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Signed by the author on title page. Sixth book in the Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan series. While crossing Lake Michigan on the ferry S.S. Badger, Michigan State University professor Peg Lott admits to fellow passenger that she is part of a group of ecoterrorists that has been burning down wealthy peoples' houses. When a woman is found murdered in Peg's stateroom on the ferry, Lou Searing investigates. 233 pp. 8 1/2" X 5/12".
A Final Crossing: Murder on the S.S. Badger. A Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan Mystery
Baldwin, Richard L.
Haslett, MI: Buttonwood Press, 2004.
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A woman has drowned in Eastport, Massachussets, and Chief of Police Dan Burke enlists the aid of Brother Bartholomew of Faith Abbey. Complicating the investigating is the disappearance of $10 million in diamonds known to have been in the possession of the woman before she died. Signed by author on title page. 314 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8".
A Matter of Diamonds: A Faith Abbey Mystery
Manuel, David
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2000.
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The author's first novel introduces Nora Callum, single mom and Chicago police officer. Her investigation into the shooting of an elderly woman leads back to the siege of Leningrad in World War II. Inscribed and dated by author on front flyleaf. "5/16/93. To Karen & Jim. I hope you enjoy Nora's first adventure. Fondly, Tom." Newspaper book review laid in. 260 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
A Wide and Capable Revenge
McCall, Thomas
New York: Hyperion Books, 1993.
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Signed and dated by author on title page, May 8, 1993. Thomas and Sandy Curry head off to Africa for a photo safari and get involved in a the investigation of an American who was staying in their hotel. 196 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".Jacket art by Jim Sullivan.
Act of Faith
Bowen, Michael
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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Inscribed on title page: "Dear Lisa and John, Thanks for your encouragement. Micki Hobbs." A humorous account of the first European journey of a 61-year-old grandmother from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Aix Marks the Spot: An Adventure in France
Hobbs, Micki
Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2008.
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Set in Iowa during the Civil War, young bride Alice Bullock is left to run the family farm with only her mother-in-law to help. Then Alice is accused of a local murder. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "To Joan, All the Best. Sandra Dallas, Breckinridge, Colo. Sept. 28, 2002." 246 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2".
Alice's Tulips
Dallas, Sandra
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
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Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "Inscribed with pleasure for Mr & Mrs Adler who helped celebrate the 93rd birthday of Mrs Rose Fureed at St Louis 6-12-41. C. B. Nash" 39 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2".
Along the Trail with C. B. N., reprinted from the American "Standard" News
Nash, C. B.
Pittsburgh, PA: American Radiator & Standard Sanitary, 1941.
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Signed by author on title page. Athens, America, takes on the issue of "public tragedy and private grief." How does a town, and the people in it, respond to the deaths of a teenage girl and a drug-dealer, and accusations of police negligence? 300 pp. 91/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket concept by Larry Baker.
Athens, America
Baker, Larry
Eatonton, GA: First Coast Books, 2005.
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This novel has some autobiographical features: the main character, Eva Johnson, lived in Mansifeld, Ohio, and Daytona Beach, Florida; so did author Jeneva Johns. Eva suffered from viral encephalitis, and lost some of her short-term memory; so did Jeneva Johns. Luckily, the similarities stop there; a killer stalks Eva, but not author Johns. Signed by author on title page. Includes an Aunt Killer bookmark and an advertising booklet. 378 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design and photographs by Jeneva Johns.
Aunt Killer
Johns, Jeneva
Mansfield, Ohio: DB Books, 2001.
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Newspaper reporter Viv Powers is assigned to cover the conflict between Native American environmentalists and a company transporting nuclear waste. Then someone trashes her sister's house. Why are the IRS and FBI interested? What's going on in Cherokee County, Oklahoma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright." 303 pp. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4".
