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The 6th Lamentationby William BrodrickISBN 0670031917 (0-670-03191-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 6th Lamentation'Book summary:Larkwood Priory, England: Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselm's response: claim sanctuary. But the answer sets off more trouble than he ever could have imagined when the man returns, demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal. Agnes Aubret has unburdened a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier, Agnes was in occupied Paris, risking her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety-until her group was exposed by an SS officer: Eduard Schwermann. Not only has the Church granted Schwermann sanctuary before; in 1944 it helped him escape from France to begin a new life in Britain. As Anselm attempts to find out why and as Lucy delves deeper into her grandmother's past, their investigations dovetail to form a remarkable story. William Brodrick makes a dazzling debut in this literary thriller where two seemingly unconnected lives gradually, shockingly converge. Brodrick, himself a former Augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting, morally complex characterization, and crisp historical re-creation. In Father Anselm, Brodrick has crafted a unique and compelling hero. And The 6th Lamentation promises to be the literary thriller discovery of the season. [via]
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Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curateby M. C. BeatonISBN 0754072967 (0-7540-7296-7)
Hardcover, Chivers
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunnedby Walter MosleyISBN 0671014994 (0-671-01499-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned'Book summary:In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks, and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage--as well as the power of his massive "rock-breaking" hands--Socrates must find a way to live an honorable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.
Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it's a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty, and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighborhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both musical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear, and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision. [via]
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At Death's Doorby Robert BarnardISBN 068419001X (0-684-19001-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Badger's Moon: A Mystery of Ancient Irelandby Peter TremayneISBN 0755302249 (0-7553-0224-9)
Softcover, Headline
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Beggar's Banquetby Ian RankinISBN 0752852388 (0-7528-5238-8)
Softcover, Orion
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Black Moneyby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0679768106 (0-679-76810-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bloody Maryby J. A. KonrathISBN 0786890746 (0-7868-9074-6)
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Blossomby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679772618 (0-679-77261-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blossom'Book summary:Two things bring Burke from New York to Indiana: a frantic call from an old cell mate named Virgil and a serial sniper whose twisted passion is to pick off couples on lovers' lane. Virgil's nephew is the innocent prime suspect, and Burke vows to find the real killer by any means necessary. And then comes Blossom. Slim, gorgeous, brilliant. She's got a heated interest in the murders . . . and in Burke. [via]
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Blue Belleby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761683 (0-679-76168-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Belle'Book summary:Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York Citys bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.
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In Andrew Vachsss tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.More editions of Blue Belle:
The Bobbsey Twins In The Countryby Laura Lee HopeISBN 0671956736 (0-671-95673-6)
Hardcover, Wanderer Books
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The Body in the Big Appleby Katherine H. PageISBN 0688157483 (0-688-15748-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Body in the Big Apple'Book summary:In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.
Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.
With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.
Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.
With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.
Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.
With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series. [via]
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The Body in the Bogby Katherine Hall PageISBN 0688145736 (0-688-14573-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Boy Who Followed Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 067974567X (0-679-74567-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Case of the Glamorous Ghostby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0792710444 (0-7927-1044-4)
Softcover, Curley Pub
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Cat Breaking Free: A Joe Grey Mysteryby Shirley Rousseau MurphyISBN 0786284668 (0-7862-8466-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Cat Seeing Doubleby Shirley Rousseau MurphyISBN 078625436X (0-7862-5436-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Cherry Cheesecake Murderby Joanne FlukeISBN 0758202954 (0-7582-0295-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cherry Cheesecake Murder'Book summary:There is no such thing as privacy in Lake Eden, but Hannah never thought things would go this far. Everyone has been telling her what to do ever since she got not one, but two marriage proposals. The votes are evenly divided between Detective Mike Kingston and town dentist Norman Rhodes. Then movie mania takes over and Lake Eden locals turn into local Hollywood wannabees. Suddenly, Hannah finds herself serving up treats for cast and crew, including ex college crush Ross Barton, who's now a Hollywood producer (and who's turned into quite a treat himself) and ever demanding director Dean Lawrence. Who has a hankering for cherry cheesecake. Everything seems to be right on schedule until Dean demonstrates a suicide scene with a prop gun that turns out to be lethal. Now there's a real body on the set and a growing cast of suspects, including an amorous lead actress, her smitten older husband, and even a Lake Eden local who publicly threatened to kill Dean if he threatened to move a statue that was blocking his light. As filming continues, Hannah sifts through the clues, hoping against hope that the person responsible for Dean's death is half baked enough to have made a mistake. When it happens, Hannah intends to be there, ready to rewrite a killer's lethal script with the kind of quirky ending that can only be found in Lake Eden. [via]
