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New York: Atria. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Red boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Pictoral endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 290 pages. Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Genevieve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's greatest treasure, White-on-White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's latest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased for more than six million pounds. In The Art Thief, three thefts are simultaneously investigated in three cities, but these apparently isolated crimes have much more in common than anyone imagines. In Rome, the police enlist the help of renowned art investigator… Read More

New York: Warner Books Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected in a removable Brodart cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Stated First Printing: September 1993 with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Signed by author on title page. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 469 pages. Signed by Author. Brendan Buchanan, a master of impersonation, discovers that he has become a man of a thousand faces who has forgotten who he really is and whose job in covert intelligence is threatening to destroy him. .

New York: Walker & Co.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010.. First US Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprined in metallic red with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 293 pages. 1534, Paris. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges-the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science-is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I.Working undercover, Amaury journeys south to the liberal court of the king's sister, Marguerite of Navarre, the alleged heart of the conspiracy. The deeper he probes, the more Amaury is forced to confront his own… Read More

New York: Warner Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Defective header. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Printing: June 1998 with full number line.. 1.5 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches. 452 pages. Unjustly accused of massacring sixteen people and sparking one of the country's worst environmental catastrophes, Jake and Carolyn Donovan, and their young son, elude the FBI for years, until they finally decide to fight back. .

New York: Vanguard Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with yellow spine imprinted with title and author in red metallic. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 328 pages. Meet Chick Best—a middle-aged self-absorbed, disaffected, California millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick’s most expensive possession is his trophy wife. Evelyn is good at spending Chick’s money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is his drug-addled sixteen-year-old daughter, Melissa. Though concerned about his life and family, Chick has resigned himself to a miserable state of acceptance. That is, until he, Evelyn, and Melissa take a Christmas vacation in Maui. With this, Chick’s life changes... Chick experiences unrequited love at first sight when he observes Paige Ellis emerging from the hotel swimming pool. His obsession, exceeded only by his need to… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Tan boards quarterbound in black with title and author on spine in red metallic. Author's initials and blood splatter logo on cover in red metallic. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 388 pages. A Virgil Flowers Novel, No. 4. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator -- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy -- a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's… Read More

New York: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Marine blue boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. . 341 pages. An Inspector Banks Mystery, No. 19. A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks is abroad, and the woman’s revelation of a loaded gun hidden in her daughter Erin’s bedroom leads to a shocking fatality when a police armed-response team breaks into her house. The fallout will have dark consequences for Banks and his partner, DI Annie Cabbot. It turns out that Erin’s best friend is Banks’ own daughter, Tracy . . . who was last seen in the company of the weapon’s actual owner, a very bad boy indeed.Now that his child is on the run with a psychopath, Banks finds himself caught in a bloody tangle of betrayal and murder. But the rogue DCI is a bit of a bad boy himself,… Read More

New York: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Date written on free front endpapers. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark gray boards quarterbound in black with title and author on spine in silver. Dark green endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 463 pages. A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, No. 2. On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was born, where his father died, and where a brutal conspiracy is about to explode.For Bob Lee Swagger, the world changed on that hot day in Blue Eye, Arkansas, when two local boys rode armed and wild in a '55 Fairlane convertible. Swagger's father, Earl, a state trooper, was investigating the brutal murder of a young woman that day. By midnight Earl Swagger lay dead in a… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Black boards with title and author in silver on spine; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 339 pages. The Thorn Series, No. 7. The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared-hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting-he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells. Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping pull bodies from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn into a bizarre conspiracy: someone has developed a high tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company,… Read More

New York: Weinstein Books. New in New dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Red boards and spine with title imprinted on spine in silver; medium gray endpapers; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 390 pages. At the height of the Cold War, Marilyn Monroe was the most infamous woman in the world. But what if she was also a secret Soviet spy? In 1947, a young, unknown Norma Jeane Baker meets a mysterious man in Los Angeles who transforms her into Marilyn Monroe, the star. Twelve years later he comes back for his repayment, and Marilyn is given her first assignment from the KGB: uncover something about JFK that no one else knows. But a simple job turns complicated when Marilyn falls in love with the bright young President, and learns of plans to assassinate Kennedy. More than anything, Marilyn wants to escape her Soviet handlers and save her love--and herself. Desperate, ruthless and brilliant, what she does next will leave readers… Read More

New York: HarperCollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. SIGNED and dated by the AUTHOR on the title page. 230 pages. Signed by Author .

