Books Published in June 1990

New Books List: 459 titles

  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

    Mercedes Lackey; Ellen Guon

    ELVES IN L.A.? It would explain a lot, wouldn't it? In fact, half a millennium ago, when the elves were driven from Europe they came to-where else? Southern California. Happy at first, they fell on hard times after one of their number tried to ...

  • Lifeblood

    P.N. Elrod

    THE VAMPIRE SPEAKS! As nosferatu go, I'm basically a nice guy. Sure, I need a little blood now and then, but I never meant to hurt anyone. Too bad some people don't feel the same about me. Now I've got a bunch of crazy vampire-hunters on my ...

  • Doctor's Orders

    Diane Duane

    When Dr. McCoy grumbles once too often about the way the Enterprise ought to be run, Captain Kirk decides to leave the doctor in command while he oversees a routine diplomatic mission. Kirk beams down to a strange planet nicknamed "Flyspeck" to negot...

  • Warrior's Woman

    Johanna Lindsey

    FEMALE FIGHTER Lithe beauty Tedra De Arr has dedicated her life to the art of combat, and no one, least of all a man, has ever been able to pierce through that rigid armor of single-minded purpose. Then political upheaval forces the elite bodyguar...

  • Back to the Future

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Batman: Year Two

    Mike W. Barr

    See how it all starts! Celebrating thirty years since the publication of the seminal storyline, BATMAN: YEAR TWO: THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION collects both the original �Year Two� story line from DETECTIVE COMICS and BATMAN: FULL CIRCLE i...

  • Castle for Rent

    John DeChancie

    When the king of a magical castle ventures into the realm of the dead, creatures of all kinds vie for the throne in the sequel to Castle Perilous. Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mys...

  • Converse and Conflict

    L. Neil Smith

    ALIEN BEINGS, STRANGE SECRETS In the 21st century, an interstellar expedition leaves earth for 5023 Eris. Its mission: to exploit the distant planetoid for mankind. But all expectations are destroyed with chilling might by technologically advanced...

  • Cortez on Jupiter

    Ernest Hogan

    Hogan's debut, first published in 1990, introduced the subgenre of Chicano SF to a startled, dazzled American audience. All Pablo Cortez cares about is creating art, whether it's humongous graffiti sprayed across Los Angeles or zero-gravity paint sli...

  • Deadly Encounter

    R.A. Montgomery

    Matt, Mimla, and David match wits with two ruthless foes--Arthur Gladstone, the evil dictator of Dorado, and Archaeus, a reincarnated god--as they struggle to protect a powerful new source of energy, gallium, from Turtalia's enemies...

  • The Death of Sleep

    Anne McCaffrey; Jody Lynn Nye

    THE PIRATES DIDN'T KILL HER--THEY JUST STOLE HER LIFE Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil knew the so-called "planet pirates" were capable of terrible things. But--also like every other citizen of the Fede...

  • Fantastic World War II

    Frank McSherry

    THE WAR THAT WASN'T The Second World War, bad as it was, could have been worse. For example, the Axis could have won; there really could have been a Thousand Year Reich filled with endless streams of concentration-camp victims and strutting, jack-...

  • The Gentle Seduction

    Marc Stiegler

  • I Spent My Summer Vacation Kidnapped Into Space

    Martyn Godfrey

    What a way to start the summer? On the last day of sixth grade, Reeann and her best friend Jared (who just happens to be the cutest boy in school) are innocently hunting rocks among the asteroids. Suddenly they meet a very shaggy pair of Torkan al...

  • Killer

    David Drake

    IT WAS IN A CAGE THE FIRST TIME HE SAW IT Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers in India--lions in the hills of Macedon--elephants where the Mediterranean surges against the fo...

  • Lethal Heritage

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THEY ARE COMING. From beyond the Periphery comes a threat. A military force of unknown origin. NOTHING WE HAVE CAN STOP THEM. Their power, speed, and ferocity are unparalleled. Some of the finest warriors and ablest units have challenged them an...

  • Probing the Unknown

    Stephen Tchudi

  • Tin Soldier

    Joan D. Vinge
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  • Total Recall

    Piers Anthony

  • The White Regiment

    John Dalmas

    All the Confederation of Worlds wanted was a little peace. But they realized that peace doesn't come cheap, so they decided to apply their personnel selection technology to war and pick the greatest potential warriors out of their planets-wide databa...

  • The Zork Chronicles

    George Alec Effinger

    With Glorian prodding him ever onward, Mirakles descends into the Great Underground Empire where he encounters Spike the Protector, the Dragon's Lair, the Wizard's Workroom, the winged vampire were-unicorn, and the Warm Boot of Frobozz...

