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Title: Murder on the
Leviahan
Price: $32.95
Author: Boris Akunin
Series Character: Erast
Frandorin
In this killer follow-up to
The Winter Queen, Akunin
pays homage to Agatha
Christie and Thomas Hobbes.
In Paris, 1878, the renowned
police commissioner “Papa”
Gauche investigates the
brutal murder of Lord
Littleby. Found in his home
on the Rue Grenelle with his
head bashed in, the body of
the English aristocrat is
surrounded by the corpses of
seven servants and two
children, who appear to have
died from overdoses of
morphine. One clue – a gold
key in the shape of a whale
– leads Gauche to board a
luxury cruise ship, the
leviathan, for its maiden
voyage to India. Among the
highly suspicious passengers
is a young Russian diplomat
with a shock of prematurely
white hair, indicating a
traumatic past. His name?
Erast Fandorin, And as soon
as the hero of The Winter
Queen learns that a
dangerous murderer is
roaming the decks of the
Leviathan, it is only a
matter of time before the
talented sleuth joins forces
with Gauche to deduce the
awful truth.
Title: Stick Game
Price:
$21.95
Author: Peter Bowen
Series Character: Gabriel
Dupre
With their exceptional
characterizations, evocative
setting, and smartly plotted
mysteries, Peter Bowen's
Montana novels have always
fascinated readers and
critics alike. In "The Stick
Game, Bowen's lyrical, spare
writing carries us once
again to a part of the
country few of us know much
about.
The latest installment in
this unique series finds
amateur sleuth and cattle
rancher Gabriel Du Pre
uncovering the dirty secrets
of an industrial gold mine
and searching for a troubled
teenage boy. At a trading
fair in rural Montana, Du
Pre and his longtime love
Madelain run into Jeanne now
worries about the
disappearance of her
sixteen-year-old son, Danny.
Meanwhile, Du Pre befriends
a musician from Fort Belknap
Reservation who introduces
him to disturbing parallels
between the huge incidence
of birth defects in the
Indian population there and
the activities of the
persephone gold mine located
near the reservation. With
some reluctance, Du Pre
agrees to look into both
problems.
But then Danny's body is
found in a well, and Du Pre
discovers a link between the
boy's life and what goes on
at Fort Belknap. Working
with a doctor who's long
been concerned about
Persephone's practices, Du
Pre dangerously confronts
the indifference and
recklessness of the
industrial mine.
Perfectly capturing the
cadences of Metis life,
Peter Bowen beautifully
depicts the people and
landscape of remote Montana.
Title: The Tumbler
Price:
$32.95
Author: Peter Bowen
Series Character: Gabriel
Dupre
Gabriel Du Pre, the old
Metis fiddler at the center
of Peter Bowen's
atmospheric, engrossing
series set in the dirty,
dusty Montana that's rarely
featured in travel
brochures, has a knack for
finding trouble. Or rather,
trouble has a knack for
finding him. There's a rumor
going around that Du Pre and
his old sorceror friend
Benetsee have come across a
parcel containing the lost
journals of Lewis and Clark,
and outsiders, drawn by the
spirit of the legendary
explorers, are beginning to
invade Toussaint.
Du Pre won't say whether
he's got the journals or
not, preferring his usual
routine of cigarettes, a
whiskey ditch or two and a
few fiddling gigs up and
down Montana's highways to
getting involved in this
controversy. Benetsee isn't
talking, either, but when a
journalist goes a little too
far in trying to get the
story of the lost journals,
and the two men's friends
and family are put squarely
in the face of danger, Du
Pre doesn't have much choice
but to wade in and set
things right.
The Gabriel Du Pre mysteries
have become required reading
for fans of the vanishing
West, and Peter Bowen's
storytelling talent
continues to thrive in "The
Tumbler, a dazzling entry in
what has become a classic
series.
Title: Evan’s Gate
Price:
$33.95
Author: Rhys Bowen
Series Character: Evan Evans
When Constable Evan Evans
discovers a beautiful
shepard's cottage in the
mountains of Llanfair,
Wales, he and his fiancee
are thrilled. It's only
months before their wedding
and they are eager to begin
their new life together. The
cottage is in need of
renovation so Evan wastes no
time before he begins making
much-needed repairs.
