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Laura's Staff Picks
Fleshmarket Alley by Ian Rankin
"An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But as Rebus investigates, he must deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love."
$24.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount
Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
"The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend, too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact -- a book called "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" -- which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty rirver pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past."
$5.99
Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James
"On the cliffs of the East Anglican coast sits the theological college of St. Anselm's. When the body of one of the school's young ordinands is found buried in the sand, the boy's father, an influential businessman, demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees out of a desire to revisit a place where he spent happy summers as a youth. He soon finds himself drawn into the labyrinth of a violent mystery."
$7.99
Casual Rex by Eric Garcia
"The dinosaurs are back. Actually, they never went away. They faked their extinction, evolved, and now live among us in clever disguises. Some of them have attained fairly prominent positions in society, while others are just your average working stiffs...This novel follows one of them: Vincent Rubio, velociraptor and P.I. And it's nearly impossible to describe, so let's just say that Eric Garcia roars again with this follow-up to the "awesomely funny"* Anonymous Rex."
$12.95
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
"Over the centuries, the once stern rulers of Al-Rassan have been seduced by sensuous pleasures. Now King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan--poet, diplomat, soldier--until a summer day of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the Jaddite' s most celebrated--and feared--military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, and Ammar meet. Sharing the interwoven fate of both men is Jehane, the beautiful, accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond....
In a magnificent setting, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, "The Lions of Al-Rassan" is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake--or destroy--a world."
$6.50
Lelia's Staff Picks
Pick Your Poison by Leann Sweeney
"Out of school, out of work, and out of motivation, Abby Rose is contemplating her life and wondering what to do next. It's the kind of situation that would get some girls down, but luckily Abby's got a heart the size of Texas--and a bank account to match. But when she discovers the gardener dead in her greenhouse, Abby realizes what she needs to do with herself: she needs to solve a murder..."
$5.99
Murder Makes a Pilgrimage by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
"Sister Mary Helen and her dear old friend Sister Eileen can't believe their luck when they win a free trip to Santiago, Spain. Surely the contest, held by the nervous owner of a Spanish restaurant where the nuns sometimes dine, must be rigged? Or was there a bit of intervention - divine or otherwise - that secured the two sisters places in a small tour group? Never mind. The sisters are far too excited at the thought of beautiful faraway Spain to worry unduly and decide to count their blessings instead. There's certainly an interesting group of fellow pilgrims traveling with them, including a melancholy professor and his wife, a woman clearly frantic to look ever-youthful; the arguing Bowmans, who grate on everyone's nerves; the dentist and his bouncy wife, so into aerobic exercise; and the two misfit young women, peculiar friends given that one of them is a beautiful temptress, the other a lonely, sullen lump of a girl. Unfortunately, Sister Mary Helen's luck seems to take a turn for the worst not long after she arrives in Spain. On an early morning visit to the famous cathedral in Santiago, she stumbles upon the strangled body of one of the tour group. Suddenly everyone comes under suspicion as the police start their investigation into the lurid crime. Meanwhile, Sister Mary Helen can't keep from nosing around to see if she can solve the murder. But strange - and frightening - things begin to happen to Sister Mary Helen not long after she discovers the body. Increasingly it seems that someone is stalking the intrepid nun. Does the murderer simply want to put an end to her amateur sleuthing before she solves the mystery? Either Sister Mary Helen must come up with the murderer'sidentity - and fast - or all the prayers in the world can't save her!"
$6.99
The Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Susan McBride
"Website designer and high society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps life-style hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy's donning designer duds to attend a launch party at the intolerable domestic diva's new Dallas TV studio -- and she's on hand to witness the celebration site go up in flames! Then a body turns up in the rubble, the victim, apparently, of some very foul play. Even though iron-willed Cissy isn't about to let her social calendar be upset by a little inconvenience like murder, her sometime-sleuthing daughter's got a more pressing engagement -- namely, hunting down a killer. But there are more than a few nasty messes tucked away in the Mabry closet -- and a craven assassin who has the Big D elite quaking in their cowboy boots may soon be burying Andy in hers!"
$6.99
Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
"In the remote Texas town of Inferno, a creature of evil beyond anything the world has ever encountered descends. He traps the town and ravages the land with grisly executions and horrible mutations . . . until the people rise up in a final, desperate battle."
$7.99
The Alto Wore Tweed by Mark Schweizer
"St. Germaine is a quiet little town in the mountains of North Carolina. Quiet until full-time police detective, part-time Episcopal choirmaster and aspiring whodunit novelist Hayden Konig begins his opus amidst murder and hilarious mayhem at St. Barnabas Church. 'It's like Mitford meets Jurassic Park, only without the wisteria and the dinosaurs'."---St. James Music Press
$12.95
Andrew's Staff Picks
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
"Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head."
$13.00
Endless Night by Richard Laymon
"Sixteen-year-old Jody and her best friend's 12-year-old brother Andy are the only two survivors when a gang of killers breaks into Andy's house and slaughters everyone. Now one of the killers is out to eliminate the only living witnesses."
$7.99
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
"When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined he not be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch -- until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before in his turbulent career. As the investigation races to a shocking conclusion, it leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision...."
$7.99
Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman
"A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides.
To some, Eldon Mate was evil personified. Others saw the former physician as a saint. But one thing was clear: Dr. Death had snuffed out the lives of dozens of human beings and now someone had turned him into a victim. When Mate is found mutilated in a rented van, harnessed to his own killing machine, Delaware is asked to aid his old friend, homicide cop Milo Sturgis, in the hunt for the death doctor's executioner. But Alex harbors secrets of his own that threaten to derail the partners' friendship as well as the increasingly complex investigation. With page-turning suspense and vivid portraits of L.A.'s darkest side, perennial bestseller Jonathan Kellerman's latest tale of psychopathology taken to the extreme delivers an unforgettable journey into the most sinister corners of the human mind."
$7.99
Tricky Business by Dave Barry
"Dave Barry follows his acclaimed debut novel, Big Trouble, with a book that "leads readers into a crazy complexity of money laundering, drug dealing, murder, sex, violence, hijacking, and undercover work" (Library Journal)--not to mention "barbs aimed at overbearing mothers, corrupt officials, inept authorities and, of course, the American crime novel itself" (Publishers Weekly)."
$7.99
