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This book marks novelist Hoffman's departure into the realm of mystery and suspense. Recluse Charles LeBlanc, estranged from his family for years, is chief suspect in the murder of his brother's entire family when a bomb explodes at a family gathering. All he wants is to be left alone, but he learns that isn't possible until he discovers who really committed the crime. Nominated for the 1999 Barry Award for Best First Mystery Novel. 290 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Steven Brower.
Tidewater Blood
Hoffman, William
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1998.
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Winner of the 2007 Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel. First Harper paperback edition. Berlin nightclub owner, "Prince Nick," exploits Anna Anderson's claim to be Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Russian Czar Nicholas. A mysterious stranger, however, is determined to eliminate Anna and everyone around her. In a second plot line, Berlin's Inspector Schmidt is pursuing a mass murderer. His efforts are thwarted, however, because the killer is apparently part of Hitler's brownshirts. 422 p. 8" X 5/14". Cover Photograph by Ken Regan.
City of Shadows
Franklin, Ariana
New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
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Fritz Tully has left the publish-or-perish world of academia after an affair with another professor's wife. He retreats to his family's Maryland farm, and spends his time bird-watching. One day, he sees more than birds through his camera--he witnesses a murder on his neighbor's property. The neighbor has ties to the CIA, and takes a special interest in finding out what Tully knows. 354 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Flag.
Bird's-Eye View
Freedman, J. F.
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
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For the past seven years, Josh Redmont has been the recipient of a $1000 check each month from something called the United States Agency. He'd never been able to find out exactly what the Agency was, and eventually just accepted the money. Then, one day, he was informed that he was now an active agent of the Agency. His job: to assassinate the head of a former Soviet country. If he does not do this, Josh's wife and children will be killed. There is obviously no such thing as a free lunch. Donald E. Westlake has been awarded the Grant Masters Lifetime Award from the Edgars.
Money for Nothing
Westlake, Donald E.
New York: Warner Books, 2003.
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Author's first novel, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction in 2003. Stephen L. Carter is a Law Professor at Yale, and has written extensively in the fields of politics and religion. In The Emperor of Ocean Park, Talcott Garland, a wealthy African-American law professor and family man, is grieving for his recently-deceased father Oliver Garland, a former Supreme Court nominee. Oliver Garland had left behind a set of "arrangements." What those arrangements are, and where they are, is a mystery to Talcott. But he isn't the only one looking for them. As Talcott tries to locate them, he begins to fear that his father was murdered. 657 pp. 8" X 5 1/4".
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Carter, Stephen L.
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2002.
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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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Thomas Westerly, a retired college president, suffers a stroke while trying to defuse a hostage situation--his neighbor Sam Truro his holding his family hostage and fending off the police. Westerly's extended family flock to his bedside, creating tension among themselves. When Westerly asks his oldest son Philip to go through his papers and destroy anything detrimental to the family. Philip is shocked to find that his father is not the man he appeared to be.
Telling Time
Wright, Austin
Dallas, TX: Baskerville Publishers, 1995.
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Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his assistant Amelia Sachs are looking for Thompson Boyd, a killer who is tracking Geneva Settle, a Harlem high school student. What interest would a murderer have in a school girl? It seems to have something to do with a paper Geneva is writing on an ancestor, a former slave who became a farmer in upstate New York. Why would events from more than a hundred and twenty-five years ago trigger a series of murders now? 397 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Twelfth Card
Deaver, Jeffery
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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Stephen King has been awarded both the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Grand Masters Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In Desperation, a group of travelers is trapped by an evil being in a town whose inhabitants he has already killed. One of King's scariest novels. 690 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket art by Mark Ryden.
Desperation
King, Stephen
New York: Viking Press, 1996.
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John Le Carré has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Lifetime Achievement. In addition, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel, and the Edgar award for Best Novel. A very nice reprint of the 1964 classic, which was the basis for the movie by the same name starring Richard Burton. 223 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Le Carré, John
New York: Walker & Company, 2005.