  • Beauty Sleep

    Daniel Klein

    When beauty columnist Amy Martin and endocrinologist David Copeland investigate a miraculous beauty cream called "Makeover," they uncover an insidious plot that threatens the lives of the world's most beautiful women...

  • Blood Winter

    William Patrick

    A British spy and an American surgeon operating undercover in World War II Berlin find their loyalties challenged by a beautiful but mysterious researcher at the suspicious Institute for Infectious Diseases...

  • The Blue Mirage

    Joseph D. McNamara

    Fraleigh is the new acting police chief of the turbulent Silicon City police force. His first SWAT strike is a disaster, a psycho sex killer named Zorro is on the loose, and Fraleighs hot affair with a lady politician threatens to become a media bonf...

  • Bounty Hunter Blues

    John Leslie

    THE FAT BOY DIED IN MONTREAL. THE HEAT CAME DOWN IN FLORIDA... He was the three hundred-pound son of a mobster caught in the beginning of a blood feud. For two days he'd been running broads up to a killer named Brown--then he walked into the middl...

  • By Any Illegal Means

    Donald MacKenzie

  • C.A.T. Caper

    Margaret Logan

    DEATH OF AN ACADEMIC STAR When 136 English teachers converge on Boston's Beasley Center to score the essay section of the College Aptitude Test, one of them--the famous feminist professor Marilyn Milledge--is brutally killed. The ready-made sus...

  • A Cry in the City

    Pauline Glen Winslow

  • The Cut Throat

    Simon Michael

    Barrister Charles Howard must put aside both his personal problems and his efforts to save a young child from a Court scandal in order to solve a robbery/murder case in which each defendant accuses the other of murder...

  • Dance with the Devil

    Kirk Douglas

    He stunned the world with his bestselling autobiography, The Ragman's Son. Now this multitalented superstar brings us an original, highly acclaimed novel... the impassioned story of a brilliant Hollywood director haunted by his past, searching for hi...

  • Deathstorm

    Robert B. Gillespie

  • A Drop of Murder

    Benjamin Joshua

  • The Good Policeman

    Jerome Charyn

    Sent on a cross-country lecture tour after capturing the FBI's most wanted criminal, New York City Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel returns to the city and finds himself battling criminals, the establishment, and the Christy Mathewson Club...

  • Grave Murder

    Al Guthrie

    Licensed private investigator Mac McKenzie and his wife Abbie retreat from the bustle of the big city to the midwestern town of Sarahville, but a murder connected to the small family cemetery behind their new house may lead the couple back into the c...

  • Indecent Behavior

    Caryl Rivers

    When murder strikes a small-time hood in Boston, street-smart reporter Sally Ellenberg and blue-blooded Jack Aiken plunge into a deadly world of conspiracy and behavior-control technology that may reach as high as the White House...

  • The Judas Cloak

    Walter Winward

    An adventure novel about one man's search for the truth about his dead brother, rumoured to have been executed after being found guilty of betraying his friends to the Germans in a prisoner-of-war camp after the Dieppe landings in 1942....

  • Killing Time in Buffalo

    Deidre S. Laiken

  • Lie to Me

    David Martin

    When a madman breaks into her Washington mansion, killing her husband, beautiful Mary Gaetan tells the police nothing of the intruder, claiming her husband killed himself--an odd response that spurs Detective Teddy Camel to find out the truth...

  • The Lost Heir

    Gerald Lientz

  • Murder in a Pig's Eye

    Lynn Hall

  • Night Secrets

    Thomas H. Cook

    A gripping story that spirals two seemingly unrelated cases into a life and death nightmare of extraordinary danger. P.I. Frank Clamons tails two women: a sophisticate who's cheating on her husband and an exotic gypsy who claims responsibility for a ...

  • Orphans

    Gerald Pearce

  • Passion Play

    W. Edward Blain

    In New York City, a young man is found murdered in a dingy Times Square sex theater -- his neck gruesomely snapped -- and the only clue is a torn receipt from the Montpelier School for Boys bookstore.Christmas break is just a couple of weeks away whe...

  • The Queen's Mare

    John Birkett

    All bets are off when it comes to kidnap, mayhem, and murder …When the "Grand Dame of Kentucky Racing" enlists private eye Michael Rhineheart to deliver the ransom for a kidnapped broodmare and her foal, Rhineheart thinks it will be a speedy transa...

  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon

    Mark McShane

    Hoping for notoriety, a struggling psychic kidnaps a child in this Edgar Award"nominated mystery.
     Most so-called psychics disgust Myra Savage. She has no patience for their chintz and cheap tricks, for her power is real. Myra can see...

