Search Results: WISCONSIN from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Walker, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD Nominee. The second Leo Waterman title; Seattle and Wisconsin locales. "Confirming the bright promise of Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?, Ford proves he's no one-book author with the second case for extremely likable, wisecracking Seattle PI Leo Waterman. A boating mentor from Waterman's youth, Heck Sundstrom, is critically injured in a traffic accident. What was he doing on a seedy downtown block after midnight? The accident follows the death of the Sundstrom's son and his new daughter-in-law, Allison, in a boat explosion. Waterman soon finds loose ends: Allison may not have been what she claimed. For help, Waterman calls on "the Boys," usually drunk old friends who know their way around Seattle's seamier precincts. Carl Craddock, a wheelchair-using surveillance expert with a foul mouth and caustic sense… Read More

N.Y.: Dodd Mead & Company, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Academic setting. Authors 1st mystery. WISCONSIN.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Putnam Pub Group, 2005. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A brillant offering by the mother & daughter team, AKA P.J. Tracy. Some members of the Monkeewrench computer company are travelling to Wisconsin, not knowing that hours before a tanker carring posionous gas has wiped out a small town.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Bleak House Books, 2003. 1st. Ed. AS NEW / AS NEW. A Fly-fishing mystery set in Black Earth, Wisconsin. stamped "Review Copy" at inside front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Review Copy.

Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Bleak House Books, 2008. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, with protective mylar cover. In Logue's disturbing seventh mystery to feature Wisconsin deputy sheriff Claire Watkins. Claire's live-in boyfriend, Rich Haggard, gets a frantic, middle-of-the-night call from an old friend, Chet Baldwin. Rich rushes to Chet's house to find Chet lying in bed next to the body of his wife, Anne, who's been shot in the forehead. When Claire arrives at the scene soon after, Chet gets up and drops the handgun he's been cradling. Rich resents the strictly official posture Claire adopts, and their relationship deteriorates further after Claire conceals the fact that Chet attempts suicide while in her custody. Meanwhile, Claire's protégé on the force, Amy Schroeder, looks into the murder of a stranger found floating in the Mississippi River, a case that, predictably, ends up connected with the Baldwin case. Readers… Read More

Fort Lee, NJ, U.S.A.: Barricade Books, Incorporated, 1996. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Garth Ryland, editor of the Oakalla (Wisconsin) Reporter. Book has yellow ribbon marker. "All of Riggs's anatomies of Oakalla, Wisconsin (Killing Frost, 1995, etc.), have been elegies to small-town life, but his 11th is especially grief-soaked because of Oakalla Reporter editor Garth Ryland's intimacy with the victims. Ninety-year-old Dr. Bill Airhart, ``the closest thing to an icon that we had in Oakalla,'' was not only Garth's mentor and longtime friend, but the uncle of his lover, Dr. Abby Airhart, and he's shocked when the old man dies in his bed--though not too shocked to suspect foul play, especially after he realizes that Doc Airhart was killed right before the newspaper was to serialize his memoirs for 1962, the year retarded Dewey Clinton insists he found two bodies near Wildwood Bridge. It looks like a… Read More

N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, 2018. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "The Danish crime novelist takes a trip Stateside in this exhilaratingly morbid tale of a 40-year-old Copenhagen widow who travels to Wisconsin to run her dead father's funeral home--and is forced to confront the enemies he left behind."-- Oprah com. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. Pliny Pennington, a deputy the 1960s, in Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin, is featured in the second book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.