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In this issue:
New Northwest Releases
Some Other Spring Releases
Some New Paperback Releases
Reference and Nonfiction
Some Notable Reprints
Edgar Award Nominees
Some Rex Stout Hardcovers Available Soon
New Shipping Charges
Author Appearances
Auction Department
Patricia
Brooks, But for the Grace (May, Dell pbo, 5.99). PI Molly Piper is
asked by a mayoral candidate to find out who’s behind the satirical fliers that
have appeared around town. Signing.
James H.
Cobb, Sea Fighter (March, Putnam hc, 24.95). Commander Amanda Lee Garrett has a
challenge: leading a United
Nation’s naval force into a high-tech sea war off the coast of Africa. Third in Tacoma author’s military
suspense series.
Michael
Dibdin, Blood Rain (April, Pantheon hc, 23.00). Aurelio Zen
gets the orders he’s always dreaded: his next posting is in Sicily. There, a body found inside a railroad
car leads to trouble under the smoldering shadow of Mt. Etna. Signing.
Aaron Elkins, Skeleton Dance (April, Morrow hc, 23.00). Gideon Oliver
is called to France to help the prestigious Institue de Préhistorie, after a dog
brings home some suspicious bones. Latest in the Edgar-Award-winning series. Signing.
Larry Karp, Scamming the Birdman
(Mar., Write Way hc, 23.95). Dr. Tom
Purdue and an unlikely band of cohorts concoct a scam against a murderous
collector of bird antiques. Sequel
to The Music Box Murders.
Karen and B Jo recommend..
Signing.
Marcia Simpson, Crow in Stolen
Colors (May, Signet pbo, 6.50). Liza Romano is the owner of a freight
service in the Alaskan Panhandle. After rescuing a Tlingit boy from near death,
trouble begins to dog her. Debut
mystery from a San Juan Islands author.
Signing?
Michael
Slade, Burnt Bones (Mar., Signet pbo, 6.99). 7th
in this Vancouver, B. C. series. The Mounties’ Special Services unit searches
for Mephisto, a killer who buries his victims alive. The Mounties don’t realize that the
victims are bait for them. JB
recommends this dark series.
Dana
Stabenow, Midnight Come Again (May, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). 10th in the
Edgar-Award-winning series with Alaska PI Kate Shugak. When Kate disappears after a winter
mourning the murder of her lover, her friend Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin
finds her working undercover in a small fishing village.
Graham Thomas, Malice in London
(April, Fawcett pbo, 6.50).
4th with Scotland Yard Insp. Erskine Powell, who investigates a body
found in the murky waters of the Thames.
Vancouver, B. C. author.
Sue Henry, Murder on the Yukon
Quest (May, Avon, 6.50).
Richard Hoyt, Whoo? (May, Tor, 5.99). 5th John
Denson, from 1991, finally in pb. Favorite series of
JB.
J. A. Jance, Outlaw
Mountain (May, Avon, 6.99) 7th Joanna
Brady.
Candace Robb, A Gift of Sanctuary (April, St Martins, 5.99).
6th Owen Archer.
Mitchell Smith, Reprisal (April, Signet,
6.99).
And coming this
summer:
Ridley
Pearson, Middle of Nowhere, June
L. L.
Thrasher, Charlie’s Web, August
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Peter
Abrahams, Crying Wolf (March, Ballantine hc, 25.00). White
lies to save the future of a bright
young man lead a group from an elite New England campus into trouble. A
favorite author of Tammy’s.
Donna
Andrews, Murder with Puffins (May, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). By the author of Murder with Peacocks, winner of the 1997
St. Martin’s Malice Domestic Award, and a favorite of Karen’s. Meg and her boyfriend go to a tiny
island of the coast of Maine, where they find murder and
mayhem.
Ace Atkins, Leavin’ Trunk Blues (March, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). Nick Travers investigates the mysterious
death of a blues record producer in 1959. By the author of Crossroad Blues.
Leo Atkins, Play Dead (March, Berkley pbo, 5.99).
2nd with PI Connor Gibbs.
Lise. S. Baker, The Losers’
Club (April, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). Cal Brantley investigates an insurance claim
involving an accidental death, and finds herself helping a friend battle suicide
as she prowls the back alleys of Reno. From the winner of The PWA 1998 Award for
best first novel.
Robert
Barnard, A Murder in Mayfair (April, Scribner hc, 23.00). When Colin
Pinnock joins the new Prime Minister’s government, he finds an ominous message
among his pile of congratulatory notes:
“Who do you think you are?” A favorite author of Sandy’s.
Nevada Barr, Deep South (March, Putnam hc. 23.95). Anna Pigeon
finds trouble along the Natchez Trace Parkway, as her promotion is disturbed by
a murder with racial overtones. Signing.
Dan Barton, Killer Material (April, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). A first mystery starring a stand-up
comic.
Paul Bishop, Chalk Whispers (May, Scribner hc, 24.00).
4th LAPD Homicide Det. Fey Croaker. Signed Copies
Available.
Peter Bowen, The Stick Game (April, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). 7th in the Montana series
with Gabriel Du Pré.