  • Shadow of a Man

    Doris Miles Disney

    A Psychopathic Killer… …With as taste for young girls A 13-year-old lay dead -- raped and brutally murdered! The police were hunting a shadowy figure known as “the blue man,” who had been terrorizing the neighborhood. But Maggie Thay...

  • Speak No Evil

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • A Spy at Twilight

    Bryan Forbes

    A lethal explosion in Hyde Park launches an investigation that threatens the post-Thatcher British socialist government, and only Alec Hillsden, falsely branded a traitor to Britain and exiled to the USSR, knows the truth...

  • The Star of Sutherland

    Gene Breaznell

    Abandoned by his wife, college professor Jim Harrington takes a new job at his alma mater, Sutherland College, but soons finds himself up to his neck in gem theft and murder after a fellow occupant of his rooming house is bludgeoned to death...

  • Stinger

    Doug Hornig

  • Sullivan's Sting

    Lawrence Sanders

    A beautiful cop named Rita Sullivan goes undercover - and under the sheets - to catch one of the biggest con artists in Florida. David Rathbone, the criminal in question, has a way with the ladies: he turns their heads and empties their bank accounts...

  • Tailspin

    Jack D. Hunter

    In 1945, after the surrender of Germany, Major Kaufmann of the CIA and Lt. Molly Raines find themselves facing off against their own superiors when they become embroiled in a bizarre plot that threatens to start World War III...

  • Warriors

    Barrett Tillman

    Commander John Bennett values flesh-and-blood fighter pilots over high technology--and he gets a chance to put his theories to the test. Invited by the Saudi king to build a secret air wing capable of matching the elite Israeli air force, Bennett rec...

  • Where's Mommy Now?

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    Kate Bauers was proud of being able to manage both her job at the gift shop and her luxurious household, even though Dr. Mark Bauers was a demanding husband and her two small children were a. handful. But as her job took more and more of her time, Ka...

  • Wild Justice

    Richard C. Smith

    While vacationing in Maine, Boston private detective James Maxfield Mallory is drawn into the investigation into a local murder, a crime that may have ties to the dangerous machinations of a mysterious developer in Boston...

  • Bloodstone

    M.J. Rodgers

    Merry Anders was playing with fire Why did a dying man collapse on her, a pair of thugs try to kidnap her from the staid Smithsonian Museum and a powerfully built stranger help fend off her attackers--then vanish? When Merry caught up with her dar...

  • In for Life

    Suzanne Mayer

    She was the perfect witness -- and the perfect target Until Linda Miller witnessed the murder of a U.S. Senator, she hadn't known what fear was. Now it was her constant companion. If Special Agent Michael Rosen managed to keep her alive until t...

  • The Colonel's Campaign

    Irene Saunders

    ARABELLA'S ERROR Beautiful Arabella Darnley had had a moment of weakness--and feared she would pay for it forever. She had wed handsome Sir Richard Barton only to discover too late how dreadful life with him was. But now Richard was dead, t...

  • Delightful Deception

    Nancy Lawrence

    IMPETUOUS LADY Impudent, outspoken Charmian Crewes was outraged by plans to match her with the notorious Earl of Wexford. Refusing even to meet such a scoundrel, the impetuous miss set out in the dark of night for her aunt's home in Paris. When her ...

  • The Dirty Frog

    Gwyneth Moore

    SHE WANTED A HUSBAND NOT A HERO. . . Herefordshire was the home of Valentina Ashford's half-cousin, Charles de Michel, whom she only knew by reputation. Nevertheless, it was there she went in a desperate attempt to provide her remaining family...

  • Enterprising Lady

    Eva Rutland

    She did not want to be a wife. She wanted to lead her own life. Love was not on the agenda for either one of them Lydia Crenshaw had a "secret." Only her widowed mother and younger sister knew what she was up to, and though it was thei...

  • The Fanciful Heiress

    Valerie King

    A ROMANTIC MISS Authoress Meg Longville was utterly aghast to learn that the disreputable Lord Worthen was enamored of her. True, she had been attentive to him, but only because she meant to use him as a model for the villain in her next romance nov...

  • The Helpful Ghost

    Sheila Rosalynd Allen

    HARRY THE GHOST IS BACK -- IN A DELIGHTFUL NEW REGENCY ROMANCE! In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost -- visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping o...

  • Irish Autumn

    Margaret Evans Porter

  • Lady's Choice

    Judith Nelson

  • Lord Longshanks

    Rebecca Ward

    SHE WAS DETERMINED TO LOATHE HIM...AND HE VOWED TO WIN HER HEART.... A gentleman from the top his handsome head to the tip of his polished boots, Lord Jonathan Longe always managed to be nearby when Patricia needed rescuing-- be it from a fallen ...

