Thomas Perry Books In Order

Butcher’s Boy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Butcher’s Boy (1982)
  2. Sleeping Dogs (1992)
  3. The Informant (2011)
  4. Eddie’s Boy (2020)

Fargo Adventures Books In Publication Order

  1. Spartan Gold (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) (2009)
  2. Lost Empire (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) (2010)
  3. The Kingdom (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) (2011)
  4. The Tombs (With: Clive Cussler) (2012)
  5. The Mayan Secrets (With: Clive Cussler) (2013)
  6. The Eye of Heaven (By:Clive Cussler,Russell Blake) (2014)
  7. The Solomon Curse (By:Clive Cussler,Russell Blake) (2015)
  8. Pirate (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2016)
  9. The Romanov Ransom (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2017)
  10. The Gray Ghost (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2018)
  11. The Oracle (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2019)
  12. Wrath of Poseidon (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2020)
  13. The Serpent’s Eye (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) (2022)

Jack Till Books In Publication Order

  1. Silence (2007)
  2. The Boyfriend (2013)

Jane Whitefield Books In Publication Order

  1. Vanishing Act (1995)
  2. Dance for the Dead (1996)
  3. Shadow Woman (1997)
  4. The Face-Changers (1998)
  5. Blood Money (1999)
  6. Runner (2009)
  7. Poison Flower (2012)
  8. A String of Beads (2014)
  9. The Left-Handed Twin (2021)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Metzger’s Dog (1983)
  2. Big Fish (1985)
  3. Island (1988)
  4. Death Benefits (2001)
  5. Pursuit (2001)
  6. Dead Aim (2002)
  7. Nightlife (2006)
  8. Fidelity (2008)
  9. Strip (2010)
  10. Forty Thieves (2016)
  11. The Old Man (2017)
  12. The Bomb Maker (2018)
  13. The Burglar (2019)
  14. A Small Town (2020)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Book of the Lion (2015)

Bibliomysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  3. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  4. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)
  5. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  6. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  7. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  8. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  11. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  14. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  15. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  16. The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)
  17. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  18. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  22. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  23. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  24. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  25. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  26. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  27. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)

Bibliomysteries Books In Chronological Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  3. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  4. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  5. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  6. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  7. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  8. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  11. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  14. The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)
  15. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  16. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  17. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  18. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  22. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  23. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  24. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  25. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  26. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  27. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. A Study in Sherlock (2011)
  2. Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016)

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Thomas Perry Books Overview

The Butcher’s Boy

The Edgar Award winning novel by the master of nail biting suspense Los Angeles TimesThomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of infernal ingenuity The New York Times Book Review, includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly. Murder has always been easy for the Butcher s Boy it s what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it.

Sleeping Dogs

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he’s a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher’s Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there’s been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they’ve found him. The Butcher’s Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him…
until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide…
until he’s locked into a cross country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces…
‘Exciting…
Suspenseful…
A thriller’s job is to make you turn the pages until the story’s done and your eyes hurt and the clock says 3 a.m…
. I wouldn’t try to grab this one away from somebody only half way through. No telling what might happen.’ Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

The Informant

In Thomas Perry’s Edgar winning debut The Butcher s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butcher s Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won t stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise latenight visit from the Butcher s Boy. Knowing she keeps track of the Mafia, he asks her whom his attackers worked for, offering information that will help her crack an unsolved murder in return. So begins a new assault on organized crime and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of the law. As the Butcher s Boy works his way ever closer to his quarry in an effort to protect his new way of life, Waring is in a race against time, either to convince him to become a protected informant or to take him out of commission for good.

Spartan Gold (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood)

THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW ADVENTURE SERIES FROM THE 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A fortune lost for ages…
a millionaire pursuing his destiny…
Sam and Remi Fargo are about to encounter both. When it comes to explosive, adrenaline charged adventure, Clive Cussler is hailed as ‘the master of building suspense and tension’ Richmond Times Dispatch. Now Cussler unveils his newest heroes, a husband and wife team who hunt treasure for a living even at the risk of dying…
. Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of history. In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared and the treasure was lost again. Until now. Treasure hunting husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon’s famous ‘Lost Cellar,’ and fascinated, they set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it. That man is Hadeon Bondaruk, a half Russian, half Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his, no matter what. Filled with the high stakes suspense and boundless invention that are unique to Cussler, Spartan Gold is a dazzling thriller from the grand master of adventure fiction.

Lost Empire (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood)

Sam and Remi Fargo, heroes of Spartan Gold, return in this extraordinary new adventure from the number one New York Times bestselling author. With Spartan Gold, a daring thriller that Publishers Weekly proclaimed ‘solidly in the Cussler tradition, and sure to please new fans and old,’ Clive Cussler introduced husband and wife treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. In their electrifying new adventure, the Fargos make a startling discovery that others would kill to keep hidden…
While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico’s ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly. Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death. Filled with the dazzling suspense and breathtaking action that are Cussler’s trademarks, Lost Empire is a stunning new novel from the grand master of adventure.

