Books Published in January 1986

New Books List: 481 titles

  • Lingering Laughter

    Joanna Brandon

    Lauren Shayler should have said "Sorry, wrong number" and hung up. But the sexy male voice calling "Anne, darling" riveted her to the phone. Owner of the Speedy Answering Service, she was even more astonished when police lieutenant Colby Sherman, the...

  • Written in the Stars

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    Writing children's books as a team required imagination and concentration. For five years Jill Blake and Greg Richmond had worked together happily in a perfectly platonic partnership. But from the night Greg rushed Jill to the emergency room with app...

  • Lover and Deceiver

    Cathie Linz

    As director of her local community theater group, Erin Rossi was looking for a very special man. When corporate tax attorney Jonathan Garrett appeared to audition, she knew she'd found her perfect lead. Little did she know that beneath the three-piec...

  • Murder at the Met

    David Black

  • Terminal Road

    D.B. Drumm

  • Cadre One

    Robert O'Riordan

    The Cadre sequence of Space Operas comprising Cadre One (1985), Cadre Lucifer (1987) and Cadre Messiah (1988) follows the career of orphaned space cadet Pol Tryees into adventurous adulthood across the Galactic Empire, which he comes to understand an...

  • Wizard of the Pigeons

    Megan Lindholm

    A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tommy Arnold.

    Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cra...

  • Royal Passion

    Jennifer Blake

    MARA HAD A DESPERATE PLAN OF DECEPTION THAT WOULD IGNITE INTO ROYAL PASSION Amid the color and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. She was the daug...

  • Showdown in Raton

    J.R. Roberts

    An urgent letter from Clint Adams' old friend in Raton, New Mexico, triggered an avalanche of trouble for the Gunsmith. First a sexy young widow made him a target for marriage. And then a savage gunman horse-napped Clint's trusty gelding, Duke. And t...

  • Lone Star and the White River Curse

    Wesley Ellis

    A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER ... He appeared mysteriously in full armor, riding a black steed. The Ute Indians believed he was an evil spirit. The ranchers only knew that he was stampeding their cattle and burning their barns. But when the medieval knight f...

  • Longarm and the Big Shoot Out

    Tabor Evans

  • Lassiter Gold

    Loren Zane Grey

    LOREN ZANE GREY continues in the grand tradition of his father, Zane Grey, with further adventures of Lassiter -- the rough-riding loner from Riders of the Purple Sage who became America's favorite hero. THE GREATEST WESTERN LEGEND OF ALL TIME It st...

  • Bolt Action

    Roy Lebeau

    When Lee Morgan invests in a stand of timber, he gets more than he bargained for when he gets a gorgeous partner who is talented in many ways, and catches the deadly eye of a vicious Russian timber baron. Original....

  • Pistoltown

    Roy Lebeau

    Tired of running from the law, Buckskin Frank Leslie, a.k.a. Finn Lacy, hides out in Bristolton, Texas where he becomes a partner in the local whorehouse, but trouble finds him once again when he defends a group of ranchers against a powerful cattle ...

  • Western Union

    Zane Grey

    Young Harvard man Wayne Cameron travels west and meets his destiny. There, he falls in with a brave group of Westerners struggling to fulfill a dangerous, desperate and thrilling dream - to carry through a thousand miles of dangerous wilderness a sin...

  • Ever Since Eve

    Kasey Adams

    Linda Dawson has only good intentions in matchmaking for her widowed mother Ruth, but Paul Tanner thinks both women are scheming manipulators after a rich man's money! When Paul's wealthy friend Simon falls for Ruth, Paul is furious with Lind...

  • Golden Obsession

    Catherine Creel

    MASTER HER COMPLETELY Independent Stephen Campbell first glanced at flame-haired Jennie Jackson, his desire flared as hot as molten rock. Then he saw three strapping brothers and the rugged gold miner quickly decided a moment of ecstasy sure wasn't ...

  • The Rich and the Mighty

    Vera Cowie

    When renowned model Elizabeth Sheridan inherits the fortune of billionaire Richard Tempest, she seems determined and savvy enough to survive the family battles of Tempest's greedy stepchildren--until she meets Dev Loughlin...

  • Man Around the House

    Joan Darling

    Meg Lambert's new boarder won't leave her alone! Boone Bradshaw invades her kitchen, settles into her living room, and is forever disrupting her easy solitude with his amiable chatter and disturbing masculinity. When she begins to like having...

  • Dante's Daughter

    Heather Graham

    Her life depended on it. Or at least her future as an aspiring young journalist. That was the only reason Katie Hudson would confront the man she'd always resented. Her in-depth interview with Ken Hart, superreceiver for the Sarasota Saxons, turn...

  • Sweets to the Sweet

    Jeanne Grant

    When exhausted, anxious new mother Laura Anderson crashes her Pinto into a vintage Austin-Healey, her plea for a savior comes true in the capable, disarming driver of the injured vehicle. Chocolate manufacturer Owen Reesling proves to be both fairy g...

  • A Private Passion

    Sarah Juon

    The sudden reappearance of Alan Weiss, a former lover from her days as a student activist, threatens to upset Marlena's marriage to Russell, a successful dentist, as she is forced to confront hidden feelings, dreams, and desires...