Rita Mae
Brown, Pawing Through the Past (May, Bantam hc, 24.95). 8th with feline investigator
Sneaky Pie.
Taffy Cannon, Guns and Roses (March, Daniel tpo, 12.95). Ex-Texas cop
Roxanne Prescott thought she’d gotten into a quieter line of work when she
agreed to lead tours of Colonial American sites for her aunt, but pranks turn
deadly in Colonial Williamsburg.
Jill
Churchill,
In the Still of the Night (May, Avon pbo, 6.99). 2nd at
Grace and Favor Cottage, with Lily and Robert in post-crash
1929.
Mary Higgins
Clark, Before I Say Good-Bye (April, Simon & Schuster hc, 26.00).
A potential congressional candidate, and recent widow, is contacted by a bogus
psychic and a gang of tricksters.
Alys Clare, Fortune Like the Moon (May, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). Debut in a new series set in medieval
Kent. When a nun from Hawkenlye
Abbey is found with her throat slashed, the Abbess seeks answers.
John Cleary, Dilemma (April, Morrow hc, 23.00). Four years
ago, Scobie Malone arrested a man for murder. Now, as the trial begins, a witness
comes forward to accuse the prosecutor of the crime, a man who is a
friend of Malone’s. 16th in the series.
Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came in On (March, Hyperion hc, 22.95). Baltimore
undertaker Hitchcock Sewell has gotten himself into a mess: a murder investigation, dirty videos,
political blackmail, police corruption and one of the worst amateur theatrical productions
ever seen. Debut comic
mystery.
Nicholas
Coleridge,
Streetsmart (March, St. Martin’s hc, 26.95). When photojournalist Max Thompson takes
over his sister’s glossy New York fashion magazine after her sudden suicide, he
uncovers dangerous secrets.
Thomas H.
Cook, Places in the Dark (May, Bantam hc, 23.95). For years, Cal
has watched his brother William living life to its fullest, looking for his one
true love. When she appears, Cal
hopes that she won’t hurt William – never imagining that she has the power to do
much worse.
Natasha
Cooper, Fault Lines (April, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). Barrister Trish Maguire takes on a
harrowing case of child abuse. By the author of the Willow King
series.
Robert Crais, Demolition Angel (May, Doubleday hc, 25.95). Carol
Starkey is an LA bomb squad veteran, who was scarred physically and emotionally
by the bomb that killed her partner and lover 3 years ago. After another colleague is killed, she
begins to suspect that these are not random bombings, but attacks on those meant
to defuse them. Stand-alone thriller from the author of the Elvis
Cole/Joe Pike books. Signing?
Jennifer
Crusie, Welcome to Temptation (March, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). Scandal, gossip and murder in the small
town of Temptation, Ohio, by the author of the edgy, humorous bestsellers, Crazy for You and Tell Me Lies.
Clive Cussler and Paul
Kemprecos,
Serpent (May, Pocket pbo, 7.99). New Series!
Kurt Austin is the leader of a NUMA exploration team--National Underwater &
Marine Archeology--who comes to the rescue of a marine biologist whose team has
been wiped out.
Jeanne M.
Dams, Red, White, and Blue Murder (May, Walker hc, 23.95). President
McKinley’s assassination has thrown Hilda Johansson’s household into
turmoil 2nd in
series.
Diane Mott
Davidson, Tough Cookie (March, Bantam hc, 23.95). Goldy’s new
TV show, shot at a luxurious ski resort, turns deadly as a telethon to raise
money for the widow of a tracker who died mysteriously turns into a disaster. Signing.
Janet Dawson, A Killing at the Track (May, Fawcett pbo, 6.99). PI Jeri Howard is looking into nefarious
events at the stylish Edgewater Downs racetrack. Set in the Pacific
Northwest.
Jeffery
Deaver, The Empty Chair (May, Simon & Schuster hc, 25.00). A
visit to a North Carolina hospital puts Lincoln Rhyme in the wrong place at the
wrong time, and a search for two missing girls pits Rhyme against his protégé
and love Amelia Sachs. Signing.
P. C. Doherty, The Horus
Killings (March, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). Latest in the historical series set in
Ancient Egypt.
Louise
Doughty, An English Murder (May, Carroll & Graf hc, 23.00). In
this darkly comic mystery, a couple is murdered in their home and their teenage
daughter is missing. Even tranquil,
rural Rutland County has a dark underbelly.
Carole Nelson
Douglas, Cat in a Kiwi Con (May, Forge hc, 24.95). Las Vegas is the
setting for the latest Midnight Louie.
Kathy Lynn
Emerson, Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross (March, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95).
4th adventure for Elizabethan herbalist/sleuth Susanna, Lady
Appleton.
Jerrilyn
Farmer, Killer Wedding (March, Avon pbo, 5.99). 3rd
with Madeline Bean, events-coordinator extraordinaire.
Earlene
Fowler, Seven Stars (April, Berkley hc, 21.95). Benni Harper
returns for her 7th quilting adventure.
Caro Fraser, Judicial Whispers (May, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). Leo Davis is an ambitious
barrister, but rumors about his lurid past may thwart his career—so he woos the
seemingly respectable solicitor Rachel Dean.
