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4th of Julyby James Patterson, Maxine PaetroISBN 0316710601 (0-316-71060-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Aunt Dimity and the Dukeby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140178414 (0-14-017841-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Blood Lureby Nevada BarrISBN 0425183750 (0-425-18375-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Lure'Book summary:Park ranger Anna Pigeon, the fortyish heroine of Barr's popular series, is back, tracking grizzlies through the unforgiving landscape of Glacier National Park as part of a scientific investigation that's outlined with more detail than anyone who's not totally fascinated by these awesome animals will care about. In fact, the description of what actually goes into the lures set to attract the bears so they can be tagged and counted is guaranteed to rumble the strongest stomach--but that's just the back story in this newest Pigeon adventure. When the mutilated body of the stepmother of one of the bear trackers turns up in a remote corner of the park, and it becomes clear that she met death at the hands of a human rather than the claws of a grizzly, Anna goes on the hunt for the killer.
Barr's strength is in depicting the natural surroundings in which her heroine finds inspiration, solace, and comfort, and she limns the gorgeous landscape of Glacier with consummate skill. But her plotting leaves much to be desired, and when she finally reveals the killer's identity, motivation, and especially his accomplice, the discriminating reader may be tempted to throw this book at the nearest teddy bear. The trick ending is too much to stomach, unless you're a grizzly who'll eat (almost) anything. Up to that point, however, there's much to appeal to Barr's fans: another beautifully drawn portrait of a piece of America's vanishing wilderness and a few hours in the company of an appealingly cranky heroine whose appreciation of it knows no bounds. --Jane Adams [via]
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Blue Shoes And Happinessby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 1400075718 (1-4000-7571-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Shoes And Happiness'Book summary:THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 7
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanas premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humornot to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve peoples problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her own fiancé. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. And Blue Shoes and Happiness will not fail to entertain Alexander McCall Smiths oldest fans and newest converts with its great wit, charm, and great good will.
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Burning Angelby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889047 (0-7868-8904-7)
Softcover, Hyperion
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinalby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399136649 (0-399-13664-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Cat Who Robbed a Bankby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515129941 (0-515-12994-1)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Robbed a Bank'Book summary:Qwilleran and his crime-solving Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum are back on the case in Pickax, the biggest little city in Moose County, which is 400 miles north of everywhere but still boasts a remarkably sophisticated social and cultural scene. Hardly a day or a night goes by without a tea, dinner party, crafts fair, play, or pageant, all of which are attended and described in great detail by Qwilleran, a former crime reporter whose not very onerous duties entail writing a feature column for the local newspaper as well as overseeing the civic philanthropy made possible by an inheritance from a wealthy friend of his deceased mother. Fans of this long-running and immensely popular series will delight in this 23rd installment, in which the matrons of Pickax are buying French perfume and blueing their hair for the annual visit of Mr. Delacamp, a jeweler from Down Under (Chicago), whose arrival will coincide with the reopening of the town's fabulously refurbished grand hotel. When the mysterious Mr. Delacamp is found dead in the presidential suite, and his "niece" goes missing along with the jewels and the cash, Qwilleran and his curious cats investigate. As usual, it takes a couple of Siamese with extraordinary powers (even for cats) and a current preoccupation with pennies, gum wrappers, and paper towels to point their owner toward the solution; Qwilleran may not be the quickest sleuth in Moose County, but with KoKo and Yum Yum on the case, he doesn't need to be. This is the coziest of cozies, a particular niche in the mystery subcategory of crime-solving felines of which Braun is the acknowledged mistress, and once again she delivers the goods. --Jane Adams [via]
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Curtains for Threeby Rex StoutISBN 055376294X (0-553-76294-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722602 (0-679-72260-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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A Darker Placeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553578243 (0-553-57824-3)
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Darker Than Amberby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0449224465 (0-449-22446-5)
Softcover, Gold Medal
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Divided in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0786263407 (0-7862-6340-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divided in Death'Book summary:A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Writing as J. D. Robb, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her newest novel in the "sexy and suspenseful" (Publishers Weekly) futuristic romance series featuring New York City Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas and enigmatic Irish billionaire Roarke. Now, Eve and Roarke must infiltrate an extraordinarily secretive government agency to expose corruption at its core, before a computer virus can spread from one office to a corporation to the entire country. [via]
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Dixie City Jamby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889004 (0-7868-8900-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Doctor Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345467477 (0-345-46747-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Double Deuceby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0425137937 (0-425-13793-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Deuce'Book summary:Hawk wants Spenser to wage war on a street gang. Susan wants Spenser to move in with her. Either way, Spenser's out of his element. So why not risk both?[via]More editions of Double Deuce:
Dr. Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345413881 (0-345-41388-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Death'Book summary:Dr. Eldon Mate, a.k.a. Dr. Death, has been the bane of the Los Angeles D.A.'s existence, the bête noir of all opposed to assisted suicide, and the angel of mercy to countless "travelers" who have gone to their reward via Mate's good offices. He's also turned up in the back of his van, attached to his own death-dealing "Humanitron" machine and too far away from most of his blood and a certain external organ.
