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OWEN SMITH, nationally recognized artist known for his artworks for The New Yorker and Rolling Stone as well as numerous book covers, was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2008 to create original works based on a theme for display in special kiosks on Market Street. Most recently, he did the cover illustration for Mark Coggins' new book, The Big Wake-Up, and appeared at "M" for that book event with the author. These posters are from Smith's "Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco" series. Each is SIGNED by the artist; 12" x 18" on heavy glossy stock, at $12.00 each.
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TASHA ALEXANDER - Dangerous to Know
|  (Minotaur, $24.99) Mystorical for February 2011. Set in the lush countryside of Normandy, France, this new novel of suspense featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves is filled with intrigue, romance, mysterious deaths, and madness. Returning from her honeymoon with Colin Hargreaves and a near brush with death in Constantinople, Lady Emily convalesces at her mother-in-law's beautiful estate in Normandy. But the calm she so desperately seeks is shattered when, out riding a horse, she comes upon the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. The girl's wounds are identical to those inflicted on the victims of Jack the Ripper, who has wreaked havoc across the channel in London. Emily feels a connection to the young woman and is determined to bring the killer to justice. |
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NANCY ATHERTON - Aunt Dimity & the Family Tree
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 (Penguin, $24.95) "After touring New Zealand in 2010's Aunt Dimity Down Under, amateur sleuth Lori Shepard returns to Finch, her Cotswolds village, in Atherton's entertaining 16th paranormal mystery. Lori's Boston Brahmin father-in-law, T. William Arthur Willis Sr., who's retired as head of the family law firm, has relocated to Fairworth House, an old estate, to be near his grandchildren and son and daughter-in-law.... When odd things begin to happen at Fairworth, including moving furniture and strange sounds, Lori turns to ghostly Aunt Dimity for assistance.... series fans will delight in the antics of familiar characters, in particular Finch's single ladies, and the charming portrayal of English village life," said PW.
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CARA BLACK - Murder in Passy
|  (Soho Crime, $25.00). The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris's wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aimée Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that's exactly what Aimée finds. "Proprietor of a computer security business in Paris and protagonist of Black's atmospheric series (yes, you can feel the Seine-soaked cobblestones through your feet as your read), smart, tough, and utterly likable Aimée Leduc admits to a penchant for bad boys. Aside from her partner, René, the one male constant in her life is her godfather, Morbier, commissaire of police.... Another fun, absorbing, well-plotted Aimée Leduc mystery, more brisk in the telling than ever; your passport to Paris next spring," said Library Journal.
NEW! Special 10th Anniversary Edition of the first in series, 'Murder in the Marais' with a beautiful new cover ($9.99 trade paperback, SIGNED).
ALSO, buy the new one plus one of the following and get 10% off both:
-- 'Murder in Belleville' (Soho Crime, 2000, $19.00) VG+/F. Signed. Some indentation on upper and lower edges of back cover.
-- 'Murder in the Palais Royal" (Soho Crime, 2010, $25.00) As New. Signed. |
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T.C. BOYLE - When the Killing's Done
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 (Viking, $26.95). PW starred: "Boyle (The Women) spins a grand environmental and family drama revolving around the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara in his fiery latest.... Boyle's animating conflict is tense and nuanced, and his sleek prose yields a tale that is complex, thought-provoking, and darkly funny-everything we have come to expect from him." And Booklist also starred: "Boyle's great subject is humankind's blundering relationship with the rest of the living world. In his thirteenth novel, he transports us to California's Galapagos, the surprisingly wild Northern Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara. There a stormy, cliff-hanging tale of foolhardy and treacherous journeys unfolds, anchored to the tough women in two indomitable matriarchal lines, Boyle creates magnetic characters and high suspense, culminating in a piercing vision of our needy, confused, and destructive species thrashing about in the great web of life."