  • Lovers and Pretenders

    Liz Grady

    Lured by quaint locomotives and eerie castles, librarian Catherine Hollis impulsively joins a mystery buff's tout: seeking a yen she devours in whodunit's. Within minutes, brash Jake Latimer smothers her with his hat, insults her appearance, snatches...

  • Loving Longest

    Jacqueline Marten

    THEIRS WAS A TENDER FREE LOVE THAT NEITHER DISTANCE NOR TIME COULD DESTROY! Beautiful, clever Mara Rydale was born to British aristocracy but raised in obscure poverty by a humble family. In the heady freedom of English country summers she fell in...

  • Untamed Surrender

    Michalann Perry

    Dakota Territory, 1875 She was a captive of his kiss -- and a prisoner of his touch! WILD EMBRACE Starr thought the world had ended when Indians killed her family and carried her away to the wilderness. Then she glimpsed the strikingly hand...

  • Shadow of Desire

    Fela Dawson Scott

    PASSION'S REVENGE She was a ravishingly beautiful renegade who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. No one knew that beneath her dashing facade, Katrina Easton burned to exact revenge on the villainous uncle who had killed her parents and seiz...

  • Driven to Distraction

    Jamisan Whitney

    Andee Rotini has had enough of her six overprotective brothers, but they come in handy when she impulsively agrees to drive renowned photographer Thor Engborg to the Southwest. Truck driver Freddy makes a junk-food drop when she's most sick of Thor's...

  • Lady Anne's Deception

    Jennie Tremaine

    She had a long way to go from the wedding to become a wife. "SOMEHOW I WILL MARRY BEFORE MARIGOLD--ANYONE WHO WILL HAVE ME" When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoilt beauty of a sister, she had no idea the "anyone"...

  • Flaming Tree

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    A haunting, contemporary tale of deception and romance set by the breathtaking vistas of California's Monterey Bay... A COMPASSIONATE WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST. A MYSTERIOUS MAN WHO LEADS HER TO LOVE. AND THE DANGEROUS SECRET THAT IS STRONGER TH...

  • Toplin

    Michael McDowell

    A troubled man disturbed by the appearance of a neighborhood restaurant's waitress, a hideously deformed woman named Marta, decides that it is his destiny--and his obligation--to put Marta out of her misery...

  • Uncollected Stars

    Piers Anthony

    An anthology of sixteen neglected or forgotten masterpieces of science fiction encompasses works by such writers as Walter M. Miller, Jr., Lewis Padget, Jerome Bixby, Pauline Ashwell, and Donald E. Westlake...

  • The Homeward Bounders

    Diana Wynne Jones

    If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again.When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in...

  • Final Command

    Warren Norwood

    When an alien alliance upsets the balance of power in the conflict between the Sondak Confederacy and United Central Systems, Sondak's brilliant, ruthless commander launches a last-ditch offensive to transform defeat into victory...

  • Blood Heritage

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Badger Ettison does not believe in demons. Until a shrieking, freezing horror escapes its ancient prison. A soulless hunger. Hunger that turns a beautiful woman into a shriveled husk before she has time to scream. Hunger that has no form, no substanc...

  • Pilgermann

    Russell Hoban

    "After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector's wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences a vision of Jesus Christ and resolves to set out on ...

  • Rogue Bolo

    Keith Laumer

    The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV Model M, which performed remarkably well.However, the always-present possibility of capture and use of a Bolo by an enemy was a constant sou...

  • Rescue in Mirkwood

    John Ruemmler

  • The Princess of Flames

    Ru Emerson

    On the stolen throne of Darion sits the ursurper, Sedry, haunted by the silent grey eyes of the half-sister he banished, whose gift for magic was equal to his own; Elfrid, the Bastard. At watch, folded into the darkness, Bal of Korent remembers a hal...

  • Soul of the City

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY,- a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy talents: LYNN ABBEY • C. J. CHER...

  • Saturnalia

    Grant Callin

  • In the Name of Love

    Jacqueline Ashley

    For months, she'd prepared for nothing but this moment She'd moved to Tulsa, disguised her features and changed her name. She'd carefully chosen time and place so that the encounter would seem perfectly innocuous. Now she found herself staring at ...

  • To Love a Thief

    Joanne Bremer

    For a moment it was like a movie--romantic, adventurous, exciting. Then Hillary Ann Worthington snapped back to reality-albeit reality of a rather exotic sort. The Blue Flamingo--a vintage railroad train that rivaled the Orient Express--was her late ...

  • Vein of Gold

    Elaine Camp

    Black gold. Oil. Men risked lives and fortunes to find it, but Faith Hutton went them one better: she risked her heart. Faith quit a good job as a petroleum geologist to join forces with wildcatter Houston Traynor. Houston was a maverick, unintere...

  • Passion's Rogue

    Helen Carras

    An expert in Middle Eastern languages and the daughter of a famed archeologist, Gerri Wainwright was at home in the most exotic cities of the world. But nothing had prepared her for handling Foreign Service Specialist Scott Antrim. Bold, sensual, he ...

  • Threats and Promises

    Barbara Delinsky

    Mistaken identity ... or the real thing? Lauren Stevenson still felt self-conscious about the way she looked after having undergone plastic surgery in the Bahamas. But she'd opened a frame shop in Boston with a friend and welcomed starting afresh....

  • Savage Torment

    Cassie Edwards

    Free-spirited Judith McMahon's idea of a good adventure doesn't involve taking over her father's lumber business, but the Chippewa country surrounding the mill inflames her imagination. The reality is something she could never have prepared for - a v...

