New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in bronze ink which matches the color of the slipcase)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED (in ink which matches the color of the slipcase) on the first blank page and also personally INSCRIBED on the title page "For Susan, Happy Birthday and best wishes."

New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. 239 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1995. First edition - A literate and classic mystery set in Venice - the 4th one featuring American ex-patriate Urbino Mcintryre. 221 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (1995). First edition - Second mystery featuring professor and amateur sleuth Beth Austin, who has left Midwestern's icy February campus for a luxurious vacation at the Royal Aloha hotel in Hawaii, to prepare a seminar on George Eliot's Middlemarch, but finds herself once again caught up in murder. A dress designer falls to her death in the hotel lobby. A body is found on the hotel's jogging trail. 243 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.). First edition - Set in India in post-war 1920, a time of great turmoil, this is an erotic story of an interracial love affair between a white Englishwoman and an Oxford educated Indian doctor - the author was born in New Delhi, India - this is based on the life of Slaughter's grandmother who was incarcerated in mental institutions since 1936 even though she was not mentally ill. 334 pp.

New York: Morrow, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Her third Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. SIGNED first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author which focuses on the five children, originally from an Iowa farming family, over three decades. "Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change." Longlisted for the National Book Award. The first book in a planned trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 395 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, described as a psychological thriller. The story of a woman whose obsession with the horses she raises and the son whom she expects to be an Olympic champion - after all, they are the Karlsons, the most envied family in the county - leads her to be blind to the dangers foreshadowed in this book. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-449-908747.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery featuring management consultant and amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Highly acclaimed debut novel, a mystery featuring Ana Grey, a young, ambitious, tough minded FBI agent based in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 291 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The second mystery by this highly praised young writer - this is the story of Cassidy Sanderson, scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the only female scout in the major leagues. SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp.

New York: Warner, (1999). First edition - Novel described as "a modern-day Rear Window that brings Hitchcockian suspense to the written page in a tale of murder in a London apartment building" where a woman has taken refuge from an abusive relationship. 372 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Young adult fantasy that will appeal to adults also. Aurelia is a princess with magic powers, so they call her a witch. "A roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy thats layered with heady romance, bloodthirsty magic, and ghostly intrigue - an absolutely wicked delight." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is before publication. 373 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Young adult fantasy that will appeal to adults also. Aurelia is a princess with magic powers, so they call her a witch. "A roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy thats layered with heady romance, bloodthirsty magic, and ghostly intrigue - an absolutely wicked delight." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is before publication - a unique copy with the author's notation "1st signature!!" 373 pp.

Toronto, Canada: Robot Binaries & Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Fast paced techno-thriller, the first novel by an MIT-trained engineer who works in artificial intelligence (the supermarket self-checkout machines are based on his work) IINSCRIBED by the author on a blank prelim "To.... Enjoy the book!" Includes a publicity sheet at the front, and at the end of the book a glossary of foreign and technical terms, reader's guide, bibliography, and more. Cover and illustratrations by Kathy Harestad.408 pp plus an author's note, interview with the author.

Toronto, Canada: Robot Binaries & Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Fast paced techno-thriller, the first novel by an MIT-trained engineer who works in artificial intelligence (the supermarket self-checkout machines are based on his work) SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim with the words "Enjoy the book!" Includes a publicity sheet at the front, and at the end of the book a glossary of foreign and technical terms, reader's guide, bibliography, and more. Cover and illustratrations by Kathy Harestad.408 pp plus an author's note, interview with the author.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2004 - that is, before publication. Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. First edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.

New York: Henry Holt, (2012.). First edition - The author's first novel: "A spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent child." A surprisingly uncommon advance issue. 324 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a story about the problems which ensue when the greedy owner of a Las Vegas catering service tries to muscle in on a small family owned business in Hawaii. David Liss called this "an addictive and engaging page turner that is both hilarious and unexpectedly touching." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 320 pp.

New York: Black Cat - Grove / Atlantic, (2013). First edition - Satirical novel issued as a trade paperback original - a "super-fun, super-wild and sneakily thoughtful take on American literary and entertainment excesses." 276 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. 290 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1994.). First edition - Second suspense novel by this former officer in the British Special Forces, a thriller involving the counterfeiting, and Israeli and Soviet espionage. 373 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition - The author's first book, basis for the movie of the same name starring Bill Paxton, and Billy Bob Thornton. A young man living an ordinary life, accountant, married with a starter house in suburbia, stumbles upon a crashed plane with 4 million dollars in cash, and he makes what seems like a harmless decision. 329 pp.