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CHELSEA CAIN - The Night Season
|  (Minotaur, $24.99) Signed on an otherwise blank page. Booklist starred: "Devoted readers of Cain's superb Archie Sheridan novels, starring the Portland, Oregon, police detective, have known all along that eventually the series would have to stand on its own without the mesmerizing presence of serial killer Gretchen Lowell, with whom Archie shares the quintessential love-hate relationship. But can Cain pull it off? Yes, indeed.... This time she adds another arrow to her narrative quiver: the interplay between landscape and mood. This may be the best thriller set in a flooding city since Donna Leon's Acqua Alta (1996)." And PW praised: "Cain easily weaves the history of the real-life Vanport flood with her trademark heart-stopping moments, and fans will be pleased to see the series flourishing without Gretchen on every page." |
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ROBERT CRAIS - The Sentry
| (Putn am, $26.95). "Near the outset of Crais's impressive third thriller featuring L.A. PI Joe Pike (after The First Rule), Pike notices two suspicious characters enter a Venice, Calif., sandwich shop. Pike, an ex-Marine and former LAPD patrol officer, walks into the shop just in time to rescue its owner, Wilson Smith, from a vicious assault.... PI Elvis Cole, the lead in nine other Crais books, is as ever ready to support his pal. Heartbreaking ironies, frustrated desires, and violent nonstop action make this a standout. Crais just keeps getting better at giving depth to the laconic Pike and the anguished Cole, who still pines for his lost love, Louisiana attorney Lucy Chenier," said PW. |
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SAM EASTLAND - Shadow Pass
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 (Bantam, $25.00) The second in series (see below for the first). Pekkala: He was the Romanovs' most trusted investigator. Now he's Stalin's greatest fear. He operates in the shadows of one of history's most notorious regimes. A massive and mysterious new weapon is being developed in total secrecy in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine. Its inventor, Colonel Rolan Nagorski, is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent. And Josef Stalin is no innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, he brings in his best -- if least obedient -- detective to solve a murder that's tantamount to treason.
ALSO get 10% off if buy both books!:
 Eye of the Red Tsar (Bantam, $25.00) (First in series.) Kirkus starred: "A disgraced detective is called back to investigate the most famous murder in Russian history. A fantastic premise, frenetic action sequences and a stellar setting would all set apart this debut novel by Eastland (the pseudonym of a British author now living in the United States). What elevates this Russian period thriller above the ranks of the average potboiler is its mad, brilliant hero, who has been brought back to life after giving up all hope in the Russian Gulag.... Pekkala's assignment is to investigate a crime with which he is all too familiar-the execution of the Romanov dynasty, including Tsar Nicholas II and his line-although Pekkala soon discovers that one member of the family may in fact have escaped the massacre."
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CAROL EDGARIAN - Three Stages of Amazement
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 (Scribner, $25.00). Library Journal said: " Edgarian (Rise the Euphrates) spares no emotion in this big, lovely second novel about decent people falling apart under the demands that there be more than 24 hours in a day and more than parental determination to juggle life's realities against the heart's desire." Janet Maslin in the New York Times called it "... ...turbulent, furiously compelling.... a fiery, deeply involving book with an eccentric streak that keeps it constantly surprising." And PW concluded: "Edgarian's accomplished second novel looks at the way the privileged cope -- or fail to cope -- when the fates turn hard against them. [She] is in fine form, giving readers a well-told story with characters of great depth and complexity, but it is her crystalline writing and the unique narrative tone that elevates this the most."
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DAVID ELLIS - Breach of Trust
|  (Putnam, $25.95). PW called it a "smart, compelling page-turner... Readers will eagerly await his next outing." From Library Journal: "Dirty politics, Chicago style, is front and center in this sequel to Ellis's acclaimed series debut, 'The Hidden Man'.... The reality of ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's trial (Ellis was the impeachment prosecutor) lends credibility to this intense, suspenseful tale set in a political cesspool. Ellis has turned out a sharp political thriller that should appeal to fans of David Baldacci and Vince Flynn." And Booklist called it "compelling... penetrating legal fiction reminiscent of George V. Higgins." |
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JASPER FFORDE - One of Our Thursdays is Missing
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 (Viking, $25.95). "Fforde's diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a 'minefield' both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that's a minefield of unexpected and amusing twists," said PW. And from the Independent (UK): "Fforde's books are more than just an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terrible mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of Dickens or Pratchett." |
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MARTHA GRIMES - Fadeaway Girl
|  (Viking, $26.95). The latest installment in the endless carnival of crime at sleepy La Porte, Md., involves still another return to the storied past. Now that she's untangled the mystery of exactly which members of the Queen family killed which other members, Belle Ruin waitress/cub reporter Emma Graham, 12, is confronted by an even more vexing case: the disappearance 20 years ago of Baby Fay. . . . The setup echoed that of the famous Lindbergh kidnapping, right down to the telltale ladder, but there was never a ransom demand, and never a sign of Baby Fay since then. . . Emma is as enchanting as the eccentric cast of her hometown," said Kirkus. And Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times said: "Emma uses sheer cunning and devious methods of interrogation to pry information from the colorful characters she finds at well-trafficked spots like the Rainbow Cafe. They all quicken to life under Grimes's Dickensian touch, but none more so than Emma." |