Enter Milo Sturgis, L.A.'s only openly gay homicide detective, and for the 14th time in 15 years (1985's Edgar-winning When the Bough Breaks through 1999's Monster), enter also his good friend, child psychologist and LAPD consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Unbeknownst to Sturgis, however, is a potentially case-stymieing doctor-patient conflict of interest. One of Delaware's young patients' mother was either the beneficiary or victim of Dr. Death's services, depending upon your point of view. The father, Richard Doss, is firmly in the latter camp, giving Delaware ample pause:
After hearing the details of the murder, I felt better. The butchery didn't seem like Richard's style. Though how sure of that could I be? Richard hadn't disclosed any more about himself than he'd wanted to. In control, always in control. One of those people who crowds every room he enters. Maybe that had been part of what led his wife to seek out Eldon Mate.
Maybe. But the fact is that there's no shortage of motivated suspects from both within and without the late doctor's circle of influence. And as usual, Jonathan Kellerman (himself a child psychologist and recognized authority in childhood psycho-pathology) guides Delaware's engaging first-person narrative with expertise, keeps Detective Sturgis real, and rudders his taut story to its satisfying end with sharp, true-to-the-ear dialogue. With Dr. Death, Kellerman's legion of Delaware fans will be very well pleased, and first-timers will almost certainly join the legion. --Michael Hudson [via]-
The Dreadful Lemon Skyby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0449224791 (0-449-22479-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Travis McGee has been offered easy money by a longtime lady friend. But when she gets killed, McGee's got a boatload of mystery. Navigating his boat into troubled waters, he heads for the seamier side of Florida--where drug dealing, twisted sex, and corruption are easy to find--but murderous riddles are hard to solve.... [via] 
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifaxby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385094639 (0-385-09463-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Field of Thirteenby Dick FrancisISBN 042519499X (0-425-19499-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Field of Thirteen'Book summary:This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of 10 Lb. Penalty and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis's racetrack milieu. In "Dead on Red," a jealous jockey named Davey Rockman hires Emil Jacques, a French assassin and gun collector, to kill the famed rider who stole his job; but Rockman is haunted by his deed much in the same way as is the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Raid at Kingdom Hill" tells of Tricksy Wilcox's scheme for a not-so-bright bomb scare, a plan that still might yield the payoff of a lifetime. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. The Kentucky Derby story, "The Gift," follows Fred Collyer, a drunken writer who overhears plans for a major racing swindle and struggles against alcohol to publish the story by his deadline. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig's Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race-meeting judge.
Poe, who most historians of literature credit as the creator of the short story, declared that a good short story should have nothing extraneous. Francis's stories, for the most part, obey Poe's dictum. Each character and description fits tightly into an unfolding plan so that the mystery or twist is revealed with a satisfying economy of words. While Field of 13 will appeal to Francis loyalists, newcomers, too, will find much to relish in the short fiction of this mystery grand master. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Final Deductionby Rex StoutISBN 0553763105 (0-553-76310-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Final Deduction'Book summary:As the usual suspects in Nero Wolfe's latest case -- involving taxes and kidnapping -- become victims, Wolfe breaks tradition, leaving his comfortable New York brownstone to do some legwork of his own. [via]
Firestormby Nevada BarrISBN 1568953992 (1-56895-399-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crimeby Jasper FfordeISBN 0143038923 (0-14-303892-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime'Book summary:The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadmansadist, psychopath, cookieis on the loose in Reading, but thats not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, theyve been demoted to searching for missing journalist Goldy Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furryuh, funnyabout their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.[via]More editions of The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime:
The Golden Ball and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 055335065X (0-553-35065-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Gorky Parkby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345298349 (0-345-29834-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Grave Sightby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1597221392 (1-59722-139-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grave Sight'Book summary:A New York Times Bestselling Author
Harper Connolly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. Harper travels with her stepbrother, Tolliver, her manager and sometimes bodyguard - because the people who hire Harper don't really want to know what she has to tell them. [via]
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The Green Ripperby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0397013620 (0-397-01362-0)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Beautiful girls always grace the Florida beaches, strolling, sailing, relaxing at the many parties on Travis McGee's houseboat, The Busted Flush. McGee was too smart--and had been around too long--for many of them to touch his heart. Now, however, there was Gretel. She had discovered the key to McGee--to all of him--and now he had something to hope for. Then, terribly, unexpectedly, she was dead. From a mysterious illness, or so they said. But McGee knew the truth, that Gretel had been murdered. And now he was out for blood...
