Joe Land, Author, Jon Land, Author Forge $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85971-8
What begins with 1700 dead in a Cambridge, Mass., shopping mall ends with a spectacularly gory climax in Disney World as Land, author of numerous paperback thrillers (most recently, Kingdom of the Seven), makes his over-the-top hardcover debut. When
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Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-48927-2
The well-plotted 47th series entry (after 2016’s Hook, Line and Murder) shows that Land (Strong to the Bone and eight other Caitlin Strong novels) is a worthy successor to Bain (1935–2017), the author of all the previous Murder, She Wrote mysteries...
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Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-48930-2
Land’s farfetched second entry in the Murder, She Wrote franchise (after A Date with Murder) takes mystery author Jessica Fletcher from Cabot Cove, Maine, to New York City, where her publisher, Lane Barfield, is eager to tell her about his latest...
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Heather Graham and Jon Land. Tor, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3791-7
Alex Chin, the hero of this ambitious, technology-centered SF thriller from bestseller Graham (The Unseen) and Land (Strong Cold Dead), has enjoyed an outstanding football career at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Prep, until he’s knocked out...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85655-7
A mysterious killer who is targeting Holocaust survivors sends detective Ben Kamal a Palestinian-American who has been working on the West Bank for six years and his Israeli sidekick, Danielle Barnea, down a labyrinthine trail of conspiracy and ...
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Jon Land. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8467-6
Land toggles smoothly between plotlines in his solid 10th thriller featuring third-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after 2017’s Strong to the Bone). In a prologue set in 1959 Turkey, a freighter, whose entire crew is dead, crashes into a...
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Jon Land. Forge, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8464-5
Thriller Award–finalist Land’s epic ninth novel featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after 2016’s Strong Cold Dead) offers a double-barreled dose of Strongs: in 1944, Caitlin’s grandfather Earl Strong, also a Texas Ranger, looks into three murders
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Jon Land. Forge, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3513-5
As shown by Land’s complex eighth Caitlin Strong novel (after 2015’s Strong Light of Day), the fifth-generation Texas Ranger has the cowboy cool and the gunfighter bravado of a Louis L’Amour hero, just like her legendary great-great-grandfather,...
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Jon Land. Forge, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3512-8
Land’s exciting seventh Caitlin Strong novel (after 2014’s Strong Darkness) finds the fifth-generation Texas Ranger pursuing two cases: one involving a herd of cattle that has been picked clean to the bone and another revolving around the...
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Jon Land. Forge, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3511-1
Fans of Sax Rohmer will appreciate Land’s fast-paced sixth Caitlin Strong novel (after 2013’s Strong Rain Falling), in which the Texas Ranger becomes caught up in a case with roots in the Old West. Key to the mystery is a young Chinese woman, Kai, a
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Jon Land. Open Road (www.openroadmedia.com), $16.99 trade paper (536p) ISBN 978-1-4804-1479-2
Readers will have no trouble telling the good guys from the bad guys in Land’s gung-ho 13th Blaine McCracken novel (after 2012’s Pandora’s Temple). McCracken, the operative who gets the call “when the SEALs or Delta have already passed on the...
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Jon Land. Forge, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3150-2
In Land’s unrelentingly plot-driven fifth novel featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after 2012’s Strong Vengeance), Strong accompanies her lover’s son, Dylan Torres, on a visit to Brown University in Providence, R.I.—a trip that turns to near...
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Jon Land. Open Road, $16.99 ISBN 978-1-4532-2463-2
At the start of Land’s over-the-top 11th Blaine McCracken thriller (1998’s Dead Simple), McCracken, the prototypical near-omnipotent operative, rescues four kidnapped American college students from a Mexican druglord’s HQ, aided by his usual gang of
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Jon Land. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0765330994
Caitlin Strong battles Arab terrorists, homicidal pedophiles, murderous wealthy businessmen, and corrupt government agents in Land’s rousing, action-filled fourth novel featuring the fifth-generation Texas Ranger (after 2011’s Strong at the Break)....
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Jon Land. Forge, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2337-8
An outlandish, violent plot sets up a high-stakes showdown in Land's third novel featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after Strong Justice). Three cases that at first appear unrelated put Caitlin on a collision course with Malcolm Arno's Patriot...
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Jon Land, Author . Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0226-7
Land packs a load of information and action into his fifth thriller (after 2001's Keepers of the Gate), in which Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and his unlikely partner and lover, Israeli detective Danielle Barnea, battle a female...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87265-6
Reviving amorous (but recently estranged) protagonists Danielle Barnea (a chief inspector of the Israel National Police) and Ben Kamal (a Palestinian detective) from The Pillars of Solomon, the narrative of Land's new thriller pivots on three...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86267-1
Honing a talent displayed in some 14 previous books, Land has written a riveting thriller about bone-deep prejudices, secrets and betrayals. The tale takes place in the very near future, when Israel is about to complete its withdrawal from the West...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86819-2
In his 20th book, Land offers a bracing sequel to the well-received thriller, The Walls of Jericho, once again featuring Palestinian detective and ex-Detroit cop Ben Kamal, and Jerusalem police inspector Danielle Barnea, Ben's old flame. Delving...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-87249-6
Though he is better known for his international thrillers, in this slim paean to controversial dolphin therapy Land makes this second foray into softer terrain, following Hope Mountain. After abusing and abandoning his first wife and daughter,...