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STEVE HOCKENSMITH - World's Greatest Sleuth
|  (Minotaur, $24.99). "In Hockensmith's clever, slapstick-infused fifth Holmes on the Range mystery (after 2009's The Crack in the Lens), Gustav ("Old Red") and Otto ("Big Red") Amlingmeyer travel to Chicago to take part in a 'mystery cracking competition' at the 1893 Columbian Exposition," said PW. Set to coincide with... the publication of the story revealing the death of Sherlock Holmes, Gustav will be competing for the title of World's Greatest Sleuth! Hating train travel and cities, the real draw is the chance to meet up again with the intriguing and elusive Diana Corvus. But the competition has barely begun before there is a murder in "the White City" -- the organizer of the contest is discovered face down in the Mammoth Cheese from Canada -- and from there, the game is really afoot. |
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HANNAH JAYNE - Under Wraps
|  (Kensington, $6.99 paperback original). As a human immune to magic, Sophie Lawson can help everyone from banshee to zombie transition into normal, everyday San Francisco life. With a handsome werewolf as her UDA boss and a fashionista vampire for a roommate, Sophie knows everything there is to know about the undead, the unseen, and the uncanny. Until a rash of gruesome murders has demons and mortals running for cover, and Sophie finds herself playing sidekick to detective Parker Hayes.
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STEFAN KANFER - Tough Without A Gun
|  (Knopf, $26.95). "Humphrey Bogart was 42 before in 1941 he broke through as an A-list star in The Maltese Falcon and High Sierra. He was dead of lung cancer a mere 16 years later. Yet, as Kanfer points out in his revealing account of Bogart's life and legacy, Bogie, in those few short years, established a cinematic identity that lives on across generations. Kanfer thoroughly covers the relatively familiar ground of Bogart's upbringing as the rebellious child of blue-blood parents; his long apprenticeships, first in the theater and then playing bad guys in the movies; and, finally, his brief but iconic years of stardom. Beyond that, though,... is the emphasis on the actor's 'afterlife,' the way that somehow his persona -- 'integrity, stoicism, sexual charisma accompanied by a cool indifference to women' -- has never gone out of style..." said Booklist. And PW called it "an entertaining, definitive portrait, enriched with delightful digressions into Bogie's noirish, rough-hewn persona." |
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LOU MANFREDO - Rizzo's Fire
|  (Minotaur, $24.99) "In Manhattan, the murder of an acclaimed playwright will make some NYPD detective a media darling. But in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Detective Joe Rizzo has the usual fare: a mugger who preys on the elderly, a serial flasher, and the loser in a fistfight, who drunkenly seeks revenge with a hunting rifle. But then Bensonhurst has its own murder, the 62nd Precinct's first in two years... Authenticity is the cornerstone of Manfredo's work (Rizzo's War, 2009), whether in his portrait of Brooklyn or his depiction of the 'murky and morally ambivalent' world of the NYPD, which Rizzo desperately wants to keep his youngest daughter from joining. Fans of gritty procedurals will love this one," said Booklist. |
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ERIC MARTIN & STEPHEN ELLIOTT - Donald
|  (McSweeney's, $12.00 trade paperback original, SIGNED by BOTH). As America's most infamous former Secretary of Defense lies poised to unleash his wistful recollections and rewriting of the war on terror, authors Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott humbly submit their take to the historical record: a thriller, a spoof, and an allegory all wrapped up in one. What would happen if Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary and architect of the war on terror, was abducted at night from his Maryland home, held without charges in his own prison system, denied a trial, and kept in a place where no one could find him, beyond the reach of the law? This high-wire allegory answers this question, in equal parts breakneck thriller and gradual descent into madness. While there are those who would try to convince us that war is full of uncertainty -- of knowns and unknowns -- Donald reminds us that there remain things we know to be wrong. |
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CRAIG MCDONALD - One True Sentence
|  (Minotaur, $26.99). Paris, 1924. A city teeming with would-be poets, writers, and painters. Hector Lassiter, fledgling author and best friend of Ernest Hemingway, is crossing the Pont Neuf when he hears a body fall into the icy Seine - the first in a string of brutal murders of literary magazine editors that throw a shroud over the City of Light. Frantic to stop the killings, Gertrude Stein gathers the most prominent crime and mystery writers in the city, including Hector and the dark, mysterious crime novelist Brinke Devlin. Soon, Hector and Brinke are tangled not only under the sheets, but in a web of murders, each more grisly than the next. |
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WALTER MOSLEY - When the Thrill is Gone
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 (Riverhead, $26.95). PW starred: "Mosley fills his third thriller featuring New York City PI Leonid McGill with insights even deeper than the mysteries McGill is trying to solve. Chrystal Tyler, a potential new client, tells McGill that she's afraid her billionaire husband is having an affair and may kill her. While McGill realizes the woman is lying, he needs the case and agrees to see what he can do to make her husband back off.... Readers will encounter the full panoply of complex Mosley characters, from deceitful women to ruthless killers, but it's the often surprising bonds of love and family that lift this raw, unsentimental novel." And Kirkus called it "A book filled with sharp individual scenes and hard-headed aphorisms."