The Kingdom (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood)

Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series. In Spartan Gold and Lost Empire, Clive Cussler brought readers into the world of husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, whose passion and instinct for treasure hunting has led to extraordinary discoveries and perilous journeys. Their next adventure, however, might be their most astonishing yet. The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos’ was on a mission to find the oil baron’s missing father and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn’t quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search. What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, a centuries old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time…
and a skeleton that could turn the history of human evolution on its head. Packed with the endless imagination and breathtaking suspense that are his hallmarks, The Kingdom once again proves that Clive Cussler is ‘just about the best storyteller in the business’ New York Post.

Silence

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double cross them if their jealousy and cold blooded calculations don t result in a fatal lovers quarrel first. With masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Perry delivers another mesmerizing thrill ride.

Vanishing Act

‘A CHALLENGING AND SATISFYING THRILLER…
WITH MANY SURPRISING TWISTS. ‘ The New York TimesJane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness not the tree filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself. So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape…
. ‘Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air. The strong willed hero*ine he introduces in Vanishing Act rates as one of his most singular creations.’ The New York Times Book ReviewONE THRILLER THAT MUST BE READ…
. Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist.’ San Francisco Examiner

Dance for the Dead

‘COMPELLING…
NOBODY WRITES A CHASE BETTER THAN PERRY.’ The Washington Post Book WorldWhen eight year old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it’s clear the Deckers weren’t the intended victims: Timothy’s own room ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated is the shocking evidence. Timothy’s nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast. Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American ‘guide’ who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety. But diverting Jane’s attention is Mary Perkins, a desperate woman with S&L fraud in her past. Stalking Mary is a ruthless predator determined to find her and the fortune she claims she doesn’t have. Jane quickly creates a new life for Mary and jumps back on Timmy’s case…
not knowing that the two are fatefully linked to one calculating killer…
.’Spellbinding…
Terrific…
Jane Whitefield may be the most arresting protagonist in the 90s thriller arena…
. Thrillers need good villains, and this one has a formidable SOB who is cold blooded enough to satisfy anybody’s taste.’ Entertainment Weekly’A terse thriller…
Perry starts the story with a bang.’ San Francisco Chronicle

Shadow Woman

Jane Whitefield is a name to be whispered like a prayer. A Shadow Woman who rescues the helpless and the hunted when their enemies leave them no place to hide. Now with the bone deep cunning of her Native American forebears, she arranges a vanishing act for Pete Hatcher, a Las Vegas gambling executive. It should be a piece of cake, but she doesn’t yet know about Earl and Linda professional destroyers who will cash in if Hatcher dies, killers who love to kill…
slowly. From Vegas to upstate New York to the Rockies, the race between predator and prey slowly narrows until at last they share an intimacy broken only by death…
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The Face-Changers

Jane Whitefield, legendary half Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman. A famous plastic surgeon who has dedicated his life to healing, the good doctor hasn’t a clue why stalkers are out for his blood. But he knows Jane Whitefield’s name and that she is his only hope. Once again Jane performs her magic, leading Dahlman in a nightmare flight across America, only a heartbeat ahead of pursuers whose leader is a dead ringer for Jane: a raven haired beauty who has stolen her name, reputation, and techniques not to save lives, but to destroy them…
. From the Paperback edition.

Blood Money

‘Thomas Perry just keeps getting better,’ said Tony Hillerman, about Sleeping Dogs and in this superb new novel by one of America’s best thriller writers, Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia, and its money. Jane Whitefield, the fearless ‘guide’ who helps people in trouble disappear, make victims vanish,has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs. Carey McKinnon, when she is called upon again, to face her toughest opponents yet. Jane must try to save a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso. Yet the deceptively simple task of hiding a girl propels Jane into the center of horrific events, and pairs her with Bernie the Elephant, the mafia’s man with the money. Bernie has a photographic memory, and in order to undo an evil that has been growing for half a century,he and Jane engineer the biggest theft of all time, stealing billions from hidden mafia accounts and donating the money to charity. Heart stopping pace, fine writing, and mesmerizing characters combine in Blood Money to make it the best novel yet by the writer called ‘one of America’s finest storytellers,’San Francisco Examiner.

Runner

Jane Whitefield New York Times best selling writer Thomas Perry’s most popular character returns from retirement to the world of the Runner, guiding fugitives out of danger.
After a nine year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide JaneWhitefield is back, in the latest superb thriller by award winning author Thomas Perry.
For more than a decade, Jane pursued her unusual profession: I m a guide…
I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is. Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York. But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters. That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow she s made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a Runner. And her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that will be a rescue operation or a chance for revenge.
Runner is Thomas Perry at the top of his form.

