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Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteriesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0517035820 (0-517-03582-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Agatha Christie, Five Classic Murder Mysteriesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0517468522 (0-517-46852-2)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrotby Robert Arthur, Harry KaneISBN 0394822005 (0-394-82200-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot'Book summary:In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot: ISBN 0394822005 (0-394-82200-5)
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Ammie, Come Homeby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0425099490 (0-425-09949-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Blood at the Rootby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380794764 (0-380-79476-4)
Softcover, Twilight
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The Blood-dimmed Tideby Rennie AirthISBN 0670899968 (0-670-89996-8)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Bloodrootby Susan Wittig AlbertISBN 0425188140 (0-425-18814-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodroot'Book summary:In a starred review of Mistletoe Man, Publishers Weekly raved: "[Albert's] writing sparkles...a funny, human story." Now Albert presents her most stunning achievement to date. Set on a Mississippi plantation, Bloodroot is a vivid, haunting novel brimming with dangerous family secrets-and drenched in the enduring mysteries of the Deep South... [via]
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The Blue Nowhereby Jeffery DeaverISBN 0671042262 (0-671-04226-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Nowhere'Book summary:In this 21st century version of the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," two computer wizards engage in the kind of high-tech combat that only a hacker could love. Wyatt Gillette, a cybergenius who's never used his phenomenal talent for evil, is sitting in a California jail doing time for a few harmless computer capers when he gets a temporary reprieve--a chance to help the Computer Crimes Unit of the state police nail a cracker (a criminally inclined hacker) called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers. Gillette and Phate were once the kings of cyberspace--the Blue Nowhere of the title--but Phate has gone way past the mischievous electronic pranks they once pulled and crossed over to the dark side. While Trapdoor can hack its way into any computer, it's Phate's skill at "social engineering" as well as his remarkable coding ability that makes him such a menace to society. As Wyatt explains to the policeman who springs him from prison so that he can find and stop Phate before he kills again, "It means conning somebody, pretending you're someone you're not. Hackers do it to get access to data bases and phone lines and pass codes. The more facts about somebody you can feed back to them, the more they believe you and the more they'll do what you want them to."
Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver (The Empty Chair, The Devil's Teardrop) ratchets up the suspense one line of code at a time; his terrific pacing drives the narrative to a thrilling and explosive conclusion. This thriller is bound to induce paranoia in anyone who still believes he can hide his deepest secrets from anyone with the means, motive, and modem to ferret them out. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Bourne Identityby Robert LudlumISBN 0553260111 (0-553-26011-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bourne Identity'Book summary:Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium-- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators--led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. [via]
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515136816 (0-515-13681-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Dead Rightby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380975807 (0-380-97580-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Right'Book summary:There's a deliberate lack of excessive angst and glamour in Peter Robinson's books about Inspector Alan Banks and his fellow Yorkshire coppers, so first-time readers might think them bland. But under the books' placid surfaces, whole worlds of crime and justice are being worked out. In this ninth book in his increasingly popular series, Robinson gives Banks some serious problems of a personal and professional nature: a neglected wife and a ruthlessly ambitious superior. He also drops Banks into a frighteningly realistic neo-Nazi group called the Albion League, whose activities include drug dealing and murder. Other books in the series available in paperback include Innocent Graves, Final Account, Gallow's View, and Hanging Valley. [via]
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Dead to Rightsby J.A. JanceISBN 0380724324 (0-380-72432-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Death Notesby Ruth RendellISBN 0394520785 (0-394-52078-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Death of a Foolby Ngaio MarshISBN 0425143031 (0-425-14303-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Death of a Mystery Writerby Robert BarnardISBN 044012168X (0-440-12168-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Double Indemnityby James M. CainISBN 0679723226 (0-679-72322-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Indemnity'Book summary:When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger's dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly. [via]
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Fade Awayby Harlan CobenISBN 0440222680 (0-440-22268-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fade Away'Book summary:The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legosand blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memoriesof the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionMyron Bolitara hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance. [via]More editions of Fade Away:
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter HainingISBN 0491026242 (0-491-02624-2)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen
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Fletch, Tooby Gregory McdonaldISBN 0446346144 (0-446-34614-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Forty Words For Sorrowby Giles BluntISBN 0425206920 (0-425-20692-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Forty Words For Sorrow: ISBN 0679310576 (0-679-31057-6)
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The Gladstone Bagby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0446400025 (0-446-40002-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Goodnight, Ireneby Jan BurkeISBN 0671782002 (0-671-78200-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodnight, Irene'Book summary:When her closest friend, O'Connor, is killed by a bomb shortly before he was to solve a 1955 murder, Irene Kelly takes it upon herself to figure out who silenced her friend and why. 40,000 first printing. [via]
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Grab Bagby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380750996 (0-380-75099-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Grave Surpriseby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0425214702 (0-425-21470-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grave Surprise'Book summary:Charlaine Harris is already a star and a New York Times bestseller with her vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse and her Lily Bard mysteries. This second installment to her new supernatural mystery series might just be her biggest hit yet. Grave Sight's Harper Connelly is back, and her ability to find the dead and see their last moments is in higher demand than ever...