But it turns out that Evan's
discovery extends far beyond
the beauties of a
mountain-top view and a cozy
dream-house when Evan finds
the skeleton of a child
buried in the front yard.
His professional
inclinations soon get the
best of him and he cannot
rest until he discovers the
identity of the child.
The skeleton is decades old,
but the discovery eerily
coincides with the case of a
present-day missing girl.
Although discouraged by his
fellow detectives, Evan
dives into the mystery of
both missing children. He
soon realizes that if he can
solve the decades-old death,
he just might find a crucial
insight into the whereabouts
of the child missing in the
present day.
Rhys Bowen's newest
spell-binding addition to
her critically acclaimed
cozy series will win the
hearts of fans and newcomers
alike.
Title: Death in the Age of
Steam
Price: $22.95
Author: Mel Bradshaw
Passion and murder in the
new age of industry
Toronto in 1856 is
industrializing with little
time for scruple or
sentiment. When Reform
politician William Sheridan
dies suddenly and his
daughter Theresa vanishes,
only one man persists in
asking questions. A former
suitor of Theresa's, bank
cashier Isaac Harris has
never managed to forget her,
despite her marriage to
another man. Thrust into the
role of amateur detective,
he must now struggle with
the demands of his job and
the shortcomings of the
fledgling city police. He
also faces the hostility of
Theresa's powerful husband,
a steamboat and railway
magnate.
Harris's search
takes a grisly turn when, in
a valley outside of town, he
finds human remains decked
in traces of Theresa's
finery. If she is dead, who
is responsible? And who
cares to find out, apart
from the man who wooed her
too timidly and now would do
anything to make up for it?
Death in the Age of Steam
whirls the reader through a
richly realized Victorian
landscape, from Niagara
Falls to Montreal and north
as far as the shores of Lake
Superior. It's a world at
once near and exotic, a
world of noise and smoke and
churning pistons, but a
world still very familiar to
denizens of the 21st
century.
Title: Me Ex-Best Friend
Price: $10.50
Author: Betty Brophy
Series Character: 1st Claire
Newman
Just your average
multitasking mom...
In suburban Washington,
D.C., Claire Newman juggles
a journalism career,
marriage, and children: when
she's not writing a story
for "Nationweek" magazine,
she's managing car pools,
soccer games, and birthday
parties. But one phone call
is about to send Claire in
pursuit of answers to a
mystery that's haunted her
for years....
Lydia Finelli was Claire's
best friend since childhood.
They were like sisters --
until five years ago, when
Lydia suddenly, icily,
withdrew. Then out of the
blue, Lydia calls Claire,
pleading for her help. But
when Claire arrives at
Lydia's home, she finds her
dead. The case is quickly
ruled a suicide, but Claire,
sensing more to the story,
digs deeper, unraveling the
mystery of their shared
past. As the murderous truth
emerges, Claire is
challenged by the ultimate
test of friendship and
loyalty, forcing her to risk
all for her ex-best friend.
Title: The Tail of the Tip
Off
Price: $10.99
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Series Character: Mrs.
Murphy
It's dead cold in Crozet,
Virginia, but the college
basketball season is heating
up. In their 11th outing,
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen
and her sleuthing pets
investigate the suspicious
death of a well-liked local
builder.
Title: Whisker of Evil
Price: $37.95
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Series Character: Mrs.
Murphy
It's a summer full of
turbulence for small-town
Crozet, Virginia, with a
movie star's homecoming, a
spreading rabies epidemic,
and the clues to an old
murder unearthed. But what
hits closest to home for
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen
and her trio of sleuthing
pets is the unsettling
knowledge that the building
of a new post office may
depose her as postmistress.
Title: The Second Time
Around
Price: $11.99
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
The "Queen of Suspense,"
Mary Higgins Clark, delivers
a gripping tale of deception
and tantalizing twists that
might have been ripped from
today's headlines.
