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NEW RELEASE Special Order: The author has agreed to sign/inscribe books for a $5 fee. If you should like to add this to your order, please send a note whether you would like a simple autograph or a custom inscription—perfect for gifts! First Edition, First Printing. Unpaged [189 p.] From the back: Abhorrent: A Collection travels down dark, twisted pathways. The collection of thirteen stories does not tread lightly and clutches at the depths of the macabre. Readers be warned, these are not for the faint of heart. These stories tend to make the heart race and the mind question the strangers that walk beside us. [NOTE: Book is shipping from USA, so orders in the USA will have the shipping discounted to $8.50 and orders in Canada will require an extra shipping charge of $4.00.]

391 p. Some staining to foredge and mild shelfwear, internally Fine. From back: THE CROSS FAMILY HAD MORE THAN ONE HERO Alex Cross tells the incredible story-passed down through generations of an ancestor's courageous fight for freedom. SEPARATED BY TIME From his grandmother, Alex Cross heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a book he's written-a novel called Trial. CONNECTED BY BLOOD A lawyer in early-1900s Washington, D.C., Ben Corbett fights against oppression and racism and risks his family and his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks him to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. UNITED BY BRAVERY In Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. With their help, Ben discovers that lynchings have become commonplace. He vows to break… Read More

360 p. Very very minor shelfwear to cover edges, otherwise Fine / As New.From the inner flap:Christine wakes up every morning in an unfamiliar bed with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face. And every morning, the man she has woken up with must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, she is forty-seven years old, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories. But it's the phone call from a Dr. Nash, a neurologist who claims to be working with Christine without her husband's knowledge, that directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities—tearful mornings with Ben, sessions with Dr. Nash, flashes of scenes from her former life—and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband she is completely dependent upon. As the entries build up, Christine asks many questions. What was life like before… Read More

192 p.; ill.; 20 cm.
Unread condition with mild shelfwear.
From the rear:
As high society's social calendar opens up and the Season draws to a close, London is gripped by fear. Someone has taken to stalking women of the night and painting the town red...in their blood. But while the name on everyone's lips is "Jack the Ripper," the name on Queen Victoria's lips is Phantomhive. Summoned to London to clean up the mess created by this madman, young earl Ciel Phantomhive arrives with his extraordinary butler Sebastian, at his side to pour him tea, polish his silver, and ... investigate a serial killer!

499 p. Very mild shelfwear to edges, otherwise Fine / As New. From back cover:IN THE BOWERS FILES NOVELS, FBI SPECIAL AGENT PATRICK BOWERS HAS STOPPED SOME OF THE MOST VICIOUS SERIAL KILLERS EVER IMAGINED. NOW, IN THE LATEST EXCITING INSTALLMENT, AUTHOR STEVEN JAMES TAKES READERS BACK TO BOWERS'S TERRIFYING BEGINNING.Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draws authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation's history, the investigation spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, brutality, and terror.Wielding groundbreaking investigative techniques, Bowers must now face off with a killer who will stop at nothing to get his message out to the world.… Read More

241 p.; ill. (frontispiece). Vintage red hardcover with black lettering to cover and spine, shows moderate wear, including but not limited to edgewear, dampstains, sunning, mild bumping, and some discolouration of foredges. Previous owner's inscription (dated 1945) and ink mark to ffep, hinges cracked but holding, and pages aged as expected. One leaf has a 2 inch closed tear, pp. 208-213 have light stain to top corner, and there may be other minor stains throughout, but in general the pages remain incredibly clean, clear, and tightly bound. See images.Third in a series of stand-alone books about the adventures of a group of adolescent girls, amateur sleuths.

317 p. Mild wear to extremities and spine (see images, the top was missed in scan, but is in a similar state as bottom edge/heel) with faint "6" stamp to bottom foredge and faint water stains to top and bottom corners, otherwise Very Good+ with pages remaining clean, clear, and tightly bound. From front cover: What were the doctors doing to the children? The scariest medical thriller since Coma! From back cover: THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE AFRAID TO IMAGINE Fritz and Beth Engstrom wanted to know what had happened to their child whom the clinic pronounced dead–for Beth was sure she still lived. Writer Pete Collins wanted to know what the little lost boy he had found was trying to tell him–and what was behind the terror in his tortured eyes. Attendant Julie Lind wanted to know what was really going on in the place where she worked, and why the behavior of the children there seemed so strange. All of them would do anything to find out the terrifying secret that no one would believe....

