Jan Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2389-8
Award-winning mystery author Burke (Flight; Sweet Dreams, Irene) takes a break from her Irene Kelly series to test the waters of stand-alone mainstream thrillers, and proves she can swim with the sharks in this tale of vigilante justice. The members
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Jan Burke, Author . Pocket $7.50 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8051-2
The acclaimed author of the Irene Kelly mystery series (Goodnight, Irene
, etc.) and the Edgar award–winning novel Bones
delivers this superb collection of short stories, hitherto available only in a limited trade edition from A.S.A.P....
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Jan Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2390-4
Divided into three parts with 20-year intervals in between, Burke's superb new Irene Kelly novel (after 1999's Edgar-winning Bones
) is a literary triumph. In 1958, Conn O'Connor, a brash young reporter for the Las Piernas News-Express
,
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Jan Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (366p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7385-5
At the start of Edgar-winner Burke's well-crafted 10th novel of suspense (after 2005's Bloodlines
), sociopathic killer Cleo Smith has just murdered a graphic artist, Richard Fletcher, who was a member of a large, bizarre California family,...
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Jan Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (305p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7387-9
In this outstanding supernatural thriller from bestseller Burke (Kidnapped
), her first venture into paranormal territory, Tyler Hawthorne, a British officer wounded at Waterloo, receives a memento mori ring on the battlefield from “Messenger&#
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-85552-3
Like Burke's Edgar-winning Bones (1999), this ambitious, if overlong, suspense novel focuses on an intense search for a pathological killer. In Las Piernas, Calif., newspaper reporter Irene Kelly, Burke's series heroine, takes backseat to her...
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Jan Burke, Author A.S.A.P. Publishing $30 (338p) ISBN 978-1-892011-23-7
Jan Burke's 18 collects the shorter fiction by this Edgar-winning author (Bones), including ""The Man in the Civil Suit,"" which won an Agatha Award, plus two stories written especially for the book. Edward D. Hoch provides a handsome ...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $17.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-78200-9
Set in the fictional Southern California town of Las Piernas, this generally exciting debut mystery--the first of a projected series--brims with brutality, but is slowed at times by home and hospital bedside scenes. Former reporter Irene Kelly, now...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-78210-8
Politics and murder mix in the second mystery, after Goodnight, Irene , to feature Southern California newspaper reporter Irene Kelly and her homicide detective lover, Frank Harriman. Jacob Henderson, teenaged son of a district attorney candidate...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-78216-0
Nearly recovered from the wounds she received in Sweet Dreams, feisty reporter Irene Kelly returns to her California newspaper office to be caught up in another intelligent tale of danger and vengeance. Among her accumulated mail is a letter from...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-80343-2
Newly married Southern California newspaper reporter Irene Kelly (seen before in Dear Irene, etc.) doesn't immediately recognize the bum on the bus stop bench who says he knows her. A few weeks later, meeting with some old friends, she learns that...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-80344-9
In Sweet Dreams, Irene (1994), Southern California newspaper reporter Irene Kelly was abducted while pursuing a story. Burke again examines the pain suffered by kidnapping victims as Irene's police detective husband, Frank Harriman, is taken by...
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Jan Burke, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-85551-6
In her seventh outing (after Liar, 1998), journalist Irene Kelly is part of the investigative team on the hunt for serial killer Nicholas Parrish's many victims. Their graves are in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, and Parrish, having entered a
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Jan Burke. Simon & Schuster, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5284-3
Psychopath Nicholas Parrish, who almost cost Irene Kelly her life in the Edgar-winning Bones, returns in Burke's overwrought 11th thriller featuring the California newspaper reporter (after 2006's Kidnapped). When bodies start popping up bearing...
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