legion of admirers can relax: his year off from writing since the 1998 publication of Field of Thirteen is over, and a new vigor has entered his style. Longtime readers will be happy to find the customary racetrack skullduggery, galvanized by some fascinating new elements.
The very opening of Second Wind signals something new, with Francis's protagonist, meteorologist Perry Stuart, fighting for his life as he flies through the eye of storm on Trox Island, a blighted place steeped in guano and harboring a nasty secret. "But now, as near dead as dammit, I tumbled like a rag-doll piece of flotsam in towering gale-driven seas that sucked unimaginable tons of water from the deeps ...."
When the reader encountered details of the racing world in Francis's earlier thrillers such as Whip Hand and Reflex, they had the satisfying ring of authenticity. The same is true in Second Wind--Stuart's character was developed with the help of BBC weatherman John Kettley.
Although this is a new venue for Francis, he still has a knack for quickening the reader's pulse with a few carefully chosen words: "Despair was too strong a word for it. Perhaps despondency was better. When they came for me, they came with guns." --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Shattered
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0425201481 (0-425-20148-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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After 41 novels, most writers run out of energy before the final gallop. But Dick Francis's latest thriller is as good as his earliest. Perhaps it's because this one is dedicated to the Queen Mother, who celebrated her centennial in 2000, and who, like her famously horsey daughter, shares Francis's passion for the races. Or maybe he's just found his stride again, after a few less-than-outstanding starts. Here he does one of his best tricks: lures you into a somewhat arcane area you might know little about and explicates it so brilliantly that you don't even realize how much you've learned (in this case, about glass blowing) while a mystery is unraveled, a crime is solved, and the hero gets the girl.
This time the mise en scène is the glass blowing studio owned by Gerard Logan, friend of the late Martin Stukely, a jockey who takes a fatal fall at the Cheltenham steeplechase during the last race of the century. Still mourning Martin, Gerard is savagely beaten, his workshop ransacked, and his life threatened by a gang of thugs. Investigating, Gerard discovers that the gang includes a domineering woman who's the daughter of Martin's valet and a scientist who's stolen valuable data from the laboratory that formerly employed him. They believe Gerard has possession of a videotape entrusted to him by Martin before his death and that the secrets on the tape are worth Gerard's life.
It's a good set up, with just enough of the usual horse lore and a pleasant love story involving Gerard and a pretty policewoman, neither of which overshadow the taut pacing and the well-worked-out plot. Francis's protagonists may be accidental heroes, but they're not antiheroes; they're usually eminently decent, likable men, and their sense of self is always interesting. Here's Gerard at home, in a break from the action, thinking about the new woman in his heart in a typical Francis love scene:
I walked deliberately through all the rooms, thinking about Catherine, wondering both if she would like the place, and whether the house would accept her in return. Once in the past the house had delivered a definite thumbs-down, and once I'd been given an ultimatum to smother the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper as a condition of marriage, but to the horror of her family I'd backed out of the whole deal, and, as a result, I now used the house as arbiter and had disentangled myself from a later young woman who'd begun to refer to her and me as "an item" and to reply to questions as "we." We think. No, we don't think.
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The speed of development of strong feeling for one another didn't seem to me to be shocking but natural, and if I thought about the future it unequivocally included Catherine Dodd. "If you want to cover the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper, go ahead," I said.
She laughed. "I like the peace of pale walls. Why should I want to change them?"
It may be Francis's English reticence that keeps him, mercifully, from spoiling a good mystery with what other writers consider the obligatory sex scene, or it just may be the mastery of his form that few of his peers approach. In every page of this terrific new book, he's at the top of it. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris

ISBN 0312195265 (0-312-19526-5)
Softcover, Griffin

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The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.
Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter's a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter's final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time? --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Silhouette in Scarlet
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0931773032 (0-931773-03-2)
Softcover, Critics Choice Paperbacks

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'One of Elizabeth Peters' best thrillers yet & and so funny you will laugh aloud' - "PW". One red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic message in Latin intrigue Vicky Bliss - as they were precisely intended to do. Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, jewel thief John Smythe, and she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. But the trail begins at a priceless fifth century chalice which will place Vicky at the mercy of a gang of ruthless criminals who have their eyes on an even more valuable prize. And the hunt threatens to turn deadly on a remote island, where a captive Vicky must dig deep at an excavation into the distant past. [via]
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The Sinister Pig
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0060545437 (0-06-054543-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Street of Five Moons
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0380731215 (0-380-73121-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It's a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she's trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart...
Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously.But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It's a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she's trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart...Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff---and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It's a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she's trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life---or her heart... [via]
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Street of the 5 Moons
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0396075282 (0-396-07528-2)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead

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Twice Shy
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0399127070 (0-399-12707-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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Venus in Copper
by Lindsey Davis

ISBN 0345373901 (0-345-37390-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Witness for the Prosecution
by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0312979738 (0-312-97973-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...A woman's sixth--and a loaded revolver--signal premonitions of doom...A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire warning...Detective Hercule Poirot faces his greatest challenge when his services are enlisted--by the victim--in a bizarre locked-room murder. From the stunning title story (which inspired the classic film thriller) to the rarest gems in detective fiction, these 11 tales of baffling rime and brilliant deduction showcase Agatha Christie at her dazzling best.
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La Confidential
by Carlos Gardini, Not Available

ISBN 8466617795 (84-666-1779-5)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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In the tradition of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction comes this story of three tortured souls in the 1950s LAPD: a clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, his colleague who busts movie stars for payoffs from a sleazy magazine; and a detective haunted by the sight of his mother's murder. Intensity mounts as the novel's various plots intertwine more and more tightly, yet the narrative never veers too far from its core theme of cops competing with crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent.
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El Hombre Que Fue Jueves / the Man Who Was Thursday
by Gilbert K. Chesterton