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The Chinatown Death Cloud Perilby Paul MalmontISBN 0743287851 (0-7432-8785-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Clue for the Puzzle Ladyby Parnell HallISBN 0786225424 (0-7862-2542-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cold Smell of Sacred Stoneby George C. ChesbroISBN 0689119135 (0-689-11913-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dark Hollowby John ConnollyISBN 074341022X (0-7434-1022-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Hollow'Book summary:Charlie "Bird" Parker, the protagonist of John Connolly's Shamus Award-winning first novel, Every Dead Thing, returns in another moody, masterful thriller set in the beautifully evoked Maine woods where Bird has returned to lick his wounds and recover from the murder of his wife and daughter explored in the earlier book. A half-hearted investigator, Bird agrees to track down the ex-husband of Rita Purdue and get the child support she has coming to her. And when Rita and her son are killed and the finger of suspicion points to Billy Purdue, Bird still feels a moral obligation to find the young man, even though he can't believe he's a killer. Then the bodies begin piling up, among them a bunch of Cambodian killers, some mob-connected Boston gangsters, a couple of people to whom Billy turned for refuge, and an old woman in a nursing home who dies with the name of a bogeyman on her lips--the mysterious Caleb Kyle. It's not the first time Bird's heard that name: his grandfather, who was also a cop, spent his last years trying to track down the legendary monster whose name was always used to scare kids into doing what they were supposed to. And it's not only his grandfather's ghost that haunts Bird as he attempts to solve the mystery of who Billy Purdue really is; the spirits of his dead wife and child urge him on in his attempt to find justice for Rita and her child as well. Aided in his quest by two unlikely but compellingly realized associates, a gay hit man and his lover, Bird confronts the evil that lurks in a mythical monster who turns out to be all too real, and comes to terms, finally, with the grief that has colored his life black since the death of his family. A powerful, well-paced thriller with a complex and interesting hero who bears even further explication--hopefully in his third adventure. --Jane Adams [via]
Dark of the Moonby John Dickson CarrISBN 0708944418 (0-7089-4441-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Dead As a Dodo : A Homer Kelly Mysteryby Jane LangtonISBN 0670862215 (0-670-86221-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Deadlineby John DunningISBN 0671003526 (0-671-00352-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadline'Book summary:When a circus tent fire results in the death of a young girl, reporter Dalton Walker searches for leads while juggling a second story about a young Amish woman who left her home to become a dancer in the Big Apple. Reprint. Tour. [via]
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Death in Disguise/a Chief Inspector Barnaby Mysteryby Caroline GrahamISBN 0688099858 (0-688-09985-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Deceptive Clarityby Aaron J. ElkinsISBN 0802756662 (0-8027-5666-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Downtownby Ed McBainISBN 0688087361 (0-688-08736-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Eat, Drink, and Be Waryby Tamar MyersISBN 0786234555 (0-7862-3455-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Entombedby Linda FairsteinISBN 0743482271 (0-7434-8227-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entombed'Book summary:Series heroine Alexandra Cooper, head of Manhattan's sex crimes unit, returns in a novel that might have been titled "Nevermore,": focused as it is on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. When the body of a two-decades-old skeleton is found bricked up behind a wall in a soon-to-be-demolished building where Poe once lived, it looks like a very cold case indeed. But then that old murder is linked to a more current slaying, one that at first looks like the work of the Silk Stocking Rapist, Alex's old enemy, who terrorized the upper East Side of Manhattan several years ago but hasn't been heard from since. As usual, Alex and her good friends, detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman, take the reader to an area of New York most tourists never see--in this case, the Bronx Botanical Gardens and its wild, forested environs--and bring it dramatically to life. Just in case Poe ever has his own category on Alex's favorite TV show, theres enough trivia included about the master of the macabre's life and work to propel any reader to Final Jeopardy. Entombed is a smart, stylish, well-told tale. --Jane Adams [via]
Evanly Choirsby Rhys BowenISBN 0727862766 (0-7278-6276-6)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Failure to Appearby J.A. JanceISBN 068812674X (0-688-12674-X)
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0679412735 (0-679-41273-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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Five-Minute Mysteriesby Kenneth J. WeberISBN 0762424370 (0-7624-2437-0)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Fourth Side Of The Triangleby Ellery QueenISBN 0754086615 (0-7540-8661-5)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Ghost in the Tokaido Innby Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas HooblerISBN 0698118790 (0-698-11879-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Going for the Goldby Emma LathenISBN 0671414070 (0-671-41407-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Greene Murder Caseby S. S. Van DineISBN 0684167344 (0-684-16734-4)
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The Griftersby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679732489 (0-679-73248-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Hearse Case Scenarioby Tim CockeyISBN 0786889950 (0-7868-8995-0)
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Heresyby Sharan NewmanISBN 0765302470 (0-7653-0247-0)
Softcover, Forge
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A Hovering of Vulturesby Robert BarnardISBN 0684196255 (0-684-19625-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Howliday Innby James Howe, Lynn MunsingerISBN 0689308469 (0-689-30846-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howliday Inn'Book summary:The Monroes have gone on vacation, leaving Harold and Chester at Chateau Bow-Wow -- not exactly a four-star hotel. On the animals' very first night there, the silence is pierced by a peculiar wake-up call -- an unearthly howl that makes Chester observe that the place should be called Howliday Inn.
