Jonathan Valin, Author Delacorte Press $14.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-385-29589-5
This seventh Harry Stoner mystery (after Life's Work begins when the Cincinnati detective gets a 2:00 a.m. phone call and learns that an old friend, Lonnie ""Jack'' Jackowski, has signed into a local motel under Harry's name and attempted suicide....
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Jonathan Valin, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-385-29683-0
Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a...
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Jonathan Valin, Author Delacorte Press $18 (278p) ISBN 978-0-385-29912-1
In this flimsy tale a Cincinnati PI Harry Stoner seems a shadow puppet of the once provocative and introspective detective seen in such earlier series installments as Extenuating Circumstances . Stoner is hired by psychiatrist Phil Pearson and...
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Jonathan Valin, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-385-29965-7
The world of rare recordings and huge electrostatic stereo speakers is an unusual setting for the 10th appearance of Cincinnati PI Harry Stoner, seen before in the Shamus-winning Extenuating Circumstances. Though Stoner usually works his city's mean
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Jonathan Valin, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-385-29966-4
In his latest case, following Second Chance, Harry Stoner, the tough but soulful Cincinnati PI, discovers that detective work in the age of AIDS is a hard business. Soon after Cindy Dorn hires Stoner to find Mason Greenleaf, her bisexual boyfriend...
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