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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0312938993 (0-312-93899-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '"A" is for Alibi'Book summary:274 p. 21 cm. First edition, second printing. First in the series. Dust jacket. [via]
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- "A" is for Alibi: ISBN 0805013342 (0-8050-1334-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - A Is for Alibi: ISBN 0553279912 (0-553-27991-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books - "A" is for Alibi: ISBN 0030590485 (0-03-059048-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - "A" is for Alibi: ISBN 0312938993 (0-312-93899-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- "A" is for Alibi: ISBN 0805013342 (0-8050-1334-2)
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Ancient Art To Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagenby Mary BeardISBN 1903973503 (1-903973-50-3)
Hardcover, Royal Academy of Arts
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Art To Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen'Book summary:Begun in 1878 by a prominent Danish family, the collection now housed in Copenhagen's renowned Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes exceptional Greek, Roman, and Etruscan sculptures, works by Danish Golden Age artists and by French artists such as Rodin and Carpeaux, and notable canvases and ceramics by Paul Gauguin. Published to coincide with an exhibition of works from the Glyptotek, this important volume illustrates some 200 artworks. AUTHOR BIO: Flemming Friborg is director of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Mary Beard teaches classics at Cambridge. [via]
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Asesinato En El Orient Expressby Agatha Christie, E. MACHADO-QUEVEDOISBN 8478712097 (84-7871-209-7)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asesinato En El Orient Express'Book summary:Hercule Poirot Mysteries Series This is the story of one thrillingly exotic journey, one brutally stabbed victim, and seventeen suspicious suspects. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is full, but by the morning there is one less passenger. A man lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside&Many obstacles are put in Poirots path to try and keep him off the scent but in a dramatic finale he succeeds in coming up with two solutions to the crime.
Description in Spanish: Estambul, pleno invierno. Poirot decide tomar el Orient Express que en esta época hace su recorrido prácticamente vacío. A la mañana siguiente, cuando se despierta, descubre que un norteamericano, llamado Ratcher, ha sido apuñalado. El asesino, sin duda, es alguno de los ocupantes entre los que se encuentran una altiva princesa rusa y una institutriz inglesa. [via]
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B Is for Burglarby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939000 (0-312-93900-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'B Is for Burglar'Book summary:Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.[via]
Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.
Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.
It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.
A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.More editions of B Is for Burglar:
- B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0805016325 (0-8050-1632-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0553280341 (0-553-28034-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0030018897 (0-03-001889-7)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0708917860 (0-7089-1786-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0312939000 (0-312-93900-0)
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- B Is for Burglar: ISBN 0805016325 (0-8050-1632-5)
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Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mysteryby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575666936 (1-57566-693-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mystery'Book summary:Establishing her own business as a private detective in San Carmelita, California, karate expert and sleuth Savannah Reid is hired by real-estate broker Brian O'Donnell to find his long-lost sister, but the case soon becomes complicated by murder. [via]
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- Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mystery: ISBN 1575661691 (1-57566-169-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp - Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mystery: ISBN 1575660326 (1-57566-032-6)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp - Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mystery: ISBN 1575666936 (1-57566-693-6)
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- Bitter Sweets: A Savannah Reid Mystery: ISBN 1575661691 (1-57566-169-1)
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C Is for Corpseby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939019 (0-312-93901-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C Is for Corpse'Book summary:Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him. Kinsey can't resist the brave kid - and neither can the killers. Three days late Bobby is dead. Kinsey Millhone never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.
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- C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0805028188 (0-8050-2818-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0553280368 (0-553-28036-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books - C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0816151466 (0-8161-5146-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0613362446 (0-613-36244-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0312939019 (0-312-93901-9)
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- C Is for Corpse: ISBN 0805028188 (0-8050-2818-8)
Cooked Gooseby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575664798 (1-57566-479-8)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Cradle and Allby James PattersonISBN 156895879X (1-56895-879-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cradle and All'Book summary:James Patterson's Cradle and All pits the intensity of faith against the certainties of science within an arena of Millennial tensions. A reworking of his 1980 apocalyptic thriller Virgin, this remodeled version boasts a genuinely unnerving premise, amplified with Patterson's fast-paced, uncluttered prose.