Presumably first edition. 160 p.; ill.; 24 cm. Includes Index (pp. 157-159).Softcover book shows minor shelfwear to covers, mainly edges, and cover curl, as well as expected aging (yellowing) of both covers and pages. The book has the occasional unobtrusive checkmark or underline in pen, but is otherwise internally in Near Fine condition. Profusely illustrated with both artwork and photography.From the rear: Seven distinguished crime writers look at the past, present and future of crime writing in this book, which springs from a BBC Television series. They examine the great landmarks of crime fiction, and a richly illustrated linking commentary reflects on the origins and developmentof the most popular of all fiction genres. But the point of view is not just historical; the essayists show how detective stories reveal a great many of the prevalent social attitudes of the last hundred years. And the essays deal not only with crime fiction in printed form but also on television and film.

174 p. Spine cocked, creased, and general wear to covers, with some marking/staining to rear cover/spine, but internally clean, bright, and tightly bound. Pink foredge.See listing images for synopsis on rear.

503 p. Minor shelfwear [top edges were missed in scanning, but are in similar state as bottom edges] and a few pages have been accidentally dog-eared, otherwise Near Fine and obviously never been read. The author notes that she has set the story in an imaginary locale in the real-life east coast of Norfolk, between Cromer and Great Yarmouth.Among her many accomplishments, P.D. James "entered the Home Office as Principal, working first in the Police Department concerned with the forensic science service and later in the Criminal Policy Department ... has twice been the winner of the Silver dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association and in 1987 was awarded the Diamond Dagger Award for services to crime writing."From back cover:A serial killer of women is on the loose in a remote area of the Norfolk coast. Overshadowing the bleak landscape and the lives of the local community is the Larksoken nuclear power station, run by the charismatic Alex Mair. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, who is staying at his… Read More

32 p.; illustrated (B&W), with covers in colour. Contents previously published in the Chicago Tribune, 1963.Minimal shelfwear, with tiny (2mm) tear to back cover, and corner clipping on pp. 9-16 (manufacturing error?) otherwise Near Fine, clean, bright, and tightly bound (possibly unread).

253 p.; some creasing to spine and very minor cover/edgewear, otherwise Near Fine in highly decorative gilted cover. From back cover: In 1141 England is still torn by the civil strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. Among the victims of the carnage is the Abbey of Hyde Meade, totally destroyed. Its brothers are scattered far and wide. Two seek refuge in Shrewsbury: Brother Humilis, who has abandoned his intended marriage and entered the cloister after crippling injuries received on Crusade; and the mute Fidelis, his devoted attendant. All is well until Nicholas, once Humilis' squire, resolves to pay court on his own account to the girl who was his lord's affianced bride, and comes to ask his blessing on the suit. Then a latent tragedy becomes a present reality, and only the ever-indefatigable Brother Cadfael can distinguish between the innocent, the guilty – and the victims foredoomed by the demands of honour, love, and Fate. 'Brother Cadfael must… Read More

384 p. Black hardcovers with red-gilt illustration have minor edgewear/bumping, ffep has a small stamp of previous author, there is a small stain to Preface, and some minor dogearing to bottom corner of a few pages, otherwise internally Fine, tightly bound and possibly unread. From Worldcat: His code name was The Needle. He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence, a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history ... But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom, and win the war for the Nazis.May require small amount of extra shipping due to size of book.

First Edition, First Printing.
215 p. Light sticker ghost to cover and extremely mild edgewear, otherwise Fine, seemingly unread. From the publisher: Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most of them fester in the high-rise by the lake.In this visceral, emotionally raw, and completely absorbing collection, Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of Franklin Place, from its construction during the Cold War to its demolition decades later. We meet the Franklins themselves, three generations of landlords, each more paranoid and alienated than the last. And we meet their tenants: a drug dealer, a lonely bigot, a political activist, a struggling father, a wandering sex offender, a woman who refuses to give into it all. They wander in and out of each other's lives, with little in common but the building and the mould behind its walls. In The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Carlucci immerses us in a dim yet eerily familiar world. Love… Read More

