Featured Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Staff Picks for June

Andrew's Picks

Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen

When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....

$6.99

Hearse of a Different Color by Tim Cockey

It's a dark and stormy night in Baltimore, and snow isn't the only thing piling up on the front steps of Sewell & Sons Family Funeral Home. There's also trouble. Specifically, a murdered waitress is unceremoniously dropped off at the door while a wake is under way inside. Bad form, no two ways about it. In this follow-up to The Hearse You Came in On, charming mortician-about-town Hitchcock Sewell has just one question: Why my place? His meteorologist girlfriend, Bonnie, has bigger fish to fry. The murder is her chance to make the leap from the weather game, which she stinks at anyway, to hard news. A few well-timed bats of Bonnie's big blues, and Hitch is ready to roll.

$7.99

Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard

Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry's tail. And then there's the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they're in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense...unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.

$7.99

The Outfit by Richard Stark

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but going one-on-one with Bronson, the Outfit's big boss, is the hard part. Hard for anyone but Parker, because the entire underworld understands that whatever Parker does -- he does for keeps.

$12.95

Fender Benders by Bill Fitzhugh

See Andrew's review.

$24.00

Lelia's Picks

Anchoress of Shere by Paul Moorcraft

In 1329, a beautiful Surrey woman is walled up alive in the village church of Shere...The Anchoress' story is taken up late in the 20th [sic] century by deranged Catholic priest Father Michael Duval.

Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the world of the Middle Ages centered on Christine's entombment, and the 1967 abduction of a young woman from Guildford.

In a series of exotic twists, the medieval world of knights, debauchery, peasant uprisings and civil war merges into a modern hunt for a serial killer.

$24.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount

Secret Sanction by Brian Haig

When a battalion of Serbs are murdered in Kosovo, the Green Berets stand accused. Top Army lawyer Major Sean Drummond is assigned to investigate. Even when his vow of duty, honor, and country clashes with his search for the truth, he finds himself forced into an uneasy alliance with a beautiful Army lawyer and facing both a chilling conspiracy and a soldier's worst nightmare.

$6.99

On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark

Following a nasty divorce, attorney Emily Graham buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house, in Spring Lake, New Jersey. The house was sold by Emily's ancestors in 1892 after a young girl disappeared. During renovations, the skeleton of a woman who disappeared a few years go is found. In her hand is the finger bone of another woman wearing a ring. Emily is determined to find a connection between the two deaths, but she becomes a threat to a seductive killer.

$7.99

Third Person Singular by KJ Erickson

Minneapolis Special Detective Marshall Bahr is challenged by the murder of a former homecoming queen who's the last girl anyone would expect to find stabbed to death alongside a dangerous footpath on the bluffs. With no clues nor suspects, Bahr's investigation seems doomed until the similar murder of another young girl leads him far from his home turf--and places him under the watchful eye of a mysterious killer.

$6.99

Aliens of Transylvania County by Patrick Bone

...a tale of friendship, alien invaders, and Appalachian mountain legend that takes place in the back-country near Brevard, North Carolina, in the 1950s...the book is an adventure, and a mystery, and a call-back to the old days of black-and-white Martian movies.

$13.95