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Knee
Deep
Port Town Pub.
ISBN: 1-59466-007-7 |
Knee Deep
... The New Mexico
desert promises two immutable truths: no secret stays buried forever,
and no one disappears without a trace.
Thirty-two year old
doctoral student Tamara Kindrel makes one final research trip to the
Hagan Mineral Mine - and doesn’t return. A rock hunting club is
digging around the same mine two years later when young Seth Robbins
falls down a shaft and finds himself in a cave containing bones, artifacts,
and a fully intact human skeleton!
Without waiting for
the coroner to confirm his suspicions, Sheriff Judd Eakins has his own
ideas about the identity of the remains. First on his agenda is to call
Leo Drucker, Law Enforcement Ranger with BLM. He’s a friend, fishing
buddy, and one of the keenest investigators Judd’s ever known.
The killer has had
a two year head start when Sheriff Judd Eakins and BLM Ranger Leo Drucker
join what rapidly becomes an obsessive race to find Tamara's murderer.
On the narrow sliver
between legal and illegal and barely surviving the precarious game of
chase, Drucker and Eakins discover that the evidence they need is right
in front of them -- and then he kills again.
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the author of the eerie psychological thriller Blackwater Tango comes Lisa
Polisar’s second novel – a sure fit for mystery lovers and those
enchanted with the haunting allure of the American Southwest. |
Fitted
In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry |
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Fitted
In: The Cardiff 3 and the
Lynette White Inquiry
ISBN: 0 9527325 0 5 |
On St Valentine's Day 1988 Lynette White, 20, was
horrifically murdered in Cardiff. South Wales Police issued photofits
of two white men but never traced them. Ten months later, ignoring
a stronger case against a white pedophile, police arrested five black
men. None of the forensic evidence related them to the victim. The
longest murder trial in British history ended, despite no credible
evidence, with three men convicted on unlawful verdicts In 1992 the
Court of Appeal quashed the convictions. Satish Sekar, a member of
the NUJ's London Freelance Branch, has devoted much of his working
life to an expose of this shocking case.
Contact Satish Sekar
to order Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White
Inquiry.
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Satish
Sekar holds a BA Hons. degree in Sociology. A freelance journalist
since 1990, his work has appeared in The Guardian and
The Independent and has been used by television and radio stations
throughout England and Wales. |
Island
of Bones
Pinnacle
Books
ISBN: 0 78601 60 51 |
Island
of Bones |
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P.
J. Parrish is actually two sisters - Kristy Montee and Kelly Montee
- who decided to pool their life-long loves of writing by teaming
up in 1995 to create the character of Louis Kincaid.
Their first book Dark of the Moon introduced the young,
impulsive biracial Louis Kincaid to the world in a case that involved
a 30-year old lynching. The sister's second novel, Dead of Winter
spent four weeks on the USA Today's top selling books, and earned
a nomination for the Mystery Writer's of America's coveted EDGAR
Award. Paint it Black debuted on the New York Times best-selling
list, and was honored with both a Shamus Award nomination and an
Anthony Award nomination.
Island
of Bones was published this January.
In
the Summer issue of Web Mystery Magazine, P. J. Parrish
will explain how two writers, living hundreds of miles apart, consistently
produce thrillers so compelling that they make the News York
Times bestsellers list.
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Beginner's
Luck |
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Beginner's
Luck
Red Herring Press
0 97405 83 27 |
Paul
Grey doesn’t know much about art, politics, or detective work
for that matter, but he’s about to get a crash course in all
three after Senator Allan Puckett dispatches his blackmailer to the
hereafter and then turns the weapon on himself. At least that’s
the way the cops say it went down. Paul must follow a trail of fraud,
treachery, and corruption to locate the single clue that will reveal
instead a double murder. His suspects are the arrogant, delusional,
manipulative, and sometimes homicidal players that inhabit the political
and artistic circles of Atlanta. Using his smarts, occasional brawn,
and a whole lot of beginner’s luck, Paul tackles the case. From
shooting ranges to golf ranges, Paul pounds the pavement in search
of an unlikely assassin. Will he expose a double murderer? Or will
this, his first case, be his last?
Author
Cheryl Ritzel will contribute an article to the Summer issue of
Web Mystery Magazine on the use of forensic hypnosis in
famous court cases, explaining how it was used to solve cases such
as Sam
Sheppard, Ted Bundy, and the Boston Strangler.
Her newest novel, due out Christmas of this year, uses forensic
hypnosis as part of the evidence for solving the crime.
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The
Unknown Darkness
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0-0605-0957-0 |
The
Unknown Darkness:
Profiling the Predators Among Us
"In
a book that combines engrossing writing with seasoned insight, McCrary,
a 25-year veteran of the FBI and a former criminal profiler in the
bureau's renowned behavioral science unit, has teamed up with Ramsland,
a forensic psychologist and writer, to produce a detailed account
of criminal investigative analysis." Publisher's Weekly
Dr.
Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University.
She has published twenty books, including The Forensic Science of
CSI and The Criminal Mind: A Writer’s Guide to Forensic Psychology.
