New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover - Hawaiian author's 4th novel, this one set in New York City. Erotic, controversial and quite gripping. States 'first edition' but no price on dj. ISBN: 0-679-422587.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hawaiian author's 4th novel, this one set in New York City - a 'stunning erotic thriller', controversial and quite gripping. Basis for the movie of the same name. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-679-422587.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hawaiian author's 4th novel, this one set in New York City - a 'stunning erotic thriller', controversial and quite gripping. Basis for the movie of the same name. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-679-422587.

New York: Pocket Books, (2001.). SIGNED - Novel of pychological suspense, involving a deviant killer, a psychiatrist he abducts and the FBI agent on their trail. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-671-757454.

New York: Cannongate, (2005.). First edition - Gripping first novel - the story of a young man's search for his mother who abandoned him when he was 3 - winner of the Ellis Award for best first novel when it was originally published in Canada in 2002.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the late 1970s, in the affluent suburbs of Detroit, this novel of a serial killer known as 'Babysitter' is a "scathing indictment of corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and the enabling of sexual predation in America." 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0593535172.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1994). Hardcover first edition - "A murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a rearing grizzly bear, and a black-and-white painted Indian who offers bones in his extended hands come at a time when dismembered pieces of a young woman are washing ashore in 1993. The dreams become increasingly urgent as the murders become more frequent, and Coles family and friends gather to help." Volume 10 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-806126647.

New York: Putnam, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Boston private investigator Sunny Randall. 291 pp. ISBN: 9780399154256.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. First edition - Fictionalized account of the hunt for the "Japanese Bluebeard," a serial killer responsible for the deaths of 10 women in 1946, the first year after the surrender of Japan. A vivid picture of the corruption and confusion in post-World War II, bombed-out, American-occupied Tokyo. Introduces Detective Minami. Author's note, glossary, sources. 355 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring Florida true-crime reporter Marie Lightfoot. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-671-887955.

New York: Ecco Press, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel by this award winning writer described as "a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change. In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as 'these women.' These women on the corner ... These women in the club ... These women who won't stop asking questions ... These women who got what they deserved ... " A story of five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish, connected by death. SIGNED on the half title page. 334 pp. Uncommon signed. ISBN: 978-0062656384.

Frederick, MD; Hilliard Harris Publishers, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel. When the body of a young woman is found in a lobster trap off the coast of Maine, former criminal profiler Gena Hollender is called back to assist in the search for a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. 300 pp. ISBN: 1-591330130.

New York: The Viking Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this antiquarian bookseller - a story of a pathological killer at large in a small Scottish community. 286 pp.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1969). Hardcover first edition - A novel of obsession which leads to the death of two teenage girls, whose bodies are unearthed near a remote and lonely house on the Scottish moor. Features Inspector McCaig. 236 pp.

By the author, (2018). The first thriller in the series featuring Detective Arla Baker. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1719895149.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring a 'not your usual serial killer,' set in a small Florida town. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-312-352441.

New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Philadelphia police detective Patrick Paige, who is on the trail of a psychopathic serial killer. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248749.

Boston: Little Brown, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, set in New York City. Successful "suspense novelist Jillian Talbot finds her idyllic life in Greenwich Village shattered by the increasing attentions of a stalker, who grows more deadly as Valentine's Day approaches." SIGNED on the title page with the words "Happy Valentine's Day." 328 pp. ISBN: 0-316771643.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, a gritty story of a LAPD Homicide detective who suspects that a series of murders are the work of a vicious and sadistic sexual predator. INSCRIBED on the title page. Cover praise from T. Jefferson Parker who calls it "A terrific police thriller. ItÕs fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words." Nominated for the 2010 Thriller Award for best first novel. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-22943.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring LAPD detective Brenden Harlow, one of the few women in the elite Metro Division. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814315.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.