J. F.
Freedman, Above the Law (March, Dutton hc, 24.95). A Northern
California DA is asked to look into a shooting by the DEA. Soon, she’s uncovering a snakepit of
intrigue and cover-up, leading to an explosive trial.
Brian
Freemantle,
Dead Men Living (April, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). A Charlie Muffin thriller. A sudden thaw in Siberia uncovers the
bodies of two men, dressed in the uniforms of WW II Allied
officers.
Jonathan
Gash, A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair (March, Viking hc, 23.95). In his
25th caper, Lovejoy must tackle not only phony gemstones and murder,
but the age-old challenges of fatherhood.
Bartholomew
Gill, The Death of an Irish Lover (April, Avon hc, 23.00). 14th
with Irish Insp. Peter McGarr.
Jaqueline
Girdner, Murder, My Deer (March, Berkley hc, 21.95). On her
honeymoon, Kate Jasper must navigate between a radical group of deer supporters
and a killer. 11th in
series.
Ed Gorman, Voodoo Moon (April, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). 4th case for psychological
profiler Robert Payne.
Martha
Grimes, The Train Now Departing (May, Viking hc, 22.95). Two thematically linked novellas, each
centering on a single woman whose quiet life harbors something
darker.
Elizabeth
Gunn, Five Card Stud (April, Walker hc, 23.95). Jake Hines is
faced with a body that is about to be hidden in a snow drift, and an
understaffed department. 3rd in series.
Sarah Graves, Wicked Fix (April, Bantam pbo, 5.99).
3rd Maine-set mystery of home repair and
homicide.
Lee Harris, The Mother’s Day Murder (April, Fawcett pbo, 6.50).
12th with ex-nun and expert sleuth Chistine
Bennett.
Clay Harvey, Dwelling in the Gray (March, Jove pbo, 6.99). The
3rd book in the Tyler Vance series gives the background of the
shadowy ex-operative.
Sparkle
Hayter, The Chelsea Girl Murders (April, Morrow hc, 23.00). Postponed from last Summer. Robin Hudson
is forced out of her apartment by a fire and into the legendary Chelsea
Hotel.
George V.
Higgins, At End of Day (May, Harcourt hc, 24.00). For 30 years,
a secret has allowed two men to run a criminal empire in Boston, a secret that
goes to the center of the corruption lodged at the heart of American law
enforcement. The noted, late
author’s last book.
Jack Higgins, Day of Reckoning (March, Putnam hc, 25.95). When his
journalist wife is killed by a mob boss, Blake Johnson has the President’s
permission to use clandestine resources to take the boss down. That boss is not without his own
resources.
Corson
Hirschfeld,
Aloha, Mr. Lucky (March, Forge hc, 24.95). Journalist
Star Hollie’s having a bad month: he’s in deep to a nasty loan-shark and one of
the women he met through his personal ad turns up dead. Add in the dim-witted Appalachian twins,
an ex-military sadist and a financier who wants to turn paradise into a golf
course, and you have a romp in the Pacific.
Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy (April, Signet pbo, 5.99). Mrs. Malory
is the executor for the estate of a best-selling author. (Hazel Holt was herself the literary
executor, and biographer, of the noted British novelist Barbara Pym.) A
favorite series of Sandy and Karen; and Karen says this is an outstanding
entry.
Susan
Holtzer, The Wedding Game (April, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). Latest University of Michigan
mystery with computer consultant Anneke Haagen.
Victoria
Houston, Dead Angler (April, Berkley pbo, 5.99). Lake Loon,
WI, has a new Police Chief, who is also a fly-fishing wonder. When she reels in a dead body, she puts
all of her talents to work.
Michael Jahn, Murder in Central Park (March, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). Latest
with NY cop Bill Donovan.
Bill James, Kill Me (May, Norton hc, 22.95). 17th Harpur &
Iles.
Kimberly Kafka, True North (March, Dutton hc, 23.95). When Bailey Lockhart leaves a tragedy in
Maine to become a bush pilot in a remote area of Alaska, she finds a new set of
problems. Literary adventure
novel.
Paul
Kemprecos
(see Clive
Cussler).
Philip Kerr, The Shot (April, Pocket hc, 24.95). Kerr tackles
the early 60s – the Mob, CIA, plots against Castro, and
JFK.
Peter King, A Healthy Place to Die (April, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). The Gourmet Detective’s fifth case takes
him to a cooking conference at a Swiss resort.
Rochelle
Krich, Dead Air (March, Avon hc, 23.00). 4th
Jessie Drake. An old friend is now a radio therapist. When an enraged husband threatens
revenge for a ruined marriage, she turns to Jessie for
help.
Martha C.
Lawrence, Pisces Rising (March, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). 4th in series with psychic
sleuth Elizabeth Chase. An old
friend convinces Elizabeth to investigate a vicious attack on a Native American
casino owner. Signing.
Stephen
Lewis, The Blind in Darkness (May, Berkley pbo, 5.99). In Colonial
New England, neighbors assume that Mohawks killed old man Powell. Midwife Catherine Williams isn’t
convinced. 2nd in series.
