Books Published in December 1989

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 409 titles

  • Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” ...

  • The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.  One early morning, Revere...

  • Final Covenant

    Arnaldo Hernandez

  • A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. 
     
    For love of fine, wily Imabelle, haple...

  • 29/29

    Nick Bragger

  • The 97th Step

    Steve Perry

    ONE MAN. THREE LIVES. IN A FIGHT-OR-DIE FUTURE ... MWILI was born on a cruel, desolate planet ... and dreamed of the stars. FERRET was a thief and smuggler on exotic worlds ... until his ruin. PEN was trained by the master warriors, the Sib...

  • Children of Time

    Deborah Moulton

    David reluctantly obeys the laws of the computer-controlled government of the future which demands that every child spend every other month with a foster parent until he is imprisoned by a mad woman in a castle with hundreds of other children...

  • The Color of Neanderthal Eyes

    James Tiptree Jr.
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  • Crescent in the Sky

    Donald Moffitt

    BLUES FOR ALLAH For a thousand years the Great Awakening had spread the word of Allah to the stars. And for a thousand years there had been no Caliph to unite the disparate Islamic planets-the vast interstellar distances made the required pilgrima...

  • The Dragon Never Sleeps

    Glen Cook

    THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON ECHOED ACROSS CANON SPACE... "Surrender or die!" For four thousand years the Guardships had issued that dictat. Built and armed by great mercantile houses, their computer cores alive with the engrams of great past leaders, ...

  • Gorgon Child

    Steven Barnes

    IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed b...

  • The Lizard War

    John Dalmas

    It's a thousand years after World War III and Earth lies supine beneath the heel of a gang of alien sociopaths (they look like snakes with legs) who like to torture whole populations for sport. The Lizards could not have conquered us in our heyday, b...

  • The Middle Kingdom

    David Wingrove

    THE YEAR IS 2190. CHINA HAS ONE AGAIN BECOME A WORLD UNTO ITSELF AND THIS TIME ITS NLY BOUNDARY IS SPACE.... The world is City Earth, ruled by the Seven, China's new kings. Beautiful, controlled, sensual, this high-tech society is rushing toward w...

  • Star Bright

    Martin Caidin

    Burning with the pure raging fury of countless suns, energy feeding on everything it touches, growing. Project Star Bright, top secret nuclear experiment, is now beyond control. Is this the way the world ends?...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • Blackmailer's Summer

    Peter Whalley

  • Body of Evidence

    David A. Van Meter

    Vietnam vet turned private eye Gardner Wells agrees to locate a friend's rebellious daughter in Mexico, but when the runaway's young son and a previous private investigator disappear, the case takes on dangerous dimensions...

  • Campground Caper

    Mel Cebulash

  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    John Dickson Carr

  • The Crime of the Century

    Kingsley Amis

    When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime...

  • Dead Fix

    Michael R. Geller

    Jockey Ken Eagle is mystified when a wealthy racehorse owner keeps buying worthless horses and transforming them into winners. Are his techniques genuine - or is there another more sinister reason for his success?...

  • Death of His Uncle

    C.H.B. Kitchin

  • Death Wore a Diadem

    Iona McGregor

    A finishing school matron's plans to use a visit by Empress Eugenie of France as a social stepping stone meets with disaster when theft and murder run rampant in the school and a jaded pupil must search the streets of Edinburgh to catch the culprit...

  • Down in the Valley

    David M. Pierce

  • The Estuary Pilgrim

    Douglas Skeggs

    A Monet that was once a treasure of Nazi Germany becomes the center of a violent and mysterious international art fraud scandal when the painting--which was supposedly destroyed during World War II--resurfaces...

  • The Fate of an Eagle

    Irving A. Greenfield

    John Wesley Anderson attempts to supplement his wealth, his art collection, and his mistress with political power, a maneuver that involves Anderson's use of his CIA contacts but that backfires when the Agency decides to terminate him...

