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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkeley Prime Crime, 2003. 1st ed., preceding British edition. Fine in dust jacket lightly wrinkled at rear panel as from being damp but not damaging the covers at all. In the year 1447, powerful men from all the realm of England have been summoned to Parliment in the great pilgrimage town of Bury St. Edmunds. There is intrigue and murder in the political turmoil surrounding the King of England, as a small group of nobles are planning to use this chance to bring down their greatest rival. Into this den and against her will , comes Dame Frevisse under cover of her friendship with Lady Alice of Suffolk. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

Vanguard 1978 1st ed. slight spine slant else near fine in dj. The third Fr. Dowling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 2000. 1st ed. near fine, unread copy of this Paperback Original and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. A structural fire--the latest and most frightening in a series of unexplained blazes in the Shaker community of Hancock Village, Massachusetts--has resulted in the death of an elderly man. Boston newspaperman Michael Merrick, on orders from his publisher, is propelled into impromptu undercover detective work at the village in the hope of unmasking the arsonist. Merrick's assignment quickly becomes a race against a clever murderer who will not hesitate to kill again. With richly textured prose and striking characterizations, Ms. Adamson takes the reader into the midst of everyday life in an 1840s Shaker village, weaving a compelling and suspenseful tale. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

Kansas City: MO: Andrews & McMeel, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj, lightly rubbed. Father Koesler title. When a man confesses to Father Koesler about murdering a priest, Father Dunn, the new priest at the rectory, overhears the conversation and challenges the seal of confession, which guarantees silence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1994. 1st US edition, July 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, one small tape repaired tear at front, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. 2nd Marius Larche title, political and religious background. Spain's Home Affairs Minister, is gunned down by a manipulative killer. Senior Interpol officer, Marius Larche, heads the investigating team; his number two, DI Alison Rowe of Scotland Yard, seconded because of her special knowledge of one particular political assassin, suspected of the murder. On the fortress-like island of Molino, they investigate the web of secrecy and suspicion which surrounds the Minister's widow and the whole Tomas family.. 1st US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Constable, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj, 2nd Marius Larche title, political and religious background. Spain's Home Affairs Minister, is gunned down by a manipulative killer. Senior Interpol officer, Marius Larche, heads the investigating team; his number two, DI Alison Rowe of Scotland Yard, seconded because of her special knowledge of one particular political assassin, suspected of the murder. On the fortress-like island of Molino, they investigate the web of secrecy and suspicion which surrounds the Minister's widow and the whole Tomas family.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Headline, 1988. 1st ed. Purple cloth cover with gilt title to the spine. Fine with one tiny dulled spot and a hint of tanning to the page edges, in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, £ 9.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Jacet illustration by Clifford Harper. The Fifteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. 205pp. Map drawing to the endpapers. ...SIGNED COPY... Signed by Peter's at title page. In Shrewsbury in 1142, the worst of winter arrives early bringing with it a heavy snowfall. Thus the saftey of the guest-hall roof comes into jeopardy and the brothers are called upon to effect repairs -- despite the weather--before the damage grows. But the icy and treacherous conditions are to prove near fatal for Brother Haluin. His deathbed confession is heard by Brother Cadfael and The Abbot only. And a wicked story it is, of trespasses hard for God or man to forgive. But Haluin doesn't die and when he recovers he determines to make a journey… Read More

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dj. Medieval mystery featuring Hugh Corbett. The Brothers of the abbey of St. Martin's in-the-marsh usually pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen. But then Abbot Stephen is murdered in his chamber, with the door and windows locked from the inside.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Set in Louisiana in the 1950's. A small town sheriff must put up with the power of the Catholic church and local crimes that crop up along the way. A fine description of Cajun living.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Akashic Books, 2003. 1ST. ED. AS NEW/ AS NEW. New " Cuban Noir " A study of the different religious factions inside of todays Cuba.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1995. 1st US edition, June 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "The venerable walls of Canterbury Cathedral structure the offbeat plot, foreign intrigue, lively characters, surprising twists and ironic wit of Anthony's (The Becket Factor) rich, labyrinthine mystery. Richard Harrison, a former intelligence major trying to save his marriage to wise, wheelchair-bound Winnie, has retired to the "dull decencies" of diocesan life, entrusted with repairs. He has returned from a summer in Italy to find a tactless new archdeacon hell-bent on cutting costs and to learn that an old Jewish comrade from de-Nazification days in Berlin tried to visit him a month ago. This man later apparently plunged to his death from a train. Harrison then becomes the unwilling bearer of an eviction notice to the frail old rector of a small church, who is soon found dead in… Read More