David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper (March, Random House hc, 25.00). Debut mystery. Rich historical set in 18th century
London where Benjamin Weaver, a retired Jewish pugilist, investigates the death
of his estranged father. Karen says, “In a class with An Instance
of the Fingerpost and Kate Ross’ Julian
Kestrel novels.”
Harry Paul
Lonsdale, Smoking Out a Killer (May, Avon pbo, 5.99). 2nd
Cigar mystery. Kick Chase is
invited to a New England estate for a weekend murder mystery game and, of
course, some fine cigars—then guests begin to die.
Valerie S.
Malmont, Death, Guns & Sticky Buns (March, Dell pbo, 5.99). 3rd
Tori Miracle. She’s just getting used to a quaint PA town when a man is killed
during a Civil War reenactment.
Margaret
Maron, Storm Track (April, Mysterious Press hc, 22.95). As
Hurricane Fran bears down on her town, Debra Knott seeks clues in the murder of
the wife of a prominent politician.
Allana
Martin, Death of a Mythmaker (March, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). 4th with trading-post owner
Texana Jones and her veterinarian husband.
Sujata
Massey, The Floating Girl (May, Harper hc, 24.00). Rei Shimura
moonlights as an arts writer and thinks she’s got a great story: a hot, new comic book author who’s
pre-war female superhero is big.
But the artist goes missing and bodies turn up, and Rei looks into the
mess.
Taylor
McCafferty,
Funny Money (March, Pocket pbo, 6.99). Haskell
Blevins, the only PI in Pigeon Fork, KY, is asked by a preacher to find out
who’s making withdrawals from the church’s bank account.
Margaret
Miles, No Rest for the Dove (April, Bantam pbo, 5.99) 3rd
in this colonial series, set in Massachusetts in the Summer of
1765.
Camille Minichino, The Beryllium Murder (March, Morrow hc, 24.00). 4th with
physicist-sleuth Gloria Lamerino. Karen recommends this
series.
Brent Monahan, The Jekyl Island
Club (May, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). Jekyl Island, off the coast of Georgia,
was the playground of the rich and famous in the 1890s. When Sheriff John le Brun investigates a
suspicious hunting accident, J. P. Morgan and Joseph Pulitizer are on hand.
David
Morrell, Burnt Sienna (March, Warner hc, 24.95). Artist and
ex-Marine Chase Malone is coerced into painting a portrait of a businessman’s
wife – a man who turns out to be a powerful and twisted arms dealer. Earlier
wives have died. Is she next, and
how can Chase stop it?
Lynne Murray, Large Target (April, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). Josephine Fuller, “a woman of
size,” works as an investigator for
a San Diego philanthropist.
Tamar Myers, The Hand that Rocks the
Ladle (March, Signet pbo, 5.99).
8th in the Pennsylvania Dutch series. Includes recipes.
Robert B.
Parker, Hugger Mugger (March, Putnam hc, 23.95). Spenser heads
to Georgia to oversee security on a threatened thouroughbred. Signed Copies
Available.
T. Jefferson
Parker, Red Light (April, Hyperion hc, 23.95). Homicide
detective Merci Rayborn returns from The
Blue Hour (highly recommended by
JB and now available in pb).
When a young hooker is killed, Merci is forced to arrest the person that
all evidence points to--her new partner. The Washington Post Book World says,
“If you’re seeking a thinking man’s bestseller, T. Jefferson Parker is the
writer for you.” Signing.
Julie
Parsons, The Courtship Gift (March, Simon & Schuster hc,
24.00). By the author of Mary, Mary, which won high praise,
another tale of psychologcial suspense. One cold night in Dublin, Anna arrives
home to find her
husband dead from an allergic
reaction to bee sting venom—but this is not bee season, and Anna finds her
husband was not the man she thought she knew. Signed Copies
Available.
James
Patterson,
Cradle and All (May, Little Brown hc, 25.95). PI Anne
Fitzgerald is asked to watch over two pregnant teenagers. What she isn’t told is that they’re both
virgins and, according to a secret prophecy, one will give birth to the messiah
and one will bear the child of the devil.
Cynthia
Peale, The Death of Colonel Mann (March, Doubleday hc, 22.95). A
scandalous murder in Victorian Boston disturbs the Brahmins. Pseudonym of novelist Nancy
Zaroulis.
Anne Perry, Half Moon Street (April, Ballantine hc, 25.00). Insp. Pitt looks into the death of a man
from the Bohemian side of London, where artists are experimenting with the
fascinating new process of photography.
Clyde
Phillips, Blindsided (March, Morrow hc, 24.00). Jacques
Carpenter is out of prison and bent on revenge against those who put him away –
cops. Signing.
Nancy
Pickard, The Whole Truth (March, Pocket hc, 22.95). Postponed
from last Spring. A true crime
writer is drawn into a case she’s covering, when she’s no longer convinced that
the accused is guilty. Signed Copies
Available.
Ann Prospero, Almost Night (April, Dutton hc, 23.95). Debut novel
by an award-winning journalist and poet. Miami cop Susannah Cannon is assigned
to hunt down a cunning serial killer, and her team reflects the rich variety of
the Miami culture.
Robert J.
Randisi, Blood on the Arch (April, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). St. Louis Detective Joe Keogh
investigates the murder of a political candidate.
