Search Results: North Carolina from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight spine slant else near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also about to become a victim? A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. Was it pilot error? Something more sinister? And what is the mysterious black substance covering the bodies? Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote… Read More

N.Y.: Tor, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. North Carolina setting.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2000. 1st ed., slight spie slant, reading crease, cover lightly rubbed else near fine copy of this Paperback Original. A Casey Jones title. A SHAMUS & ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. At first, Casey proves a sucker for the fragile blond who claims her estranged husband has disappeared with their child. But when Casey locates the fugitive spouse a little too easily, she begins to suspect that the lovely Tawny Bledsoe has played her for a fool. Especially when Casey gets stiffed on the fee, then finds herself embroiled in a murder case with Tawny's name written all over it. Bad check in hand and a bad taste in her mouth, Casey resolves to stop Tawny once and for all, but the battle quickly turns personal when Tawny proves more than a match for the irrespressible Casey. Ego rattled, Casey laces up her high-tops to track her nemesis to Florida for a Saturday night catfight. Casey must leave her sweet-and-sour Southern ways far behind in order to prove that Tawny… Read More

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best True Crime novel of the year. Riveting account of small-town murder, a terrifying tale of a seemingly ordinary family whose lives and illusions about each other were shattered one hot summer night in 1988 when a newly-wealthy husband was brutally slain during an attack in which the wife was stabbed, beaten and apparently left for dead.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY,NY.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1996. 1st. Edition, September 1996. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY neatly, "To --- , go to town - Toni Kelner." Laura Fleming, a small-town Southern sleuth in Byerly, North Carolina, is featured in the fourth book in this series.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ,: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Author's debut novel. Mountaineers and profiteers clash in this gripping debut when Applachian funeral director Barry Clayton faces his most dangerous undertaking.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boston: Little Brown, 1981. 1st ed., so stated. Fine in dust jacket, price of $12.95 intact. This is McKay's second mystery starring Dr. Hannah Land, professor of political science at Duke University, and shrewd amateur sleuth.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007. 1st edition, 1st printing, October 2007. With corresponding number line. Near fine in dust jacket. A 2008 EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. in Down River, Hart makes a scorching return to Rowan County, where he drives his characters to the edge, explores the dark side of human nature, and questions the fundamental power of forgiveness. Adam hase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood---a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he’s ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fades into the faceless gray of New York City. Now he’s back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind. But Adam has his reasons. Within hours… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Cliff Street Books, 2001. 1st. ed. FINE/FINE. Set in the backwoos region of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Naperville, IL, U.S.A.: Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2001. First edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Malone, who created a stir a decade ago with some award-winning mystery-thrillers (Fast Love; Red Clay), returns after a long absence with this North Carolina-based thriller starring his likable previous protagonists, police chief Cuddy Mangum and his chief of homicide, Lt. Justin Savile V. They are up against a serial killer dubbed by the local press Guess Who, whose female victims are left looking like martyred saints; media attention steps up a notch when one of his victims may be world-famous Irish rock singer Mavis Mahar, in Hillston for a concert. There are myriad complications: Mavis may be having an affair with the governor of the state, whose wife Cuddy has long hankered after; a crooked attorney general promptly shows up at the scene of Mavis's apparent murder and… Read More

