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Bobbie Rayburn is a baseball player extraordinaire. Gil Renard is a fan who will do anything to support his team. Anything. This is the book on which the movie starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes was based. 338 pages. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". In addition to his well-known thrillers, Peter Abrahams has also written a series of young adult mysteries. He won the 2005 Agatha Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for Down the Rabbit Hole. The follow-up to that novel, Behind the Curtain, was nominated for an Agatha. Jacket design by Jackie Meyer Merri.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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The Camel Club is a group of four conspiracy theorists who keep an eye on current political events in Washington, DC. When they witness a murder, they find themselves smack dab in the middle of intrigue. They team up with Secret Service agent Alex Ford to prevent an international disaster. 438 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Flag.
The Camel Club
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2005.
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Members of Baldacci's Camel Club return, investigating the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare book room. Decorated endpapers. 439 pp. 9 1/4" 6 1/2".
The Collectors
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison. Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality. Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again. The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before. Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot. 391 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and photograph by Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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The Russians have stored enough nuclear fuel deep in the ocean to destroy half the United States. The USS Memphis, a soon-to-be-decommissioned submarine, has been assigned a last mission--to find the containers that house the fuel. 336 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket art by Paul Youll.
Dangerous Ground
Bond, Larry
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2005.
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A powerful weapon is stolen from Iraq and brought to the United States. The planned use of this weapon is concealed behind another plot, and CIA agent Ryan Kealy must operate outside the usual channels in a race for time to prevent this disaster. 506 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Janice Rossi Schaus.
The Assassin
Britton, Andrew
New York: Kensington Books, 2007.
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The author's first novel. An elderly man asks Father Anselm for asylum in Larkwood Priory in England. Father Anselm later learns that the man is Eduard Schwermann, a former Nazi. Agnes Aubret lived in occupied Paris during World War II, part of a group that smuggled Jewish children to safety until the group was exposed--by Eduard Schwermann. When she learns that Schwermann is still alive, Agnes confides her past to her granddaughter Lucy. Lucy and Father Anselm each try to understand what happened more than fifty years before. 387 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Paul Buckley.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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This is Dan Brown's first novel. It was inspired by an event that happened to one of Brown's students at Phillips Exeter Academy. TRNSLTR is an NSA supercomputer that cracks encrypted codes. Former NSA programmer Ensei Tankado creates an unbreakable code, then dies in Spain wearing a golden decoder ring. Will the ring be lost forever, or retrieved in time to prevent the loss of national secrets? 372 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". Cover design by Scott Levine.
Digital Fortress
Brown, Dan
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1998.
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Late night DJ Paris Gibson is accustomed to hear about her listeners' secret thoughts. But then one of them calls to tell her that within 72 hours, he plans to kill his ex-girlfriend, and then Paris. Paris teams up with psychologist Dean Malloy to find the caller before he can carry out his threats. Sandra Brown has been honored as a Thrillermaster by the International Thriller Writers. 406 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Hello, Darkness
Brown, Sandra
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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A prank perpetrated by identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd turns deadly when Melina is found murdered--with threats intended for Gillian written on the wall. 469 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by George Cornell.
The Switch
Brown, Sandra
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
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After the death of his children in a car accident, attorney Marcus Glenwood leaves his law firm and moves to rural North Carolina. There, he is asked to assist a couple whose daughter Gloria disappeared while investigating human rights abuses in a Chinese factory owned by the American company New Horizons. When Marcus probes the company's operations, he finds nothing but greed and lies. But Marcus perseveres, relentless in his search for Gloria, and the truth. 392 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Debra Lill.
The Great Divide
Bunn, T. Davis
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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In turn-of-the-century New York, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (the alienist) joins forces with Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt and a New York Times reporter to investigate the murders of boy prostitutes. The book was nominated for the 1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and was Winner of the 1995 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Black cloth over brown boards. Copper ink on spine. 496 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
The Alienist
Carr, Caleb
New York: Random House, 1994.
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Sculptor Danny Cray supplements his meager income with a little private investigation on the side. When he's offered some good money to find out who's trashing the reputation of a mysterious billionaire, he jumps at it. Alas, he soon learns that if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. His investigation leads him from Washington, DC, to Rome to Istanbul to Silicon Valley. 378 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2".
The Eighth Day
Case, John
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
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Kay Scarpetta's tenure as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, and she's now a forensic consultant. While working on a case in Louisiana, she's contacted by the evil Jean Baptiste Chandonne, who had relentlessly pursued Scarpetta in a previous book, The Last Precinct. Thought to be safely ensconced on death row, Chardonne escapes from prison and resumes his pursuit of Scarpetta. Then it appears that there's a connection between the Wolfman and the Louisiana case. 465 pp. 9 1/2" 6 1/2". Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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Carol Starkey is a former L. A. police bomb squad technician who has been working as a Detective in the Criminal Conspiracy Section after a bomb killed her partner. When a series of explosions takes out a number of bomb technicians, Carol is called in to take the case. Demolition Angel was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award for best novel. 386 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Amy C. King.
Demolition Angel
Crais, Robert
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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Dirk Pitt returns to take on the descendants of Genghis Kahn in an adventure that ranges from Siberia to Mongolia. Maps on end papers. Cussler has been honored by the International Thriller Writers with the Thrillermaster Award. 552 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by Craig White.
Treasure of the Khan
Cussler, Clive and Dirk Cussler
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade. 350 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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Cairo, Egypt, in 1942 was a hotbed of intrigue. It was filled with people from all over Europe and northern Africa, and was also full of spies. Captain Bert Cutler, former Glaswegian policeman, was sent to Cairo to find the leak in British intelligence that is fueling Rommel's advances. But even Bert Cutler isn't who he seems. Maps on endpapers. 376 pp. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4". Jacket design and Peter Thorpe.
City of Gold
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
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Faith is the first book in Deighton's third trilogy featuring Bernard Samson. Samson's wife Fiona has returned after many years separation, and Samson heads to Berlin to pick up a high-ranking East German who may be trying to effect. Then everything falls apart . . . 337 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye.
Faith
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
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The second book in the second trilogy about British agent Bernard Samson. Samson is hiding out in Berlin after the events of the previous book, Spy Hook. He thinks all is forgiven when he is invited back to London, but then realizes he has yet again played into their hands when he is given an apparent inconsequential assignment in Vienna. There he meets an American who seems familiar. Who is he? Where did they meet? And does he have anything to do with Samson's assignment? 291 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Mark Falls.
Spy Line
Deighton, Len
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
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