She writes for Court TV’s Crime Library and co-wrote The Unknown
Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us with Gregg McCrary. |
The
Outcast Dove
Forge Press
ISBN : 0-765-30377-9 |
The
Outcast Dove,
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery |
| Catherine
LeVendeur’s curiosity and passion for justice have sometimes
led her to brave horrors and solve grisly murders…but this time
the threat is to those she loves.
Catherine’s family business relies
on her cousin Solomon to negotiate the treacherous path to riches.
The fact that Solomon is her cousin is secret, however, because
he’s Jewish—and if their family connections were discovered,
it could mean ruin or death.
As Solomon travels to Spain to make their
fortunes, he is drawn into a scheme to rescue a Jewish girl taken
by Christians during the conquest of the Spanish city of Almeira.
To complicate matters, and sorely vex his heart, Solomon encounters
his long-lost father Jacob, a man who rejected his Jewish faith
and is now Brother James, preparing his own trip to Spain to ransom
Crusader knights taken by the Moslems.
When a fellow monk is killed by an attacker
in the street late once night, it’s put down to a random mugging.
But James, who is carrying the ransom money, believes that he will
be the next target, and he turns for help to the son he had abandoned.
Solomon wants nothing to do with his father.
But he’s confronted by his past, his ancestry, the need for
secrecy, and his love for those of his family who have chosen a
different path.
In
dealing with all these things, Solomon will come to a decision about
who he is…and where he really belongs.
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Atomic
Renaissance:
Women
Mystery Writers
of the 1940s and 1950s
Women
in 1950s America found themselves trapped into a mold of Donna Reed
and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age.
Mystery fiction was a male bastion as well, promoting hardboiled
private eye novels and spy fiction. It would be another three decades
before groups to promote equality between the sexes in mystery fiction
appeared.
Yet
during that post-World War II era, seven women carved out a place
in the genre....
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A
Good Soldier |
When
Grant, Julia, and his family travel on to Bethel, Ohio, to visit
some friends from his West Point days, Grant finds them dying off
at an alarming rate. In spite of the poverty and need brought on
by the Great War, Grant's friends seem to have discovered the Midas
touch.
Grant
(along with Julia and his father) has to get to the bottom of a
golden mystery to find out why people in this small town are dying.
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"Jeffrey
Marks has a real talent for interesting descriptions, making me
really see the characters."
-- Sharan Newman,
The Outcast Dove,
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery |
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Death's
Acre:
Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab,
The Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales |
Death's
Acre
G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
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"If
you’ve ever read Patricia Cornwell’s novel or seen gruesome
footage of this place, you may (or not, depending on your nerve)
be thrilled to know that there’s finally a book about that
strange area in Tennessee known fondly as the Body Farm. Founder
Bill Bass has at last organized his notes and teamed up with writer
Jon Jefferson to present a definitive history in Death’s
Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, the Body Farm, Where the
Dead Do Tell Tales.
"As
Bass tells the history and development of this one-of-a-kind place,
he utilizes cases that taught him something new or put his acquired
knowledge to the test, so the book sometimes has the quality of
a detective novel. The stories of the Zoo Man, a serial killer,
and the slaughtered Perry family stand out as Bass’s best
work, but there are lesser known tales as well that engage the reader
with a fine balance between science and gore. [I]f you’re
interested in forensic pathology and anthropology ... you’ll
come away with knowledge about teeth, insects, adipocere, and time
of death that you won’t get anywhere else."
Katherine
Ramsland, Ph.D., author of twenty books, teaches forensic psychology
at DeSales University and writes forensic science articles for Court
TV’s Crime Library. |
Hilliard & Harris
ISBN:
1-591330-13-0
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Blackwater
Tango ... Gena Hollender has a new life. She is in
private practice as a psychologist, is renovating an old brownstone
in Manhattan, and is becoming an expert on raising exotic plants.
But an innocent question – "how do you feel?" – can
send her into mind-numbing shock. And now she's been having visions
of
a dark-haired young woman who is slowly dying. After an exhausting
five-year chase, Trikonis eluded capture.
But
Gena learns that the body of a young woman has been found folded into a
submerged
lobster
trap off Monhegan Island in Maine. The details – no clothing from the waist down and no evidence of sexual assault – is Victor’s signature. Gena goes to an emergency meeting of the old team in Portland only to find that each participant was actually called by Trikonis – a
brilliant psychologist expert at the manipulation of his subjects.
Gena's dread is palpable. She wavers between instincts of fight or
flight.
When bodies start turning up with alarming frequency, Gena decides
she must end Trikonis' reign of terror even if her own life is
the prize
he seeks.
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Tango is an intense, edge-of-your-seat thriller by the author
of Knee Deep. |
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Leapfrog
Press
ISBN: 096795200X
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The
German Money
"Lev
Raphael writes with the precision of a neurosurgeon, the warmth of
an ancient storyteller, and the soul of a people that has known the
extremes of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, love and hate more than
almost any other." The Jewish Bulletin
Lev
Raphael is the mysteries columnist for the Detroit Free Press and
prize-winning author of 14 books including the critically acclaimed
Nick Hoffman series, Let's Get Criminal, The Edith Wharton Murders,
The Death of a Constant Lover, Little Miss Evil, and Burning Down
the House. His latest novel is The German Money. |
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