Lev Raphael, Little Miss Evil (April, Walker hc, 23.95).
4th with reluctant academic sleuth Nick Hoffman. Nick’s success at sleuthing has brought
him some fame at the State University of Michigan, but it also brings problems –
someone is leaving threats in his mailbox.
Christopher
Reich, The Runner (March, Delacorte hc, 29.95). In Europe
to help with the Nuremberg trials, US lawyer Devlin Judge has a private mission:
to find the top-ranking Nazi who killed his brother, a former Olympic sprinter
known as the White Lion. The author’s first book, Numbered Account, was an Edgar Nominee.
Signing.
J. D. Robb, Witness in Death (March, Berkley pbo, 6.99).
10th Eve Dallas finds her in the horrible position of being a cop and
a witness to murder, when a celebrity is killed in front of
her.
Lora Roberts, Murder Follows the Money (May, Fawcett pbo, 6.50). 6th
with free-lance writer Liz Sullivan.
Laura Joh Rowland,
The Samurai’s
Wife (April, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). Fifth in series set in 17th
century Japan. Sano, the Shogun’s
Investigator,needs the help of his spirited new wife as he seeks a terrifying
and elusive killer.
Anna Salter, White Lies (May, Pocket pbo, 6.99). A noted
anesthesiologist makes an appointment for therapy with Dr. Stone. He soon learns that she’s been suspended
and, though eager to fight the charges, seems to have more going on beneath her
calm exterior.
John
Sandford, Easy Prey (May, Putnam hc, 25.95). 12th
with police detective and war-games designer Lucas
Davenport.
Eve K.
Sandstrom,
The Smoking Gun (March, Signet pbo, 5.99).
3rd with reporter Nell Matthews.
Steven
Saylor, Twist At the End (April, Simon & Schuster hc, 24.00).
In a departure from his Roman series,
Saylor writes a mystery based on historical events in Austin, Texas, in 1885.
Will Porter (soon to known as O. Henry) reports on what may be the first
recorded case—unsolved—of a serial killer.
John Shannon, The Poison Sky (April, Berkley pbo, 5.99). PI Jack Liffey is hired to find a
runaway who has ties to a cult that harbors a dangerous secret. 3rd in
series.
Jody Shields, The Fig Eater (March, Little Brown hc, 23.95). On a
hot August night in 1910 Vienna, an 18-year-old girl is found dead. The autopsy reveals that she’d eaten
fresh figs just before being killed.
Is that a clue to the killer as there are no fresh figs in Vienna at that
time?
Rosemary
Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray (May, Berkley hc, 21.95). In Regency
England, Beau Brummel is called on to make enquiries by the Duchess of York
after the Countess of Wrayburn is poisoned and scandal begins to
spread.
Howard
Swindle, Doin’ Dirty (April, St. Martin’s hc, 22.95). Det. Jeb Quinlin, introduced in Jitter Joint, returns to investigate the
gruesome murder of a reporter. The author is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor for
the Dallas Morning-News, and an Edgar-nominated true crime
writer.
Nancy Tesler, Golden Eggs and other Deadly Things (April, Dell pbo, 5.99). 4th
Carrie Carlin. Carrie’s father wins
the lottery, but when his new wife takes money to pay off an extortionist who
later turns up dead, well, Carrie just has to straighten it all
out.
Victoria
Thompson, Murder on St. Mark’s Place (March, Berkley pbo, 5.99).
2nd set in turn of the century New York (that’s
1899-1900…).
Aimee & David
Thurlo, Shooting Chant (April, Forge hc, 23.95). A pregnant
Ella Clah faces a terrible mystery: is whatever damaging the livestock births
also affecting those of Navajos?
Peter
Tremayne, Valley of the Shadow (March, St. Martin’s hc, 23.95). 6th Celtic mystery with
Sister Fidelma, set in 7th century Ireland. Are the 33 ritually killed young men
part of a pagan Druidic practice?
Also available, Hemlock at
Vespers (March, St. Martin’s
tpo, 15.95). Fifteen short stories
with Sister Fidelma.
Kathy Hogan
Trocheck, Irish Eyes (March, Harper hc, 24.00). The St.
Patirck’s Day shooting of Callahan Garrity’s former partner launches her into
the dark world of the Big Blue Wall.
Judith Van
Gieson, The Stolen Blue (March, Univ. New Mexico Press hc,
22.95). As rare book buyer for the Center for Southwest Research, Claire
Reynier’s job takes her many places.
But when a carefully selected box of books is hijacked from her, she
finds herself out in the true “wild” west.
Signed Copies Available. And then… (April, Signet “pbo”, 5.99)… Same book,
out in mass market.
Robert
Walker, Blind Instinct (March, Berkley hc, 21.95).
7th in the series with FBI Medical Examiner Dr. Jessica Coran – and
first hardcover. Coran is asked by Scotland Yard to help track an intelligent
psycho.
Nathan
Walpow, Death of an Orchid Lover (April, Dell pbo, 5.99). 2nd
Joe Portugal. Character and author
are both gardening experts.
Donald
Westlake, The Hook (March, Mysterious Press hc, 23.95).