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1987. Kienzle's reputation has grown with the success of eight bestsellers about Detroit priest Father Koesler. Catalyst in the ninth is the sudden death of a vicious critic, Ridley Groendal. His longtime homosexual lover, Peter Harison, testifies that Groendal died after a huge dinner, which taxed his weak heart, but Koesler suspects murder. He questions several people who grew up with him and the dead man, including their former mates at the seminary where Groendal abruptly gave up studying for the priesthood. Koesler's investigation discloses the motives for the critic's malicious attacks on innocent victims, whom he blamed for his own failures. As the priest talks to men and women whose lives and careers Groendal had ruined, the shocks proliferate. The strongest occurs in the final, unforeseen disclosure. Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Forge, 1994. First edition , May 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Includes map. "Countess Alys of Tonnerre, victim of a brutal beating, is barely alive when her husband Raynald brings her to the Abbess Heloise at the convent of the Paraclete in medieval France. Young Catherine LeVendeur, who helps care for Alys, is disturbed by scars that attest to the woman's prior mistreatment. Upon the Countess's death, the Paraclete inherits a small piece of unimpressive land, which sets off a furor: Raynald claims the convent stole the property, and the prior of a nearby monastery makes a handsome offer for it. Catherine maintains her intense curiosity about Alys's unhappy end even through the arrival of her betrothed, Edgar of Wedderlie, with Peter Abelard; after Catherine and Edgar's wedding, the pair travel to Troyes and, at Heloise's request, search for information on the… Read More

Kansas City: MO: Andrews McMeel Pub, 1989. 1st ed. Lightly soiled at page edges else near fine in dust jacket. Burnishing the reputation he has earned with The Rosary Murders , Kienzle again sets series hero Father Koesler among criminals in Detroit. The priest visits a dark, cheerless cloister where four monks draw the media and swarms of citizens when one of the friars reputedly works a miraculous cure. Although skeptical, homicide detective "Zoo" Tully takes his ailing lover to the cloister and the monk heals her instantly. There is no perceived connection between the murder of an old bum, a case assigned to Tully, nor to the attempted murder of Koesler's friend, reporter Pat Lennon, as she writes about the secretive community. But Koesler, versed in Catholic rituals and wise to the ways of con artists, performs wonders of his own. 312 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2000. First US edition, May 2000, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly rubbed, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. . Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Set in 1157 Kent and introducing a new pair of detectives, Josse d'Acquin, a brave and loyal ex-soldier and Abbess Helewise of Hawkenlye. Together they solve the gruesome murder of a nun who was found with her throat slit.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Parker, Ed. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A young woman flees from the clutches of assassins to historical Morocco.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1979. 1st. Ed. near fine/near fine. Both book and DJ show shelf wear. DJ has repaired nick to top and unrepaired nicks to bottom. Good reading copy of this scarce title. David Small, a rabbi sleuth in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts is featured in the debut title in this accalimed series.. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1996. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight crease to spine, reading crease, else near fine copy of this PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Highly regarded as it was a finalst for four awards: An ANTHONY, AGATHA, EDGAR AND MACAVITY NOMINATED PBO. After a self-imposed exile in England, historian Gale Grayson has returned to her Southern roots, only to find eccentric relatives--and murderous scandal--alive and well in Statlers Cross, Georgia. They’d been talking about Linnie Glynn Cane since 1925, about the pecan tree where she was found hanging, and how her ghost never came to rest. No sooner do Gale and her four-year-old, Katie Pru, arrive in town than tragedy strikes again. Martin Cane, a straitlaced, religious man and host of the annual Southern Gospel Singing and Barbecue, turns up dead--killed by a rifle blast--in the midst of the festivities. Now it is up to Gale to untangle the twisted facts behind Martin’s death. Was the motive suicide, greed,… Read More

N.Y.: Bantam Crime Line, 1992. 1st edition, March 1992 Paperback Original, light reading crease else fine. On the eve of St. Patrick's Day festivities, a young nun in training is murdered. "Retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, last seen in Haddam's Halloween mystery, Quoth the Raven , takes on a new and engrossing murder case in time for St. Patrick's Day. Duty in the form of an anxious John Cardinal O'Bannion beckons Demarkian to Maryville, N.Y., where aspiring nun Brigit Ann Reilly has been found dead during a furious rainstorm, her corpse covered with water moccasins. Demarkian's expertise with poison is put to use as he determines that Brigit's death was caused by hemlock rather than snakebite and that the snakes were merely snuggling up to her body for warmth; however, he is perplexed because water moccasins are not indigenous to the North. Suspicion falls upon the owners of local menageries--Sam Harrigan, an actor who escapes media attention by living in Maryville,… Read More

London: Macmillan London 1989, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. Mark Treasure gets involved in the renovations of a Church in West London. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.