A college class gets more than it bargained for when Harper gives a demonstration of her uncanny talent. Instead of just finding one body in an old grave, she finds two: the original occupant and a recently deceased girl whom Harper had tried, and failed, to find two years previously. To dispel suspicions about her own innocence, Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver undertake their own hunt to find the killer-only to find yet another body in the same grave. [via] -
The Hard Wayby Lee ChildISBN 0440241030 (0-440-24103-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard Way'Book summary:In Lee Childs astonishing new thriller, exmilitary cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, hes thrust into an explosive situation thats about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truthand save two innocent livesis to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way&.
Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then hell turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeancebecause Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.
On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employers past&and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. Hes beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: hes already in way too deep to stop now. [via] -
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439358078 (0-439-35807-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'Book summary:As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief& or will it?
Book five in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teenager. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny from the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth: that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toad-like and simpering ("hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of defence against dark arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the high inquisitor of Hogwarts. Life isn't getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their examinations, devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team line-up, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black and white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Here we have an adolescent who's sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energised as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvellous magical series. --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: ISBN 0439567629 (0-439-56762-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter And the Order of the Phoenix: ISBN 0613999169 (0-613-99916-9)
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Heartwoodby James Lee BurkeISBN 0440224012 (0-440-22401-2)
Softcover, Dell Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartwood'Book summary:Whether he's writing about the Louisiana Bayou Country (in his Dave Robicheaux books) or the Texas hill towns around Austin (in his series about former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland), James Lee Burke has deep roots in the American soil that link him to some of the great adventure writers of the past such as Jack London and Mark Twain. Like them, Burke writes novels illustrating how failure shapes a man much more than success does.
Central to Burke's second Billy Bob novel (Cimarron Rose was his first) is Wilbur Pickett. Wilbur had a brief moment of glory as a rodeo cowboy before sliding into a downward cycle of luckless enterprises. He ends up laboring for a wealthy family, the Dietrichs, in the Texas town of Deaf Smith. The Dietrichs accuse Wilbur of stealing some bearer bonds, and Billy Bob--now a defense attorney--reluctantly take his case. He is hesitant (because he idolizes Peggy Jean Dietrich), and for good reason: Billy Bob discovers that her husband Earl may be involved in shady, even violent, business practices.
