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Lindsey, David.
MERCY.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Doubleday, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A novel of psychosexual suspense." Features Carmen Palma, a homicide detective in Houston, Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 513 pp. ISBN: 0-385-24813x.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 52393

Keywords: female detective, houston, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, serial killer, texas setting

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Lindsey, David.
MERCY.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Doubleday, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel of psychosexual suspense." Features Carmen Palma, a homicide detective in Houston, Texas. viii, 513 pp. ISBN: 0-385-24813x.

Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.(stain to upper edge of textblock)

Book ID: 78244

Keywords: female detective, houston, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, serial killer, texas setting

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Locke, Attica.
BLACK WATER RISING.

Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2010.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 9780061735851.

Condition: Near fine.

Book ID: 59370

Keywords: African American Mystery, edgar nominee, first book, houston, oil industry, texas setting

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Locke, Attica.
PLEASANTVILLE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harper Collins, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller featuring Jay Porter, the lawyer who was the hero of her first novel "Black Water Rising." Fifteen years after his career-defining case against Cole Oil, Jay Porter is broke and tired. That victory might have won the environmental lawyer fame, but thanks to a string of appeals, neither he, nor the plaintiffs who live in Pleasantville, have seen a dime." Although after the death of his wife, he wants nothing more than to spend time with his children, he is persuaded to take on a murder case, only to find himself caught up in a dangerous game of shadowy politics, corruption and lies.…
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New York: Harper Collins, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller featuring Jay Porter, the lawyer who was the hero of her first novel "Black Water Rising." Fifteen years after his career-defining case against Cole Oil, Jay Porter is broke and tired. That victory might have won the environmental lawyer fame, but thanks to a string of appeals, neither he, nor the plaintiffs who live in Pleasantville, have seen a dime." Although after the death of his wife, he wants nothing more than to spend time with his children, he is persuaded to take on a murder case, only to find himself caught up in a dangerous game of shadowy politics, corruption and lies. Set in 1996 as politics is becoming dirtier than ever. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0062259400.
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Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder dot, name stamped on front endpaper)

Book ID: 89405

Keywords: African American Mystery, houston, politics, texas

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Locke, Attica.
BLACK WATER RISING.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 978006173868.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 90493

Keywords: African American Mystery, edgar nominee, first book, houston, oil industry, texas setting
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Thompson, Thomas.
HEARTS: of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters along the Cardiac Frontier .

Edition: First printing.

New York: McCall Publishing Co., (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which focuses on the pioneering heart surgeons Michael De Bakey and Denton Cooley and the transformation of Houston into the most important cardiovascular center in the world. Includes an appendix with a summary of heart transplants through 1971. Bibliography. xii, 303 pp. ISBN: 0-841501238.

Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket with creasing and tear to upper edge of back cover, creasing to dj flaps.

Book ID: 90233

Keywords: Denton Cooley, heart transplant, houston, Medicine, health and the medical profession, Michael De Bakey, texas

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Walls, Dale.
THE QUEER GIRL IS GOING TO BE OKAY.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

Levine Querido, (2023). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel of friendship and girlhood set in Houston, Texas. SIGNED on the half title page. 252 pp.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 89218

Keywords: African American Literature, arc, houston, LGBTQ, uncorrected proof, young adult

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Worth, Jim.
FINAL AUDIT.

Edition: First printing.

n.p. Mystrique Press / JW Publishing, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a story of murder, conspiracy and corruption in the energy industry, set in Houston, Texas, California and elsewhere. Introduces Detective Dave Duncan and his partner Stephanie Fox. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author and dated in 2007. Epilogue. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-976892103.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 48075

Keywords: first novel, houston, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, texas setting

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