ISBN 8489163987 (84-89163-98-7)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones

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En el hombre que fue jueves se han reunido dos grandes escritores, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, uno de los novelistas ingleses mas originales, y el mexicano Alfonso Reyes, quien hizo la traduccion y el prologo de esta divertidisima historia de aventuras, enredo, intriga y suspenso. A lo largo de mas 200 paginas, perseguidor y perseguido cobran una significacion inesperada, hasta convertirse en principios eternos del universo. [via]
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El ocho
by Katherine Neville

ISBN 8466616160 (84-666-1616-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination.
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Catherine Velis, una alta ejecutiva experta en ordenadores, se ve atrapada sin quererlo en la búsqueda de un legendario ajedrez que perteneció al emperador Carlomagno. El campeón soviético de este deporte, de gira por Nueva York, le advierte que corre un grave riesgo si se empeña en encontrar las piezas, pues en ellas reside la clave de una antigua fórmula ligada a la alquimia, la masonería y los poderes cósmicos. Ese mágico ajedrez, enterrado durante mil años en una abadía francesa, nos conducirá -de 1790 a 1970- por la historia de los personajes que poseyeron sus piezas y por la larga serie de crímenes que se cometieron para hacerse con ellas. Los personajes van desde Napoleón, Robespierre y Casanova, hasta Voltaire, Newton o Catalina la grande. Pero los crímenes todavía no han terminado. [via]
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El silencio De Los Corderos
by Thomas Harris, Montserrat Conill

ISBN 030734469X (0-307-34469-X)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori

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La Firme / the Firm
by John Grisham

ISBN 2266056921 (2-266-05692-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Le jeune juriste Mitchell Y. McDeere est récompensé de ses brillantes études à Harvard : à Memphis, le très sélect cabinet d'avocats Bendini, Lambert & Locke lui offre un véritable pont d'or pour l'engager. Son épouse Abby est ravie, même si la firme semble bien indiscrète sur leur vie privée et si Mitch doit travailler comme un forcené pour mériter son salaire mirobolant. Les choses se gâtent quand des collaborateurs meurent mystérieusement et qu'un agent du FBI apprend au jeune homme la terrifiante vérité sur les véritables activités du cabinet d'avocats. Il semble que l'on ne sorte de chez Bendini, Lambert & Locke que les pieds devant. Mitch devra courir vite pour sauver sa vie...
Incarné au cinéma par Tom Cruise dans La Firme, le personnage de Mitch McDeere est celui qui a révélé John Grisham au grand public. Vendu à plus de trois millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis, ce roman a permis à l'auteur d'arrêter sa carrière de juriste pour se consacrer à l'écriture de best-sellers, comme L'Affaire Pélican, L'Associé, L'Idéaliste, Le Testament, La Loi du plus faible. Un suspense mené de main de maître. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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Mortelles Decisions
by Kathy Reichs

ISBN 2266129627 (2-266-12962-7)
Softcover, Presses Pocket

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POCKET Thriller (P) n° 11840 (2003) - Kathy REICHS Mortelles décisions [via]
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Lasst Knochen Sprechen
by Kathy Reichs

ISBN 3442355907 (3-442-35590-7)
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Kathy Reichs' forensische Anthropologin Temperance Brennan wird außerhalb ihrer Routinetätigkeiten stets dann zu Rate gezogen, wenn Opfer von Gewaltverbrechen nun beim besten Willen nicht mehr zu identifizieren sind. Und wenn der Leser dann den sicheren Eindruck gewinnt, dass die Heldin vor diversen Knochenhaufen und Gewebefetzen kapitulieren muss, kriegt sie doch wieder die Kurve.
Die couragierte Brennan hat sich diesen zuweilen recht unappetitlichen Job selbst zuzuschreiben, war ihr doch vor Jahren ihre rein archäologische Arbeit ein wenig fad geworden. Auch in ihrem neuen Fall steht die "Knochenbeschwörerin" zunächst vor einem schier unlösbaren Problem. Ein kleines Mädchen wurde unschuldiges Opfer eines Bandenkampfes von kriminellen Bikern. Zwei Mitglieder einer Biker-Gang wurden außerdem von rivalisierenden Genossen in die Luft gejagt -- an Tempe Brennan liegt es nun, die Teile korrekt zu sortieren. Doch damit beginnen erst die dramatischen Ermittlungen in einem Krieg verfeindeter Motorradgangs, die um die Kontrolle des Drogenhandels in Montreal kämpfen. Zudem ist Brennan nervlich stark angekratzt. Ihr Freund Ryan, selbst Polizist, scheint ins kriminelle Milieu abgedriftet zu sein und wurde bereits von der Arbeit suspendiert. Ihre zugeteilten Kollegen Claudel und Quickwater scheinen sie alles andere als ernst zu nehmen. Richtig haarig wird es dann, als Tempes Neffe Kit, auf Besuch in Montreal und selbst Motorradfan, in den Dunstkreis der Biker und damit in höchste Lebensgefahr gerät. Die Anthropologin sieht sich zum Handeln außerhalb ihres Labors gezwungen.
Kathy Reichs schlägt in ihrem neuen Roman zunächst eine ruhige Gangart an, vermag jedoch Spannung und Tempo bis zu einem fulminanten Showdown stetig zu steigern. Dabei werden die meisten Leser über die zuweilen arg akademisch anmutenden Dialoge und die Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der wieder einmal eine Ermittlerin persönlich in einen Fall involviert ist, wohlwollend hinweglesen. --Ulrich Deurer [via]
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