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Crime Fiction Stars of 1998 January - June

April 2, 2008

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June

Death of a Scriptwriter
Author: Beaton, M.C.
Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0892966440 Date: 1998
BL
Scotland's lovable Hamish MacBeth - the one-man village police force - investigates the death of an actress and a television writer in this latest episode in the popular series.
The Tin Man
Author: Brown, Dale
Publisher: Bantam List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 055311106x Date: 1998
PW
A riveting new techno-thriller by the author of Flight of the Old Dog. When his rookie cop brother is injured in a shootout following a bank robbery, Patrick McLanahan literally becomes a one-man's army against the lethal Aryan Brigade that is masterminding the violence taking over his city's streets.
Suggested Reading: Techno Thrillers
One False Move: Myron Bolitar
Author: Coben, Harlan
Publisher: Delacorte List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0385323697 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
PW's Best 98 Books selection
A hot-headed sports agent is asked to keep an eye on the star of the new woman's basketball league who's been receiving threats on her life, and is soon falling not only for the athlete, but for a tale that leads him down a trail of lies, lust, and murder.
At All Costs
Author: Gilstrap, John
Publisher: Warner List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0446523151 Date: 1998
BL
An explosive thriller of a wrongly accused couple, a desperate FBI manhunt, and a horrific ecological disaster, written by the internationally bestselling author of Nathan's Run. "A flat-out-in-your-face thrill ride of a read, filled with unexpected twists, sinister turns, clever plotting, and top-drawer writing that floats past each page like a late-night summer breeze." - Lorenzo Carcaterra (Sleepers).
Beyond Recall
Author: Goddard, Robert
Publisher: Holt List Price: $ 25 ISBN: 0805051104 Date: 1998
BL
After a childhood friend - whose father was hanged for murder more than 30 years before - commits suicide, Chris Napier is impelled to investigate the facts behind his friend's insistence that his father was innocent.
Suggested Reading: Psychological Suspense Stars
Balance of Power
Author: Huston, James W.
Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0688159176 Date: 1998
Kirkus
When pirates hijack the world's fastest merchant ship in a ruthless plan to spark an international incident, the attack instead provokes a constitutional crisis - and splits the U.S. government down the middle.
Salamander
Author: Janes, Robert
Publisher: Soho List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 1569471193 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
Sandman, the previous title in Canadian author Janes's series about an unlikely team of detectives in Occupied France, was chosen by both PW and The New York Times as one of the best mysteries of 1997. This new title ... is equally compelling".
Five-Year Plan
Author: Kerr, Philip
Publisher: Henry Holt List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0805051767 Date: 1998
Kirkus
For the Columbian cartel, Europe is a magnet. But landing their coke is another matter. When FBI agent Kate Fury gets a hot tip that the stuff is being shipped in a hollowed-out yacht hull via transport ferry, she knows she's onto the biggest collar in her career, in this new thriller by the author of Esau.
Suggested Reading: Drug Traffic Stars
The Face on the Wall
Author: Langton, Jane
Publisher: Viking List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0670876747 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
An artist builds her dream house and then finds herself in a nightmare - drawing Homer Kelly into a deadly showdown between good and evil - in this clever, erudite new mystery by the author of Dead as a Dodo and Dark Nantucket Moon.
Serpent Gate: Kevin Kerney
Author: McGarrity, Michael
Publisher: Scribner List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0684805761 Date: 1998
PWBL
While following the leads surrounding the unsolved murder of a police officer, Santa Fe cop Kevin Kerney is tapped to lead the investigation of a multimillion-dollar art theft from New Mexico's state capitol building.
Suggested Reading: Cops
Judas Child
Author: O'Connell, Carol
Publisher: Putnam List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399143807 Date: 1998
BL
Three days before Christmas, two young girls disappear from the local academy - duplicating a crime that happened 15 years earlier. Now Rouge Kendall, a cop, and forensic pathologist Ali Cray are forced to wonder if the man who was put away was the real killer.
The Face-Changers: Jane Whitefield
Author: Perry, Thomas
Publisher: Random List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0679453032 Date: 1998
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After more than a decade of helping people in trouble "disappear", Jane Whitefield has promised Carey, her husband, that she will never work again. But when his mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, shows up wounded and wanted for murder, Carey asks Jane to perform her magic one last time.
Suggested Reading: Nip/Tuck Plasic Surgery Stars

