Search Results: VERMONT from Murder By The Book

New York, NY,: William Morrow & Co, 2005. 1st. Ed FINE/FINE - A Faith Fairchild mystery. An AGATHA AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. A Faith Fairchild mystery set in ski country of Vermont.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1989. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. When young P.I. Vic Newman is invited to Vermont by his boss, Sabina Swift, and her physics professor husband, he expects a quiet summer weekend socializing with the other guests at the Lake Champlain Physics Institute. But one Nobel Laurete is killed and another is the chief suspect-- anything but a quiet weekend ensues.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st edition, November 1998, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. The ninth Joe Gunther novel set in Brattleboro, Vermont. "In Brattleboro, Vermont, and for detective lieutenant Joe Gunther, things usually are what they seem. But the discovery of a garroted corpse with Cyrillic tattoos on its toes flings Gunther into a surreal confrontation that may be the CIA versus the KGB, a 40-year-old personal vendetta among now-aged cold warriors, a battle between rival Russian mafiosi, or something else entirely. All Gunther knows for sure is that his odds of surviving are very long, and if he does survive, his career is almost certainly over. Mayor's Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today. The sense of place Mayor creates is vivid and real, whether he's writing about Vermont's economically bleak small cities or the harsh wilderness of the Northeast… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Joe Gunther title. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Gail Zigman, town selectwoman and Joe Gunther's long time lover and best friend is raped. The attack took place in the very bed he left just a few hours earlier. The detective now finds himself caught between the media, local politicians, and a network of well-meaning victims' rights advocates as he tries to put his own feelings aside and follow the trail of evidence. Every lead seems to point to a single, obvious suspect, but is the evidence too perfect? Risking his friendship with Gail, the respect of his peers, and his own life, Lt. Gunther keeps digging, hoping to find out if the man they have in jail is rightly there, or if the evidence against him is tainted?"fruits of the poisonous tree.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon Books, 1999. 1st edition, July 1999, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Mystery-suspense set in Vermont, author's fourth book. "Like his most recent (and most successful) thriller, The Purification Ceremony, Sullivan's fourth novel unfolds in rural America and features a strong Native American theme....Patrick Gallagher, a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker from Brooklyn, has come to the isolated Green Mountain community of Lawton to produce a documentary on an obscure parish priest who is being considered for sainthood. Father D'Angelo had healed 14 people during the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, before dying; his last words: "Pray for me. I am one of the damned!" Gallagher rents a cabin from beautiful recovering alcoholic Andromeda ("Andie") Nightingale, who happens to be a sergeant in the state police, and goes flyfishing -- a… Read More

NY: St. Martin, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Vermont setting. Her 2nd book.. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Foul Play Press, 1991. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The first mystery in a series featuring Mitch Stevens, a newsman and professor of journalism out to solve murders in the Vermont mountain country. "A projected detective series starring newspaperman Mitch Stevens gets off to a sparkling start with this portrayal of a small college town targeted by developers. Mitch, a journalism prof and former New York City newspaperman, arrives in Southborough, Vt., home of a celebrated summer music festival, to fill in for an ailing friend who edits the old-fashioned local paper. Mitch is drawn to the area and its townspeople, including ex-hippies from the '60s, who are wary of "flatlanders" but hungry for their dollars. While looking for property to buy, he stumbles across the body of real estate agent Vera Tolvey, missing since the previous fall.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 1st edition, November 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st Mystery. INSCRIBED "To Anna, with warmest wishes" " In a debut mystery boosted by a vivid setting, Wright masterfully combines dark doings with a moving portrayal of the plight of small Vermont farmers trying to maintain their way of life. Lucien Laroque and his wife, Belle, are elderly, fiercely independent farmers in Branbury, Vermont. Lucien is known not to trust banks and to keep large sums of cash in his pockets. He and Belle make an easy target for the thugs who come in the small hours of the morning to savagely beat and rob them. Neighboring farmer Ruth Willmarth finds Lucien, then Belle. It is her anger, her heroism and her strength that lifts the book above the norm. Ruth's husband, Pete, has left her and the farm for New York City and another woman.… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st edition, November 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Her 1st Novel. Vermont setting. " In a debut mystery boosted by a vivid setting, Wright masterfully combines dark doings with a moving portrayal of the plight of small Vermont farmers trying to maintain their way of life. Lucien Laroque and his wife, Belle, are elderly, fiercely independent farmers in Branbury, Vermont. Lucien is known not to trust banks and to keep large sums of cash in his pockets. He and Belle make an easy target for the thugs who come in the small hours of the morning to savagely beat and rob them. Neighboring farmer Ruth Willmarth finds Lucien, then Belle. It is her anger, her heroism and her strength that lifts the book above the norm. Ruth's husband, Pete, has left her and the farm for New York City and another woman. The youngest of her three kids, Vic, 10, is having a tough time… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1995. 1st edition, July 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight reading crease, page edges beginning to age tone, else very good-near fine. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. and SHAMUS AWARD WINNING novel. Ten years ago Peter Boone was a rookie Red Sox pitcher. Now he's a private detective working the back roads of pastoral Vermont instead of the mean city streets. Searching for a missing teenager, private eye Peter Boone finds his curiosity piqued when the girl's father and brother appear unconcerned at her disappearance and comes to wonder if bringing her back is the right thing to do.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Bantam Crime Line, 1995. 1st edition, July 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1, reading crease else about fine. Author's debut novel. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER. Peter Boone, a former Red Sox pitcher turned private investigator, in rural Vermont. Searching for a missing teenager, private eye Boone finds his curiosity piqued when the girl's father and brother appear unconcerned at her disappearance and comes to wonder if bringing her back is the right thing to do.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1995. 1st ed. Reading creases, slight spine slant, smal store stamp at inside front cover, else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. A SHAMUS Award Winner for Best Paperback Original. Ten years ago Peter Boone was a rookie Red Sox pitcher with a future. Now he's a private detective with a past, working the back roads of pastoral Vermont instead of mean city streets. Searching for a missing teenager, private eye Peter Boone finds his curiosity piqued when the girl's father and brother appear unconcerned at her disappearance and comes to wonder if bringing her back is the right thing to do.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2003. 1st edition, June 2003, with complete number line beginning with 1. Spine lean else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. . Author's first book. An AGATHA AWARD Nominee. Introducing Sweeney St. George, an art historian in Boston with a special interest in the art of death. Sweeney becomes interested in Byzantium, Vermont, an arts colony that flourished in the late nineteenth century, when she comes upon a photograph of the striking gravestone of a girl who drowned, and may have been murdered, in 1890. The stone is in a tiny cemetery surrounded by other beautiful, if unremarkable, headstones, some dating back hundreds of years. But the unsigned sculpture that marks this young woman's grave is of extremely high quality and the artist is unrecognizable. Sweeney is soon hooked, not only on the mystery of who created the beautiful sculpture but also on the details of the events surrounding the… Read More

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dj, lightly rubbed at foot of spine. A Bernard & Snooky title. Vermont setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Mysterious Press, 2004. First Edition, first printing October 2004., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. WINNER of the 2004 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD for Fiction. A Joe Gunther title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.