In the midst of a series of unexplained plagues and famines, two teenage girls are heavily pregnant, despite being virgins. According to the sacred prophecies of Fatima, one will bear the child of Christ and the other, the spawn of Satan. Both Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private detective, and the Vatican's Father Rosetti are sent to investigate. But which girl carries which child? The possibility of a miracle will be tainted with great suffering before the awful, unexpected truth is revealed. As the action moves speedily from the hallowed halls of the Vatican to the media frenzy of America to the small-town hysteria of Ireland, Patterson divines considerable suspense from the novel's central premise, tackling issues of faith with admirable aplomb:
"All over the world, after all the years of difficulty, decades of diminishing spirituality, so many people still believed.... Everywhere, people talked of the Apocalypse, perhaps the end of the world. Which explained why so many people were suddenly going to church."
A relentless pace culminating in a superbly twisted ending won't disappoint Patterson's faithful followers, and may even convert some new members. --Danny Graydon [via]
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939027 (0-312-93902-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380726289 (0-380-72628-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness, Take My Hand'Book summary:In Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve the slayings. The characters he encounters in Dorchester, with their distinctive accents and colorful pasts, make this mystery not only thrilling, but wildly entertaining. [via]
Death by Chocolateby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575667282 (1-57566-728-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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A Drink Before the Warby Dennis LehaneISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drink Before the War'Book summary:Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive once they have. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. [via]
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A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 006117226X (0-06-117226-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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E Is for Evidenceby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939035 (0-312-93903-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E Is for Evidence'Book summary:[via]Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneuntil holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnt enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...
It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseys bank account. Problem is shes not the one who deposited the money. But when shes accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing her&
Now Kinseys working for herself. But with new evidenceand corpsessurfacing around her, shes going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationand quite possibly her life&More editions of E Is for Evidence:
- E Is for Evidence: ISBN 0805004599 (0-8050-0459-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - E Is for Evidence: ISBN 0553279556 (0-553-27955-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - E Is for Evidence: ISBN 0816147159 (0-8161-4715-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - E Is for Evidence: ISBN 0312939035 (0-312-93903-5)
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- E Is for Evidence: ISBN 0805004599 (0-8050-0459-9)
F Is for Fugitiveby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939043 (0-312-93904-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F Is for Fugitive'Book summary:Everyone knew the kind of girl Jean Timberlake was -- ask anybody in the sleepy surf town of Floral Beach and they'd say Jean was wild, looking for trouble. But she certainly wasn't looking for murder. She was found dead on the beach seventeen years ago, and a rowdy ex-boyfriend named Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned -- and then Bailey escaped. Now private eye Kinsey Millhone steps into a case that should have never been closed, in a town where there's no such thing as a private investigation. [via]
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G Is for Gumshoeby Sue GraftonISBN 0805004610 (0-8050-0461-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '"G" Is for Gumshoe'Book summary:"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ."
--Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan
Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . .
"Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton's well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."
--Newsweek
"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can't-put-it-down outing for this talented author."
