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First paperback edition. Two Danish sailors, Ulf and Torben, are handed a log-book by a sailor who then disappears. In it, reveals the existence of something called the Celtic Ring. Intrigued, they they set off across the North Sea for Scotland. Along the way they barely survive several accidents. Or are they accidents? Things get even more dangerous when they reach Scotland, where they encounter Celtic nationalists and a revived Druid cult. Reviewers in Cruising and Sailing magazines praised the plot and the authentic descriptions of sailing.
The Celtic Ring
Larsson, Bjorn, translated by George Simpson
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2000.
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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.
The Collectors
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
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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.
The Eighth Day
Case, John
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
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While on an assignment, freelance photographer Joanne Lessing witnesses and photographs a hit and run accident. She notifies the police and gives them the photo to identify the hit and run driver. That accident has broader repercussions, however, as the driver is linked to a murder in the neighborhood. Joanne's life is in danger if the mobsters who ordered the hit learn that she was the person who took the photograph.
The Fall: A Thriller
Dymmoch, Michael Allen
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004.
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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. 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.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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Jack Ruskin is a former prosecuting attorney who is a self-appointed avenging angel. He is systematically killing sexual predators. His only connection to them is the fact that his own daughter was the victim of such a man. FBI agent Amanda Lee is assigned to track down the killer, a task many law enforcement officers don't really want her to solve. As their paths converge, both must consider their professional and personal views of right and wrong.
The Fifth Angel
Green, Tim
New York: Warner Books, 2003.
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Michael Garrick, a White House lawyer, is on a dream date with the First Daughter, Nora Hartson, a girl who seems to thrive on inappropriate behavior. That behavior gets her, and Garrick, into a dangerous situation, which results in Garrick becoming a suspect in the murder of his boss. No longer able to trust anyone, Garrick must prove his innocence.
The First Counsel
Meltzer, Brad
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
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The fourth perimeter of the title is the final line of defense around the President of the United States. It consists of his personal bodyguards, made up of Secret Service agents. Kurt Ford, a former Secret Service agent, is now a security consultant. When his son Collin, also a Secret Service agent, dies by what appears to be his own. Kurth knows that Collin would never kill himself, so he begins to investigate the circumstances of Collin's death.
The Fourth Perimeter
Green, Tim
New York: Warner Books, 2002.
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The bodies of anti-abortionists are turning up in Washington, DC. The killer leaves clues on the bodies. leaving no doubt as to why they were killed. The investigation involves people on both sides of the abortion issue, politicians, and influential doctors. The author's first novel.
The Fourth Procedure
Pottinger, Stanley
New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.
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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.
The Great Divide
Bunn, T. Davis
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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A collection of what Louisa May Alcott called "blood and thunder tales," most written under the pseudonym of A. M. Bernard. Included in this compilation are, Behind a Mask or A Woman's Power; Pauline's Passion and Punishment; The Mysterious Key and What it Opened; The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation; V. V. or Plots and Counterplots; A Marble Woman or The Mysterious Model; The Skeleton in the Closet; A Whisper in the Dark; Perious Play; and Thematic Chart. Illustrated with balck and white drawings and facsimiles of manuscript pages.
The Hidden Louisa May Alcott: A Collection of her Unknown Thrillers. Two Volumes in One
Stern, Madeleine, editor
New York: Avenel Books, 1984.
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Civil rights lawyer Nate Rosen returns to his hometown, Chicago, to uphold the civil rights of a couple of criminals. Afterwards, he spends some time with his daughter Sarah, who still lives in Chicago with his ex-wife. Then Sarah's friend Nina disappears, and the search for her creates conflicts between Rosen's personal and profession lives.
The Innocence that Kills
Levitsky, Ronald
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
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The bodies of wealthy San Francisco businessman Paul Hanover and his fiancé are found in a house consumed by fire. They didn't die in the fire, however--they were both shot. Detective Abe Glitsky is assigned to the case, and lawyer Dismas Hardy is hired to defend the accused.
The Motive
Lescroart, John
New York: Dutton, 2005.
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Amy Wu, a young lawyer in Dismas Hardy's law firm, fumbles badly while defending a 17-year-old accused of murdering his girlfriend and his English teacher. Dismas, himself struggling with a loss of faith in the law, must act as "second chair" in the trial to save the case, and his law firm. Signed by author on second flyleaf.
The Second Chair
Lescroart, John
New York: Dutton, 2004.
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Iris Greenfeder has been spinning her wheels--she hasn't finished her dissertation, she hasn't gotten married, she hasn't published a book. Iris' mother, Katherine Morrissey, was a published author--she had written two volumes of a trilogy, but the thid volume couldn't be found at the time of Katherine's death when Iris was eight. Iris needs some kind of a jumpstart. She gets that start when her mother's former literary agent asks Iris to find the missing manuscript. To do so, she returns to the Catskills hotel where Iris grew up and Katherine wrote. Then she discovers that she's not the only one looking for the manuscript. What secrets from her mother's life will be revealed?
The Seduction of Water
Goodman, Carol
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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A topic as relevant today as when this novel was written, The Select portrays the evils that can accompany good intensions gone very wrong. The U.S. health care system has undergone drastic change. Two medical students discover that there's more at stake than the health of their patients: their fellow med school students are being brainwashed to further the aims of a pharmaceutical company.
The Select
Wilson, F. Paul
New York: William Morrow, 1994.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Third book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. In The Sinner, one nun is found brutally murdered in a convent chapel, another critically injured nun beside her. Homicide detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Isles work together to track down the killer.
The Sinner
Gerritsen, Tess
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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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.
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Le Carré, John
New York: Walker & Company, 2005.
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University of Virginia law professor Ray Atlee is summoned home by his dying father. When he arrives in Mississippi, his father has already died, leaving a typed will and a pile of money of unknown origin. Atlee must determine where the money came from, and what to do with it.
The Summons
Grisham, John
New York: Doubleday, 2002.
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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.
The Switch
Brown, Sandra
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
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