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N.Y.: Hyperion, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. When a fatal bomb erupts, Britt Montero, a "Miami New" police reporter, finds herself in the middle of her biggest story so far, "The latest Britt Montero mystery involves the Miami News crime reporter in two cases. The first concerns a missing 12-year-old boy. In researching a story about the boy's disappearance, Britt uncovers a disturbing pattern in which a number of physically similar young boys have vanished. The other case begins spectacularly when a local Hispanic television commentator is killed via car bomb. His recent stance on a free Cuba had obviously angered one of Miami's Cuban activist groups. But the headlines quickly become personal as Britt is forced to examine the life of the father she never knew. Tony Montero, a freedom fighter, was executed in Cuba by Castro. A diary he kept while incarcerated may still… Read More

N.Y.: Forge, 2006. First edition, December 2006, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Life's a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew's found that he's really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he's willing to leave the planet, it's about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. First edition, November 1997, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. SIGNED by Pedrazas on title page. Features Florida private eye Harry Rice in his second case following the Award Winning "The Harry Chronicles".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book.

N.Y.: Walker 1989, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first hardback mystery featuring Brad Axx, a transplant to the West coast of Florida. "Brad Axx, a brusque, go-to-hell, New York cop, takes a vacation in Florida to get away from it all in this plodding thriller. There, in the quiet town of Gulf Shores, he meets Kristen McCauley, a real estate broker. She dies, shortly thereafter, of what the Florida police call an accidental cocaine overdose--but Axx feels certain she's been murdered. A little bit in love with McCauley, Axx distrusts her boss, Birkett Gamble, and starts looking into some of Gamble's company paperwork. He discovers a scam of immense proportions and, in the manner of a bear dancing the flamenco, goes about proving it to reluctant, overworked authorities..." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Hinge crack'd, else near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . Murder and mayhem accompanied by great humour involving hitmen, an embezzler, an alcoholic and a multitude of rich characters. Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Miami Herald , and the author of many bestsellers. BIG TROUBLE is the author's first novel. EDGAR Award Nominee. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1998. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, light edgewear, with a couple of small nicks, small stain at rear panel. SIGNED COPY. "With this stunning novel about a woman and a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, the Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and bestselling author of One True Thing and Object Lessons moves to a new dimension as a writer of superb fiction. "If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions," Kirkus Reviews said about One True Thing, "columnist-cum-novelist Quindlen would win another Pulitzer." And the same will be said about Black and Blue, a brilliant novel of suspense, substance, and importance. In Black and Blue, Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story: how at nineteen she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto, how their passionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, and what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her… Read More

N.Y.: Dutton, 1996. 1st edition, February 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. " Prosecutor Sam Hagan is known for being a straight arrow, so he's the perfect choice to investigate a potentially explosive case and dismiss it for lack of evidence. Or so think both his boss, the Miami DA, who has his eye on national office and doesn't want controversy, and the city manager, who's courting the tourist industry. The plaintiff is a young model who claims that several men, including a well-connected local businessman and a football player turned actor, raped her. Hagen believes the girl and, despite political pressure, pursues the case. The stakes are raised when several of the witnesses and participants are murdered. Meanwhile, the prosecutor's marriage is cracking under the strain of his son's recent death, a situation worsened as he learns devastating details about his son's life… Read More

N.Y.: Putnam, 1998. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The 3rd Cuban-American PI Lupe Solano title. Miami "Despite the tacit disapproval of her body- and health-conscious cousin and co-worker, Cuban American investigator Lupe Solano, last seen in Bloody Shame (LJ 2/1/97), takes a case involving a raft refugee from Cuba. Aristocratic Luis Delgado's long-dead parents sent part of their wealth to Miami with friends when Castro took over, but when Luis claims the money, the now-prominent "friends" try to erase the debt by hiring a hit man. Lupe treads carefully, both because of the family's influence and because she finds her client attractive. Lupe's energetic lifestyle, her fascinating friends, and the author's fluid segues make this an essential purchase." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 1997. 1st Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The second mystery novel featuring the 26 year-old female Cuban American Private Investigator Lupe Solano. Miami. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Miami based PI Lupe Solano. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1996. Fine in dj. Author's first book. Miami based Cuban American PI Lupe Solano. 1st ed. Jacket shows atrace of wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Pocket Books, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The latest in the musical titles -Killing Me Softly - Night and Day, etc. for P.I. Gideon "Bud" Lowry. Set in Key West. Unread copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER. Thorn is back (with Alex Rafferty, the photographer of Body Language) to solve the mystery behind the death of a scion of a powerful Florida family.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY,: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte, 1996. 1st edition, July 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Thorn title. South Florida.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1984. 1st ed. Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, ink number at rear. C.B. Greenfield arrives on a subtropical island to help his partner Maggie Rome unravel the tangled clues of a murder she has discovered while birdwatching on the well-described setting of Sanibel Island the wildlife refuge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, August 1950. Dell Mapback #428. Vintage Paperback. Reading crease, spine edges rubbed else a tight square copy , edges of text block have not lost most of its dye. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Rear map of Southern Florida with 3 insets Arthur Devlin wakes up so hungover that for a moment, he thinks the ship is sinking. As he gets his bearings, he realizes the only storm is inside his own head--and he isn’t on a ship at all. The last thing he remembers is being handed another drink at his going-away party. That was twelve days ago. Devlin has awoken in a sleazy hotel room, dressed in a stranger’s ratty clothes, with a bump on his forehead and a dead man at his feet. The phone rings: A woman who calls him Joey asks if he went through with the murder. Devlin has no choice but to say yes. To find out if he’s really a killer, Devlin hires Mike Shayne. Shayne has twenty-four hours to fill in the gaps of his… Read More

N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. It' seems to be one of the few unsigned copies, LOL! "The victim of an explosion at Dinkin's Bay Marina on Sanibel Island, commercial fisherman Jimmy Darroux mumbles, "Take care of Hannah" before he dies. Aging hippie Tomlinson, to whom Jimmy's words were addressed, enlists the aid of his best pal, Doc Ford, a former government agent turned seaside biologist. Burdened by a disconcerting tendency to see both sides of an issue, Doc recognizes that Jimmy's death is somehow tied to the friction between commercial and sport fishermen. He agrees to help find the mysterious Hannah, but his real motive is to derail a confrontation that could see many of his friends hurt. And hurt they are when the violence escalates. White's fourth Doc Ford novel gathers momentum slowly--its pace is not unlike the hypnotic… Read More