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All Shall Be Wellby Deborah CrombieISBN 0060534397 (0-06-053439-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Shall Be Well'Book summary:Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape -- a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime . . . and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.
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The Ballad of Frankie Silverby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 1568956568 (1-56895-656-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ballad of Frankie Silver'Book summary:Sharyn McCrumb is one of the major wonders of the mystery world. Her books about forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson (including Highland Laddie Gone) are strong, meaty contemporary stories; her comic novels (Bimbos of the Death Sun, Zombies of the Gene Pool) are delightful satires. And then there's the jewel in her crown, the series known as the Ballad novels (including The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter and The Rosewood Casket) where the third-generation Appalachian resident McCrumb sews together what she calls "colored scraps of legends, ballads and fragments of rural life and local tragedy" into books that are like Appalachian quilts. The Ballad of Frankie Silver is the fifth in the Ballad series, and it might well be the best. The blend between the old story and the new is perfect, as Sheriff Spencer Arrowood digs into the 1832 case of the first woman ever hanged for murder in North Carolina--18-year-old Frankie Silver, charged with dismembering her husband--while some disturbing new evidence is surfacing about another, much more recent capital crime. If you have friends who don't read mysteries but liked Cold Mountain, pointing them toward McCrumb might be the start of something big. --Dick Adler [via]
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Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novelby Laura LippmanISBN 0061210021 (0-06-121002-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Bilbao Looking Glassby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0743474929 (0-7434-7492-9)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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The Black Bookby Ian RankinISBN 0312976755 (0-312-97675-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Book'Book summary:Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. Ane he knows that to solve the case, he'll have to peel back layer upon layer of unspeakable secrets to arrive at the truth. . .[via]More editions of The Black Book:
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Black Bookby Robert Mapplethorpe, Ntozake ShangeISBN 0312083025 (0-312-08302-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Book'Book summary:In Black Book, Robert Mapplethorpe presents an astonishing photographic study of black men today. In their diversity, impact, subtlety, technical virtuosity, erotic appeal, and deep humanity, these photographs constitute a stunning celebration of the contemporary black male.[via]
"all my life they've been near me/these men" says Ntozake Shange in her Foreword, "i've been holdin your heart in/my hand since i was a child/cause i wanted what all you were/what all you are/now you're a man."More editions of Black Book:
The Burden of Proofby Scott TurowISBN 0816151326 (0-8161-5132-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Cat's Eyewitnessby Rita Mae Brown, Michael GellatlyISBN 0553582879 (0-553-58287-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0307275434 (0-307-27543-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race. [via]
Cimarron Roseby James Lee BurkeISBN 0786889306 (0-7868-8930-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cimarron Rose'Book summary:Billy Bob Holland, the protagonist of Cimarron Rose, is an attorney in the dusty Texas town of Deaf Smith. An ex-Texas Ranger (cop, not ball-player) who mistakenly killed his partner during a drug bust, Holland is jolted from his brooding when his estranged illegitimate son is accused of the rape and murder of a party girl. He takes the case, of course, and things get complicated mighty quick. On a hunch only a father could believe, Holland is sure his son is being railroaded. Doggedly pursuing the truth, he runs afoul of sadistic cops, a powerful family, and the euphoniously-named Garland T. Moon, a feral thug with something to hide. Luckily, the folks on his team are just as tough. Burke's book isn't gritty realism--Holland's dead partner visits him often--but the characters ring true in a weird way. They are quirky and appealing, and even the criminals make good company while the whodunit unfolds. [via]
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The Clairvoyant Countessby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0816163960 (0-8161-6396-0)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Clue in the Jewel Boxby Carolyn KeeneISBN 155709277X (1-55709-277-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clue in the Jewel Box'Book summary:In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Nancy Drew, Applewood Books is pleased to release the 20th volume in its reproductions of the Original Nancy Drew-Just as You Remember Her. The Clue in the Jewel Box was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt. It was first issued in January 1943. Its nostalgic dust jacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Russell Tandy. In The Clue in the Jewel Box Nancy and her friends help Queen Madame Alexandra search for her missing grandson. With only an old photograph of the prince at four years of age, Nancy begins her search. She discovers a secret in a jewel box that helps reunite the royal family.[via]More editions of The Clue in the Jewel Box:
A Cold Day for Murderby Dana StabenowISBN 1574903551 (1-57490-355-1)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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Death in Ecstasyby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114783 (0-88411-478-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death in the Devil's Acreby Anne PerryISBN 0312188692 (0-312-18869-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Death of a Peerby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312964277 (0-312-96427-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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A Dilly of a Deathby Susan Wittig AlbertISBN 0786263784 (0-7862-6378-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Dissolutionby C. J. SansomISBN 0142004308 (0-14-200430-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissolution'Book summary:[via]Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIIIs feared vicar general, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry. Shardlake and his young protégé uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason, and when two other murders are revealed, they must move quickly to prevent the killer from striking again.
