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ROBERT CRAIS, ERIN KELLY, & MAGGIE BARBIERI!
Listed prices do not include 35% discount!
>  Maggie Barbieri, THIRD DEGREE. Minotaur, $24.99 (signed first edition). The December Delicate but Deadly Club selection is the fifth book in Barbieri's "Murder 101" series, set on a New York college campus. English professor Alison Bergeron can't stay out of trouble. A routine stop for coffee puts her in the middle of a brawl between controversial local blogger Carter Wilmott and his archenemy, George Miller. When George cracks Carter over the head, and Carter dies, it looks like a straightforward case of manslaughter – except that Carter's car blows up, and the autopsy shows he had enough arsenic in his system to kill him anyway.
 Joelle Charbonneau, SKATING AROUND THE LAW. Minotaur, $24.99 (signed first edition). This fun first novel introduces Rebecca Robbins, who returns to her hometown of Indian Falls, Illinois, to sell the roller rink she inherited from her mother. The discovery of a dead handyman in the rink's bathroom derails her plans, and Rebecca finds herself drawn back into small town life.
 Blaize Clement, CAT SITTER AMONG THE PIGEONS. Minotaur, $24.99 (signed first edition). The January Delicate but Deadly Club selection is the latest adventure of pet–sitter Dixie Hemingway. Dixie is looking after an old man's cat when his granddaughter turns up with a baby of her own. She's in trouble, but Dixie has no idea just how much trouble until people start trying to kill her and her baby. Some vicious con artists have used the young woman as a pawn in their scam. They're willing to do anything to hold on to the money they stole, and they're some of the most important people in town.
 Michael Connelly, THE REVERSAL. Little, Brown, $27.99 (signed first edition). Los Angeles defense attorney Mickey Haller agrees to switch sides and prosecute an accused child murderer in a high–profile retrial. Although new DNA evidence seems to exonerate the accused, Jason Jessup, Haller is convinced the man is guilty. He agrees to prosecute the case on one condition: that he can choose his own investigator. That investigator is veteran LAPD detective Harry Bosch, Haller's half–brother, and the two men fight the odds against them in their pursuit of justice.
 Robert Crais, THE SENTRY. Putnam, $26.95 (signed first edition). The January Crime Club selection, as well as both Kirk's and Linda's favorite for the month. Joe Pike stops for lunch in Venice and finds a gang shaking down the sandwich shop owner and his niece, Dru Rayne. He offers his help, but they refuse. Pike's fascinated by Dru, and learns that she and her uncle have come to LA as refugees from Katrina, looking to build a new life. But there's more to the story, as Pike learns when he discovers that federal agents are watching them – and that nothing Dru has told him about herself is exactly true.
 Lee Goldberg, MR. MONK ON THE ROAD. NAL, $22.95 (signed first edition). Miss the TV series? The story continues on the printed page. Adrian Monk, having regained his job and solved his wife's murder, hits the open road in an RV with his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose. It's only a matter of time before they find a murder to solve.
 Tod Goldberg, BURN NOTICE: THE REFORMED. Signet, $6.99 (signed paperback original). Father Santiago is now a high–profile community activist, but once upon a time, he was a violent gang member. When his old gang comes asking for favors in exchange for secrecy about old crimes, Father Santiago can't go to the police for help – but he can ask his old friend, Michael Westen.
 Howard Gordon, GIDEON'S WAR. Touchstone, $24.99 (signed first edition). This first novel from the executive producer of "24" has all the action you'd expect. Special envoy Gideon Davis gets a dangerous and unusual assignment: chaperone a rogue agent from Southeast Asia to Washington, DC for debriefing. The twist is that the agent is Davis' own estranged brother, Tillman, who has agreed to surrender to no one but Gideon. When it all goes bad, high–level hostages are taken, and Gideon must rush halfway around the world to foil a plot to disrupt his brother's plan to disrupt the world's oil supply.
 Paul Grossman, THE SLEEPWALKERS. St. Martin's, $24.99 (signed first edition). The December Discovery Club selection. In 1932 Berlin, Willi Kraus is the nation's most famous police detective. A decorated veteran of the Great War, Kraus is also a Jew, and becoming uncomfortable with the direction of the country. The Weimar Republic is collapsing, beautiful women are sleepwalking through the streets, and the corpse of an unidentified young woman with strangely deformed legs is found in the Havel River. As Kraus investigates, he becomes increasingly aware that he is under scrutiny himself, though it's not clear by whom, or why.
 Erin Kelly, THE POISON TREE. Pamela Dorman Books, $26.95 (first edition with tipped-in signature page). This impressive first novel begins at the end of a 10–year prison sentence. Karen and her young daughter, Alice, are picking up Rex at the end of his term for murder. We learn the story through a series of flashbacks to 1993, as Karen meets the charismatic Biba Capel and her brother, Rex, and is drawn into their strange and complicated lives.
