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Stevenson, Richard On the Other Hand, Death $14.99 (Donald Strachey #02: Reissue; Their neighbors have all decided to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape, but Dot and Edith love their home and don't want to sell. When a campaign of intimidation escalates to murder, it's up to Albany PI Donald Strachey to sort it all out.) Stevenson, Richard Ice Blues $19.99 (Donald Strachey #03: Reissue; Someone's left a man's body - the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer - in PI Donald Strachey's car. A letter from the deceased asks Strachey to dismantle his grandfather's party machine. Like a chess master, Strachey moves ten suitcases, an army of colorful pawns (all of whom think they're king), and $2.5 million across the continent and around Albany.) Stevenson, Richard Third Man Out $14.99 (Donald Strachey #04: Reissue; When a gay activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true, PI Donald Strachey drops his protection detail. When the client winds up dead, Strachey peels back the layers of his client's double cross, only to find a triple cross.) Stevenson, Richard A Shock to the System $14.99 (Donald Strachey #05: Reissue; Finalist for the 8th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery. After hiring PI Donald Strachey, young Paul Haig dies. Despite his dislike of the boy's homophobic mother, who is in denial about her son's sexual orientation, Strachey agrees with her: Paul didn't commit suicide.) Stevenson, Richard Chain of Fools $14.99 (Donald Strachey #06: Reissue; Janet Osborne and her brother Eric were working hard to keep their family newspaper a beacon of liberal advocacy. Now attacks on Janet lend new significance to the earlier murder of her brother Eric, and a screwy plot to save the newspaper turns tragic and even screwier before PI Donald Strachey and a driven reporter can sort it all out.) Stevenson, Richard Strachey's Folly $14.99 (Donald Strachey #07: Reissue; Donald and his lover Timmy visit Washington to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt. A gay Lothario with designs on Strachey and stories about a disgraced conservative congresswoman are catalysts for an investigation into a memorial to a man who isn't quite as dead as he seems.) Stevenson, Richard Tongue Tied $14.99 (Donald Strachey #08: Reissue; PI Donald Strachey investigates when radio shock jock Jay Plankton, known for his hate-filled rants, receives threats that appear to come from a long-defunct gay activist group.) Stevenson, Richard Death Vows $14.99 (Donald Strachey #09: Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution - except when it leads to murder.) Stewart, Mary Rose Cottage $12.95 (Reissue; When Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home in the English countryside to retrieve some family papers, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in the garden. ) Stimmler, Gerry Dropped Dead in Kona $12.99 (When Joe and Margie discover a dead woman on the fairway outside their Hawaiian home, Margie is gung ho to solve the crime. So is her best friend Amanda. Joe doesn't stand a chance of talking them out of it; Signed copies) Swanson, James L. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse $16.99 (Nonfiction; Swanson recounts the April 1865 journey of Lincoln's funeral train through the North, intercut with Davis' flight from Richmond through a disintegrating Confederacy.) Thomas, Leslie Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective $14.95 (Dangerous Davies #1: Reissue; 'Dangerous' Davies is never his superiors' first choice for detecting crime, which leaves him plenty of time for picking through the cases that everyone else has forgotten.) Thompson, Brian The Widow's Secret $13.95 (Bella Wallis #1: Bella Wallis is a respectable Victorian widow with a secret identity: she writes sensationalist novels under a pen name, exposing the scoundrels that litter high society. So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer, and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's death. But the owner of the cigar case is a dangerous man.) Todd, Charles An Impartial Witness $14.99 (Bess Crawford #2: 1917: Bess realizes that the woman she sees bidding an emotional farewell to an officer is actually the wife of one of her patients, a badly burned young pilot. Learning later that the woman was murdered the very day she saw her, Bess becomes entangled in Scotland Yard's investigation.) Turnbull, Peter Deliver Us from Evil $15.95 (Hennessey & Yellich #20: When a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, marks on her neck and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe point towards foul play; DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich investigate.) Wagner, Jan Costin Ice Moon $25.00 (Kimmo Joentaa #1: A woman is smothered in her sleep. Then a young man is found murdered in bed, in a hostel room with seven people asleep around him. Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa suspects a serial killer is at work) Watson, Colin Hopjoy Was Here $14.95 (Flaxborough #3: Reissue; When a secret agent disappears suspiciously, two high-powered operatives arrive, but find the Flaxborough citizenry even more inscrutable than international espionage.) Williams, Charlie King of the Road $13.95 (Mangel #3: Reissue; Released after a long stretch at an asylum, Royston Blake finds that most of his old haunts are gone. Not everyone is happy seeing the old ways swept aside, and an opposition group - well known on the letters page of the local paper - sets about recruiting Blake as its agent of retribution. Meanwhile Blake just wants to settle down
