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MOTHER NATURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Geologist Em Hansen investigates a murder in Sonoma County, California. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-312-155913.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20203More details Price: $30.00 -
MOTHER NATURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Geologist Em Hansen investigates a murder in Sonoma County, California. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-312-155913.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 65626More details Price: $35.00 -
MOTHER NATURE
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Geologist Em Hansen investigates a murder in Sonoma County, California. ISBN: 0-312-155913.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20202More details Price: $18.50 -
A DARKER JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel featuring Mary Crow, an assistant district attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, who is half Cherokee. She is called away from a friend's wedding to be told that her mentor and friend, Judge Irene Hannah, in North Carolina, may be the next target of a vicious killer who is murdering federal judges, and while Hannah refuses help from the FBI, she does agree to let Crow stay with her. Otto Penzler commented "While I was a great fan of her first book, Bissell has written a second that is even better." SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-553801317.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79891More details Price: $28.50 -
ELECTRIC BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Second mystery featuring Jane Kelly "thirtysomething ex-bartender & current process server, [who] is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, a private investigator, & on the road to becoming a PI herself." Set in Oregon, where the author lives. 331 pp. Round promotional blotter laid in. ISBN: 0-75820907X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 36008More details Price: $25.00 -
AFTER THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring Kate Burkholder, chief of police in the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio where the Amish and the "English" have lived side by side for two centuries. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-12500615601.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 67124More details Price: $18.00 -
DOWN A DARK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery featuring Kate Burkholder, chief of police in the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio where the Amish and the "English" have lived side by side for two centuries. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1250121288.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77076More details Price: $18.00 -
FALLEN: A Kate Burkholder Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021). First edition - Mystery featuring Kate Burkholder, chief of police in the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio where the Amish and the "English" have lived side by side for two centuries.When a young woman is found murdered, Kate recognizes her as a troubled young Amish girl who left the fold, and fled Painters Mill, years ago. Publisher's material laid in. 310 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 88087More details Price: $20.00 -
POINT OF ORIGIN.
Edition: 1st printing.
New York: Putnam, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta. 356 pp,. ISBN: 0-399-143947.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51771More details Price: $12.50 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59690More details Price: $12.50 -
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33735.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55124More details Price: $15.00 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (bookstore stamp and black line on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 54869More details Price: $12.50 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51299More details Price: $18.00 -
NOT EXACTLY A BRAHMIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Jill Smith, a "junk-food loving, smart and tough Berkeley cop." SIGNED on the title page. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-312-579470.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some wear to the dj at the ends of the spine.
Book ID: 41110More details Price: $30.00 -
WHO KILLED MARILYN MONROE?
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, inroducing PI Grace Smith, and a very enjoyable one - it is not giving too much away to say that Marilyn Monroe is a donkey! SIGNED on the title page. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-752811541.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 65761More details Price: $45.00 -
MURDER BY TRADITION.
Edition: First printing.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield mystery. Lambda Award sticker on front cover. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-894.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to rear fold of dj)
Book ID: 58938More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER BY TRADITION.
Edition: First printing.
Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield mystery. Lambda Award sticker on front cover. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-894.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 64173More details Price: $19.50 -
"I" IS FOR INNOCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ninth in the popular Kinsey Millhone mystery series. SIGNED by Grafton on the title page 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-10858.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59769More details Price: $31.50 -
"I" IS FOR INNOCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ninth in the popular Kinsey Millhone mystery series, set in southern California. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-10858.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 51309More details Price: $30.00 -
"I" IS FOR INNOCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ninth in the popular Kinsey Millhone mystery series, set in southern California. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-10858.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ( name.)
Book ID: 36131More details Price: $27.50 -
WATCH ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1995). First edition - Author's first suspense novel, introducing FBI Special Agent Jay Fletcher.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 52998More details Price: $15.00 -
HAND OF EVIL: A Novel of Suspense.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, (2007,). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in the Southwest and featuring forty+ year-old former newscaster Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50993More details Price: $25.00 -
HAND OF EVIL: A Novel of Suspense.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, (2007,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in the Southwest and featuring forty+ year-old former newscaster Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 9781416537533.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72475More details Price: $25.00 -
TRIAL BY FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, (2009,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Arizona, featuring forty+ year-old former newscaster Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 978-1416563808.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57759More details Price: $28.50 -
BLOWBACK: An Ali Reynolds Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, (2016,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Arizona, featuring the former newscaster Ali Reynolds in a case involving her own family - her parents retirement savings have disappeared in an apparent Ponzi scheme recommended by their friend and trusted financial advisor - When her father visits Bob's house to confront him, he stumbles upon a double homicide and finds himself the chief suspect. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1501110726.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (crease on front endpaper).
Book ID: 75000More details Price: $28.50 -
WEB OF EVIL: A Novel of Suspense.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, (2007,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery set in the Southwest and featuring forty+ year-old former newscaster Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 9781416537076.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62022More details Price: $27.50 -
WILD KAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth Kat Colorado mystery, set in Sacramento, California. SIGNED by author & dated March 1994, when it was first published. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468512.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53493More details Price: $30.00 -
WILD KAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth Kat Colorado mystery, set in Sacramento, California. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468512.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53494More details Price: $16.00 -
KATWALK
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Avon, (1990.). Author's first book - the mystery that introduced Sacramento private investigator Kat Colorado. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery Novel. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-380-711877.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 45490More details Price: $11.50 -
KATWALK
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the mystery that introduced Sacramento PI Kat Colorado. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery Novel. SIGNED on title page and dated in the year of publication. As the series grows, Kijeski continues to become more popular, and copies of the earlier books, which were printed in relatively small quantities become harder to find. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029691.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81110More details Price: $125.00