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Duplicate Deathby Georgette HeyerISBN 0805013393 (0-8050-1339-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duplicate Death'Book summary:An elegant card party turns deadly...
Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Things become even more complicated when the fiancée of the inspector's young friend Timothy Kane becomes Hemingway's prime suspect. Kane is determined to prove the lady's innocence-but when he begins digging into her past, he finds it's more than a little bit shady...
Praise for Georgette Heyer:
"Ranks alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey, and Allingham." -San Francisco Chronicle
"The wittiest of detective story writers." -Daily Mail
"Pungent dialogue and A1 characterization." -Time magazine
"Ms. Heyer is one of the most entertaining writers I have ever read." -Reading Extravaganza
"Miss Heyer has the delightful talent of blending humor with mystery." -Boston Evening Transcript
The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921. [via]
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The End of the Pierby Martha GrimesISBN 0679411267 (0-679-41126-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of the Pier'Book summary:Two murders with the same modus operandi committed one year apart lead La Porte deputy sheriff Sam DeGheyn to the conclusion that the man serving time for the first murder has been unjustly imprisoned. 100,000 first printing. Mystery Guild Main. Lit Guild Alt. [via]
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmesby John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan DoyleISBN 0880298596 (0-88029-859-6)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Fearless Jonesby Walter MosleyISBN 0316592382 (0-316-59238-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Fingersmithby Sarah WatersISBN 1573229725 (1-57322-972-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fingersmith'Book summary:From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.
The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career. [via] 
Fletch Wonby Gregory McDonaldISBN 0375713522 (0-375-71352-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0066209587 (0-06-620958-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novel'Book summary:L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.
Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. The Forgotten is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. --Jane Adams [via]
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Gallows Viewby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684192667 (0-684-19266-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gallows View'Book summary:After moving his family from London, Chief Inspector Alan Banks is feeling all too at home in the picturesque market town of Eastvale. A crime wave seems to have followed him north. Teenage thugs are burglarizing the homes of elderly women, culminating in murder. And a Peeping Tom is on the loose, menacing the women of Eastvale. [via]
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Get Shortyby Elmore LeonardISBN 006008216X (0-06-008216-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get Shorty'Book summary:Nobody writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off." You need to know about this because you need to know why there's bad blood between Chili Palmer and Ray Bones, the guy who stole his coat and is now his boss--and has ordered him to collect $4,200 from a dead guy. Except the guy didn't die; he went to Las Vegas with $300,000. So Chili goes to Las Vegas, one thing leads to another, and pretty soon he's in Los Angeles, hanging out with a movie producer named Harry Zimm and learning what it takes to be a player in Hollywood.
Get Shorty is classic Elmore Leonard: While other people write "crime fiction," Leonard's come up with a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators). He's a master of snappy dialogue and dizzying plot twists. The best parts of Get Shorty move along so briskly you almost forget there's somebody with a firm control over the story. And you'll be rooting for Chili to get the money, the girl, and the studio deal. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Hannibalby Thomas Harris, Jose Antonio SorianoISBN 0307344703 (0-307-34470-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal'Book summary:Siete aos han pasado desde que Clarice Starling, agente del FBI, se entrevistara con el doctor Hannibal Lecter en un hospital de maxima seguridad. Su ayuda fue decisiva para que ella capturara al asesino en serie Buffalo Bill. Y siete aos han transcurrido desde que Hannibal el Canibal burlara la vigilancia y desapareciera dejando una sangrienta estela de victimas a su paso. Desde entonces el doctor Lecter ha podido dedicarse a disfrutar libremente de sus truculentos gustos. Sin embargo, cuando Clarice cae en desgracia en el FBI, el doctor Lecter sale de las sombras para ponerse en contacto con ella. Asi el reaviva la caza de la presa mas codiciada, y perversa mente del psiquiatra, es encargada del caso. Desde su lujosa mansion, el millonario Mason Verger, unica victima superviviente de El Canibal, se mantiene vivo, conectado a un respirador, con el unico objetivo de cobrarse una cruel venganza. Para ello debe conseguir lo que mas gusta a Hannibal, el cebo mas exquisito e inocente... Una de las novelas mas esperadas de la decada, HANNIBAL nos introduce en los meandros del pensamiento de este personaje hipnotico, ambiguo, capaz de las mas inimaginables vilezas y de los gestos mas sublimes, un ser que nos arrastra, aun a pesar nuestro, a los abismos del terror.
"UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MAS ATERRADORAS DE NUESTRO TIEMPO" [via]
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Havana Bayby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345390458 (0-345-39045-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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High Countryby Nevada BarrISBN 1587246376 (1-58724-637-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Hotel Paradiseby Martha GrimesISBN 0679441875 (0-679-44187-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hotel Paradise'Book summary:Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other.
A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before.
Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly.
Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.
With its narrative grace, its compelling characters, and its moment-to-moment suspense, Hotel Paradise is Martha Grimes at the top of her form. [via]-
The House on the Cliffby Franklin W. Dixon, Walter S. Rogers, Leslie McFarlaneISBN 1557091455 (1-55709-145-5)
Hardcover, Applewood Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on the Cliff'Book summary:The house on the cliff has been vacant and is supposed to be haunted. Then it is reported to be the abode of criminals. Mr. Hardy starts to investigate and disappears, so the boys set to work to see what they can do.[via]More editions of The House on the Cliff:
Indigo Slamby Robert CraisISBN 0345435648 (0-345-43564-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The James Joyce Murderby Amanda CrossISBN 0896213730 (0-89621-373-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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Killer Dolphinby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312970102 (0-312-97010-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Dolphin'Book summary:At the newly restored Dolphin Theatre, murder takes center stage[via]
The once-dilapidated Dolphin Theater, now restored to its former glory, is open again-and all of London is buzzing about its new play, The Glove, inspired by the discovery of a genuine Shakespearean glove. But on one unfortunate evening, the Dolphin opens its doors to the harshest critic of all: death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must find out who stole the scene with a most murderous act.More editions of Killer Dolphin:
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Let Me Call You Sweetheartby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0671568175 (0-671-56817-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'Book summary:Paperback fiction book by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark. [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Let Me Call You Sweetheart: ISBN 0684803968 (0-684-80396-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Let Me Call You Sweetheart: ISBN 0786205644 (0-7862-0564-4)
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The List of 7by Mark FrostISBN 0688122450 (0-688-12245-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The List of 7'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle joins forces with special agent Jack Sparks to pursue a deadly cabal of Victorian Satanists known as the Dark Brotherhood. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild, Mystery Guild, & Doubleday Alt. Tour. [via]
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A Little Class on Murderby Carolyn G. HartISBN 0553282085 (0-553-28208-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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London Bridgesby James PattersonISBN 0316710598 (0-316-71059-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Bridges'Book summary:Alex Cross is back--and so is the Big Bad Wolf.
Terrorists have seized the worlds largest cities. London, Washington, DC, New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed, unless their demands are met--and their demands are impossible. After a city in the western United States is fire bombed--a practice run--Alex Cross knows that it is only a matter of time before the bombers threats to the other cities are brutally executed.
Heading up the investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, Alex Cross is stunned when surveillance photos show Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, near one of the bombing sites. He senses the presence of the Wolf as well, the most vicious predator he has ever battled. With millions of lives in the balance, Cross has to see if the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world can stay ahead of these two mens cunning. [via]
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The Moonspinnersby Mary StewartISBN 0060502959 (0-06-050295-9)
Softcover, Harper Torch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonspinners'Book summary:Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on the lush island of Crete. Then on her day off, she links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance.
And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end . . .
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Mourn Not Your Deadby Deborah CrombieISBN 0684801310 (0-684-80131-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Naked Preyby John SandfordISBN 0786255692 (0-7862-5569-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Prey'Book summary:When twelve-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it's more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford's popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer. Lucas has a new wife, a new baby, and a new job as a political troubleshooter for his old boss Rose Marie Roux, but the blunt-spoken Davenport's instructions to hush the racially charged implications of what looks suspiciously like a lynching won't deter him from whomever left Warr and Cash twisting in the wind. The well-peopled plot, involving a hot car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wranglings between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenport, races to a satisfying denouement, but this time it's a little girl with a difficult past and an uncertain future who lingers in the reader's mind. Fortunately, Sandford comes up with an ending that makes it all but certain that his fans will meet her again. Meanwhile, all the author's usual trademarks are on display--excellent writing, an interesting scenario, and terrific pacing. --Jane Adams [via]
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 0140131558 (0-14-013155-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room'Book summary:Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor. [via]
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- The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room: ISBN 0140169636 (0-14-016963-6)
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Odd Thomasby Dean KoontzISBN 0553384287 (0-553-38428-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Thomas'Book summary:"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14. In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares-and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closedby Patricia CornwellISBN 1587244101 (1-58724-410-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel district. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer -- Jack the Ripper.
