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Far Hills: New Horizon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Some small spots of soil to fore edge; . jacket with light wrinkles and rubbing to back panel.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. The psychologist of a serial killer describes his early attempts to help his new client before discovering that he was behind recent murders, his terror when he learned the man was stalking his fiancee, and his struggle with his ethical obligations. ; 1.16 x 9.32 x 6.36 Inches; 309 pages .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Minor top edge browning. Jacket has . light wrinkling at spine head.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. When Fish and Wildlife Special Agent Margaret Adamson comes to South Dakota to approve the development at Brendan Prairie, she meets Bill Malone, a falconer turned professor, but as they renew their relationship, and he returns to falconry and confronts the death of his wife, suspicion falls on him for the murder of the man behind the development scheme. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1 inches; 255 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title page.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory probes the death of a hack artist at a gallery opening, she discovers links to a bizarre twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment originally investigated by her late adoptive father. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 309 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Author's first novel, and Edward and Dilys Award nominee. Foxing to all . edges, heaviest at top.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York's Grammercy Park, and Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City sergeant. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 286 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine; Uncorrected Proof of author's debut novel in glossy pictorial cover. . Received multiple nominations: Dilys Award nominee, Edgar nominee for Best . First Novel, Anthony Award for Best First Mystery. Appears unread.. 1994. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. ; Trade PB .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to foil jacket.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory is drawn into a baffling world of peril and illusion when she investigates the brutal murder of a young woman, whose body is found wearing a jacket labeled 'Kathleen Mallory'. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 278 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Remainder mark bottom edge.. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The reviews called it "A Play to Die For," after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didn; t seem so funny the next night, when another body was found, this time the playwright himself, with his throat slashed. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches; 368 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title page.. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlier. ; 1.2 x 9 x 6.1 Inches; 341 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title page.. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. When clues pertaining to a brutal murder on Chicago's Route 66 reveal the fates of a decade's worth of missing children, New York detective Kathy Mallory joins the investigation in the hopes of learning details about her own mysterious past. ; 1.4 x 9 x 6.3 Inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fourth book in the Mallory series. . Slight lean.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In a small town in Louisiana, Mallory steps off a train. Within an hour, one man has been assaulted, another has had a heart attack, a third has been murdered, and Mallory is in jail. ; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 341 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A round-robin with contributions from . 15 Irish writers. Has been gently read. Tiny dot bottom edge.. 2001. First American Edition. Hardcover. "I think he was dead before I shot him." With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce. ; 8.8 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 272 pages .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Bump to top edge and corners. Jacket . has light top edge wrinkling and minor shelf wear.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. On Christmas Eve, Cody, a logger, arrives at the home of Eddie Ryan, the local mortician, with the body of his logging partner, an event that triggers a sardonic study of the inhabitants of Inverwae, New Hampshire. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 401 pages .

London: Secker & Warburg. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Pages have edge browning common to UK . editions. Jacket has a pull to front cover, light wrinkling to spine ends.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. A New Hampshire town is the microcosm of a world on the edge of damnation in this sprawling, offbeat saga. Eddie Ryan, Vietnam vet and frustrated poet, is a mortician who believes "death is the opposite of love, not life. " Cody, a footloose, renegade logger, bulldozes his way into Ryan's family life, along with one dead buddy snowpacked into the plow of his truck. Cody longs for reconciliation with his estranged wife, drinks too much, rails at human folly and acts as godfather to Eddie's children. The friendship of the two men, punctuated by deaths tragic or bizarre, unfolds in a series of adventures evoking the themes of guilt, redemption, fatherhood and the pained realization that sometimes there are no good choices. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 401 pages .

New York: Warner Books. Near Fine; Inscribed on the title page. Pages lightly toned.. 2006. First Printing. Softcover. Pulled from her bed by an early morning phone call from her boss, police reporter Annie Seymour finds herself at a crime scene staring at the naked body of a Yale student. What starts out as bad news for the prestigious university gets worse when Annie learns the girl was a student by day and a high-priced escort by night. Stonewalled by her cop boyfriend and tailed by overeager and incompetent cub reporter Dick Whitfield, Annie stumbles onto a network of corruption that everyone, even her own mother, seems to be involved in. ; Mass Market PB; 6.75 x 4.25 x 1 inches; 324 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on the title . page. Winner of the Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award. Author's debut novel. . Pages lightly toned.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Covering the murder of a Yale student who worked evenings as a high-priced escort, police reporter Annie Seymour finds her investigation into the murder compromised by her stonewalling cop boyfriend, an incompetent cub reporter, and a far-reaching network of corruption. ; 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 290 pages; Signed by Author .

San Jose: Pacific Coast Press. Near Fine; Signed by the author on the title page. Paperback Original, . First Edition. Book appears unread, minor rubbing.. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. In the 2nd book of The Dying Game Trilogy, Doug rebuilds his life while working for Bruno Sebastino. He faces questions that could easily have been answered a year ago, but today too many things have changed. Most important of all, his life is no longer his own. In The Pact With Bruno the reader is swept headlong into the wealthy personal lifestyle of a Mafia executive and his family. Doug's life becomes astonishingly intermingled with those of Bruno, Jerry and Kely. As relationships appear to strengthen, it becomes clear that all is not well. The shadows conceal a betrayal. Without warning a new adversary appears who is much more powerful than Mr. C and Doug is at war again but for much different reasons. Can he handle this new challenge? ; Mass Market PB; 6.75 x 4.25 x 0.5 inches; 248 pages; Signed… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration, top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with a hint . of dulling to spine and minor bottom edge wear. Prior owner bookplate to . front pastedown.. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches; 290 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Brown boards with gilt lettering and . decoration; top edge gilt. Book is clean, straight and tight with light . spotting to spine and back board. Jacket has edge wear and small chips to . spine ends and corners.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 316 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; The first Jason Lynx mystery. Two tiny . marks to back board. NOTE: the wear pattern on back panel that shows in . the scan is on the mylar cover, not the jacket.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Jason Lynx discovers a bomb in his neighbor's house and finds them shot dead the next day--a strange series of events leading him to investigate murders that may explain his wife's disappearance. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 212 pages .

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight flattening to spine foot. . Jacket has light shelf wear.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. When Rachel Sabin and Jeffrey Dean, owners of a Los Angeles art gallery and rare book shop, purchase a rare Stella print, they inadvertently become ensnarled in an international web of forgery and murder. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 387 pages .