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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 -
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. INSCRIBED on the title page. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-0765332578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Promotional bookmark and business card laid in.
Book ID: 65652More details Price: $30.00 -
GONE, BABY, GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. This one involves the kidnapping of a 4 year old girl from her 'drug-addled' mother. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication.. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-688-153321.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 65616More details Price: $35.00 -
PRAYERS FOR RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1999.) dj. SIGNED 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. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication - 6/10/99. 337 pp. . ISBN: 0-688-15333x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 65556More details Price: $35.00 -
DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery introducing private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. INSCRIBED on the title page "--- warmest regards" 336 pp. ISBN: 0-688-143806.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 65555More details Price: $50.00 -
GONE, BABY, GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. This one involves the kidnapping of a 4 year old girl from her 'drug-addled' mother. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-688-153321.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64618More details Price: $35.00 -
MOONLIGHT MILE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring not-quite-so-tough anymore Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his partner Angie Gennaro (now his wife and the mother of their 3 year old daughter) and sometimes sidekick Bubba. SIGNED by the author on a page stating that this has been specially bound and produced by the publisher. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0061836923.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62542More details Price: $30.00 -
HAMMURABI'S CODE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery, set in Boston - Robert B. Parker called it "intelligent, exciting and a great read." 303 pp. ISBN: 0-671-896970.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60544More details Price: $19.50 -
RIGHT TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th John Francis Cuddy mystery - set against the background of the Boston Marathon. SIGNED by author on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-671-708090.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to the spine of the dust jacket).
Book ID: 60031More details Price: $25.00 -
BEACON STREET MOURNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th Fremont Jones mystery, set in 1909 San Francisco and Boston. In this book, Jones, still recovering from her badly broken legs, travels to Boston to be with her dying father. INSCRIBED on the title page. Author's note. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59681More details Price: $30.00 -
MIRACLE CURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller from an author who knows this world from the inside. In addition to being a fast moving and entertaining novel, this deals with serious medical ethical issues. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-553-10523X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57334More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BRAHMINS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel that follows the generations of one Boston family. "Explores the undaunted hearts of four women who made society's rules and went on to break them." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-44000313X.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (small hole on the spine of the dust jacket and on the cloth spine underneath.).
Book ID: 55750More details Price: $15.00 -
MOONLIGHT MILE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring not-quite-so-tough anymore Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his partner Angie Gennaro (now his wife and the mother of their 3 year old daughter) and sometimes sidekick Bubba. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0061836923.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53837More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series, set in Boston. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-026439.
Condition: Good in near fine dust jacket (crinkling to edges of some of the pages)
Book ID: 53555More details Price: $12.50 -
THE REMBRANDT PANEL
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this art historian. Introduces Amos Hatcher. An art dealer and a down-at-the-heels art runner are found murdered in a gallery on Charles Street in Boston,. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-316-080217.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52544More details Price: $35.00 -
NOW AND THEN.
Edition: Large print edition.
New York: Doubleday - Putnam, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - A Spenser novel. Map of Boston. 356 pp. ISBN: 9780739488645.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52486More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TENTMAKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, an unusual mystery introducing Episcopalian priest Lily Connor who takes over as interim pastor of a wealthy Boston church. SIGNED on a blank prelim page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14577x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52473More details Price: $30.00 -
VANISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller by this former doctor, set in Boston, and featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli. Stephen King called her books 'an automatic must-read in my house...[she is] even better than Crichton.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Nero Award. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-345-476972.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51323More details Price: $28.50 -
THE DANTE CLUB.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House, (2004). The author's first novel, both a wonderful historical mystery and a paean to Dante. In Boston in 1865 a series of murders occur, inspired by scenes in Dante's inferno, and it is up to a group of Dante scholars - led by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - to solve the mystery. Historical note. Includes a Reader's Guide. 380 pp. ISBN: 0-8129-71043.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 51025More details Price: $11.50 -
A VOID IN HEARTS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - The seventh mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - Coyne finds himself trying to unravel the story behind the hit-and-run death of a private eye. 185 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47013More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BABYSITTER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - The author's second novel, a horrifying tale of a couple who come home and discover the babysitter bludgeoned to death and their child missing. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-393-011895.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 46904More details Price: $12.50 -
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: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 46224More details Price: $25.00 -
YESTERDAY'S NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth John Francis Cuddy mystery, set in the Boston area. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN: 0-06-0159227.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46223More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUNT DARTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Authors first book, introducing Boston dectective John Francis Cuddy, who is hired to find the missing son of a noted Massachusetts judge. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55704.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 46222More details Price: $175.00 -
BLUNT DARTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Authors first book, introducing Boston dectective John Francis Cuddy, who is hired to find the missing son of a noted Massachusetts judge. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55704.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 46213More details Price: $50.00 -
IN THE CUBE: A NOVEL OF FUTURE BOSTON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction thriller set in Boston a century from now - Boston is like no other place on earth, an enormous cube containing millions of human and cybernetic beings. It has seceded from the United States after a long and bloody war, but is slowly sinking into the ground. . 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85448X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45829More details Price: $20.00 -
ICE FOR THE ESKIMO: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Beaufort, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-8253-04032.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookseller's black line to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 45269More details Price: $14.50 -
DEAD WRONG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel involving real estate on the South Shore of Boston (the author lives in Norwell, Massachusetts.) 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-050682.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43798More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VIRGIN KNOWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Wyatt / St. Martin's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among the Italian immigrants of Boston's North End. A mystery involving stolen art, a "combination of magic realism, earthy faith and sly comedy." 309 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132034.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 43729More details Price: $15.00
