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CHASING DARKNESS.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2009.). An Elvis Cole novel, set in Los Angeles, California. 391 pp.. ISBN: 978-0743281645.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 47384More details Price: $10.00 -
GLORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, featuring ex-cop John Deacon and Laura Scott on the trail of a serial killer. 358 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-525246681.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69811More details Price: $18.50 -
ROADSIDE CROSSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third in his High Tech Thriller trilogy, set on California's Monterey Peninsula. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 9781416549994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61112More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SLEEPING DOLL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first thriller featuring Kathryn Dance, a kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation, set in the Monterey area. SIGNED on the title page. 428 pp. ISBN: 9780-743260947.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 62285More details Price: $30.00 -
STONE BABY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
London: Harper Collins, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a very dark psychological thriller, set in the world of alternative comedy, which Joolz, as a spoken word artist, knows well. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best wishes." Winner of the Crime Writers Association New Writers Award. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-002261030.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 80350More details Price: $30.00 -
PROVIDENCE RAG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Inspired by a true story. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62156More details Price: $35.00 -
CLIFF WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72696More details Price: $27.50 -
CLIFF WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear at fold of dj flap)
Book ID: 64113More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller which probes the ruinous effects of suspicion. One by one, three young girls vanish in a small upstate New York town, and first strangers are mistrusted, then neighbors and with the third disappearance, panic erupts. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-51031.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81083More details Price: $35.00 -
THE NEXT KILLING.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Kensington Publishing Corp. (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's second thriller. "For one hundred years, the best girls have come to St. Ursula's Prepatory Academy to learn, to achieve . . . When the first body is found, the police call it an accident - an initiation ritual gone terribly wrong. But the students know something isn't right at St. Ursula's." SIGNED on the title page. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0739488935.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77527More details Price: $21.50 -
NEVER END.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award-winning Swedish author to appear in English. Chief Inspector Eric Winter, now a father at 41, and his team search for a serial killer of young women as the coastal city of Gothenburg bakes in an unprecedented heat wave. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-670037664.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (year '2000' on front endpaper)
Book ID: 88251More details Price: $20.00 -
COLD COLD HEART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-385313292.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37965More details Price: $12.50 -
COLD COLD HEART.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1994.). First edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated black wrappers (scratch to back cover.)
Book ID: 37429More details Price: $18.00 -
COLD COLD HEART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-385313292.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37428More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD ON THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third suspense novel by this master of the noir, one which pits a Los Angeles police sergeant against a serial killer who has gone undetected for 20 years. INSCRIBED on the title page . 262 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-0698.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some foxing to the top of the textblock)
Book ID: 65902More details Price: $55.00 -
THE TUNNELS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
MIRA, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Her debut thriller introducing FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones. . "an old abandoned tunnel system beneath a presitigious New England college becomes the gruesome stalking grounds of a serial killer." SIGNED on the title page with the word "best" Promotional book-mark laid in. 299 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-0778324461.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 64022More details Price: $15.00 -
KILLING ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A novel described as a "laugh-loud-loud thriller with a protagonist - Amber Jamison - whose life is a total mess. She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird." Naomi Hirahara called it "a perfect combination of horror, laughter, and sisterhood." SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89983More details Price: $35.00 -
THE DARK CORNERS OF THE NIGHT: An UNSUB Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ashland OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A thriller by this Edgar award-winning author, set in Los Angeles and featuring FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix, who is tracking down a serial killer known as Midnight Man - who comes in the darkness, kills the parents, but leaves the childdren as witnesses to the horror. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp plus epilogue.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78739More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GIFT OF DARKNESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Quercus, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller introducing Seattle homicide Dectective Alice Madison. SIGNED on the title page. 483 pp. ISBN: 9781623658489.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62869More details Price: $35.00 -
UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth thriller, set in Seattle, where the wife of a successful young lawyer has disappeared after dropping off their 6 year old daughter at school. The Seattle police propose two possiblities - that she is either dead or the accomplice of a serial killer. A story of success and betrayal and a look at the darker side of humanity. SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-060192402.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82697More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MAN WITH NO TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Simeon Grist novel, set in the Asian underworld of Los Angeles where a good friend's two young children have become the target of a Chinatown kidnapping - Warmly INSCRIBED on the dedication page. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-688-103448.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63584More details Price: $40.00 -
INCINERATOR: Simeon Grist Mystery.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Avon, (1993). The fourth novel featuring Simeon Grist, professor turned private investigartorl, set in Los Angeles -he goes up against a serial killer who murders the homeless with gasoline and matches.. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-380713705.
Condition: Very near fine (no creasing to spine)
Book ID: 89819More details Price: $9.00 -
INCINERATOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Simeon Grist, professor turned private investigartorl, set in Los Angeles -he goes up against a serial killer who murdered the homeless with gasoline and matches. SIGNED on the title page. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-688-10343x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63546More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD GAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth thriller, feauturing NYPD detective Ben Tolliver. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151004.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to lower corner of dj.)
Book ID: 52263More details Price: $14.00 -
DEAR HANNAH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of suspense by this attorney and writer who was nominated for a Pulitzer for his non-fiction work "Missing." "Detective Richard Marritt finally saw a pattern emerge from a series of killings in New York that pointed to a ruthless serial killer out there somewhere. He found no forced entries, no signs of stru ggle, and no clues." 254 pp. ISBN: 0-312-930054.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44439More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STALKING OF SHEILAH QUINN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone legal thriller. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186673.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on spine of dj.)
Book ID: 60129More details Price: $25.00 -
A QUESTION OF IDENTITY: A Simon Serailler Mystery.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Overlook Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in this highly praised series of complex psychological thrillers, set in a small cathedral town and featuring British police detective, Simon Serrailler, one which takes you inside the mind of a serial killer. Ruth Rendell commented that "not all great novelists can write crime fiction, but when one like Susan Hill does it, the result is stunning." 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1468300505.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 89910More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. First edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about a serial killer known as the Snowman, who, in the 1970s, was stalking the streets of suburban Detroit. 324 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed gray wrappers (an unread copy, but the lower corner is slightly bumped)
Book ID: 62782More details Price: $20.00 -
RETRIBUTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Former Miami Assistant District Attorney Jilliane Hoffman' s first novel, the suspenseful story of a serial killer who targets a woman district attorney who had been - back when she was a law student - a rape victim. Nominated for the Anthony Award. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-399151273.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 37608More details Price: $20.00 -
ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover - The author's second novel, a thriller about "a serial killer whose fastidiously ritualized pattern of abducting young boys is thrown off track when he mistakenly kidnaps a nine-year-old girl." 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-831708.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58721More details Price: $13.50