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22nd book in the inspector Banks series -over sized paperback -pages are clean and glossy -spine tight minuscule amounts of edgware- covers bright glossy unmarked -excellent copy- -Abattoir Blues Paperback – International Edition, June 16, 2015 by Peter Robinson - 384 pages- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (June 16, 2015)- 384 pages - ISBN-0771076444- 9780771076442 about 6 x 1 x 9 inches- Cover design Kelly Hill -cover image Nicolas Mc comber Getty Images ---Ruth Reaser LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City- see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't -Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order from Los Angeles I hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. your books not co-mingled its wrapped --you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully drop kick packed to survive...Gift just let me know.. -Ruth Reaser LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City Abattoir Blues PB 4194 RED MAIN 31

john le CarreAbsolute Friends Large PrintISBN-13: 9780316000697, ISBN-10: 0316000698Little brown and Company large print- 20030316000648 large printGiftable -John lecarre absolute friends -large print -hard cover front- small square little brown logo- jacket design by Chris Allies -based on photo Neil Beckerman-- book is in very good condition -unmarked clean -very nice size large type- Dust jacket /just good some ruffling - small tears top corners----As with all my books pictures are included for you to review if you have adequate info to make a decision- since grading books can be subjective.his epic tale of loyalty and betrayal spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carr fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages. A Duplicitous war in Iraq and the devious means employed to tarnish those who oppose it. ...… Read More

***Against a Dark Sky-Katherine Pathak-
(The DCI Dani Bevan detective novels) (Volume 1) Paperback – November 9, 2014- Excellent copy covers bright and shiny almost new very lightly read, They died 30 years ago the case is not closed, five walkers get lost on Ben Lohman. Another missing ---Without a Trace DCI Danny Bevan is called in to investigate. The case opens Old Wounds for all of them-- Excellent - - copy lightly read - - minimum amount of edgware - very good condition book unmarked.- European Edition. -Against a Dark Sky -The DCI Dani Bevan detective novels (Book 1) Paperback: 262 pages - very good-Katherine Pathak- Pub -The Garansay press Felsted, Dunmow, Essex- European printing - English- front cover design Catacol Bay images 2014- copyright author Katherine Pathak- ISBN-10: 1503163148 ISBN-13: 978-1503163140 .. Ruth Reaser-Los Angeles- LAX Vespa- see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't. you'll know by looking at the pictures -.LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill… Read More

Good condition- interior the book of clean unmarked minimal amount of tanning on its edges cover glue boards White printing edges of book injury the book is clean unmarked minimal mount of planning on it edges cover blue boards white printing I just the book, are worn to the boards. Dust jacket I would term as colorful but poor and tattered.- hardcover from Simon & Schuster Australia published 1990 book design by Helen Semmler -maps by Gary humble -typeset Australia Post typesetters -printed in Singapore by Kim Hup lee printing company- cover photographs by Lincoln Hall back flap Photograph by Gary humble.- Fictional account based on his years working as a guide in Nepal he shuffled those experiences into a fictional story resulting in a book which is neither history nor flight of fancy exploring that odd struggle between Buddhism, China -Tibet and the Nepalese people. A mix of Tibetans, missionaries, CIA Intelligence Officers and other people. see pictures maybe this will do it! I try to note all… Read More

Nice hardcover- X Library has three Library markings- see pictures- part of first printing 2011 copyright by author -dark yellow boards- spine Wrapped in Red- with titling printed on a darker beige paper spine is tight minimum bumping to the head and foot of the book gold titling on spine -spine is not creased- buying used books and reading them is a great Enviromental way to keep them out of landfills- also most of the first early editions go to libraries anyways so with limited print runs that may be the only place that you find them. They have standing orders with publishers. Author is one of my favorite part of that select group of Southern California mystery writers. -see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't. you'll know by looking at the pictures, I try to note all defects,so you can make an informed buying decision... -Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles I carefully pack your… Read More

