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For Father Dowling, a ring holds the key to his investigation into the brutal murder of Aggie Miller, a member of his parish, and the disappearance of Frances Grice, the missing wife of a local millionaire entrepreneur. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00  In the wake of a radical religious sect member's murder, the church hopes to gain more followers by canonizing the victim, and lawyer Hannah Barlow is called upon to investigate two strange disappearances. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A triple murder in an elegant Kingsmarkham home baffles Chief Inspector Wexford as he tries to catch the demented killer before he strikes again. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Peggy O'Neill, a campus cop, is making her regular nightly rounds at the University when she discovers that the door of the Studio Arts Building is unlocked. When she investigates, she discovers a dead body and then is knocked over by a man she assumes is the escaping murderer. The victim is professor Russell Bell, of the Art Department. Peggy is able to identify the man who escaped after the police capture him, but a friend of hers tries to convince her that the man is innocent. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Just out of rehab, New Orleans P.I. Terry Manion is forced into an investigation into the alleged suicide of his old friend and mentor, J. J. Lengendre, and finds himself in a deadly battle for his life in the heart of the Cajun bayou country. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 After turning down a lucrative partnership in a prestigious Miami law firm to start her own business, Gail has become engaged to Anthony--her longtime friend and lover. Embarking on this new life together inevitably opens the door to Anthony's past--a shadowy past containing an unspeakable tragedy. Now, as Gail accepts her first major case, elements from Anthony's past and present come together to threaten his entire family, and endanger his future with Gail. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A brutal murder takes place in the shadows of an exclusive party on the Miami waterfront. The victim is the heir to a yacht-building family fortune. Bobby Gonzales, a talented dancer with the Miami Ballet, is the prime suspect, as well as Gail Connor's newest client. Gonzales has an alibi, but it involves a respected Miami judge with whom he was smoking marijuana at the time of the murder. The judge is represented by Anthony Quintana, Gail's ex-fianc. Gail must join forces with Anthony--the man she'd vowed never to lay eyes on again--to find the killer and clear both their clients. Thrust back together with Quintana, Gail must decide if she should reveal a shocking secret . . . something she should have confessed months ago that will change both of their lives forever. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Not knowing the past of her charming and handsome suitor, Lucy Cartwright accepts his marriage proposal. Innocently following Baron Clare to his estate, Lucy has no idea that he is leading her into a world of betrayal and danger. Suddenly she realizes the man of her fondest dreams has become the source of her worst nightmares, and she must devise a way out. Cover Price $7.50 In their third adventure, right-wing talk show host Jerry Knight and partner Jane Day, a leftist Washington Post reporter, tackle the murder of a politically active movie star at the Kennedy Center Honor Awards. Cover Price $6.99 When Pacific Northwest eco-terrorists bomb a dam on the Columbia River, a good friend of series heroine Venus Diamond disappears in the explosion. Diamond's search for the perpetrators threatens her with more danger. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Imagine a killer who thinks: What is the worst thing anyone has ever done? - and then does something far worse! Now imagine four women - a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter and a medical examiner - who pursue this killer by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women, who call themselves the Women's Murder Club, develop lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever - before a shocking resolution turns everything about the case upside down. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Teaming up with a new sidekick, Binky, for an investigation into the affluent Palm Beach circuit, playboy-turned-sleuth Archy McNally checks out a suspicious rise in business at the posh Whitcomb funeral homes. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Both victims were dishy, but that's all murder victims Leonora Austin, struggling artist, and Rosemary Beale, ex-call girl had in common. It's a disturbing case for newly promoted Detective Inspector Judy Hill, who knew Leonora, but also for her boyfriend, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd. But when investigating the complicated romantic lives of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale, including their husbands' past and present lovers, Hill and Lloyd uncover cold-hearted greed and calculated ambition--and a killer (or killers?) wanting to finish the job.... Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He's so popular that the kids all call him "Mr Chips." And he's very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them - he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He's done it before. Hundreds of times before. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Cross works and lives in the ghettos of D.C. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. He has two adorable kids of his own. They are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair - at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happened in Alex Cross's precinct. They happened under the protection of Jezzie Flanagan's men. Now Soneji is at large again, still wreaking havoc. Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Cover Price $7.50 Brother Cadfael, 12th-century herbalist, sleuth and sometime cupid, outdoes himself in this, his 16th chronicle, in which Peters imbues the familiar territory of murder, young love and odious villainry with fresh vigor and new subtleties. Elave, young clerk to William of Lythwood, returns from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his elderly master's body. His missions are to bury William in his home abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, and to deliver a dowry to William's adopted daughter Fortunata. But Elave, suspected of harboring views inimical to church doctrine, is held for ecclesiastical trial. And when Aldwin, the Lythwood family clerk hired in Elave's absence, is stabbed to death, Elave is incarcerated not only for heresy, but for murder. Fortunata's dowry, an intricately carved box with mysterious contents, holds the key to the mysteries that spring up around Elave and the Lythwood family. Shrewd and patient, Brother Cadfael is at his best here. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 General Taddeo Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed "Giotto" - for the fourteenth-century Florentine painter about whom little is known - is behind a string of major thefts has aroused the scorn of his archenemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. Some clever thief has stolen more than two dozen paintings since 1963, always choosing unphotographed works that would be difficult to identify. Bottando thinks he sees a pattern, but a recent arrest means he may be wrong, and the hated Argan, who clearly wants Bottando's job, may be right again. Bottando is fortunate in his supporters, however - especially in Flavia di Stefano and her friend, English art dealer Jonathan Argyll. When a strange letter arrives on Bottando's desk, he hopes that the confession of a dying woman may provide just the clue he needs to find the mysterious Giotto. As Flavia hurries to Florence to interview the writer of the letter, the elderly Maria Fancelli, Jonathan sets off for England, where he will meet with Geoffrey Arnold Forster, a man who may hold many of the answers if only he will share them. But when Jonathan arrives in Norfolk, he discovers a body and a mystery that could lead to the greatest art find of his career. