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New York: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 2014. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 293 pages. An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, No. 17. The last four books in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series have leapfrogged their way up the New York Times bestseller list, perfectly positioning Angelica's Smile to ascend to even greater heights.A rash of burglaries has got Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, starts sending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of the love-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms, Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles. But when one of the burglars turns up dead, Montalbano must snap out of his fantasy and unmask his challenger. .

New York: Hyperion Books. Fine in As New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. Black boards with red spine imprinted in silver with title and author Deckle-edged pages. Full number line10-1.. 451 pages. The Boldt/Matthews Mysteries, No. 8. Investigating the death of a woman who was pushed off a bridge, Lou Boldt joins forces with Daphne Matthews to follow a trail through Seattle's underworld and finds evidence linking the murder to a stalking case he is already following. .

New York: Forge. As New. 2002.. 1st Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 334 pages .

New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard. Near Fine. 2005. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 223 pages. An Aurelio Zen Mystery, No. 10. Some cases are not quite what they appear to be.When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxious for a break from his girlfriend, who attributes Zen's slow recovery from routine surgery to hypochondria, he is only too happy to take on what first appears to be an undemanding assignment. The case quickly spins out of control, becoming entangled with the fates of a student semiotics, a mysterious immigrant claiming to be royalty, and Bologna's most incompetent private detective.Meanwhile a prominent postmodern academic accuses Italy's leading celebrity chef of being a fraud. Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Tan boards quarterbound in black with title and author on spine in red metallic. Author's initials and blood splatter logo on cover in red metallic. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 388 pages. A Virgil Flowers Novel, No. 4. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator -- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy -- a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First US Edition. Hardcover. Minor corn bump . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black textured boards with dark blue spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 213 pages. An Inspector Sejer Mystery, No. 9. Inspector Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. His psychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by a mysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide. Then another corpse is found in a lake, a Vietnamese immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him. Does he still have the strength to pursue the… Read More

New York: Felony & Mayhem Press. As New. 2018. Trade Paperback. 275 pages. A Philo Vance Mystery, No. 1. New York in the 1920s is the world’s most glamorous city, and Philo Vance, an arrogant art expert, steps in to solve the puzzle of why a scheming stockbroker was murdered, not merely because he is bored and seeking new entertainment, but because honor compels him to point out the myriad ways in which the police are getting it wrong. .

New York: Minotaur Books. Very Good. 2015. 1st Minotaur Books Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. edgewear; Reading crease on front cover . 311 pages. An Ann Lindell Mystery, No. 5. Police officer Ann Lindell is great at solving crimes, but she doesn't have as much luck in her personal life. When she meets journalist Anders Brant, Ann thinks her luck has turned around. When Anders disappears without a trace and a homeless man's body is found with Anders' phone number in his pocket, she must keep quiet about her connection to her former beau while she races to find Anders and clear his name .

New York: Hyperion. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 344 pages .

New York: The Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on top of text block. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards with burnt orange spine imprinted with title and author in metallic blue. Burnt orange endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 250 pages. A Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, No. 5. With its shut-down mines, with its scarred and restive blue-collar descendants of Eastern European and Italian immigrants, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of tough times. And no one has it tougher than its own police chief, Mario Balzic. Working harder and longer hours than he ever did in his long-ago rookie days, Balzic again pilots a black-and-white through the town's brooding streets. The recent death of his mother, whose warm presence is especially missed by his wife Ruth, doesn't make it easier. Balzic answers a call: a strange woman, Valery, mother of a young daughter named Coo, warns that… Read More