May

Grave Victory: A Harry Starbranch Novel
Author: Bean, Greg
Publisher: Dunne List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312185901 Date: 1998
KirkusBL
The fourth in this spectacular Wyoming mystery series finds Starbranch tangeled with the world of academia - a world that can, in spite of book learnin', be as lethal as a nest of drug dealers. And, in this case,is. Starbranch has a frigheningly difficult struggle to gain freedom for the son of a longtime friend who has been convicted of murdering a young graduate student. From Murder at the Flatiron Building
Invitation To A Funeral
Author: Brown, Molly
Publisher: Dunne List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312185987 Date: 1998
LJ
For her first novel (after the publication of some twenty short stories) Molly Brown has chosen one of the most colorful periods in recent English history - the Restoration. And she has coopted as her detective a real-life character just as colorful, the woman playwright and sometimes spy, Aphra Behn. When one lord of the realm bets another that he can turn a woman of negligible talent into the best actress on the London stage, Behn shares his optimism and will share his winnings. But more serious events intervene, and it falls on Aphra to move with lightening speed to avert yet another civil war in a newly pacified England. From Murder at the Flatiron Building.
Fortunes of War
Author: Coonts, Stephen
Publisher: St. Martin's List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312185839 Date: 1998
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The bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder now presents a powerful story of an utterly believable Third World War. Filled with up-to-the-minute insider military detail and dramatic, compelling scenes of battles in the air and on the sea, Fortunes of War tells an epic tale of three heroes, three countries, and a world in the balance.
Suggested Reading: Techno Thrillers
The Witchfinder
Author: Estleman, Loren D.
Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 08929666637 Date: 1998
PWBL
Celebrated Detroit private investigator Amos Walker, who made highly successful return in Never Street, now burns up the streets of the motor city in hot pursuit of a "witchfinder."
Suggested Reading: Private Investigators
Masked Dancers: Mitch Bushyhead
Author: Hager, Jean
Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0892966416 Date: 1998
PW
The vicious murder of a wildlife officer shakes up an Oklahoma town in the 5th novel in this captivating Cherokee Nation mystery series, featuring Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead.
The Student Body
Author: Harvard, Jane
Publisher: Villard List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0679448586 Date: 1998
BL
A smart, sexy multicultural thriller - written collaboratively by four Harvard grads. While covering a story, African-American journalist Toni Isaacs receives a tip: Harvard students are working as prostitutes. Drawn into Boston's sexual underworld, Toni encounters strippers, johns, vice cops, and a Harvard MBA with a very unusual business plan.
The Brush-Off
Author: Maloney, Shane
Publisher: Little Brown List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 1559704403 Date: 1998
KirkusBL
When you dabble with death, there's nothing abstract about a loaded gun. A born detective despite himself, assistant minister of culture Murray Whelan digs, and the deeper he goes, the more puzzling the mystery of a young artist's death becomes. Tightly plotted, funny, and briskly paced, this first Murray Whelan mystery won the Ned Kelly Prize for Best Crime Novel, Australia's equivalent to our Edgar Award.
A Likeness in Stone
Author: Martin, J. Wallis
Publisher: St Martins List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312186266 Date: 1998
Kirkus
A grisly discovery in the darkened waters of a reservoir, unlocks the secret to a decades-old murder, in this chilling first novel by an author who combines psychological insight with an intricate plot that will keep readers guessing to the end.
