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New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with light rubbing and laminate . loss to bottom edge of back panel.. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. In occupied France, a young divorcee and her lover, the head of a Resistance network, choose the country home of the lover's childhood friend as a cover for their political activities. Translated by Christine Donougher. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 191 pages .

New York: Minotaur Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first book. Hint of lean. . 2008 Anthony Award and Dilys nominee for Best First Mystery.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. How far would you go to protect everything you love? A story of a good man held hostage by circumstance, a riveting exploration of class, identity, and the demons that shape us, where every effort to do the right thing leads to terrifying consequences and one inevitable conclusion: the more you have, the more you have to lose. ; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book edges a bit browned.. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. A man wakes on an abandoned beach. The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the car, he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tattered feet, a Rolex, and an auto registration in the name of Daniel Hayes, resident of Malibu, California. None of it is familiar. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.5 inches; 400 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light shelf rubbing to jacket. Book's . only defect are markings to the bottom edge: a black X, tiny red dot, and . green marker dot.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. When Harriet's ex-lover, Guy Beaumont, is found dead soon after he shows up on Harriet's doorstep and hands her a valuable document, Harriet and her new friend, John Sanders, must solve the crime. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 249 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Signed by the author on the front . endpaper. Jacket has light edge wear, small edge tears, small chip at top . edge of back panel, and what appears to be a sticker shadow/pull to back . panel.. 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. The historical basis of "The Fixer" is the Bellis case. On March 20, 1911, the mutilated corpse of a Christian boy was found in a cave in the outskirts of Kiev, Russia. The murder could have been easily solved had not the crime been taken up by the virulent anti-Semitic groups as a pretext for massive persecution of the Jews. Instead, a Jewish laborer, was arrested on charges of ritual murder. ; 8.75 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 286 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with light rubbing and edge . wear.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Detective Timothy Cone wanders Wall Street seeking mobsters, murderers, and shady Market operators in a quest to solve a baffling mystery. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.5 inches; 382 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight lean and light edge soil; . jacket with light wear.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. The novel begins with a search for a purloined pet but quickly becomes far more lethal. ; 8.2 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches; 319 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket with rubbing, light edge . wearand wrinkling. Book has minor bottom edge wear.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. After confessing to killing her playboy husband, Melva Williams implores Archy McNally to protect her gorgeous and spirited daughter Veronica from the probing eyes of the press, but McNally discovers that nothing is what is seems in the world of high society. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 309 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Top edge browning. Jacket has light . rubbing.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. John Tollinger, an assistant to the White House Chief of Staff, investigates a modern-day Rasputin who is beginning to wield an inordinate amount of power in Washington. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1.25 inches; 381 pages .

New Jersey: A. S. Barnes. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed and age-toned.. 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. A collection of twelve classic cases of murder that have one thing in common: the killers, whether they slew with calculated ingenuity or In a moment of passion , whether they were hopelessly mad or all too terrifyingly sane, attempting to conceal their crimes by hiding or destroying the bodies of their victims. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 192 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on first blank . preliminary page. Toned edges, small spot fore edge; light jacket . wrinkling.. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Late afternoon in Virginia and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US senator has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who is involved, and why. And that she may be next. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.4 inches; 384 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on preliminary . page.. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Virgil Flowers knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota perhaps a little too well. A few yeaars back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - school board. And now the town is back in view with more alarming news: a woman's body has been found, frozen in a block of ice. ; 9.2 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Henry Holt. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Author's first novel. Book appears unread.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpublished writer Kelly Palomino, a professional dishwasher, pursues the girl of his dreams, an unsuspecting newlywed, and must survive a series of misadventures to find true love. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 277 pages .

New York: Henry Holt & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First in the Gro Vont series. Light . foxing top edge of book.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Maurey Pierce is the smartest kid in town, Also, the prettiest. At thirteen she's too young to have hit puberty, but old enough to try sex. All she needs is a smart partner but given the gene pool in her hometown of Gro Vont, Wyoming, her chances of finding one are minimal. Until Sam Callahan shows up. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 338 pages .

New York: Henry Holt & Co. Very Good; Uncorrected Proof in yellow paper covers. Cover soil and . crinkles.. 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Trade PB; 277 pages .

Sherman Oaks: Truman Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Author's first book. Light edge soil.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A supernatural yarn about murder, voodoo and retribution in present day New Orleans, where a killer experiences the unholy purgatory of his own remorseless past. ; 6.6 X 4.2 X 0.8 inches; 279 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 .

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. Fine book in . like jacket.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The editor of a small-town Wisconsin newspaper marks the anniversary of his daughter's murder by persuading his paper to slap a news blackout on criminals who use the media to get their slice of immortality. However, the paper's stand insults one reader and his imaginary fraternity of killers. ; 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 304 pages; Signed by Author .

Boston: Little Brown & Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on first . preliminary page. Prior owner name and place of signing on front pastedown . under jacket flap.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Wisecracking, chocolate-addicted Lauren Laurano is at the height of her investigative powers in the fifth novel in the series, when she hears of a local suicide that her detective instincts tell her is more likely a murder. ; 9.5 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 229 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good with no dust jacket; Address stamp to front enpaper, also what . looks like the Dewey Decimal Classification for this book, however, this . does not appear to be an ex-library.. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Details the inner workings of Scotland Yard as told by Sir Harold Scott, the Commissioner of the Metroplitan Police from 1945 - 1953. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 256 pages .