ALSO, buy the new plus any of the following and get 10% off:
-- 'Bad Boy Brawly Brown' (Little Brown, 2002, $9.00) F/F. Signed
-- 'Known To Evil' (Scorpion, 2010, $115.00) As New. Special limited numbered edition. Limited to 66 copies. Signed and numbered.
-- 'Last Days of Ptolemy Grey' (Riverhead 2010, $25.95) As New. Signed. |
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JOSEPH O'CONNOR - Ghost Light
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 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.00). "An impassioned tribute to the actress who secretly loved and outlived Irish playwright J.M. Synge. Bestselling Irish author O'Connor divides his powerfully imagined, poetic narrative between two eras and cities, Dublin in 1908 and London in 1952. Molly Allgood (stage name Maire O'Neill), central to both, is 65 in the London episode. Her salty stream of consciousness is narrated in the second person, lending an additional layer of self-consciousness to the meticulously composed prose.... O'Connor's impressionistic, intense style delivers a mismatched love story and a social landscape dominated by forceful characters such as W.B. Yeats and Synge's formidable mother, but it is Molly's perspective which prevails, the voice of a comical, intuitive, irrepressible life force. An empathetic act of literary homage offering nuggets of emotional intensity," said Kirkus. |
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DIANA ORGAIN - Formula For Murder
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 (Berkley, $7.99 paperback original) Sleuth and first-time mom Kate Connolly and her baby are the victims of a hit-and-run, but escape unharmed. A witness identifies the car's French diplomatic license plates, yet when Kate and her hubby try to get some answers, they get the cold shoulder. But there's something going on at the French consulate that's dirtier -- and far deadlier -- than any diaper.
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T. JEFFERSON PARKER - The Border Lords
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 (Dutton, $26.95). Booklist starred: "... fourth thriller in his standout series featuring L.A. sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood. The Border Lords finds Deputy Hood still determined to battle gun and drug traffic along the U.S.-Mexico border. But this time, his greatest enemy may come from within. Veteran undercover ATF agent Sean Ozburn has dropped out of sight, leaving a handful of bullet-riddled bodies in his wake.... Three-time Edgar winner Parker has created a memorable character in Charlie Hood, who remains a beacon of restrained hope in a world of despair and dark deeds." And PW said: "The porousness of the U.S.-Mexico border and the ease with which guns, drugs, and killers pass back and forth is nowhere better illustrated than in Parker's white-hot series."