Suggested Reading: Psychological Stars | Debuts
Havana Twist
Author: Matera, Lia
Publisher: Simon & Schuster List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0684834707 Date: 1998
BL
Willa Jansson, "the wittiest of women sleuths at large in the genre" (The New York Times), takes on her most exciting and emotional case yet when she investigates the disappearance of her mother.
Suggested Reading: Cuba
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
Publisher: Dutton List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0525939695 Date: 1998
PWBL
The quintessential writer of the Appalachian region weaves folklore and legend into a lyrical new novel of obsession and suspense in this chronicle of the first woman in the state of North Carolina to he hanged for murder. "McCrumb writes with a quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight." - New York Times Book Review.
Dead Even
Author: Meltzer, Brad
Publisher: Rob Weisbach $ 25 ISBN: 068815090x Date: 1998
LJ
Sara Tate is a lawyer in the Manhattan D.A.'s office. Due to budget cutbacks, she's in danger of losing her job and takes on a case meant for another prosecutor. Sara's attorney husband, Jared, also gets involved in the case--on the side of the defense. Sara is soon informed that if she loses, Jared will be killed. He receives a similar threat. In a battle of roller-coaster emotions and shocking betrayals, Sara and Jared must face the unthinkable truth: No matter who wins--one of them may die.
Suggested Reading: Legal Stars
Freedomland
Author: Price, Richard
Publisher: Broadway List Price: $ 25 ISBN: 0767900243 Date: 1998
PWBLLJ
PW's Best 98 Books selection
The bestselling author of Clockers tells his most compelling and emotionally charged story yet, in the tale of an injured woman who claims that a carjacker has kidnapped her son, and the shrewd police officer and ambitious young reporter who smell a hoax.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
The Problem of the Missing Miss
Author: Rogow, Roberta
Publisher: St. Martin's List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0312185537 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
When the daughter of a lord is kidnapped, the unlikely pair of Charles (aka Lewis Carroll) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle join forces to save her. This first novel by a children's librarian makes wonderful use of the two 19th century British authors and gives us a good story enhanced by the quirky characters of the two famous literary men.
From Murder at the Flatiron Building
Suggested Reading: Sherlockian Stars | Debuts | Author Author
Secret Prey
Author: Sandford, John
Publisher: Putnam List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399143823 Date: 1998
PW
Lucas Davenport returns - in the most harrowing Prey of all. After a powerful company executive is killed while on a hunting trip with four other executives - each with his or her own agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful over the man's death - Davenport finds himself thinking that there's something much more going on here than the single murder of a despised boss.
All the Dead Lie Down
Author: Walker, Mary Willis
Publisher: Doubleday List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385478585 Date: 1998
KirkusBL
The Edgar Award-winning author of Under the Beetle's Cellar returns with another emotionally charged mystery. True-crime reporter Molly Cates becomes aware of a terrifying plot to kill everyone in the Texas State Legislature - a conspiracy that only she can stop...if she can get there in time.
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Author: Zimler, Richard
Publisher: Overlook List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0879518340 Date: 1998
BL
A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of The Name of the Rose, set among the secret Jews living in Lisbon in the 16th century. A marvelous read, a challenging mystery and a telling tell of the evils of intolerance. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon compels and entertains.