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
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Signed by author on flyleaf. In a departure from her V. I. Warshawski series, Sara Paretsky writes of family feuds, bigotry, religious fundamentalism and Wiccans in Lawrence Kansas. Violence ensues. Sara Paretsky has been awarded the Cartier Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement. 431 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
Bleeding Kansas
Paretsky, Sara
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
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Second book in the Marty Hopkins series. Marty's a single mom and Chicago cop, investigating the disappearance of a 14-year old boy. It turns to murder though, when the boy's body is found. Who's guilty? Is it a group of strangers, or someone closer to home? Signed by the author on title page. 324 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 7/8". Jacket illustration and design by Marc Burkhardt.
Bloodstream
Carlson, P. M.
New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
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Signed by the author on the title page. The author's third novel. It's summer 1969 in Barrington, Georgia, and Charley Selkirk is having a rough time of it. Nothing seems to be going right for him until he meets photographer Tallasee Tynan, returned to her home town to complete a book of portraits of mountain women. Charley is hired as Tallasee's assistant, and together they look for the missing grandson of one of the women featured in the book. The search takes them to a local commune, where they boy was last seen. A Viet Nam vet who befriended the boy becomes the chief suspect, but Charley isn't so sure, and sets out to prove it. 224 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Calvin Chu.
Blue Hole
Gearino, G. D.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
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Signed by author on title page. Ellie Haskell's grandmother has something to tell her--except her grandmother died years ago. However, her three best friends, nicknamed "The Bridesmaids," claim to have heard from her, from beyond the grave. Ellie heads off to Cambridgeshire to learn what the bridesmaids, and her grandmother, have to say. 242 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Cover design by Yan Nascimbene.
Bridesmaids Revisted
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 200.
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Jenny Cain is shocked when a teenaged boy knocks on her door one day and announces that Jenny's husband, Geoff Bushfield, is his biological father. David Mayer doesn't want a familial relationship with Geoff, but wants Geoff to investigate the deaths of his parents several months before. The two deaths were viewed as a murder/suicide, but David insists that both were murdered. Signed by author on title page. 307 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by William Sloan.
Confession: A Jenny Cain Mystery
Pickard, Nancy
New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
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Signed by author on title page. An explosion at the Library of Congress was a cover for the theft of the Library's Gutenberg Bible by a German Nationalist group. Former Foreign Service officer Richard Michaelson was injured in the blast. His background comes in handy when there's another bombing and Michaelson investigates. 279 pp. 8 1/2" X 6". Jacket illustration by Jim Sullivan.
Corruptly Procured
Bowen, Michael
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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Signed by the author on title page. A rapist has been murdered, and Twin Cities reporter Jessica Mitchell has been following the story. In her search, Jessica learns that four other murders, previously unconnected, are also linked to this one. She also learns there is a group of rape victims behind the crimes. The police want her to back off the investigation. But they're not the only ones who want her off the case. 384 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Morris Taub.
Cry Vengeance: A Novel
Handberg, Ron
New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
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Signed by author on front free flyleaf. Author's first novel. Out of nowhere, Burleigh College's women's softball team wins the National Championship. Coach Pierce Nolan has been on the job only a year. How did he turn this team of nobodies to the highest prize of women's college softball? And did the win have anything to do with the collapse and death of the opposing team's best player? To Reggie Lichtman, investigator for the College and University Athletic Association, this combination of events sets off all sorts of alarms. What's behind it all? 245 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Adam Niklewicz.
Dead to Rights
Maxes, Ann
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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Signed by author on title page. Jessica Mann, a noted crime author herself, offers a study of the four premier authors of British crime fiction: Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Josephine Tey, plus New Zealander Ngaio Marsh. 256 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
Deadlier Than the Male: Why Are Respectable English Women So Good at Murder?
Mann, Jessica
New York: Macmillan, 1981.
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Death in Blue Velvet: The Second Book in the Rhiannon Nolan Series
Buchen, Kathy
Bloomington, IN: Audio Renaissance, 2005.
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