For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth of theories have been posited which have pointed the finger at royalty, a barber, a doctor, a woman and an artist.
By applying her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, Patricia Cornwell presents us with the hard evidence that the perpetrator was the world-famous artist Walter Sickert.
Using techniques unknown in the late-Victorian age, Cornwell exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters. She also examines how his birth defects, genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing become a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created. [via]
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Private Eyesby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460707 (0-345-46070-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Question of Bloodby Ian RankinISBN 0316159182 (0-316-15918-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Question of Blood'Book summary:Given his contempt for authority, his tendency to pursue investigative avenues of his own choosing, and his habitually ornery manner, it's a wonder that John Rebus hasn't been booted unceremoniously from his job as an Edinburgh cop. He certainly tempts that fate again in A Question of Blood, which finds him and his younger partner, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, trying to close the case of a withdrawn ex-soldier named Lee Herdman, who apparently shot three teenage boys at a Scottish private school, leaving two of them dead, before turning the pistol on himself.
"Theres no mystery," Siobhan insists at the start of this 14th Rebus novel (following Resurrection Men). "Herdman lost his marbles, thats all." However, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Rebus, who'd once sought entry into the same elite regiment in which Herdman served (but ultimately cracked under psychological interrogation), thinks there's more motive than mania behind this classroom slaughter. Perhaps something to do with the gunman's role in a 1995 mission to salvage a downed military helicopter, or with Teri Cotter, a 15-year-old "Goth" who broadcasts her bedroom life over the Internet, yet keeps private her relationship with the haunted Herdman. Rebus's doubts about the murder-suicide theory are deepened with the appearance of two tight-lipped army investigators, and by the peculiar behavior of James Bell, the boy who was only wounded during Herdman's firing spree and whose politician father hopes to use that tragedy as ammo in the campaign against widespread gun ownership. But the detective inspector's focus on this inquiry is susceptible to diversion, both by an internal police probe into his role in the burning death of a small-time crook who'd been stalking Siobhan, and by the fact that Rebus--who shies away from any family contacts--was related to one of Herdmans victims.
Now middle-aged and on the downward slope of his pugnacity (the high point may have come in 1997's Black and Blue), Rebus has become the engine of his own obsolescence. Overexposure to criminals has left him better at understanding them than his colleagues, and he only worsens his career standing by fighting other people's battles for them, especially Siobhan, who risks learning too many lessons from her mentor. To watch Rebus subvert police conventions and fend of personal demons (that latter struggle mirrored in A Question of Blood by Herdman's own) is worth the admission to this consistently ambitious series. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
The Recycled Citizenby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0743479459 (0-7434-7945-9)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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Resurrection Rowby Anne PerryISBN 0312677979 (0-312-67797-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Secret of the Old Millby Franklin W. Dixon, Walter S. RogersISBN 1557091463 (1-55709-146-3)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret of the Old Mill'Book summary:Counterfeit money is in circulation, and the limit is reached when Mrs. Hardy takes some from a stranger. Then the Hardy boys and their high school chums are warned to stay away from the old mill. Their curiosity plunges them into peril of the most unexpected kind.[via]More editions of The Secret of the Old Mill:
Southern Discomfortby Margaret MaronISBN 0892964464 (0-89296-446-4)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Stalkerby Faye KellermanISBN 0688156134 (0-688-15613-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalker'Book summary:Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams [via]"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
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Stone Angelby Carol O'ConnellISBN 1568955073 (1-56895-507-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Summonsby John GrishamISBN 0375431977 (0-375-43197-7)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Summons'Book summary:An intelligent, low-key thriller, The Summons continues John Grisham's exploration of the common decencies of a strain of American commercial story-telling in literature and film that we often link to the work of Frank Capra or O Henry. He is not afraid of parable or of setting up situations that are at once archetypal and attractively specific. This is a tale of two brothers--one is righteous, more or less, and one is not--and a question of their inheritance. Ancient Mississippi judge Atlee summons his two sons to his deathbed, but dies before he can explain himself, leaving Ray, who arrives on time unlike his drunkard brother Forest with the difficult problem of the three million dollars in used notes which are lying around the house in shoe-boxes. Ray worries about his father's posthumous reputation, about the Inland Revenue Service and about how quickly Forrest could drink himself to death with unlimited funds.
