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2nd Chanceby James PattersonISBN 1417619449 (1-4176-1944-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: '2nd Chance'Book summary:2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.
2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the Alex Cross series, it doesn't sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay's the star, but there's a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven't picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock Classicsby John BuchanISBN 1419151126 (1-4191-5112-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock Classics'Book summary:He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me - things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top, why alliances were made and broken, why certain men disappeared, and where the sinews of war came from. [via]
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Arthur & Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 1400097037 (1-4000-9703-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur & George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Bangkok 8by John BurdettISBN 1400032903 (1-4000-3290-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bangkok 8'Book summary:When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers' customary system of bribery. This assignment's especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai's police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai's pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of yaa-baa-fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.
As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn't a whodunit, is it?" And, no, it isn't, but author John Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst, The Last Six Million Seconds) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand's flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist. Bangkok 8 is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Bangkok Tattooby John BurdettISBN 1400032911 (1-4000-3291-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bangkok Tattoo'Book summary:From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
We return to District 8the underbelly of Bangkoks underworldwhere a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. Its bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanyaa tough, sweet working girl whos the highest earner at The Old Mans Club, jointly owned by Sonchais mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailands porous southern border where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the gamut of Bangkoks drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.
Piercingly smart and funny, densely atmospheric, andas we already know to expect from John Burdettpacking a surprise at every turn, Bangkok Tattoo is sensational. [via] -
Batman: The Dark Knight Returnsby Frank Miller, David MazzucchelliISBN 1401206905 (1-4012-0690-5)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Againby Frank Miller, David MazzucchelliISBN 1401207529 (1-4012-0752-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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The Beverly Malibuby Katherine V. ForrestISBN 0941483487 (0-941483-48-7)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beverly Malibu'Book summary:[via]As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbors, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?
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The Black Book 1993-1994: The Guide for the Erotic Explorerby Bill BrentISBN 0963740113 (0-9637401-1-3)
Hardcover, Asp Wholesale
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Blood On The Moonby James EllroyISBN 140009528X (1-4000-9528-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood On The Moon'Book summary:Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins cant stand music, or any loud sounds. Hes got a beautiful wife, but he cant get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. Hes a thinking mans cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent.
Now, theres something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer. [via]More editions of Blood On The Moon:
Blood Testby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0913165743 (0-913165-74-3)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books
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Bloody Maryby J. A. KonrathISBN 1401300898 (1-4013-0089-8)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Bodiesby Robert BernardISBN 0896217949 (0-89621-794-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Bones: Buried Deepby Max Allan CollinsISBN 1416524614 (1-4165-2461-4)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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Burmese Daysby George OrwellISBN 1421808307 (1-4218-0830-7)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burmese Days'Book summary:Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who would become the One. Orwell mines his own Anglo-Indian background to evoke both the suffocating heat and the stifling pettiness that are the central facts of colonial life: "Mr. MacGregor told his anecdote about Prome, which could be produced in almost any context. And then the conversation veered back to the old, never-palling subject--the insolence of the natives, the supineness of the Government, the dear dead days when the British Raj was the Raj and please give the bearer fifteen lashes. The topic was never let alone for long, partly because of Ellis's obsession. Besides, you could forgive the Europeans a great deal of their bitterness. Living and working among Orientals would try the temper of a saint."
Protagonist James Flory is a timber merchant, whose facial birthmark serves as an outward expression of the ironic and left-leaning habits of mind that make him inwardly different from his coevals. Flory appreciates the local culture, has native allegiances, and detests the racist machinations of his fellow Club members. Alas, he doesn't always possess the moral courage, or the energy, to stand against them. His almost embarrassingly Anglophile friend, Dr. Veraswami, the highest-ranking native official, seems a shoo-in for Club membership, until Machiavellian magistrate U Po Kyin launches a campaign to discredit him that results, ultimately, in the loss not just of reputations but of lives. Whether to endorse Veraswami or to betray him becomes a kind of litmus test of Flory's character.