--Kirkus Reviews
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H Is for Homicideby Sue GraftonISBN 0449219461 (0-449-21946-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H Is for Homicide'Book summary:His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn't like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.Bibianna Diaz was afraid for her life. If there was one thing she knew for sure, it was that you didn't cross Raymond Maldonado and live to tell the tale. And Bibianna had well and truly crossed him, running out on his crazy wedding plans and going into hiding in Santa Teresa--light years away from the Los Angeles barrio that was home turf to Raymond and his gang. Now she needed money to buy time, to make sure she'd put enough space between them. And the quickest way she knew to get money was to work an insurance scam--just like the ones Raymond was running down in L.A. The trouble was, Bibianna picked California Fidelity as her mark. And it wasn't long before her name surfaced in one of Parnell Perkins's open files and Kinsey was on her case. But so, too, was her spurned suitor, Raymond Maldonado.He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, a hair-trigger temper that was best left untested, and an inability to take no for an answer. He also had Tourette's syndrome, which did nothing to smooth out the kinks in his erratic and often violent behavior. All in all, Raymond Maldonado was not someone to spend a lot of time hanging out with. Unfortunately for Kinsey, she didn't have a lot of choice in the mater. Not after the love-sick Raymond kidnapped Bibianna. Like it or not, Kinsey was stuck babysitting Bibianna along with Raymond and his macho crew. [via]
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- H Is for Homicide: ISBN 080501084X (0-8050-1084-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - H Is for Homicide: ISBN 044900063X (0-449-00063-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - H Is for Homicide: ISBN 0816152802 (0-8161-5280-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - H Is for Homicide: ISBN 0449219461 (0-449-21946-1)
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- H Is for Homicide: ISBN 080501084X (0-8050-1084-X)
Hugger Muggerby Robert B. ParkerISBN 156895865X (1-56895-865-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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I Is for Innocentby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221512 (0-449-22151-2)
Softcover, Crest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Is for Innocent'Book summary:"One of Kinsey's most electryfing adventures to date...Another irresistible installment of Ms. Grafton's series."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Fired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists he's innocent. But if he is, who's guilty? In trying to learn who's been getting away with murder, Kinsey may be courting her own....
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J Is for Judgmentby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221482 (0-449-22148-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J Is for Judgment'Book summary:"Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years--until his former insurance agent spots him in a dusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months before, his widow collected on Jaffe's $500,000 life insurance policy--her only legacy since Jaffe went overboard, bankrupt and about to be indicted for his fraudulent real estate schemes. As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe's pseudocide, she explores her own past, discovering that in family matters, as in crime, sometimes it's better to reserve judgment....
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD
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- J Is for Judgment: ISBN 0805019359 (0-8050-1935-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - 'J' Is for Judgement: ISBN 0449000656 (0-449-00065-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - J Is for Judgment: ISBN 0816157502 (0-8161-5750-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - J Is for Judgment: ISBN 0449221482 (0-449-22148-2)
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- J Is for Judgment: ISBN 0805019359 (0-8050-1935-9)
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K Is For Killerby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221504 (0-449-22150-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'K Is For Killer'Book summary:Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.[via]
Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file.
Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder.
In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss and her anger. It wasn't helping. And so, leaving a session one evening and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she knocked on the door.
In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind.
Eleven books into the series that has won her readers around the world, Sue Grafton takes a darkside turn, pitching us into a shadow land of pain and grief where killers still walk free, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant. With "K" is for Killer she offers a tale that is dark, complex, and deeply disturbing. 