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JONATHAN RABB - The Second Son
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 (FSG, $26.00). "..the narrative never flags. It proves that first-rate detectives are like good lovers and good novelists: keenly observant, intuitive and tough as nails," said the New York Times. And PW praised: "Set in 1936, Rabb's gripping conclusion to his Berlin noir trilogy featuring Chief Insp. Nikolai Hoffner finds the 62-year-old Hoffner forced into retirement because the Nazis have discovered that his late mother was Jewish. Meanwhile, Hoffner's filmmaker second son, Georg, has left his wife and son in Berlin to travel to Barcelona, where the People's Olympics, games intended to protest the spectacle of Hitler's Olympics, are scheduled to take place. But the outbreak of civil war in Spain ensures that these alternative games never happen. Fans of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr will be rewarded." |
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GERALD SO (EDT) - The Lineup
|  (Poetic Justice Press, $7.00) Signed by the editor. Subtitled 'Poems on Crime.' This annual publication, 52 pages in magazine binding, has an Introduction by Reed Farrel Coleman, in which he discusses why the marriage of crime and poetry makes perfect sense. Contributors include Ken Bruen, David Corbett, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Reed Farrel Coleman, and 23 other poets and writers. |
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DANA STABENOW - Though Not Dead
|  (Minotaur, $25.99). Starred reviews all around; first, from Booklist: "In her newest Kate Shugak thriller, Stabenow proves she's as comfortable dealing with Alaskan history as she is portraying Kate's insular contemporary world and the harsh, beautiful, changing landscape she and her extended family call home.... A standout entry in a consistently good series,..." And PW: "The demise of 89-year-old Samuel 'Old Sam' Dementieff, Kate Shugak's friend, relative, and mentor, triggers a deadly treasure hunt in Edgar-winner Stabenow's brilliant 18th novel to feature the feisty Alaska detective.... Kate is at her butt-kicking best as she and Mutt, her inseparable half-wolf, half-husky companion, deal with murder, theft, and deception from Anchorage to the wilderness of Canyon Hot Springs, where Old Sam staked his homestead."
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WESLEY STACE - Charles Jessold Considered a Murderer
|  (Picador, $15.00, trade paperback original). "This intellectually provocative novel from Stace (the pseudonym of musician John Wesley Harding) brings to life the English music world of the first half of the 20th century. Early one June morning in 1923, gifted composer Charles Jessold, after the dress rehearsal of his first opera, Little Musgrave, kills his wife and her lover and commits suicide at his London home. The murders echo the plot of Jessold's years-in-the-making opera as well as the life and work of Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-century Italian composer. Instead of revolutionalizing English music, Little Musgrave is canceled... Twenty-two years later, Shepherd reveals startling new details that put a different, more chilling perspective on the tragedy. Stace (Misfortune) succinctly explores obsession and the relationship between art and life in this satisfying historical," said PW. And Library Journal called it "[a] clever, entertaining novel [that] will appeal to music and opera buffs and literary-historical fiction fans." |
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KELLI STANLEY - The Curse Maker
|  (Minotaur, $24.99). "This worthy successor to Nox Dormienda weaves together many strands, and the resulting pattern is sometimes surprising. If readers enjoyed Stanley's first Roman noir, they won't want to miss this. It is sure to appeal also to fans of Lindsey Davis, Ruth Downie, and other authors of Roman mysteries," said Booklist. And PW said: "A murder interrupts the holiday of Arcturus, the Roman governor's doctor and sometime sleuth, in Stanley's well-plotted second novel set in Britain during the reign of Domitian (after 2008's Nox Dormeinda, winner of the Bruce Alexander Award for Best Historical Mystery)."
ALSO buy the new plus the following and get 10% off both:
-- 'City of Dragons' (Minotaur, 2010, $24.99) As New. Signed. |
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WALLACE STROBY - Cold Shot to the Heart
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 (St. Martin's, $24.99). "Barry Award finalist Stroby's (Gone 'til November) latest hard-boiled novel is a compelling blend of greed, violence, and the need to survive that will appeal to noir aficionados," said Library Journal. From PW: "Stroby (The Barbed-Wire Kiss) pits a resourceful crook against a ruthless killer in this well-crafted crime novel. Crissa Stone carefully weighs risks and rewards and her criminal associates' skills before undertaking a caper. Ex-con Eddie Santiago (aka Eddie the Saint) will kill on principle or for a buck." And Kirkus called it "Another fast, taut winner from Stroby. As for Crissa, she may be crime fiction's best bad girl ever." |
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RICHARD THOMPSON - Big Wheat
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 (Poisoned Pen, $24.95). A stand-alone historical thriller. The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. A killer who calls himself the Windmill Man believes he has a holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood. For him, the moving harvest is a target-rich environment, an endless supply of ready victims. He has been killing for years now and intends to kill for many more. Who could stop him? Nobody even knew he existed. Until now. A young man named Charlie Krueger also follows the harvest. Kirkus said: "Another good story from Thompson (Frag Box, 2009, etc.). The plotting is deft, and young Charlie is irresistible." |
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CHARLES TODD - A Lonely Death
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 (Wm. Morrow, $24.99). "Todd's intriguing revenge tale will keep the reader turning the pages, but the main draw remains Rutledge, the relentless inspector haunted by the voice of a Scotsman he executed on the battlefield for disobeying an order. Highly recommended for all aficionados of British postwar historical mysteries," said Library Journal. And PW said of this mother-son writing team: "... as usual their subtle prose and profound empathy for all their characters enhance a suspenseful and twisty plot." Kirkus added: "Eloquently blasts war for the obscenity it is."