Against this backdrop of politics and ethics, Orwell throws the shadow of romance. The arrival of the bobbed blonde, marriageable, and resolutely anti-intellectual Elizabeth Lackersteen not only casts Flory as hapless suitor but gives Orwell the chance to show that he's as astute a reporter of nuanced social interactions as he is of political intrigues. In fact, his combination of an astringently populist sensibility, dead-on observations of human behavior, formidable conjuring skills, and no-frills prose make for historical fiction that stands triumphantly outside of time. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Conquering Deceptionby Jef NanceISBN 0967286247 (0-9672862-4-7)
Softcover, Irvin Benham Group
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Coptales, 2000by Paul Bishop, Ed Dee, Jim Defilippi, Liz Defranco, Ernest W. Dorling, Gina Gallo, Marlene Loos, Marilyn A. Olsen, Keith BettingerISBN 0967574900 (0-9675749-0-0)
Softcover, Thirty Eight Special Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 142182325X (1-4218-2325-X)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
Criminal Procedureby Judy H. KaciISBN 0942728912 (0-942728-91-2)
Softcover, Copperhouse Pub Co
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Cruel and Unusualby Patricia CornwellISBN 1416505407 (1-4165-0540-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cruel and Unusual'Book summary:"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual... [via]
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Cruisersby Craig NovaISBN 1400030692 (1-4000-3069-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cruisers'Book summary:Frank Kohler is ready to snap. He is capable of love, but he knows time is running out. His mother was brutally murdered, and he never knew his father. With each passing day he perceives his anger with an almost religious sense of beauty. In an attempt to save himself, he decides to marry a mail-order bride from Russia.
Russell Boyd is a state trooper who resists those acts that damage life forever. He has seen about as much of them as he can take. And yet, he has met the woman who makes him feel whole. She is the center of his life.
Frank Kohlers and Russell Boyds paths will cross three times. And the third time will change everything. It is the moment when the line between good and evil is made dramatically clear.
As with such modern classics as Dennis Lehanes Mystic River and Graham Greenes The Heart of the Matter, Craig Nova gives us an illuminating story of characters who struggle against the collisions of fate, and who are motivated by the touching need to be human. [via]-
The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 1400079179 (1-4000-7917-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Daughter of Cainby Robert ZieglerISBN 1403381836 (1-4033-8183-6)
Softcover, AuthorHouse
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Death Of An Expert Witnessby P. D. JamesISBN 1417617543 (1-4176-1754-3)
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Decoys and Aggression: A Police K9 Training Manualby Stephen A. MacKenzieISBN 1550591320 (1-55059-132-0)
Hardcover, Temeron Books
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The Dodger: Inside the World of Roger Rogersonby Duncan McNabISBN 1405037512 (1-4050-3751-2)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia
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Face-Lift Apartheid: South Africa after Sowetoby Judy SeidmanISBN 0904759393 (0-904759-39-3)
Softcover, International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 1417620285 (1-4176-2028-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
First Avenueby Lowen ClausenISBN 0966991907 (0-9669919-0-7)
Hardcover, Watershed Books
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First Victimby Ridley PearsonISBN 140130818X (1-4013-0818-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Victim'Book summary:Lieutenant Lou Boldt, the Seattle cop who stars in Ridley Pearson's deservedly popular series, is a sharp and touching figure--perhaps the most believable police officer in current fiction. Early in this ninth book about his public and private life, Lou has to put on a bullet-resistant vest to lead a raid against some dangerous criminals. "The vest was not physically heavy, but its presence was," Pearson tells us.
It meant battle; it meant risk. For Boldt a vest was a symbol of youth. It had been well over a year since he had worn one. Ironically, as he approached the hangar's north door at a light run behind his own four heavily armored ERT personnel, he caught himself worrying about his hands, not his life. He didn't want to smash up his piano hands in some close quarters skirmish...