* Death's Long Shadow, Author Penn, John, ..... Hardcover nice red buckram covers titling in bold on spine in gold, book is in excellent condition Corners are good spine tight, small amount of checking from age on top of book, excellent copy, interesting read I enjoyed it. Published by Collins Crime, 1991 first published Great Britain 1991 the crime Club imprint Harper Collins Pub. Hammersmith London, photo set in Lynn otron Baskerville by Rowland typesetting limited Bury - St Edmunds, Suffolk printed in Great Britain by Harper Collins book Manufacturing, Glasgow. ISBN 10: 000232363X / ISBN 13:9780002323635 ASIN: 000232363X ....... Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit......... Death's Long Shadow 5822 HC mystery 41 bmk

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Walter Mosley (2015-02-03) ...ex-library -3 withdrawn stamps, top and bottom of book and on 1st page- front review page - 1 - on sticker, some creased Pages,couple of creases -corners front still readable, check the pictures see if you can live with this copy . Walter Mosley is one of those really popular niche, authors....many times people buy his books & keep them so they could be somewhat limited quantity used ..Since I'm in the Los Angeles area I always find his stuff very readable, familiar and many times can spot the neighborhoods...fair to acceptable, Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - Walter Mosley Ed. Oversized PB reprint Pub. Knopf Doubleday 2015 ISBN 0767929640, 9780767929646, B01N8YDTLY - 265 pages Subjects Fiction ' African American ' Urban / Contemporary Women B01N8YDTLY LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the… Read More

Giftable- First edition - paperback -very good -nice shiny covers- spine uncreased -lightly read- wonderful characters wonderful book & exciting -I enjoyed it - I've read most of his books & enjoyed all of them... 2005 edition small amount of tanning edges of pages-- Design image composition Mad Dog design printed in Canada by webcom After 9/11 but before Iraq. Shanghai -surpassed Hong Kong as Asia's most important city. Zhong Fong's Office of Special Investigations - model of the New China's efficiency. Then Fong follows a disturbing lead which brings him to the rural backwaters of Anhui Province. He is shocked to find blood trafficking & a massive outbreak of AIDS. Anhui Province is Fong's first step on the longest journey of his life—a journey that eventually brings him to the streets of Vancouver, Canada—the Golden Mountain. Fong pursues the money behind the blood trafficking, his every step is noted by a pair of ancient eyes—eyes that belong to a man bent on revenging the death of an old… Read More

*Killer at the Cult -The sixth book in series by Alison Golden,Jamie Vougeot ---Reverend Annabelle Dixon has pulled out all the stops to earn the affection of the handsome Inspector Nicholls. She's even done the unthinkable, sworn off sweets... for a bit.... ALL her efforts come to naught, Annabelle seeks comfort,distraction in the affairs of her parish. SHE hears of strangers moving into a house on the edge of the village, Annabelle decides to pay these new residents a visit. What she finds is a quirky cult, and a ritual that sends her fleeing into the woods... where she promptly trips over a dead body! Local police make a hasty arrest, but Annabelle is convinced they have the wrong man. She decides a murder investigation is just the thing to keep her mind off the absent Inspector Nicholls. AN entire cult full of suspects, can Annabelle unravel the killer's identity, before they strike again?...... Killer at the Cult: A Reverend Annabelle Cozy Mystery- Volume 6 of Reverend Annabelle Dixon Cozy… Read More

Inscribed by author, see pictures. 2nd edition by Red Frog Media. Text copyright 2010 by author. 250 pages. Made in USA., Lexington, Ky , April 2010. ISBN 978-146-1122599. Glossy over sized paperback-Vermont, picturesque and lovely, attracts visitors from across the country in search for the perfect picture, the perfect fall foliage or perhaps a taste of maple syrup. Stansbury is best known for the odd covered bridge that spans Stansbury Lake and goes nowhere, connecting no roads and serving no known purpose. The locals call it the Lakebridge. Very few know of its mysterious origins and fewer care to know more. Those visiting the town perhaps take a few snapshots and leave, their curiosity quelled by an uneasy feeling that they shouldn't think on it anymore.The tourists will eventually leave Stansbury, but its residents strangely linger, seemingly held captive by a force they barely recognize. They also do not think about the town's mysterious artifact much except in passing, all but Gil, his father,… Read More