London: Constable, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Worth waiting for - the hugely popular Savile and Mangum team is back Multi-award winning author Michael Malone returns to Hillstown, North Carolina, the setting of his internationally acclaimed Uncivil Seasons and Time's Witness. A woman's body has been found - mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt Justin Savile V and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Dubbed the 'Guess Who Killer' by a voracious press, Hillstown in North Carolina has a serial killer on its hands. The media and major demand answers while the city lives in fear. Savile and Mangum are being taunted, stalked and threatened with losing all they hold dear - and yet they have no leads.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The author's first mystery. SIGNED COPY. Vance thought he'd left the violence behind when he quit the military twenty years ago and moved to North Carolina. Now a freelance gun writer and the father of four year old Cullen, he wants nothing more tha to forget those days, but that was before the bank robber pointed a gun at him, before Vance's instincts took over and he dropped the gunman first, before he found out just whom he'd killed and what it meant. For the gunman had family too, and they deffinitely believe in and eye for an eye...or maybe two.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2005. 1st edition, January 2005, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Patrol woman Charlotte Monroe has cop instincts. Scratch that. There isn't a name for the intuition she possesses, something that borders on psychic, an ability to read people's faces and body language like the morning headlines - to size up their intentions and act before they do. But none of that prepares her for the stranger who shows up on her doorstep with a chilling warning for her husband, a mysterious note scrawled in Cherokee hieroglyphics and a promise of things to come: "You're Next." The warning becomes more ominous as Charlotte and her husband, Parker, discover the complex truth about this man, including his position on the FBI Most Wanted list and his connection to their family. When Charlotte's deeply troubled teenage daughter runs away to join the charismatic outlaw, she… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st edition, August 1997, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Deborah Knott title set in North Carolina. "North Carolina district court judge Deborah Knott unintentionally "crashes" several manufacturer's receptions at the internationally known Southeastern Furniture Market in High Point, where she becomes involved in murder. Initially befriended by a mysterious and elusive woman with bogus name tags, series protagonist Knott soon runs into an old woman friend from law school as well as a hunky ex-beau now in the furniture business. When Deborah later discovers the man dead, she and police begin investigating. Maron (Up Jumps the Devil, LJ 8/96) continues her usual warm-hearted, family-oriented approach, tempered with observant detail, infectious enthusiasm, and light humor. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine, 1991. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1996. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Publicity sheet laid in. Inspired by a real-life 1930s American tragedy, Katkov has written another scorching epic of murder, ambition, seduction, and justice in the heart of the Deep South. The year is 1932. The place is North Carolina, the domain of the all-powerful Castleton dynasty, rulers of a vast and wealthy tobacco empire. Beneath their genteel facade, the family extends an iron hand of control and enforces its own law of terror across the back roads of the countryside.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Berkely, 2003. 1st. Edition, January 2003, with complete number line beginning with 1. PBO. Reading creases, slight spine slant, a few early pages wrinkled, else very good. . Alex Winston, owner of the Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in North Carolina, is featured in the third title in this series. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y: Dodd, Mead, 1986. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, lightlly worn, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Pages lightly age toned. Small town in the mountains of North Carolina. "On a quest to find the mother who abandoned her in infancy, young Henrietta Meredith arrives in the small town of Raven Rock, N.C. Settling down in a ramshackle, sinister old house, Henrietta stumbles upon a decades-old crime that is somehow linked with her mother's disappearance. More than 20 years earlier, several young women were killed by a maniac branded The Chuckler. A man was caught and convicted of the murders, but now Henrietta finds herself being stalked by someone using The Chuckler's trademark. As Henrietta slowly warms toward the townspeople who once knew her mother, horrifying suspicions begin to assail her: Is The Chuckler still at large? Did he murder her motherand is she next? This first novel is uneven in spots… Read More

NY, NY.: Mysterious Press, 2005. 1st edition, August 2005, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "At the start of Maron's first-rate 11th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2004's High Country Fall), the judge and her fiancé, sheriff deputy Dwight Bryant, are distracted from their impending nuptials by a fatal car crash involving assistant D.A. Tracy Johnson. When it turns out that someone shot Johnson as she was driving, Deborah and Dwight become involved in a murder investigation that will uncover a web of crime and corruption in Colleton County, N.C. Meanwhile, members of Deborah's large, extended family, among other warm Southern characters, hurry to complete the renovations on Deborah's old farmhouse and to prepare, celebrate and sometimes complicate the upcoming wedding. When two young students approach Deborah about a death-row prisoner who… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1994. A fine copy in dust jacket. Book club. . North Carolina Judge Deborah Knott, introduced in the multiple award-winning Bootlegger's Daughter , returns in her third adventure in as many years. Maron constructs a tight mystery, peoples it with an original cast and powerfully evokes her Outer Banks setting, but dry issues of civil law drag at the narrative. Deborah, filling in for an ailing judge at the Carteret County courthouse, stays in her cousin's waterside cottage and, while clamming, finds the body of the president of the Independent Fishers Alliance, shot in the chest. The murder quickly involves her in local conflicts among commercial fishermen, upstate sportsmen, land developers and conservationists. Real estate mogul Linville Pope, with an eye on the half-billion-dollar tourist industry, wants to buy the Neville Fishery property owned by the wife of a local judge. When Pope turns up dead, dressed in the colors of the endangered loon, suspects range from… Read More