Joyce Carol Oates, Author, Rosamond Smith, Author Da Capo Press $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0847-5
A serial killer and his pursuer engage in a lurid dance in this overextended psychological thriller written under the name Oates uses for her psycho-dramas (like Double Delight). The novel charts the emotional ruin of Matt McBride, a real estate...
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Rosamond Smith, Author Onyx Books $4.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-40382-7
Under the pseudonym which she uses for her psychological thrillers, Joyce Carol Oates burnishes her reputation with this sensational page-turner, a BOMC selection in cloth, which follows a well-meaning lawyer who toils to release an accused murderer/
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Rosamond Smith, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-525-24768-5
Almost from the start of this romantic thriller, readers know that handsome, charming Colin Asch, who at age 12 witnessed his parents' drowning and went on to suffer undescribed horrors at the hands of a sadistic headmaster, is a pathological killer.
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Rosamond Smith, Author Onyx Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-40190-8
A handsome, charming pathological killer meets a lovely young widow in this romantic thriller. ``With action scenes struggling to emerge from prose laden with exaggeration and verbosity, Smith's new psychothriller is a good story spoiled in the...
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Rosamond Smith, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-525-24881-1
The pseudonymous Smith's third elegant and sensational thriller ( Lives of the Twins; Soul/Mate ) is set in an affluent Connecticut suburb whose cultural hub is its conservatory of music. Here pianist Maggie Blackburn--34, lonely, diffident,...
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Rosamond Smith, Author Onyx Books $5.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-40295-0
When naive music conservatory student Brendan Bauer is accused of murdering the predatory, aging composer who raped him and is suspected of knifing another gay colleague, pianist and faculty member Maggie Blackburn turns sleuth. According to PW ,...
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Rosamond Smith, Author Dutton Books $20 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-93404-2
Under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith ( Soul/Mate ; Nemesis ), which she uses for her psychological thrillers, Joyce Carol Oates burnishes her reputation with this sensational page-turner that combines sheer entertainment and canny social satire. Well-m
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Rosamond Smith, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-93947-4
Even readers unaware that Smith (Soul/Mate) is the pseudonymous Joyce Carol Oates will note that this ingenious, seductive tale of murder and madness boasts a seasoned literary sensibility, beginning with its opening phrase: ``Tristram Heade's...
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Rosamond Smith, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-94299-3
For the first time in her career, Oates is identified on the cover of this seventh novel of psychological suspense as the name behind the nom de plume. Her dark protagonist also has a double life. The exotic beauty Starr Bright seduces hooligans and
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