 Dennis Lehane, MOONLIGHT MILE. William Morrow, $26.99 (signed first edition). Stephen's November favorite is the long–awaited return of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Twelve years after the events of GONE BABY GONE, sixteen–year–old Amanda has gone missing again – and Patrick vows to find her, no matter the consequences.
 John Lescroart, DAMAGE. Dutton, $26.95 (signed first edition). One of Bobby's picks for January. San Francisco homicide chief Abe Glitsky takes center stage in this 16th Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky novel. Ten years ago, Glitsky's determination to nail billionaire Ro Curtlee on charges of rape and murder landed him in the police department's payroll office. Curtlee was convicted and sent to prison, but now a retrial has set him free. Within days, the original case's star witness is murdered, and fires destroy old evidence sites. Glitsky knows Curtlee is responsible, but can he prove it? And how far is he willing to go to make sure that justice is served?
 Brad Meltzer, THE INNER CIRCLE. Grand Central Publishing, $26.99 (signed first edition). Stephen's Favorite for January is the story of Beecher White, who works at the National Archives. When Beecher's childhood crush shows up unexpectedly, he tries to impress her by showing the secret vault where the President reviews classified documents. In the always–empty vault, they find a priceless dictionary that belonged to George Washington. A colleague at the archives suddenly dies. His high school crush isn't quite who he thought she was. And now there's an inner circle of men who want Beecher White dead.
 Sheldon Siegel, PERFECT ALIBI. MacAdam/Cage, $26.00 (signed first edition). Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, former spouses and current law partners, take on a case that's much too personal: their 16–year–old daughter's boyfriend is accused of murdering his own father, a Superior Court judge. Grace, Mike and Rosie's daughter, is her boyfriend's only alibi. Digging up the truth will require an uncomfortable investigation into a San Francisco scandal that somebody's willing to kill to protect.
 Matthew Stokoe, COWS. Akashic Press, $55.00 (signed and numbered limited hardcover edition). Only 100 hardcovers were printed; of these, 65 copies were designated for the general public, and these are numbered xx/65. The cover of the book is clothbound with foil stamping. Akashic Press says: "One of the most outrageous, original, and insightful books ever written on the subject of alienation and societal decay, Cows is a violent, blood–soaked nightmare – a tale of love, self–empowerment, and talking cows that will haunt you long after the last page is turned." Only three copies available!
NOT SIGNED BUT NOTABLE
 Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler, CRESCENT DAWN. Putnam, $27.95 (unsigned first edition). Dirk Pitt must discover the connection between a Roman galley attacked by pirates in the fourth century, the explosion of a British warship in 1916, and the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the Ottoman Empire.
 W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV, THE OUTLAWS. Putnam, $27.95 (unsigned first edition). A new President takes office, and Lt. Col. Charlie Castillo's top-secret unit is disbanded. But when photos show a stash of deadly biohazard materials at a secret weapons factory in the Congo, the country needs Castillo and his colleagues once again.
 Beth Revis, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. Razorbill, $17.00 (unsigned first edition). Young adult. This critically–acclaimed thriller crosses genre and age lines to deliver an unforgettable story. The spaceship Goodspeed is carrying a full cargo of cryogenically frozen settlers to a new planet, on a voyage scheduled to take 300 years. Fifty years before the ship is scheduled to reach its destination, Amy wakes up when her cryo–chamber is unplugged. Someone's trying to kill the passengers of the Goodspeed, and Amy doesn't know who to trust in this unfamiliar world.
 Jed Rubenfeld, THE DEATH INSTINCT. Riverhead, $26.95 (unsigned first edition). On September 16, 1920, a bomb explosion killed more than 400 people in New York's financial district. Among the survivors is Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist who becomes the target of further attacks. Dr. Stratham Younger and NYPD Captain James Littlemore join Rousseau in a quest for answers that takes them all the way to Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Because of this book's weight, extra shipping charges will apply.
 C.J. Sansomn, HEARTSTONE. Viking, $27.95 (unsigned first edition). The sixth Matthew Shardlake novel is set in the summer of 1545, as Shardlake takes on the most politically sensitive case of his career. Shardlake and his assistant, Jack Barak, investigate allegations of "monstrous wrongs" against a ward of the court, at the request of a servant of Queen Catherine Parr. They discover a link between the ward and a prisoner in Bedlam, with implications that might threaten them all.
 Stuart Woods, STRATEGIC MOVES. Putnam, $25.95 (unsigned first edition). After many years "of counsel" to the New York law firm of Woodman & Weld, Stone Barrington is offered a million–dollar bonus and the prospect of a partnership. It's because he's brought in a major new client, an international financier – who may turn out to be another Bernie Madoff in disguise.
 Stieg Larsson, THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY. Knopf, $99.00 (unsigned special collection). This elegant box set includes ON STIEG LARSSON, a collection of interviews and letters remembering the late author, as well as deluxe hardcover editions of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST. Because of this collection's size and weight, extra shipping costs will apply – but remember, its 35% off!
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