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A scorching masterwork of love, lust, and murder, The Seventh Commandment is the provocative bestseller by Lawrence Sanders, author of The First Deadly Sin and Mcnally's Puzzle. A fabulously wealthy jeweler is stabbed in the streets of New York. Insurance investigator Dora Conti must decide whether or not to honor the family's claim. But the Starrett family empire is ripe with scandal: corruption, addiction, adultery. And the search for the deadly truth takes a startling and passionate turn when Dora herself falls unto temptation... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Private detective Timothy Cone takes on the shady underworld of big business. It's a hotbed of scams, scandals and murder. And Timothy plans to blow it wide open... Cover Price $5.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Although he doesn't usually handle burglaries, playboy/sleuth Archy McNally agrees to handle a "discrete" case for a society matron. And his search for stolen property leads Archy into a maze of sex, lies, and blackmail, uncovering a secret that's much too close to home. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Lawrence Sanders, the bestselling author of The First Deadly Sin, presents his most playfully spellbinding thriller, featuring 'the perfect crime.' A mystery writer turns thief and plans a multi-million-dollar heist. A fortune in jewels. A lifetime of leisure. A make-believe caper that turns horribly and murderously real... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A power-crazed holy man named Brother Kristos has slipped into the halls of the White House. To the President of the United States, he is a miracle worker-the only person who can heal his young son. But to the rest of the free world, he is a political nightmare come true. A stormy alliance between good and evil, heaven and hell... Cover Price $5.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A woman's love and a man's lust spark the ultimate chemical reaction . . . when a brilliant scientist taps into animal urges that stir within us all. When the secret falls into the wrong hands, the consequences are outrageous. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 "Run for it." It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked near her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past - and then the three of them were gone. Hours later, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a bloody shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew, instinctively, that this would be one of the worst cases he'd ever been on. A man who could steal children . . . With an urgency born of dread, Lucas presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. After finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. It sounds like an open-and-shut case for McNally & Son's Department of Discreet Inquiries, until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter, Veronica, from the press and paparazzi. Gallant Archy takes the case - and escorts grown-up and gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse. Rumors fly, and some of them may be true.. "Veronica is no damsel in distress, though, and she's certainly not sorry her stepfather is in the grave. When her story doesn't match Melva's, which doesn't match Geoff's, Archy realizes he does indeed have a dilemma on his hands. Someone's lying, and the one person who knows the truth - Geoff's perky playmate - has gotten away. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome, from Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave readers stunned. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Nina O'Connell, a rich man's daughter, was an American student in London. James Kiley, a man with many names and identities, invited her on a round-the-world jaunt with a group of students. Little did she know that Kiley's invitation was no accident or that she was a pawn in a deadly game of intrigue that would take her across three continents. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Emmet Richard Folsby: Founder of a mighty publishing empire, a patriarch to be admired - with one unspeakable exception...Constance Louise Folsby: Emmet's wife, and cofounder of the empire, now an invalid dying by degrees, resolutely blind to the moral missteps of those she cares for...Barbara Ann Folsby: The wildcat of a daughter, a fiercely ambitious business-woman, inexorably lured to love at its most forbidden... Brett Sherwood Folsby: The dashing play-boy son, his sister's most bitter antagonist, and a man with sexual secrets of his own... Through two decades, the Folsbys embrace their checkered destinies as Barbara and Brett battle for future control of the empire - never guessing that a trusted family friend with a hidden agenda is quietly manipulating them all... Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Edward X. Delaney returns in this spellbinding tale of greed, deception, and the brutal killing that shocked New York's art underworld. Cover Price $3.75 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The first victim was found in Seattle. The second in Vancouver-just the first two in a grisly puzzle that's turning the child's game of hangman into a nightmare of escalating horror.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door. This is vintage McGee in a novel that confirms John D. MacDonald's reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Someone has killed one of the most powerful men in the U.S. Senate--and the whole world is watching. Someone hs murdered a small black girl on the mean streets of Washington--and no one seems to care. But only D.C. homicide cop Alex Cross suspects that the evil strikingdown both the high and the lowly wears the same shocking face. Cover Price $7.50 Private eye V.I. Warshawski must track down a killer before she is implicated in the murder. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels...or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago's streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child's-or V.I.'s worst-nightmare. Cover Price$6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Upon the death of her grandfather, Meg unexpectedly inherits the eccentric millionaire's antique jewelry business. There is one catch to her sudden windfall-she must share the wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an entire town stirring up rumors-about murderous secrets and a dark legacy. All that glitters is not gold… Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's footsteps. But it was more than a degree she was seeking. Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death-and the true identity of her father. Soon the startling truth was seeking her. Watching from the shadows of a cold silent museum. And waiting for the chance to kill… Cover Price $6.99 Melanie Wyatt always prided herself on being a good mother...until the night she awakened from a dream to find her baby dead. Now court-appointed psychologist Paul Murphy faced the greatest challenge of his career: to determine what actually happened that horrifying night. Did beautiful, demure Melanie kill her own child? Or had something more sinister and unbelievable occurred, causing her to erase the awful incident from her memory? Only Melanie knew the answer...and it lay buried deep within her troubled, confused mind. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In Certain Prey, Davenport confronts an entirely new kind of adversary. Clara Rinker is a southerner, trim, pleasant, attractive - and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy, not one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home. It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine. But then a witness survives, the attorney starts acting weird, this big cop Davenport gets on her case, and loose ends begin popping up faster than a sweater unraveling. Clara hates loose ends, and knows of only one way to deal with them: You start cutting them off, one after another, until they're all gone. Lucas thinks the case is worrisome enough, but he has no idea of the toll it is about to take on him. For of the many criminals he has hunted during his life, none has been as efficient or as ferociously intelligent as the one who is about to start hunting him - and none knows so well what his weak spots are ... and how to penetrate them. Cover Price: $7.99 Condition Good Price $2.00 Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an astonishing discovery in the woods near her animal hospital. Soon after, Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on Frannie's doorstep. And then there is eleven-year-old Max -Frannie's amazing discovery - and one of the most unforgettable creations in thriller fiction. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 It's a long hot summer in 1968. After escaping Memphis with Jimmy, a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., P.I. Smokey Dalton hopes to start a new life in Chicago. Their new beginning is shattered by the event leading up to the Democratic National Convention, where violence and paranoia have replaced political protest. Smokey does all he can to protect Jimmy from the police and his nagging fear that a rogue FBI agent is following them. But when a neighborhood boy disappears, and the body of another is found tortured on his doorstep, Smokey knows that he cannot run any longer. Only by dividing headlong into the underside of the 1960s can he and Jimmy hope to stay alive... Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $2.50 The year is 1840 and New York City is captivated by the mysterious murder of a beautiful shopgirl. The discovery of the body of Mary Rogers in the Hudson River prompts a young journalist, Edgar Allan Poe to search for the truth behind an apparently motiveless crime. Joining him in his investigation is Augie Dubbins, an orphaned street urchin who becomes Poe's most trusted ally. Using intuition and rational thinking, Poe and Augie recreate the last days of the victim's secret life. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $2.50 Applying her psychic talents to two mysterious cases, policewoman Martha Ayers attempts to settle local superstitions about a two-hundred-year-old ghost while tracking down an escaped prisoner. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The fast-paced world of politics was both exhilarating and daunting to young Erin Hartsock. But Erin's enthusiasm turns to dread when a series of strange fires and a seemingly accidental death show her the shocking truth behind the political game. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A bestselling journalist, Guy Newberry is known for his articles on the plight of troubled communities. Shortly after his arrival in the small seaside community of Signal Port, California, a town that has never recovered from the unsolved murder of two young families 13 years ago, another nightmare begins. An unidentified woman's body washes up at nearby Point Deception immediately stirring up old feelings of fear and suspicion. Relentless in pursuing his story, and haunted by a tragedy in his own past, Newberry does not let up, instilling fear in the town's sheriff, Rhoda Swift, who fears his prying will destroy her town. But as more women die and public panic sets in, Newberry and Swift form an uneasy alliance and unite in a confrontation with a killer whose motives are not as random as they seem. Format: Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Hoping that a trip to her late husband's childhood home will help her come to terms with his recent death, Kathy Malone travels to the rolling hills of Tuscany. But there, instead of solace, Kathy finds a lonely boy named Pietro, uncanny hints about her late husband, and the stately Contessa Morandini, whose chilly reception warms only when she mistakenly assumes Kathy is pregnant with the next heir of the Morandini line. Despite--or perhaps because of--the Contessa's efforts to keep Kathy and Pietro apart, Kathy befriends the young boy. Their games lead her through the villa's maze of dark hallways, where she begins to discover hints of a startling truth. As the pieces of a sinister and murderous plan fall into place, Kathy realizes she has stumbled onto a dangerous obsession...one that was meant to stay hidden forever. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A skilled compositor for the FBI, Kendra Smith has a way with witnesses, helping them to remember crucial details about their attackers they might otherwise have forgotten. She believes her work helps to provide closure for the victims and their families–closure that has eluded her for the eleven years since her brother was kidnapped, his body never found. Determined to put her painful past behind her, Kendra throws herself into every case one hundred percent. Now she is called in to sketch the face of a man the press is calling the Soccer Mom Killer. It’s a difficult investigation made even harder by the presence of Special Agent Adam Stark, a man with whom she once had a brief, passionate affair. As the number of victims continues to rise, and with a killer always one step ahead, Kendra will learn a lethal lesson: You can run from the past, but you can’t hide. . . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 One man is copying the most notorious killers in history. One at a time. Together, two women must stop him from killing again. Or they're next. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower, the owner of a bird store called Parrots Unlimited--and a man desperate to save himself from an unknown stalker. He hires McNally, who is convinced he'll soon return his client's life to order--but then Gottschalk is stabbed in his sleep, and two of his clerks are abducted and killed in the Everglades. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When her sour old aunt is accused of stealing millions in stock certificates from an order of Dominican brothers, V. I. Warshawski investigates and learns that some unholy business is being conducted in the Lord's house. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 On an isolated Scottish island, nine archaeologists are digging. Eight are digging ruins. One is digging graves. Among the dwindling, yet still diligent diggers is Elizabeth MacPherson, part graduate student, part sleuth. She is the first to suspect something--but can her skills save her life? Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she been set up and sent out on a wild-goose chase? By the time she's got it figured, things are hotter -- and deadlier -- than Chicago in July. V.I.'s in a desperate race against time. At stake: a young woman's life. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic Orange County politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father's illustrious career. Serving as Will's right-hand man, Joe is trained to protect and defend his father's territory -- but he can't save the powerful man from his enemies. Will Trona is murdered, and Joe will stop at nothing to find out who did it. Looking for clues as he sifts through the remains of his father's life -- his girlfriends, acquaintances, deals, and enemies -- Joe comes to realize how many secrets Will Trona possessed, and how many people he had the power to harm. But two leads keep rising to the surface: a little girl who was kidnapped by her mentally disturbed brother, and two rival gangs who seem to have joined forces. As Joe deepens his investigation -- and as he is forced to confront the painful events of his troubled childhood -- these two seemingly disconnected threads will intersect. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. But detective Lindsay Boxer senses there's some thread connecting them all. She calls her friends in the Women's Murder Club together to see if they can discover what it is. Surely some clue has been overlooked by their bosses and male colleagues. Working with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas, Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay discovers that there is indeed a link. The victims were of different ages, lived in different locations, and were killed with different weapons. But each had a close relative in a particular profession, a profession that sends a chill through Lindsay's heart. The partners in the Women's Murder Club realize that this killer is after something unspeakable, something deeper than revenge, and that the next target could be one of them. They deduce where the killer is likely to strike next and bait a trap that can't be resisted. But if their calculation is wrong, the consequences will be lethal. And there will be no second chance. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Ex-grifter Warren Allison has it all. A legit job, cash in the bank, and a loving girlfriend. His whole future is ahead of him - until a shady woman from his past offers him the con of a lifetime. But Warren's about to learn, the hard way, that in the international, high stakes game of greed and lies, the winner takes all, the losers get taken, and no one is who they appear to be... including Warren himself. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $2.50 A haunted man is lured by a seductive obsession into the ritzy world of Hollywood, where he pursues deadly dreams of betrayal and revenge that bring those he contacts to the edge of disaster. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner -- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In the scorching heat of the Southwestern desert, a frightened old man knows his time is quickly running out ... as the lethal secret he protects can be hidden no longer. Risa Sheridan knows everything about gold -- its mysteries, its allure, its perils. Her boss, Shane Tannahill -- owner of the ultra-successful Las Vegas gambling mecca, the Golden Fleece -- is addicted to the stuff. Now an ancient Celtic piece is being offered to Shane for his collection, with the promise of more to come, and the casino owner is hooked. But though she shares Shane's enthusiasm, Risa is wary -- because something about this particular artifact is mysterious and troubling, something that says "stay away." It is a voice that should be heeded, because soon people are dying all around them. And whether it's an ancient curse that has taken hold of their lives or the simple, murderous greed of unscrupulous adversaries, there is suddenly no place in the surreal, blinding glitter of Vegas for Risa and Shane to hide ... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 When Jack Mullen's brother, a valet parker working in the Hamptons, is found murdered on an exclusive beach, Jack is determined to bring the killers to justice--even if it means penetrating the closed ranks of New York's wealthiest residents. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold. So Charlie follows Willie's prospecting trail to the modern-day ghost town of White Oaks -- site of an historic gold rush, a bitter scandal, some ugly business . . . and now a corpse. The odd characters still lingering on here in White Oaks have few tales to tell, and Charlie discovers Willie was looking to strike it rich by claiming a legendary fortune buried in the Lost Dutchman Mine. Determined to link Willie's path with her suspicions of illegal drug doings in the deserted town, she sets out across the searing desert toward the mountains, prepared for anything . . . except murder. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City detective, is propelled onto the street when her adoptive father--a police inspector--is found stabbed to death next to the body of a wealthy woman. The murders are linked to two homicides her father had been investigating and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 As NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory probes the death of a hack artist at a local gallery opening, she uncovers links to a bizarre twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A long-germinating plot for revenge, first conceived in the extermination camps of Nazi Germany, erupts in full force during the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where a group of terrorists delivers a shocking ultimatum. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a killer with a grisly m.o.--he slashes his victims' throats with an Indian ceremonial knife. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 He buries his victim alive, just for the fun of it. No real harm...yet. He's waiting for the two detectives who are on his trail. Waiting for the real fun to begin... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When a shadowy assassin sets his sights on the elite members of Canada's Royal Mounted Police, two investigators finds themselves up against a demonic killer with ties to the occult. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A happy, well-to-do family enjoys its life of privilege in their Caribbean paradise home before the arrival of the beautiful and deadly Diana, a hired secretary who turns their ideal life into a hellish existence. Cover Price $5.99 Decades ago, Inspector Robert DeClercq suffered a tragedy when his young daughter was kidnapped and killed after he was unable to save her. Only now, with a young girl named Katt in his life, can he put his demons to rest. Until DeClercq's Special X Team receives a shrunken head, heralding the return of the Headhunter--a psychopath who left a trail of headless bodies in his wake 11 years earlier--or is it a copycat? While the team seeks the answer, Katt is kidnapped, luring DeClercq away from his comrades in a deadly web of revenge! Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Posing as an expert gardener, Diana Reed, a shrewd, determined lawyer, appears at the Nicholson estate determined to find her missing younger brother, who worked there as a caretaker. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 After a near-death experience, Toy Johnson retains dreamlike memories in which she is a guardian angel to children in need, but her beliefs are shattered when she is arrested and charged with murder. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Captain Marcus Graver of the Houston Police Department discovers evidence of an international smuggling network linking the government to one of the world's most dangerous criminals. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange, a consultant to the New Mexico prison system, must use of all her skills and courage to outwit madman Lucas Watson, an escaped convict who begins stalking her. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In tiny, remote Lawton, Vermont, a series of grisly murders draws filmmaker Patrick Gallagher and policewoman Andie Nightingale toward each other--and deeper into the horrors of a past century. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The death of wealthy hypochondriac Sybil Foster at fashionable Greengages is looked into by Superintendent Roderick Alleyn and Sybil's friend, Verity Preston, both of whom are puzzled by the absence of motives and suspects. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind.... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Good news doesn't come at 4 a.m. For Ariel Gold, proof of that was in the call that woke her in the predawn stillness of a warm Los Angeles night. Her friend Laya, a woman devoted to the quiet harmony and inner balance of yoga, was suddenly blinded after using eyedrops. The LAPD think it's a tragic case of product tampering, with Laya an unlucky victim of chance. But Ariel's not so sure.... Herself a survivor of a violent crime that changed her life forever, Ariel has deeply rooted suspicions about the "bad luck" that has traumatically changed Laya's world in an instant, and she is compelled to take action. As a producer and on-air journalist for the investigative newsmagazine Open File, Ariel can't relegate the mysteries of Laya's assault to the police -- and she undertakes her own urgent search for the truth. But when she receives a troubling letter from a woman she cannot recall, Ariel must decide if it is merely a mysterious message from an unremembered friend-or a masked warning. For Ariel, taking a chance on ensnaring a vicious predator will be like shooting in the dark. Format - Book Club Edition Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and, for some, a heritage of crime, punishment, and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey, the son of a powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets where he once played as a boy, Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back as he makes a living in the city he's always called home. But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish gangster to search for the man's long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life, times, and disappearance of a magnificent woman with a Lena Horne smile, he finds himself immersed in the most agonizing case of his career. For as he winds his way through broken families, broken neighborhoods, and broken promises, to the scene of a horrifying triple homicide, Dorsey is forced to confront a crime carried out fifty years ago--one that reaches far too close to home... