Mystery/Thriller from Encanto Books

Comments: D-j has light shelf wear. Synopsis: Child psychologist Alex Delaware returns in a follow-up to Devil's Waltz that begins with a childlike chant and finishes with Alex at the end of a chain of unexplained deaths.

Comments: Crease on front cover. Comes with booklet.Synopsis: ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In Wolf Whistle, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour… Read more about this item

Comments: Very RARE copy. Fore-edge of board bumped. Synopsis: A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids–the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished… Read more about this item

Comments: Back of d-j has very subtle shelf wear. Synopsis: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. They seem unrelated – until Evening Post reporters ask questions. Why is a Jamaican bank in trouble? Who drove… Read more about this item

Comments: Tight copy. Synopsis: Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it… Read more about this item

Synopsis: John Hart's debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring, "There hasn't been a thriller as showily literate since Scott Turow came along." Now, in Down River, Hart makes a scorching return to Rowan County, where he drives his characters to the edge, explores the dark side of… Read more about this item

Synopsis: Alicia is a smart, confident and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a street-walker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary John and Alicia's feelings for… Read more about this item

Synopsis: What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies? If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life.… Read more about this item

Comments: D-j has minor shelf wear.Synopsis: Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near… Read more about this item

Comments: Top edge lightly soiled. Tiny bump on bottom of front board. Synopsis: Although business has been slow lately for P. I. Kinsey Millhone, she's reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danziger's sister Elaine Boldt. It's a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinsey's services? Beverly claims she needs… Read more about this item

Synopsis: To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history….Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her… Read more about this item

Comments: D-j has light shelf wear. Stain on bottom of front board. Front board and fore-edge lightly soiled. Tiny scratch on top edge. Synopsis: Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal… Read more about this item

Comments: Spine cocked. Ink marks on top edge. Minor indentation on bottom of front cover. A little tanning on inside cover and FFEP. Cloth on back cover has two spots that are raised but don't look bad. D-j pc'd, has shelf wear and slight chipping to spine. Synopsis: Chief Inspector Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case – it… Read more about this item

NOTE: Only true first editions & first printings of this book have the word "Scotoma" misspelled as "Skitoma" on page 243. Synopsis: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working… Read more about this item

Synopsis: Andrew Vachss called Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley's debut mystery featuring Easy Rawlins, a tough black private detective in L.A.'s Watts section, "the most self-assured, uniquely-voiced first novel I've ever read." The Wall Street Journal said of its sequel, A Red Death: "Remarkable…proves Mr. Mosley's debut was no fluke." Readers and critics agree that Walter Mosley is… Read more about this item

Comments: Two minuscule bumps on top of front board. Synopsis: Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche. Frank really needs some R & R. He's just been fired—over a fatal screw… Read more about this item

Synopsis: When Benny Southstreet, a small-time hustler with a big-time gift for constructing crosswords, accuses Cora of stealing one of his creations, it's clearly a case of mistaken identity, until Cora's own attorney files a plagiarism suit against her. To add to the enigma, when Benny is found dead, the police charge Cora with his murder! At the heart of the… Read more about this item