Peter Abrahams, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-43938-3
Remember Norman Bates, the über-creep from Hitchcock's Psycho? Julian Sawyer, the title character in Abrahams's latest suspense yarn, is clearly cut from the same cloth—a creep in sheep's clothing. Once again this author...
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Peter Abrahams. Philomel, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-25502-1
Edgar Award–winner Abrahams (Reality Check) shifts gears slightly, adding conspiracies and superpowers to the mystery mix in a loose contemporary update of the Robin Hood legend, set in Brooklyn, N.Y. Seventh-grader Robyn, aka Robbie, witnesses a...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Ballantine Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-42385-6
Edgar nominee Abrahams (Lights Out; A Perfect Crime) returns with a suspense novel built around kidnapping, extortion and youthful stupidity. Nat is the eager, sports-loving valedictorian of his small-town Colorado high school. With his $2,000 prize
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Peter Abrahams, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-60314-0
Abrahams's latest thriller concerns an obsessive baseball fan and a star player who's fallen into a slump. (May)
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Peter Abrahams, Author Warner Books $22.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-446-51860-4
With this taut novel of an overzealous fan's obsession with a baseball player, Abrahams, the author of such compulsively readable thrillers as Lights Out and Pressure Drop, hits one out of the park. From the day Gil Renard's father died outside the...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Onyx Books $4.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-40235-6
A New York PR executive's search for her kidnapped infant son leads her to the Bahamas. ``Technologically aided conception, baby stealing, inexplicable marine accidents and the activities of a wealthy, mysterious family are among the intriguing...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-89296-482-6
The author of The Fury of Rachel Monette here creates a fascinating and memorable character in Eddie Nye, a young man who spends 15 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. After he is finally released, Eddie quickly discovers that a strange...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-89296-481-9
Radical terrorists of the '60s, now fugitives, face the karmic consequences of their past mistakes in this suspenseful but uneven thriller by the author of Hard Rain. Implicated in a campus bombing that killed an innocent boy, protagonist Blake...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-525-24581-0
In Washington, D.C., the wife of a senator from Vermont, venerable leader of a intelligence committee, flunks a pro forma lie-detector test. In L.A., Jessie Shapiro's former husband doesn't return with their 10-year-old daughter after a weekend trip.
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Peter Abrahams, Author Avon Books $3.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-89803-9
Abrahams begins this thriller with a laconically presented, electrifying mystery: why did cuddly, brilliant mathematician, Berkeley professor Teddy Wu not show up at City Hall for his wedding to Beth Hunter? The answer is not made clear until the...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-525-24821-7
Technologically aided conception, baby stealing, inexplicable marine accidents and the activities of a wealthy, mysterious family are among the intriguing elements Abrahams ( Hard Rain ) expertly brings together in this gripping tale. At 39, New...
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Peter Abrahams, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-42384-9
A Boston woman's ill-advised affair with a talk-show host leads to murder and mayhem in this initially absorbing but somewhat contrived thriller from the author of The Fan and Lights Out. Art critic Francie Cullingwood is the beautiful,...
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Peter Abrahams, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (330p) ISBN 978-0-06-122766-0
In the latest engrossing crime novel from Abrahams (Nerve Damage
), Colorado football star Cody Laredo's junior year has gotten off to a dreadful start. After his girlfriend, Clea, is sent to a boarding school across the country (triggering a...
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Peter Abrahams, Author . Morrow $24.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-06-113799-0
Mistaken identity and a decades-old coverup collide in this underwhelming Southern thriller from Abrahams (Nerve Damage
) set in the wake of a Katrina-like hurricane. Nell Jarreau's eyewitness testimony sent Alvin “Pirate” DuPree to
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Peter Abrahams, Author . Morrow $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-113797-6
In this gripping political suspense novel from Edgar-finalist Abrahams (Echo Falls
), Vermont sculptor Roy Valois has never recovered from the tragic death of his beloved wife, Delia, in a helicopter accident while on a humanitarian mission to...
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Peter Abrahams, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-06-072665-2
Abrahams (Oblivion
) solidifies his reputation as one of the best contemporary thriller writers around with this psychologically deep page-turner evoking the classic noir of Cornell Woolrich. Ivy Seidel, a struggling would-be writer paying the bills
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Peter Abrahams, Author . HarperCollins/Geringer $15.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-073701-6
The charming 13-year-old heroine of Abrahams's (A Perfect Crime
, for adults) murder mystery will guide readers through its many twists and turns. Ingrid Levin-Hill, who, like her hero Sherlock Holmes, is "a habitual noticer of little things,
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Peter Abrahams, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-345-43939-0
After two less-than-stellar outings (The Tutor; Last of the Dixie Heroes), Abrahams is once again at the top of his game in this wildly inventive, captivating caper. Make that several capers—this novel's multiple plot threads and unlikely
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Peter Abrahams, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-43937-6
With his diverse settings, quirky characters and intriguing story lines, Abrahams (Crying Wolf; A Perfect Crime; etc.) has set himself up as a master of engrossing, off-the-beaten-track suspense yarns. However, although his latest effort starts out...
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Peter Abrahams, Author, Libba Bray, Author, David Levithan, Author Laura Geringer Book $16.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-06-137076-2
Invited by editor Laura Geringer to write about ""a single night that matters""-about a character kept up all night and transformed by his or her vigil-six authors contribute six stunning stories. Varied in form and content, these entries share a...
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Peter Abrahams, illus. by Frank Morrison, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-122978-7
It's Opening Day and Thumby, a Butterfinger-orange duckling, is nervous about playing with his team, the Webbies. Abrahams wastes no time, fast-forwarding to the top of the ninth. An unseen announcer offers play-by-play commentary ("Two on, two out...
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Peter Abrahams, Author, Mandy Siegfried, Read by , read by Mandy Siegfried. HarperChildren's Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-078664-9
In his first novel for kids, bestselling author Abrahams unspools a tale that fittingly gets curiouser and curiouser. The story shines on audio via a fine performance by Siegfried. As 13-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill, Siegfried uses a youthful voice to
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Peter Abrahams, Author, Colleen Delany, Performed by , read by Colleen Delaney. HarperAudio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-089734-5
Abrahams knows how to catch the voices of all of his characters, no matter what their age—most especially his Sherlock Holmes-loving eighth-grade heroine Ingrid Levin-Hill. This second book about her, firmly rooted in the fictional but...
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