San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page by the author. California writer's highly praised first novel,set in the early 1960s in Southern California - one review called it a 'brilliant debut with this startlingly idiosyncratic, intelligent, funny and painfully moving novel.' 329 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-3560.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - California writer's highly praised first novel,set in the early 1960s in Southern California - one review called it a 'brilliant debut with this startlingly idiosyncratic, intelligent, funny and painfully moving novel.' 329 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-3560.

New York: Pantheon, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, set in Berkeley against "a backdrop of California's signature disasters - earthquakes, floods, urban wildfire." Cover praise from such diverse writers as James Salter, Anne Lamott and Wendell Berry and others. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670424830.

New York: Dutton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel set in San Francisco's Mission District, a study of the mix of race and culture in the US and also a gripping murder mystery. 343 pp,. ISBN: 0-525-940774.

New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second book, an 'extravagantly sensual novel' about discovering and rediscovering love and friendship, set in a small California town. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938907.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page and dated 2003."The story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles." 327 pp. ISBN: 0-78671106X.

New York: Berkley, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-425-196356.

New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 6th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. In a reversal of the usual case, this book club edition is slightly larger than the trade edition. ISBN: 0-425-202844.

New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-425-202844.

New York: Berkley, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 5th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-425-196356.

New York: Harper & Row, (1985). dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery featuring private eye Hector Gronig, set in San Francisco. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015408x.

New York: Harper & Row, (1985). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery featuring private eye Hector Gronig, set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED on the half title page - "for my buddy --- the rose of Marin." 218 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015408x.

San Francisco: Yolla Bolla Press Book - Sierra Club Books, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Environmental writer's first work of fiction - a mystery "thriller with an ecological twist. George Kilgore a forester living quietly in the foothills of California's rugged Klamath Mountains stumbles into a deadly web of intrigue when he discovers the body of a murdered biologist friend." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-8195.

San Francisco: Yolla Bolla Press Book - Sierra Club Books, (1985.). First edition - Environmental writer's first work of fiction - a mystery "thriller with an ecological twist. George Kilgore a forester living quietly in the foothills of California's rugged Klamath Mountains stumbles into a deadly web of intrigue when he discovers the body of a murdered biologist friend." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-7105.

New York: St Martin's, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, set in Oakland where a young girl and a friend are picked up in a stolen car - the same car from which a shot had been fired, killing a man who "was not a nice man." Three detectives from the Oakland police force are determined to get to the bottom of his life, just in case Tricia really was as innocent as she claimed to be. ISBN: 0-312123329.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in Newport Beach - a world of yachts, millionaires, plastic surgery and bikini-basking - on California's gold coast in Orange County, and featuring ex-cop Winnie Farlow. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-688-094082.

New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Humorous crime novel focusing on the adventures and misadventures of two "water cops" who man a Harbor Patrol boat in San Diego's Mission Bay. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-553-103512.

New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another humorous crime novel, set in San Diego, featuring an unlikely trio of investigators who set out to "make sense of twisted schemes and murderous intentions involving environmental crime and US Navy property." SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-688-128017.

New York: Morrow, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Crime novel set in the California desert, in a town which is a 'sand-blown, down-scale outpost' of Palm Springs, featuring Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sydney Blackpool. SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-688-05958-9.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Suspense novel set in Newport Beach - a world of yachts, millionaires, plastic surgery and bikini-basking - on California's gold coast in Orange County, and featuring ex-cop Winnie Farlow. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-688-094082.

New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another humorous crime novel, set in San Diego, featuring an unlikely trio of investigators who set out to "make sense of twisted schemes and murderous intentions involving environmental crime and US Navy property." SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. Wambaugh's book mark laid in. ISBN: 0-688-128017.

New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A noir thriller by the former writer for 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Miami Vice.' Set in Southern California, where daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker finds himself with a chance to get inside a drug smuggling empire. Cover praise from authors James Crumley, Stephen Hunter among others. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-671-882651.

New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir thriller by the former writer for 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Miami Vice.' Set in Southern California, where daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker finds himself with a chance to get inside a drug smuggling empire. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from authors James Crumley, Stephen Hunter among others. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-671-882651.

New York: Bantam, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - Mystery set in a small town in the California Gold Country (where we are located!) INSCRIBED on the title page. 275 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-553-575872.

Boonsboro, MD: Hilliard Harris, (2007). SIGNED - Seventh book in this award winning series featuring Connor Westphal, set in California's gold rush country where Connor runs a weekly newspaper. Josh, a deaf activist, has proposed creating a self-sufficient deaf community in an old ghost town, and getting many of the future residents jobs at the controversial local casino. INSCRIBED on the first page. 181 pp. ISBN: 978-1591332091.

New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Third book in this award winning series featuring deaf journalist and amateur sleuth, Connor Westphal, set in California's gold rush country where Connor runs a weekly newspaper. SIGNED on the title page. 267 pp. ISBN: 1-568659881.

Misterio Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - "Bound by magic, bound by love, bound by murder... The Bonheim triplets live seemingly ordinary lives, hiding their magic from their neighbors in the small, mountain town of Doyle, California." But when a body is found in Jayce's coffee shop, and the sheriff with a grudge, no-nonsense Karin must prove her sister innocent. The first book in the Doyle Witch trilogy, each will be told from a different sisters point of view. SIGNED on the title page. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-1944767167.

1stBooks, (2001.). SIGNED - Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by this Northern California author. A novel of romance and suspense, involving Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-759604894.

New York: Doubleday, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romance and suspense set against the backdrop of Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula. "Although Jody Hammond and his mother Ruth have survived a terrible fall off the ocean cliffs at Carmel, Calif., Jody can't speak or recognize anyone. Meanwhile, Kelsey Stewart, struggling to forget the death of her own small son, has arrived in Carmel to stay with her aunt, the owner of a local inn. A therapist for brain-damaged children, Kelsey offers to help Jody, but her efforts seem blocked by mysterious forces. Visiting Flaming Tree ranch where a Hammond friend was murdered, she unravels the shocking story that has kept Jody silent." (Publishers Weekly) 278 pp. ISBN: 0-385230958.

New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.