  • The Cape Cod Affair

    Edith Delatush

    Mathematics professor Vanessa Blake had work to do. House-sitting on Cape Cod seemed the ideal opportunity to do it -- until the waves tossed up a very intriguing stranger with a very sprained ankle. President of a sporting goods empire, Luke Spencer...

  • This Rolling Land

    Sandy Dengler

    Why was she so purely delighted that he had entered her world? In an age of the decline of the Spanish dons--those elegant lords of central California during the mid-1800s--Felicidad Martines meets an Irish sea-man, Seamus Fisher. Though born in d...

  • Kentucky Woman

    Casey Douglas

    SHE WAS DETERMINED TO SUCCEED... Faye Hunt inherited her grandmother's farm only to discover outsiders weren't welcome in Lexington, Kentucky. But Faye didn't care. She desperately wanted to make the farm work, for suddenly, setting down in a plac...

  • Into the Light

    Judith Duncan

    SHE COULDN'T EVADE HER PAST FOREVER When Natalie Carter fled her home in British Columbia eleven years ago, she disappeared without a word to Adam Rutherford, the man she loved. Her return threw her and Adam together again, but the reunion ...

  • Listen With Your Heart

    Jane Edwards

    She could forgive him anything... Casi Cavanaugh had spent years looking beautiful for the camera. But posing for mercurial photographer Nicholas Penheiro, she found herself longing to be more than just the image in his lens. By a twist of fate sh...

  • Wildfire

    Carol Finch

    INFERNO OF PASSION Innocent ebon-haired Alexa had no desire to journey to the western frontier -- until she met handsome Keane Rawdon. His glance shot a delicious tingling down her spine. His musky scent whet her appetite for his kiss. In that ins...

  • Rogue's Bride

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    Ariadne Caswell-Drake had little choice when she wed Sir Iden Peverell. She was an inexperienced chit of a girl, he was a very experienced man of the world, and two nights alone with him on a lonely Greek isle was enough to make marriage a necessary...

  • When Snow Meets Fire

    Christine Flynn

    MELTING AWAY.... The Aleutian Islands were exactly where Dr. Tory Richards wanted to be: far away from nonstop, high pressure Los Angeles, where she'd done her medical internship. Now all she was going to do for a year was administer to the simple...

  • Agent Provocateur

    Lucy Hamilton

    WHO WAS MARK JAMES? He had escaped from his jungle captors and reached safety despite a bullet in his leg. It was Dr. Mickie Blake's job only to heal his wound, but she soon took on the added task of healing his heart. His past was clouded...

  • Blithe Spirit

    Mary Haskell

    On the advice of a mischievous Ouija board, business-weary executive Linda Chester dashes off for a European vacation, certain she'll meet the man of her dreams. Sure enough, within hours of her arrival, a heartstoppingly handsome stranger rescues he...

  • Jeweled Skies, Shimmering Sands

    Anna Hudson

    Survival expert Vivian Chaney was interested in selling copies of her books -- but this time her literary agent had gone too far. Vivian always knew that David McMahon was arrogant, hardheaded, and penny-pinching, but she wasn't aware he was also...

  • Tough Act to Follow

    Anne Henry

    Their paths should never have crossed But in a town as small as Heritage, Missouri, such things were inevitable. In one day, Elaine Farrell encountered Judge Nathan Stewart not once, but twice. The first time, he lectured her about speeding. The sec...

  • Spanish Moon

    Beverly Wilcox Hull

    Was it the chance she'd been waiting for? Uncertain of her expertise. Joanna Kinsman hesitated. As assistant to the director of a leading art auction and appraisal firm, she was to go to Spain to assess a collection that might be worth millions. Bols...

  • The Highest Tower

    Ann Hurley

    DON'T LOOK DOWN! BeeGee Chambers finally belonged somewhere. After years of travel she'd discovered the joys of home in the paradise of Fort Myers, Florida. At last, BeeGee had found her niche. Dan Greening had found his place, too -- a...

  • Cutter's Lady

    Kristin James

    PORTRAIT OF A LADY... Leslie Harper was every inch a lady when she walked into the seedy Texas bar. Cutter was clearly no gentleman, but then, no gentleman could do the job she needed done. With Cutter's help she had to enter strife-torn Sa...

  • Heaven on Earth

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    IN THE BOOK OF LOVE. Samantha Monroe planned to spend the summer swept away in a world of fantasy created by her favorite romance author. Then one day a real live fantasy man appeared before her on the beach. Jason Armstrong seemed to have step...

  • Cautious Lover

    Stephanie James

    LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE Jess Winter always operated with a master plan, and Elly Trent found herself on schedule to marry him. He said she was everything he wanted: undemanding, reliable, tolerant -- and she could cook! Elly wanted to scream. Jess ...

  • And the Desert Blooms

    Iris Johansen

    Pandora had always known there was no other man in the world for her but Philip El Kabbar, the magnificently arrogant sheikh who ruled the desert land where she'd grown up. As a reckless tomboy she'd refused to go unnoticed by the fascinatin...

  • Love, Honor and Betray

    Elizabeth Kary

    Emerald-eyed Charl Beckwith was too proud for love until she met the mysterious Seth Porterfield, a duke's bastard son, sent by England to betray the new America she loved ... As war raged around them, passion was their battlefield ... As fate wre...

