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Retired Amsterdam cop Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic phone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier - now living on an island near Jamestown, Maine - who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He can't remember, he was drunk. He is being blackmailed, he may be arrested. Will his old partner please fly over at once? Could de Gier possibly be a murderer? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier's. Cover Price $11.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00  Leigh Hollins was determined to find her mother—the famous Hollywood actress Laura Worth. She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. For Laura was being haunted by the murderer who had killed the director of one of her movies twenty years earlier. Laura was being stalked, harrassed, and frightened near to death. And because Leigh was her daughter, someone would try to kill her too.... Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams finds himself in the unlikely position of detective in the wake of a French scandal over the Panama Canal involving the disappearance of a woman and a murder. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 This engrossing debut traces the passions of American activists of the late 1960s as it picks up their lives two decades later. Berkeley alumna Dee Street, now a partner in an all-woman London law firm, is acting to free a young Chilean, Carlos, from a mental institution. She is aided by psychiatrist David Blake, who asks her to draw up wills for him and his wife, journalist Amanda Finch, another '60s Berkeley alum. When Amanda and Carlos are found together, murdered, David, with whom Dee has fallen in love, is chief suspect. Tracking down Amanda's California connections, while pursued by two unsavory-looking Hispanics, Dee and David discover that Amanda may have been living a double life, possibly as a government agent. Another, related, murder propels the the couple on a frantic race against a resurgent CIA, beginning to recover influence after the Nixon years. Cover Price $3.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Retired cops Joe Chelsea and Josh Novick are hesitant to take on a new partner in their private security firm. But business tycoon Reuven Harbin's offer is too sweet to resist--as is his invitation to cruise aboard his luxurious mega-yacht. The journey is barely under way when Harbin's past as a legendary Israeli secret agent comes back to haunt them all. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 As Neil settles into her new house in Albuquerque's North Valley, she befriends thirteen-year-old Cheyanne Morales, who lives in a nearby trailer with her mother and her younger half-brother. Cheyanne's teenage angst is complicated by the pressures that gang culture imposes on her and her peers. Neil gets a harrowing glimpse of these pressures when a fifteen-year-old is shot to death not far from Neil's new home. The cops suspect a rival gang member, but late one night, a battered Cheyanne shows up at Neil's front door to confess that she was the shooter. The authorities are reluctant to accept Cheyanne's story--as a minor she'd get only a slap on the wrist--and Neil is dubious too, but she agrees to represent her young friend. With Cheyanne in custody, Neil uncovers chilling evidence that the girl's family and friends intend to take justice into their own hands. Only Neil and her lover, the Kid, can prevent another tragedy from playing out along the ditches of her new neighborhood. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Amanda Austin is convinced that the secret of her past is buried deep in her memory, and now she has an opportunity to put her theory to the test when she visits her grandfather's home in New Mexico. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Waking up in a private hospital, unable to remember anything significant about her past, photographer Jinz Kingsley becomes increasingly alarmed as evidence suggests that she has murdered her fiance and best friend. Format - Hardcover Cover Price $23.95 Condition Good Your Price $2.50 When the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, he mounts a world-class exhibition--and plots a brilliant forgery scheme that will stun the art world. But an artful deception suddenly becomes a portrait of blackmail and murder--as gallery owner and part-time sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith and her husband go searching for clues in the heady arena of international art and uncover a rare collection of unscrupulous characters that leads all the way to Italy. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 It took a few hours on a rainy winter night for a black woman known as "Mad Annie" to die in a gutter. It will take twenty years for the woman who found her to shape her neighbors' racism, the indifference of the police, and her own rage into the truth. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Gallery owner Annabel Smith and her husband, Mac, find themselves involved in a complex Washingtonian web of deceit and blind political ambition. The crime-solving couple becomes the target of a killer's revenge when they get just a bit too close to unraveling the corruption. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Loren Graham, thirty-something mayor of Emerald Point on upstate New York's Lake George has access to more information than the average person and her spirit and sensitivity to what's going on in her community lead her into dangerous waters. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 During a visit to a Chasen Heights construction site, Samantha "Sam" Casey, a suspended Native American cop with psychic powers, "sees" the stabbing of a young woman. Her subsequent sleuthing reopens a 17-year-old, apparently cut-and-dry rape-murder, for which the wrong man is about to be executed. Sam and husband Jake, also a detective, eventually back up her vision with concrete clues, all the while side-stepping intrusive media, disbelieving family, and political maneuverings. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 A widow at the age of 52, Lynne Montgomery has rediscovered her first love: travel. But murder adds itself to the itinerary when Lynn and her group head for California's Gold Rush Country. Cover Price $6.50 Condition New Your Price $3.00 In the depths of the U.S. Library of Congress toil thousands of researchers, chasing down obsessions, breakthroughs, and new contributions to human wisdom. But when amateur D.C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American institution, she discovers a hornet’s nest of intrigue and murder. After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to death among the scholarly stacks, an ambitious TV reporter links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City. Annabel suspects that buried in the Library are secrets some people will do anything to keep silent–the secret of a rich man’s ambition, a researcher’s disappearance, and a mysterious diary of Christopher Columbus’s journey written five hundred years ago. . . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Hancock, Connecticut--a historic enclave of wealth and conservatism--is in the final heat of a three-way mayoral election when long-shot candidate Ivan Deakin takes a sip of cyanide-laced water and is retired to the morgue. His murder exacerbates an already fierce controversy over proposed changes in rules governing the landmark status of local real estate--changes that would drastically alter property values. Like everyone else, amateur sleuth Susan Henshaw suspects unusually dirty politics and when her husband--who's running for town council--is tarred in the general smearing, Susan gets serious about finding Ivan's killer. But the possibilities are myriad, for Ivan Deakin was a political loose cannon, and the murkiness of his business deals is matched only by the notoriety of his romantic adventures.... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Tamara Hayle is never going to be as rich as the Desmonds, one of Newark, New Jersey's most affluent and influential black families. But the struggling p.i. wouldn't want their troubles either, now that their rebellious daughter Gabriella has run off to Atlantic City, where a serial killer is prowling the streets. For a substantial fee, however, Tamara's willing to join the hunt for the missing African-American heiress -- expecially after Gabriella's last known roommate joins the ranks of the murdered. Somwhere in the twilight zone that separates the poor and the wealthy of color -- in the terrifying shadow of a deadly criminal kingpin -- are shocking secrets that Tamara needs to uncover. And suddenly the Desmonds' woes -- lethal and devastating -- have become Tamara's own. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game. But Grace McBride and her eccentric Monkeewrench partners are caught in a vise. If they tell the Minneapolis police of the link between their game and the murders, they'll shine a spotlight on the past they thought they had erased-and the horror they thought they'd left behind. If they don't, eighteen more people will die... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solving tool…and now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru. Her job: to find a trove of priceless artifacts–by channeling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site. But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage–and she cannot silence the voices of the dead. The slaughtered reach out to her. The slaughterers boast of their crimes. Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realization: every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.75 Miss Jake O'Hara has just joined the behind-the-scenes cast of a Broadway musical as a writer. But in this production, the star is about to fall-to her death. Cover Price $5.99 Condition New Your Price $3.00 Prize-winning journalist McLeod Dulaney is back--and under suspicion after she literally stumbles over a corpse packed into a garment bag. To clear her name, she must investigate some shadowy goings-on at the Princeton Seminary, where someone may have just broken the Sixth Commandment. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a case of murder involving one of New York's richest families. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 They've taken our son, Marion. In all his life, Marion "Doc" Ford has been passionately, irresponsibly in love with only one woman. Her name was Pilar, and she was married to a thuggish politico named Balserio in a country where Ford was working undercover. When Ford had to run, it was with a bounty on his head and, unknown to him then, a legacy: Pilar was pregnant. Now, many years later, out of power and consumed with the desire for revenge, Balserio has kidnapped the boy and taken him to his new home base in Florida. Ford hoped he'd left his violent past behind him long ago, but he knows he has no choice. The man has his son.... Cover Price $7.99 Condition New Your Price $3.50 When Ashley Hanes calls Bailey Weggins out of the blue, Bailey figures she's calling to ask for a fashion or publishing-related favor. Bailey only met Ashley once when they were both bridesmaids in Peyton Cross's wedding, and they didn't have anything in common. But Ashley wants more from Bailey than help getting into a Chanel sample sale. She tells Bailey that two of the bridesmaids from Peyton's wedding have died in what seem to be unrelated accidents. One was killed when a clock radio fell into her bath, and the other had a fatal reaction to some antidepressants she was taking. Bailey thinks that the deaths were probably just weird coincidences, but she lets Ashley convince her to at least speak to Peyton. And if the deaths weren't weird coincidences Bailey has a real reason to worry-she was a bridesmaid at Peyton's wedding too. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 The stakes have just been raised for psychologist Alan Gregory: His friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died at the office, mysteriously and suddenly. The police are baffled, leaving another apparent homicide unsolved in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan has the means to decipher Hannah’s clues, a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him. The clock is ticking as Alan tracks one of Hannah’s most elusive patients; has she been kidnapped, or is she a runaway? The answers to both cases may be locked in the mind of a patient he has been treating for a schizoid personality disorder. In a maze of dilemmas that could cost him his career, or his life, Alan takes a bold risk that will have readers racing to the stunning conclusion of Missing Persons. Format - Hardcover Book Club Edition Condition Good Your Price $2.00 In San Geronimo, New Mexico, Private Eye Howard Moon Deer and blind ex-police chief Jack Wilder investigate a bizarre, cannibalistic murder with ties to the ancient secrets of the Anasazi... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Midwife Sarah Brandt joins forces with Detective Frank Malloy to clear the name of banker Nelson Ellsworth, who has been accused of murdering his pregnant mistress, in a mystery set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century New York City. 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