Kate Whilhelm, Author, Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-08290-1
Adroitly meshing the worlds of commerce and art, this complex mystery calls for husband-and-wife investigators Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl to muster all their maturity, shrewdness and intuition. In a party at her Maryland farmhouse, their
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-03303-3
These five novellas by science fiction and mystery stylist Wilhelm combine both genres. Never before published, ``Children of the Wind'' is a tragedy about brilliant and energetic six-year-old twins--John and James, the ``jays''--who make life...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-312-26143-6
Set in and around her own Eugene, Ore., prolific Wilhelm's latest tale (after The Good Children) of psychological suspense reinforces the solid reputation she's earned for her 40-odd books published since 1963. Abby Connors is mourning the death of...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-20953-7
The murder case against young widow Lara Jessup appears airtight after her wealthy, much older, and terminally ill husband Vinny is shot on a twisting Oregon mountain road, and legal eagle Barbara Holloway struggles mightily to construct a defense...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-19854-1
""Evil infects some people... it gets into the system and stays like a virus that is never killed,"" seasoned criminal lawyer Barbara Holloway reflects, in the fourth thriller by Wilhelm (The Good Children) to feature the Eugene-based attorney....
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-17914-4
Seamless storytelling and believable characters caught in a bizarre, inescapable situation make this latest psychological thriller from three-time Nebula Award winner Wilhelm (Malice Prepense) taut and satisfying. ""When you've got family, you don't
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14364-0
Wilhelm doesn't fool around: she writes clean, clear prose about real people in sometimes loopy legal situations. Returning from The Best Defense (1994), Eugene, Ore., lawyer Barbara Holloway and her 75-year-old father and partner, Frank, are hired...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-13075-6
These five imaginative novellas (two not previously published) starring those mellow and affectionate retirees, arson investigator Charlie Meiklejohn and psychologist Constance Leidl, prove this husband-and-wife team's skills haven't rusted at all....
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-10937-0
With this engrossing sequel to Death Qualified , prolific Wilhelm claims a leading place in the ranks of trial suspense writers. At a restaurant in Eugene, Ore., attorney Barbara Holloway regularly holds office hours for those who can't afford...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-09319-8
Heading for a family gathering at her father's home/water garden business in rural California, widowed Sarah Drexler anticipates a respite from her work as an Oregon state judge. Instead she finds her deductive skills challenged and the lives of...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-312-05853-1
Veteran writer Wilhelm ( Sweet, Sweet Poison ) has produced another intricate, many-layered novel, in equal parts murder mystery, science fiction, psychological study and consideration of legal ethics. Nell Kendricks is charged with murdering her...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-04433-6
First victim in this fresh, entertaining mystery is a watchdog named Sadie, owned by Al and Sylvie Zukal, two likable, spectacularly vulgar kvetches from the Bronx who invested some recent lottery winnings on a rural estate in Spender's Ferry, N.Y....
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-03800-7
Wilhelm ( Children of the Wind ) once again builds a world of wonder from the prosaic as she assembles several strangers at Luisa's Guest House in the California coastal town of Cambio Bay. Among those sheltered by proprietor Luisa Ravel are young...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author . St. Martin's/Minotaur $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-27663-8
Wilhelm's sixth Barbara Holloway legal thriller (after No Defense
and Defense for the Devil) sustains her reputation as a fine stylist who is able to craft compelling plots and characters. Holloway's latest client is a brilliant young man...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-312-02642-4
Former N.Y. arson investigator and retired cop Charles Meiklejohn and his wife, Constance Leidl, a psychologist ( The Hamlet Trap ), return in a taut, high-tech mystery abounding with ingenuity. The ultimate dream of child prodigy Gary Elringer, the
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-06898-1
Wilhelm ( Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos ) presents 12 lucid, haunting stories that combine science fiction with psychological suspense. Her characters often travel great distances--on highways and through time--to destinations which force them
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Kate Wilhelm, Author Bluejay Books $15.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-94219-9
Stanley Huysman was a Nobel laureate whose visionary theories of his later years, bridging biology and physics, came to be labeled crackpot ideas. The true genius of these experiments becomes clear only when Huysman's widow calls on Drew Lancaster...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author Mira Books $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2340-2
At the start of Wilhelm's compelling eighth novel to feature DA Barbara Holloway (after 2003'sClear and Convincing Proof ), Wally Lederer, a former pickpocket who once served jail time, has retired from a successful Las Vegas stage career and...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-02182-5
Typical of Wilhelm's recent work ( Huysman's Pets ), this SF story takes the form of a mystery novel whose solution is, in human terms, unknowable. A malfunctioning alien space probe flickers in and out of existence from another dimension. All that...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author . Mira $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2528-4
In Wilhelm's sluggish 11th Barbara Holloway legal thriller (after A Wrongful Death
), controversial academic David Etheridge returns to his hometown of Eugene, Ore., to lecture on his latest anti-everything book. But when his college nemesis,...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author . Mira $24.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2491-1
Wilhelm’s sharp ninth Barbara Holloway legal thriller (after 2006’s Sleight of Hand
) proves compelling action can take place outside a courtroom. A not entirely welcome marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Darren, inspires Barbara to...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author . Mira $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-55166-697-6
In Wilhelm's latest Barbara Holloway legal thriller, intrigue swirls around a rehab clinic. Erica Castle, a newcomer to Eugene, Ore., volunteers at the Kelso-McIvey Rehabilitation Center in order to make connections in the community. There she...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-30075-3
Marilee Donne is the academic loser of an overachieving family who is accidentally responsible for a young stalker's death while house-sitting for her grandfather in Eugene, Ore. The novel follows her attempt—with the help of her best...
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Kate Wilhelm, Author, Carrington MacDuffie, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-0640-5
In Wilhelm's latest Barbara Holloway mystery, the Oregon-based attorney takes a time-out in a remote cabin in California, where she comes upon and aids an injured Elizabeth Kurtz, who has fled there after finding dangerous information about her ex-hu
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