Other ghosts from the past also haunt Billy Bob: he accidentally killed his former partner on a drug raid in Mexico and still hears his voice. And then there's Holland's illegitimate son Lucas, who is growing up with problems of his own. The weight of all this back-story might overwhelm a lesser writer, but Burke manages to make it seem as natural as the soft wind that stirs the tumbleweed in the town of Deaf Smith. --Dick Adler [via]
Hour Gameby David BaldacciISBN 0446616494 (0-446-61649-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hour Game'Book summary:Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he'd been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci's typical terse, fast-paced style in Split Second. Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they're hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco's Zodiac Killer to Chicago's infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren't especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci's trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel. --Jane Adams
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Hunting for Hidden Goldby Franklin W. DixonISBN 044808905X (0-448-08905-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Killer Marketby Margaret MaronISBN 0446606197 (0-446-60619-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Market'Book summary:When Judge Deborah Knott fills in for a judge in High Point, North Carolina, she has no idea that a show featuring the largest assortment of upscale home decorations in the world will be taking over the town while she is there. And when the son-in-law of an old classmate turns up dead on a pink satin love seat--Deborah must find an assassin who puts his work on display. [via]
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Los Alamosby Joseph KanonISBN 0440224071 (0-440-22407-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Alamos'Book summary:Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter, as the local police believe, or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself? This is the mainspring of Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos, a supremely original and romantic new thriller that re-creates the most compelling real-life drama of this century.Michael Connolly, the intelligence officer brought in to crack Bruner's case--and then make it disappear--soon discovers that investigating a murder in Los Alamos is anything but routine. In a town so secret it does not officially exist, he must thread his way through a makeshift community of displaced ÚmigrÚs, soldiers, and idealistic scientists for whom murder is, at best, an unwelcome intrusion as they race to end a brutal war. Only when Connolly falls in love and begins an affair with Emma, the enigmatic wife of one of the scientists, does he truly begin to unravel the past associations, tangled sex lives, and conflicting morality at the dark heart of the Project.Interweaving fact and fiction, Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of those involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer, its charismatic scientific director; General Groves, its blunt Army commander; and the brilliant team of scientists whose work would change the world forever. Like the invention at its core, Los Alamos is about fusion--of loyalty and betrayal, idealism and guilt--and its deadly aftermath. Elegantly written and deftly constructed, Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new storytelling talent. [via]
Luck Runs Outby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 038515562X (0-385-15562-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Maximum Bobby Elmore LeonardISBN 0385323964 (0-385-32396-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maximum Bob'Book summary:Skirt-chasing, orchid-raising Florida judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs has made a career of oversentencing convicted felons. He's thrown the book at so many that it's beginning to look like one of them may be planning to throw it back at him. But assassination isn't the worst of the judge's problems. He's got to get his whacked-out wife Leanne out of Palm Beach--fast. For it seems she's becoming an embarrassment, what with her multiple personalities and all. So when Bob starts playing footsie with an alligator poacher in a scam to scare his wife into divorce, and a pretty probation officer named Kathy Diaz Baker catches his lecherous eye, things really start to heat up in south Florida...as bullets start flying, a gator comes crawling, and a lovely lady finds herself in a cross fire of smart crooks, foolish love, and sweet revenge. [via]
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Monday the Rabbi Took Offby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449210014 (0-449-21001-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Moon Musicby Faye KellermanISBN 0380726262 (0-380-72626-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Music'Book summary:In Moon Music Faye Kellerman turns her attention from the streets of Los Angeles, where her previous novels were set, to the casinos of Las Vegas. A mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert and Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe sets out to determine who could have committed the murder and the brutal desecration that followed. His team of investigators include the tall and lusty Steve Jensen, novice Patricia Deluca, and medical examiner Rukmani Kalil. The relations between the four are complex and add depth to this tale of deadly dealings: Poe carries a torch for Jensen's mentally troubled wife and knows of his colleague's philandering; Kalil and Poe are engaged in an off-again, on-again affair. Although collectively they feel as though they are making progress in the case, another similarly mutilated corpse is found within a matter of weeks, turning the mystery from that of a peculiarly brutal murder in the singular to the search for a serial killer.
It's a tight, tense read. Kellerman engages the reader with her carefully wrought characters and with her sense of place. Las Vegas not only sets the stage for the story but is central to it. The seeds of the crime were planted in its small town past as a nuclear test sight and only reach their fruition in the gambling and selling of sex and drugs in the present. Kellerman ties it all together beautifully, with extraordinary hints of Native American mysticism and government conspiracies. In another's hands, such flights of fancy would verge on the ridiculous, but Kellerman manages to keep her fantastic plots well under control. For those with a strong stomach and an imaginative streak, Moon Music is a captivating thriller. --K.A. Crouch [via]
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Mulch Ado About Nothingby Jill ChurchillISBN 0380804913 (0-380-80491-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mulch Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Suburban mom Jane Jeffry and her equally green-thumbless best friend Shelley Nowack could kill plastic plants. But their scheme to improve themselves vegetatively dies on the vine when the celebrated botanist slated to teach a class at the local Community Center is mysteriously beaten into a coma -- and her replacement turns out to be Dr. Stewart Eastman, an arrogant, self-promoting boor. Did Dr. Eastman or a fellow classmate assault their original instructor? And who later plants a corpse in Eastman's compost heap? There's certainly an abundant crop of suspects. And it's up to Jane to weed out a killer.