Killer Caloriesby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575665212 (1-57566-521-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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L Is for Lawlessby Sue GraftonISBN 0449221490 (0-449-22149-0)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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The League of Frightened Menby Rex StoutISBN 0553762982 (0-553-76298-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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M Is for Maliceby Sue GraftonISBN 0449223604 (0-449-22360-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M Is for Malice'Book summary:"Every investigation has a nature of its own, but there are certain shared characteristics," explains private eye Kinsey Millhone in her 13th alphabetic outing. "Here's what you hope for: a chance remark from the former neighbor on a skip-trace, a penciled notation on the corner of a document, an ex-spouse with a grudge, the number on an account, an item overlooked at the scene of a crime. Here's what you expect: the dead ends, bureaucratic bullheadedness, the cul-de-sacs, trails that go nowhere or simply fade into thin air, denials, prevarications, the blank-eyed stares from all the hostile witnesses. Here's what you know: that you've done it before and you have the toughness and determination to pull it off again. Here's what you want: justice. Here's what you'll settle for: something equivalent, the quid pro quo." All of the above are on display in Grafton's latest entry in her increasingly popular series set in a thinly-disguised Santa Barbara, as the virtually ageless Kinsey finds and loses a missing heir and gets back an old lover. [via]
Murder in Bellevilleby Cara BlackISBN 1569472793 (1-56947-279-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Belleville'Book summary:April in Paris, 1994, is hardly the stuff of song: forget lilacs and lights twinkling along the Seine and think riots and firebombings. Private investigator Aimée Leduc (Murder in the Marais) specializes in corporate security, but when Anaïs, an old friend and wife of an interior minister, sends her a terrified SOS from Belleville, an immigrants' quartier, the racial violence festering in the city explodes on a very personal level. Anaïs had intended to confront Sylvie, her husband's mistress, but when a car bomb fueled by Algerian plastique takes Sylvie's life, Anaïs begs Aimée to unravel the tangled threads that led to her death.
Aimée's investigations take her into the heart of the unrest surrounding the political status of illegal Algerian immigrants, or sans-papiers. What was the connection between Sylvie (also known as Eugénie, a pied-noir, or Algerian-born French citizen) and Mustafa Hamid, charismatic leader of the Alliance Fédération Libération, a humanitarian mission bent on stopping the forced repatriation of North African Magrébhins? Was Anaïs' husband being blackmailed by a radical faction of the AFL?
The jam-packed plot is occasionally hard to follow (and the intermittent presence of Yves, Aimée's fickle lover, is downright distracting), but Black's Paris, at times grimly threatening, is also wondrously vibrant:
She wondered how Sylvie/Eugénie fit into the melange that swelled the boulevard: the Tunisian Jewish bakery where a line formed while old women who ran the nearby hammam conversed with one and all from their curbside café tables, the occasional rollerblader weaving in and out of the crowd, the Asian men unloading garments from their sliding-door Renault vans, the Syrian butchers with their white coats stained bloody pink, the tall, ebony Senegalese man in a flowing white tunic, prayer shawl, and blue jogging shoes with a sport bag filled with date branches, a well-coiffed French matron tugging a wheeled shopping cart, a short, one-eyed Arabe man who hawked shopping bags hanging from his arms, and the watchful men in front of the Abou Bakr Mosque near the Métro.
Who needs lilacs when you have Paris in all of its confounding, confusing splendor? Francophiles and mystery fans alike will be waiting anxiously for Aimée's next outing. --Kelly Flynn [via]More editions of Murder in Belleville:
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126235 (1-57912-623-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:One of Agatha Christies most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the authors own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive. [via]
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N Is for Nooseby Sue GraftonISBN 0449223612 (0-449-22361-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'N Is for Noose'Book summary:"Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a flash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Millhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star of Sue Grafton's popular "alphabet" mysteries; the book is 'N' Is for Noose. If Kinsey had had just a smidgen of foresight, she would never have taken her current case, handed down to her from her on-again, off-again flame and comrade in arms, Robert Dietz. We encounter the two this time out after Deitz's knee surgery, as Kinsey drives his "snazzy little red Porsche" back to Carson City, where she checks out his digs for the first time. To her surprise, he lives in a palatial penthouse, which--under the unspoken bylaws of investigative etiquette--she qualmlessly snoops through. They sit around for a fortnight playing gin rummy and eating peanut butter and pickle sandwiches together, but perennially single Kinsey grows wary: "It was time to hit the road before our togetherness began to chafe."
