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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1983

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The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope
C.W. Grafton

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  • Diana Palmer

    FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...



  • Sandra Brown

    Alone, afraid, beautiful Leigh Bransom was about to deliver her child beside a deserted Texas highway. Gratefully she accepted the help of a handsome, dirt-streaked stranger...and in the excitement of the moment a special feeling sparked between them...



  • Penny Jordan

    Her worst fears had come true Being kidnapped by political terrorists was the realization of Saffron Wykeham's worst nightmares. And to be taken to an isolated primitive farmhouse and subjected to the volatile dangerous temperaments of her cap...



  • Carole Mortimer

    " I always get what I want." Adam Thornton's words struck fear into Natalie's heart. For the survival of her modeling agency depended on keeping him and his company happy. Her own sister--Thornton's Cosmetics' Dream Girl--h...



  • Janet Dailey

    A WEEK... OR FOREVER? Rachel MacKinley's thriving furniture business had been her whole world until, during a vacation cruise to the Mexican Riviera, she was forced to share a cabin with handsome, dark-eyed Gardner MacKinley. Gard was convince...



  • Heather Graham

    A fine beginning! It was pitch-dark, raining snakes and alligators, and she was totally lost -- stumbling blindly through the treacherous Everglades! PR Director Whitney Latham had been confident she could pave the way for a modem housing developm...



  • Stuart Woods

    Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land. Restless and dissatisfied, Will dreams of shipbuilding and sailing on crystal-blue ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging -- the time when the ho...



  • Louis L'Amour

    Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two women--Miss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fi...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    Alanna went to Costa Rica to meet Colonel Matt Breckenridge with all the wrong motives. She had been sent to expose him, but in the end she exposed only her own heart, her own vulnerability where he was concerned. She fell in love with the arrogan...



  • Robert B. Parker

    The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander had a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i's with little hearts. A blond beauty, she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem...



  • Joanne Fluke

    A HUNDRED YEARS AGO... A small boy huddled in the dark. His mother had promised she would never leave him...not in this awful house...not in this terrible town. But she was dead. Gone. And he was alone. Trapped. With no one to answer his desperate c...



  • Dean Koontz

    CLOSER... They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Califor...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Young, sultry Glenda Galvez knew nothing of love -- and even less of handsome Read deBaulieu. But when the untouched beauty met his bold, flashing gaze and saw his virile, masculine form, she didn't care that he would be leaving soon. She wanted ...



  • Carla Neggers

    COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHO EXPECTED HER TO BE THERE...OR A MAN WHO'D BE THERE FOR HER? For a year, the man in Leah Bradstreet's life had been Jakob Anderson, the celebrated dancer. But romance had to wait for the moments they could find betw...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    With her stunning beauty, brilliant talent, and almost magical allure, the irresistible Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, y...




  • Sara Orwig

    THEY WERE LOCKED IN A BATTLE OF WILLS The unyielding Thorn Catlin was determined to force Sabrina to leave Brazil. She was set on staying--for purely professional reasons. Unforeseen events shook her resolve. Marooned with him in the exotic and...



  • Stephanie James

    A QUESTION OF HONOR Icy silver eyes held her captive until Ryder Sterne decided that his lovely prisoner wasn't a trespasser after all. But the electric encounter between the daredevil writer and beautiful philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn...



  • Joan Smith

    "WOMEN ARE BORN WITH A KNACK FOR DECEPTION. HOW ELSE COULD THEY EVER GET HUSBANDS TO MARRY THEM?" Deception is the key to Vanessa Bradford's secret mission. Entrusted with a letter of utmost importance to England's security--even survival--Vaness...



  • Janelle Taylor

    SEARING PASSION BOUND THEM TOGETHER -- JEALOUS FATE TORE THEM APART! For four years, green-eyed Alisha Williams had been Princess Shalee, the cherished wife of the Oglala chief Gray Eagle. Still their love was stronger than the surging white water...



  • Ann Major

    Lannie was no longer the woman who had wanted Brandon for what he was worth, not for the man he was. This time she saw beneath the glitter and longed to build a life with him. This time, she vowed, when he gave her diamonds they would not he the p...



  • Carol Finch

    GOLDEN-EYED ENCHANTRESS With sparkling amber eyes and long, lustrous, midnight-black hair, Brianna Talbert was the most sought after beauty in Bristol. The sensuous temptress found all her suitors boring and longed for the blazing fires of rapture...



  • Don Pendleton

    Flying into the face of terror! Mack Bolan knew it was now or never-never land as he reached for the ejection-seat handle. He rocketed into the night above the exploding fighter jet... and directly into the path of his pursuer's lead-spitting plan...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed with inhuman voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place --...



  • Emma Goldrick

    She couldn't hide her feelings for him Because of the peculiar terms of an eccentric old lady's will, Sara Susan Anderson was being virtually forced to live for six months in John Englewood's house. "I'm not your judge,"...



  • Barbara Cameron

    Affairs. They were her specialty. Catered affairs. Most particularly weddings. Among her clients Diana Leighton numbered many good friends, not to mention her own very-much-married mother: No one knew more about tying beautiful matrimonial knots t...