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 For superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat's sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body. Pitt's determined search for answers to the victim's identity leads him deep into London's bohemia to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman--and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of photography. But only Pitt's most relentless pursuit enables him to identify the wildfire passions raging through this tragedy of good and evil, to hunt down the guilty and protect the innocent. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt’s testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End’s most dangerous slums. There he must work undercover investigating alleged anarchist plots. Among his few allies are his clever wife, Charlotte, and intrepid Gracie, the maid who can travel unremarked in Whitechapel. But none of them anticipate the horrors to be revealed. . . . Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show lures Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone. But before the detective and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder puts a blight on the proceedings. The murderer to be weeded out is definitely not a garden-variety killer. Wolfe must also throw his considerable weight into another thorny case, this one involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters -- and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids with roots even more twisted. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage -- marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream . . . and opens the door to a nightmare . . . Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's been waiting for. Stalking the couple, Julianna molds herself in Kate's image and insinuates herself into Richard's life, determined to tear their perfect marriage apart. But for Kate and Richard, the nightmare has only begun. Because Julianna is not alone. From her dark past comes a man of unspeakable evil . . . No one is safe -- not even the innocent child Kate and Richard call their own. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Carrie Holt has forced herself to forget her childhood, even going so far as to change her name. However, when she's asked to speak at a festival in her hometown, Carrie comes face-to-face with the very man who molested her as a child. Although Carrie wants to kill her tormentor, a television celebrity who is on his way to becoming the next Mr. Rogers, she discovers that Detective Nicky D'Amico has other plans for him. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 While trying three defendants for robbery, Joanne Kuhlman discovers that a far more serious crime may be unfolding. One of the defendants is developmentally disabled. His attorney and mother insist he was cruelly exploited by his crime partners. When the young man disappears, Joanne fears he may have been murdered in a ruthless act to silence him. Her sympathies for this defendant lead her to entangle herself with his attractive attorney and compromise her career so the truth may be revealed. Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Private investigator Ulysses Donaghue's vacation is interrupted by the apparent suicide of a notorious Hollywood film director, followed by the murder of his wife's hairdresser, and Donaghue discovers that a guest at the abbey has deadly past. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 When art professor Hilda Robertson is stabbed to death in a locked carrel in the high-security Kingsford University library, detective Philip Constanza follows a trail of evidence to a murderer whose motive is most chillingly academic. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Residents of the Timberdale Retirement Center are thrilled to find out that a convenience store is opening nearby. Those who are able to take a stroll enjoy the occasional walk along the path through the woods to get to the "Jiffy Grub" and pick up a snack or other sundries. But a mysterious figure in the woods has something to hide from the world--and won't stop at murder to keep it a secret from the prying eyes of the innocent residents. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Attorney Gail Connor is on top of the world. She's engaged to the man of her dreams, criminal lawyer Anthony Quintana; they've bought the house of their dreams in beautiful Coral Gables; and Gail finally has her dream job-- her own private law practice. But then her 11-year-old daughter Karen starts receiving odd, hangup phone calls and creepy notes and photos in the mail. Could it be Gail's jealous ex-husband Dave? A disgruntled former client? Someone from Anthony's shadowy past? While Anthony and Dave clash violently over how to protect Gail's daughter, the stalker closes in. Then Karen is abducted, and Gail's world is shattered. Nothing matters now-- not her success, her wedding, her new home, her new practice-- not without her daughter. As they track Karen's tormentor, they must walk that dangerous line between action and caution, and deliver justice without fail...and without mercy. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana's vacation in the secluded Florida Keys is interrupted by a bizarre local murder-with explosive and unexpected ramifications. Now, as a tropical storm threatens to unleash its fury, they find themselves trapped among the strange and secretive islanders, and plunged into an escalating nightmare of unknown terrors, unexpected twists, and deepening madness... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A vigilante serial killer is terrorizing Santa Fe. The victims: violent sex offenders who got off on legal technicalities. It's the job of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange to uphold the law--and stop the executions. Slowly, seductively, Sylvia is pulled into the demented world of a vengeance-seeking sadist. It will take all of her insight into the criminal mind, along with the eerie visions of a shaman convict, to uncover the killer's identity--before she becomes the next corpse. . . . Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Starting her life over after an anonymous benefactor bequeaths her a house and trust fund, Nicki Prevot believes that she has escaped her violent and poverty-stricken past, until she learns that she has been set up. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Artist Mick Merisi returns to Dutchman's Island four years after his wife's death to make peace with the past and try to give his creativity a kick start. His first night back, he is met with a vision--a beautiful, mysterious woman emerging nude from the sea, reminding him of Botticelli's "Venus". When the woman is murdered that very evening, however, Mick has little time to think about art. There is no question that he was the last person to see her alive, leaving the police on his trail and Mick in pursuit of the killer. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Trouble begins for cartoonist Molly McMasters when the husband of her arch rival informs her that he's submitted the one ribald cartoon Molly's ever created to a contest in a porn magazine, and that the cartoon has won. He is killed shortly thereafter, leaving Molly to play midwife to her arch rival and going undercover in high school as if her life depended on it--which it very well might. