Jerry Oster, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-015519-3
When the body of a stranger turns up in Rancho Maria de la Luz, a super-swank California community, the rich, privileged residents are only mildly concerned. But as Oster's new thriller proceeds, the unnatural deaths of entrenched community members...
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Jerry Oster, Author Bantam Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07127-6
Despite two bloody climaxes (in a downtown Manhattan loft and in front of a West Side leather bar) there isn't much of a payoff here, as Oster's New York gliterati and low-life grifters offer little besides talk and murder. Six months after her...
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Jerry Oster, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-06-015687-9
The transformation of a Brooklyn hausfrau into a Claude Montana-clad fed narc on a revenge mission is the axis of Oster's latest work. Continuing the urban, tough ambience of Nowhere Man, an elaborate plot evokes the trendy world of glamorous...
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Jerry Oster, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.45 (242p) ISBN 978-0-06-015987-0
A fast-paced, action-filled tale, Oster's latest mystery conveys the gritty taste of Manhattan, its cops, newspapermen and underworld. Charles Ives, an investigative reporter for the Herald , is killed in a fall from a Park Avenue high-rise,...
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Jerry Oster, Author Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08037-7
A police procedural is expected to deliver a realistic account of cops solving a crime. Oster ( Sweet Justice ) oversteps that goal in a gory new NYPD thriller in which nearly every policeman is irredeemably corrupt and almost every woman is a slut...
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