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New York: William Morrow & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; 1992 Edgar Award for Best Mystery . Novel; 1992 Shamus Award nominee for Best PI Novel. Book has light edge . soil and bumps; jacket with light crinkles.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Private investigator Matthew Scudder searches for the missing link between two horrific crimes--the rape-murder of wealthy Amanda Thurman and a snuff film involving a young homeless boy. ; 9.20 X 6.10 X 1.40 inches; 309 pages .

New York: St Martins Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. . Author's first book. Light edge wear, small closed tear to top edge back . panel. It appears the author added another inscription at a later date . (February 2000).. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. At a Halloween night party in a small Connecticut town, six men dress as scarecrows to perform a comedic dance. The next morning their leader, still in costume, is found brutally murdered in a cornfield. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 226 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: The Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor top edge wrinkling to jacket. . Small dents to bottom edge of boards.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Toby Paters is getting twenty five dollars a day plus expenses. His job: convince a vainglorious gun moll and a semiretired gangster to leave Fred Astaire alone. The woman is Luna Martin, a blonde beauty with feet of solid lead and the grace of an armadillo. The ex-mobster is Arthur Forbes, AKA Fingers Intaglia, who's swapped his onetime prominence in Detroit's Purple Gang for Los Angeles real estate and respectability. It seems Luna wants to dance, and Forbes wants the most famous feet in America to teach her. Fred Astaire wants Toby to get Forbes and the rather loose Luna off his back - and every other part of his anatomy. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 228 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. . 2012 Agatha winner and 2013 Left Coast Crime winner.. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Dandy's services are needed when the heiress to one of the stores goes missing. As Dandy starts to unravel long-hidden family secrets, she discovers disturbing connections, and it's not long before danger abounds. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Warner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Author's first book and Barry Award . nominee for Best First Novel. Small dampstain to bottom edge back board of . book and blind side of jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Scott Finn worked his way out of Boston's toughest neighborhood to become a rising star in the city's most elite law firm. Now the street smarts that have haunted him are about to become his best means of survival. ; 9.0 X 5.9 X 1.6 inches; 432 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . The letter "J" top of front endpaper, toned edges; jacket has scratch to . back panel.. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. In Dark Harbor, Maine, Stone Barrington discovers a picturesque town where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over the island haven. ; 9.0 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 304 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. Fine book . in like jacket.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. For Assistant District Attorney Mary Crow, the misty mountains of Little Jump Off, North Carolina, still echo with secrets hidden in shallow graves. Now, at the request of the FBI, she is called back from Atlanta to her childhood home for a matter both professional and deeply personal. ; 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Bantam. Near Fine; Advance Reading Copy in purple paper wraps. Author's second . book. Slight lean and small spot on front cover.. 2002. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. When a brilliant stalker begins murdering federal judges, Judge Irene Hannah refuses protection, forcing the feds to turn to her best friend, Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow for help, but when Judge Hannah disappears, Mary must go up against a madman and his army in order to save her friend before it is too late. ; Trade PB; 319 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with light bottom edge wear and . edge soil; rubbing and superficial scratches to jacket.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Psychiatrist Amanda Hammond returns to her sleepy but monied hometown of Grand Cove, Connecticut, to set up a practice and is immediately confronted by the possible murder of a patient, a death that recalls that of Amanda's mother years before. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 310 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Author's first book and winner 2006 Agatha Award . for Best First Novel.. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles greeting card artist Willie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. She is meeting plenty of eligible batchelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic doctor who is on the run from the Mob. ; 9.3 X 6.6 X 1.0 inches; 336 pages .

New York: Crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight bowing to front board.. 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis probe the baffling murder of Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford, and follow a trail that leads to Edward Brooks, who himself disappears following a museum theft. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 295 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Appears unread.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. When crime boss Jack Fox gives the order to kill journalist Katherine Johnson, the woman's ex-husband--a clandestine government agent--leads a crusade to destroy Fox. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 295 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on blank preliminary . page. Abrasion top edge front panel jacket.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox, but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department known as The Basement, and with the President's permission, is about to take revenge. ; 8.9 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 295 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. A recent death appears to be suicide, but Annie suspects murder. To solve the case, she unravels the mystery of a towel hidden at midnight in a gazebo, the lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a teenager's blue shirt, and the secret of a lovers' tryst. ; 8.4 X 5.4 X 1.1 inches; 288 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to jacket. Tiny red mark . top edge back endpaper.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Floridian Robert Stockton's nightmare begins when a phone call to his office informs him that his wife, Jean, has been kidnapped and brutalized by psychotic - and none too bright - Donald Stanley and Mona Little, Stanley's prostitute girlfriend. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 232 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Tiny bump to front bottom corner.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. When the lead singer of the nation's most popular 'boy band' group is murdered in the shower immediately after finishing a concert tour, Chicago police detective Paul Turner finds himself enmeshed in a particularly difficult case. ; 1 x 8.54 x 6.36 Inches; 280 pages .

New York: Henry Holt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book slightly canted with ink mark (2" . line) corner of front endpaper. Jacket is age-toned with tear to corner of . back flap.. 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. When a beautiful woman asks London private detective Ron Hoggert to find her missing horse and her missing fiance, what sounds like a simple kidnapping becomes a tangle of twisted motives, coolheaded greed, and passionate hate. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 199 pages .

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Prior owner name and date top of front . endpaper.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Sara Tate, a Manhattan assistant DA, is on the brink of losing her job. But then she takes a case that may be able to secure her future. Trouble is, it’s much more complicated—and deadly—than it initially appears. While forces within her own office plot against her, an outside threat takes things to another level: Win the case or her attorney husband, Jared, will die. But Jared has received threats, too. Forced to defend the opposition, he learns that, if he loses the case, Sara will be killed. With everything on the line for both of them, husband and wife battle it out—at court and at home—while maintaining the terrible secret behind their motives. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 401 pages .

New York: St. Martin's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Second book in the Jane Wheeler . Mystery series. Has been gently read.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Jane Wheeler is delighted when an estate sale turns up a whole room packed full with 1950s saloon ephemera and she makes a deal to buy the whole room. As she's cataloging her find, Jane makes a gruesome discovery: a highly personal, unusual, and creepy collectible that she is sure the saloon keeper would have preferred to keep to himself. ; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 307 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Top edge soil.. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. The tablois headline that rocks a small New England town reads "Fugitive Mom" and has Paula Holliday searching for the truth when someone she knows is revealed to be an escaped convict. ; 5.79 X 1.03 X 8.53 inches; 256 pages; Signed by Author .