But the mysterious cries in the night (Chester is convinced there are werewolves afoot) are just the beginning of the frightening goings-on. Soon animals start disappearing, and there are whispers of murder. Is checkout time at Chateau Bow-Wow going to come earlier than Harold and Chester anticipated? [via]
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Killing Timeby Caleb CarrISBN 0679463321 (0-679-46332-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Time'Book summary:It's 2023, and the Web has almost destroyed the world. While cyberspace's early pioneers promoted the Net as a revolution in human communication, America has instead become a society of desk-bound introverts who believe everything they read. The federal government has been "bought" by a Microsoft-style corporation. Any semblance of central authority has vanished. As the Net infiltrates India and Pakistan, fevered nationalists and terrorists find one more medium through which to spread the word.
With Killing Time, Caleb Carr (The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness) manages to create a future that's both frightening and nostalgic. The novel's narrator, Dr. Gideon Wolfe, longs for a world before technology swallowed people's minds and imaginations. Through a series of complex misadventures, beginning with the murder of his best friend, Gideon finds himself joining a ragtag army of scientists and inventors who hope to take it back. Heading up this '60s-style revolutionary cell is a brother-sister team--genetically engineered geniuses with silver hair and shining eyes. Aboard their ultramodern ship, Gideon learns the extent of the damage done. When they dive below the surface of the Atlantic, he looks out the window and sees
not an idyllic scene of aquatic wonder such as childhood stories might have led me to expect but rather a horrifying expanse of brown water filled with human and animal waste, all of it endlessly roiled but never cleansed by the steady pulse of the offshore currents.
Carr's future is suffused with regret. It's also rife with mystery and suspense; in every chapter the stakes are raised a little higher, the apocalypse hovers a little closer. This author is a master of the cliffhanger, of cryptic warnings that return to haunt our hero later in the text. Occasional flashes of humor relieve the prevailing ominousness, and a beautiful girl with a huge gun appears at regular intervals to keep things humming. Fans of Steve Erickson's end-of-the-world novels will likely enjoy this adventure in the Internet age, where the sheer amount of information has induced not quantitative changes in the human psyche, but qualitative ones. --Ellen Williams [via]More editions of Killing Time:
The Killsby Linda FairsteinISBN 0743436687 (0-7434-3668-7)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kills'Book summary:From New York Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying new thriller rich with the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can offer....
It's going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case, involving an attack on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be difficult to prove even without the latest development -- it seems that Paige has something to hide.
Most of her story is clear. She'd had dinner with New York consultant Andrew Tripping three times before the March evening when she accepted his invitation to accompany him to his apartment. But what occurred that night? Why didn't she leave the apartment when he started to act strangely? What about Tripping's little boy, Dulles? What happened to the child that fateful evening? And who is the strange man whose appearance in the courtroom seems to terrify Paige?
While Alex's police detective friend Mercer Wallace helps her learn more of the sad details behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransome has been murdered, her apartment ransacked.
What could this impoverished, elderly woman have possessed that could have inspired such violence? Photographs on the wall suggest that "Queenie" was once a beautiful and voluptuous young woman who traveled to faraway places. Could there be a clue to her murder in her exotic background?
