KELLERMAN, KELLERMAN, & KELLERMAN

While you’re here on Friday night, pick up one of these recently-signed first editions:




Peter Abrahams, NERVE DAMAGE. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Sculptor Roy Valois, dying of cancer, discovers that the circumstances of his wife’s death, 15 years earlier, were very different from those he’d been told. Roy believed Delia had been working for an international nongovernmental organization; a New York Times obituary file says she worked for the U.N. When Roy investigates, he finds no trace of her former employer, and her former colleagues deny having known her. With his own time running out, Roy becomes desperate to learn the truth about the woman he loved.






Faye Kellerman, THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Warner Books, $24.99 (signed first edition). The 17 pieces in this collection include two new Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus stories, one co-written with Kellerman’s two daughters, and a story co-written with her son Jesse, author of SUNSTROKE and TROUBLE.






Jonathan Kellerman, OBSESSION. Ballantine, $26.95 (signed first edition). Child psychologist Alex Delaware and his best friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, investigate a deathbed confession to murder. The confessed murderer was the aunt of one of Delaware’s former patients, a 19-year-old he had treated for obsessive-compulsive disorder seven years earlier.






Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, CAPITAL CRIMES. Ballantine, $24.95 (signed first edition). This volume combines two novellas set in different state capitals. “My Sister’s Keeper,” set in Berkeley and Sacramento, focuses on the murder of a lesbian Congresswoman; “Music City Breakdown” is the story of a Los Angeles singer who gets killed in Nashville.






Tim Maleeny, STEALING THE DRAGON (Midnight Ink trade paperback, $14.95). The April Discovery Club selection (and Bobby’s Favorite) introduces San Francisco PI Cape Weathers, whose friend Sally knows too much about the mass murder of a group of Chinese refugees. Cape’s investigation takes him into the heart of Chinatown’s secret societies and organized crime groups, with riveting flashbacks to China.

Posted by Pam on April 20, 2007