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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1993. 1st. Ed. Fine in dust jacket. Features the much-loved chef and amateur sleuth Eugenia Potter. Based on the characters and a story created by Virginia Rich. Recipie end-papers. "Using notes and recipes of the late Virginia Rich ( The Cooking School Murders), Pickard, author of the Jenny Caine mysteries, serves up a fourth satisfying, chatty tale about master cook and amateur sleuth Eugenia Potter. In her home in New England, the widowed Mrs. Potter receives a call from Ricardo Ortega, manager of her Arizona ranch, who hints at trouble. Alarmed, she flies out to find that Ricardo and his granddaughter have disappeared. As neighboring ranchers and friends conduct a search, Mrs. Potter tries to determine the cause of Ricardo's unease. To feed the volunteers, she cooks up a huge pot of her 27-ingredient chili. Ricardo's body is discovered badly battered after an apparent fall, but Linda remains missing. The savory supper somewhat comforts… Read More

Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts. Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start of the Willo District home tour is interrupted by murder. A man lies dead with an ice pick in his brain. And Lindsey runs right into her half-sister Robin among the crowd gathering in the historic Phoenix neighborhood, the sister Lindsey hasn't seen in years. The reunion with Robin rekindles memories about their rough upbringing and the deep rift that they may,… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first book introducing Tuscon reporter Nate Bowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books 1994, 1994. 1st edition, November 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original. Fine unread copy of the 2nd Vinnie Altobelli title. Arizona. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback Novel of the Year.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books 1994, 1994. 1st ed. Paperback Original. Reading creases, slight spine roll else a very good copy of the 2nd Vinnie Altobelli title. Arizona. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Paperback Novel of the Year.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback Original.

NY, NY: HarperCollins, 2000. 1st. Ed. Fine. Paperback Original. Laura Winslow, is featured in her debut novel. Hired by an old man to track down his granddaughter, embittered Hopi peoplefinder Laura searches the rodeo circuit for the lost girl while she struggles with demons in her own past. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, 2003. 1st Edition, so stated. January 2003 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone returns in this sequel to Talton's "Concrete Desert. " When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, "History Shamus" Mapstone can't keep a cool, academic distance. And he'd better not: while Peralta lies comatose in the hospital, the powers-that-be appoint Mapstone acting Sheriff in his place. Mapstone feels unqualified, but he's the only person who's temporary appointment won't infuriate all the other candidates who want the Sheriff's position permanently. Meanwhile, a cryptic note scrawled by Peralta before the shooting forces Mapstone to confront his own personal history, which has drawn him unwittingly into danger. As Mapstone discovers, the past has deadly… Read More

Wheaton: IL: Victor Books, 1993. 1st ed. A fine copy of this trade paperback original. First in series featuring Phoenix detective Jose Mario Jesus Rodriguez y Smythe. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st edition, July 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. Author's first book. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at half-title page. Chloe Newcomb is a Victim Witness, a volunteer social worker in an Arizona desert town who helps soften the bad news after an accident or crime. Called to a suicide scene, she recognizes the dead man as a figure from her East Coast activist past, a former lover she hasn't heard from in 20 years. In her first novel, Thornton manages to make Chloe both original and recognizable, the kind of person you'd expect to find liking country music (her title comes from a George Strait song), enjoying diner food and flirting with good-looking cowboys. And her descriptions of the desert under various conditions of time and weather make you understand why people choose to live there.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Line, 2002. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original. Features Apache, cowgirl, rancher, private eye Trade Ellis.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1982. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket, no tears and not price clipped, $12.50 original price is still present A Jim Chee mystery. The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. 1st Edition, November 2004, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. At the start of Thornton's fourth intricate puzzle to feature Chloe Newcombe, the Cochise County, Arizona victim's advocate is assigned to assist artist Heather Stephens after Heather's husband, carpenter Terry Barnett, is found dead in his burning barn. The problem is, Chloe hired Terry to make a bookcase for her and in the process was attracted to him. During dinner across the border in Mexico, Terry told her he was married, and she refused to see him again. Chloe's concern for Heather, when it becomes clear that Terry was shot first, drives her to try to unravel some highly tangled relationships in search of the killer. Did his wife tire of his infidelities? Was there a dissatisfied client? What of his estranged brother in Ohio? Terry went back there… Read More

Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 1st prtg. Bottom of pages slightly dusty, else a fine unread copy. Published simutaneously in trade paperback and hardcover. set against the posh Scottsdale, Arizona art scene and the nearby Indian reservation. Authors first book. At the age of four, Lena Jones was found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona Highway, a bullet robbing her of any memories. Now a private detective and scarred survivor of a dozen foster homes, Lena has vowed to find the truth about her childhood. "A must read for any fan of the modern female PI novel." -"Publisher's Weekly". First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Trade Paperback.

Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. 1st ed. A near fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof. A Lena Jones title. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. For generations, the Devil's Hawk--El Halcon Satanico--has struck terror in the hearts of suspicious Mexicans. Ornithologist Jonathan Wilder shares no such fears. But on a trip to southern Arizona, he confronts another evil as sinister and deadly--he discovers the bodies of six Mexican immigrants and is quickly drawn into the investigation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1993. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. An ex-GI moves to Tucson and finds himself in another war -- between the government and the Indian reservation.."A criminal lawyer in Arizona, Parrish draws on the history of his home state to provide a colorful backdrop for his absorbing second novel (after Our Choice of Gods ), a brisk, tightly plotted thriller/courtroom drama. In 1946, after his wife is killed in an accident, Jewish lawyer and wounded war veteran Joshua Rabb takes a job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and moves with his two children to Tucson, Ariz., hoping that the arid Southwestern environment will restore his body and soul. He finds a squalid town of 25,000 Mexican Catholics and 15,000 "redneck Baptists," none of whom want to mix with the nearby Papago Indians, whose reservation is separated from Tucson by a narrow irrigation ditch--the "dividing line" of the title. A 13-year-old girl's corpse was… Read More

William Morrow and Co., Inc., 2004. 1st. Ed. F/F/ A Brandon Walker mystery.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 1994. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A tale of psychological suspense set in the searing climate of Arizona.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.

New York: Kensington Pub Corp, 1996. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original (ink price on first page). A woman answers a terrified cry for help; a husband betrays his wife one last time, the owner of an isolated hotel harbors a dangerous obsession; a man succombs to a fatal attraction. On an isolated part of the Arizona desert , four strangers come together---brought there because a beautiful woman was murdered. Each of them has a secret. And all of them have areason to be afraid. Now, someone else is going to die. for in the desert, beneath the cold, merciless moon, there is no place to hide.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon, 2003. 1st ed. PBO.Reading crease, very slight spine lean else a near fine copy. Nominated for a SHAMUS AWARD for Best P.I. Paperback Original. 1st. Ed. FINE. PBO. Laura Winslow, is featured in the fifth title in this series. Part-Hopi cyber-investigator and computer hacker Laura is reunited with her long-lost daughter, an angry young woman serving time in prison, who has agreed to assist authorities uncover an identity theft ring in exchange for leniency, an agreement that leads her and her mother to a secret burial ground and into the path of an evil killer. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book.