  • Marylebone Park

    Rachelle Edwards

    HOW COULD A RAKE AND A RESCUER MAKE A PERFECT MUDDLE OF HER PERFECT BETROTHAL? Held up by ruffians, then secretly kissed by the mysterious gentleman who came to her rescue, recently engaged Sophia Kingsland feared the gossip-starved ton would milk...

  • Mrs. McVinnie's London Season

    Carla Kelly

    MISCHIEF IN THE MARRIAGE MART Jeannie McVinnie was young and lovely -- but she was also a widow with no intention of marrying again. And if she ever did, it certainly would not be to the high-handed, hot-tempered Captain William Summers. The sw...

  • Passion's Persuasion

    Prudence Martin

    AN INNOCENT YOUNG LADY BECOMES A SPY -- ONLY TO FIND HERSELF IN THE ARMS OF HER ENEMY! DANGER'S DELIGHT It was obvious from his bold scrutiny that the handsome stranger thought her a lightskirt. Yet Miss Rilla Linville didn't care so long...

  • A Rose for Lady Edwina

    Melinda Pryce

    AT THE END OF HER TETHER Was ever a sensible lady so put upon? Her brother had a head full of ideas for building a flying machine, her sister had a head full of nothing, and each and every one of the men who had offered for her was either a self-c...

  • The Picture Makers

    Emily Ellison

    Painter Eleanor Glass finds her relationships with her husband, Will, her ex-mother-in-law, Fitz, her aging father, Henry, and her ever-optimistic mother, Cora Ruth, complicated by the cold realities of the world. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • The Grey Pilgrim

    J.M. Hayes

    Arizona, 1940. Deputy U.S. Marshall and Spanish Civil War veteran J.D. Fitzpatrick arrives in Tucson, a shell-shock case. His job should be a low pressure, but the insensitive local BIA agent provokes a gunfight over registering the Papagos men for t...

  • A Knife at the Opera

    Susannah Stacey

    NO REST FOR THE WICKED... Backstage at the Tunbridge Wells girls' school production of The Beggar's Opera, all was bedlam. Miss Claire "Sugar Plum" Fairlie, the English teacher, was nowhere to be found, and her big number was coming up. It wasn't ...

  • Rough Treatment

    John Harvey

    Harold Roy races against time to find the thieves responsible for a break-in at his home and to recover the missing kilo of cocaine stolen from his house, before its owner discovers that the drugs are missing...

  • Shadow Prey

    John Sandford

    A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis. A politician executed in Manhattan. A judge slain in Oklahoma City. All killed by a relentless assassin - a ritualistic, far from ordinary, serial killer....

  • Well-Schooled in Murder

    Elizabeth George

    When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whateley goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an o...

  • Remembrance

    Lynn Michaels

    Was he a scoundrel or a spirit? Cathy Martin didn't believe in ghosts-until she arrived at her famous grandmother's home on Martha's Vineyard to coauthor the actress's memoirs. Eight writers had already fled the island, and soon Cathy, too, was qu...

  • Time-Spun Rapture

    Thomasina Ring

    A DIMLY REMEMBERED PAST After a madcap night of celebrating her successful debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Astrid Van Fleet awoke to find herself with a vicious hangover, no clothes, and no idea where she was! Rescued from the wilderness by the ...

  • Devil in a Blue Dress

    Walter Mosley

    Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will ...

  • Fatal Diagnosis

    Mary Kittredge

    Savvy, compassion and grace under pressure have propelled nurse Edwina Crusoe to the top ranks at Chelsea Memorial Hospital. There's no crisis there she can't cope with, no emergency too extreme. Until a killer checks into the big city hospital, a...

  • The Frog King

    Frank McConnell

  • Kindred Crimes

    Janet Dawson

    When P.I. Jeri Howard takes on a missing-persons case, she's not the only person confused. The vanished woman's husband doesn't even know his wife's real name. But as Jeri digs deeper, she reveals long-buried secrets, old public scandals, and the rea...

  • Polo's Wild Card

    Jerry Kennealy

    Polo attends a $500-a-plate charity dinner with his girlfriend (they have an "understanding," thus allowing him to pop guilt-free into a few other beds as the story unfolds) to gain a seat in a high-stakes poker game held during the event. Several va...

  • Bad Luck

    Anthony Bruno

    REQUIEM FOR A WISEGUY Atlantic City casino builder Russell Nashe is having a run of bad luck. His new bodyguard is not only boffing his beautiful wife, but the young tough is really Mike Tozzi, undercover for the FBI. Even worse, Nashe owes millio...