Wayne Prentice is a fading author who’s approached by Bryce Proctor. Proctor has
a huge contract for his next book, but he’s locked in a nasty divorce. Proctor’s pitch is that his book will be
published under Prentice’s name and they’ll split the money – but Proctor’s wife
must die as part of the deal. Signing.
Randy Wayne
White, The Thousand Islands (May, Putnam hc, 23.95). Fifteen years ago, a girl with a gift
for finding things unearthed an ancient, gold medallion. After years of nightmares, she’s found
hanging from a tree limb. The
coroner rules it an accident, but Doc Ford isn’t convinced. One
of Tammy’s favorite series.
Deborah
Woodworth,
A Simple Shaker Murder (April, Avon pbo, 5.99). 4th
with Shaker Eldress sister Rose Callahan.
Marilyn J.
Wooley, Jackpot Justice (April, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). Winner of the 1999 St. Martin’s Malice
Domestic first novel award.
Clinical psychologist Cassandra Ringwald is retained to do a forensic
evaluation for a very unusual defendant.
Sally S.
Wright, Pursuit & Pursuasion (March, Multnomah tpo, 10.99).
3rd adventure for archivist Ben Reese. A Scottish professor dies of “natural
causes” but has asked her friend to investigate if she should
die.
Margaret Yorke, The Price of
Guilt (March, St. Martin’s hc, 24.95). A woman flees her abusive husband, but
finds the small English village she has run to has its own dangers. By the 1999 Cartier Diamond Dagger Award
Winner, conferred by the British Crime Writers’
Association.
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A very special
item
The Putt at the End of the
World, by
Dave Barry, James W. Hall, James Crumley, Ridley Pearson, Les Standiford, Tami
Hoag, and Lee K. Abbott. (May, Warner hc, 24.95) Inspired by Naked Came the Manatee, this serialized
“novel” tells the tale of 3 golfers invited by Philip Bates, the richest man on
Earth, to play a golf match at a secret Scottish course--a match that will
somehow affect the fate of the world.
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And coming this
summer...
BarbaraNeely, Blanche Passes
Go,
July
James Lee Burke,
Purple Cane Road
(Robicheaux), Aug.
Dorothy Cannell,Bridesmaids
Revisted, June
The
Late Sarah Caudwell, The Sibyl in her Grave, July
Lee Child, Runnning Blind,
July
Janet
Evanovich,
Hot Six, Aug.
Bill Fitzhugh, Cross Dressing, June
Stephen Greenleaf,
Ellipsis,
July
Stephen Hunter, Hot Springs, June
Marcia Muller, Listen to the
Silence,
July
Bill Pronzini, Crazy Bone,
Aug.
Kathy Reichs, Deadly Decisions
Aug.
Laurence Shames,
The Naked
Detective,
June
April Smith, Be the One,
July
Some
Spring Paperback Reprints
Rudolfo Anaya, Shaman Winter (Apr., Warner,
7.50).
Russell
Atwood, East of A (Apr., Fawcett, 6.50). JB
recommends.
Will Christopher
Baer, Kiss Me, Judas
(Mar., Penguin,
12.95).
Nevada Barr, Liberty Falling (Mar., Avon,
6.99).
Richard
Barre, Blackheart Highway (May, Berkley,
6.50).
Eleanor
Taylor Bland, Tell No Tales (Mar., St. Martin’s,
5.99).
Peter
Blauner, Man of the Hour (Mar., Warner,
7.99).
Lawrence
Block, The Burglar in the Rye (May, Signet,
6.99).
Rita Mae
Brown, Cat on the Scent (Apr., Bantam,
6.99).
Mary Higgins
Clark, We’ll Meet Again (Apr., Pocket,
7.99).
William J.
Caunitz, Chains of Command (May, Onyx, 6.99).
Barbara
D’Amato, Hard Evidence (Mar., Berkley, 5.99). Cat
Marsala.
Diane Mott
Davidson, Prime Cut (Mar., Bantam,
6.50).
Jeffery Deaver, The Devil’s
Teardrop (Apr., Pocket,
6.99).
Edward Dee, Nightbird (May, Warner, 6.99).
Carol Nelson
Douglas, Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit (May, Forge,
6.99).
Grace F.
Edwards, No Time to Die (Mar., Bantam,
5.99).
Dan
Fesperman,
Lie in the Dark (May, Vintage,
12.00).
Earlene
Fowler, Mariner’s Compass (Apr., Berkley,
6.50).
Jonathan Gash, The Rich and the
Profane (Mar,, Penguin, 5.99).
Lovejoy.
Dorothy
Gilman, Thale’s Folly (Mar., Ballantine,
6.50).
Jaqueline
Girdner, Murder on the Astral Plane (Mar., Berkley,
5.99).
Ed Gorman, The Day the Music Died (Apr., Berkley,
5.99).
Tim Green, Double Reverse (Apr., Warner, 7.50). Football mystery
by NPR commentator.
Martha
Grimes, Biting the Moon (Mar., Signet,
12.00).
James
Grippando,
Found Money (May, Avon, 6.99).
Barbara
Hambly, Graveyard Dust (May, Bantam,
5.99).