  • Flamingo

    Bob Reiss

    On sabatical from his crime beat at the "New York Daily News," reporter Raleigh Fixx travels to the Florida Keys to write a book on a bird sanctuary and becomes the suspect in the murder investigation of a man he had just met...

  • Guilt on the Lily

    Roger Ormerod

    While traveling around Europe with his wife Amelia, retired detective Richard Patton receives an urgent message too late--its sender is found murdered and Patton, attracted to the mystery, uncovers the involvement of several of his former colleagues...

  • Honolulu Red

    Lue Zimmelman

  • Kill the Messenger

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    READ ALL ABOUT IT Legendary newspaper publisher Isaiah Justice, owner of The Defender, is going to miss his paper's biggest story ever: someone has laced his bourbon with cyanide. His murder conveniently coincides with the takeover bid from a l...

  • King of the Shadows

    Scott Richardson

  • The Mooncalf Murders

    Noel Vreeland Carter

  • Murder for the Bride

    John D. MacDonald

    “SHE MAY LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL…but she’s a tramp.” That was when I hit him, my best friend. I thought of Laura and our three-day honeymoon. I thought of the sting of her full lips, the long lush lines of her warm, wonderful body, her throaty,...

  • Naja

    Julian Jay Savarin

    Gallagher must dive into a deadly North Sea tunnel and speedboat across the waters off Cornwall in order to save well-known film star Doria Luce and keep a deadly weapon out of the wrong hands. Original....

  • Neon Caesar

    Mark McGarrity

    A FORTUNE IN DIRTY MONEY RUNS THROUGH ATLANTIC CITY'S CASINOS. IT COMES OUT MAFIA CLEAN... Luke "Lucky" Furco controls the biggest money-laundering operation on the boardwalk--and Toni Spina is his favorite runner. Three years ago, Toni's gambl...

  • Predator's Waltz

    Jay Brandon

    A PAWN TICKET TO DEATH Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Gre...

  • Repulse Monkey

    Dick Cluster

    Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's folded, 8 1/2" x 11" letter laid in. Rubbing along the upper edges of the letter....

  • The Sands of Time

    Sidney Sheldon

    Four women leave their Spanish convent and enter an alien world of uncertainty, romance, and suspense....

  • Taking the Veil

    James Friel

    A story about a priest with a grudge, a father with a secret, a red-headed lesbian called Sonny, a blond young lover called Andreas, a woman hanged with her own tights and a girl who thinks she is a car. James Friel is the author of "Left of North"....

  • That Which is Crooked

    Doris Miles Disney

    Wally Howard was prissy and puny, and he knew too well what it was like to be the runt of the litter. It was a dog's life, all right, but Wally was not about to roll over and play dead. Some of the tricks he knew were a bit extraordinary--because...

  • The Tijuana Bible

    Ron Goulart

    After a dying man appears on his back porch, Jack Deacon becomes unavoidably involved in a series of bizarre coincidences--plots against a beautiful woman and a chase up the California coast--that culminate in his pursuit of the Tijuana Bible...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Joyce Porter (1)

    She'd been betrayed by love . . . Years ago a spy had lured schoolgirl Ann Bennett into a false marriage, then callously ordered her death and fled to the Soviet Union. Ann had lived, but could not escape the shadow of her "husband's" espionage. ...

  • A Taste of Death

    M.J. Rodgers

    The only rule in this game was survival. It was a high-risk, high-stakes, high-tech game of hide-and-seek. At one end of Varifoods International's state-of-the-art computer system was Personnel Manager B. A. Lee. At the other end were the ruthless...

  • Cupboard Kisses

    Barbara Metzger

    Lady or Lightskirt? Well-bred orphan Cristabel Swann tolerates her thankless teaching job--until her uncle dies unexpectedly. Arriving in London to claim her inheritance, Cristabel encounters something else entirely--a loutish naval captain who wo...