  • Blood Is Thicker

    Ann C. Fallon

    AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, JACK MOORE RETURNED TO THE OLD SOD. NOW HE'S UNDER IT... Kilmartin's cozy charm delighted James Fleming as he drove between shimmering early-spring fields up to the Moore's granite-faced manor house. The Dublin solicitor's...

  • The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning

    Joseph Hansen

    While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter's final scoop. Journalist Adam Streeter covered some of the most dangerous stories of the last quarter century, ranging from Cambodia to Siberia and anywhere troubled in betwe...

  • Gideon's River

    J.J. Marric

    Gideon must piece togther disparate clues--a waterlogged corpse, a kidnapped girl, the surfacing of waterproof packets near the Port of London, and missing industrial diamonds--to catch a group of diamond smugglers...

  • On the Inside

    Ted Wood

    Going undercover was no way to spend a honeymoon... But the police commission needed a favor - badly - so Reid Bennett, his new wife and police dog, Sam, pack up for the Canadian mining town of Elliot, where Reid lands a job as a local cop to investi...

  • Savings and Loam

    Ralph M. McInerny

    MURDER DRAWS ANDREW BROOM INTO ITS FOLD The victim, a client of Broom's, is gunned down in his backyard. But somebody sees the murder. An aging hippie and his nubile young companion seize this gold-en opportunity for blackmail. Ironically, it's An...

  • Auld Acquaintance

    Terry Beatty; Wendi Lee
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    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Catch That Hat!

    Emma Chichester Clark

  • The Cereal Killer

    Rex Miller
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Chessboard's Last Gambit

    Edward D. Hoch
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • The Curse

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Dead Witness: Best Australian Mystery Stories

    Stephen Thomas Knight

  • Dick Tracy and the Syndicate of Death

    Henry Slesar
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Dick Tracy Goes Hollywood

    Ron Goulart
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Homefront

    Barbara Collins
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • L.A. Confidential

    James Ellroy

    L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are ...

  • The Leo's Den Affair

    Francis M. Nevins Jr.
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Living Legend

    Stephen Mertz
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Nordic Blue

    Barry N. Malzberg
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Not A Creature Was Stirring

    Max Allan Collins
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Old Saying

    John Lutz
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Origins

    Mike Resnick
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • The Paradise Lake Monster

    Wayne D. Dundee
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Rockabilly

    F. Paul Wilson
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Whirlpool, Sizzle, and the Juice

    Ric Meyers
    in

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • The Burden of Proof

    Scott Turow

    Sandy Stern, brilliant defense attorney, is facing an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions. And it will make h...

  • Behind the Waterfall

    Chinatsu Nakayama

    From the Japanese writer comes a trio of novellas studying a child actress struggling to fathom adult motives, a young wife caught in a romantic triangle, and the effects of an intrusive television program...

  • Ben

    Max Schott

  • Celeste Goes Dancing and Other Stories: An Argentine Collection

    Norman Thomas Digiovanni

  • The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories

    Susan Davis

  • Winter in Florida

    Edward Falco

  • Age of Miracles

    Catherine Maccoun

    Set in medieval England, this tale of romance and intrigue centers on Sister Ingrid, the infirmarian at Greyleigh Convent, who is famous for her miraculous powers of healing. When disgrace forces her to flee the convent, she finds her remedial power ...

  • The Best of the West II

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Bride of the Spear

    Kathleen Herbert

    Fifty years after the death of King Arthur, England was gripped by war and rebellion. Seeking to bind the wounds of the troubled kingdom, King Loth offered his beautiful daughter, Taniu, to his bitterest enemy's son, Owain. Intelligent and gen...

  • Circle of Pearls

    Rosalind Laker

    Julia Pallister, daughter of Sotherleigh, was born in 1641 and unknowingly heir to the only remaining gown of Elizabeth I’s exquisite wardrobe. This pearl-encrusted gift to Julia’s grandmother, Katherine, represented the staunchly royalist sta...

  • Crystal Days

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    LOVESTRUCK -- Las Vegas. It's a land of smoldering days and neon nights, the clatter of chips and the whisper of chilled champagne. A town where dreams and desires collide in the glittering shadows of the Strip...and where Fortune smiles on t...

  • Dangerous Desire

    Ashley Snow

    He was her ruthless enemy -- and her merciless lover... THE DANGER OF PASSION Lovely, chestnut-haired Jess Maury bated the American rebels, not least for murdering her beloved father. Still grief-stricken, she vowed to carry on his undercover wor...

  • Defiant Captive

    Christina Skye

    CAPTIVE... To a handsome Lord whose silver-flecked eyes glittered with anger as he snatched Alexandra from the London streets. Her fiery loveliness had ignited a case of mistaken identity but now there was no mistaking Hawkeworth's naked passio...