  • Air of Enchantment

    Sarah Keene

    Drawn together as if by magic Sam Cassidy was a busy architect. He knew next to nothing about caring for children--especially not pint-size refugees from the jet set. So he hired Tessa O'Brien, an innovative day-care teacher from Los Angeles,...

  • Crescent Carnival

    Alicia Knight

    The carnival would reveal many surprises .. . Nicole Reid looked forward to leaving Tangier, Morocco, and returning to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras. Being pursued by a gray-eyed Arab through crowded bazaars was more than unsettling. Then ...

  • Oranges in the Snow

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    Sitting in a ditched car in a Minnesota blizzard, wondering why she'd ever left California, Erika Sarinaan knew her body had frozen solid. But when a bearded Viking of a savior turned up to dig her out, she felt a surprising sudden thaw in her heart!...

  • True Colors

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Her heart was on the line Jamie Garland loved working for the eccentric Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fascinating people . . . like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret of the fact that he desired he...

  • Sequel

    Elizabeth Lowell

    GABRIEL VENTURE HAD TAUGHT HER HOW TO LOVE--AND HOW TO HATE At nineteen Joy Anderson had been innocent, trusting, and wholly in love with Gabriel Venture. Gabe was a journalist on assignment. Joy had been his guide. Together they explored Lost Ri...

  • Family Secrets

    Ruth Langan

    THEY WERE ALL SUSPECTS... in the blackmailing of Trudy St. Martin. So for her eightieth birthday, all family members were invited to return to the fabulous St. Martin estate to celebrate...and to prove their innocence. Ivy Murdock, the gardener's...

  • The Gambler's Game

    Lee Magner

    It was a struggle for Katherine McKendrick to keep her Sierra Nevada ranch going. When big- city gambler Matt Farrell ended up in Still Waters jail, wrongly accused of misconduct, it seemed the perfect opportunity to hire herself a hand. Everyone war...

  • Reflections of Yesterday

    Debbie Macomber

    Angie Robinson and Simon Canfield were from opposite sides of the track. But when they were seventeen, their love knew no boundaries. When Mrs. Canfield told Angie her son had found someone else, she didn't believe it - until she saw the proof. So An...

  • An Unexpected Pleasure

    Nancy Martin

    ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT CHANGED THEIR LIVES Everyone in the press corps was talking about the illustrious David Whittaker. When Bret Donovan an accomplished journalist herself, met him, she understood why. The man was perfect. Not long after David l...

  • Memory's Embrace

    Linda Lael Miller

    ONLY ONE MAN ROUSED HER HEART TO LOVE -- AND ONLY SHE COULD FREE HIM FROM HIS HAUNTING, TRAGIC PAST! In the wilderness of 1880's Oregon, lovely Tess Bishop was captivated by the most fascinating stranger ever to drift into her small lumber t...

  • Bachelor Mother

    Elda Minger

    She could picture his face First he'd stare, incredulous. Then he'd laugh. Then he'd treat her to a long assessing look, and their friendship would dissolve right before her eyes. Melanie Randell could picture it all, but with no husband and no...

  • Paradise Found

    Diana Morgan

    Casey Flanagan thought she was still dreaming when she awoke in the middle of the blue Caribbean, and a stranger as handsome as a Greek god handed her a glass of champagne and introduced himself as the millionaire James Sinclair, III. But the sweet d...

  • Mine by Write

    Marie Nicole

    WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED that a Great Dane with an appetite for other people's pastrami sandwiches would lead aspiring writer Mindy Callahan straight to the man of her dreams? At the other end of the dog's leash stood Kyle McDaniels, looking as if ...

  • After the Music

    Diana Palmer

    SOLID AS A ROCK Rock star Sabina Cane had heard plenty about the wealthy Hamilton Regan Thorndon III, head honcho of Thorn Oil. His brother, Al, warned her of Thorn's reputation for breaking hearts, but singing was Sabina's life and she was gratef...

  • Under the Ginkgo Tree

    Sara Orwig

    When Sandy Smith's ginkgo trees wilted for the third time, nursery owner Gabe London just had to investigate. And when he met the lovely manager of the Casa Grande Retirement Center, he guessed who the culprit was: his younger brother Pete, who would...

  • No Man's Kisses

    Nora Powers

    GAMBLE ON LOVE When she took over the Montana ranch after her father's death, horse trainer Hilary Benson knew she would have to honor his heavy debts. However, she hadn't counted on fulfilling his very special debt to Justin Porter III. Delive...

  • Second Nature

    Nora Roberts

    For Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, notoriously private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown had become a personal quest. Her carefully planned ambush finally paid off at a small writer's conference in Flag...

  • Lady Escapade

    Amanda Scott

    A PROUD BEAUTY SHOWS HER LORDLY HUSBAND A MIND -- AND HEART -- OF HER OWN THE DEFIANT DIANA Enchanting and enticing young Diana Sterling was swept off her feet by the ardent and imperious Count of Andover--and carried by him over the threshold ...

  • Rain of Flowers

    Ann Salerno

    NEITHER ONE COULD SAY GOODBYE Kate Cleary's dream was to become a world-famous curator. She had other dreams, too. The tall, dark and handsome type. They came true when she met Cass Yashima. From that moment on they were inseparable. Business t...