Last Witness Jilliane Hoffman 9780399152450 GOOD PB #436 -New York: Putnam Adult, 2005-white paperback covers clean/small amount of minutiae – pages clean oversize paperback- VIEWING PICTURE ON DESKTOP COULD BE HELPFUL zoom in The Pictures are as important as my written description-book design Stephanie Huntwork. This was a good read the book is been read several times the pages are intact & unmarked. Cover has seen quite a bit WEAR - fold on the rear cover the color-gloss is good-cover itself... Fascinating read I enjoyed it very much, a few good reads left in it, however it is not mint condition Cops are dying. Hunted down while on patrol, they are being murdered while trying to protect the citizens of Miami from this very type of crime. Dominick Falconetti, agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, charged with heading a task force to investigate. Details at the crime scenes point to a drug connection, and when a highly-placed gang member disappears, it reinforces Dominick's… Read More

The missing hours Emma Kavanagh Paperback -'just good shape there are some creases near its spine a small one on the front and you can tell the pages have been thumbed, an initial near back.. it has been read probably a several times I enjoyed it immensely - publishing history 1st Kensington hardcover Edition March 2018, this copy, it also shows first Kensington trade paperback edition June 2018 with a full number line 10 through two, 97811496718839, 1496718836, not sure if this is an early print or a advanced print, larger over-sized paperback, printed USA, cover photo Jill Battaglia, Trevilian images, cover design Janice Rossi Schaus.. maybe ??Advanced copy for the collector doing "completist" exploration of a particular author.-Grading books can be quite subjective, check pic's... .. Selena Cole is at the playground with her children . . . the next, she has vanished without a trace. The body of Dominic Newell, a well-respected lawyer, is found on a remote mountain road, blood oozing from the stab… Read More

On A Dark Sea (The DCI Dani Bevan Detective Novels) (Volume 2) Paperback – January 21, 2015 by Katherine Pathak Excellent almost like new - copy lightly read - covers bright shiny minimum amount of edgware - very good condition book unmarked.- European Edition. Maisie Riddell is missing a 14 year old goes missing from high school in Glasgow, DCI Dani Bevan knows she has to act fast the headmistress is wife of her Deputy superintendent- investigation deepens Bevan finds herself caught in the fall out of a broken marriage - travels to Norway in order to unlock the puzzle of Maisie Riddle's Secret Life- ...On A Dark Sea . The DCI Dani Bevan Detective Novels (Book 2) Paperback: 236 pages Publisher: Garansay press- Felsted, Dunmow, Essex- European paperback printing- English- over-sized paper book very good- ISBN-1507659318 -978-1507659311 -Front cover istockphoto- edited by the Currie revisionist 2015- Ruth Reaser-Los Angeles- LAX Vespa- see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't. you'll know by… Read More

* On Behalf of the Family - Author Mar Preston- author signature April 11th, 2014 - title page -oversized paperback in excellent shape book appears to be unread, just the smallest amount of minutiae of edgware from being shelved, very good condition covers are bright and glossy... see pictures. ...A car arson fire claims the life of a beautiful young girl, a rich Turkish student at Santa Monica College. Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department must break through the family's silent conspiracy surrounding her vicious murder. Handicapped by fact that the eleven members of her family who share the mansion in the high-end real estate section of Santa Monica do not speak English. Or so they say. City is in turmoil, accusing the department of racism or worse. Mason makes a promise to a girl he never met that he will bring her justice; yet, he is drawn away from the turbulent investigation with a promise to the love of his life. Can he keep his promises to both of them when political blow… Read More