  • Destiny's Dream

    Joanna Jordan

    A PASSION FATED BY THE DESERT STARS... True to his Apache name, Hawk Devlin is a strong and proud man whose intense blue eyes hold dark secrets of a painful past. Scorned by white women before, he won't be tempted by the arrogant English beauty de...

  • Dragonfire

    Patricia Potter

    Peking, 1900 -- The Boxer Rebellion Caught in the tide of history, British-born Hope Townsend could not force herself to leave China. Horrified by the events around her, still, she risked her life to rescue the persecuted missionaries from the k...

  • Fires of Surrender

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    He stole her freedom, her innocence...and her heart! DEFIANT TO THE LAST Kathryn McLeod's heart sank as she watched the horsemen approach Edinburgh with their banners flying and sunlight glinting off their armor. The war which had torn Scotla...

  • Honour Bound

    Helen Dickson

    Louise knew she wouldn't rest until Colonel Robert Gray, adherent of Cromwell, was dead. He had killed her friends, Lord and Lady Slade, and sent her younger children, as well as her own sister, into slavery. Francis, the new Lord Slade, determined G...

  • Island Flame

    Karen Robards

    A PIRATE'S PRIZE Young and exquisitely beautiful, Lady Catherine Aldley had been raised by England's most proper governesses and sent to the finest schools, but Jonathan Hale made her feel like a common doxy. The lustful pirate had attacked Cather...

  • Master of Her Heart

    Terri Valentine

    EVIL, WICKED CAPTOR Intelligent, civilized Garnet Sinclair was so devoted to teaching her Asian students, she'd completely underestimated the dangers that China presented. Not until the blond Englishwoman had been captured by slavers did she believ...

  • Midnight Angel

    Rochelle Wayne

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  • Montana Mistress

    Thea Devine

    HE PROMISED NOTHING The day his bride threw a temper tantrum and refused to walk down the aisle was the happiest day of Sam Garrison's life. To free himself forever from the spoiled brat's clutches, the cynical Montana rancher needed a new f...

  • Mountain Laurel

    Jude Deveraux

    Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the C...

  • Oregon Bride

    Rosanne Bittner

    ON A TRAIL OF DANGER, THEIR LOVE KNEW NO BOUNDS In a land of raw winds and merciless sun, Marybeth MacKinder was a quiet, raven-haired young widow traveling westward with her former husband's family and the memories of a loveless marriage. Her...

  • Passion's Golden Bounty

    Rainy Kirkland

    Wild Pirate Princess Alluring tomboy Samantha Chesterfield was ever tryingmore outrageous stunts to win her pirate father's favor, but when she sneaked aboard a ship of the crown, the independent spitfire got more than she'd bargained for. First ...

  • Pirate's Passion

    Molly Arost Staub

    Beautiful and innocent Frances Martin was fiercely determined to join her father's shipping business. On the open ocean with him at last, she witnessed his murder by pirates - and her life was changed forever. Vowing revenge, she became renowned as t...

  • Prophecies

    Helena Soister

    Rich, evocative, suspenseful, and with an authentic sensibility that is at the same time strikingly contemporary, Prophecies is sophisticated historical fiction that will appeal to readers of novels as diverse as those of Umberto Eco and Ellis Peters...

  • Sea-Spun Ecstasy

    Allison Knight

    The hurricane's fury only fueled their passion! SHE FOLLOWED HER HEART Eager to escape her meddling, matchmaking relatives in Barbados, impetuous Cathy Pentworth swore she'd find some way to get back to her father in England. The inventive bea...

  • Song of the Bayou

    Elinor Lynley

    Susannah heard herself moan. Nicholas's lips claimed hers and the world began to spin... Susannah Paxton knew that Nicholas Jourdain, a bold, handsome Cajun planter, was her father's enemy in the escalating violence between the Americans who wante...

  • Spanish Serenade

    Jennifer Blake

    It would take a rare combination of hatred, daring, and curiosity to bring the notorious brigand El Leon to her moonlit veranda...and even more to lure him to accept her bold request. But beautiful, headstrong Pilar Sandoval y Serna will pay any pric...

  • Stormwalker

    Bronwyn Williams

    Shunned Laura Gray was torn from her home and family by the nightmare of an Indian uprising. Lost and alone, the fragile beauty bore her neighbors' contempt--and a murderer's child. Desperate to find a refuge for herself and for the son she had...

  • Sweet Velvet Passion

    Carol King

    J. Elliot Cutter was everything delicate Velvet McBride detested in a man. The Andirondack mountain man was crude and impolite, but with all the other sweet adoring boys gone to war, he was the only male the practiced Rebel flirt could work her femin...