When Nicholas Spencer, the
charismatic head of a
company that has developed
an anticancer vaccine,
disappears without a trace,
reporter Marcia "Carley"
DeCarlo is assigned the
story. Word that Spencer, if
alive, has made off with
huge sums of money --
including the life savings
of many employees -- doesn't
do much to change Carley's
already low opinion of
Spencer's wife, Lynn, who is
also Carley's stepsister and
whom everyone believes is
involved. But when Lynn's
life is threatened, she asks
Carley to help her prove
that she wasn't her
husband's accomplice. As the
facts unfold, however,
Carley herself becomes the
target of a dangerous,
sinister group that will
stop at nothing to get what
they want.
Title: Nighttime is My Time
Price: $38.95
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
"The definition of an owl
had always pleased him: a
night bird of prey...sharp
talons and soft plumage
which permits noiseless
flight...applied
figuratively to a person of
nocturnal habits. 'I am The
Owl, ' he would whisper to
himself after he had
selected his prey, 'and
nighttime is my time.'"
Jean Sheridan, a college
dean and prominent
historian, sets out to her
hometown to attend the
twenty-year reunion of
Stonecroft Academy alumni,
where she is to be honored
along with six other members
of her class. There is
something uneasy in the air:
one woman in the group about
to be feted, Alison Kendall,
a beautiful, high-powered
Hollywood agent, drowned in
her pool during an
early-morning swim. Alison
is the fifth woman in the
class whose life has come to
a sudden, mysterious end.
Adding to Jean's sense of
unease is a taunting,
anonymous fax she received,
referring to her daughter --
a child she had given up for
adoption twenty years ago.
At the award dinner, Jean is
introduced to Sam Deegan, a
detective obsessed by the
unsolved murder of a young
woman who may hold the key
to the identity of the
Stonecroft killer. Jean does
not suspect that among the
distinguished people she is
greeting is The Owl, a
murderer nearing the
countdown on his mission of
vengeance against the
Stonecroft women who had
mocked and humiliated him,
with Jean as his final
victim.
Title: Redemption Street
Price: $34.50
Author: Reed Farrell Coleman
Series Character: Moe Prager
Moe Prager is a retired New
York City police officer who
reinvented himself as a
high-end wine merchant.
Burned out from his work on
the force, Moe is
nonetheless unable to resist
getting involved in the
investigation of a fire that
occurred 15 years ago at a
Catskill resort--the very
fire that killed his first
love.
Title: Mysterious Pleasures
Price: $24.95
Author: Martin Edwards
(editor)
Ever since its creation, the
Crime Writers' Association
has championed the very best
in murder and mystery. Now,
to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of this esteemed
organization, Mysterious
Pleasures showcases the
short stories of some of its
most illustrious members.
All the contributors are
winners of the CWA's
prestigious Diamond or Gold
Dagger Awards, or have
served as chairman, or, in
many cases, all three. From
Eric Ambler to Ian Rankin,
Dick Francis to Ruth
Rendell, John Creasey to
Sara Paretsky, here are
tales that alternately
tantalize, intrigue, shock,
surprise, and thrill--a
myriad of styles united only
by genre and by the sheer
quality of the writing. A
box of delights--some
hard-centered, some soft,
some with a drop of poison.
Title: Poison Blonde
Price:
$8.99
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Series Character: Amos
Walker
In this gripping new novel
in the three-time Shamus
Award-winning series,
Detroit's most savvy private
eye is up to his neck in
international
drug-smuggling, hit squads,
music-industry gangsters,
and a client who's nothing
but trouble.
Title: Artifacts
Price:
$10.50
Author: Mary Anna Evans
Series Character: Faye
Longchamp (1st in the
series)
To save her ancestral
plantation home in Florida,
Faye Longchamp illegally
digs for and sells artifacts
on the black market. But
while she's on a legitimate
dig on a nearby island, two
young members of the crew
are murdered and the bones
from an older murder are
found.
Title: Sunshine and Shadow
Price: $9.99
Author: Earlene Fowler
Series Character: Benni
Harper
Spirited ex-cowgirl,
quilter, and fold-art expert
Benni Harper is back,
investigating the connection
between her favorite author,
the murder of a family
friend, and a crazy quilt.
And when she starts
receiving strange phone
calls and anonymous letters
telling her she'll be the
next victim, her interest in
the case becomes even more
urgent.