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Taking a short cut home one night, Harald Olufsen finds his way blocked by an extensive fenced enclosure he hadn't known was there. The buldings and equipment inside the fence are also unusual. Being a student of physics, he realizes he's found a German radar installation. He also knows he has to report it to someone, but doesn't know who. And how. Living on a Nazi-occupied island doesn't offer many options. Harald's only hope is a broken-down Hornet Moth airplane. Harald and his friend Karen secretly try to make the airplane air-worthy again. Will they succeed? Based on real events. 420 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger.
Hornet Flight
Follett, Ken
New York: Dutton, 2002.
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Movie trivia is Roy Milano's forté. He even publishes a newsletter called Trivial Man. He also knows a bunch of people who are as wild about Hollywood as he is. It's one of those fans, Alan Gilbert, who calls Roy and says, "I have the Magnificent Ambersons." Roy immediately knows Alan has acquired a print of Orson Welles' legendary movie of that name, which was never released. A complete print of the film has been missing for decades. When Roy hurries to Alan's to see this silver screen treasure, the front door is wide open, Alan is dead, and the print has disappeared. Roy's background and knowledge make him uniquely equipped to find the missing film. 275 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Tony Greco.
The Cutting Room
Klavan, Laurence
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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Third book in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, Hannibal begins seven years after Lecter escaped from custody. Mason Verger was Hannibal's sixth victim, still alive and still searching for him, as is Claire Starling. Decorated endpapers. This is the book on which the movie of the same name was based. 486 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket art by Craig DeCamps.
Hannibal
Harris, Thomas
New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.
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Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his assistant Amelia Sachs are looking for Thompson Boyd, a killer who is tracking Geneva Settle, a Harlem high school student. What interest would a murderer have in a school girl? It seems to have something to do with a paper Geneva is writing on an ancestor, a former slave who became a farmer in upstate New York. Why would events from more than a hundred and twenty-five years ago trigger a series of murders now? 397 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
The Twelfth Card
Deaver, Jeffery
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
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Princeton students Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are delving into the secrets of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an enigmatic text published in 1499. Then another researcher is murdered. While their motives for decoding the text are different, Tom and Paul are joined in a race for time, hoping to prevent more deaths while holding onto their friendship. 372 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 5/8". Jacket design by Belina Huey and Aenee Kim.
The Rule of Four
Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason
New York: Dial Press, 2004.
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Winner of the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 1926, art teacher Elizabeth Channing joins the staff of Chatham School, a boy's prep school on Cape Cod. She begins an affair with a teacher at the school, which sets in play a series of events that leads to murder.292 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Jacket designed by Jamie S. Warren Youll.
The Chatham School Affair
Cook, Thomas H.
New York: Bantam Books,
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Signed by author on title page. Author's second novel. Debbie Gunther is a stand-in for murdered Vegas singer Collette. But Collette's killer then targets Debbie. Dan Springer, a reporter who is looking into Collette's death, must now try to protect Debbie, too. 255 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2".
When Collette Died
Hayden, L. C.
Dallas, Texas: Top Publications, Lt., 1999.
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A sixty-six year old woman is killing off members of the Sons of Erin on both sides of the Atlantic. Former IRA gunman Sean Dillon, who now works for the British Prime Minister, and Blake Johnson, a secret operative for the U.S. President, must work together to stop the assassin. 323 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design and illustration by Rob Wood.
The White House Connection
Higgins, Jack
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.
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International finance has somewhat taken the place of international espionage. In Single and Single, it's British merchant bankers against the Russian mafia. John Le Carré has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Lifetime Achievement. 347 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by John Fontana.
Single & Single
Le Carré, John
New York: Scribners, 1999.
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A novellette that combines Christmas, family problems, a criminal family and New York City. 154 pp; 7 3/4" X 6". Jacket design and illustration by Paul Bacon.
Silent Night
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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