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Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316113670ISBN 13: 9780316113670
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Author of THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET. Ages 8-12. New, ARC, in pictorial covers. L47/ L49.
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316033189ISBN 13: 9780316033183
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. THE VOURS: evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the eve of the winter solstice. When Reggie reads about the Vours in an old, mysterious journal, she assumes these are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic. But when her little brother, Henry, begins to act strangely, it's clear that these creatures exist beyond a madwoman's imagination, and Reggie finds out what happens when fears come to life. With the dynamic combination of engaging writing and bone-chilling horror, THE DEVOURING is a perfect midnight read. But be wary of reading this on Sorry Night--the Vours will be waiting. New ARC in pictorial wraps. Ages 12 and up. L47.
Published by Little Brown, and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2018
ISBN 10: 0316523968ISBN 13: 9780316523967
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Johnson, Beverly (illustrator). 1st Edition. Best-selling authorJames Patterson has teamed up with the world's most famous genius to entertain, educate and inspire a generation of kids ? with the first and only kids' book series officially approved by the Albert Einstein Archives. Twelve-year-old orphan Max Einstein (like Albert Einstein himself) is not your typical genius. Max hacks the computer system at NYU in order to attend college courses (even though she hates tests), builds homemade inventions to help the homeless, and plays speed chess in the park. Her not-so-normal life is crazy but predictable until. Max is recruited by a mysterious organization! Their mission: solve some of the world's toughest problems using science. She's helped by a diverse group of young geniuses from around the globe as they invent new ways to power the farthest reaches of the planet. But that's only if the sinister outfit known only as The Corporation doesn't get to her first. First in the MAX EINSTEIN series. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine (rear flap crease, else fine, and not a factor in mylar), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} l166.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1997
ISBN 10: 0316314773ISBN 13: 9780316314770
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L36.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1995
ISBN 10: 0316314420ISBN 13: 9780316314428
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L36/ DD.
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316032220ISBN 13: 9780316032223
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Advance Reading Copy. Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient--and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder. Because that patient knows Peter from his other life, when he had a different name and a very different job. The only reason he's a doctor now is thanks to the witness protection program--and even that can't protect him from the long reach of the New Jersey mob. Now he's got to do whatever it takes to keep his patient--and himself--alive. BEAT THE REAPER is an original and very entertaining debut; its author is a doctor who can write. New, ARC, in pictorial trade paper format. MBS/M16.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0316173584ISBN 13: 9780316173582
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In I, RHONDA MANNING, GO HUNTING WITH NY DADDY, Gilchrist writes again of one of her most beloved characters, with the hilarity, wisdom, and poignancy that marks all of her fiction. Here, a clutch of stories are told in the voice of Rhoda-as a child, as a divorced mother of three sons, and as an old woman, recalling the curse and blessing of being the only daughter of Big Dudley. In "The Abortion," a young girl whose father is dying and the boy who loves her struggle with clashing notions of what makes life meaningful. In "Remorse," a small town hairdresser revisits the last days of his best friend's life and what he might have done to save her. There is a rich vein of sorrow here, but Gilchrist lightens the burden with a grasp of how both folly and grace are born of love. As her characters, both new and familiar, spin out their unlikely fates, Gilchrist proves once again that there is no other Southern writer quite like her. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {NBot remainder-marked or price-clipped} L153.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316021555ISBN 13: 9780316021555
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA.Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic Mountain, but in his room that night Peter finds the page is inexplicably, impossibly, enragingly.gone. So begins the immensely entertaining story of Peter and his unrequited love for his best friend's girl; of Charlotte and her less-than-perfect marriage to a man in love with someone else; of Jonathan and his wicked and fateful debauchery; and of Holly, the impetus for it all. Along the way, there's the evil boss, the desirable temptress, miscommunications, misrepresentations, fiendish behavior, letters gone astray, and ultimately, an ending in which every character gets his due.Both incisive and wonderfully funny, this is a brilliantly understated comedy of manners in which love lost is found again. Author's debut novel. As new,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. MLBS1.