April

Thunder Horse
Author: Bowen, Peter
Publisher: St. Martin's List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312183038 Date: 1998
PWBL
After an earthquake reveals the ancient burial ground of a long-dead people, and the body of a snowmobiler appears as if from nowhere, Gabriel Du Pre, Montana cattle-brand inspector and reluctant sleuth, decides to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Pigeon Pie
Author: Campbell, R. Wright
Publisher: Mysterious Press List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0892966653 Date: 1998
Kirkus
Jimmy Flannery, indefatigable Chicago politician, sewer inspector, and sleuth, searched for a killer in the midst of an election in this acclaimed series by Edgar winner Robert Campbell.
Brain Storm
Author: Dooling, Richard
Publisher: Random House List Price: $ 25 ISBN: 0679452397 Date: 1998
Kirkus
Hilarious, smart, and full of cutting-edge controversies, this novel challenges conventional wisdom about everything from lawn care to the existence of the human soul.
Fire and Ice
Author: Garrison, Paul
Publisher: Avon List Price: $ 15.95 ISBN: 0380975661 Date: 1998
Kirkus
Doctors without a country, Michael Stone and his wife Sarah bring aid to those in need in the equatorial Pacific. When Sarah and their young daughter, Ronnie, are kidnapped, Michael embarks on an incredible and dangerous odyssey to rescue them.
Upon a Dark Night
Author: Lovesey, Peter
Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $23 ISBN: 0892966696 Date: 1998
PW
British homicide detective Peter Diamond must outwit a resourceful killer in this, his fifth intriguing case from the multi-award-winning author of The Last Detective and Bloodhounds.
Suggested Reading: British Police
Angle of Impact
Author: McDougal, Bonnie
Publisher: Ballantine List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0345414454 Date: 1998
BL
A exhilarating new thriller by the author of Breach of Trust. The carefully ordered existence of a brilliant Philadelphia attorney is shattered when the helicopter carrying her client collides with an airplane over the amusement park where her two daughters are spending the day. As she desperately races to the scene to find her children, the lawyer learns that the collision was not an accident.
Suggested Reading: Legal Stars
Murder for Revenge
Author: Penzler, Otto, editor
Publisher: Delacorte List Price: $21.95 ISBN: 0385317158 Date: 1998
PW
Murder for Revenge was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask 12 of fiction's best writers to write short stories about people willing to kill another to get justice - or vengeance - they see as their due. Contributors include Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Vicki Hendricks, Joan Hess, Judith Kelman, Eric Lustbader, Philip Margolin, David Morrell, Joyce Carol Oates, Shel Silverstein, and Peter Straub.
Foolproof: an Iris Thorne Mystery
Author: Pugh, Dianne
Publisher: Pocket List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0671014242 Date: 1998
Kirkus
From the author of Fast Friends and Slow Squeeze comes the fourth mystery featuring the captivating Iris Thorne. Iris's long time friend, Bridget, is found murdered outside her Los Angeles home and her husband is the prime suspect. Now Iris must drive into a maelstrom of marriage, mayhem, and murder to solve this sordid crime.
The Gravity of Shadows
Author: Ramus, David
Publisher: Harpercollins List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 006187794 Date: 1998
BL
When New York Art Dealer Wil Sumner is brought to reclusive millionaire Andrew Stevenson's ocean-front mansion in Palm Beach to appraise a cache of priceless art treasures, he finds himself drowning in a rising tide of deadly intrigue, political machinations, and murder.
Suggested Reading: Art Stars
The Bluest Blood
Author: Roberts, Gillian
Publisher: Ballantine List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0345403266 Date: 1998
Kirkus
At a gala on behalf of Philadelphia's Prep's library, Amanda Pepper is introduced to ultrarich society - an evening so extravagant that nothing can tarnish the party... until murder intrudes... and Amanda learns that the bluest blood bleeds just as red.
Mark of the Assassin
Author: Silva, Daniel
Publisher: Villard List Price: $ 25 ISBN: 0679455639 Date: 1998
Kirkus
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy comes a contemporary Washington-based thriller set in a new arena; the White House. Silva, a veteran newspaper and television reporter, puts his insider's knowledge of the nation's capitol to powerful effect, as he spins an all-too plausible and frightening tale of a president targeted for destruction by a cabal of business executives.
Suggested Reading: Political Fiction