Boldt plays jazz piano one night a week in a local bar, and despite his concern for his hands, he takes every opportunity he can to get away from his desk and into the streets. But money pressures, caused by his wife's recent illness, also make him think about the possibility of a better-paying job in the private sector. Meanwhile, some extremely ruthless people are murdering illegal Chinese immigrant women and leaving their bodies buried in newly dug graves. An ambitious local TV journalist named Stevie McNeal and the young Chinese woman she thinks of as her "Little Sister" risk their lives to investigate the killings, while Boldt and his team round up a most unusual array of suspects. This combination of hard-edged realism and softer sentiment has become Pearson's trademark, and once again it works smoothly. --Dick Adler [via]More editions of First Victim:
Flash Pointby Metsy HingleISBN 1551667142 (1-55166-714-2)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Gotham Central 4: The Quick and the Deadby Various, Michael Lark, STEFANO GAUDIANOISBN 1401209122 (1-4012-0912-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Graham Law, Adrian PinningtonISBN 1551111748 (1-55111-174-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the autobiography of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickenss earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained mediation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the books handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickenss society and to his own life story. [via]
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If Only It Were Trueby Marc LevyISBN 1416513116 (1-4165-1311-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Inspector Ghote Breaks an Eggby Henry R.F. KeatingISBN 089733177X (0-89733-177-X)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Interrogationby Burt RappISBN 0915179598 (0-915179-59-8)
Softcover, Loompanics Unlimited
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The Investigator's Little Black Book 3: The Investigative Resource Used by Thousands of Private Investigators, Law Enforcement Agencies, Media Organizations and Othersby Robert ScottISBN 0965236943 (0-9652369-4-3)
Softcover, Partners Pub Group Inc
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K9 Officer's Manualby R.S. EdenISBN 1550590626 (1-55059-062-6)
Hardcover, Temeron Books
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The Landlordby Ken MerrellISBN 0967851009 (0-9678510-0-9)
Hardcover, Kay Dee Books
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The Last Man in Berlin: A Novelby Gaylord DoldISBN 1402201249 (1-4022-0124-9)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Man in Berlin: A Novel'Book summary:This page-turning thriller evocatively depicts a corrupt and desolate Berlin at that turning point in history when Hitler is on the cusp of taking power. It is the story of Detective Harry Wulff, a member of an elite police force, who is assigned to solve the murders of two transvestites whose deaths are connected to the Nazis' rise to power.
The Last Man in Berlin is peopled with unforgettable characters, including Wulff and his father, a revered Prussian officer who served during the Great War; Harry's lover, Johanna, a Jewish psychoanalyst filled with insight, passion and terror; a trooper in charge of Nazi hooligans determined to overthrow the Republic; and a maniacal killer who maintains chilling ties to those who will soon rule Germany.
As Wulff's search unfolds, he must enter the Berlin underworld of cross-dressing and prostitution, where he learns how these strange deaths are tied to the inner core of the Third Reich. In the end, Wulff and his father, the last good Germans, must ultimately stand fast against the terror of that time. The Last Man in Berlin is a novel so memorable that you will shake as you compulsively turn the pages. [via]More editions of The Last Man in Berlin: A Novel:
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 141650026X (1-4165-0026-X)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
An ex-convict struggles for redemption in the punishing world of post-Napoleonic France.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 0910457018 (0-910457-01-8)
Hardcover, Arion Press
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Medusa: An Aurilio Zen Mysteryby Michael DibdinISBN 1400076080 (1-4000-7608-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Murder at the Nightwood Barby Katherine V. ForrestISBN 0930044924 (0-930044-92-4)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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Murder on the Leviathanby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060516 (1-4000-6051-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Leviathan'Book summary:Usually, crime writers who give birth to protagonists deserving of future series want to feature those characters as prominently as possible in subsequent installments. Not so Boris Akunin, who succeeds his celebrated first novel about daring 19th-century Russian sleuth Erast Fandorin, The Winter Queen, with the less inventive Murder on the Leviathan, in which the now former Moscow investigator competes for center stage with a swell-headed French police commissioner, a crafty adventuress boasting more than her fair share of aliases, and a luxurious steamship that appears fated for deliberate destruction in the Indian Ocean.