Metzger’s Dog

The much loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award winning The Butcher’s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. When Leroy Chinese Gordon breaks into a professor s lab at the University of Los Angeles, he s after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos Los Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA s middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon s beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger s friend, an enormous half wild dog with huge teeth.

Death Benefits

A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor. Stillman wants to find and convict her; Walker is convinced the woman is innocent. Now Walker teams up with Stillman on an urgent north by northeast race relentlessly leading to a pay off that just might shock the life out of him…
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Pursuit

Thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time. The ferocity and apparent randomness of the crime prompt the police to call in criminology professor Daniel Millikan they want a profile of the murderer. Millikan determines that the crime was committed not by a psychopath but by a professional killer of consummate skill and total lack of feeling: I think that the one who did it is one of the special cases. He’s somebody we can t afford to have walking down a street where our families walk. When Millikan learns that the investigation has come to a complete standstill, he commits himself to an unorthodox decision. The only hope of stopping this killer and ending the bloodshed is to employ Roy Prescott, an expert in the narrow specialty of hunting down murderers through methods the police can t and wouldn t use.

And so begins a stunning novel by Thomas Perry, one of the most thoroughly satisfying writers around Lawrence Block, a death match fought from one end of the country to the other by two enemies who both understand that only one of them will be alive at the end.

Dead Aim

Thomas Perry is a master of nail biting suspense. Los Angeles TimesIn this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award winning author of The Butcher’s Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of dazzling ingenuity The New York Times Book Review, Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the edge, and finds himself drawn into a lethal struggle with a deadly adversary and then another, and another, and another. Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon s desperate attempts, he loses her, and he becomes obsessed with discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover the secrets of this stranger s life, and what they learn propels them into a terrifying underworld of sinister secrets and deadly hatreds. Set against Mallon is the master hunter Parish, a man with an expert understanding of evil, who preys on rich people s desire for dominance and revenge. Thomas Perry s writing is as sharp as a sushi knife, said the Los Angeles Times about Blood Money, and the same can be said about this new novel by the author hailed as one of America s finest storytellers San Francisco Examiner. With Dead Aim, Thomas Perry gives us another brilliant novel of spine tingling suspense.

Nightlife

Thomas Perry’s novels of suspense have been celebrated for their dazzling ingenuity The New York Times Book Review and for writing that is as sharp as a sushi knife Los Angeles Times. By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry s new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat and mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her. When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found shot to death in his Portland, Oregon, home, police find nothing at the scene of the crime except several long strands of blond hair hinting that a second victim may have been involved. Hotel security tapes from the victim s last vacation reveal an out of focus picture of a young blond woman entering and leaving his room. Could she also be a murder victim?Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is determined to solve the case and locate the missing blonde, but her feelings, and the investigation, are complicated when Hugo hires private detective Joe Pitt to perform a parallel investigation. As the Joe and Catherine form an uneasy alliance, the murder count rises and both realize that the pretty young woman in the security tapes is not a victim at all. As Catherine follows the evidence, she finds herself in a deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each crime. From the Hardcover edition.

Fidelity

When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And,most of all, who was he if he wasn t the man she thought she married? Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. It’s none of his business why he was hired to kill Phil Kramer. But now that he s been ordered to take out Kramer s widow, he figures there s a bigger secret at work and maybe a bigger payoff. As they race to find the secret that Phil Kramer so masterfully hid, both Hobart and Emily must question where their true loyalties lie and how much they owe those who have been unfaithful to them. In Fidelity, Thomas Perry delivers another riveting thriller.

Strip

An aging but formidable Strip club owner, Claudiu Manco Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank’s night deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined.

A Study in Sherlock

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one of a kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective. Thomas Perry, for example, has Dr. Watson tell his tale, in a virtuoso work of alternate history that finds President McKinley approaching the sleuth with a disturbing request; Lee Child sends an FBI agent to investigate a crime near today’s Baker Street only to get a twenty first century shock; Jacqueline Winspear spins a story of a plucky boy inspired by the detective to make his own deductions; and graphic artist Colin Cotterill portrays his struggle to complete this assignment in his hilarious The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story. In perfect tribute comes this delicious collection of twisty, clever, and enthralling studies of a timeless icon. Featuring stories from Alan BradleyTony BroadbentJan BurkeLionel ChetwyndLee ChildColin Cotterill Neil GaimanLaura LippmanGayle Lynds & John SheldonPhillip & Jerry MargolinMargaret MaronThomas PerryS. J. RozanDana StabenowCharles ToddJacqueline Winspear print version only

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