Her murder will be only the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases begin to converge in a poignant alliance of two women from very different worlds.
Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex must learn the old lesson that appearances can deceive, even as she heads for a showdown in which her wits and her courage will be tested as never before.
With its winning combination of courtroom drama, historical detail, and the intriguing lore of a rare object whose fabled provenance provides a glistening thread through the story, The Kills is powerful, stylish writing from a hugely appealing crime-writing star. [via]
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Kissby Ed McBainISBN 0688102204 (0-688-10220-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Last Templarby Raymond KhouryISBN 0786287187 (0-7862-8718-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Templar'Book summary:Trade edition paperback, new [via]
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The Lion's Gameby Nelson DemilleISBN 0786220198 (0-7862-2019-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lion's Game'Book summary:John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted émigré mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too.
Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI's sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey's match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad's methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad's and Corey's points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we're not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we're sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad.
The New York Times put DeMille's social satire on a par with Edith Wharton's, and he's great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he's on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book's real bad guys wear the priciest suits.
DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like The Lion's Game, he's earned it. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Little Drummer Girlby John Le CarreISBN 0743464656 (0-7434-6465-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Drummer Girl'Book summary:John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow world's of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
In this thrilling and though-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English actress, is lured into "the theatre of the real" by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. [via]
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The Man Who Went Up in Smokeby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Joan TateISBN 0679745971 (0-679-74597-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Went Up in Smoke'Book summary:His holiday has just begun: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbor gets a phone call, Martin Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Instead of passing leisurely sun-filled days with his children, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths--and at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry. [via]
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Midnight Bayouby Nora RobertsISBN 0786237392 (0-7862-3739-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Misery Loves Maggodyby Joan HessISBN 0671016849 (0-671-01684-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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And you will too.
Murder and mayhem have never been so hilarious as in the sleepy little town of Maggody, Arkansas. Population 755. And in this newest entry to the Joan Hess series, there's twice the fun when some of Maggody's most beloved inhabitants venture out of state. Meanwhile, all manner of unrest also unfolds on the familiar Maggody home front.
When beleaguered chief of police Arly Hanks hears that her mother, Ruby Bee, and best friend, Estelle Oppers, are headed for Memphis on a four-day Elvis Pilgrimage, she thinks she may be getting a break that is long overdue. But before the "pilgrims" are past the airport on the way out of Faberville, the fur starts flying, and soon the trip is completely stalled by a variety of deadly doings. Estelle calls home to report that Ruby Bee has collapsed and is in the local hospital, and even before Arly's seen the delta dawn, one of the other clients on the tour is found dead beneath the eighth-floor balcony of the hotel. Worse still, the balcony from which she plunged turns out to be none other than the room of a prominent Maggody citizen, who has been hauled off to the local jail. What's more, Estelle's pretty darn sure the tour van is being followed by thugs in an ominous black car -- and another body's about to be laid to rest in Graceland.
Back home things aren't much better and certainly no quieter, so Arly Hanks will have to be at her most resourceful to restore the peace once again to the inhabitants of Maggody -- both those at home and those who have roamed beyond the town limits.
Variously described by critics as a "rollicking tour de force" (Boston Magazine), "Bawdy entertainment" (Kirkus Reviews), "Hilarious" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), "delectable and continually surprising" (The New York Times Book Review), Joan Hess's Maggody series is one of a kind and just keeps getting better. [via]
Murder at Madingley Grangeby Caroline GrahamISBN 068809984X (0-688-09984-X)
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Murder at the Pentagonby Margaret TrumanISBN 067941357X (0-679-41357-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Roundby Emma LathenISBN 0671455281 (0-671-45528-1)
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Murder to Goby Emma LathenISBN 067145529X (0-671-45529-X)
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Musical Chairsby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0688091482 (0-688-09148-2)
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The Other Daughterby Lisa GardnerISBN 0786222905 (0-7862-2290-5)
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A Pawn for a Queen : An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Courtby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0743410319 (0-7434-1031-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pawn for a Queen : An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court'Book summary:A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect -- even at her own peril....
