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We all love a good mystery, and here are plenty of new ones to keep you reading long into the night. The 2006 edition of Best American Mystery Stories contains dozens of twisting tales personally selected by award winning novelist Scott Turow. Heart-Shaped Box convinces its readers to suspend disbelief and experience the terror of a murderous ghost. Last Seen Leaving explores every parents’ nightmare: a troubled daughter gets into a stranger’s car and disappears. In Storm Runners, former police officer Matt Stromsoe is sucked into an investigation that leaves him fearing for his life. And finally, in The Case of the Missing Books, a new librarian tries to figure out how, and why, a thief could steal 15,000 volumes. Pick up any of these mysteries and prepare to be thrilled.
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The Case of the Missing Books
(Mobile Library Mysteries)(Trade Paperback)
by
Sansom, Ian
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$12.95
Published: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming— but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000 volumes have mysteriously gone missing, and it's up to Israel to discover who would steal them . . . and why. And perhaps, after that, he will tackle other bizarre and perplexing local mysteries— like, where does one go to find a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?
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Storm Runners(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Parker, T. Jefferson
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2007
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
While Matt Stromsoe was serving as a sheriff's deputy, his wife and son were brutally murdered in a hit that was meant for him. The murderer? Matt's best friend from high school, who was once his wife's lover and now heads a far-reaching, violent, and very loyal Mexican gang. Their deaths send Matt into a two-year spiral of personal destruction and despair.
When a former colleague offers him a job as a PI, Matt begins to pull his life together. He accepts a simple case, just to get started, protecting a TV reporter from a presumed stalker. But the further Matt is drawn into this case, the net of intrigue widens.
Is this two cases, or just one? Who exactly is the target here...and why?
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Last Seen Leaving(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Braffet, Kelly
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2006
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Last Seen Leaving delivers delicious suspense, meticulous plotting, and keen eye for character in a story about a mother in search of her daughter, and a daughter in search of herself.
Miranda Cassidy's glamorous father, a pilot, vanished in Central America when she was a child. Her mother, Anne, sought comfort in the Arizona desert and the trappings of New Age spiritualism, but the fiercely independent Miranda, deeply unsettled by her father's death, never forgave her mother for uprooting her. Now she is working a go-nowhere job outside Pittsburgh, her empty days drifting meaninglessly into each other -- until one night when she crashes her car on a lonely highway and is picked up by George, a passing stranger with mysterious motives.
When Anne finally reaches out to her daughter, nobody has seen or heard from Miranda for months, and Anne begins a frantic search. As she uncovers the details of the life her daughter left behind, she also begins to excavate their shared past and reexamine her own choices. Meanwhile, Miranda is living under an assumed name in a Virginia beach town, where a number of young women have recently turned up dead. Maybe George's unexpected reappearances mean nothing and he is unconnected to the bodies washing up on the shore. Maybe her mother will find her in time. Maybe not.
An edgy and engrossing page-turner, Last Seen Leaving explores the often ambiguous nature of danger and the dark secrets we keep to protect those we love.
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The Best American Mystery Stories
(Best American Mystery Stories (Paperback))(Trade Paperback)
by
Turow, Scott,
Penzler, Otto
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2006
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
" Most of these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.
Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line "'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested." Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the "Crack Cocaine Diet." And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel.
As Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are "about crime -- its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character." The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences.
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Heart-Shaped Box(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Hill, Joe
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2007
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.
"I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. . . ."
For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts— of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more?
But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It's the real thing.
And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting— with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .
A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.
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