Title: A Feast of Poisons
Price: $33.95
Author: C.L. Grace
Series Character: Kathryn
Swinbrooke
Could a village blacksmith
and his wife have
independently, and on the
same day, murdered each
other with two entirely
different poisons? The local
medicine woman doesn't think
so, and neither does Kathryn
Swinbrooke, physician of
Canterbury.
Title: The Last Lullaby
Price: $37.50
Author: Denise Hamilton
Series Character: Eve
Diamond
From multiaward-nominated
and national bestselling
author Denise Hamilton comes
an electrifying new Eve
Diamond novel that takes the
reader on an exhilarating,
heart-stopping, yet poignant
ride through the dark
streets of L.A.
"Los Angeles Times" reporter
Eve Diamond has spent the
day at LAX, shadowing U.S.
Customs Supervisor William
Maxwell. He's got his eye on
an incoming flight from
Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo.
The flight's packed with the
usual mass of humanity,
ranging from the elegant
Asian woman in the raspberry
silk pantsuit who emerges
from first class carrying a
tired toddler to the scruffy
students who have spent the
long flight in economy.
Suddenly, shots ring out.
Three people are dead,
including two men who appear
to be businessmen and the
silk-clad woman. The man who
was booked on the flight as
the dead woman's husband is
missing. And the sad little
toddler is left behind.
Who is this child? Her
passport says she's
Japanese, but she doesn't
seem to understand the
language. Was the dead woman
really her mother? Why has
the child made five
transpacific flights in one
year? And why does the INS
whisk her immediately into
hiding?
Is this child a pawn in a
larger scheme? Why would
criminals care about this
little girl? And why is Eve,
too, in danger? Eve knows
she must try to find the
answers. Her search takes
her into L.A.'s sleazy
hotels, cybercafes, and into
the upscale milieu of trendy
restaurants and high-powered
human-rights lawyers.
Nothing is quite what it
appears to be, and nobody
seems to want Eve to find
the child.
Title: The Magyar Venus
Price: $34.50
Author: Lyn Hamilton
Series Character: Lara
McClintock
A suspicious suicide, a
rekindled flame, and a
twenty-five-thousand-year-old
artifact lead Lara to the
fascinating city of
Budapest.
Title: First Class Killing
Price: $10.50
Author: Lynne Heitman
Series Character: Alex
Shannon
Corruption. Deceit.
Cold-blooded murder. These
skies are far from friendly.
Tough, resourceful, and
beautiful, Alex Shanahan
survived the cutthroat
corporate world on her own
terms. But now, she's using
her hard-earned experience
for herself -- as a private
investigator. Alex is hired
to check out an airline
that's been serving more
than just complimentary
peanuts: there's a high-end
prostitution ring catering
to first-class passengers.
Alex goes undercover as a
flight attendant to
infiltrate the group, and
gets more than she bargained
for as she gets closer to
the cunning and dangerous
woman who runs it...close
enough to kill. When her
cover is blown, she knows
it's only a matter of time
before her next flight is
her last....
Title: The Serpent’s Trail
Price: $36.00
Author: Sue Henry
Series Character: Maxie
McNabb (1st in the series_
Maxie McNabb investigates
the murder of her friend,
Sarah Nunamaker. Although
Sarah was seriously ill, her
death was not a natural one,
and so Maxie sets out to
discover who could have
wanted to kill an elderly
woman who had only months
left to live. Maxie, as
executrix of Sarah's estate,
must sort out a claim
against Sarah's will. Could
the controversial contents
of Sarah's will be tied to
her mysterious death?
Title: Decorated to Death
Price: $31.00
Author: Dean James
Series Character: Simon
Kirby-Jones
"Sure to revolutionize the
traditional British cozy and
win the hearts of fans
everywhere."--Publishers
Weekly, starred review, for
Posted to Death (the first
Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery).
What happens when you take a
classic British cozy and mix
in a sophisticated man who
also happens to be a
vampire? You get Dean
James's critically acclaimed
and delightful series
featuring everybody's
favorite sleuth, Simon
Kirby-Jones. In this third
book in the series, the
quiet and quaint town of
Bedfordshire Village of
Snupperton Mumsley is
playing host to television
decorating sensation,
Hezekia "Zeke" Harwood.