  • Heart Shift

    Glenda Sands

    TORCH SONG Blond and fragile, Christine Dubarry was a serious distraction to Fire Chief Ian West. As he stood by her side, flames consumed her art gallery supplies shop. Little did he know that she would become the prime suspect in his arson inves...

  • Dream Girl

    Tracy Sinclair

    Angelique Archer gasped at the magnificent necklace. As Vendome Cosmetic's Dream Girl, she had mad admirers, but none as attentive as the mysterious Claude Dumont from Souveraine. She'd better return it personally--and put an end to this extravagance...

  • Reluctant Rapture

    Marjorie Shoebridge

    Passion's Prisoner - Cast into prison for a crime she did not commit, lovely young Juliet Westover was horrified to learn that she was to be transported to Australia. Abord the barquentine Grace, she was noticed by the vessel's captain, Ross Jamieson...

  • Nothing Ventured

    Suzanne Simms

    DECENT EXPOSURE Mary Beth Williams was a respectable librarian from a good family, engaged to an eligible man. It was all very nice. But when her husband-to-be found someone more exciting, Mary Beth gambled everything for some excitement of h...

  • Whispers on the Wind

    Jeanne Stephens

    LIFE IS BUT A DREAM... For Marty Newland those words seemed all too true. It scared her that what she dreamed might eventually come to pass, and never more than when she dreamed of the recently abducted girl. Marty had to convince the police to...

  • Silken Surrender

    Carla Simpson

    Jenna Randolph was a sheltered young innocent when she first met the handsome rogue Stefan. Part of the post London society crowd, she was curious about this man who seemed so opposite her own world. Jenna wanted to understand the new, desperate year...

  • At Long Last Love

    Andrea St. John

    She'd inherited a "man's job" With a woman's determination Susannah Lockwood decided to keep her father's construction business and run it herself. She was an engineer, ready to prove herself on the job. But she wasn't ready for Adam McBride, her fir...

  • Banjo Man

    Adrienne Staff; Sally Goldenbaum

    Laurie O'Neill had led the most sheltered life possible for twenty-three years. When she arrived in Washington at midnight she couldn't help but be shocked: the nuns had never taught her how to act when face-to-face with a half-naked man! But in that...

  • The Shadow Between

    Diana Stuart

    AN AIR OF MYSTERY.. Thunder rolled overhead as Alida Drury drove through the huge iron gates, now rusty with age. Since the summer she'd spent here sixteen years ago, the McLeod mansion had become sadly neglected, crowded by massive oaks castin...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    All the evidence pointed to one conclusion Marriage was not invented for a couple like Susan Trent and Steve Markham. For one thing, their jobs were polar opposites. As sheriff, Steve was obligated to keep the peace. As a consumer-advocate reporte...

  • An Impractical Passion

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Mother Nature was working overtime Friday the thirteenth, and a hurricane was blowing Sydney Blake's cottages away. Not the best day to meet the love of her life! Yet when Colin Lassiter emerged from the rubble, smiling wickedly, Sydney was charme...

  • The Catnip Man

    Barbara Turner

    A KISS IS STILL A KISS Julia Pike could think of a dozen things she'd rather do than chaperon her famous stepsister on a cruise up the Mississippi. Especially after she discovered that Kim's bodyguard was Chad Branson, one of Hollywood's most cel...

  • Night Shadow

    Linda Vail

    Heart of diamond. soul of ice--Jessie McMillan's reputation as a high-level bounty hunter hadn't been built on hearsay. She could act like a beautiful socialite or a cat burglar with equal aplomb. And now she was stalking a man who d made off with a ...

  • Summer Wine

    Freda Vasilos

    Greece. Its fragrant air embraced Sara Morgan like a gentle lover. Why hadn't she come before? She'd done her Ph.D. work on the ancient inhabitants of this land, but had never seen its sparkling waters or fertile valleys. Until now, as she joined her...

  • Nightfire

    Valerie Vayle

    FROM RUSSIA'S GLITTERING COURT TO WAR-RAVAGED VERSAILLES, SHE WAS PRISONER OF ONE GREAT PASSION... NOBLE BLOOD ABLAZE WITH PASSION Raised by a London seamstress, summoned as dressmaker to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, beautiful Si...

  • The Wings of Morning

    Jackie Weger

    She was in the market for a loving man... Some people said Sheriff Garrett Stark was so charismatic he should bottle his charm. But Rachel Cameron swore she wouldn't take it if he was giving it away. To her mind, he was the most infuriating, bighe...

  • Return to Paradise

    Jennifer West

    Slinging hash in Paradise, Idaho, had not exactly been Jaime Quinn's idea of heaven. Especially after Reeve Ferris, her skating partner had left her behind in his quest for an Olympic gold medal. But she had not been able to afford the skating lesson...

  • Dead Ground

    Philip Kerrigan

  • The Right to Sing the Blues

    John Lutz

    New Orleans is off Alo Nudger's beaten path; the St. Louis private detective likes the comforts of home. But he also loves jazz and when he's given a round-trip ticket to the Crescent City by legendary clarinetist Fat Jack McGee, who needs to talk to...

  • Gideon's Risk

    J.J. Marric

    Gideon's Risk...was as perilous as a tightrope walk over a pit of hungry lions: one false step and Scotland Yard's Commander George Gideon would be torn to pieces by the ravening beasts of London's urban jungle. The vicious Carter brothers--car thiev...

