Short Recommendations - Uncle Hugo's

Hired to defend four eco-terrorists charged with murdering a chemical plant owner, wisecracking
Turkish PI Kayankaya finds himself stuck in the middle of Germany's culture wars.)
Arjouni, Jakob One Man, One Murder (alternate title: One Death to Die) $14.95 (Kemal Kayankaya #4:
Reissue; To rescue a kidnapped prostitute, Turkish PI Kayankaya must face some of
Germany's most depraved and dangerous criminals. Fortunately, some of them are his friends.)
Aykol, Esmahan Hotel Bosphorus $14.95 (When the director of a film starring her old school friend Petra is
found murdered in his Istanbul hotel room, mystery bookstore owner Kati Hirschel starts her
own maverick investigation.)
Banks, Ray Beast of Burden $25.00 (Cal Innes #4: Barely able to speak after a drug-related stroke, PI
Cal Innes' life gets even worse: Manchester gangster Morris Tiernan's no-good son is missing,
and Cal is the only one Morris trusts to conduct the search.)
Bannister, Jo Death in High Places $25.99 (Two friends set out to climb treacherous Anarchy Ridge, but
only one makes it down alive. Unjustly blamed for the death by his friend's grieving father, the
survivor must run for his life.)
Barclay, Linwood The Accident $25.00 (When his wife dies in a drunk-driving accident she caused, Glen
Carver is left with a daughter to raise and a lot of questions. Because his wife wasn't a drinker,
and she wasn't supposed to be on the road when she died.)
Barrington, James Overkill $9.99 (Paul Richter #1: Reissue; The Cold War is over, but Russia's nukes are still in
place. And when an emissary from a terrorist group makes a disaffected Russian minister an
offer he can't refuse, maverick agent Paul Richter finds himself up against a mastermind
determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age.)
Barrington, James Pandemic $9.99 (Paul Richter #2: Reissue; The search for the source of a deadly bioweapon
leads maverick British agent Paul Richter to a decades-old secret that the CIA is working hard
to keep covered up.)
Barrington, James Foxbat $9.99 (Paul Richter #3: Western intelligence agencies suspect that Algeria might be
planning an attack on Libya or Morocco, and that they might be keeping new aircraft or weapon
systems in a guarded hangar. Maverick British agent Paul Richter is assigned to get a look
inside the building.)
Beil, Michael The Ring of Rocamadour $6.99 (Red Blazer Girls #1: Kids; Three schoolgirls decide to help
out a weird lady, and find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met. They
end up hiding under tables, tackling word puzzles and geometry equations, and searching
rather moldy storage rooms for a legendary ring reputed to grant wishes.)
Beil, Michael The Vanishing Violin $7.99 (Red Blazer Girls #2: Kids; The girls must follow a trail of cryptic
clues, involving everything from logic to literature, to trace a rare violin gone missing. But
nothing is as it appears, and just as a solution seems imminent, the girls find themselves
scrambling to save the man who was once their prime suspect. )
Blaedel, Sara Call Me Princess $25.00 (When a young woman is brutally raped in her Copenhagen home,
DI Louise Rick learns the victim met her attacker via a dating website, and pursues the man
through the online dating world.)
Bork, Lisa In Sickness and in Death $14.95 (Broken Vows #3: PBO; Ray brings home Danny, a new
foster child. Following the boy's brief joyride in a car he says is his dad's, Ray finds a woman's
arm in the trunk. While he tries to ID the victim, Jolene tries to find out if Danny's father was
responsible.)
Bowen, Gail The Nesting Dolls $14.95 (Joanne Kilbourn #12: A woman hands her baby to Delia
Wainberg's daughter and disappears. One look at the boy suggests there might be a
relationship, and the truth comes out about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago.
When the baby's mother is found murdered, Joanne investigates.)
Brammer, Rod Dismissed Dead $12.95 (Keith Finlay #2: PBO; Sent to smuggle a secret bullet prototype out
of Germany, Finlay is captured on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, and taken to Russia for
interrogation. Presumed dead by those at home, Finlay faces his toughest challenge yet.)
Bruce, Alison The Calling $25.00 (Gary Goodhew #3: Kaye Whiting went shopping and didn't come back. A
call is made to the station to say that Kaye is alive, and that a man named Peter Walsh is
responsible. Why does Mr. Walsh not seem surprised to see DC Goodhew on his doorstep?
And who is the woman who goes to the same diner every day to watch Mr. Walsh walk out of
his building with his new lover?)
Buckley, Michael National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society $6.95 (NERDS #1: Kids; A group of
misfits uses cutting-edge science to transform their nerdy qualities into incredible abilities, and
run a spy network from inside their school. Can they foil the evil Dr. Jigsaw, whose plan to
reunite the continents will lead to massive destruction?)
Buckley, Michael M Is for Mama's Boy $6.95 (NERDS #2: Kids; Led by Duncan 'Gluestick' Dewey, the NERDS
team uses brainpower rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillain Simon, his
band of savage squirrels, and middle-aged computer genius Albert.)
Burley, W.J. The Wycliffe Novels: Wycliffe and the Three-Toed Pussy / Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat /
Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi / Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place / Wycliffe
and Death in Stanley Street $24.95 (Omnibus reprint; first 5 novels in the British police
procedural series, originally published 1968-1974)