New York: Simon & Schuster. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Blue boards with blue spine imprinted in silver with title and author. First Edition with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. . . 432 pages. When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and - with chilling precision - lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew - by taking his methodology to a higher level, with bigger targets. Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, to aid the investigation - against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate's insidious… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Yellow boards with author's initials in metallic blue amd green spine imprinted in metallic blue with title and author. Map on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 362 pages. Doc Ford Mysteries, No. 21. When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson s asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they ve let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose strip mines compromise the very ground they walk on. Neither enterprise tolerates nosy outsiders. For each, public exposure equals big financial losses and in a region built on a… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 370 pages. A Medical Thriller, No. 5. Shifting seamlessly between the 1830s and present-day Boston, one of the worlds bestselling authors delves into the past with a blazing new historical thriller featuring beloved character Maura Isles .

New York: William Morrow & Co. As New in As New dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. White boards with red spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Pale gray endpapers. Stated First Edition with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 354 pages. A Tess Monaghan Mystery, No. 8. Private detective Tess Monaghan gets more than she had bargained for when she is hired by Mark Rubin, an Orthodox Jew, to find his missing wife and three children, who had apparently walked away from Rubin with the help of a mysterious ex-con named Zeke. .

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House. Fine. 2016. Trade Paperback. Full number line 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 405 pages. Cold Case Justice. Twenty-seven years after the deaths of Detective Abby Hart's parents, she's desperate to find the proof that will put the mastermind--the governor's wife--behind bars. When she joins a newly formed task force and teams up with PI Luke Murphy, Abby is sent to San Luis Obispo to work the cold case of a murdered college student. Realizing their investigation will bring them near the town where Alyssa Rollins grew up, Abby decides to do a little digging of her own into the Triple Seven fire. Luke is eager to help Abby close the books on a case they both have personal stakes in. But as she uncovers long-held secrets, Abby stumbles into an explosive situation, and Luke fears that her obsession may prove deadly. .

New York: Bantam. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected with a removable Brodart cover. $25.00 original publisher's price on inside front flap of dust jacket. Azure blue boards with darker blue spine imprinted in azure gilt with title and author. Stated First Edition with full number line.. 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches. 336 pages. A Bishop/ Special Crimes Unit Novel, No. 8. FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years he's been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he's returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest. Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock the mystery of her troubled past. Instead, she is assailed by nightmares and the vision of a child who vanished from The Lodge years ago.… Read More

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Dent to bottom of front board . Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition with full number line.. 1.31 x 9.24 x 6.44 Inches. 400 pages. Inspector Banks Mysteries, No. 13. Detective Inspector Alan Banks has never forgiven himself for having possibly caused the disappearance and presumed death of his best friend back in the summer of 1965, a pivotal time when both boys stood on the precipice of manhood. When the tragic bones are shockingly unearthed and identified near Banks's childhood home more than 35 years later, the imagined skeleton in the detective's closet becomes all too real. Plummeted back into a past he thought he'd left behind, Banks is drawn into an investigation that hits dangerously close to home. .

New York: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight edgewear to book and dust jacket. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gold boards with black spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Red endpapersFull number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 368 pages. Waking up in a railway station in 1958 with total amnesia, Luke Lucas begins to relearn his identity and realizes that his fate, as well as those of his wife, his best friend, and a woman he once loved, are connected to America's Explorer I space rocket. .

New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 336 pages. Collision is the story of two men living very different lives—one, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride; the other, a former CIA agent known only as “Pilgrim,” whose current assignment for a fringe espionage agency is so treacherous he doesn’t trust even his own boss. When they are thrown together in a violent, unexpected event, the two men realize that they’ve been framed in an elaborate setup. Unsure who to trust and who may just be trying to draw them into the open, the unlikely partners have no choice but to work together. But with everything at stake, Ben has no idea that Pilgrim is harboring some shocking secrets of his own—secrets that will soon force Ben to confront just how blurred the line has become between best friends and bitter enemies. .