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A Real Basket Case
Jun.30.2008
The best friend of Claire Hanover, 46-year-old proprietor of a Colorado Springs gift basket business, arranges for a handsome young massage therapist to give Claire a massage. When he's shot and killed in her bedroom and police arrest her husband, Roger, for the crime, Claire must convince Roger...
The Fix
Jun.29.2008
Covert spy Michael Westen has found himself in forced seclusion in Miami—and a little paranoid. Watched by the FBI, cut off from intelligence contacts, and with his assets frozen, Westen is on ice with a warning: stay there or get “disappeared.” Driven to find out who burned him and why, he’s...
Under the Gun
Jun.27.2008
 Under the Gun tells the story of Hal Harris, an earnest young straight who’s never played poker before in his life, but whose brother, Guy, lives deep in that degenerate demimonde. When Guy is murdered, Hal inherits an entry chip into the Poker Apocalypse, “the biggest poker tournament in the...
The Bluejay Shaman
Jun.22.2008
This new edition of The Bluejay Shaman comes fourteen years after the original publication, but the book is still  "delightful," as author James Crumley wrote back then. Alix Thorssen, art dealer in Jackson Hole, hits the road in this novel in the mystery series, to clear her brother-in-...
Leading Lady
Jun.17.2008
A super-charged story full of bad guys, a lot badder guys (among them rogue Feds, Russian and Albanian mobsters and locally-grown mafiosi) and a not-that-bad bad guy you can come to love and root for. Jerry Lang, by name. Lang, a thief practically from when he was a toddler, usually...
Slipping
Jun.17.2008
Danna Scanlon, a detective with the Special Crimes Task Force, is in the middle of the case of a lifetime.       For Seth Berman, he is that case...he just doesn't know it. And not knowing has become a way of life, because Seth is never alone, even when he's by himself. The scit-scit of spiders...
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Jun.17.2008
When a retired businessman is pushed to his death on Manhattan's subway tracks, his daughter retains the services of PI Rachel Alexander in Benjamin's well-plotted, thoughtful ninth episode (after 2005's Without a Word) in her series starring the former dog trainer and her trusty pit bull, Dashiell...
The Living Blood
Jun.17.2008
Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing -- it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy...
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Jun.12.2008
Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter,...
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Jun.10.2008
An anthology containing three of Raymond Benson's James Bond 007 novels-- HIGH TIME TO KILL, DOUBLESHOT, and NEVER DREAM OF DYING. The book also features the never-before published (in English) full-length short story BLAST FROM THE PAST and a new INTRODUCTION by the author!