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Scattered Graves - Beverly Connor
SUMMARY: Local politics get nasty when a new mayor is elected and Diane Fallon is replaced with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as she's adjusting to life w... -
San Francisco Noir - Peter Maravelis
From Publishers WeeklyA roster of Bay Area authors lends solid street cred to 15 original stories, but few deliver on the elusive noir premise of this new series. Following the suc... -
River Town_ Two Years on the Ya - Peter Hessler
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Alo... -
Rescue - Anita Shreve
From Publishers WeeklyIn Shreve's smooth if unsurprising latest (after A Change in Altitude), EMT Peter Webster is drawn to a woman he rescues at the scene of a one-car drunk drivi... -
Ransom - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyA reformed drug dealer, a desperate widow, a bigtime crook and a compassionate cop are the players in this perfunctory kidnapping yarn set in San Francisco. P... -
Rainbow's End - Ellis Peters
When someone pushes a troublesome newcomer from the steeple of St. Eata's church, Superintendent George Felse is charged with sifting through a long list of suspects to catch the k... -
Q-Squared - Peter David
From Publishers WeeklyIt's deja vu all over again in this predictable entry. Star Trek fans will delight in identifying "obscure" references to episodes and characters from the TV ... -
Q-In-Law - Peter David
Product DescriptionWhen two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the_U.S.S. EnterpriseTM_ is chosen as the... -
Pulling Strings With Puppet - James Turnbull
Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by institu... -
Poe - Peter Ackroyd
"Peter Ackroyd's life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) opens with his end, his final days. No one knows what happened between the moment when friends saw him off on the steamboat to Ba...