with Sal, get to know the son he has never met, and do the right thing.) Williams, Charlie One Dead Hen $13.95 (Mangel #4: Reissue; The town of Mangel turns nightmarish when headless corpses begin piling up. Desperate for a suspect, the police question Royston Blake, who suddenly realizes that, instead of hiding from the ills of the world, he should be fighting them. So begins Blake's quest to score the unlikeliest of jobs for a guy like him: becoming a cop in Mangel. And what better way to prove his worthiness than to catch the killer?) Williams, Gordon The Siege of Trencher's Farm (alternate title: Straw Dogs) $12.95 (Reissue; While renting an isolated house in Cornwall, George Magruder accidentally runs over a convicted child killer escaped from an asylum. When the brutal locals confront him, he sets off a chain of violence that threatens his family's survival.) Woodman, Richard A Ship for the King $28.95 (1618: Kit Faulkner is taken aboard a merchant ship to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he must face pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges closer to civil war - and Kit will have to choose sides.) Wortham, Reavis The Rock Hole $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Red River #1: PBO; 1964: Farmer and parttime constable Ned Parker joins forces with John Washington, the black deputy sheriff from a nearby town, to track down a disturbed individual who is rapidly becoming a threat to the small Texas community of Center Springs.) Wright, Austin Tony and Susan $24.99 (Reissue; Susan Morrow is asked to read her ex-husband's unpublished novel. As the fictional family's ordinary lives are violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future.) Wright, Nancy Means The Nightmare $15.95 (Mary Wollstonecraft #2: PBO; Dismissed from her governess post in Ireland, Mary Wollstonecraft lands on her feet in London. After the 1792 publication of her groundbreaking Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she becomes part of a circle of celebrated artists and intellectuals. She grows infatuated with painter Henry Fuseli after his hauntingly erotic masterpiece The Nightmare is stolen. When a young artist is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and a bluestocking friend is strangled, Mary's quest for the truth will lead her into personal notoriety, a trip to a madhouse, and confrontations with more than one possible murderer.) Yoshida, Shuichi Villain $15.95 (A woman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass, which has an eerie history as home to robbers, murderers, and ghostly creatures. As the investigation unfolds, the events leading up to the murder reveal a troubled cast of characters.) Early September Abernethy, Mark Double Back $12.95 (Alan McQueen #3: Send to find a missing agent, superspy Alan McQueen discovers that a faction of the Indonesian army is planning genocide, using an ethnobomb which kills only native East Timorese.) Adams, Jeanne Deadly Little Lies $6.99 (PBO; When a vengeful enemy traps billionaire security expert Dav Gianikopolis and gallery owner Carrie McCray in a ruthless battle of wits, each move seems to bring them closer to disaster. Dav will do whatever it takes to protect Carrie - even put their last chance at love on the line.) Adler-Olsen, Jussi The Keeper of Lost Causes (UK title: Mercy) $25.95 HC, $39.95 Unabridged Audiobook (Department Q #1: Carl Morck used to be a good homicide detective, until a bullet almost took his life. Now he's been put out to pasture with a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company. One case catches his interest. Five years ago, a politician vanished without a trace. The world assumes she's dead. Carl's colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh. Because she isn't dead - yet.) Albert, Susan Wittig The Tale of Oat Cake Crag $7.99 (Cottage Tales #7: Beatrix Potter's friend Grace has been receiving anonymous letters threatening her good name; Beatrix must investigate quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip.) Albert, Susan Wittig The Tale of Castle Cottage $24.95 (Cottage Tales #8: Summer, 1913: Beatrix Potter is eager to marry solicitor William Heelis. But there are a few obstacles blocking their path to the altar, including some mysterious problems with the remodeling of their future home.) Alten, Steve Grim Reaper: End of Days $9.99 (A biohazard scientist has injected herself with a swiftacting version of the Black Death, spreading the infection throughou Manhattan. On the sealedoff island, veteran Patrick Shepherd sets out to rescue his wife and child.) Anthony, Michael David Dark Provenance $14.95 (Canterbury Cathedral #3: Reissue; After spending most of his life as a spy, Richard Harrison wants nothing more than a quiet retirement in Canterbury. Then a young woman turns up on his doorstep, bearing a message from her late father. It's a message that Harrison doesn't want to hear. And he particularly doesn't want to believe it has anything to do with the recent suicide of an elderly, notoriously dithering parish priest.) Arffssen, Lars The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo $9.99 (A story of corruption and perversion that reaches to the highest echelons of the world's largest producer of inexpensive ready-to-assemble wooden bookcases.)
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