She heads off to meet Dietz's former client, Mrs. Selma Newquist, a devastated widow whose makeup tips seem to come from Tammy Faye Baker. Her husband Tom Newquist, a detective himself, had been working on a mysterious case when he abruptly died of a heart attack. Selma suspects foul play, but bless her, she isn't the brightest star in the sky and can't figure out what Tom was working on even though he's left behind enough paper to fill a recycling truck. Kinsey digs right in and roams the sleepy, one-horse town of Nota Lake for clues, interviewing a colorful cast of in-laws and locals. Beneath the quaint, quiet, country veneer, she unearths a bubbling hotbed of internal strife and familial double-dealing. Was Tom covering up for his partner? Is Selma protecting someone? Grafton's knack for gritty details and realistic characters ("[Selma's] skin tones suggested dark coloring, but her hair was a confection of white-blond curls, like a cloud of cotton candy"), coupled with the fast-paced, believable story line, makes for another delightful, entertaining read. --Rebekah Warren, Bestsellers editor [via]
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O Is for Outlawby Sue GraftonISBN 0449003787 (0-449-00378-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Is for Outlaw'Book summary:Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her.
Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey's self-disclosure--something she's infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey's character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart.
A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton's clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed." --Rebekah Warren [via]
Peaches and Screamsby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575667118 (1-57566-711-8)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Plum Lovin'by Janet EvanovichISBN 0312306342 (0-312-30634-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Prayers for Rainby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380730367 (0-380-73036-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers for Rain'Book summary:Prayers for Rain is Dennis Lehane's fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series. Lehane's books reflect our morally complex times, when the borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry.
Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is in the middle of a personal crisis--he's lost his passion for the profession, and is tired of people with their "predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart, lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the business. She's still deeply resentful about Patrick's handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of Gone, Baby, Gone. Without Angie, private investigating has lost its fizz.
The suicide of a former client, Karen Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Six months earlier, Kenzie tracked down a stalker who had been harassing Nichols, and put an end to his heinous hobby. But Nichols needed more help than this PI could ever have imagined. "She'd been drowning, and I'd been busy." The successful, middle-class young woman had been sinking into a sea of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, hitting the bottom when she jumped from the Boston Custom House. Her death consumes Kenzie--he is convinced that someone pulled her into the vortex, although her nearest and dearest simply call her weak.
Kenzie teams up with his explosive, loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski, and, after a boozy reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them. This fearless threesome must surely be the most original team in contemporary crime fiction. Good at the core--but seriously screwed up by various demons from their pasts--tact and decorum is hardly their style. They work their way across Boston, doing whatever it takes to question Nichols's family and acquaintances. By unveiling the real Nichols, tragic family secrets, betrayals, and conspiracies are also unmasked.
If you haven't experienced Dennis Lehane's world before, be prepared for an invigorating new reading experience. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
R Is for Ricochetby Sue GraftonISBN 1594130876 (1-59413-087-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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The Second Confessionby Rex Stout, William G. TapplyISBN 0553245945 (0-553-24594-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Sour Grapes: A Savannah Reid Mysteryby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575667266 (1-57566-726-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sour Grapes: A Savannah Reid Mystery'Book summary:Just when feisty, full-figured Savannah Reid's life seems calm and peaceful, her spoiled, egocentric baby sister comes knocking. Atlanta is determined to become a star, and the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant is her first step. Savannah's alarmed at Atlanta's growing obsession with her appearance. She blames it on the beauty pageant . . . where the competition has become so fierce that someone's been driven to murder. [via]
