Chris Knopf. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00517-5
At the start of Knopf’s breezy third Southampton mystery featuring defense attorney Jackie Swaitkowski (after 2011’s Bad Bird), client Franco Raffini summons Jackie during a winter storm to the house of Tad Buczek, a relative of hers by marriage,...
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-57962-571-9
Why did Elton Darby, a high-level employee of Worldwide Loventeers, an international philanthropic organization, fall out of a second-story guest bedroom to his death? That’s the mystery Sam Acquillo must crack in Knopf’s clever ninth whodunit...
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-57962-566-5
At the start of this stellar standalone from Knopf (Tango Down and seven other Sam Acquillo mysteries), Dr. Waters, an organizational psychologist for ExciteAble Technologies, a New Haven, Conn., aerospace manufacturing company, comes home one night
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57962-501-6
The discovery of the body of wealthy Victor Bollings in his new Hamptons home propels Knopf’s exciting eighth outing for former corporate troubleshooter turned carpenter Sam Acquillo (after 2016’s Back Lash). When Sam’s fellow carpenter Ernesto...
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29 (264p) ISBN SBN 978-1-57962-429-3
Early in Knopf’s nicely plotted seventh Sam Acquillo mystery (after 2015’s Cop Job), a stranger calls on the corporation man turned carpenter at his cottage on Long Island’s Little Peconic Bay, to inform him that Marcelo “Bonnie” Bonaventure, an old
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57962-393-7
In Knopf’s enjoyable sixth Hamptons mystery (after 2011’s Black Swan), Sam Acquillo, a former corporate troubleshooter turned carpenter, joins forces with attorney Jackie Swaitkowski, the star of her own series (Ice Cap, etc.), when a murder case...
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57962-363-0
At the start of Knopf’s highly inventive third mystery featuring market researcher Arthur Cathcart (after 2013’s Cries of the Lost), armed men seize Cathcart and girlfriend Natsumi Fitzgerald from their sailboat and threaten them with torture unless
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57962-332-6
Knopf’s entertaining if somewhat repetitive follow-up to 2012’s Dead Anyway finds market researcher Arthur Cathcart still searching for clues to the actions of his murdered wife, Florencia Etxarte, and the secrets that died with her. In the first...
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Chris Knopf. Permanent, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57962-283-1
Knopf, creator of lawyer Jackie Swaitkowski (Ice Cap, etc.) and retired engineer Sam Acquillo (Black Swan, etc.), reaches a new imaginative peak with market researcher Arthur Cathcart in this outstanding revenge novel. One afternoon, Cathcart...
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Chris Knopf, Author . Permanent Press $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57962-118-6
Sam Acquillo, the hero of Knopf's arresting debut (a Book Sense notable selection for May), is the very epitome of the dropout. An ex-corporation man, divorced from his wife and estranged from his daughter, he lives in his parents' run-down...
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Chris Knopf, Permanent, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57962-216-9
A sudden storm drives Sam Acquillo and his girlfriend, Amanda Anselma, and their sailboat into harbor at Fishers Island in Knopf's tense fifth mystery featuring the ex-corporation man turned Long Island carpenter (after 2009's Hard Stop). While the...
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Chris Knopf, Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-55124-7
In Knopf's engaging second Hamptons mystery to feature defense attorney Jacqueline "Jackie" Swaitkowski (after 2010's Short Squeeze), Jackie witnesses the crash of a small airplane that kills pilot Eugenie Birkson, and later retrieves the camera...
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Chris Knopf, Author . Permanent $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57962-198-8
Smart dialogue and sharp social observations distinguish this stand-alone thriller from Knopf (Short Squeeze
and four other Hamptons mysteries). In the summer of 1969, life on the sunny New Jersey resort island of Elysiana simmers as town cops feud
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Chris Knopf, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-55123-0
Lawyer Jackie Swaitkowski, Sam Acquillo's friend, turns a brief contact with client Sergey Pontecello into a personal crusade in Knopf's entertaining fifth mystery set in the Hamptons (after 2009's Hard Stop
). Hapless Sergey, whose...
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Chris Knopf, Author . Permanent $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57962-183-4
Sam Acquillo, who left his job as head of the Technical Services and Support Division of Con Globe for the humdrum life of a skilled carpenter in the Hamptons, is still a magnet for trouble in Knopf’s rewarding fourth mystery (after 2008’
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Chris Knopf, Author . Permanent $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57962-165-0
Ex-boxer and former corporate exec Sam Acquillo, now a hard-drinking carpenter living in a run-down cottage on the shores of the Little Peconic Bay in Southampton, N.Y., becomes the prime suspect in the murder of local builder Robbie Milhouser in...
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Chris Knopf, Author . Permanent $26 (261p) ISBN 978-1-57962-129-2
At the start of Knopf's super second mystery starring ex-boxer and retired engineer Sam Acquillo (after 2005's The Last Refuge
), Sam is enjoying a drink with a lady friend at an East Hampton restaurant when a nearby car and its driver are...
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