  • Dunraven's Folly

    Dawn Lindsey

    A DASHING LORD SETS A BOLD BEAUTY'S HEART RACING OUT OF CONTROL RUNAWAY ROMANCE Lovely Cathleen Dunraven had to keep herself under the tightest control. She could not by word or gesture betray the roguish schemes of her beloved grandfather, Sir...

  • The Gilded Web

    Mary Balogh

    TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...

  • Lady Lu

    Elisabeth Kidd

    No one, least of all Richard Wetherell, could predict what Lady Luisa Ingram would do next. When she turned up in Kent on the eve of Richard’s engagement to a local girl, he was exasperated but not surprised. Will the combined efforts of their frie...

  • Marian's Christmas Wish

    Carla Kelly

    A VOW NOT TO LOVE Miss Marian Wynswich had not been raised to be a proper young lady. Instead she had been educated to be as good as any man in everything from reading Greek to playing chess. Thus it was with dismay that she saw what falling in l...

  • Men Were Deceivers Ever

    Gwyneth Moore

    SHE HAD ALMOST LOVED HIM BUT NOW SHE DESPISED HIM Miss Helena Hammond had suffered a tragedy that had left not only herself but her family at Point Non Plus deeply in debt and with no apparent escape. Therefore, Lieutenant Peter Clivedon's app...

  • My Lady's Deception

    Linda Walker

    MAKE-BELIEVE LADY Lady Jane Marlingforthe knew that the world was full of fainthearted people who are completely overset by adversity. Penniless, her ancestral home sold for back taxes, and with no prospects on the horizon, Lady Jane almost caved in...

  • Queen of the May

    Emily Hendrickson

    THE LADY WORE BREECHES Young Lady Samantha Mayne had no desire to be a proper young lady. Let her cousin Emma dress in fashionable gowns, attend glittering balls, and hunt a mate in the marriage mart. Samantha preferred to aid her brother George's...

  • The Rake's Revenge

    Rachelle Edwards

    Cornelia Faraday considered herself all but betrothed to St.John Drimmer, her father's gentle curate, when she was whisked off to fashionable Tynings to make her social debut. -- Cornelia cared nothing for the beau monde, and even less for some of ...

  • The Sealed Knot

    Elizabeth Law

  • A Tempting Miss

    Janice Bennett

    DRESS REHEARSAL Miss Augusta Carstairs was overcome with mortification every time she recalled her last encounter two years before with Major Edward MacKennoch. What had possessed her to so shamelessly try to induce him to kiss her, she couldn't...

  • Two Corinthians

    Carola Dunn

    Lord Pomeroy's sister plays the matchmaker when she pairs her brother up with the spinsterish horticulturist Claire, who is herself Cupid for her sister, Lizzie, and the charming George Winterbourne, who, in turn, has designs on Claire...

  • The Virgin's Heart

    Coral Hoyle

    He had lost her once He would not lose her again When Roxanne Costain arrives at Rammsford Abbey in the West Country, she is none too pleased to discover Alexander Monk there. Four years ago, she had broken their engagement and had vowed never to ...

  • Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet

    Elizabeth Dunkel

    Kate Odinokov, an attractive 33-year-old advertising executive, contemplates suicide in this readable, if unremarkable, first novel, but admits, ``I could never kill myself: I love clothes too much.'' Already infatuated with her handsome Italian ther...

  • The Peacock's Feather

    Sarah Woodhouse

    Dr Alexander French travels to Suffolk to start a new life. A country village is thrown into turmoil when a flamboyant stranger from Jamaica arrives to take possession of the manor. This novel is set in 18th century Norfolk and is a sequel to "A S...

  • Coffin in Fashion

    Gwendoline Butler

    Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the body of an adolescent boy under the floor--and Coffin, though i...

  • Vespers

    Ed McBain

    Now available for the first time in paperback--the latest riveting novel in the bestselling 87th Precinct series. The hardcover of Vespers has sold almost twice as many copies as McBain's previous hardcover releases. This paperback edition will conta...

