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John Connolly, THE WHISPERERS
Atria, $26.00 (first edition with signed tipped–in page and limited edition CD)
Connolly's latest Charlie Parker novel is one more advance in a series that gets sharper and deeper with every book. This time out, the Maine–based PI investigates the suicide of a recently–returned Iraq war veteran, and discovers a smuggling ring that is transporting uniquely dangerous goods across the US–Canadian border. The author is well–known and loved at The Mystery Bookstore; Clair says, "I had a front–row seat for some of the research for this book, so I can't pretend to be objective – but THE WHISPERERS worked for me as both thriller and social history, a deeply compassionate look at the plight of the men who went to war and came back changed." Each book comes with a copy of Love & Whispers, a CD compilation of music that inspired or is mentioned in the Parker novels.
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Martyn Waites, SPEAK NO EVIL
Pegasus, $25.95 (unsigned first U.S. edition)
Thirty years after her 11-year-old self murdered a little boy, Anne Marie Smeaton is ready to tell her story to former journalist Joe Donovan, now running his own PI agency. When another young boy is murdered, however, Donovan is not the only one wondering about the connection between that death and the woman who used to be Mae Blacklock. Meanwhile, Donovan's long-term search for his missing son moves toward its own startling resolution. Martyn Waites has an uncanny empathy for even the most vicious of his characters; few authors handle material this dark so well.
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P.J. Tracy, SHOOT TO THRILL
Putnam, $25.95 (first edition signed by both authors)
The Monkeewrench crew is back after too long an absence, and this time they're working for the FBI. Special Agent John Smith leads an urgent investigation into a series of horrifying but apparently unrelated murders, all of which are being filmed live and uploaded to YouTube and other social networking sites. When an apparent accidental drowning in Minneapolis shows up as an Internet murder video, police detectives Gino Rolseth and Leo Magozzi join the hunt. The plot keeps twisting to the final page, but as always, the real pleasure is the time spent with the members of Monkeewrench and especially Detective Magozzi, whose point–of–view dominates this story.
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