  • Tempt the Devil

    Connie Mason

    "Ye cannot kill the devil," whispered the awestruck throng at the hanging of the notorious Diablo. And, indeed, moments later the pirate had not only escaped the noose, but also abducted the beautiful Lady Devon, whisking her aboard his ship,...

  • Temptation's Tender Kiss

    Colleen Faulkner

    It was a daring scheme -- pretending to be his Tory twin brother in order to infiltrate the King's army in Philadelphia. Even more dangerous was patriot spy Sterling Thayer's burning desire for auburn-haired rebel Reagan Llewellyn. He knew she despis...

  • Wanton Slave

    Evelyn Rogers

    A Slave to His Passions When Sarah's father shipped her off to Constantinople to marry a stranger, the lively beauty thought her life was over. But Sarah's adventures were just beginning. First her ship was captured by pirates and Sarah wa...

  • Wild Savage Love

    Dana Ransom

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  • Wildly My Love

    Katharine Kincaid

    WILD OUTPOST How had she ever gotten herself into such a predicament! As Spencer Kathleen O'Rourk looked with distaste at the battered, steam-powered "launch" in which she was to travel down the exotic Amazon River, she almost wished she had never a...

  • Winter's Flame

    Maria Greene

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  • Ancient Images

    Ramsey Campbell

    "Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease." The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense.Tower of Fear is a lost horror film starring Karloff and Lugosi. A film historian who locates a copy dies wh...

  • Darkscope

    Margaret Falk

  • Deadtime Story

    Margaret Bingley

  • Demons by Daylight

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Dreamer

    Peter James

    When waking from your dream means living your nightmare...The last time the dream came, Sam was seven years old; and that was the night her parents were to die.Twenty-five years later, Sam's nightmares are starting to come true once more. Now a succe...

  • The Ghosts of War

    Daniel Cohen

  • Kiss of Death

    Daniel Rhodes

  • Lost and Found

    Ruby Jean Jensen

    A MOTHER’S TERROR The dreams had been coming with increasing frequency. The ground splitting open…the head of an infant emerging…its eyes wide open…its mouth filled with pointed, needle-sharp teeth…Magret would wake up screaming to find ...

  • A Matter of Taste

    Fred Saberhagen

    Ex-cop Joe Keogh is called in by his brother-in-law, John Southerland, when the visit of Matthew Maule, an "old friend" of the Southerlands, leads to a series of bizarre events, and Keogh soon discovers that the visitor is none other than Dracula him...

  • Night of the Tyger

    David Klass

    The bizarre murder of a young history student at Yale leads English professor Kevin Randall on a vengeful quest for the killer, an evil monster responsible for the brutal killing of Randall's wife two years earlier...

  • Phone Calls

    R.L. Stine

    After being humiliated by her best friend Diane in front of a cute boy, Julie decides to get even and plays a telephone prank, launching an all-out telephone war that results in mismatched romances and worse. Reissue....

  • Seaharp Hotel

    Charles L. Grant

  • Second Child

    John Saul

    Beware the second child.This lush, secluded Maine seaside resort is the summer playground of the superrich, but one hundred years ago, something disturbed their play. Horror came to this village. And though no one knows it yet, the horror has never l...

  • As Crime Goes by

    Diane K. Shah

    Hollywood, 1947. It's a town of glittering stars and lavish excess, where actors are legends, studio heads are gods, and even crimes are larger than life. It's the perfect setting for Paris Chandler, an ex-deb with a nose for celebrity dirt and a job...

  • Bethlehem Road

    Anne Perry

    The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attired--fresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarf-and he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat. Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilto...

  • Brand Fires on the Ridge

    Ernest Haycox

  • Buffalo Station

    Hank Mitchum

    When rancher Nate Yeager busted out of territorial prison. he had only one thing on his mind: finding Zeke Slade, the cutthroat who framed him and sent his brother to an early grave. Yeager never expected to end up riding shotgun for a $100,000 payro...

  • Cemetery Jones and the Tombstone War

    William R. Cox

    Tombstone was fast becoming one hell of a mess when Bat Masterson and the Earps asked their old pal Sam “Cemetery” Jones to lend a hand. There was a man a day getting killed, the notorious Clanton gang raising hell, Apaches on the warpath...

  • The Coronado Killers

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo must deal with Sam Cutter's loyal daughter, who will do anything to save her daddy's hide, as he trails the most savage killer in the Southwest into a dangerous land south of the border....

  • Dead Freight for Piute

    Luke Short

  • The French Admiral

    Dewey Lambdin

    It’s 1781. Midshipman Alan Lewrie -- a scandalous young London rake whose amorous onshore adventures led to his being pressed into His Majesty's Service by his own father -- chafes against life in the Royal Navy, but to his amazement he finds himse...