  • Blue Moon

    Dawn Stewardson

    The year is 1862 Prospectors swarm over the Sierra Nevada, hunting for gold, desperadoes roam the range, and the Indians are on the warpath. Dr. Henry Lockhart is so busy setting broken bones that he hasn't any time for women. Just as well....

  • Christmas Stranger

    Joan Hohl

    CHRISTMAS EVE 1889 Shots rang out along with the peal of church bells. U.S. Marshal Matthew Hawk fell wounded onto the snow -- not ready to die. He'd just determined to make himself a better life, find a wife, maybe start a family. But Matt ha...

  • Time Was

    Nora Roberts

    THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Studying the past hardly prepared anthropologist Liberty Stone for loving a man from the future. Caleb Hornblower, with hair as black as deep space and eyes as blue as the Oregon sky his ship had fallen from--made her lev...

  • The Big Silence

    Bernard Schopen

    IN NEVADA, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. IN NEVADA, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. A man may vanish in the vast deserts, dusty towns, or glittering cities of Nevada as easily as mirages form on the sun-baked playa or the neon-washed streets. Private detective J...

  • Death of a Hollow Man

    Caroline Graham

    A BLOODY DISASTER... The players of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) were well rehearsed and ready for their opening night production of Amadeus. But no one was prepared for the leading man to give his all to the climactic scene. With o...

  • A Loose Connection

    M.R.D. Meek

    ATTORNEY LENNOX KEMP YEARNED FOR A MURDER TO BROOD ON. WOULD HE SETTLE FOR SUICIDE? Dorothea Copeland was a model of propriety--unlike her oldest friend, Amanda. Odd that outrageous Mandy, such a lover of life, would kill herself... especially af...

  • Nibbled to Death by Ducks

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is a tough, red-headed little Irishman--a Chicago sewer inspector, Democratic precinct captain, and part-time sleuth with a heart of gold. In NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, he returns from vacation to discover that Chips Delvin, his sewer ...

  • Raptor

    Judith Van Gieson

    SAVAGERY FROM THE SKY. MURDER ON THE GROUND. A steady law practice, a stash of tequila, a lover she calls the Kid--only a debt of the heart to her dear, dead aunt Joan compelled the woman named Neil Hamel to leave the stucco comforts of Albuquerqu...

  • Confirm or Deny

    Graham Ison

  • Frozen Stare

    Richard B. Schwartz

    Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer ...

  • Lee Tanner

    Phillip Underwood

  • The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew: A Real Life Murder Melodrama in Three Acts

    Richard Whittington-Egan

    An examination of the murder of Reading tobacconist, Alfred Oliver and the inquest into his death. Popular opinion was that the prime murder suspect was Philip Yale Drew, a flamboyant, eccentric actor but Whittington-Egan suggests that his hounding w...

  • A Suitcase in Berlin

    Don Flynn

  • What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

    Diana Shaw

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1989

    Edward D. Hoch

  • The Gold Ball

    Hanne Marie Svendsen

    THE GOLD BALL ~~ "The story she tells is part epic family chronicle and part the life and death of an enchanted world - an island off the coast of Denmark - and its generations of inhabitants over the last four centuries, all of them descended from t...

  • Louder Than Words

    William Shore

  • The Quarterly

    Gordon Lish

  • Two by Handke

    Peter Handke

  • Before the Wind

    Maura Seger

    IF YOU WOULD SEDUCE ME ... PROMISE ME YOUR LOVE Even her glorious beauty could not save nineteen-year-old Dominique from the maddened mob outside the Tuileries Palace. As lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Dominique had lived a luxurious life in...

  • Beloved Avenger

    Joan Van Nuys

    The Pearls of Naipoor -- long ago, Lucian Thorne had been convicted of stealing the fabled jewels and stripped of his command. Becoming the elusive "Ghost," he sailed storm-tossed seas, preying upon the ships of the villain who had ruined him...