Thomas
Harris, Hannibal (May, Dell, 7.99).
Donald
Harstad, Known Dead (May, Bantam,
6.50).
Pete Hautman, Mrs. Million (Mar., Pocket, 12.95). Bill
recommends as hilarious.
Jane Heller, Sis Boom Bah (May, St. Martin’s,
6.99).
Susan Holtzer, The Silly
Season (Apr., St. Martin’s,
5.99).
Michael Jahn, Murder on Theatre Row (Apr., World Wide,
5.99).
Iris
Johansen, The Killing Game (May, Bantam,
6.99).
Christine T.
Jorgensen,
Dead on Her Feet (Apr., World Wide,
5.99).
Philip Kerr, The Second Angel
(Mar., Pocket,
6.99).
Peter King, Death al Dente (Mar., St. Martin’s,
5.99).
Joseph T.
Klempner, Flat Lake in Winter (May, St. Martins,
6.99).
Charles
Knief, Emerald Flash (May, St. Martin’s,
5.99).
Jane Langton, The Thief of Venice (May, Penguin, 5.99).
John LeCarré, Single & Single
(Mar., Pocket,
7.99).
Dennis
Lehane, Prayers for Rain (May, Harper,
6.99).
Margaret
Maron, Home Fires (Apr., Warner,
6.50).
Richard
Mason, The Drowning People (Mar., Warner,
6.99).
Sujata
Massey, The Flower Master (Apr., Harper,
6.99).
Barbara
Parker, Suspicion of Betrayal (Mar., Signet,
6.99).
Robert B.
Parker, Hush Money (Apr., Berkley,
7.50).
T. Jefferson
Parker, The Blue Hour (Apr., Hyperion, 7.99). On
JB’s Best of ’99 list.
Anne Perry, Bedford Square (Apr., Ballantine,
6.99).
Elizabeth
Peters, The Falcon at the Portal (Apr., Avon,
6.99).
Bill
Pronzini, Nothing But the Night (Apr., Walker, 11.95).
Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes (Mar., Dell,
6.50).
Ann Ripley, The Perennial Killer (May, Bantam,
5.99).
Laura Jo
Rowland, The Concubine’s Tattoo (Apr., St. Martin’s, 6.50).
James Sallis, Eye of the Cricket (Apr., Walker,
8.95).
Aileen
Schumacher,
Frame Work for Death (May, World Wide,
5.99).
Michael
Stone, Totally Dead (Apr., Penguin
5.99).
Doug Swanson, Umbrella Man (May, Berkley,
5.99).
Maureen Tan, Run Jane Run (Mar., Warner,
6.50).
Charles Todd, Search the Dark (May, St. Martin’s,
5.99).
Andrew
Vachss, Choice of Evil (May, Vintage,
13.00).
k.j.a.Wishnia, Soft Money (May, Signet, 5.99). Sequel to the Edgar Nominee 23 Shades of
Black.
John Morgan
Wilson, Justice at Risk
(May, Bantam,
6.50).
Joan Wolf, No Dark Place (Apr., Harper,
5.99).
Stuart Woods,Worst Fears Realized (Apr., Harper,
7.50)
Reference and Nonfiction
American Noir: Underground Writers
and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, by David Cochran (May, Smithsonian hc, 27.95). An examination of the works of various
noir masters and their works during the early Cold War years: Jim Thompson, Rod
Serling, Ray Bradbury, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, Roger Corman, Sam
Fuller, Charles Willeford and Richard Condon.
Crime Scene
USA, by
Neal Yonover (April, Hyperion tpo, 12.95). A
traveler’s guide to sites of famous and infamous murders, robberies, kidnappings
and other criminal acts.
History of Murder, Colin Wilson, ed. (March, Carroll & Graf tpo,
10.95). A comprehensive true-crime
of two thousand years of murder, from Rome through the last Century…
Time
to Be In Earnest, by P. D. James,
(May, Knopf hc, 25.00). A
memoir from the great Dame in the form of a diary of her 77th year,
interwoven with reflections on her life and writing
career.
The
Red Hot Typewriter: The Life of
John D. MacDonald, by Hugh Merrill. A biography of the creator of Travis
McGee, first of the social-minded Florida sleuths.
Sleuths of the Century, Ed Gorman & Jon L. Breen, eds. (Feb., Carroll & Graf hc, 24.95) A
collection of classic and contemporary noir writers, from Chesterton and Sayers
to Mosley and Grafton. The best of
the last
Century…
Loren D.
Estleman, The Midnight Man (May, iBooks, 14.00). 3rd
Amos Walker, Detroit PI.
Stuart
Kaminsky, Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (May, iBooks, 12.00). 2nd in
the delightful Toby Peters series, Hollywood PI of the 30s &
40s.
Margaret
Millar, How Like an Angel (Feb., Carroll & Graf, 5.95).
Reissue of a classic suspense novel from 1962.
Iain Pears, Giotto’s Hand (March, Berkley, 6.50). From 1995, 5th in the popular
art history series.
