BOOKS

    1st to Die by James Patterson    $26.95 List.  Sale $20.00 Plus $3.95 S&H  Hardcover
Four Women--four friends--share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco.  Each one holds a piece of the puzzle. Lindsay Boxer  is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department.  Claire Washburn is a medical examiner , Jill Bernhard is an assistant D. A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.  But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving one another a hand.  The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a murderer whose crimes have stunned an entire city.  Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they  have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion which everything  they know turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama nd unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous.  1st to Die is the start of  a blazingly fast-paced sensationally entertaining series of crime thrillers. 



   2nd Chance by James Patterson $35.00 list price, Sale for $28.00  This is a hardcover, large print.
The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. but detective Lindsay Boxer  senses there's  some thread connecting them all. She  calls her friends  in the Women's Murder Club together to see if they can discover what it is. Surely  some clue has been overlooked  by their bosses and male colleagues. Working with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas, Assistant  District Attorney Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay discovers there there is indeed a link. The victims were of different ages, lived in different locations and sere killed with different weapons. But each had a close relative in a particular profession., a profession that sends a chill through Lindsay's heart. The partners in the Women's Murder Club  realize that this killer is after something unspeakable, something deeper than revenge, and that the next target could be one of them.  They deduce where the killer is likely to strike  next and bait a trap that can't be resisted. But their calculation is wrong, the consequences will be lethal. And there will be no second chance.  This is an unforgettable relentlessly surprising thriller from the best of novelists of crime stories, James Patterson.



     4th of July by James Patterson. $27.95 list price. Sale for $20.00 Plus $3.95 S&H This is a hardcover.
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club  make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last.  In a late night showdown after a near fatal car chase San Francisco Police Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer has to make an instantaneous decision: in self-defense, she fires her weapon-and sets off a chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, an entire city divided and a family destroyed. Now everything she's worked  her entire life for hinges on the decision of twelve jurors.  To escape scrutiny during breaks from her trial, Lindsay retreats to the picturesque town of Half Moon Bay. But soon after her arrival a string of grisly murders punches through the peaceful community. There are not witnesses and there is not discernible pattern. But a key detail recalls a ase Lindsay worked on as a rookie years before--an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since.  As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay and her friends in the Women's Murder Club battle for her life on two fronts: before a judge and a jury as her trial comes to a climax and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything ot keel her from the truth about the killings--including killing again. James Patterson fine tunes the tension as never before in this breathtaking addition to the series.




6th Target by James Patterson. $27.99 S&H $3.95  This is a hardcover book. Sale $20.00  plus S&H
A horrifying burst of gunfire on a  crowded ferry leaves several people dead--and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man  who tried to kill her friend. But nothing makes sense in the most twisted, frightening case the Women's Murder Club has ever faced.  While Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano prepares to prosecute the toughest trial of her life, the city is in the grip of a chilling crime spree. Children of well-to-do families are being abducted., together with their nannies. But the kidnappings are followed by devastating silence--no message from the kidnappers, no demand for ransom. Parents everywhere fear the worst. Working frantically with her new partner, Lindsay Boxer struggles to find the connection that will help them make sense of these horrific crimes.
An entire city in in the grip of fear and Lindsay Boxer is at the top of her form in this sixth riveting novel about the Women's Murder Club.

 

    7th Heaven by James Patterson $27.99 list price. Sale for $20.00  This is a hardcover large print. $3.95 S&H. When a fire that kills a wealthy couple is ruled a homicide, all Lindsay can do is hope she'll find some clues that haven't gone up in smoke which is what seems to have happened to California golden boy Michael Campion. The disappearance of the former governor's son, her other pressing case, is worrisome  enough without the heart aliment that makes him a ticking time bomb.  As always, Lindsay's friends in the Women's Murder Club offer sound advice, yet she knows she's the only one who can solve her personal dilemma. It's not that Lindsay isn't thrilled to have her lover, Joe, in San Francisco; his move from D. C. proves his sincerity. It's jut that her partner Rich Conklin always manages to find his way into  her thoughts. But as fire after fire consumes more innocent couples and the Campion case takes a shocking turn, Lindsay keeps her focus on the job. And that's when someone puts a match to everything she values most......


      $24.00 list.  Sale for $17.00  this is a hardcover book. $3.95 S&H.   Zapped. by Carol Higgins Clark.  Sleuth Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, buy the apartment next door and start renovating--just as a major blackout hits New York! In the chaso, Regan is drawn into a case she never expected to find in her own home.





