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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 seige 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.
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.
Act of Faith
Bowen, Michael
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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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 her mother-in-law to help. Then Alice is accused of a local murder. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf: To Joan, All the Best. Sandra Dallas, Breckinridge, Colo. Sept. 28, 2002.
Alice's Tulips
Dallas, Sandra
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
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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?
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.
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, Oklahma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright."
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.
Bleeding Kansas
Paretsky, Sara
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
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Second 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.
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.
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 what the bridesmaids, and her grandmother, have to say.
Bridesmaids Revisted
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 200.
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Jenny Cain is shocked when a teeneaged 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.
Confession: A Jenny Cain Mystery
Pickard, Nancy
New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
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Cry Vengeance: A Novel
Handberg, Ron
New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
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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.
Deadlier Than the Male: Why Are Respectable English Women So Good at Murder?
Mann, Jessica
New York: Macmillan, 1981.
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First book in a new series. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Judy, Best Wishes! Enjoy! Kathy Buchen." Widowed lawyer Rhiannon Nolan has just moved to New Belgium, Wisconsin, with her three sons. She's struggling to set up her new practice while contending with the nosiness inherent in a small town. When a local man dies at her best friend's house, Rhi investigates. The author is from Appleton, Wisconsin.
Death in Chintz
Buchen, Kathy
Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2004.
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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.
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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Death Trance: A Novel of Hypnotic Detection
Zimmerman, R. D.
New York: William Morrow, 1992.
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Signed by author on title page. New York police detective Niel Hockaday's drinking is out of control, and he is forced to temporarily take time off. While he's on leave, his wife's boss is murdered and and a serial killer is targeting gay men. Hockaday can't stay away, so investigates on his own.
Devil's Heaven
Adcock, Thomas
New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
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Signed by author on title page. Transportation expert Owen Allison returns to West Virginia to assist his Aunt Lizzie, accused of shooting a trucker. She's confessed, but Owen isn't so sure. He also has to contend with hazardous waste dumping that threatens the family farm.
Dismal Mountain
Billheimer, John
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.
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Inscribed and dated by author on front flyleaf: "To Sarah. Thanks for reading Double Time. Vince Sescoe. 28 Sept 02." Maps on endpapers.
Double Time
Sescoe, Vincent E.
Sterling, VA: Brookfield Reader, 2001.
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Signed by Michael Connelly on title page. In the 12th installment of the series, while investigating a man found with body parts in his car, Harry Bosch discovers a link to a decades-old crime. In 1993, a woman disappeared, and her body was never found. Is the man with the body parts the person who killed her?
Echo Park
Connelly, Michael
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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