  • Incident at Fort Keogh

    Richard S. Wheeler

    BARELY ALIVE, HE HAD A BULLET IN HIS SKULL, AND A STORY TWICE AS STRANGE.

    When Mordecai Sapp turned up with a bullet wound in his head at the doorstep of lawman and medical man Santiago Toole, he only wanted doctoring. But it didn't take Toole...

  • The Lawman

    Justin Ladd

    Election day is coming up in Abilene. An ambitious businessman is backing his own candidate for county sheriff, and Marshal Luke Travis is drafted to run against him. When the voting is interrupted by a shooting spree and a freak fire, Travis suspect...

  • Montana Horseman

    John S. McCord

    The Baynes boys are a legend on the frontier after the Civil War, but Ward Baynes wants to leave shooting behind and marry Kit Thackery--until his enemies kidnap her and Ward and his brothers must save her life. Reprint....

  • Nevada Claim Stripper

    E.J. Hunter

  • Panhandle Payback

    Duff McCoy

  • People of the Wolf

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    In the dawn of history, a valiant people forged a pathway from an old world into a new one. Led by a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dared to cross the frozen wastes to find an untouched, unspoiled c...

  • The Powder River

    Win Blevins

    RIVERS WEST Native Americans, hunters and trappers, pioneer families--all who braved the American West drew their very lives and fortunes from the great rivers. From the earliest days of the untamed frontier to the dawn of the twentieth century, her...

  • The Road to Memphis

    Mildred D. Taylor

    As America hovers on the brink World War II, Cassie Logan fights a battle closer to home -- the battle of black against white. The third book in the powerfully written Logan family saga finds the 17-year-old Cassie Logan dreaming of college and la...

  • Tour Guide to the Old West

    Alice Hamilton Cromie

  • Trouble in Tall Pine

    John Legg

  • Women of the West

    Kathy Ptacek

  • The Wyoming Cattle War

    Jake Logan

  • The Lost Duchess of Greyden Castle

    Nina Pykare

    'Tis said that if the babe cries three nights running, Death will come calling.' Vanessa never thought she'd be a duchess, only in her dreams could she be the wife of Richard, Duke of Greyden, the man she'd adored since she was thirteen. The man ...

  • Blueberry 2: Ballad for a Coffin

    Marvel Book Group

  • 2-Minute Little Critter Stories

    Mercer Mayer

  • Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog

    Stephanie Vaughn

    A series of interconnected stories which feature Gemma, a funny, wise, sensitive girl raised on American army bases. Her childhood and adolescence are described as her father falls apart, she falls in love and her mother dies....

  • Absolutely Perfect Summer

    Jeffrey Asher Nesbit

    Two brothers come of age one summer as the older one, a high school senior, must choose between playing major league baseball and going to college, and the younger maintains a perfect batting average in Little League....

  • After Egypt

    Millicent Dillon

  • Against Gravity

    Edward McCabe

  • Alien Sex

    Larry Niven

    A collection of stories focusing on some aspect of sex and the alien theme features works by today's best science fiction writers including Harlan Ellison, Connie Willis, Philip Jose Farmer, and James Tiptree, Jr....

  • Almost Ten and a Half

    Candice Ransom

    Who needs parents? Almost ten-and-a-half years old, Kobie Roberts certainly doesn't need parents anymore. If only she were on her own, she could eat whatever she wanted. Stay up late. And never have to do her homework. So when Kobie's mother is...

  • Amphibians

    Michael Gifkins

    An original collection of short stories linked to the sun-drenched hedonism of the French Riviera. Smoke hangs in great palls over the burning hinterlands, but it is their inner fires with which the characters must contend....

  • Ariel's Underwater Adventure

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Ashes, Ashes

    Etienne Delessert

  • Aunt Morbelia and the Screaming Skulls

    Joan Carris

  • Back from Betrayal

    Jennifer Md Schneider

    A ground-breaking book that shares startling revelations that can help you break the pattern of betrayal. Jennifer P. Scneider, M.D., reveals to readers that your husband or lover uses his affairs as compulsively as an alcoholic uses alcohol, and tha...

  • Ballplayer!

    Pete Rose

  • Basil, the Loneliest Boy

    Jason Timlock

  • Bears, Bears, Bears

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Becky's Super Secret

    Carrie Austen

  • Bed for the Wind

    Penina Goodman

  • Benjamin's Barn

    Reeve Lindbergh

  • Biplane

    Richard Bach

    Biplane is the story of Richard Bach’s solo flight into the American skies -- a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary. Includes an introduction by Ray Bradbury....

  • Blood Storm

    Kyle Maning