TENDER REBEL
(1988)
First hardcover edition of this regency romance featuring a Scottish heiress, the second in the Malory-Anderson Families series.
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A HEART SO WILD
(1986)
First hardcover edition of this "Native American" romance (featuring a Comanche hero), in which the main characters journey from 19th-century Kansas territory to Texas.
LOVE ONLY ONCE
(1985)
First hardcover edition, with the famed McGinnis cover, of this marriage-of-convenience regency romance, the first book in the Malory-Anderson Families series.
WHEN LOVE AWAITS
(1986)
First printing of this historical romance set in 12th-century England, with the iconic McGinnis cover featuring a carefully positioned nude hero and suggestive sword placement.
SOMETHING WONDERFUL
(1988)
First edition of this classic historical romance — with the original stepback cover design.
GONNA TAKE A HOMICIDAL JOURNEY
(1998)
Signed first printing of this final book in the Lauren Laurono series, in which the detective's efforts to patch things up with her partner with a nice vacation are interrupted by a suspicious suicide.
JAZZ FUNERAL
(1993)
Inscribed first printing of the third Skip Langdon mystery, detailing the woman homicide detective's investigation of the murder of a New Orleans jazz festival's beloved producer.
THE MEASURABLE WORLD
(1995)
Inscribed first printing of this erotic mystery, in which a botanist must get to the bottom of her estranged husband's murder while navigating the romantic attentions of her best friends Ralph and Rita.
BLIND DESCENT
(1998)
Signed first edition of Barr's sixth mystery novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.
PRACTICE TO DECEIVE
(1992)
Signed first printing of the second Annie MacPherson mystery, in which the lawyer (and frequent sleuth) discovers her new position at a prestigious law firm is a great deal more dangerous than she expected when a secretary turns up dead.
THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS
(1995)
Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in.
SNAPSHOT
(1993)
Inscribed first printing of the fifth Carlotta Carlyle mystery, in which the hardboiled, redheaded Boston PI must take on a hospital full of conspiracy and corruption to find answers for a grieving mother.
THYME OF DEATH
(1992)
Signed first printing of this Agatha and Anthony-nominated mystery introducing China Bayles, a lawyer-turned-herb shop proprietor who finds that murder has followed her in her efforts to make a fresh start.
KILLING TIME IN ST. CLOUD
(1988)
Doubly signed first edition of this mystery novel, a collaboration between Hill and ORDINARY PEOPLE author Guest.
THE MISTS OF AVALON
1982
Inscribed first printing of Bradley's influential re-evaluation of Arthurian legend.
SKY WOMAN FALLING
(2003)
First printing of this Anna Turnipseed and Emmett Parker mystery, in which the FBI agent and BIA investigator must uncover how an Oneida elder wound up murdered in a corn field as her community fractures around a new casino.
A GIFT UPON THE SHORE
(1990)
Inscribed first UK edition of this post-apocalyptic story of a pair of women seeking to preserve humanity's remaining books after a pandemic and nuclear war, presented to Wren's longtime partner Ruth Grover.
PALE AS THE DEAD
(2002)
Signed first printing of Mountain's second book, a murder mystery centered around intrepid genealogist / sleuth Natasha Blake, who has uncovered an unexpected link behind the disappearance of a young girl and the death of Pre-Raphaelite icon Lizzie Siddal.
HARDWARE
(1995)
Inscribed first printing of this high-tech (for the 90s) mystery, in which the hardboiled, cab-driving PI Carlotta Carlyle takes her business online with unexpectedly deadly consequences – signed in the year of publication.
LEGAL TENDER
(1996)
Signed first printing of this riveting legal thriller that finds Bennie Rosato – partner in an all-woman law firm – the suspect in a murder, with the corrupt cops she has frequently prosecuted in court more than happy to make her life difficult.
ROUGH JUSTICE
(1997)
Signed first printing of this legal thriller by one of the greats of the genre, the third title in the Rosato and Associates series, which finds the all-woman law firm racing against an impending verdict based on a bogus claim.
THE VISITANT
(1999)
Inscribed first printing of this first book in the Anasazi mysteries series, the story of an unsolved spate of killings in 1150 AD and the physical anthropologist who comes face-to-face with the supernatural murderer in the present day – by a celebrated pair of archaeologists.
DEADLINE
1995
Signed first US hardcover edition of this Edgar-nominated mystery by a Denver bookseller and former journalist, originally published as a paperback original in 1981.
THE VANISHING VIOLINIST
(1999)
Inscribed first edition of Frommer's fourth musical mystery featuring symphony manager Joan Spencer, set at the quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
THE WILLIAMSBURG FORGERIES
(1989)
Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's first mystery novel, set in the chilling cutthroat world of rare book dealers and their mortal enemies, other rare book dealers.
