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Report From Engine Co. 82 - Dennis Smith
ReviewIn 1972, Emergency, a show about the Los Angeles Fire Department, debuted on network TV. That same year, Smith, a New York City fireman, published this book about life in wha... -
Race of Scorpions - Dorothy Dunnett
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is t... -
Quest for Honour - Sam Barone
EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the dawn of history, an epic war is about to begin in the deadly quest for honour. The city of Sumer, ruled by a brutal murderer and his vicious, power hungry ... -
Push Comes to Shove - Oasis
From Publishers WeeklyOasis (Duplicity) delivers a cookie-cutter urban drama that, while long on crime, violence, betrayals, and melodrama, is unfortunately short on coherence and ... -
Punching Out_ One Year in a Clo - Paul Clemens
FromBorn and raised in Detroit, Clemens has witnessed firsthand the decline and death of manufacturing in that city. So when he pondered writing about the decline of the American w... -
Pug Hill - Alison Pace
From BooklistHope McNeil is an art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. At 31, she thinks she should be getting married and having kids, but she doesn't lik... -
Prague pictures_ portraits of a - John Banville
FromHere is the latest installment in Bloomsbury's fascinating Writer in the City series, which matches well-known writers with cities with which they are intimately familiar. Banv... -
Portland Noir - Kevin Sampsell
From Publishers WeeklyThe home of Chuck Palahniuk, Powell's City of Books—and the place with more strip clubs per capita than any other city in America—gets its due in this splendi... -
Poison_ A Novel of the Renaissa - Sara Poole
SUMMARY: In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover t... -
Perfect Nightmare - John Saul
From Publishers WeeklyA creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul's latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall fa...