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THE VERY BAD THING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Boston private investigator Dred Balcazar, who is hired by a software company to discover who planted the computer virus that is eating up their system, only to have his own computer stolen - and his beautiful dinner date vanish. Review copy with slip laid in. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-670823759.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 89965More details Price: $18.50 -
LAST TO DIE: Rizzoli and Isles.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Boston featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli. - for the second time in his short life, a young boy has been the only survivor of a massacre. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0345515636.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88045More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MEPHISTO CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Boston - on Beacon Hill - and featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-345-476999.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88044More details Price: $28.50 -
PRAYERS FOR RAIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1999.). First edition - The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. One of the strongest and the best of the new series out there. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-688-15333x.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 82509More details Price: $25.00 -
SHUTTER ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An offbeat novel of suspense from this very good writer - this one is set in 1954, partly on the islands in Boston Harbor - and is a story with a unique mingling of fact and fantasy. Basis for the coming movie of the same name. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-688-163173.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. While this was not a small first edition, it quickly into later printings.
Book ID: 82501More details Price: $21.50 -
PRAYERS FOR RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. One of the strongest and the best of the new series out there. ISBN: 0-688-15333x.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 82498More details Price: $20.00 -
INVASION OF PRIVACY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 11th novel in the mystery series featuring Boston PI John Cuddy. A highly recommended series: 'consistently outstanding' and 'terrific' are just two of the terms reviewers use to describe this series. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-671-898760.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82492More details Price: $16.50 -
WHERE THE LAND AND WATER MEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story told by Felix "Lefty" Murray, the younger son in an Irish-American family in the greater Boston area, and focusing on his 16th year, the summer before America entered World War II. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034462.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80170More details Price: $20.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $24.50 -
THE OTHER WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Boston and featuring reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan. SIGNED on the title page. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-0765332578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to top edge)
Book ID: 78899More details Price: $28.50 -
SHUTTER ISLAND.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Limited edition of this offbeat novel of suspense from this very good writer - this one is set in 1954, partly on the islands in Boston Harbor - and is a story with a unique mingling of fact and fantasy. #36 of 95 copies SIGNED by Lehane on a special limitation page. Appreciation by Ian Rankin.. Bound in marbled boards, with navy blue quarter leather spine, gold lettering on spine, top edge tinted blue. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-688-163173.
Condition: Fine in fine clear mylar dustjacket.
Book ID: 65638More details Price: $125.00 -
SO LIKE SLEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Boston private eye John Francis Cuddy - a series which seems to improve with each book. SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0156937.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77412More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel introducing Boston attorney Brady Coyne, who has a reputation for discretion and so he is asked to investigate a death caused by a fall from a cliff top - a possible suicide or was it murder? Winner of the Scribner Crime Novel Award. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180561.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 77133More details Price: $65.00 -
LOYALTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Boston, this is the author's first novel, introducing private investigator Fina Ludlow, the black sheep of a dysfunctional family of attorneys, who is retained by her family's firm as an investigator after she drops out of law school. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Shamus award. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162121.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76989More details Price: $35.00 -
DIE AGAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2014.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Botswana, where all except one member of a wilderness safari are murdered and in Boston, where a big game hunter and taxidermist is found gutted and hung. Features medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0345543851.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75208More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in the award winning detective series featuring private investigator John Cuddy, set in Boston. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-671-009532.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74974More details Price: $16.50 -
EARLY AUTUMN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sevnth Spenser nove, set in Boston and Maine. Winner of the Maltese Falcon Award, for hardboiled mysteries. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-440-022487.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74429More details Price: $50.00 -
A TROUBLE OF FOOLS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning first book in the mystery series featuring 6 foot 1, ex-cop, part-time Boston cab driver and new private investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. INSCRIBED on the title page. "for -- with best regards from Carlotta and me" 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312-011008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74406More details Price: $50.00 -
THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book in the award winning detective series featuring private investigator John Cuddy, set in Boston. SIGNED by author on title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-671-009532.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74060More details Price: $28.50 -
HACKED.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The fourth Tucker mystery, set in the Boston area. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 978-0738751108.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72169More details Price: $18.50 -
DEFENDING BILLY RYAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Boston featuring the down-and-out attorney Jerry Kennedy. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16775.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 71392More details Price: $17.50 -
ACT OF GOD
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1994.. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth book in the award winning detective series featuring private investigator John Cuddy, set in Boston. SIGNED by author on title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-795589.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70960More details Price: $28.50 -
PAINT IT BLACK: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029624.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (short tear, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 70534More details Price: $15.00 -
DEAD ON YOUR FEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Stan Kraychik, a gay Boston detective as well as a sassy Newbery Street hairdresser. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312097816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 70385More details Price: $15.00 -
DEEP POCKETS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-282710.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 69872More details Price: $14.50 -
RISK FACTOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller set in Boston - the second novel by this author who is a practising psychiatrist. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209207.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68377More details Price: $25.00 -
WHERE THE LAND AND WATER MEET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story told by Felix "Lefty" Murray, the younger son in an Irish-American family in the greater Boston area, and focusing on his 16th year, the summer before America entered World War II. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034462.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (corner of one page creased, some toning to the back cover and interior of the dust jacket).
Book ID: 67919More details Price: $18.00 -
JESSICA FAYER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In her last hours of life, after being beaten and robbed on Beacon Hill, Jessica Fayer relives her 76 years. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and his wife and dated at Stanford in 1994. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-025716506.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67009More details Price: $25.00 -
FACE VALUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Heinemann, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel (sixth book) - "When Jasper Whiting, a successful plastic surgeon, leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End, he does not imagine how his life and what he has lived for will be transformed by his relations with the people he meets in that unpromising setting. . . when the physically handicapped of the city begin to band together under a charismatic leader who means to make a revolution with these "wretched of the earth," Jasper too is forced to declare himself - a novel at once comic, troubling, and passionate." 346 pp. ISBN: 0-434075523.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66950More details Price: $20.00 -
THE KEEPSAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Boston, featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0345497628.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65748More details Price: $28.50