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The Mysterious Mannequinby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095475 (0-448-09547-5)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Mannequin'Book summary:The gift of an oriental rug with a coded message woven into its border and the disappearance of a Turkish client start Nancy Drew on a new search for a missing mannequin. [via]
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Night Fallby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446616621 (0-446-61662-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Fall'Book summary:John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90s, makes a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to the government's "official" position on what really happened to TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of 1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year anniversary of the crash, Corey's curiosity is aroused by what appears to be a concerted effort by Kate's fellow federal agents to keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be closed. Corey's detecting skills lead him to two witnesses to the crash, who were enjoying an adulterous interlude on the beach at the time the plane went down--and videotaping their sexual escapades while what appears to be a terrorist missile attack takes place in the background. What ratchets up the tension in this capably written thriller is what the reader knows but Corey doesn't as he heads for a showdown with those responsible for the official cover-up as the clock ticks down to the morning of September 11, 2001. DeMille's deft touch with a riddle wrapped in an enigma--what really happened to Flight 800--makes his "what if" scenario a more than plausible theory; you don't have to believe in conspiracies or government cover-ups to find his latest engrossing, entertaining, and enlightening. --Jane Adams
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Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyesby Marcia MullerISBN 0446400335 (0-446-40033-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes'Book summary:Following a trail of death that leads back to the power politics of the fifties, San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone searches for a killer who built a career on murder. [via]
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The Price of Murderby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0425198073 (0-425-19807-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Murder'Book summary:Blind eighteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding returns in the tenth novel of Bruce Alexander's critically acclaimed mystery series.
In The Price of Murder, Sir John and Jeremy are drawn deep into the notorious Seven Dials section of London, where they must contend with the most sordid inclinations of both the working class and the aristocracy.
When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, Sir John and Jeremy begin to investigate; but the girl's mother is nowhere to be found, until Jeremy's search for clues leads him to the racetrack. There, he discovers just how dangerous the high-stakes battle is that he has gotten himself into-and, when an acquaintance of his own suddenly disappears, just how terribly steep the odds. [via] 
Quieter Than Sleepby Joanne DobsonISBN 0553576607 (0-553-57660-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Relicby Douglas PrestonISBN 0606117865 (0-606-11786-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Revenge of the Cootie Girlsby Sparkle HayterISBN 0670869406 (0-670-86940-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Right Hand of Amonby Lauren HaneyISBN 0380792664 (0-380-79266-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungryby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449213927 (0-449-21392-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Shoot Don't Shootby J.A. JanceISBN 0380765489 (0-380-76548-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Shooting at Loonsby Margaret MaronISBN 0446404241 (0-446-40424-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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A Sight for Sore Eyesby Ruth RendellISBN 0440235448 (0-440-23544-8)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sight for Sore Eyes'Book summary:Nobody does North London squalor better than Ruth Rendell. Describing in vivid detail the cultural sewer in which a monster named Teddy Brex grows up, she uses hideous furniture, slovenly housekeeping habits, even his mother's diet while pregnant to root us in the setting's hopeless ugliness. In contrast, Rendell introduces people and places of stunning beauty: Francine, a mentally fragile girl who became mute after witnessing her mother's murder; and Orcadia Cottage, scene of a famous painting that is at the center of much of the story's anguish. "It was far and away the most beautiful place he had ever seen," Rendell writes when Teddy--a gifted woodcrafter--first views the cottage. "The proportions of this hall, this room... the windows, the walls, the carpets, the flowers, the furniture, the paintings, all of it dazzled him."