  • A Case of Loyalties

    Marilyn Wallace

    Was Tricia Rayborn telling the truth when he said she didn't kill Clifford, Hawkins? Tricia Rayborn was a typical California teenager. She drank a little beer. She smoked a little pot. She enjoyed a little excitement. Excitement was running hig...

  • Death in a Bowl

    Raoul Whitfield

    Death in a Bowl, first published in 1931, is a hard-boiled detective novel in the style of genre-master Dashiell Hammett. The novel features Ben Jardinn, a rough, hard-drinking private investigator based in an office near Grauman’s Chinese Theatre ...

  • Louisiana!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    Visions of endless horizons brought them from the four corners of the earth to the deepwater port where the muddy Mississippi approached the Gulf's blue waters. Some came to earn their fortune by honest sweat; others came to make their gold with vice...

  • Dansville

    Robin McCorquodale

    Two lovers...consumed by a bittersweet obsession. From a small plains town in the aftermath of World War II, to the magnificent estates of Houston's elite--their hopes and dreams were as vast and beautiful as the Texas sky, their passions as hot as t...

  • Love and Glory

    Jeane Westin

    THROUGH THE FIRE AND FURY OF WORLD WAR II, THEY RISKED THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR LIVES... On a hot July day in 1942, at a military base in Iowa, their friendship began: wisecracking, soft-hearted Bunny; Page, the ambitious Army brat; naive, tormented J...

  • Cities of the Dead

    Linda Barnes

    AT MARDI GRAS EVEN THE DEAD CAN'T REST.... Steam rises from the streets and strippers dance in light as bleary as a drunk's vision. But actor and part-time private eye Michael Spraggue didn't come to New Orleans to gawk. He's trying to get an innoce...

  • Cyclops

    Clive Cussler

    A FATAL OCEAN TREASURE HUNT...A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON A SECRET MISSION... AN INTERNATIONAL STAND-OFF ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON! A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts towar...

  • Gerald's Party

    Robert Coover

    Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces,...

  • Loaded Questions

    Philip Loraine

    Two London journalists become enmeshed in a web of international intrigue and political machinations when they join forces with a former CIA operative to investigate the assassination of an Israeli diplomat...

  • The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Someone’s gunning for John Wayne in this “well-plotted” mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly).   Something about Lewis Vance’s story doesn’t add up. The guy claims t...

  • The Trouble at Aquitaine

    Nancy Livingston

  • Miracles Take a Little Longer

    Roy Harley Lewis

    Antique bookseller Matthew Coll's late-night visitor turns out to be prime-time evangelist Mark Kingdom, wanted for questioning in the brutal murder of Jessica Seeley, the polio victim he miraculously made to walk...

  • Evil Mark

    Graham Miles

  • Fly in the Cobweb

    Frank Parrish

    When Dan Mallett's mother requires a costly hip operation, the wily poacher sets out to separate a wealthy new neighbor, Harold Dartie, from his money and accidently stumbles on dangerous secrets from Dartie's past...

  • Huysman's Pets

    Kate Wilhelm

    First came the chimpanzee experiments, which made Stanley Huysman famous- a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist. Then came the studies with human children, which were unknown to the public, and stashed away in top government files. Now, Huysman is dead. H...

  • The Hounds of God

    Judith Tarr

    The Hounds of God, the minions of the early Inquisition, threaten to annihilate both Alfred, now the Lord Chancellor of Rhiyana, and his Kingdom, a challenge that leads to a final confrontation with the Pope himself...

  • Dance of Desire

    Sarah Fairchilde

    A LADY AROUSED Virginia's first impression of Lord Sherbourne was somewhat less than favorable. First he almost ran her down as he came thundering through the forest on horseback. Then he silenced her indignation with a most ungentlemanly kiss. ...

  • The Mammoth Hunters

    Jean M. Auel

    Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and i...

  • The Night of the Scorpion

    Anthony Horowitz

  • Best Friends

    Francine Pascal

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jessica and Elizabeth are ready to take on middle school . . . but are they ready to take on each other? The New York Times bestselling world of Sweet Valley returns in these all-new graphic novel adaptations!Jessica and...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Francine Pascal

    What will The Droids do without Emily? Elizabeth Wakefield is surprised when Emily Mayer tells her she wants to join the school newspaper. After all, Emily's a musician, not a writer. Why would The Droids' crack drummer turn to writing, especially ...

  • Over the Edge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Making Promises

    M.E. Cooper

    Crossed signals… Monica Ford's interests are strictly professional when she volunteers to work at WKND, the Kennedy High School radio station. Then she meets Peter Lacey, the WKND d.j., and discovers they're on the same wavelength. Peter know...

  • Fire in Heaven

    Malcolm Bosse

  • Pretty Good for a Woman

    D.A. Callard

  • Blackballed

    Michael Mewshaw

  • The Face Behind the Mask

    John Minahan

    A series of rapes, committed by imposters using a similar modus operandi, has New Yorkers afraid and NYPD Chief Vadney on the warpath, while Detective "Little John" Rawlings and his partner Brendan sort out the clues...

  • Beyond the Veil

    Janet Morris

    Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror st...

  • Small Business

    Thomas Trebitsch Parker

    Ten pounds overweight and banned from his favorite bakery. Foiled at tennis by the obnoxious Rosenthal. Nearly arrested as a not-so-innocent bystander at a traffic accident. Helplessly alone at the helm of his small business. Martin Fassler's in trou...