  • Bold Texas Embrace

    Victoria Thompson

    HOT-BLOODED RANCHER Art teacher Catherine Eaton could hardly believe how stubborn Sam Connors was! Even though the rancher's young stepbrother was an exceptionally talented painter, Sam forbade Catherine to instruct him, fearing that art would make ...

  • Chase the Thunder

    Patricia Potter

    A Common Goal Casey Saunders's father had been cruelly gunned down in the street. And Sean Mallory was the one man who could lead her to the killer. Mallory had been hunting Wilson and his gang of cutthroats across the Southwest. He didn't need...

  • Cheyenne's Lady

    Patricia Rice

    Her heart pounded as his lips closed over hers. Never before had she been kissed like this...never before had she been so willing to surrender to love's passionate promise... Daughter of New Mexico cattle baron and an enchantingly lovely Mexican a...

  • The Courts of Love

    Jean Plaidy

    "When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me-my triumphs and most of my misfortunes-were due to my passionate relationships with men." Raised in the pleasure-loving Aquitaine duchy of France, wher...

  • The Darkest Heart

    Brenda Joyce

    SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...

  • Edin's Embrace

    Nadine Crenshaw

    WAR HUNGRY VIKING The crash of a wooden club and the howl of a Norse cur forever shattered innocent Edin's dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart. And when the svelte young beauty found herself in the grip of her betrothed's killer, Edin vowe...

  • Emerald Embrace

    Marjorie Price

    The author of Renegade Heart and Desire's Dawning will set the racks on fire with this splendid story of a spirited Irish lass who finds rapture in the arms of a man she can never trust! The lovely Irish mill girl Carina O'Rourke was ready to pay ...

  • Fire Queen

    Deborah Grabien

    Maeve, Queen of Connacht. . . Warrior, ruler, lover. She was everything men wanted. . . And her enemies feared most. At fifteen, the flame-haired queen was renowned throughout the Celtic world for her two-handed prowess in battle and her haunting, ot...

  • Forever Love

    Maria Greene

    He found her lying beside the fallen coach, an exquisite beauty...quite dead. Then her body mysteriously vanished -- until, days later, still haunted by her memory, Carey McLendon looked across a crowded salon and saw her once again -- radiant with l...

  • Game of Hearts

    Sally Cheney

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING When governess Josephine Foster arrived at Westover Manor, she thought it rather odd to find herself presented to the young master as a worthy object for his affections. But since the man was the devilishly handsome De...

  • Love's Brazen Fire // The Paradise Bargain

    Betina Krahn

    She made him want her... but would he ever love her? SHE HAD TO PERSUADE HIM Barter was a way of life in Rapture, Pennsylvania and Whitney (Whiskey) Daniels learned long ago that everything has its price. So when an officer of the new federal g...

  • Much Ado About Love

    Flora Speer

    A MAID: As a twenty-five-year-old virgin far past marriageable age, Halys did all she could to avoid male attention. And the male she wished most to avoid was Simon of Lyonne, the arrogant baron who had broken her heart when she was just fourteen. ...

  • Paradise Redeemed

    Ana Leigh

    When beautiful, violet-eyed Evelyn MacGregor fled to San Francisco, she thought she had escaped forever the domination of her autocratic guardian, Adam Rawlins. Rolling pie crust and slicing apples in her homey little bakery, The Forbidden Fruit, Eve...

  • A Promise of Fire

    Veronica Sattler

    In a bold young America, where smoldering tension would ignite the sparks of revolution, two strangers kindled a passion that would last a lifetime... Brittany Chambers -- all of Virginia knew her for her proud bearing and fierce, indomitable spirit....

  • The Ransomed Bride

    Elizabeth Lowther

    A small brown wren in the midst of a golden family, Sabrina had always known that her brother Giles was a fool. What she hadn't expected was for that fact to affect her life so drastically. The periodic skirmishes between England and France had led t...