$25.95 list. Sale for $20.00  $3.95 S & H This is a hardcover book.  Large print. Strangers in Death by Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb. When wealthy business man Thomas Anders is found dead in his bedroom surrounded by sex toys, Lt. Eve Dallas finds herslef caught in a dangerous cat and mouse game with the victims's cunning wife.




  Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea.  $22.95 list.  Sale for $20.00 hardcover book.  $3.95 S&H
Lori Shepherd is no stranger to trouble and intrigue. But when Bill, her high-profile attorney husband, receives a number of chilling death threats aimed at his wife and his five year old  twins, danger hits closer than ever to home. While Bill stays in London to work on the case with Scotland Yard, Lori and the twins flee for their own safety to the home of Sir Percy Pelham, an eccentric and fabulously wealthy   adventurer who lives in a vast and mysterious castle on a remote island just off the coast of Scotland.  There, a mystery begins to unfold and soon Lori is knee deep in another elaborate and dangerous whodunit. She suspects that the locals are making a fortune running an illegal smuggling operation . What else could explain their luxurious carefree lifestyle? But after finding a human skull washed up on the beach, Lori fears something even more sinister  is going on. With Aunt Dimity's supernatural help, Lori begins to piece together the clues, unaware of the growing danger on the island. Will the murderous threats against her family catch up with her before the case is solved?


       $26.95 list. Sale for $20.00  $3.95 S&H This is a hardcover and large print. Married Lovers by Jackie Collins. When personal trainer Camerson Paradise meets film producer Ryan Lambert, who is married to the spoiled daughter of a Hollywood Mogul, lust and desire collide with marriage and power--and it all leads to murder.




  $26.00 list. Sale for $20.00 $3.85 S&H. Hardcover.
The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen. When a mummy surfaces in Boston, Medical Examiner Maura Isles unwraps a barely dead body--and it's just the first of more "mummies" to come. Can Det. Jane Rizzoli stop a killer with a penchant for gruesome keepsakes?



Laughs action and imaginary characters--Evanovich is a clever writer, and her hero's self depreciating sense of humor and witty observations about life on the seamy side are contagious  Stephanie is a one woman riot on her own but with her intrepid assistants she's a war zone.  Adventure, romance, and so much more. At times I found myself laughing so hard my dog was worried for me. 
 
                $36.00 list.  Sale $25.00 plus $3.95 S&H. This is a hardcover and large print. Three Plums in One by Janet Evanovich. Together in one volume--the three novels that first brought Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter with attitude, out of  Trenton, N. J. and into the heart of America: One for the Money, Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly.  1,016  pages. Weighs much more than one book.                              


  Four to Score by Janet Evanovich.  $7.00 list. Sale for $5.00 plus $2.00 S&H. PB.
Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol packing condom carrying bounty hunter is back--and on the trail of a revenge seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73 year old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally  Sweet, and the all to hospitable all too sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs and Stephanie's arch rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugitive--Stephanie better watch her back big time if she ants to live to crack this case.


  Hot Six by Janet Evanovich. $24.95 list. Sale $20.00  plus 3.95 S&H hardcover
 Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecues the youngest son of international black market arms deal Alexander Ramos. Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger is caught on video just  minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number one suspect.  Manoso is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He's Stephanie's mentor--the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he's more than her friend.  Now he's the hunted and Stephanie's the hunter, and it's time for her to test her skills against the master. But if she does catch him ....what then? Can she bring herself to turn him in?  Plus there are other things keeping Stephanie awake at night. Her material grandmother has set up housekeeping in Stephanie's apartment, a homicidal maniac as selected Stephanie as his next victim, her love life is in the toilet, she's adopted a dog with an eating disorder and she can't button the top snap of her Levi's.




  To the Nines by Janet Evanovich. $25.95 list.  Sale $20.00  $3.95 S&H This is a hardcover.
Stephanie Plum not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way . . .and she always gets her man,. In To the Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who is her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Sigh, an illegal immigrant.  When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word hunter . . .In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Las Vegas Strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life. The unforgettable characters, nonstop action, high stakes suspense and sheer entailment of To the Nines defines Janet Evanovich as unique among today's writers.



