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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991 Grey boards with black tape binding; green lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; stated First Edition. "His name is Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices." -- from the dj

New York: Random House, 1999 Large print edition

New York: Warner Books, 1995 Black boards with gold lettering on spine; possibly a book club edition; dj protected with Brodart cover. "The frontier spirit is alve and well in the old silver-mining town-turned-trendy resort of Aspen, Colorado, despite an influx of the rich and famous -- and Regan Reilly. Regan has arrived with her mystery-writing mom and suave, funeral director father to spend the Christmas holidays on the slopes and visiting friends. Secretly, she wouldn't mind meeting a single man or two. She never expects to be rubbing shoulders, and maybe risking he neck, with varmints, desperadoes, or art theives." -- fro the dj

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934 Mauve boards with black embossed lettering on front, with cameo of two girls with a magnifyig glass; spine and edges show wear; previous owner's name and address on ffep.Part of The Adna Girls Mystery Stories series.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995 Some sticker residue on front of dj; blue boards with dark blue binding tape; gold embossed lettering on spine; tight, clean spine and pages. 290 pp. "Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitious match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life." - from the dj flap.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001 Blue boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. "For Dave Robisheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy., will always haunt him. So to return there, as he does in 'Last Car to Elysian Fields" -- means visiting old ghosts, expodinh old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familliar dangers." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003 Red boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on sppine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. "Only the money was real. Four years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was on a movie set asking questions about the murder of a young production assistant when an armored car arrived with two million dollars cash for use in a heist scene. Iin a life-imitates-art firestorm, a gang of masked men converged on the delivery and robbed the armored car with guns blazing. Bosch got off a shot that struck one of the robbers as their van sped away, but the money was never recovered. And the young woman's murder was in the stack of unsolved-case files Bosch carried home the night he left the LAPD." -- from the dj

Putnam Adult, 2001 Orange boards with orange tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996 Red boards with black tape binding; red foil lettering on spine; spine is tight and pages are clean; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; stated First Edition; previous owner's name on ffep. "'M' is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construciton, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different outlooks, temeraments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them - angry, troubled, and in trouble - went missing." -- from the dj

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996 Red boards with black tape binding; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. "'M' is for money. Lots of it. 'M'is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands." --froom the dj

New York: Wings Books, 1991 Grey boards with black spine; red lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; previous owner's sticker on ffep. Contains the complete novels: "Weep No More, My Lady"; "A Cry in the Night", and "Stillwatch."

Mysterious Press, 1986 1st US Edition; no dust jacket; full number line; spine lettering is faded.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2004 Black boards with gold embossed lettering on spine; dj shows very minor shelf wear. "Boston P.I. Sunny Randall - as conflicted as she is beautiful - helps a troubled young woman locate her birth parents, only to uncoer some dark truths of her own." - from the dj

New York: Doubleday, 1990 Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Carmen Palma is a homicide detective in Houston, Texas, a strong woman in a world that's still predominantly male. Two weeks after a wealthy Houston woman is found murdered in a hotel room in a strange and singular manner, Palma is faced with a second victim in an almost identical scenario..." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004 Black boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. " FBI agent Rachel Walling finally get the call she's dreaded for years: the one that tells her the Poet has returned. Years ago she worked on the famous case, tracking down the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten Robert Backus, the killer who called himself the Poet -- and apparently he has not forgotten her either. Harry Bosch get a call, too. The former LAPD detective hears from the wife of an old friend who has recently died. The death appeared natural, but this man's ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep -- " from the dj

New York: Knopf, 1995 1st US Edition; dj is price clipped and shows minor shelf wear; name on ffep

New York: William Morrow, 2018 Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is protected in a Brodart cover and is not price-clipped; stated Frist Edition with full number line. "Andrea Oliver knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows Laura has spent nearly her whole life in the small beachside down of Belle Isle, Georgia; she knows Laura's never wanted anything more than to lead a quiet, normal life in this conventional community; she knows Laura's a kind and beloved speech pathologist who helps others; she knows Laura's never kept a secret in her life. Andrea knows that Laura is everything she isn't -- confident, settled, sure of herself. Feeling listless, with no direction, Andrea, unlike Luara, struggles to find her way." -- from the dj

New York: Mysterious Press, 2002 Black boards with silver lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover and is not price-clipped; flat signed on title page; full number line. "Francis Xavier Meehan (Meehan to his friends, 'Halt!' to the cops) has ten thousand rules to live by, but only one way to make a living: stealing. Then a man in a checked jacket from Washington comes to meet Meehan in the Manhattan Correctional Center with an offer Meehan cannot refuse." -- from the dj

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016 Blue boards with light blue foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. "Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the alter of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. This is a town on the brink. this is Redemption Road." -- from the dj

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1991 Gray boards with red tape binding; silver lettering on spine; clean pages; tight spine; minor shelf wear to dj, which is now protected with a Brodart cover. "When Hartford insurance snoop Dora Conti comes to New York to investigate the violent street murder of a jewelry magnate, she discovers a 'Sodome on the Hudson,' where intimacy is measured in carats and kilos, and greed is the fast food of love." - from the dj