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 San Francisco magician Emma Passant is puzzled by her grandfather's cryptic will. He writes that she is to "take her place at the helm and turn the wheel on the legacy that I have kept hidden from her". As Emma ponders these elusive words, a friend of hers is fatally shot--by the same gun that was used to kill her grandfather. The mystery begins to come together, however, upon the disappearance of a model boat--the replica of a boat her grandfather had sailed on years before. Emma departs in search of the real vessel, and finds herself in an adventure and into the shocking truth about her family's past. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Years ago, a woman survived the most horrifying ordeal of her life. Now, the secret past that she's tried so hard to bury is reaching out to claim the one thing she cares for the most...her son. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Ricki Baird was only nine when her mother, a bank officer, blew the whistle on a major drug money laundering scheme. Under the Witness Security Program, little Ricki assumed a new identity--Amanda Maxwell. Now, years later, someone learns the truth about her reclusive father. When he is found dead of an apparent suicide, Amanda suspects murder. And as she digs for the truth, her anonymity is threatened--and so is her life. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Years after a serial murderer supposedly had died in prison, someone copies his bizarre method of adorning his beautiful female victim's bodies with painted lady butterflies, and the Los Angeles police must find the twisted killer. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Karen Grange came to Goodlands, North Dakota, to start her life over. Instead, she watches a once-thriving town die before her eyes. Four years without rain has struck Goodlands like a curse, withering crops and darkening the air with dust. In its wake, a sudden wave of strange, twisted crimes has shattered families and lives. Desperate, Karen reaches out to the only man who can help--a man who offers a miracle. . .and promises to heal her wounded heart. His name is Tom Keatley. A drifter, an outsider like Karen, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth. But to Karen, he is her last hope. Now, as Tom struggles to pull rain from the sky, something unexpected happens that changes both of their lives forever. For beneath the hard, cracked earth, a shattering secret is about to explode--a secret whose chilling repercussions will challenge a man's courage, a woman's desire. . .and the soul of an angry, embittered town. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Those present include Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor, and a writer who rivals them all with her sleuthing talent. These masters of mystery are about to put their minds to a pair of ghoulish stories--of families beset by poltergeistly pranks and bewitched by inexplicable horrors. Gripping puzzles, yes, but the terror of these tales is all too vicious and all too real. In the hollows of Tennessee, a family is threatened by a dire spirit whose warnings of despair and death come frighteningly true.... In a small Connecticut town, a newly married widow and her children move into her second husband's home to find their lives possessed by an unimaginable demon.... Were these villains phantom spirits or evildoers of flesh and blood? Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood. Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the eight-seven with riddling clues for solving a crime - or crimes - not yet committed. Given what he's deduced from the prankish perpetrator, Carella strongly suspects the crime will take place during a free rock and rap concert scheduled to take place in the city's largest park. As Carella tries desperately to second guess him, the Dead Man meticulously puts together a plan to carry off a multi-million dollar coup. Soon Carella finds himself racing against time in a game of wits that could leave the city reeling under an onslaught of dirty tricks from one of the underworld's masters of criminal mischief. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In Lullaby, McBain expertly probes the personal and professional lives of the men and women of the 87th Precinct as New Year's Eve brings an unusual deluge of crime and emotional trauma. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 They were only watching. The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession . . . Now, fifteen years later, someone is watching Andie. Someone who won't let her forget the unsolved murder of "Mrs. X" or the disappearance of "Mr. X." Suddenly Andie doesn't know who her friends are . . . because loyalty can be murder. Andie. Julie. Raven. Three very different women bound by more than friendship. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Melanie, Mia and Ashley are triplets dealing with the effects of an abusive childhood in Spindler's (Cause for Alarm) dark psychological thriller. Grown up and battling dysfunction, Mia's now married to a physically abusive doctor; Ashley has become a bitter man-hater; and Melanie is a divorced cop fighting for custody of her son. When a serial killer nicknamed the "Dark Angel" starts bumping off abusers who have gone unpunished by the legal system, Melanie begins her own investigation into the mysterious deaths. Most people, including world-famous FBI profiler Connor Parks, think the case is best left unsolved, but Mel is out to win the respect and cooperation of her peers, even if her findings take her too close to home for comfort. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 He has walked through the valley of death and man's depravity. Now war photographer Mitch Coltrane is trying to escape his memories. As he loses himself in a world of art and obsession in L.A., a haunting photograph of a woman pulls him into the mystery of a beautiful starlet during Hollywood's golden age. But past and present are about to collide. A living woman, eerily like the woman in his photograph, comes into his life. So does a killer--straight from the hell that Coltrane survived. Deception, double identities, and murderous revenge will shatter his new life and force Coltrane to perform the ultimate act of courage--not with a camera, but with a gun. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Laguna...Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas... Laguna... Where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder and blood-red secrets Laguna... Where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violance--with a fiery vengeance--and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering.. Laguna Heat Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Van Harder, once a hard drinker, has found religion. But that doesn't keep folks from saying he murdered his employer, Hub Lawless, whose body hasn't been found. To clear his name, and cear up the mystery, Van asks friend-in-need Travis McGee to find out what really happened. What McGee finds is that Timber Bay is a toug h town to get a break in when you're a stranger asking questions. But what he also finds is that, dead or alive, Hub Lawless is worth a lot of money. Some are eager to get a piece of that action--and some are willing to take more than a piece out of anyone who gets in the way.... Cover Price $2.95 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 Known for his anti-drug crusades and his founding of Hanover House, a haven for the human refuse of the city, Davis Craddock leads a double life, enslaving his followers through fear, sexual perversion, murder, and drugs. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 After time served for armed robbery, ex-con "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside, and down in Miami for a private family reunion. But it's tough going straight in a crooked town, especially when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man's sins. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 When two murders occur during the weekend party of the unladylike Countess of Warwick, the Prince of Wales, hoping to avoid a scandal, orders Sir Charles and Miss Ardleigh to solve the case. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake's joy in purchasing a rare English silver tea service is short-lived when her mother purchases an exact copy of it. Abby's problems multiply when a local auctioneer collapses outside her shop and her engagement announcement turns up in the wallet of a dead man, the victim of sabotaged brakes. Tracing the victim to a small town in Pennsylvania, Abby hunts for clues to the origins of the faux antiques. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too much. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper fears for her bright senior student Adam Evans. Increasingly erratic and isolated, Adam is an accident waiting to happen. So when a young woman is murdered at the landmark Free Library while Amanda and her class are touring the premises, Adam, now mysteriously missing, becomes the prime suspect. But unlike the police, including her detective boyfriend, Amanda is dead certain that Adam is both innocent and in terrible danger. And he's not alone. For the more Amanda sifts through the layers of the victim's life, the closer she comes to losing her own. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When the newest member of the Federal Treasury Board is found naked in his Georgetown townhouse with a hole in his head and an earring belonging to his latest mistress on the floor next to him, Lt. Kennelly of the Washington, D.C., police force is convinced he's looking at an easy conviction. Which probably would have been the case if Eleanor Roosevelt hadn't gotten involved. Jessica Dee, the dead man's mistress, claims she had nothing to do with the murder. Mrs. Roosevelt believes her, which gives her no choice but to open her own investigation. She gradually uncovers a trail of clues that lead from the bloody back alleys of Washington to the genteel duplicity of the Boston banking world, a web of deceit and passion which centers on a mysterious woman with flaming red hair and a fondness for murder. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A long-lost aunt's invitation brings Phoebe to Northampton, Massachusetts, and a post as stage manager of a lively community production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. But beneath the operetta's sweet harmonies and rollicking whimsy, she observes more than one sour note. Many in the cast have a grudge against Dr. E. Foster Ballard, whose pompous self-absorption makes him perfect for his role as Lord Pooh-Bah. But who hates him enough to stab him in the back with his own prized Japanese dagger? Could it be the feminist militants who've been protesting The Mikado's misogynist lyrics? His catty ex? Or one of the Three Little Maids who've had enough of his wandering hands? And what dark history did Phoebe's own aunt have with Ballard? Soon another corpse suggests E. Foster's killer has got a little list...and Phoebe's inquiries may just have put her at the top of it. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A killer has some serious cleaning up to do to keep from getting caught--and Davenport's detection skills make him number one on his hit list. Cover Price $7.99 Someone is stalking New York's high-class neighborhoods-and it's up to Captain Ed Delaney to find meaning in a killer's gruesome madness. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In 1917, in Lourdes, France, three children delivered a prophecy from the Virgin Mary: two girls will experience near-simultaneous immaculate conceptions: one will give birth to a new Savior; the other will deliver the Antichrist. Is that prophecy now coming true? Ex-nun Anne Fitzgerald and Father Justin O'Carroll help investigate as Kathleen Beavier's attempt to get an abortion is stymied when she finds her doctor's corpse hanging from a hook in a South Boston clinic. Meanwhile, Father Nicholas Rosetti is sent from Rome to see Colleen Deirdre Galaher who is getting dirty looks from the nuns at her Irish Catholic boarding school. An allegorical tale of good versus evil with a cliff-hanging finale that forces even the most unbelieving to root for the faithful few. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Nearly twenty years after he and his college friends seduced and abandoned several student nurses, Dan realizes that they must pay for their crime when his friends begin dying mysterious deaths. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Estranged from her husband, freelance journalist Jessie Gaines is building a new life for herself in Texas, until her best friend Sarah is viciously murdered, and Jessie sets out to discover the truth about the crime. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Her name is Judy. She is an interior designer in Palm Springs. He cannot stop thinking of her. And he cannot stop killing.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Ever since Rose Larabee lost her husband and underwent heart transplant surgery, she's had troubles making ends meet. But now she has a new problem-a stalker who sends her eerie, heart-shaped gifts. Rose's friends try to convince her that the gifts may not be as sinister as she suspects, but when her boss, bookstore owner Luke Pfleuger, turns up dead on her lawn, it becomes clear that her "secret admirer" may be a murderer. Boston P.I. Sunny Randall, coming to the aid of three very different women in three very dangerous situations. One is for business. One is for a friend. One is for family. And all could be fatal... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When riots hit a college campus, someone finds the perfect cover for murder. Cover Price $2.25 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 When paleontology student Scott Grady is reported missing, small-time private detective Benn Tripp picks up a trail leading to Grady's bones, but when someone tries to kill the professor who hired him, Tripp discovers an unlikely killer. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A down-at-the-heels, twice-divorced, baseball-crazy reporter Frank Lofton, who's drifted into a Massachusetts mill town to follow his obsession: the minor league Holyoke Redwings. When a player dies inexplicably and several cases of arson plague the town, Lofton becomes wrapped in a web of sordid smalltown corruption and political scandal. Cover Price $3.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 The author of the bestselling Spenser novels introduces a heroine unlike any other-private eye Sunny Randall. She's street-smart, sexy, and suddenly thrown into a Boston mob war where high-stakes politics and low-down killers conspire to make Sunny's first case her last. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When Sharon McCone's father dies unexpectedly, she inherits the daunting task of going through boxes of his personal effects. Among them she finds adoption papers with her name on them, a shock to say the least. As she begins to poll her family, more questions than answers emerge. Sharon travels to Montana to talk to distant Shoshone relatives and then to a ghost town and a sacred Indian lake in California. All of this investigating leads to a breach with her mother as well as to old family secrets and a murder; it seems no one wants her to discover the truth. Kathy Garver's narration is serviceable, with good pacing as Sharon's past is slowly revealed. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brother's suicide, but the wrongful-death suit she is working on hits too close to home. It's a civil case in which the family of a young 'zine em-ployee claims his suicide was the result of his company's treatment of him. In his final journal entry, Roger Nagasawa describes his fatal plunge from the San Francisco Bridge as being "swept away from sadness." With the help of her friend, J.D. Smith, McCone investigates the InSite offices and soon learns of its publisher's less-than-professional activities. She also learns that Roger had been afraid for his life since he was a witness to computer espionage. Faced with the death of her friend, Smith, and the sudden disappearance of Roger's associate, McCone must keep one step ahead of the game and solve this mystery-or else become the next victim. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace—especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore’s thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him. As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia—as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A merciless serial killer known as Michelangelo is working his way up the FBI's Most Wanted List-by eliminating the competition. And he won't stop until he gets to number one.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A master thief becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman--then carves her initials into his victims. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Michael Bekker, the psychopath Lucas Davenport captured in Eyes of Prey, escapes--Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Lieutenant Davenport faces two diabolical killers in a case that could push him over the edge. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 When clinical psychologist Joeseph O’Loughlin reluctantly agrees to help the police, unmasking a killer becomes murder. Format - Hardcover Book Club Edition Condition New Your Price $12.00 Fifteen years after giving up her newborn daughter for adoption, Georgette Tucker heads to Atlanta to reclaim not only her child but also the life she has always dreamed of, even if she has to commit the perfect murder. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Certain that his mother's shady boyfriend is behind her disappearance, Paul Giacomin calls upon the skills of Spencer to help him find his missing mother. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When the star of a poorly rated stage production is shot mid-scene, Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, comb the shabby waterfront town and find a cast of likely suspects among the underworld. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Susan Silverman's ex doesn't call himself "Silverman" anymore--he's changed his name to "Sterling." And that's not the only thing that's phony about him. A do-gooding charity fundraiser, he's been accused of sexual harassment by no less than four different women. And not long after Spenser starts investigating, Sterling is wanted for a bigger charge: murder... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A million-dollar television gameshow turns lethal when a contestant is found murdered. With so much money at stake, Nero Wolfe leaves his beloved armchair and joins sidekick Archie Goodwin in his search for the killer. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst enemy, and an answering service which refuses to talk about a murder--three witnesses hold the solution for detective Nero Wolfe. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous -- where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses's beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own ... Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Antiques dealer Abby Timberlake Washburn is thrilled when the Mrs. Amelia Shadbark--doyenne of Charleston society--invites her to broker a pricey collection of Lalique glass sculpture. These treasures will certainly boost business at the Den of Antiquity, and maybe hoist Abby into the upper crust--which would please her class-conscious mom, Mozella, no end. Alas, Abby's fragile dream is soon shattered when Mrs. Shadbark meets a foul, untimely end. And as the last known visitor to the victim's palatial abode, Abby's being pegged by the local law as suspect Numero Uno. Of course there are other possible killers--including several dysfunctional offspring and a handyman who may have been doing more for the late Mrs. S than fixing her leaky faucets. But Abby's the one who'll have to piece the shards of this deadly puzzle together--or else face a fate far worse than a mere seven years of bad luck! Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Abigail Timberlake Washburn would rather be anywhere else on a muggy Charleston summer evening -- even putting in extra hours at her antiques shop -- than at a séance. But her best friend, "Calamity Jane," thinks a spirit -- or "Apparition American," as ectoplasmically-correct Abby puts it -- lurks in the eighteenth-century Georgian mansion, complete with priceless, seventeenth-century Portuguese kitchen tiles, that C.J. just bought as a fixer-upper. Luckily, Abby's mama located a psychic in the yellow pages -- a certain Madame Woo-Woo -- and, together with a motley group of feisty retirees known as the "Heavenly Hustlers," they all get down to give an unwanted spook the heave-ho. But, for all her extrasensory abilities, the Madame didn't foresee that she, herself, would be forced over to the other side prematurely. Suddenly Abby fears there's more than a specter haunting C.J. And they’d better exorcise a flesh-and-blood killer fast before the recently departed Woo-Woo gets company. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Someone's making death threats in Dixie - against a thoroughbred horse destined to be the next Secretariat. At the owner's request, Boston P.I. Spenser hoofs it down South - where the lies are buzzing...and the dying is easy. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Townsend Heights is the perfect small town. Sleepy, tree-lined streets. Good schools. A quick commute to the city. The sort of peaceful, suburban existence Tasha Banks dreamed of living when she left her fast-paced career for full-time motherhood. But now, Tasha's perfect dream is turning into a terrifying nightmare. Someone is targeting women in Townsend Heights--and not just any women. A serial killer is looking for a particular kind of prey...young, stay-at-home mothers...exactly like Tasha. One by one, Tasha's friends are disappearing, only to die in horrific ways. Suddenly, terror is transforming Townsend Heights into a sinister place of fear and foreboding--a place where evil lurks behind every corner, hiding behind the mask of a familiar face--a face that may be the last one Tasha ever sees... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. But whether the blaze was set by an arsonist aiming for the doctor, or set by the doctor himself, Inspector Thomas Pitt isn't certain. With the scarcity of clues, Pitt turns to Clemency's stuffy, but distinguished, relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt's wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked the last months of her life, and finds herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power.... Cover Price $4.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 What's the proper way for a Boston landlady to react when her most obnoxious boarder gets squashed by a subway train? Sarah Kelling doesn't mind losing Barnwell Augustus Quiffen. She already has a far nicer applicant for the drawing room suite, now that money problems have forced her to turn her historic brownstone into a boarding house. And curmudgeonly old Mr. Quiffen had been a mistake from the first with his quarrels, complaints, and endless nosey-parkering. But then an odd eyewitness shows up on her doorstep, insisting somebody pushed Mr. Quiffen under the train, and Sarah finds herself knee-deep in yet another mystery. This time, though, Sarah needn't face her problem alone -- not while she can rely on her basement boarder: Max Bittersohn, an art expert with a very special sort of expertise.... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Prof. Jim Feldster will do anything for his cows and his students of dairy management...and anything to avoid an evening at home with his bossy, house-proud wife, Mirelle. But on his way to a meeting of the Scarlet Runners, he disappears. Where is Professor Feldster? What dark secrets could possibly be lurking behind his life of grain supplements and electric milking machines? 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