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Ill Windby Nevada BarrISBN 156895252X (1-56895-252-X)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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In the Frameby Dick FrancisISBN 0449221164 (0-449-22116-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Frame'Book summary:Charles Todd makes a living as painter of horses. Someone else is making a lot of money by forging paintings by masters. [via]
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Judgment in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425176304 (0-425-17630-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judgment in Death'Book summary:In an uptown strip joint, a cop is found bludgeoned to death. The weapon's a baseball bat. The motive's a mystery. It's a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private club that's more than a hot spot. Purgatory's a last chance for atonement where everyone is judged. Where your ultimate fate depends on your most intimate sins. And where one cop's hidden secrets are about to plunge innocent souls into vice-ridden damnation... [via]
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Kiss the Girlsby James PattersonISBN 0316693707 (0-316-69370-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiss the Girls'Book summary:In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing--and they are working coast to coast. [via]
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Lonely Silver Rainby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0449224856 (0-449-22485-6)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Loyalty in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 042517140X (0-425-17140-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Loyalty in Death'Book summary:In 21st-century New York City, tough-as-nails cop Eve Dallas can survive a bombing, seduce her husband, and outsmart a terrorist--all on four hours of sleep. In this latest installment of the In Death series, author J.D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) casts our heroine against an enigmatic group of terrorists named Cassandra. With no clear motivation or demands, Cassandra feeds on the thrill of senseless killing and the calculated destruction of Eve's world.
Relying on her own brawn and brains, as well as that of her aid Peabody and her husband Roarke, Eve begins to unravel a mystery that began decades before. When the killer's threats land close to home, Eve knows she has no choice but to gamble her own life for the chance to save her city as well as her loved ones.
J.D. Robb's combinations of mystery, suspense, and romance keep the fans of this series clamoring for more, and Loyalty in Death has equal amounts of each. While the passion between Eve and Roarke is as good as ever, the introduction of a new romantic element certainly turns up the heat and is a welcome twist. Though the evil-terrorist-in-NYC theme has been done before (most recently in The Siege), these beloved characters put up a good fight, and keep us glued to the pages. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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The Mousetrap and Other Playsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451201140 (0-451-20114-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mousetrap and Other Plays'Book summary:Readers will be front-row center for this special trade collection of Agatha Christie's greatest suspense plays, which includes: The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history, Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution, both made into classic films, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Towards Zero, Go Back to Murder, and one of Christie's personal favorites, The Verdict-all perfectly staged by the Queen of Crime. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - The Mousetrap and Other Plays: ISBN 0451201183 (0-451-20118-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Mousetrap and Other Plays: ISBN 0553259024 (0-553-25902-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Mousetrap and Other Plays: ISBN 0606191976 (0-606-19197-6)
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Pale Gray for Guiltby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0449224600 (0-449-22460-0)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Paper Dollby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0425141551 (0-425-14155-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Raphael Affairby Iain PearsISBN 0708971555 (0-7089-7155-5)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Resurrection Men: Inspector Rebus Novelby Ian RankinISBN 0316608491 (0-316-60849-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resurrection Men: Inspector Rebus Novel'Book summary:Rebus is back. Resurrection Men, the 13th DI Rebus novel, finds Ian Rankins doughty detective off the case. He explodes at his superior DCS Gill Templar over the increasingly frustrating murder inquiry into the savage killing of an Edinburgh art dealer and his punishment is a spell cooling his heels at the Scottish Police College in central Scotland. Rebus balks at his "retraining" but hes not alone: hes part of an ill-assorted group of similar officers--all with an attitude problem and a dislike of the institution they find themselves in. Given an old unsolved case to work on the group is obliged to polish up their teamwork while supervisors assess the reprobates. But some of the team have secrets not unconnected to the case theyve been handed and Rebus finds that anything goes when it comes to keeping the past obscured.