*Orchestrated Death: 1st Bill Slider Felony & Mayhem , just good cover is still bright - shiny there is a certain amount of minutiae on its edges -has been read several times, pages are clean unmarked printed on rather nice stock in the USA, irresistibly written, Bill slider a middle-aged, straight-arrow, London cop, life is thrown into a passionate disarray by the murder of a mysterious young violinist....Orchestrated Death: #1 Bill Slider (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - born in London in 1948. University of Edinburgh & University College London, studing English, history, philosophy. Writing - first novel in college - winning Writers' Award for The Waiting Game in 1972, did not become a full-time writer until 1979 -start of the Morland Dynasty series. In 1993, won the RNA Novel of the Year Award for Emily, third vol. of the Kirov Trilogy. Writer of the Bill Slider Mystery series -under the pen names Elizabeth Bennett -Emma Woodhouse. ....Orchestrated Death ,Issue 1 of A Bill… Read More

Original Sin, Oversized -large paperback beige nice stock, feels unread , spine good un -creased, just a few speckles on edge of pages, might be an advance copy?... James P. D. Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies-a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he… Read More

Excellent copy, lightly read, minimal amounts of wearing some small tiny spots on page edges? Covers bright glossy nice larger sized Paperback Very good. .. Our Game, Tim Cranmer at 46, prematurely retired a secret servant in deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma." "But no man can escape his past, and Tim's lives twenty miles away, in the chaotic person of Larry Pettifer: bored radical don, philanderer, and for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanquished Communist threat. Between the two stands an unresolved rivalry that dates all the way back to their shared boyhood at public school." ....Our Game: A Novel A Borzoi book Armenian Research Center collection George Smiley Novels Series - John Le Carré Publisher Knopf, 1995 ISBN 0679441891, 9780679441892 - ,large thick over-sized paperback, about 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.8 in., Composed North Market street… Read More

Quicksilver - First edition hardcover- red boards /gold titling spine -signed by author with just his name and a flourish. Book has some spotting on its edges/ wearing Etc - good - maybe not the most expensively published book by St Martin's press -dust jacket has some scuffs minor tears -Edge wearing and just good to acceptable condition. Spine tight-book unmarked- jacket Bob Korn- printed USA- grading older book can be somewhat subjective pictures included for your review, great if somebody is - a fan looking for an older signed copy of an earlier book. 13th Nameless Detective mystery set in San Francisco's Japantown, where the sleuth tries to trace the source of Mrs. Haruko Gage's lavish but anonymous gifts and discovers a grisly ritual murder in the Nippon Mafia--Bill Pronzini- Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, published in 1971.Best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, westerns,novels of dark suspense.Active anthologist, focusing on… Read More

nice-paperback – cover is glossy- excellent copy unmarked/ no remainder markings /inscriptions/Ruth glossy miniscule amount of rubbing on edges fabulous book by-now deceased author-smallest amount of each tanning on its edges of printing first vintage crime/Black lizard edition May 1997 interestingly it has later copyright. Author 1989- --Design Megan Wilson- photograph Joshua Sheldon -/Photonica- author photograph- Isolde Olhbaum-- Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors--if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His… Read More

*Rob the Vatican, Robert Gallant, oversized paperback book 296 pages, the covers have a little bit of non noticeable scuffing on them the book is clean it is signed by the author on the title page - has fairly nice sized type, the cover depicts, a Vatican Building, a hooded man looking over it, a gymnast in a leotard, dark background white titling... interesting older guy you can - Google him - he has several live interviews available ....Vatican City --- the smallest country in the world, home to the leader of the Catholic Church, the stronghold for most of the faithful; the habitat of a significant number of treasures that have aged to be almost untouchable; perhaps uniquely surreal; one of the most secured places in the world, until now..... Rob the Vatican by Gallant, Robert, ISBN: 0578-208083, 9780578208084, Publisher: Robert Gallant Books, printed in San Bernardino CA, PUBLISHING Date: DEC 16 2018- Signed copy- title page, 296 pages, good, Oversized Paperback.....LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver… Read More