March

Blind Descent
Author: Barr, Nevada
Publisher: Putnam List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0399143718 Date: 1998
Kirkus
In Barr's gripping new novel, park ranger Anna Pigeon faces personal demons as well as life-threatening dangers in an untamed underground wilderness. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna swallows her paralyzing fear of small places and descends into Lechuguilla Cavern to help a friend in need.
Suggested Reading: Wild Life
Blood Work
Author: Connelly, Michael
Publisher: Little, Brown List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0316153990 Date: 1998
PW
The biggest, fastest, most compelling novel yet by the phenomenally bestselling author of The Poet and Trunk Music. Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terril McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement. But when a story in the " What Happened To?" column of the L.A. Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest, McCaleb soon learns the terrible truth: the donor was not killed in an accident as he had been told; she was murdered.
Brushback
Author: Constantine, K.C.
Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0892966467 Date: 1998
PWBL
The highly acclaimed author of Good Sons and Family Values brings back the popular Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, acting chief of the Rocksburg, Pennsylvania Police Department. When a former professional baseball player is beaten to death, Carlucci delves into the recent past of the athlete and finds that the bases are loaded with suspects.
Suggested Reading: Cops
Solibo the Magnificent
Author: Chamoiseau, Patrick
Publisher: Pantheon List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0679432361 Date: 1998
KirkusPW
Chamoiseau's grand and intriguing riff on the police procedural, Solibro Maginifcent represents another masterpiece by the author of the award-winning Texaco. It's carnival time at Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enraptured public, the great teller of tales, Solibro Magnificent, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder?
Whistle (or When You Whistle the Wind Will Blow)
Author: Daughtery, Janice
Publisher: Harper Flamingo List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0060175516 Date: 1998
PW
Hailed as a "natural-born writer" by Pat Conroy, the popular author of Pawpaw Patch and Earl in the Yellow Shirt delivers a thrilling psychological story of a black man trapped in a web of fear and prejudice.
The Hunt Club
Author: Lott, Bret
Publisher: Villard List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0375500146 Date: 1998
LJ
A striking debut novel of suspense with the Southern flavor of Anne Rivers Siddon and the deft literary pacing of David Guterson. Huger Dillard is no ordinary 15-year-old redneck. Weekends as the Hunt Club have made him an expert on the habits of deer, the social strata of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the day-to-day guided duties of his blind uncle Leland. When a dead body is found at the Club, Huger quickly realizes that he is an expert at nothing, least of all his own life.
Suggested Reading: Wild Life
The Last Best Hope
Author: McBain, Ed
Publisher: Warner List Price: $24 ISBN: 0446519901 Date: 1998
BLPW
The latest entry in the bestselling Matthew Hope series. When Jill Callahan hires Florida attorney Matthew Hope to locate her missing husband, she has two things on her mind: divorce and plenty of alimony. As Hope digs deeper, he finds that the case has a little of everything. In fact, it could be the best case of his career - and quite possibly his last.
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Author: Pears, Iain
Publisher: Riverhead Price: $ 27 ISBN: 1573220825 Date: 1998
PWBLKirkusLJ
PW's Best 98 Books selection
Deserving comparison to the works of John Fowles and Umberto Eco, Iain Pear's stunning new novel is an ingenious tour de force. In England in the 1660's, a young woman is accused of the murder of a New College fellow, who has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. Four extremely diverse witnesses give their accounts of the events - but only one reveals the extraordinary truth.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Numbered Account
Author: Reich, Christopher
Publisher: Delacorte Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385320175 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
In his explosive debut thriller, Christopher Reich tells the story of a young man willing to risk everything - his career, his integrity, and even his life - to hunt down his father's killer. Set in the secret labyrinthine world of Swiss banking, Numbered Accounts heralds the arrival of a tremendous new talent.
Suggested Reading: Financial Thrillers | Debuts
The Bitch Factor
Author: Rogers, Chris
Publisher: Bantam List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0553106597 Date: 1998
LJ
After ten years in the Houston's D.A.'s office, watching the guilty get off on technicalities, Dixie Flannigan decides to embrace a more hands-on style of justice: she becomes a bounty hunter. Tracking an accused child-killer to North Dakota, Dixie finds herself facing not only a blizzard, but also suspicions that the man is really innocent.
Suggested Reading: If You Like Janet Evanovich
The Caretaker
Author: Simpson, Thomas William
Publisher: Bantam List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0553100521 Date: 1998
BL
From the acclaimed author of This Way Madness Lies comes a slightly twisted and wholly terrifying new thriller. Samantha Henderson, faithful wife and mother, is about to have her every wish granted. But in return, she and her family will pay a very high price, as their lives are sliced open and placed under a microscope manned by a psychopath.
Wings of Fire
Author: Todd, Charles
Publisher: St Martin's Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312170645 Date: 1998
PW
Inspector Ian Rutledge, the World War I hero of A Test of Wills, makes his second appearance, investigating the mysterious deaths of three members of the same family in Cornwall. Accompanying Rutledge is his constant "companion", Hamish, the young Scot whom he had to execute on the battlefield and whose tormenting voice in Rutledge's head forces him to face unpleasant truths.