New York: Viking. As New in As New dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Moss green boards with turquoise spine i,printed in gold with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 306 pages. A Sean Stranahan Mystery, No. 5. In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana’s Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen to their deaths. Victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating back thousands of years? The person who would know is beyond asking, an Indian man found dead among the bison, his leg pierced by an arrow. Farther up the valley, fly fisherman, painter, and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan has been hired by the beautiful Ida Evening Star, a Chippewa Cree woman who moonlights as a mermaid at the Trout Tails Bar &… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards and spine with title and author imprinted in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 388 pages. A Harry Bosch Novel, No. 17. Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast. In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would find this one tough going, but Bosch's new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, has no homicide experience. A young star in the department, Soto has been assigned to Bosch so that he can pass on to her his hard-won expertise. Now Bosch and Soto are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be… Read More

New York: Hyperion. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards quarterbound in red and imprinted with title and author on the spine in gilt. Light gray end papers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 348 pages. A mesmerizing thriller by the author of No Witnesses. Hartford, Connecticut, just might have a serial killer on its streets: a rare chemical has shown up in the blood of several corpses. It's a case for Sergeant Joe "Dart" Dartelli, a genius in the field of forensic medicine, who discovers that the killings may be linked to his old mentor .

New York: Reagan Arthur Books / Little Brown & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine with title and author imprinted on spine in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 448 pages. Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop named Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home. .

New York: Thomas Dunne Books / Minotaur. Very Good in As New dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. Some fading to bottom of front board and spine . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gray boards and spine imprinted on spine with title and author in silver . 283 pages. Signed by Author. Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea, one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process.Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department’s turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea’s leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders---and Inspector O discovers too late he has been sent into the chaos. .

New York: Little Brown and Company. As New in As New dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 433 pages. A Ballard and Bosch Novel, No. 1. Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift… Read More

Stockholm Text. Fine. 2013. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 329 pages. While vacationing on the Swedish island Gotland, a young father of two is shot on the beach while jogging. Assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson, who must lead the investigation while Anders Knutas is on vacation, is at a loss until another horrific crime is committed. Mari Jungstedt successfully combines a thrilling, raw crime novel with a multilayered relational drama. .

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book / Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue gray boards and spine imprinted on spine with title and author in burgundy. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 262 pages. A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery, No. 25. In Clearview, Texas, a wealthy recluse has joined the community and is leading the restoration of an old opera house. When he falls to his death, Sheriff Dan Rhodes suspects that he's been murdered, but there doesn't seem to be a motive. Who would want to kill someone who's helping the town and hasn't been around long enough to make any enemies?The Sheriff's suspicion proves to be true, however, and he begins to look for motives buried in the past, meanwhile having to deal with people fighting over baseball cards at a yard sale, writers who want to talk to him about his sex life, and the Clearview Ghost Hunters, headed up by Seepy Benton, who… Read More

New York: Soho Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in silver with title and author Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 362 pages. A Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery, No. 11. Three men are found with their throats cut, and all are connected in some way to an ancient City of London livery company, the Silkworkers. Lord Powerscourt has no shortage of suspects or suspicions. The first victim had shadowy links with the Secret Service. The second had wiped fifteen years out of his own past. The third, a man who collected women at church during Christmas Carol services, had been threatened by angry husbands and disinherited sons.All the victims had been opposed to the reorganization of the Silkworkers' finances and, interestingly, Sir Peregrine Fishborne, the head of the Silkworkers, was present just before each victim's death. Lord knows that the key to solving the… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.Black boards and spine with title and author on spine in metallic green. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 245 pages. A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, No. 23. A DEATHLY MESSA housecleaner who damages more, items than she dusts, Mrs. Gillespie is a notorious snoop who spreads malicious gossip throughout the Highlands. After winning her cleaning services in a church raffle, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth feels an ill wind coming. Sure enough, the mean-spirited maid is soon found bludgeoned to death with her own pail. Trying to clean up this big mess, Hamish faces a cluttered list of suspects, along with some jealous colleagues who are hindering his investigation. And when his ex-girlfriend arrives with her new paramour, Hamish is driven to foolish antics. But what should really preoccupy Macbeth are the town's hidden secrets -- ones that will force a… Read More