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RIVER OF
DARKNESS by
Rennie Airth 24.95
BONES by Jan Burke 23.00
L. A. REQUIEM by Robert Crais 23.95 hc/ 6.99
pb
STRAWBERRY
SUNDAY by Stephen Greenleaf 23.00
IN A DRY SEASON
by Peter Robinson
24.00
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN
AMERICAN AUTHOR
CERTIFIABLY
INSANE by Arthur W. Bahr 23.00
BIG TROUBLE by Dave Barry 23.95
THE SKULL
MANTRA by Eliot Pattison 24.95
GOD IS A
BULLET by Boston Teran 24.00
INNER CITY
BLUES by Paula L. Woods 23.95 hc/12.00
tp
BEST PAPERBACK
ORIGINAL
FULTON COUNTY
BLUES by Ruth Birmingham 5.99
LUCKY MAN by Tony Dunbar 5.99
THE
RESURRECTIONIST by Mark Graham 5.99
THE OUTCAST by Jose Latour 13.95
IN BIG
TROUBLE by
Laura Lippman 6.50
We don’t see many Rex Stout books
in hardcover these days, so we were pleased to acquire recently a collection of
about 50 of them. These are not prime collector-quality
copies. Many are ex-library or
book club editions, and/or later printings, in far from pristine condition; but
many people feel that any Rex Stout hardcover is a nice book. Some are titles which are rarely seen in
any form, and some have dust jackets which give them a visual appeal beyond
their intrinsic value. Prices are
$7.50 for book clubs without dust jacket, and $15 for book clubs with jacket;
the rest range from $15 to $50.
These are very similar to the
books with which I started my own collection long ago; some I replaced with
better copies over the years, others I never found a better
one.
A descriptive price list of titles
(there’s only one copy of each) will be available on March 15. Please send us a stamped, self-addressed
#10 envelope if you’d like us to mail you a copy. The books will be put out for display
and sale on March 25.
---Bill Farley
The last time we raised shipping
charges was…well, we don’t recall. As all of the shippers have raised their
rates, it is time for us to as well.
As of March 1st, 2000, our shipping for UPS and First Class US
Mail will go up $1: $5 for the 1st hc. Bookrate Mail will go from $3 to $4 for
the 1st hc, and the 1st pb will go from $2 to $3. With all types, additional hcs will
remain $1 each and pbs $.50 each. – Thanks, JB
Author
Appearances
Sat.,
March 4,
noon, Ray Vukcevich signs
The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces.
Mon.,
March 6,
noon, Dianne Mott
Davidson
signs Tough Cookie.
Tues.,
March 7,
noon, Barbara Seranella signs
Unwanted Company.
Sat,
March 11,
noon, John J. Nance signs Blackout.
Sun.,
March 12,
time uncertain, Lisa
Scottoline
signs Moment of Truth.
Mon,
March 13,
noon, Christopher Reich signs
The Runner.
Wed.,
March 15,
noon, April Henry signs
Square in the Face.
Fri,
March 17,
noon, Donald E. Westlake signs
The Hook.
Wed,
March 22,
noon, Martha Lawrence signs
Pisces Rising.
Sat.,
March 25,
noon, Larry Karp signs
Scamming the
Birdman.
Tues.,
March 28,
noon, Jennifer Crusie signs
Welcome to
Temptation..
Sat,
April 1, noon,
Aaron Elkins signs Skeleton Dance.
Mon.,
April 3,
noon, Nevada Barr signs Deep South.
Tues.,
April 5, noon,
Clyde Phillips signs Blindsided.
Sat,
April 8,
noon, Rhys Bowen signs Evan and Elle.
Sat,
April 22,
noon, Jane Isenberg
signs
Death in a Hot Flash.
Wed.,
May 3,
noon, T.Jefferson Parker signs Red Light.
Wed.,
May 17, 12:30,
Jeffery Deaver signs
The Empty Chair.
…..and
more coming!
Signed Copies
Available:
Steve
Hamilton
– Winter of the Wolf
Moon
Jamie
Harrison
– Blue Deer
Thaw
The Winter auction item was a
signed Advance Reader’s Copy of Hour of
the Hunter, by J. A. Jance.
Bidding began at $50 and the winning bid was
$95.00.
The Spring auction item reflects
our current emphasis on Rex Stout.
It’s a first edition of a Nero Wolfe novel, Too Many Clients (Viking Press,
1960). The book is a bright, clean
copy except for a ½ in. smudge on the front free endpaper, in a bright
price-clipped dust-jacket with wear at top of spine extending about an inch to
front and rear. Bidding begins at
$50. Closing date is April 1,
2000.
To review how the auction
works:
¨
Any time before April 1, you
give us your bid. Be sure to
include your name, mailing address, and telephone number.
¨
Bids may be submitted in
person, by phone, by mail or e-mail.
¨
Any bid for less then the
minimum will be disregarded. One
bid per customer.
¨
In case of a tie, the bid
received earliest will win.
Mail
and phone orders for these or any other books are welcome. We often have signed copies of Northwest
authors, and other authors who visit the shop. Prices subject to change without
notice. Seattle Mystery Bookshop,
117 Cherry St., Seattle, WA 98104.
Phone: (206)
587-5737.
Email: mailto:staff@seattlemystery.com?=springnewsletter
Website:
seattlemystery.com
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