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Sudden Mischiefby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1568955693 (1-56895-569-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Sugar and Spiteby G. A. McKevettISBN 1575666375 (1-57566-637-5)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sugar and Spite: A Savannah Reid Mystery'Book summary:Savannah Reid, the "full-figured" private detective who wowed critics and readers alike in G.A. McKevett's acclaimed mysteries, is back with a vengeance. This time out, it's Valentine's Day and the former Dixie belle with the take-no-prisoners attitude is turning her voracious appetite toward a case that hits very close to the heart. When her ex-partner's ex-wife is found dead in his trailer, it's up to Savannah to clear Dirk's name and find the real criminal. [via]
Virginby James PatersonISBN 0553146521 (0-553-14652-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Whispering Nickel Idolsby Glen CookISBN 0451459741 (0-451-45974-1)
Softcover, Roc
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El Juego De Las Horas / the Hour Gameby David Baldacci, Merce Diago, Abel DebrittoISBN 849654639X (84-96546-39-X)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Juego De Las Horas / the Hour Game'Book summary:El cadaver de una mujer es hallado en un bosque de Virginia. En su muneca, el homicida ha dejado un reloj de pulsera con un extrano simbolo. Se trata de la primera victima de un asesinato en serie que tiene en vilo a la poblacion de Wrightsburg. Su proceder es escalofriante y metodico: siempre deja en la escena del crimen un reloj al que detiene en una hora concreta. Sean King y Michelle Maxwell son llamados a participar en la investigacion del caso. Una desagradable sorpesa va a enturbiar aun mas su trabajo: la supuesta aparicion de un segundo asesino que reproduce los crimenes cometidos por el primero. Retomando los protagonistas de Una Fraccion de Segundo, Baldacci demuestra una vez mas que es uno de los escritores de thrillers mas destacados de la actualidad. [via]
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K De Kinsey / K Is for Killerby Sue GraftonISBN 8472238709 (84-7223-870-9)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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El sueno eterno/ The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420672319 (84-206-7231-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El sueno eterno/ The Big Sleep'Book summary:Publicada en 1939, EL SUEÑO ETERNO supuso la fulgurante irrupción de Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) en el ámbito de la novela negra. Tomando como modelo en muchos aspectos a Dashiell Hammett, principalmente en la concepción de esta clase de relatos como reflejo y crítica de una sociedad más que como propuesta de acertijo o enigma a resolver, Chandler inició con su apuesta por su detective Philip Marlowe, con su inconfundible sentido del humor, una de las vetas más ricas del género. En «El sueño eterno» -novela repleta de nervio y de ingeniosos diálogos- es un caso de chantaje el que lleva a Marlowe a asomarse a las alcantarillas de una sociedad en apariencia espléndida. [via]
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El Sueno Eterno/the Eternal Dreamby Raymond ChandlerISBN 950042522X (950-04-2522-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Dossier Bentonby Patricia Cornwell, Helene NarbonneISBN 2253172200 (2-253-17220-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Mord Im Orientexpress/Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 3502513031 (3-502-51303-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mord Im Orientexpress/Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... 1908. sequence the results of his reading, reflection, and personal thoughts. The problem is to establish the exact chronology of this intellectual activity. Thus we shall avoid "falling into the traditional error of mistaking a transient opinion for the final expression of his personality, and, through the confusion of dates, of introducing contradiction and incoherence into his ideas".1 Furthermore, we shall learn how his inner life has developed. His life and his books deposit on his mind successive 'strata' of experience. From each stratum he attempts to learn some lesson, and, each time, the succeeding stratum shows him the insufficiency of his ideas and raises the problem again.... It is this romance of an intellect that fascinates and instructs the psychologist. To trace it we need as many dates as possible.2 First Chronological Data It is known, before any detailed research, that Montaigne withdrew to his chateau and began working on the Essais in 1571; that Books I and II appeared in 1580; that Book III and about six hundred additions came out in 1588; that, beginning in 1588, correcting and enlarging a copy of the 1588 edition, Montaigne was preparing a new edition, which his death, on September 13, 1592, prevented his issuing. We possess this copy ('Exemplaire de Bordeaux'). It served as the foundation for the edition published in 1595 by MHe de Gournay. Up to this point it is evident that ninety-four essays are anterior to 1580, that thirteen were written between 1580 and 1588, and that the additions to these one hundred and seven were prepared between 1588 and September 13, 1592. But we must go farther. Each group must be taken separately, and an attempt made to place chronologically every essay that it contains.1 Processes and Metho... [via]
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