  • Raye Morgan

    UNFORGETTABLE WORDS "I'm going to win you, Charla, no matter what I have to do!" Artist Charla Evans traveled to Japan to study raku pottery--and to escape an unhappy love. She thought there could never be another ... until tycoon Stephen Conners ...



  • Ed McBain

    When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs." Reprint....



  • Ed McBain

    The path to the truth is as slippery as ice--in a city whose heart is just as cold. The cops of this precinct know that anyone can be a victim. Anyone can be a perp. And killers keep killing until you put them on... Once she'd been a dancer. Now s...



  • Jake Logan

    ALL SLOCUM CARED ABOUT WAS A PRETTY WOMAN IN HIS BED at night and a job to bring the money in. If "Colonel Smith" wanted him to kidnap President Chester A. Arthur, that was all right by him -- especially when Smith was paying him fifty thousand dolla...



  • Patricia Lake

    "You're blinded by adolescent dreams! " The memory of Jase's humiliating rejection still cut Lexa to the quick. True, as a teenager she had worshiped her handsome stepbrother with the idolatry usually reserved for rock stars. Bu...



  • Joseph Wambaugh

    L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder. A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what’s a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect t...




  • Claudia Jameson

    It wasn't that the job was difficult! It was April's employer who baffled her -- Comte Emile Jacquot de Nimes, popular novelist, one-time acclaimed artist, at present a recluse. His wounded soul broke her heart, and somehow she must sho...



  • Cynthia Wright

    SHE WAS MEANT FOR LOVE. BUT LISETTE WAS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT -- UNTIL SHE MET NICHOLAI BEAUVISAGE ... Many men pursued her but Lisette Hahn, devastated at an early age by a callous married man, found them easy to resist. Yet on the night of he...



  • Douglas Reeman

    Hong Kong, 1960s: The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, refitting in a Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau. For Captain Mark Gunnar, who is driven by th...



  • Lynsey Stevens

    He's got experience written all over him." Shann had warned Kezia, and he was right. For as long as she could remember, Shann was the only man she'd wanted - then she met the enchanting Bligh Devereaux. This stranger aroused an un...



  • Rebecca Flanders

    Could true love come twice in a lifetime? Barbara Ellis didn't think so, at least not until she met Kyle Waters. Tall and ruggedly handsome, Kyle's piercing green eyes told Barbara that he was a man who got what he wanted at any cost -- both ...



  • Barbara Hambly

    The City of Illusions Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed t...



  • Karen Young

    TOMORROW'S PASSION Julie Dunaway was glad that her job at a Boston engineering firm left her no time for love. But when a dynamic new consultant turned out to be her estranged husband, Alex Brandt, Julie knew she was trapped. Dark and magne...



  • Stephen R. Donaldson

    “...I WANT YOU TO GO BACK TO THE LAND. TO REVELSTONE. AND STOP THE CLAVE. PUT OUT THE BANEFIRE. IF YOU DO THAT, SUNBANE'LL SLOW DOWN. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN RECEDE. THAT'LL GIVE US TIME TO LOOK FOR A BETTER ANSWER.” Thomas Covenant was shocked by Li...



  • Janet Louise Roberts

    He desired her with passion that burned like the sun-kissed sands, but she longed for the warmth of love. SHE WAS LIKE THE SCARLET POPPIES... PROUD... PASSIONATE... TRUE... Beautiful designer Iris Patakos had fulfilled her dream of a career in ...



  • Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    Cornwall, 1818 LOVE AND PERIL ON THE CLIFFS OF CORNWALL Beautiful Melissa Rivenwood was leaving Mrs. Brody's Seminary for the Daughters of Gentlemen for a new life. But when she accepted the position as companion to the formidable Lady Doro...



  • Barbara Hazard

    TORN BETWEEN GOOD SENSE--AND HER SENSES At the age of twenty-five, Lady Georgina Spalding was too old to play the girlish fool in love--yet too young not to respond to the shocking but undeniably arousing advances of the handsome visitor from Virg...



  • George MacDonald

    An eerie and mysterious gothic romance steeped in family secrets and deception from the Victorian-era author of The Portent and Lilith.   MacDonald's second realistic novel written in the first person by a fictional female narrator, ...



  • Nicola West

    "It's an offer you can't refuse." Kinnan Macrae's suggestion that she set sail aboard his yacht left Alix speechless. But stranded as she was in Yugoslavia with no money, no identification and no way of making herself understoo...



  • Brooke Hastings

    The act of mistaken anger that led Luke Griffin to "kidnap" Randy Dunne soon gave way to a cresting wave of passion that swept them both into a fiery embrace from which there was no turning back. Yet before the game could be played out and their f...



  • Tabor Evans

    BAIT FOR A BACKSHOOTER... When two men are sent out to shoot a crazed killer stallion. a bushwhacker cuts down both of the hunters. That's trouble enough. but there's a cattle thief on the loose as well and, incredibly, the ranchers believe the ho...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Black Wind, Arizona is torn apart with prejudice and hatred, fueled by the greed of a ruthless town boss and his hired gunslicks. A nearby colony of Chinese immigrants, the hapless victims of violence, turn to Clint Adams for help. A lovely Oriental ...


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