Harlan Coben was born in Newark, NJ, in 1962 and grew up in Livingston, NJ. He continues to live in NJ with his wife, a pediatrician, and their four children. He graduated from Amherst College with a major in political science. Coben is the first author to win all three of mystery’s most prestigious awards: […]
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Connelly, Michael. Blood Work (1998). Little Brown, 391 pages, $23.95 hardcover ISBN 0 316 15399 0 Taking a break from LAPD detective Harry Bosch, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb. We first meet McCaleb two months after his heart transplant surgery, living in a Los Angeles marina
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Connelly, Michael. The Concrete Blonde (1994). St. Martin’s, 397 pages, $5.99 mass market paperback. ISBN 0 312 95500 6 Four years earlier, during the hunt for the serial killer known as the Dollmaker, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch had followed a lead to a small apartment, where he confronted and killed
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Connelly, Michael. The Black Ice (1993). St. Martin’s, 368 pages, $6.99 mass market paperback ISBN 0 312 95281 3 It’s Christmas Day, and L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch is on call. When he hears a broadcast for a homicide on the police scanner, he wonders why he, the on-call detective, hasn’t been notified. Bosch
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Walters, Minette. The Echo (1997) Penguin Putnam, 351 pages, $6.99 paperback ISBN 0 515 12256 4 When a homeless man known as Billy Blake dies of malnutrition in the garage of an expensive home in London, police are unable to discover anything about the man’s true identity. Several months later journalist Michael Deacon is
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Walters, Minette. The Scold’s Bridle (1994) St. Martin’s, 365 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 312 95612 6 Recommended Nobody is very concerned when the body of Mathilda Gillespie, a venomous old woman, is discovered in her bathtub. Mathilda apparently has committed suicide by slitting her wrists while wearing her scold’s bridle, an ancient
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Walters, Minette. The Sculptress (1993) St. Martin’s, 308 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 312 95361 5 Rosalind Leigh is a blocked writer given an ultimatum by her publisher: write a book about a sensational murder that occurred several years earlier or be dropped from the publisher’s list. Roz grudgingly accepts the assignment to
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Walters, Minette. The Ice House (1992) St. Martin’s, 301 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 312 95142 6 Recommended When a decomposing body is discovered in the ice house on a British estate, two cynical detectives arrive to investigate. They’re certain that the body must be that of the husband of the household, who
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Grafton,Sue. “P” Is for Peril (2001) Putnam, 352 pages, $26.95 hardcover ISBN 0399147195 Dr. Dowan Purcell has been missing for nine weeks by the time his ex-wife, Fiona, hires Kinsey to find him. The 69-year-old doctor, a respected member of the local medical community, is director of a nursing home. He’s now married to
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