The
flamboyant, outspoken
Harwood has become famous in
England for his weekly
decorating program, "Tres
Zeke," and he's on the verge
of signing a lucrative deal
with one of the American
television networks for an
American version.
Autocratic, obnoxious, and
rude, Harwood brings with
him an entourage of family
and staff, all of whom fear
and resent him. Harwood has
come to town at the
invitation of Lady Prunella
Bliterington to redecorate
the drawing room at
Blitherington Hall. But
after a melodramatic fight
between Lady Prunella and
Harwood over decorating
ideas--which was filmed by
Harwood's TV crew
unbeknownst to Lady Prunella--Harwood
is soon found dead, and it's
up to Simon to prove that
Lady Prunella didn't do
it....
Title: Firestorm
Price:
$37.95
Author: Iris Johansen
#1 New York Times
bestselling author Iris
Johansen turns up the heat
in this explosive new
psychological thriller. This
time a gifted arson
investigator teams up with a
mysterious operative to stop
a killer raging completely
out of control...
For Kerry Murphy, the
inferno is never far away.
The flames of that long-ago
night still burn in her
nightmares: the heat, the
choking smoke, the
helplessness. She can never
run fast enough...
Now Kerry works as an arson
investigator with her
evidence-sniffing dog, Sam.
Together they’re a great
team, but her life is about
to change in the time it
takes to strike a match. The
deadly flames of her past
are back, and from out of
the ashes a stranger
appears. Who is Silver? And
why has he chosen her in the
desperate race to find a
killer determined to ignite
hell on earth? Kerry and
Silver may not have a chance
against a psychopath as
coldhearted as his method is
red-hot. To save themselves
and the innocent lives at
stake, Kerry will have to do
what she hoped she’d never
have to do: fight fire with
fire.
Title: Therapy
Price: $39.95
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Series Character: Alex
Delaware
Kellerman returns with
"Therapy," where
psychologist Alex Delaware's
investigation into a
sadistic double slaying
leads to a corrupt
multimillion-dollar scheme
made up of equal parts
madness and menace.
Title: A Grave at Glorieta
Price: $34.50
Author: Michael Killan
Series Character: Harrison
Raines
Harry Raines and his partner
Joseph "Boston" Leahy are
assigned to uncover
Confederate operations in
the West. But when their
contact is murdered--and
Leahy is accused of the
crime--Harry must root out
the killer and the
intelligence vital to the
Union cause.
Title: Fatal Flaw
Price:
$9.99
Author: William Lashner
Series Character: Victor
Carl
Late one night Victor Carl
gets a panicked phone call
from an old law school
classmate. Guy Forrest
claims he has just found the
body of his fiancé lying
murdered in the house they
shared. The victim is Hailey
Prouix, for whose love Guy
had abandoned his children,
his job, his wife, his life.
Hailey had mesmerized every
man she ever met --
including, unbeknownst to
Guy, Victor Carl. Convinced
that Guy is Hailey's killer,
Victor agrees to represent
him, all the while secretly
vowing to see justice done,
whatever the cost.
Victor embarks on a quest
that will take him from
Philadelphia to Las Vegas to
the valleys of West
Virginia. He digs further
into Hailey Prouix's past
and discovers that nothing
is as simple as it had
seemed, especially the woman
he thought he loved. As
Guy's murder trial heads
toward its shattering
conclusion, Victor must find
the brutal truth before the
mechanism of retribution he
himself has set into motion
falls like a hatchet, smack
on his client's head.
Title: Uniform Justice
Price: $11.99
Author: Donna Leon
Series Character: Guido
Brunetti
For more than a decade Donna
Leon has been a bestseller
in Europe with a series of
mysteries featuring
Commissario Guido Brunetti.
Always ready to bend the
rules to solve a crime,
Brunetti manages to maintain
his integrity while
maneuvering through a city
rife with politics,
corruption, and intrigue. In
Uniform Justice, a young
cadet has been found hanged,
a presumed suicide, in
Venice's elite military
academy. Brunetti's sorrow
for the boy, so close in age
to his own son, is rivaled
only by his contempt for a
community that is more
concerned with protecting
the reputation of the
school, and its privileged
students, than with finding
the truth. The young man's
father is a doctor and
former politician. He is a
man of an impeccable
integrity who inexplicably
avoids talking to the
police. As Brunetti pursues
his inquiry, he is faced
with a wall of silence. Is
the military protecting its
own? Or has Brunetti
uncovered a conspiracy far
more sinister than that of a
single death?