Following the 1878 murders of British aristocrat Lord Littleby and his servants on Paris's fashionable Rue de Grenelle, Gustave Gauche, "Investigator for Especially Important Crimes," boards the double-engined, six-masted Leviathan on its maiden voyage from England to India. He's on the lookout for first-class passengers missing their specially made gold whale badges--one of which Littleby had yanked from his attacker before he died. However, this trap fails: several travelers are badgeless, and still others make equally good candidates for Littleby's slayer, including a demented baronet, a dubious Japanese army officer, a pregnant and loquacious Swiss banker's wife, and a suave Russian diplomat headed for Japan. That last is of course Fandorin, still recovering two years later from the events related in The Winter Queen. Like a lesser Hercule Poirot, "papa" Gauche grills these suspects, all of whom harbor secrets, and occasionally lays blame for Paris's "crime of the century" before one or another of them--only to have the hyper-perceptive Fandorin deflate his arguments. It takes many leagues of ocean, several more deaths, and a superfluity of overlong recollections by the shipmates before a solution to this twisted case emerges from the facts of Littleby's killing and the concurrent theft of a valuable Indian artifact from his mansion.
Like the best Golden Age nautical mysteries, Murder on the Leviathan finds its drama in the escalating tensions between a small circle of too-tight-quartered passengers, and draws its humor from their over-mannered behavior and individual eccentricities. Trouble is, Akunin (the pseudonym of Russian philologist Grigory Chkhartishvili) doesn't exceed expectations of what can be done within those traditions. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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The Murder Roomby P. D. JamesISBN 1400076099 (1-4000-7609-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder Room'Book summary:The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing, a second corpse is discovered. Clearly, someone at the Dupayne is prepared to kill, and kill again.
The case is fraught with danger and complexity from the outset, not least because of the range of possible suspects--and victims. And still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of th epast featured in one of the museum's most popular galleries, the Murder Room.
For Dalgiesh, P.D. James's formidable detective, the search for the murderer poses an unexpected complication. After years of bachelorhood, he has embarked on a promising new relationship with Emma Lavenham--first introduced in Death in Holy Orders--which is at a critical stage. Yet his struggle to solve the Dupayne murders faces him with a frustrating dilemma: each new development distances him further from commitment to the woman he loves.
The Murder Room is a story dark with the passions that lie at the heart of crime, a masterful work of psychological intricacy. It proves yet again that P.D. James fully deserves her place among the best of modern novelists. [via] 
The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 142180901X (1-4218-0901-X)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peaceby Loren W. Christensen, Grossman, Dave, Lt. Col, Gavin De BeckerISBN 0964920514 (0-9649205-1-4)
Softcover, Ppct Research Pubns
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On the Street Doing Life: The West Side of Chicago Through the Eyes of a Cop Called "Cronie"by Anne KeeganISBN 1425989764 (1-4259-8976-4)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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Pet Shop of Horrors 1by Matsuri AkinoISBN 1417678992 (1-4176-7899-2)
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Pet Shop of Horrors 6by Matsuri AkinoISBN 1417679050 (1-4176-7905-0)
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Police Dog Tacticsby BrysonISBN 1550591975 (1-55059-197-5)
Hardcover, Temeron Books
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The Policeman's Lotby Mervyn MittonISBN 0907621503 (0-907621-50-3)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Policing Paradise: Sanibel Islandby Margaret H. Greenberg, John P. ButlerISBN 0930942183 (0-930942-18-3)
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Protecting Niagara: A History of the Niagara County Sheriff's Officeby Carlin, Christopher, J., Paul G. Colangelo, Niagara County (N.Y.)ISBN 0964519518 (0-9645195-1-8)
Hardcover, AEGIS Press
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A Question of Honorby James LilleyISBN 0970795459 (0-9707954-5-9)
Softcover, Mandrill
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RCMP: The March Westby Fred StensonISBN 0968507107 (0-9685071-0-7)
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The Return Of The Dancing Masterby Henning Mankell, Laurie ThompsonISBN 1400076951 (1-4000-7695-1)
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Riots Chicago Styleby Robert L. PiersonISBN 0899623662 (0-89962-366-2)
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Rusty Nailby Joe Konrath, J. A. KonrathISBN 140130088X (1-4013-0088-X)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rusty Nail'Book summary:Lee Child, David Morrell, and M.J. Rose all agree: Jack Daniels is the one to watch! Anthony Award finalist J.A. Konrath's latest novel featuring the feisty female police detective serves up another thriller
Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait -- all were involved in one of Jack's previous cases. With her stalwart partner hospitalized and unable to help, Jack follows a trail of death throughout the Midwest, on a collision course with the smartest and deadliest adversary she's ever known.