Ursula's relatives enlist her help when her cousin, Edward Faldene, heads to Scotland carrying a dangerous weapon: a secret list of families loyal to Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Desperate to stop the treasonous mission, Ursula rides north in haste to intercept her cousin. It is a journey made without royal permission, and one made in vain....Ursula arrives in Edinburgh too late -- and finds herself tracking a killer inside the Scottish queen's court. Whom can she trust? Mary, the enemy, who is in fact kind and charming? Her genial courtiers? The aristocrat who vies for Ursula's heart? Every player falls under suspicion in a sinister game in which, for a queen, everyone is a pawn. [via]
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Phantom Ladyby Cornell WoolrichISBN 0743423739 (0-7434-2373-9)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Lady'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2000: It all started with Cornell Woolrich, whether using his own name or the pseudonym William Irish, if you're talking about creating suspense.
Take Phantom Lady, the first book under that pseudonym. Now, the idea is commonplace. You've read a dozen books and seen a hundred movies with the same plot idea, but this is where it began.
A condemned man, due to be executed for a crime he didn't commit, watches and feels the weeks and days and hours slip away as the moment of his execution approaches.
In case anyone reading the book doesn't quite get it, doesn't quite understand what it means to be able to count the hours before certain death, Irish begins each chapter with a time check. The first chapter is headed: "The Hundred and Fiftieth Day Before the Execution." Chapters 16, 17, and 18 state "The Eighth Day Before the Execution," "The Seventh," and "The Sixth." There are no other words in those chapters because nothing happens. But Scott Henderson is in jail and, so help me, the reader by now feels nearly the same tension that the poor guy must have been feeling. He didn't kill his wife, and he knows he didn't, and we know he didn't, but no one else knows. Oh, yes, one other person knows. The killer knows.
If you can't stand the suspense, don't read this book. If not knowing what is going to happen next, or in the end, makes you too tense, don't read this book. You won't be able to stand it. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Rainbow's Endby Ellis PetersISBN 0688035183 (0-688-03518-3)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Relinquaryby Lincoln Child, Preston DouglasISBN 0765354950 (0-7653-5495-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relinquary'Book summary:Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.[via]
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Single & Singleby John Le CarreISBN 0743458060 (0-7434-5806-0)
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Single and Singleby John Le CarréISBN 0671027972 (0-671-02797-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Single and Single'Book summary:On a Turkish hillside, ex-Communist mobsters shatter the skull of a corrupt English lawyer. In a sleepy English village, the authorities ask a lonely children's magician how come £5,000,030 sterling just got anonymously deposited in his baby daughter's bank account. With machine-like logic and soulful literary magic, John le Carré links these two events in Single & Single, a stay-up-all-night thriller.
The magician is Oliver Single, the tormented son of Tiger Single, a rogue banker the Financial Times calls "the knight errant of Gorbachev's New East." In fact, Tiger is sinking his fangs into that crucial one-tenth of world trade free of pesky regulations--illegal drugs--and secretly selling donated disaster-relief blood. Mum's the word in Tiger's mob: as the lawyer's executioner notes, "Is not convenient to hear that American capitalists are bleeding poor nations literally."
Oliver comes in from the cold to help spymaster Brock track Tiger down. That £30 sterling signified Judas's silver, but Oliver yearns to save Tiger's life, too. Le Carré wizardly juggles dozens of characters in a zigzag, globetrotting plot. You-are-there realism, narrative drive, pitch-perfect dialog--why can't movies be this good? Like lightning, le Carré's metaphors both dazzle and blazingly illuminate the world.
Ex-spy le Carré was there when the Berlin Wall went up, and his spy craft is legendarily realistic. His female spy/love interest is less so--the opposite of a femme fatale, she might be termed a "deus sex machina." But the book's crucial father-son relationship is quite real, because, like the irresistible villain of A Perfect Spy, Tiger is based on le Carré's own con-man dad. The cold war is over, but le Carré is hot. And he will endure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
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The Spring Cleaning Murdersby Dorothy CannellISBN 0670875716 (0-670-87571-6)
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Swan Songby Edmund CrispinISBN 0802754201 (0-8027-5420-1)
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Sweet Dreams, Ireneby Jan BurkeISBN 0743444523 (0-7434-4452-3)
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To Ruin a Queenby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0671032941 (0-671-03294-1)
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A Touch of Frostby R. D. WingfieldISBN 0770106641 (0-7701-0664-1)
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Vendettaby Michael DibdinISBN 067976853X (0-679-76853-X)
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The Weight of Waterby Anita ShreveISBN 0786210958 (0-7862-1095-8)
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Widowsby Ed McBainISBN 0743470761 (0-7434-7076-1)
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