February

Night Train
Author: Amis, Martin
Publisher: Crown Price: $ 20 ISBN: 0609601288 Date: 1998
BL
An exhilarating departure for the bestselling author of London Fields and Time's Arrow, this gritty, credible, totally captivating mystery follows the exploits of American homicide detective Jennifer Rockwell and the intriguing case that gets under her skin.
See No Evil
Author: Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Publisher: St. Martin's Price: $22.95 ISBN: 0312169108 Date: 1998
BL
In Eleanor Taylor Bland's most ambitious novel to date, Illinois police detective Marti MacALister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man and Marti's own family at risk.
Suggested Reading: African American Stars
Hit Man
Author: Block, Lawrence
Publisher: Morrow Price: $ 22 ISBN: 068814179x Date: 1998
PW
America's master of mystery introduces a new kind of hero. Complex, professional, confident, and reliable, Keller is as killer - the hit man's hit man. As Keller goes about his rounds, fulfilling is contracts, he learns a few crucial truths about himself and the ways of the normal world, winding up a wise (if not better) man.
Suggested Reading: Hit Men
Kissing the Beehive
Author: Carroll, Jonathan
Publisher: Doubleday Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385480113 Date: 1998
Kirkus
From the author of The Land of Laughs and Outside the Dog Museum comes a stunning novel of obsession and memory. When a thrice-divorced, bestselling author visits his hometown to spark his imagination for his upcoming novel, an unsolved murder, and explosive love affair, and the reappearance of a killer combine to make this a trip he won't soon forget.
Suggested Reading: Psychological Suspense Stars
High Crimes
Author: Finder, Joseph
Publisher: Morrow Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0688149626 Date: 1998
PWKirkus
An incendiary mix of courtroom machinations, political intrigue, and marital duplicity, by the acclaimed author of The Zero Hour. A random burglary turns the lives of high-powered attorney Claire Chapman and her money-manager husband Tom upside-down when the ensuing investigation reveals that Tom is not who he says he is.
Suggested Reading: Legal Stars
Bloody Secrets
Author: Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina
Publisher: Putnam Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399143866 Date: 1998
PW
Miami P.I. Lupe Solano is back - in Carolina Garcia-Aguiler's third and most ambitious book to date. In a sweeping story that takes readers from the last days of Batitista's Havana to the Guantanamo Bay refugee camp to Miami's high society, Lupe accepts the case of a balsero - a refugee who escaped Cuba by raft.
Suggested Reading: Private Investigators
The Devil's Garden
Author: Peters, Ralph
Publisher: Avon $ 15.95 ISBN: 0380973626 Date: 1998
Kirkus
After a U.S. senator's daughter is kidnapped in a volatile third world nation, she becomes a bargaining chip in a cold and brutal global game, in this terrifying new thriller by the author of Red Army and The War in 2020.
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