Advance review copy (ARC). 246 p. Light shelfwear with author's contact sticker on rear, otherwise Fine. From the back: The new novel by the author of The Little Russian, featuring young Polish girl and her friendships with Madame Curie and Eusapia Palladino. In the early 1900s, Lucia Rutkowski leaves a Warsaw ghetto and a life trapped in the textile mills to escape to the bustling city of Paris. She eventually finds work in a home run by two scientists consumed by their groundbreaking research. Lucia soon bonds with her eccentric employers, watching as their insight into radioactive materials is increasingly noticed by the world, then rising to fame as the great Marie and Pierre Curie. Soon, all of Paris is alit with the news of an impending visit from Eusapia Palladino, the world's most famous medium. Spiritualism and the series of sittings offered by Palladino draws great interest from the Paris scientific community. It is through her now famous employers that Lucia attends Eusapia's gatherings,… Read More

Advance reading copy (ARC). 271 p. Very very slight shelfwear, otherwise Fine. From the back: The latest by Angie Abdou: young EIi invokes the spirit, and themistakes, of his great-great-grandfather. In Angie Abdou's fifth work of fiction, Eli and his parents have returned to their family home in a small mountain town named Coalton. The parents, Nicholas and Lucy, hope that by escaping their hectic city lives, they will restore calm and stability to their marriage, but they find that once-charming Coalton is under pressure from real-estate developers, and a high-end subdivision has disturbed a historic graveyard, drawing negative press from national media. Coalton is no longer the remote idyll they remembered.While Nicholas works long hours at the local coal mine and Lucy battles depression, Eli explores his new home. When he meets Mary,a troubled Ktunaxa girl who lives next door, they discover that they both have a foot in multiple worlds, where they are challenged to account for their past lives of… Read More

First Edition, stated. 310 p. Black cloth hardcover with illustrated spine. A vintage, well-loved first edition with that classic scent of old book and all the marks of repeated use. Worn with significant edgewear, shaken, cracked but holding at half-title and rear cover, browned pages with stains here and there throughout, small tears to edges, and some pencil, pen, and perhaps even lipstick (see images) from its proud previous owner, who signed her name, location, date, and age (13) to the ffep."The Gray Seal and the Tocsin again join forces in a thrilling battle against the underworld."

First printing stated, First Edition.157 p.; ill. Very minimal signs of external wear, but no creasing to spine and otherwise Fine. Perfect gift for a die-hard D&D fan.From the introduction: In this story, you are Sparrow, a young juggler who, together with his brother, Jay, travels from town to town performing your act at inns and fairs in order to scratch out a meager existence. It's a hard life, and nothing exciting ever seems to happen to you – until today, that is . . . .Pick a Path to Adventure™ in this vintage Dungeons & Dragons™ Endless Quest® with a map given to you by a mysterious stranger who lay dying beneath a rowan tree. You must set free the spirit of a tormented king in order to gain a hoard of treasure!For those unfamiliar "Choose Your Own Adventure" types of books, they are great for rereading: the story presents the reader with choices in key situations, each choice leading to a different page and, ultimately, a different ending.

First edition, First printing stated.325 pages. Minor shelfwear to DJ. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, otherwise Fine condition.From dust jacket flap:
Joanna Blalock listens to the dead—piecing together puzzles of blood, flesh, and DNA to tell stories of lives ended by natural causes, by accident, or by murder. Detective Jake Sinclair pries secrets from the living—hunting down killers who roam among the innocent, seeking their next victim. Once, Joanna and Jake were lovers; now they are separated by the passions they could give their work but not to each other....
An explosion shatters a quiet residential neighborhood, leveling half a suburban block and killing twenty people. As shockwaves eco across Los Angeles, experts search the wreckage for answers. Amid the rubble and scattered pieces of humanity, a grim picture emerges: of terrorists destroyed by their own explosives, and of innocent lives caught in in the crossfire.
For Joanna, assisting in the investigation, her task is a… Read More

First Edition stated. Minor wear to extremities and slight curl to front cover, with a faint "8" stamp to bottom foredge, otherwise Near Fine, clean, clear and tightly bound. From back cover: Every old house has a legacy. And through the spirit of a single, small girl the legacy of a single, old house will stand revealed in all its raw and murderous evil. Nothing can put the evil to rest except one solitary, unnameable act. An act that, whatever the terror, whatever the cost, only the innocent can accomplish.