ALSO, buy the new one plus the following and get 10% off both:
-- 'An Impartial Witness' (Wm. Morrow, 2010, $24.99) As New. Signed By BOTH.
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DAVID VANN - Caribou Island
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 (Harper, $25.99). Kirkus starred: "Vann's brilliance lies in his willingness to expose all.... Desolate, violent, heartbreaking.... A striking novel filled with the violence borne of a bitter life." From Library Journal: "Vann delivers an authentic story, even lyrical at times. He is a writer headed for notable accomplishments. Enthusiastically recommended." And the Washington Post also praised: "Approach David Vann's first novel the way you would a fresh grave -- with a mixture of fascination and fear. Caribou Island follows the author's story collection Legend of a Suicide, inspired by his father's violent death. Clearly that tragedy still haunts Vann -- how could it not? -- but now he's written a novel that breaks out of the autobiographical boundaries of his own grief and exposes our friable ties to those we love.... Vann, who was born in Alaska, handles conflicted feelings of love and resentment, and the raw, existential cries of ordinary people, extraordinarily well. And although he's a graceful writer, he never spins the kind of poetic prose that infects too many literary novels with distracting prettiness..."
San Francisco Chronicle Article Jan. 29th, 2011
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URBAN WAITE - The Terror of Living
|  (Little Brown, $24.99) February 2011 S&S 1. In her New York Times crime column, Marilyn Stasio called this debut "one fine specimen" of "a modern western..."; on the story-telling: "[Waite] does it with more artistry than would seem possible in a conventional thriller. His descriptions of the stark beauty of the mountains have a calming effect on the intensity of the cinematic action scenes. And the surprising delicacy of the writing also makes it easier to bear the raw violence done to man and beast. Waite is most eloquent when he's probing the interior lives of the men locked in this contest of will and endurance."From 'Kirkus': ".... the meticulously calibrated prose, rushing narrative and sympathetic protagonists mark Waite as a rewarding, promising writer." And 'Booklist' said: "In a blood-spattered chase that winds from the Cascade Mountains in Central Washington to Seattle and back again, first-novelist Waite never eases the throttle, but even at high speed, it's the interplay between the characters that gives the novel its power." |
| PENNY WARNER - How to Survive a Killer Seance |  (Signet, $6.99 Paperback original). Launch party! As party planner Presley Parker investigates a murder during a séance party at San Francisco's famous Winchester Mystery House, she doesn't need a Ouija board to tell her someone's trying to scare her to death. Penny Warner has written over 50 books and received the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. |
RANDY WAYNE WHITE - Night Vision
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 (Putnam, $25.95). PW starred: "In White's intelligent, fast-paced 18th Doc Ford thriller (after Deep Shadow), Doc's hipster friend, Tomlinson, persuades Doc to help an extraordinary 13-year-old girl, Tula Choimha, recently arrived at a Florida trailer park from Guatemala. Tula, who speaks with God and whose patron saint is Joan of Arc, is determined to find her mother and brother, who came to America months earlier but have disappeared." And Booklist praised: "A must for series fans.... It took White's Doc Ford series a while to draw a mainstream audience, but the books started turning up on New York Times best-seller lists several years ago and are likely to remain there for the foreseeable future."
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| DARRYL WIMBERLEY - Devil's Slew: A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery |  (Minotaur, $25.99). Launch party! "Wimberley knows his weaponry, swamp terrain and small-town prejudices better than most. If hard-boiled is what you're after, Raines qualifies as the black hero du jour," said Kirkus Reviews. And from PW: "Vivid descriptive prose and a keen ear for local dialect distinguish Wimberley's explosive fifth mystery featuring African-American special agent Barrett "Bear" Raines (after 2007's Pepperfish Keys). Bear knows every inch and most of the diverse inhabitants of his seven-county northwestern Florida jurisdiction, including Quentin Hart, an Afghanistan War vet who takes his girlfriend hostage in his trailer in a swamp area known as Devil's Slew.
ALSO, buy the new one plus one of the following and get 10% off both:
-- 'Tinker's Damn' (MacMurray & Beck, 2000, $9.00) VF/VF. Signed.
-- 'King of Colored Town' (Toby Press, 2007, $24.95) As New. Signed.
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