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995
ISBN 10: 0316579297ISBN 13: 9780316579292
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A collectionTHAT includes an investigator who spies on his own wife and the title novella portraying three separate descents into the drug netherworld of 1980s New York. Author of the novels GARDEN STATE, THE ICE STORM, PURPLE AMERICA, and THE DIVINERS; two collections of stories, DEMONOLOGY, and a memoir, THE BLACK VEIL. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L153.
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2008
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Author Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution. New, collectible ARC in pictorial wraps. L66.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2010
ISBN 10: 0316118915ISBN 13: 9780316118910
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Author of the novels GARDEN STATE, THE ICE STORM, PURPLE AMERICA, RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, and THE DIVINERS; two collections of stories, THE RING OF BRIGHTEST ANGELS AROUND HEAVEN and DEMONOLOGY, and a memoir, THE BLACK VEIL.As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L117.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998
ISBN 10: 0316693324ISBN 13: 9780316693325
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frannie O'Neill is a caring young veterinarian living in the Colorado Rockies, trying to erase the memory of her beloved husband's mysterious murder. It is not long before another neighbor suddenly dies, and FBI agent Kit Harrison arrives at Frannie's doorstep. Kit is hell-bent on solving the heinous case despite resounding protests from the FBI and the thrashing of his own internal demons. Kit secretly pursues the investigation, yet witnesses keep turning up dead. Then Frannie stumbles upon an astonishing discovery in the nearby woods, and their lives are altered in ways they could never have imagined. Simply knowing the secret of Max -- the terrified 11-year-old girl with an amazing gift -- could mean death. As more and more diabolical details are unearthed, the murderer's bloody trail ultimately leads the trio to an underground lab network, known as "the School." Here scientists conduct shockingly incomprehensible experiments involving children and genetic alteration. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MBS1.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0316730831ISBN 13: 9780316730839
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes' brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train--and nearly murdered themselves en route--the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen's servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh. Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen's life. But the circumstances of the two victims' deaths also call to Holmes' mind the terrible murder--in Holyrood--of "The Italian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary's vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination. Author of THE ALIENIST and THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS. Fine, first edition, first printing,in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marred or price-clipped} BUND L21.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A, 2011
ISBN 10: 0316020753ISBN 13: 9780316020756
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Author of PARIS TROUT, THE PAPERBOY, and others. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L90.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 0316058785ISBN 13: 9780316058780
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author in black fountain ink on Beverly Hills Literary Society bookplate affixed to inside front board. Author of eighteen acclaimed novels, including THE ICE QUEEN, PRACTICAL MAGIC, HERE ON EARTH, THE RIVER KING, BLUE DIARY, ILLUMINATION NIGHT, TURTLE DIARY, SEVENTH HEAVEN, and AT RISK. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine. mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not ipped}rked or price-cremainder-ma L16. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316057584ISBN 13: 9780316057585
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. First American Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink with happy face doodle below signature. Advance Reading Copy. It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus's investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history. Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far? New, collectible ARC in pictorial wraps. M72. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 0316724440ISBN 13: 9780316724449
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Original Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Wish we could offer this signed, but haven't seen the author lately. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L2/ L53/A/V.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999
ISBN 10: 0316633798ISBN 13: 9780316633796
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A77.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0316156477ISBN 13: 9780316156479
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. New, unread, first eddition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. { Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M24/ M33.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0316299480ISBN 13: 9780316299480
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L36.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0316890804ISBN 13: 9780316890809
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L88. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999
ISBN 10: 0316098442ISBN 13: 9780316098441
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In 1964, LITTLE BIG MSN gave us the reminiscences of Jack Crabb - a white orphan raised among the Cheyenne - who returns to "civilized" society, where (among other things) he tangles with Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok, and ends up as the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. At the end of LITTLE BIG MSN, Jack's supposed death at age 111 cut short his tale. A newly discovered manuscript, however, reveals that Jack had faked his death to get out of his publishing contract, and he now picks up the story of his extraordinarily action-packed life.As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND.
Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
ARC. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Advance Reading Copy. Nominated for a Dagger Awards for Best Book.On ahot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever. On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound. At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency. These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways Kate Atkinson's first novel, BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM, was named England's Whitbread Book of the Year in 1995. Author also of HUMAN CROQUET, NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, CASE HISTORIES, ONE GOOD TURN, and LIFE AFTER LIFE, among others. WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? is the third book in the Jackson Brodie mystery series.1Kate Atkinson's outstanding third novel starring private investigator Jackson Brodie, following her superb CASE HISTORIES and ONE GOOD TURN. New, collectible ARC in pictorial wraps. L108. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0316154059ISBN 13: 9780316154055
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. CITY OF BONES was one of five mystery novels short-listed for the Edgar Award as Best Novel in 2003. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A33/M44. Signed by Author(s).
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Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 0316007021ISBN 13: 9780316007023
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L80.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0316570826ISBN 13: 9780316570824
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page. Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. Sure enough, he has a very particular--and bizarre--set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Richly textured and compelling, THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT is a new literary pinnacle from an acknowledged American master. Author is the winner of the 2016 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. As new, first edition, firt printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A63/ L17/M49/ M90. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown and Company. Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0316154067ISBN 13: 9780316154062
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Trade Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she's thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything--even her darkest moments--she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself. When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses her new life away like a bad hand of cards and goes back in a sprint to her old work. Her trade was robbing casino gamblers, and she was the very best. Now it's the only way she can make enough money fast to maybe make everything right. Quickly she lines up a mark, a man who has been winning steadily for a week at high-stakes baccarat. The job goes smoothly until she opens up his briefcase. And discovers a world of trouble she never dreamed of. She's crossed paths again with her life's nemesis, the man who destroyed everything six years before. He's Jack Karch, a private investigator by day who does bloody work for the casinos by night. Walking back into his sights is the worst thing that's ever happened to Cassie. Getting out alive will take all her skill and luck and faith in that one good thing. VOID MOON turns conventional notions of good and evil inside out as it delivers a lightning-paced, sexy, and unforgettable story of love, money, and redemption. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M10/A33/M74. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown amp; Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2003
ISBN 10: 0316591122ISBN 13: 9780316591126
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Little Brown & Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0316153915ISBN 13: 9780316153911
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author and dated 10-15-02 on title page. CHASING THE DIME is a "wrong number" mystery novel, introducing a new protagonist, Henry Pierce, a talented and single-mindedly obsessive technological researcher on the outs with his girlfriend, whose investigation of the whereabouts of a call girl named Lily (whose telephone messages he keeps receiving) tumbles him into a world of "escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions" that threatens his career, his friendships, his life, and all his familiar assumptions. As new first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M10/A33. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0316735949ISBN 13: 9780316735940
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's aspiring journalist is back on the beat, trawling the streets of Glasgow for a story ? something to prove she can write; that she's better at her job than all her male colleagues; anything that will get her off the terrible night shift that is slowly turning her brains to mush. And then she meets the woman with the poodle perm at the door of a wealthy suburb in the north of the city. It's just a domestic dispute, Paddy's told, although her instincts are alerted when she's slipped a £50 note to keep the story out of the papers. By the next morning the woman is dead; she's been tortured, beaten, and left to die. Paddy has found her story, but she's still got the £50; and with her father and brothers unemployed, and her upright Roman Catholic family perilously short of money, this could solve a lot of problems. A day later, Paddy sees a body being pulled from the river. Another death, she's told; it's nothing to do with you; go home. But when Paddy talks to the wife of the dead man, she finds that the relationship between him and the murdered woman was closer than the police had imagined. Why have these people died? What were they trying to hide? And could this be the break Paddy's been waiting for? What follows is a deeply personal journey into the dark heart of a brutal economic recession, and the brutal bud of the drugs trade in the 1980s. THE DEAD HOUR was a 2007 Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity nominee for Best Novel, and is the basis of the BBC film. Author of FIELD OF BLOOD, DECEPTION,SLIP OF THE KNIFE, and the Garnethill trilogy {GARNETHILL, EXILE and ESOLUTION.} Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M40. Signed by Author(s).