Title: Tattoo Blues
Price:
$29.95
Author: Michael McClelland
Tattoo Blues is a rollicking
and playful comic-mystery,
featuring runaway rich kid
Desiree Dean who discovers
her prized tattoo is a fraud
- the Chinese character
etched on her left breast
says "with hot sauce," not
"magnificent animal" - and
goes after the artist, and
in the resulting
confrontation accidentally
sets his tattoo parlor
ablaze. That results in a
mysterious explosion that
destroys the parlor and
leaves the injured Desiree
in the care of a lesbian
clam pirate and turns the
sleepy Florida Gulf Coast
fishing village of Cedar Key
upside down.
Title: The Darkness Gathers
Price: $9.99
Author: Lisa Miscione
Series Character: Lydia
Strong
Fifteen and gorgeous,
Tatiana Quinn disappears
from her Miami bedroom
sometime after midnight. Her
backpack, $160 stashed in
her jewelry box, and her
favorite clothes are also
missing. The police conclude
she ran away. Her wealthy
father quickly posts a
million-dollar reward for
her safe return. But the
beautiful teen has not been
found.
Then Pulitzer Prize-winning
true crime writer Lydia
Strong gets an audio tape in
the mail. Becoming a
celebrity has made Lydia a
magnet for requests from
psychotics, prisoners, and
the desperate families of
murder victims. Cautiously
she plays the tape and hears
a girl calling herself
Tatiana pleading for help.
Now Lydia and her lover P.I.
Jeffrey Mark, an ex-FBI
agent, rush to Florida...and
enter into a nightmare.
Something seems fishy about
the Quinn household.
Something seems strange
about the original
investigation. And someone
very powerful wants to kill
the case. Simplest method?
Make sure a nosy writer is
good...and dead.
Title: The Body in the
Lighthouse
Price: $9.99
Author: Katherine Hall Page
Series Character: Faith
Fairchild
Escaping the misery of a
particularly sweltering
August in Aleford,
Massachusetts, caterer and
minister’s wife Faith
Fairchild and her family
take a long drive to their
favorite getaway, peaceful
Sanpere Island off the coast
of Maine. But things have
changed since their last
visit. The unique ambience
of Sanpere is being
threatened by aggressive
real estate developer Harold
Hapswell, whose plans to
fill the island with huge,
showy new mansions has
infuriated many residents.
Tensions are high, with
animosity between year-round
islanders and "summer
people" reaching dangerous
new levels. It’s no wonder
that, in an atmosphere so
thick with ill feeling,
murder rears its ugly head.
The first outrage occurs
when a successful real
estate agent nearly dies
after drinking a
turpentine-laced cup of soda
pop. Then, while exploring
the grounds of Sanpere’s
historic, now-abandoned
lighthouse, Faith has the
misfortune of stumbling
across the corpse of Harold
Hapswell himself. His death
is officially ruled an
accident, but Faith’s
tried-and-true instincts
tell her otherwise -- an
unsettling inkling that is
confirmed by the discovery
of a second, more obvious
homicide.
With fear running rampant
throughout the island and
volatile emotions
approaching the detonation
point, the intrepid amateur
investigator knows she must
throw caution to the wind
and track down a murderer,
for the sake of an innocent
friend and the island she
loves -- even if it means
placing her own life in
peril.
Title: Beautiful Ghosts
Price: $34.95
Author: Eliot Pattison
Series Character: Shan Tao
Yun
In an earlier time, Shan Tao
Yun was an Inspector
stationed in Beijing. But he
lost his position, his
family and his freedom when
he ran afoul of a powerful
figure high in the Chinese
government. Released
unofficially from the work
camp to which he'd been
sentenced, Shan has been
living in remote mountains
of Tibet with a group of
outlawed Buddhist monks.
