Search Results: Thriller from The Book Closet

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2001 Black boards with red tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; full number line; pages slightly yellowed. "Four women -- four friends -- share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the 'San Francisco Chronicle.'" -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2002 Black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; previous owner's name on ffep; stated First Edition. "The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. But detective Lindsay Boxer senses there's some thread connecting them all. She calls her friends in the Women's Murder Club together to see if they can discover what it is. Surely some clue has been overlooked by their bosses and male colleagues." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004 Black boards with red tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj proected with Brodart cover; not price slipped; some writing on ffep; stated First Edition. "Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediatley engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found -- and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005 Yellow boards with yellow tape binding; red lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 392pp. "Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chliling case ever -- one that could easily be their last. In a late-night showdown after a near-fatal car chase, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer has to make an instantaneous decision: in self-defense, she fires her weapon -- and sets off a chain of events that leaves a plice force disgraced, an entire city divided, and a family destroyed. Now everything she's worked her entire life for hinges on the decision of twelve jurors." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006 Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; price sticker on back of dj; dj not price clipped; 409 pp. "Somebody dies. A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen? Apocalypse nears. This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take adevastating turn for the worse." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007 Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; slight slant to spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 390pp. "A terrifying attacker. A horrifying burst of gunfire on a crowded ferry leaves several people dead -- and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man who tried to kill her friend. But nothing makes sense in the most twisted, frightening case the Women's Murder Club has ever faced." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Mustard yellow boards with teal tape binding; red foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not priced clipped; 376pp. "A very public disappearance. California's 'Boy with a Broken Heart,' the teenage sone of a recent governor, has disappered under mysterious circumstances. Michael Campion, born with an incurable heart defect, has grown up under the watchful eye of an adoring public. The pressure on detective Lindsay Boxer to learn what happened to Michael is overwhelming. When she finally does get a lead, it's devastating -- and for Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano it leads to the biggest trial of her life." -- from the dj

New York: Harper Collins, 1999 Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover and is not price clipped; stated First Edition with full number line; flat signed on title page with date. "In 'Act of Revenge," his finest and most dramatically rich novel to date, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, the married couple who have been described by the 'Chicago Tribune' as 'the most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre,' must purue, survive, and triumph over two of New York's toughest and most dangerous criminal forces -- the Mafia and the Chinese gangs." -- from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Stated First Trade Edition; gray boards with black tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; pages are clean and spine is tight; dj protected with Brodart cover. "Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane...At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal mid-air disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 1999 Black boards with brown tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; previous owner's sticker on ffep; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Born into a fine old Charleston family, Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney -- without sacrificing his integrity. Prosecuting the sensational murder of real estate magnate Lute Pettijohn could be his ticket into the office. Yet while Hammond anticipates his success, someone near him is plotting his downfall ..." -- from the dj

New York: St. Martin's, 2005 Black boards with gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line; not price clipped. "On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in 'deep storage' former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient." -- from the dj

New York: New American Library, 1987 Teal boards with black tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; previous owner's address sticker on ffep; dj shows signs of aging (yellowig) and is protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped. "Eight-year-old Amy Kaslov is pretty and charming, she's been abused and seems helpless, but threaten her and sh'll destory you...It begins with a cool breeze, like a shiver of fear. It swirls into the mind of eight-year-old Amy and she becomes puppet and puppetmaster of a terrifying power to make people do things...whether they want to or not." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 2001 Green boards with green tape binding; gold foil embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "Ross Marteau is the toast of the international art world for his sensual sculptures of rich and famous women. But when a long-term relationship breaks up badly, he retreats to his Texas hometown -- only to have his newfound peace of mind permanently, and profoundly, shatterd." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 2001 Green boards with green tape binding; gold foil embossed lettering on spine; remained mark on bottom; dj protected with Brodart cover. "Ross Marteau is the toast of the international art world for his sensual sculptures of rich and famous women. But when a long-term relationship breaks up badly, he retreats to his Texas hometown -- only to have his newfound peace of mind permanently, and profoundly, shatterd." -- from the dj

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2008 Dark blue boards with blue tape binding; silver lettering on spine; remainder mark on bottom; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy ... When private investigator Tess M\onaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series 'Mann of Steel' whille sculling, she expects sharp words and evil looks, not an assignment. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing incidents since its arrival on location in Baltimore: bad press, union threats, and small, costly on-set 'accidents' that have wreaked havoc with its shooting schedule. As a result, 'Mann's' creater, Flip Tumulty, the son of a Hollywood legend, is worried for the safety of his young female lead, Selen Waites, and asks Tess to serve as her bodyguard/babysitter. Tumulty's concern may be well founded. Not long… Read More

New York: Random House, 1984 Black board with gold lettering on spine; spine is very slightly slanted; dj has sticker residue on front and some small tears, but is now protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped; first edition. "'They've come back!' As Joel Converse hears these whispered words he stares in shocked silence at Preston Halliday, the strangely obsessed man who utters them. Converse and his mysterious informant are international lawyers who have come to Geneva to work out a multinational merger; but with Halliday's urgent words Converse finds himself plunged once more into a world of violence, a world that he thought he had left behind years before when he lurched out of a Southeast Asian jungle in desperate flight from a North Vietnamese prison camp." -- from the dj

New York: Dutton, 2013 Light blue boards with purple tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can't believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Somthing inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She knows only that she is at war with herself." -- from the dj

New York: Doubleday, 2009 Black boards with light blue tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; stated First Edition. "Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of the 'Yale Law Journal,' and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't wnat -- even though it's a job most law students can only dream about." from the dj

New York: Mira, 2003 Black boards with light green tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; stated First Printing. "It starts out as a favor for a friend. FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is about to take some hard-earned vacation time when she receives a call from psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen's patients is missing -- Joan Begley, who was in Connecticut to attend her grandmother's funeral. After leaving a disturbing message on Gwen's voice mail, Joan missed an appointment with Gwen and now her therapist is worried. Can maggie look into the disapperance?" -- from the dj

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2000 Gold boards with brown tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear; full number line.