Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller involving the events leading up to the launch of an experimental -and potentially dangerous - space probe, a drama of human beings under stress in a situation where there is no room for error. 234 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First mystery novel by this award-winning food writer, "a tempting tale of mousse, mayhem, and murder: a tautly woven insider's look at the food and newspaper worlds." INSCRIBED on title page. Recipe. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-060183705.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "corruption, treachery and sexual tension." 408 pp. ISBN: 978-1455581207.

By the author, (2023). SIGNED first edition - Librarian and avid mystery reader has returned to the Newfound Lake area of New Hampshire - when a body is pulled from the lake, she becomes involved in helping to solve the mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 89 pp plus recipe. ISBN: 979-8397696074.

New York: Grove Atlantic, (2018). Thriller introducing Dan Chase - "a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers donÕt have multiple driverÕs licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run." While this has been described as a stand-alone novel, I would like to see Chase return. The excellent television series was based on this novel. 337 pp. plus an excerpt from "The Bomb Maker.". ISBN: 978-0802127532.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel from Turow's usual ones - a son delving into his father's papers discovers a mystery about the events he was involved in during World War II - including a court martial and imprisonment, as well as the fact that he rescued the woman who became his wife from a concentration camp. Cover praise from Alan Furst. Note on sources. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-374-184216.

New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, (2007). Frank Machianno is a late middle-aged ex-surf bum who now runs a bait shop on the San Diego waterfront - and a retired hit man known back in the day as Frankie Machine. Winner of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Society Thriller Award Best Hard Boiled Novel and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Mystery Thriller. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0307277664.

New York: Dell Magazine, 1998. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Jan Burke at her story, 'A Fine Set of Teeth' described as the only 'Irene' short story. Also includes contributions from Joseph Hansen, Gary Alexander, a mystery classic 'Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early?' by John Collier and more.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The fourth novel by Tony Hillerman's daughter - one which continues his series of mysteries featuring now retired Navajo inspector Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee and adds Officer Bernadette Manuelito. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0062391926.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by Tony Hillerman's daughter - one which continues his series of mysteries featuring now retired Navajo inspector Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee and adds Officer Bernadette Manuelito. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0062391926.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2012.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Jane Whitefield novel. 274 pp. ISBN: 9780802126054.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire series, basis for the A&E series Longmire. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0670026463.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prequel to the Cork O'Connor stories, set in Minnesota near the Boundary Waters. It is 1963 and Cork is 12 years old when he and a friend happen on the body hanging from a tree near the deserted logging camp of Lightning Strike. A story of a young boy on the verge of manhood, just beginning to understand his father, the sheriff of the town of Aurora, and the conflicts between the Anglos, and the Ojibwe and his own role as part of both cultures. 385 pp. ISBN: 978-1982128685.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Butcher's Boy novel, one which goes back in time between his childhood spent apprenticed to Eddie, a seasoned hit man, his own year's as a hit man, and now, despite being retired in England, with his own life threatened by a new younger wave of contract killers. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-080157775.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller involving "one of the greatest archeological mysteries from the bible - Noahs Ark. When archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noahs Ark - the artifact her father had long been searching for - and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke - a man shes never heard of." SIGNED on the title page. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-1439181799.

Carlsbad, CA: Cinema Star Books, (1997). SIGNED - The first book in a new crime series which introduces Mike Redden, "fortyish, Vietnam Veteran, his father a prominent and respected judge, who has just been released from a California state prison. His sister, a movie actress, has been murdered. Mike vows revenge, but finds himself thrown into conflict with the LAPD detective who was responsible for sending him to prison. Mike is also on parole, but an attempt on his life draws him into a vortex of events characterized by Colombian drug smuggling, multiple murders, sex," and more. SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-966216504.

New York: Birch Lane Press, (1990). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of author's first novel, a psychological thriller. A psychiatrists obsession with a beautiful, wealthy woman, who "claims she can kill with psychic powers, and has confessed to a murder, leads him to question his most basic beliefs." 263 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2024) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. "A brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrates his attention. Gradually, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption." SIGNED on a special preliminary page. Map endpapers. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0802162540.

New York: Kensington, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hannah Swenson mystery with recipes. Set at Christmas time in rural Minnesota where the author grew up. SIGNED on the title page. Includes over 50 original recipes with an index to the recipes. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-75820681x.

London: W.H. Allen, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel originally published in 1956, the third mystery novel by this prolific author and playwright (perhaps best remembered now for his gardening books). His eccentric private investigator, Horatio Green, who becomes involved in solving the murder of a woman on the pier of an English seaside amusement park. Includes an introduction by the author. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-491017839.

New York: Dutton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by the creator of the BBC spy drama "Spooks" - a story of spycraft gone very wrong. Two operatives who become friends when they are accidentally assigned to the same undercover operation, both wanting to leave the Agency, are transformed into lethal enemies when they receive their final mission before retiring from the Agency - the assassination of each other. Alternating between trusting and distrusting each other, they embark on a chase across Europe and North America as they attempt to discover why their bosses want them dead. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-525947949.

Gainsville, FL: Center for Applications of Psychological Type, (1998). A murder mystery set in a dismal old mansion on the Baltimore Pike which won a national Detective Murder Mystery Contest in 1929 (beating out a young Ellory Queen) and originally published in 1930. The author was later the co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-935652221.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2007). First edition - The third novel in the Sheriff Ike Schwartz Series set in Picketsville, a small town in Virgina's Blue Ridge Mountains. It opens with Deputy Whaite Billingsley finding a corpse bearing the ID of Randall Harris, a member of one of the meanest families in the backwoods locale of Buffalo Mountain. But Schwartz, a former CIA agent, recognizes the body as that of ex-KGB spy Alexei Kamarov. 257 pp.

Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Former Atlanta news photographer's second novel, featuring Bill Schiller an ex-CIA agent with a scheme to make millions in retirement and a cast of offbeat characters all looking for revenge and the last big score. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 1-563526220.