Without status, official
identity, or the freedom to
return to his former home in
Beijing, Shan finds himself
in the midst of a baffling
series of events. During a
ceremony meant to rededicate
an ancient and long
destroyed monastery, Shan
stumbles across evidence of
a recent murder in the
ruins. Now Shan is being
torn between some officials
who want his help to search
the ruins while others want
him to disappear back into
the mountains - with one
group holding out the
tantalizing prospect of once
again seeing the son from
whom Shan has been separated
for many years.
In a baffling situation
where nothing is what it
appears to be, where the
FBI, high ranking Beijing
officials, the long hidden
monks, and the almost
forgotten history of the
region all pull him in
different directions, Shan
finds his devotion to the
truth sorely tested.
Traveling from Tibet to
Beijing to the U.S., he must
find the links between
murder on two continents, a
high profile art theft, and
an enigmatic, long-missing
figure from history.
Title: Children of the Storm
Price: $9.99
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Series Character: Amelia
Peabody
The Great War has ended at
last. Archaeologist Amelia
Peabody and her husband,
Emerson, the distinguished
Egyptologist, no longer fear
for the life of their daring
son, Ramses, now free from
his dangerous wartime
obligations to British
Intelligence.
Delightful new
additions to the growing
Emerson family and new
wonders waiting to be
discovered beneath the
shifting Egyptian sands mark
a time of new beginnings in Luxor.
However, the theft of
valuable antiquities from
the home of a friend --
including a magnificent gold
bracelet adorned with the
image of the goddess Hathor
-- causes great concern.
Ramses's encounter with a
woman costumed in the veil
and gold crown of Hathor
herself only deepens the
mystery.
With those in her circle
suddenly plagued by a series
of "accidents," Amelia
attempts to connect these
troubling threads into a
pattern. But her
investigation is setting her
on a collision course with
an adversary more formidable
than any she has ever
encountered.
Title: Guardian of the
Horizon
Price: $34.95
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Series Character: Amelia
Peabody
A hitherto lost journal of
the indomitable Amelia
Peabody has been
miraculously recovered: a
chronicle from one of the
"missing years" -- 1907–
1908 -- shedding new light
on an already exceptional
career, a remarkable family
. . . and an unexpected
terror.
Ousted from their most
recent archaeological dig
and banned forever from the
Valley of the Kings, the
Emersons are spending a
quiet summer at home in
Kent, England, when a
mysterious messenger
arrives. Claiming to be the
teenage brother of their
dear friend Tarek, prince of
the mysterious Lost Oasis,
the charismatic herald
brings troubling news of a
strange malady that has
struck down Tarek's heir and
conveys his brother's urgent
need for help only the
Emersons can provide.
Driven by loyalty -- and a
fear that the evil forces
opposing Tarek's rule will
now exploit the royal heir's
grave illness -- the family
sets off in secret for the
land time forgot -- a
mountain fortress from which
they narrowly escaped ten
years before. Braving the
treacherous desert climate
on a trek fraught with
danger at every turning,
guided only by a crumbling
map, the Emersons are
unaware that deception is
leading them onward into a
nest of vipers -- where a
dreadful fate may await. For
young Ramses, forced to keep
his growing love for the
beautiful Nefret secret,
temptation along the way may
prove his ultimate undoing.
And a dark past and grim
obligation have ensnared
Nefret once again, as she is
helpless to save those she
loves most from the prison
of the Lost Oasis.
"Guardian of the Horizon is
rich with suspense,
surprises, unforgettable
characters, and the
intoxicating atmosphere that
has earned its author the
coveted title of GrandMaster
two times over. The
remarkable Elizabeth Peters
proves once again that, in
the world of historical
adventure fiction, she is
truly without peer.
Title: Southern Fried
Price:
$33.95
Author: : Cathy Pickens
Series Character: Avery
Andrews (1st in the series)
Avery Andrews is a young
woman attorney who has been
"downsized" from her
position with a big city law
firm. She returns to a small
Southern town, where an old
high-school classmate
arranges several
well-attended mock
near-suicides, claiming to
the world that unrequited
love for Avery is driving
his death wish.