This is Rankin in top form with Rebus rejuvenated by the edgy new milieu hes dropped into. Complicating things, the Scottish Crime Squad asks Rebus to act as a link to someone who can deliver the inside dirt on an old nemesis, gangster "Big Ger" Cafferty. In Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke has to take over the case of the murdered art dealer and, like Rebus, finds herself getting closer to the unpleasant Mr Cafferty. Forget the miscast John Hannah in the TV movies, this is the real Rebus: gritty, idiomatic and etched in prose that wastes nae a word in its redefining of the crime novel. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Reunion in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425183971 (0-425-18397-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Savage Place: A Spenser Novelby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0440180953 (0-440-18095-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Sick Puppyby Carl HiaasenISBN 1568958692 (1-56895-869-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Sign of the Twisted Candlesby Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy, Carolyn G. HartISBN 1557091633 (1-55709-163-3)
Hardcover, Applewood Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sign of the Twisted Candles'Book summary:A reproduction of the first edition of THE SIGN OF THE TWISTED CANDLE, as it was originally published in 1933. For readers who met Nancy Drew before 1959, this is the book they remember. [via]
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Silence in Hanover Closeby Anne PerryISBN 0449216861 (0-449-21686-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Slay Rideby Dick FrancisISBN 0425196739 (0-425-19673-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slay Ride'Book summary:[via]When a champion jockey disappears--right before a big race and the birth of his child--Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.
Stardustby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0425127230 (0-425-12723-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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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]
Three Doors to Deathby Rex StoutISBN 0553251279 (0-553-25127-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Time to Killby John GrishamISBN 0582364108 (0-582-36410-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time to Kill'Book summary:This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Trial Runby Dick FrancisISBN 0425199835 (0-425-19983-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trial Run'Book summary:Randall Drew is sent to Moscow to investigate threats against a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic games. His brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high. [via]
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Trio for Blunt Instrumentsby Rex StoutISBN 0553241915 (0-553-24191-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trio for Blunt Instruments'Book summary:If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel-which they wouldn't-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero-and the answer to the mystery of her father's death....Then an old flame of Archie's reignites with a plan that may corner him into a lifetime commitment-behind bars....And finally a detective's work is never done, as a hot tip leads the team into the sizzling center of a sexy scandal that could leave them cold-dead cold. [via]
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Twisted Rootby Anne PerryISBN 0804119368 (0-8041-1936-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Visions in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 042520300X (0-425-20300-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions in Death'Book summary:A brand-new novel in the number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series set in 2059 New York City. As technology and humanity collide, Detective Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting souls...
On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park-and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes-removed with such precision, as if done with the careful hands of a surgeon-that have Dallas most alarmed.
As more bodies turn up, each with the same defining scars, Eve is frantic for answers. Against her instincts, she accepts help from a psychic who offers one vision after another-each with shockingly accurate details of the murders. And when partner and friend Peabody is badly injured after escaping an attack, the stakes are raised. Are the eyes a symbol? A twisted religious ritual? A souvenir? With help from her husband, Roarke, Dallas must uncover the killer's motivation before another vision becomes another nightmare. . . . [via] -
Whom the Gods Loveby Kate RossISBN 014024767X (0-14-024767-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whom the Gods Love'Book summary:Alexander Falkland hasn't an enemy in the world. Young, talented, charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a vengeance. In the midst of one of his famous parties, he is found in his study with his head smashed, a blood-stained poker beside him. No wonder the inscription on his gravestone reads: whom the gods love die young. When the Bow Street runners fail to solve the crime, Alexander's distraught father turns to Julian Kestrel, elegant dandy and intrepid amateur sleuth. Soon Kestrel is up to his ears in suspects. But the greatest enigma is Alexander himself. Who was he really? Social reformer or butterfly, devoted husband or rake? In this, his third murder case, Julian must peel off one mask after another, till at last he discovers an Alexander no one knew - except, perhaps, the killer. [via]
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The Widening Gyreby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0440195357 (0-440-19535-7)
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