  Ten big Ones by Janet Evanovich.  $25.95 list.  Sale $20.00  $3.95 S&H This is a hardcover.
She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars.  She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of  the Jersey Turnpike.  Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead . . . or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well she thinks it sounds good to put it that way . . .) It begins as an innocent trip toe deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum  and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another ar. It would be jut another day in the life of Stephanie Plum, except that she becomes the target of a gang--and of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. With super bounty hunter Ranger acting more mysteriously than ever (and the tension with vice cop Joe Morelli getting hotter) she finds herself with a decision to make: how to protect herself and where to hide while on the hunt for a killer known as the junkman. There's only one safe place and it has Ranger's name all over it--if she can find it. And if the Junkman doesn't find her first. With Lula riding shotgun and Grandma Mazur on the loose, Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in her most suspenseful novel yet.      



  Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich. $27.95 list. Sale $20.00  $3.95 S&H hardcover
America's funniest bounty hunter is back! And if you're looking for smart dialogue, plenty of comic mayhem and just enough smoldering moments you'll love her 13th hilarious caper, which proves beyond a doubt that Plum & Co., put the fun in dysfunctional ...  Now besides dealing with exploding cars, violent bail jumpers and her slightly eccentric (i. e., totally nuts) family, Steph must find Dickie her sleazy ex-husband, who disappears--after she tired her best to do him bodily harm--guess who becomes the prime suspect?  Plus she must figure out her feelings for Ranger and hot comp Joe Morelli, and oh yeah--stay alive!


     $25.00 list. Sale for $20.00 $3.95 S&H This is hardcover and large print.  No Choice but Seduction by Johanna Lindsey. American Katey Tyler's grand tour of Europe takes a dangerous turn when she comes upson the missing daughter of Sir Anthony Malory--bound and gagged--and then the handsome sea captain accuses her of kidnapping!


   Indaina Jones and the Dance of the Giants.  $7.00 list.  Sale  $5.00 plus $2.00 S&H  PB.
Indiana Jones has landed his first teaching post, in the archaeology department at London University. His brightest and pretties student is a twenty year old SCottish girl, Deirdre Campbell, who claims she's uncovered a golden scroll, proof of the true existence of Merlin, sorcerer of myth and legend. Indy's intrigued by the thesis . . .and by Deirdre. So, too, is member of Parliament Adrian Powell. He's seeking to resurrect the ancient order of the Druids, whose secrets of Power could pave his way to world conquest. But first he needs the scroll . . .and he's willing to kill to get it.  Where there's magic, mystery and murder, Indy goes to the head of the class. Dropping his books and picking up his bullwhip he joins Deirdre on an action packed chase across Britain, from the peril filed caves of Scotland to the savage Dance of the Giants at Stonehenge--where Merlin's secret will finally be revealed. But not before Indy gets a lesson in love from Deirdre . ..and a lesson in hate from a maniac who means to rule the world.

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Not a Girl Detective by Susan Kandel. $7.00 list. Sale 5.00 plus $2.00 S&H.  PB.
Besides the beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew.  Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now she's working on a book about Nancy's pseudonymous creator, "Carolyn Keene," Cece's in heaven.   At the L. A. home of another rabid Drew-ophile, Cece finds a treasure trove of useful memorabilia, including one unique and somewhat shocking collectible. Later she finds a dead body--and a puzzle that would sorely test the skills of her spunky girlhood heroine. Now she'll have to channel her former idol and unmask a murderer, and the killer may be coming for Cece next.

Murder is Binding.  $7.00 list. Sale $5.00 plus $2.00 S&H. PB.
Stoneham, New Hampshire was a dying town until community leaders invited booksellers to open up shop. Now, its streets are lined with bookstores--and paved with murder . . .When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles was met with friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she was met with friendly competition. but when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own bookstore, killed with a kitchen knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased--and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name, Tricia will have to take a page out of one of her own mysteries--and hunt down someone who isn't killing by the book . . .


Quicksand by Iris  Johansen.   $8.00 list.  Sale $7.00 plus $2.00 S&H. PB.
A novel of breathtaking intensity about a woman in a desperate race against time to bring a killer to justice.  Do you miss your little Bonnie?  This one sentence spoken by a male voice in an anonymous phone call, is all it takes to drag Eve Duncan right back to that horrifying moment years ago when her only daughter vanished without a trace. Sine then, Eve's life has become an obsession to find her daughter's remains. Only one-man a brilliant, ruthless killer--knows the truth about what happened to Bonnie. But taunting Eve might be his first and last mistake.  Eve is armed with more than just her talent as a forensic sculptor. She brings with her, former Navy Seal Joe Quinn, an Atlanta detective who will do anything to help Eve put the pain of Bonnie's death to rest. Even if he has to lie to the woman he cares about the most. And even if this killer wants nothing more  than to lure Eve further and further into the swamp of madness----

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