  • Wildfire

    Richard Martin Stern

    Limns a portrait of catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes that fringe the forest, campers, and two escaped convicts are the ingredients for disaster...

  • The Emancipist

    Veronica Sweeney

    The story of Aidan O'Brien, whose dangerous rivalry with Devlin Kelly sets him up for betrayal and sends him in bondage from violent, famine-torn Ireland to Australia. There he confronts the untameable land to fight for his dreams and the woman he lo...

  • A Tough Act to Follow

    Max Wilk

    Eileen Tighe, a 1980s Hollywood film executive, sets out to find Jody Cassel, the one-time funny-lady star of early television and encounters a host of colorful, secretive, and threatening characters who knew Jody and her secret...

  • Hawksmoor

    Peter Ackroyd

    Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders...

  • The Alternate Asimovs

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Lebaron Secret

    Stephen Birmingham

    An aging California vintner is determined to protect her empire from a hostile family takeover and the dark secrets that could destroy everything she loves At age seventy-four, Assaria “Sari” LeBaron is still a force to be reckoned with. For deca...

  • Triple Crown

    Jon L. Breen

  • Softwar

    Thierry Breton

    The Soviets buy an American supercomputer through France, supposedly to forecast weather in Siberia, but the suspicious U.S. sends brilliant computer scientist Brendon Baines to plant a series of booby traps in the software...

  • The Man in the Moss-Colored Trousers

    Mary Bringle

    In a village seven miles north of Dublin, a group of children find the body of a man concealed in the ramshackle grandstand of a derelict racecourse. He is clad in mosscolored trousers and without identification. Dublin Garda Sergeant Sean Lynch has ...

  • A Loving Place

    Mark Dintenfass

    Murray Farber, ex-bookie, ex-toy store owner, is living in a Florida retirement community with his wife, Irene, yet he remains haunted by secrets in his past, unresolved questions in his marriage, and fears for his son and grandchildren...

  • The Bird of Time

    George Alec Effinger

    Hardcover in dust Jacket. First printing. Book is in perfect shape. A well cared for collector's copy. Dust jacket also in perfect shape and housed in mylar cover. Also includes loose-leaf review copy certificate....

  • Dominator

    James Follett

    An American under suspicion because of an accident aboard the NASA space shuttle "Dominator" that killed an astronaut and an Israeli lieutenant drummed out of the army face off for a showdown as Middle East conflicts embroil the superpowers...

  • Lie Down With Lions

    Ken Follett

    In the Afghan mountains lies the Valley of Five Lions, a place of ancient legend. To it come two young aid workers and an American who has a message for the legendary guerrilla leader, Masud, who is wanted dead or alive by the Russians. Below, in the...

  • Frailties

    Nancy Geyer

  • Our Snowman

    M.B. Goffstein

  • Nine Women

    Shirley Ann Grau

    A “luminescent” collection of stories about nine Southern women from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House (The New York Times). The nine namesake women of this collection come from widely disparate worlds, f...

  • Look Back on Murder

    Malcolm Gray

    Stated First Edition in the United States. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small rubs to the dust jacket's spine tips and corners. Signed on the title page by Gray. Review copy with publisher's slip laid-in....

  • Angels of September

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Playing Fields in Winter

    Helen Harris

    Sarah Livingstone and Ravi Kaul meet at Oxford. She is English, sensing a chance to evade the pattern of conventional middle-class life to which her experience has so far conformed. The more sophisticated Indian, Ravi, also wishes to sample another w...

  • Outlaw's Empire

    Ray Hogan

  • Winter's Tales

    David Hughes

  • One Time in Glory

    Frank James

    Growing old and losing his sight, Marshal Bill Triggman decides to settle in the small, quiet town of Glory, where he thinks he can keep the peace--but circumstances change when a gang of outlaws moves into town...

  • After the Flood

    P.C. Jersild

    Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust has virtually destroyed the world, Edvin, the youngest survivor, born during the war, joins a group of survivors gathered on a barren island in the Baltic, where living conditions mirror those of the Middle Ages...

  • Into the Valley of Death

    H.R.F. Keating

    On Friday next, pub owner Jack Steadman would hang for the murder of Alfie Goode, drunkard and ne'er-do-well. The case was open-and-shut to everyone but Miss Harriet Unwin, who had less than a week to prove that Jack, a Crimean war hero, was innocent...

  • The Ten-Million-Dollar Golf Ball

    Albert E. Killeen

    In order to clinch the critical golf match for the chairmanship of Quincetree Golf Club against the present chairman, Charles Twitchell III, twenty-handicap golfer Hubert J. Carnes spends ten million dollars to create an electronically controlled gol...

  • Strange Felony

    Elizabeth Linington

  • Sisters

    Robert Littell

    An astonishing thriller from the author of The Company

    A classic among espionage aficionados, The Sisters features what the New York Times called "the plot of plots." Centering on Francis and Carroll, two enigmatic and extremely dangerous CI...

  • The Dreamhouse

    Robin Lloyd-Jones

  • The Spy Who Barked in the Night

    Marc Lovell

  • Deadly Nightshed

    William Maner

  • The Tail of the Arabian Knight

    Geoffrey Marsh

  • Vatican

    Malachi Martin

  • Heartland

    Robert Douglas Mead

  • Bush War!