During the chase, Jack jeopardizes her career, her love life, and her closest friends. She also comes to a startling realization -- serial killers have families, and blood runs thick.
Rusty Nail features more of the laugh-out-loud humor and crazy characters that saturated Whiskey Sour and Bloody Mary, without sacrificing the nail-biting thrills.
This is Jack Daniels third, and most exciting, adventure yet! [via]
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Sanctioned Treachery: Portrait of a Drug Informantby Thomas A. VintonISBN 1551973898 (1-55197-389-8)
Softcover, Picasso Publications, Incorporated
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 1400096901 (1-4000-9690-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Second Watchby Lowen ClausenISBN 0972581103 (0-9725811-0-3)
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Smaxby Alan Moore, Andrew Currie, Richard Friend, Zander CannonISBN 140120290X (1-4012-0290-X)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Smax Collected Editionby Alan Moore, Zander Cannon, Andrew CurrieISBN 1401203256 (1-4012-0325-6)
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A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets: Every Driver Speeds Sometimesby James M. EaganISBN 0962833703 (0-9628337-0-3)
Softcover, North Country Books Inc
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Speeding Excuses That Work: The Cleverest Copouts and Ticket Victories Everby Alex Carroll, Rich Lippman, Joe AzarISBN 0963464132 (0-9634641-3-2)
Softcover, Ace Co Pub
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Speedy Spanish for Police Personnelby T.L. HartISBN 0961582987 (0-9615829-8-7)
Softcover, Baja Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speedy Spanish for Police Personnel'Book summary:Speedy Spanish for Police Personnel is a pocket-size Spanish language reference tool for law enforcement officers. A unique index system gives fingertip access to the all the phrases needed to bridge the English-Spanish communication gap in everyday law enforcement situations. Comes with a clear vinyl cover. [via]
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The Story of Scotland Yardby Basil ThomsonISBN 1419154516 (1-4191-5451-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
Tell Me What You Likeby Kate AllenISBN 0934678480 (0-934678-48-0)
Softcover, New Victoria Pub
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 1425001254 (1-4250-0125-4)
Softcover, Read How You Want.Com
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To Protect and to Serve: The Lapd's Century of War in the City of Dreamsby Joe DomanickISBN 0972762558 (0-9727625-5-8)
Softcover, Figueroa Press
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Top 10: The Forty-Niners a prequel to top 10by Alan Moore, Gene HaISBN 1401205739 (1-4012-0573-9)
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Torture in the Eightiesby Amnesty International ReportISBN 0939994062 (0-939994-06-2)
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press
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The Two Minute Ruleby Robert CraisISBN 1416514961 (1-4165-1496-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Vanished Manby Jeffery DeaverISBN 1417667192 (1-4176-6719-2)
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Whiskey Sourby Joe KonrathISBN 1401300871 (1-4013-0087-1)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The White Russianby Tom BradbyISBN 1400032008 (1-4000-3200-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Winter Queen: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter Queen: A Novel'Book summary:Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of irresistible charm, to the Alexander Gardens precinct for more information.
Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this is an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary detective work the precinct has doneand for good reason: The bizarre and tragic suicide is soon connected to a clear case of murder, witnessed firsthand by Fandorin. There are many unresolved questions. Why, for instance, have both victims left their fortunes to an orphanage run by the English Lady Astair? And who is the beautiful A.B., whose signed photograph is found in the apparent suicides apartment? Relying on his keen intuition, the eager sleuth plunges into an investigation that leads him across Europe, landing him at the deadly center of a terrorist conspiracy of worldwide proportions.
In this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years. [via]More editions of The Winter Queen: A Novel:
The Witnessby Dee HendersonISBN 1414308124 (1-4143-0812-4)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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The Writer's Complete Crime Reference Bookby Martin RothISBN 0898793971 (0-89879-397-1)
Hardcover, Writer's Digest Books
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You're Under Arrest I'm Not Kiddingby Don ParkerISBN 0962007315 (0-9620073-1-5)
Softcover, Caroldon Books
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You're under Arrest: I'm Not Kidding the Trials and Tribulations of a Reluctant Copby Don ParkerISBN 0962007307 (0-9620073-0-7)
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Hermandad de la sabana Santaby Julia NavarroISBN 1400099625 (1-4000-9962-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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