  • Salt Lake City

    A.R. Riefe

    LAND OF PROMISE, LAND OF PERIL The Utah territory. A forbidding land of mountains and desert, savage Indian and hostile trapper. Here the Catton family came, following the Mormon leader Brigham Young, believing in his promise to make the desert bl...

  • Savage Deception

    Lynette Vinet

    He called her his angel, but she behaved like a devil! SHE DID HIM WRONG Delightful Diana Montaigne was promised to another man, but the moment she set eyes on Briarhaven's new overseer, the highborn beauty was aflame with uncontrollable des...

  • Savage Thunder

    Johanna Lindsey

    Lady Jocelyn Fleming, Duchess of Eaton, was a feisty, flame-haired aristocrat -- newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord. Wealthy and titled, yet aching with the pain of unexplored desire, her restless heart led her...

  • Savage Tides

    Mary Mayer Holmes

    His passion took her where she had never been...his secrets threatened to destroy them both! THE POWER OF THE OCEAN HELD THEM IN ITS SWAY. THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE WOULD FACE THE MOST SAVAGE TEST OF ALL... At 24, Philadelphia-born Augusta Mayhe...

  • Scoundrel's Caress

    Carolyn Chase

    THIRTEEN COLONIES Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation. PRISONER OF DESIRE Lovely Caroline McLeod, penniless and proud, had staked all h...

  • Silvermore

    Patricia Strother

    DYNASTY OF DESIRE The great mansion on San Francisco's Russian Hill was built for love - the love of handsome, dashing Eben Silvermore and Ede Sothern, the aristocratic beauty whom this self-made millionaire vowed to wed. But neither he nor she c...

  • Stolen Dreams

    Catherine Lyndell

    Fate flung them together...and from the depths of treachery a splendid love arose! In the shadowy back alleys of London, she saved his life -- and stole his heart! Raised in a perilous world of thieves and rogues, Gillie lived by her wiles and ...

  • Sweet, Wild Love

    Emma Merritt

    DEFENDER OF JUSTICE It was hard enough for Eleanor Hunt to get men to take her seriously in sophisticated Chicago --- it was going to be impossible in Blissful, Kansas! These cowboys couldn't believe she was a real attorney, here to try a cattle rus...

  • To Dance With Kings

    Rosalind Laker

    1664. The humble French village of Versailles is forever altered by the building of a dazzling palace by Louis XIV. Here, a loving and ambitious woman grasps a reckless promise and vows her peasant daughter will grow up to dance with kings. Thus b...

  • Yankee's Caress

    Terri Valentine

    HE LIVED ONLY FOR DANGER Hotly pursued by Confederate soldiers, Yankee spy Fox McClure had no choice but to grab a citizen to use as a shield for his escape. It wasn't until he'd leapt to his horse that he realized he'd snatched the most bewitchin...

  • Blood of the Children

    Alan Rodgers

  • Cat's Eye

    William W. Johnstone

    SCARTCH. PURR Night after night the soft cat noises drifted through the isolated A-frame where famous author Dee Conner retreated to write her romances. Was it another harmless prank pulled by one of her fans? Or with it something much more sini...

  • Dialing the Wind

    Charles L. Grant

    Night in Oxrun Station From the dark porch of a lightless house the music rises, seeking those listeners desperate for love...for only they will hear the hidden secrets of this very special song. Four people are trapped by their innermost desir...

  • Kids

    Trevor Hoyle

    After a brief stay in the hospital, little Danielle returns home with an evil gleam in her eye and a destructive energy that cannot be tamed, and soon no adult is safe from his or her own seemingly possessed progeny...

  • Moon Dance

    S.P. Somtow

    Set against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, Moon Dance is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfling, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all-too-human...