Title: Southtown
Price:
$34.00
Author: Rick Riordon
Series Character: Tres
Navarre
Will "the Ghost" Stirman has
just staged a bloody escape
from prison with a gang of
violent cons as spooked by
Stirman as those on the
outside who helped put him
behind bars. And no one
seems more worried than Tres
Navarre's boss and mentor,
Erainya Manos. It was her
husband along with rival PI
Sam Barrera who built the
case that sent Stirman away.
All of Navarre's instincts
are screaming there's more
to this case than meets the
eye. But Erainya won't tell,
and Barrera seems to be
escaping into a strange
twilight from a truth too
terrible to remember. That
leaves Tres to dig into a
twisted minefield of greed,
vigilantism, and murder,
where the line between guilt
and innocence is razor-thin.
For Stirman and his gang are
coming, leaving behind them
a trail of brutal,
unforgiving violence that
will end in an area of San
Antonio known as Southtown--but
may soon just as well be
called hell on earth.
Title: The Dragon King’s
Palace
Price: $9.99
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Series Character: Sano
Ichiro
On a whim of the shogun's
mother, a procession has
left the sweltering heat of
Edo, bound for the cooler
climate of Mount Fuji. Among
her traveling companions are
Reiko, the beautiful wife of
Sano Ichiro, the shogun's
Most Honorable Investigator
of Events, Situations, and
People; Reiko's friend
Midori, nine months
pregnant; and Lady
Yanagisawa, the deranged
wife of the shogun's
powerful second-in-command.
None of them look forward to
the trip. But their troubles
have only begun when their
procession is stopped
suddenly on a deserted road.
The entire retinue is
viciously slaughtered and
the four women are bound and
taken away, imprisoned by a
mysterious kidnapper.
Sano now finds himself faced
with the most important case
of his career. The shogun
demands quick action, and
under the threat of death,
Sano is forced to work with
his bitter
enemies-Chamberlain
Yanagisawa and Police
Commissioner Hoshina. The
delivery of a ransom note
only complicates
matters-forcing both Sano
and Reiko to take desperate
measures.
Title: The Perfumed Sleeve
Price: $34.95
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Series Character: Sano
Ichiro
November 1694. The streets
of Edo are erupting in
violence as two factions
struggle for control over
the ruling Tokugawa regime.
One is led by the shogun's
cousin, Lord Matsudaira, and
the other by the shogun's
second-in-command,
Chamberlain Yanagisawa. Each
side pressures Sano Ichiro,
the shogun's most honorable
investigator, to join its
ranks.
When one of the shogun's
most trusted advisers is
found dead, Sano is forced
to honor a posthumous
request for a murder
investigation. Senior Elder
Makino believed that his
death would be the result of
assassination rather than
natural causes. Although he
and Sano were bitter
enemies, Makino knew that
the incorruptible Sano would
be duty-bound to oblige his
final wish.
Under the watchful eyes and
thinly veiled threats of
both Lord Matsudaira and
Chamberlain Yanagisawa, Sano
moves with caution. Each is
eager to implicate the other
in Makino's death. Sano must
discover whether the death
was indeed murder, and if
so, whether it was motivated
by politics, love, or sex.
The discovery of secret
alliances, both romantic and
military, further
complicates matters. Sano's
investigation has barely
begun when violent death
claims another of the
shogun's favorites.
With his wife, Reiko,
working undercover, Sano and
his chief retainer, Hirata,
must not only investigate
multiple deaths, but stem
the tide of an impending
civil war.
Title: Dead End
Price: $8.99
Author: Judith Skillings
Following the suicide of her
lover, investigative
journalist Rebecca Moore
flees to Maryland to run her
uncle's classic car
restoration shop. When a
murdered corpse shows up in
the shop, Rebecca must
finger a culprit--and
somehow stay alive. First in
a new series.
Title: The Full Cupboard of
Life
Price: $29.95
Author: Alexander McCall
Smith
Series Character: Precious
Ramotswe
Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B.
Matekoni are still engaged,
but with no immediate plans
to get married. Mma Ramotswe
wonders when a wedding date
will be named, but she is
anxious to avoid putting
pressure on her fiancé. For
indeed he has other things
on his mind -- particularly
a frightening request
(involving a parachute jump)
made by Mma Potokwani, the
persuasive matron of the
orphan farm.
Mma Ramotswe herself has
weighty matters on her mind.
She has been approached by a
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