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Jon Land, Author Forge $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-86772-0
Hope Mountain is a place where miracles happen in Land's absorbing, if predictably concluded, novel set at a skiing school for the disabled. Jamie Brooks, attempting to straighten out his corkscrewed life after a harrowing ski accident left him near
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Jon Land, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14776-4
A powerful evil force has turned away its murderous attention from dope kingpins, ex-Nazis and Central American warlords to start tearing apart average Joes. International troubleshooter Blaine McCracken must thwart whoever is behind this malevolent
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Jon Land, Author Fawcett Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14634-7
With a relentless pace that builds to an intensely charged resolution, this thriller succeeds even though Land repeats the same tricks he's employed in earlier works like The Gamma Option . Jamie Skylar is baffled by his sister Beth, who is living...
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Jon Land, Author Fawcett Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14635-4
Land ( The Valhalla Testament ) launches a new cold war, this time with the Far East, in this fast-paced tale of revenge engineered by the Japanese heirs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Secret agent Blaine McCracken is called upon to uncover why a former
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Jon Land, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14775-7
Acts of violence, madness and sadism, detailed with loving care by Land ( The Valhalla Testament ), are the real stars of this tasteless thriller. Jared Kimberlain, lone survivor of the original Caretakers (``we take care of the country''), now...
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Jon Land, Author Forge 24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2336-1
In Land’s intense, skillfully plotted second thriller to feature formidable female Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after Strong Enough to Die), Caitlin pursues Macerio, a serial killer who’s murdered more than 400 Mexican women since 1997 near the U.S.
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Jon Land, Author . Forge $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1258-7
Land (The Seven Sins
) introduces a tough original heroine, Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, in the first of what hopefully will be a long crime series. Hyperpatriot Harmon Delladonne runs MacArthur-Rain, a corporation with tentacles
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Jon Land, Author . Forge $24.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1534-2
This breathless, violent first in a new thriller series from Land (The Last Prophecy
) introduces Michael “The Tyrant” Tiranno, who’s modeled on real-life Italian entrepreneur Fabrizio Boccardi. Raised by one of the last Sicilian...
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Jon Land, Author . Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0969-3
Land's series seems to gain momentum with every installment, and his latest is as timely and extravagantly plotted as ever. In their seventh adventure, dynamic law enforcement duo and lovers Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea are dispatched by their...
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Jon Land, Author . Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0599-2
Like its predecessors, this sixth entry in Land's thriller series (Blood Diamonds, etc.) featuring Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal is action-packed, if not always plausible. Kamal teams up with his on-again, off-again lover, Danielle...
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Jon Land, created by Fabrizio Boccardi. Forge, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3723-8
Michael Tiranno (aka the Tyrant) saved Las Vegas, Nev., from a terrorist attack in Land’s The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending (2008). In this absorbing sequel, Michael faces a bigger threat—the infamous Black Scorpion crime empire, based in Eastern
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Jon Land. Forge, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2872-4
As with his Tyrant series (Black Scorpion, etc.), Thriller Award–finalist Land’s ambitious supernatural thriller draws on characters created by entrepreneur Fabrizio Boccardi: Ben Younger and his son, Max Borgia; and Dale Denton and his daughter,...
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Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-48933-3
When Mimi Van Dorn, a well-liked resident of Cabot Cove, Maine, collapses and dies without regaining consciousness in Land’s strong third contribution to the Murder, She Wrote franchise (after 2018’s Manuscript for Murder), mystery author Jessica...
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Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0430-3
Jessica Fletcher becomes entangled in mysteries past and present in Land’s diverting fourth novel—the 50th in the overall series—to feature the indefatigable writer-sleuth from Cabot Cove, Maine (after Murder in Red). When a local high school...
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Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0433-4
It’s winter, and Cabot Cove, Maine, is expecting the blizzard of the century in Land’s solid fifth Murder, She Wrote mystery (after 2019’s A Time for Murder). Before it hits, writer-sleuth Jessica Fletcher, Sheriff Mort Metzger, and family doctor...
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Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0436-5
Land’s satisfying sixth Murder, She Wrote mystery (after The Murder of Twelve) finds writer-sleuth Jessica Fletcher reluctantly agreeing to play Mrs. Claus in the Cabot Cove, Maine, annual Christmas parade, and glad the renovation of her lovely old...
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Jon Land. Forge, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8470-6
Land ably juggles multiple plot threads in his riveting 11th Caitlin Strong novel (after 2019’s Strong as Steel). After determining the origins of a killing agent that wiped out all 288 residents of the Texas border town of Camino Pass, relentless...
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Jon Land. Forge, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-23887-0
This strong relaunch of the Margaret Truman franchise from Land (the Murder, She Wrote series) opens with a drone attack on Caesarea, Israel, that kills dozens of beachgoers. A week later, in Washington, D.C., Vice President Stephanie Davenport dies
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John Land. Forge, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-23889-4
At the start of Land’s strong second contribution to the Truman franchise (after 2021’s Murder on the Metro), a shooting on the Capitol steps leaves 18 dead and many others critically wounded. Capitol police officer Kelly Loftus, lawyer Mackensie...
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A.J. Landau. Minotaur, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-87733-8
This mixed-bag series launch from Landau, a pseudonym for Jon Land (the Murder, She Wrote series) and Jeff Ayers (Voyages of Imagination), gets off to a gripping start, but struggles to sustain its momentum. After an explosion topples the Statue of...
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