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Signed 1st Editions for the Collector
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Dan Brown 
INFERNO
2013 NY: Penguin/LON: Bantam
While we are still attempting to secure signed copies of Dan Brown's newest Robert Langdon thriller, INFERNO,
we won't offer them until they are "in stock." Market prices are
already out of hand in anticipation of limited supply and high demand.
We can, however, offer both US and UK first printings, with signed bookplates laid in, but we only have a small number of bookplates remaining (from a time when DB was more accessible).
 In
his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons,
and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes,
and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his
element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.
In the heart of Italy,
Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a
harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and
mysterious literary masterpieces...Dante's Inferno. Drawing from
Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom
to trust... before the world is irrevocably altered.
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Craig Johnson 
A SERPENT'S TOOTH
2013 NY: Penguin
The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New York Times bestselling series
The success of Craig
Johnson's Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues
to grow after A&E's hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the
Wyoming sheriff. As the Crow Flies marked the series' highest debut on
the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in his ninth Western mystery,
Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet.
It's homecoming in Absaroka
County, but the football and festivities are interrupted when a
homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy," Cord Lynear is
searching for his missing mother but clues are scarce. Longmire and his
companions, feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry
Standing Bear, embark on a high plains scavenger hunt in hopes of
reuniting mother and son. The trail leads them to an interstate
polygamy group that's presiding over a stockpile of weapons and
harboring a vicious vendetta.
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Craig Johnson 
STAY CALM, HAVE COURAGE
& WAIT FOR SIGNS
2013 NY: ASAP Publishing
The perfect addition to any Walt Longmire collection!
This
anthology of nine Walt Longmire short stories and eight essays comes in
a deluxe oversized hardback with 27 full page illustrations and 13
photographs from Craig's personal collection with an introduction by
Lou Diamond Phillips and afterward by Margaret Coel.
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John Lescroart 
THE OPHELIA CUT
2013 NY: Atria Books
For the first time since
2009, the author's most popular protagonist returns in a masterful
novel that bears all the hallmarks of John Lescroart's extraordinary
storytelling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally
complex situations with no easy answers, and-of course-relentless,
nail-biting suspense that will leave you breathless.
Brittany McGuire is the
beautiful, twenty-three-year-old daughter of Susan Weiss and Moses
McGuire-and the niece of defense attorney Dismas Hardy. Popular and
pretty, Brittany has always moved easily from one boyfriend to the
next, but her most recent ex, a young man named Rick Jessup, can't seem
to get over her. His abuse escalates, culminating in a terrible night
when Brittany is raped.
Within twenty-four hours,
Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the
investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his old
friend. Making things even more complicated, this case threatens to
bring to light old secrets that could destroy the careers of Hardy and
police lieutenant Abe Glitsky. As the overwhelming evidence against
Moses piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of
the jurors - until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in
both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward
that might just save them all. But at what price?
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Hugh Howey 
SHIFT
April 2013 LON: Century
The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to
the beginnings of the silo. "An epic feat of imagination. You will live
in this world". (Justin Cronin). In a future less than fifty years
away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The
truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead.
They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us.  They
are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that
will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The
history of the silo is about to be written. Our future is about to
begin.
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Coming this October:
DUST
October 2013 LON: Century
This
is the much-anticipated final installment of the Wool trilogy. In a
time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has
discovered the truth. And they are going to tell. Jules knows what her
predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be
lived in this way. And she won't stand for it. But Jules no longer has
supporters. And there is far more to fear than the toxic world beyond
her walls. A poison is growing from within Silo 18. One that cannot be
stopped. Unless Silo 1 step in. Get SHIFT and DUST together for a special price Check out our deluxe triple-wide slipcase for your WOOL trilogy! See all titles by Hugh Howey. |
Michael Harvey 
THE INNOCENCE GAME
2013 NY: Knopf
Michael Harvey's wire-taut thriller begins in an ordinary classroom at
Northwestern's renowned journalism school but quickly spirals into the
grittiest corners of Chicago. Along with only two classmates-beautiful,
strong-willed Sarah Gold and enigmatically brilliant Jake Havens-Ian
Joyce has been invited to participate in the innocence seminar, an
exclusive class for top students.
The seminar investigates
wrongful convictions and cold cases; the idealistic J-school students
are tasked with trying to exonerate the falsely accused. But on the
first day of class, Jake introduces a case of his own, the long-ago
murder of a young boy, ten-year-old Skylar Wingate, last seen walking
home from school, his body discovered three days later in a forest
preserve a mile away. His alleged killer was murdered decades ago in
jail.
But two chilling clues delivered to Jake's house, a piece
of bloodstained fabric and a blunt handwritten confession, suggest
that the killer is still very much alive, and, in fact, in their midst.
As the evidence mounts, the three classmates find themselves drawn
into web of distrust, deceit, and corruption that will leave each of
them fighting for their lives.
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Richard Lange 
ANGEL BABY
2013 NY: Little, Brown & Co
A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.
To
escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She
takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in
her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her
plan.
Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years
earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a
key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the
same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife.
With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.
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Dean Koontz 
DEEPLY ODD
2013 NY: Random House
Following the explosive
success of Odd Apocalypse, here is the gripping new adventure of Odd
Thomas, Dean Koontz's most celebrated character.
In a sinister encounter with
a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a
disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been
committed. Across California, into Nevada, and back again, Odd embarks
on a riveting road chase to prevent the tragedy.
Along the way, he meets -
and charms - a collection of eccentrics who become his allies in a
terrifying battle against a sociopath of singular boldness and
cleverness-and a shadowy network of mysterious, like-minded murderers
whose chilling resources seem almost supernatural.
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Steve Ulfelder 
SHOTGUN LULLABY
2013 NY: Minotaur
From critically acclaimed, Edgar-nominated author Steve Ulfelder-Conway
Sax is back in a thrilling and heart-wrenching story of how far a
father will go to save his son.
Conway Sax is a man seeking
redemption. A man with a deeply checkered past currently paying for
his sins by helping Gus Biletnikov stay sober. Wise-ass Gus, son of a
wealthy investment banker, drives Conway nuts. But he also reminds him
of his own estranged son, and so Conway finds himself deeply invested
in his wellbeing.
When a brutal triple-murder
takes place in Gus's halfway house, Conway suspects Gus was the
intended victim, and resolves to find the killer in his usual
full-tilt, no-holds-barred fashion. The list of suspects soon includes
the longtime organized-crime warlord of Springfield, Massachusetts;
Gus's own father, who's a bundle of insecurity despite his fortune; the
father's second wife, a stunning beauty webbed in ugly motives; and a
Houston con man who'll swipe your gold fillings but crack you up while
he does so. But the case is no laughing matter to Conway when somebody
close to him is murdered.
To find the killer and
prevent yet more senseless death, he needs help from both an ambitious
Brazilian-American state cop, and an unlikely criminal source. Along
the way, Conway's personal responsibilities clash with his vow to help
fellow alcoholics, forcing him to make his toughest decision yet in
this unforgettable page-turner reminiscent of Robert B. Parker and
Dennis Lehane.
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