Grisham is very acute indeed on how the best of intentions lead Ray not to any significant crime or atrocity but to quietly unconscionable behaviour. And then he realises he is being followed... Grisham can build suspense out of remarkably little and has a real gift for understanding the quiet anxieties of an ordinary man. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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A Taint in the Bloodby Dana StabenowISBN 0312985657 (0-312-98565-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Taint in the Blood'Book summary:Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son William. The jury returned a quick verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she had set fire to her own home with both her sons inside; William died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again denied her guilt.[via]
Now her daughter, Charlotte Muravieff, has hired Kate Shugak to clear her mother's name. Her daughter has always believed in her innocence, and now that Victoria has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Charlotte wants her free. Kate is the only p.i. Charlotte can find who's willing to take such a long-shot case. Kate, on the other hand, is only willing because she's suddenly a single parent to a teenager, a teenager she hopes will decide to go to college. Besides, it can't be bad to do a favor for the Bannister family, one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Alaska's short history.
As Kate begins an investigation, Victoria protests, refusing to cooperate. But soon it seems she isn't the only one who wants to leave the past in the past. In this spell-binding novel, Kate's confrontation with thirty years of secrets and regret-and murder-in one of Alaska's most powerful families shows award-winning crime writer Dana Stabenow at the top of her game. 
Tether's Endby Margery AllinghamISBN 1567230180 (1-56723-018-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tether's End'Book summary:When a murdered London pawnbroker's corpse is missing, clues are scant and witnesses few. Scotland Yard Superintendent Charles Luke has come up with a farfetched theory, and even the imperturbable Albert Campion has doubts when evidence points them to a most unlikely conclusion. Previous published. [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Books - Tether's End: ISBN 0553251023 (0-553-25102-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Tether's End: ISBN 0786703830 (0-7867-0383-0)
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The Theban Mysteriesby Amanda CrossISBN 0896213625 (0-89621-362-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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The Thin Womanby Dorothy CannellISBN 0140079475 (0-14-007947-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thin Woman'Book summary:Reluctant to show up at her family reunion carrying so many extra pounds, unmarried, overweight Ellie Simons hires Bentley T. Haskell to pose as her fiance+a7, thus beginning a weekend of romance, jealousy, and murder. Book available. [via]
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0340188790 (0-340-18879-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, a tale of espionage in which George Smiley embarks on a mission to catch a Soviet mole who has been operating for some thirty years. [via]
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Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Mysteryby Rex StoutISBN 0553250663 (0-553-25066-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Traitors Gateby Anne PerryISBN 0786204516 (0-7862-0451-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartimeby John DunningISBN 074340615X (0-7434-0615-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Unfinished Clueby Georgette HeyerISBN 0755108892 (0-7551-0889-2)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unfinished Clue'Book summary:The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he has treated them all during the fateful weekend. He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his son's fiancée, a cabaret dancer. Inspector Harding picks his way through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit - and find much more besides. [via]
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Voodoo Riverby Robert CraisISBN 0786889055 (0-7868-8905-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voodoo River'Book summary:The wise-cracking private eye with a tough exterior and a soft heart returns in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, Cajun thug, and menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther that captures the heart of the bayou country. Tour. [via]
The Withdrawing Roomby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0743452585 (0-7434-5258-5)
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Retrato de un Asesino : Jack el Destripador Caso Cerradoby Patricia D. CornwellISBN 8466611029 (84-666-1102-9)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Retrato de un Asesino : Jack el Destripador Caso Cerrado'Book summary:The mystery surrounding Jack the Ripper's seven terrifying slayings in the fall of 1888 remains as fresh now as then; the killer was never identified beyond a doubt. In this heavily researched study of Jack the Ripper's killings, Patricia Cornwell uses her masterful intuition into the criminal mind and forensic examination of physical evidence such as documents, reports, fingerprints, crime scene photographs, original etchings and paintings, items of clothing, artists' paraphernalia, and traces of DNA, to reach a firm conclusion as to the true identity of this elusive madman.[via]More editions of Retrato de un Asesino : Jack el Destripador Caso Cerrado:
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