Teddy is another of Rendell's frightening moral cripples, a seemingly ordinary person capable of the vilest crimes. When he becomes obsessed with Francine after meeting her at art school, we know to expect murder--we just aren't sure when, or who will be the victim. Equally vile is Julia, Francine's stepmother, a psychologist of such immense and malevolent ineptness that we would swear she couldn't possibly exist if real life hadn't taught us otherwise. Other important characters are Harriet, a faded beauty who connects the past to the present; Teddy's uncle Keith, who first recognizes the boy's madness; and a bright red, lovingly restored Edsel, which becomes a hearse.
Like all of her books, Rendell's latest is really about the secret acts of insanity that occur behind closed doors. Among her best books available in paperback are From Doon with Death, A Guilty Thing Surprised, The Keys to the Street, and, from the excellent Inspector Wexford series, Kissing the Gunner's Daughter, Road Rage, and Simisola. --Dick Adler [via]
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486270556 (0-486-27055-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Six Notable Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0448130467 (0-448-13046-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Stone Kissby Faye KellermanISBN 0446611476 (0-446-61147-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Kiss'Book summary:Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellerman's latest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus. Decker's half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wife's brother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room, and the victim's teenage niece Shayndie, who may have witnessed her uncle's murder, disappears. But it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is as eager for Decker's assistance as Jonathan--not the New York City cops, not the missing girl's parents, and not the police chief in the upstate town of Quinton, where the Liebers live in a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish enclave. Despite these roadblocks, the ever resourceful Decker manages to locate Shayndie in the last place one might expect to find a devout, gently raised 15-year old girl--the heavily guarded Manhattan apartment of Chris Donatti, a Mob-connected criminal with whom Peter has a complicated history. But when Shayndie runs away from Donatti's loft and turns up dead a few days later, Decker's search for her killer uncovers a deadly family secret that puts his life--and Rina's--in jeopardy. As usual in this outstanding series, Kellerman's pacing is flawless, her plotting ingenious, and her deep understanding of human nature reconfirmed. --Jane Adams [via]
A Thin Dark Lineby Tami HoagISBN 0553571885 (0-553-57188-5)
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When a tainted piece of evidence lets her killer walk...
How far would you go to see justice done?
From New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes a taut, terrifying thriller as chilling as Night Sins, as nerve-shattering as
Guilty as Sin. When murder erupts in a small Southern town, Tami Hoag leads readers on a frightening journey to the shadowy boundary between attraction and obsession, law and justice--and exposes the rage that lures people over...
Pamela Bichon's killer is free, the case against him dismissed on a technicality. In the eyes of the law it doesn't matter that the prosecutor's key piece of evidence proves Marcus Renard's guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. All that matters is that the evidence was never listed on a search warrant and it was seized by a detective with a questionable past and a nasty reputation.
But the investigation isn't over--not for Cajun cop Nick Fourcade, who stands accused of planting the evidence. He's stepped over the line before and this case could push him over the edge. His orders are to move on, but obsession fills his mind with the nightmare images of Pamela Bichon's agonizing death, of Marcus Renard's arrogant triumph, and of his own capacity for exacting vengeance.
Deputy Annie Broussard can't walk away from the homicide either. She found the body.
She still hears the phantom echoes of dying screams, still feels the shadow of a woman taken by violence and denied justice. But pursuing the investigation will mean forming an uneasy alliance with Fourcade, a man she doesn't trust. It will mean subjecting herself to growing harassment from her fellow cops. And it will mean letting herself be drawn into the confidence of a suspected killer. [via]
The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrotby Robert ArthurISBN 0394864026 (0-394-86402-6)
Softcover, Random House
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Tripwireby Lee ChildISBN 042520622X (0-425-20622-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripwire'Book summary:Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
As in Lee Child's two previous thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, Reacher is soon up to his neck in lethal trouble, this time involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of course), and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew.
But this is not a book by one of the new breed of U.S. thriller writers. Child prides himself on his ability, as an Englishman, to write American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. Tripwire is no exception. Every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable. --Barry Forshaw [via]
The Union Club Mysteriesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449215830 (0-449-21583-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Wicked Uncleby Patricia WentworthISBN 0446300837 (0-446-30083-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Wrack and Runeby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0385178018 (0-385-17801-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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