    William Moore

  • The Good Apprentice

    Iris Murdoch

    Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemp...

  • The Ham Reporter

    Robert J. Randisi

    Robert Randisi has long been held as a master of the genre.—Michael Connelly Bat Masterson is no longer a sheriff in the Old West. He's moved East to New York City where he gets a job as a sport's writer for The Morning Telegraph. But when his...

  • Romance in the Roaring Forties: And Other Stories

    Damon Runyon

  • Love in the Wind

    Norma Seely

  • Junior Year Abroad

    George Simpson

  • A Criminal Comedy

    Julian Symons

    Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder....

  • A Dying Fall

    June Thomson

  • Fair Game

    Daisy Vivian

  • The Seventh Secret

    Irving Wallace

    When evidence emerges that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun may not have committed suicide, and Dr. Harrison Ashcroft, an Oxford historian writing the definitive Hitler biography, is killed in an accident, a diverse group of people searches for the secret ...

  • Selected Poems

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Even Cops' Daughters

    Martha G. Webb

  • Muckle Annie

    Jan Webster

    Annie McIlvanney is desperate to get away from the life of poverty and boredom that she has grown up with in Glasgow â€" a city that is suffering under the effects of the American Civil War. After an afternoon ties her to her Highland love, Hector, A...

  • Rat Man of Paris

    Paul West

    West's 1986 novel takes readers into the mind of Paris's famous Rat Man, who would shock passersby by exposing a live rat kept hidden beneath his coat. West delves into the Rat Man's fictional life, focusing on how the murder of his parents by the Na...

  • Floating Illusions

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Harem

    Diane Carey

    Jessica Grey watched ruggedly handsome Tarik crossing the moonlit floor of the seraglio. This was her captor...the rebel leader who kidnapped her from a world of four o'clock teas and lavish embassy balls and gave her away to the Sultan's harem where...

  • Lost Gallows

    John Dickson Carr

    "Carr (1906-1977) is at the top of his game in this taut whodunit first published in 1931." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewThe British Library resurfaces an early gem from one of the great writers of the Golden Age of classic crime fiction.As th...

  • Target Red Star

    Nick Carter

  • The Killing Ground

    Nick Carter

  • Chant

    David Cross

    Professional assassin and martial arts master Chant is about to go from hunter to hunted in this thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries.   John “Chant” Sinclair is precise, patient, perfect. A highly trained killer with a mastery of...

  • Mystery of the Melted Diamonds

    Carol Farley

  • All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes by

    John Farris

    The military wedding of Clipper Bradwin, youngest son of the old, distinguished Virginia family, begins a series of events marked by the blood vengeance and terror that have followed the family from its actual beginnings in the dark African jungle...

  • Cross My Heart

    Diana Gregory

    Craig Markham has been Meg's best friend for years, but now she wishes it were more than that. She's tried everything - from moonlit walks on the beach to a daring new swimsuit. But nothing seems to work. When handsome Mike Sanders asks Meg out. S...

  • Strong Medicine

    Arthur Hailey

    Master storyteller Arthur Hailey’s New York Timesâ€"bestselling novel takes readers behind the scenes of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical drug industry It starts as a routine case: Mary Rowe contracts hepatitis from unclean drinking water, and the...

  • Carson City Colt

    J.D. Hardin

  • The Island

    Isabelle Holland

    Seventeen-year-old Hilda travels to the Caribbean to visit distant relatives. She finds out shocking things about her self and about plans affecting her. When Hilda receives an invitation from her aunt and uncle to visit them on the tropical islan...

  • By Love Restored

    Nancy Johanson

    Brittany Lawson's first dream had been to marry Mitch Newmann and have a family. That one thwarted, she turned to her career as an architect. She had another dream, to buy the old Casebolt House and restore it for herself. Her firm has given her the ...

  • Heart Aflame

    Susan Kirby

    Amanda Holt, if not the town beauty like her sister Ellen, is the town's most outstanding designer/seamstress, and her business is thriving to the point that, to complete Ellen's wedding gown, she must find a way to work without interruption. Escapin...

  • The Golden Grove

    Nancy Kress

  • Gun Country

    Wayne C. Lee

    Brent Clark is trapped into accepting a deadly mission: He must get into well-guarded Gunsight Canyon, convince pretty Virgie Kurtzman that she is really heiress Virginia Pool, and smuggle her out, willingly or otherwise....

  • Hair Trigger Kill

    E.B. Majors

  • Magnolia Landing

    Jessica Manning

    SINFUL AND SENSUAL, STEAMING WITH PASSION...A SAGA OF THE SIX PLANTATION FAMILIES OF MAGNOLIA LANDING 1830. Upriver from wicked, whirling New Orleans lies Magnolia Landing, a fabled place of power, privilege and passion. Here every taboo is spurne...

  • The Sky Is Falling

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE MURDEROUS MONEY MACHINE It was honer than sex. It packed a bigger punch than the H-bomb. And best of all, it was worth a sky-high pile of blue chips for the company that could make and market the machine that could tap the full energy of the ...

  • Hostage!

    Francine Pascal

    Regina's life -- in jeopardy ... When Elizabeth Wakefield learns that Regina Morrow has returned unexpectedly to Sweet Valley from Switzerland, she drops by to visit. A strange woman answers the door and says Regina cannot have visitors. With the h...