  • Night Brothers

    Sidney Williams

    MORE THAN ANIMAL -- LESS THAN HUMAN.. The drought-stricken Louisiana town of Bristol Springs was turning into a living grave. Little by little, its desperate citizens were watching their dreams die. But the terrible blight was bringing something e...

  • Nightblood

    T. Chris Martindale

    THE JUNGLE, VIETNAM Chris Stiles is more than a soldier. He’s a born hunter. In a single, shocking moment on patrol, he earns his first taste of a whole other war -- not the war between grunt and Cong, but between the living and the Undead. C...

  • The Offspring

    Kenneth McKenney

  • Precog

    Lee Duigon

  • Progeny

    J.G. Maxon

    Preacher Orville Molway's words are cold comfort--almost as cold as the evil lurking in peaceful Sand Ridge, Ohio. One by one, young teenage girls are becoming pregnant--quiet, good girls who swear they have never known a man. Evie Wagner was the fir...

  • Shadows

    Shaun Hutson

    As psychic investigators probe hidden areas of the mind, and as New York writer David Blake studies the methods of a miracle healer, they unwittingly release forces from deep in the human psyche--horrifying forces capable of incredible destruction...

  • That's So Funny I Forgot to Laugh

    Stephen Mooser

    When the school talent show coincides with Health Week, Rosa and Henry are certain their comedy performance will be sabotaged by the germs floating around or by the stage fright that suddenly afflicts Henry...

  • Blood Line

    Alanna Knight

    Prior to a visit to Scotland from Queen Victoria, an unidentified corpse washes up on the rocks below Edinburgh Castle, the first in a series of baffling events that result in some suspicions that may have international repercussions...

  • The Confession of Brother Haluin

    Ellis Peters

    Winter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers are called upon to effect repairs. But the icy and treacherou...

  • The Demoniacs

    John Dickson Carr

    ONE WAS DEAD, THE OTHER ALIVE… One was a vile old bawd who lived in a brutal world that suddenly turned on her. The doctor said she died of fright -- but her killers knew better… The other, lusty and young, escaped from a brothel only to fa...

  • The Merry Devils

    Edward Marston

    HE HAD THE POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE, BUT WOULD HE TAKE TO THE STAGE...? The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third ...

  • Blood Money

    Will McLennan

  • Buzzard's Gap

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo agrees to shepherd two beautiful and hot-blooded sisters through a dangerous stretch of country, not reckoning on having a deal with a clan of twisted killers and rapists called the Bible Boys...

  • The Colorado

    Gary McCarthy

  • Hands of the Strangler

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams can't resist getting tangled in other folks' troubles -- especially when those folks are pretty females. But when his pal Rick Hartman bets the Gunsmith he can't take a vacation without getting mixed up in someone else's bad business, Cl...

  • Hell to Hallelujah and Ride to the Gun

    Ray Hogan

    In two complete novels, John Mosby is instructed by Robert E. Lee to blow up the Mogatawny Bridge to sever the Union's supply lines, and Dave Stanbuck fights to prevent Butcher Jaffick from taking over the entire Mangus Valley...

  • Hellhole

    Clay Dawson

  • Lone Star and the Gamble of Death

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track down a stolen train -- and find a freight load of danger!How in tarnation could an entire train disappear into thin Nebraska air-along with the army payroll it was carrying? That's what Colonel Marshal Harrison wants to know -- an...

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    Ellen Douglas

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    Emily Hallin

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    Paul Sayer

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    Jay Neugeboren

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    Elizabeth Levy

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    Jack Gerson

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    Anthony Burgess

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    Alan Bold

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    Gloria D. Miklowitz

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    Robert Carley

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    Matt Ruff

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    Brian Kelleher

    THE SECRET WARRIORS -- They were America's top test pilots -- but the test they were making now would never make the headlines. They had to sneak America's newest air weapon -- the F-86 Sabre Jet -- into the skies over Korea to see if it stood up aga...