Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16249-7
Early in bestseller Cussler’s engaging fifth Fargo novel, this one like 2012’s The Tombs with coauthor Perry, intrepid Sam and Remi Fargo, who have been tagging Great White sharks off the west coast of Mexico, volunteer their services after an...
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Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15926-8
Sam and Remi Fargo, multimillionaire treasure hunters, prove they can wield automatic weapons as well as they can metal detectors in the fun fourth Fargo novel (after 2011’s The Kingdom) from bestseller Cussler and new collaborator Perry. A German...
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Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-200-6
Scott Brick settles easily into his narration of this Cussler/Perry collaboration, starring the Nick and Nora Charles of action and adventure: Sam and Remi Fargo. Rushing to help the victims of an earthquake in rural Mexico, the Fargos stumble...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Random $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6003-0
Though propelled by a tantalizing premise—the investigation of a peculiar suicide—Perry's latest eventually droops under the weight of flat, unengaging characters and predictable plotting. Robert Mallon, a wealthy land developer,...
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Thomas Perry. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2452-4
Not much fazes the aptly named Abels, husband and wife Sid and Ronnie—sharpshooting retired former LAPD detectives turned PIs—in this propulsive, darkly humorous thriller from Edgar-winner Perry (Strip). Dodging bullets is certainly not what the...
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Thomas Perry. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2329-9
In Edgar-winner Perry’s explosive eighth Jane Whitefield novel (after 2012’s Poison Flower), Jane, who helps people in danger disappear, would like nothing better than to disappear herself—into the quieter side of her double life, as an upstate New...
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Thomas Perry. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2606-1
This highly original and clever thriller from Edgar-winner Perry (Strip) focuses on Jack Till, a retired LAPD homicide detective turned PI, who prefers routine cases that keep him close to his grown daughter with Down syndrome. Reluctantly, Till...
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Thomas Perry. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2605-4
Near the start of Perry’s exciting seventh Jane Whitefield novel (after 2009’s Runner), Jane cleverly frees prisoner James Shelby, unjustly convicted of murdering his wife, from the criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles, though crooks...
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Thomas Perry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-56933-8
Edgar-winner Perry's excellent third Butcher's Boy novel (after Sleeping Dogs) pits the Butcher's Boy (aka Michael Schaeffer), an impeccably effective hit man, against his old nemesis, Elizabeth Waring, an impeccably honest Justice Department...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-45305-5
Perry (Blood Money; The Face Changers) serves up a clever entertainment (in the Graham Greene sense of the word) set in the high-stakes insurance world. After a deliberately ambiguous prologue (just why is Ellen Snyder going to an L.A. airport...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-45303-1
Jane Whitefield, last seen in Perry's Shadow Woman, is an alluring operative of Indian heritage who helps people disappear. It is an arcane pursuit, involving myriad skills and constant vigilance. In fact, when Jane gets married to surgeon Carey...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $22 (350p) ISBN 978-0-679-45302-4
From the disappearance of Pete Hatcher during a Las Vegas magic show to the satisfying denouement, Perry's third Jane Whitefield thriller (following Dance for the Dead, 1996) delivers in full: a well-paced and complex plot, intriguing characters (inc
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44911-9
As usual, Perry (The Butcher's Boy) cuts to the chase. In the opening scene of this riveting mystery thriller, Jane Whitefield, an expert at helping people in danger disappear, slugs it out with three brawny hoodlums in an L.A. courthouse. At that...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $23 (289p) ISBN 978-0-679-43536-5
Perry's sixth novel (after Sleeping Dogs) is a taut thriller that at times reads like an extended, though flawed, character study of its heroine. Jane Whitefield, half-white, half-Indian member of the Seneca Wolf clan, helps people disappear-people...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41064-5
Much of the action in Perry's disappointing follow-up to The Butcher's Boy remains jumpy and disjointed as former hitman Michael Schaeffer, aka Charles Frederick Ackerman, William Wolf or Butcher's Boy, is brought out of hiding in England. Ten years
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Thomas Perry, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-399-13327-5
This absorbing adventure should reap even more raves than did Perry's award-winner, The Butcher's Boy, and its successors. Exciting, funny and moving moments blend in events set afoot by Harry and Emma Erskine, abetted by fellow con artists. Flying...
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Thomas Perry, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-45304-8
Jane Whitefield, first introduced in Perry's Vanishing Act, makes her fifth appearance as a ghostmaker, someone who provides new identities for people in trouble. In this fast-paced thriller, Jane, a one-woman witness protection program, is...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $26 (344p) ISBN 978-0-15-101522-1
Half a dozen characters vie for primacy in this rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel from Edgar-winner Perry (Runner
). Aging strip-club owner Manco Kapak orders his boys to find the masked man who stole his cash receipts and take care of...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-15-101528-3
Perry’s exciting if relatively formulaic sixth Jane Whitefield novel (after 1999’s Blood Money
) finds Jane, a Native American “guide” who helps people assume new identities, living quietly under an alias in western New York...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $25 (357p) ISBN 978-0-15-101292-3
Bestseller Perry (Silence
) explores the psychology of identity through his characters' hidden lives in this solid crime thriller. After L.A. PI Phil Kramer is shot dead as he's getting into his car one night on a quiet street, his wife, Emily, and...
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Thomas Perry, Author Harcourt/Penzler $25 (439p) ISBN 978-0-15-101289-3
Edgar-winner Perry (Pursuit
) delivers another intelligent, literate thriller. Jack Till, a retired LAPD detective turned PI, has settled into a somewhat monastic existence, at the center of which is his 21-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Random $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6004-7
Serial killer Charlene Buckner—aka Tanya Starling, Rachel Sturbridge, Nancy Mills, and several other monikers—changes her identity each time she commits a murder. By the end of Perry's mesmerizing novel (Pursuit
; The Butcher's...
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Thomas Perry, Author . Random $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-45306-2
The massacre of 13 people in a Louisville restaurant opens Perry's latest psychological thriller (after Death Benefits). Criminologist Daniel Millikan determines that this was no random occurrence, but an assassination carried out by a ruthless,
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Thomas Perry, read by Peter Berkrot. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-68168-022-4
Perry’s novels are enhanced by a sardonic, slyly humorous approach. Reader Berkrot smoothly conveys this with a voice that sounds street-smart but literate, frequently amused and never terribly ruffled, even when the plot takes one of its frequent...
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Thomas Perry, Author, Michael Kramer, Read by Tantor Media $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0664-6
Perry's tale of murder and love in various forms-genuine, unrequited, illicit and perverse-begins with the killing of a philandering private eye, then concentrates on the effect of the death on his adoring wife, the oddly conflicted paid assassin,...
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Thomas Perry, read by Michael Kramer, Tantor Media, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1257-9
Perry's darkly comedic yarn follows a Southern California strip club owner who makes a costly mistake when he blames the wrong man for robbing him. Michael Kramer clearly appreciates and plays along with the author's sense of humor, and he...
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Thomas Perry, Author, Michael Kramer, Read by , read by Michael Kramer. Tantor Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0447-5
Kramer's smooth, slightly sardonic delivery is a good fit for Perry's latest mixture of dark humor and suspense. The chase thriller focuses on four characters—the hunted (private eye Jack Till and Wendy Harper, a beauty he helped R
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Thomas Perry, Author, Shelly Frasier, Read by , read by Shelly Frasier. Tantor $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0241-9
Perry's latest novel reveals an intricate relationship between a ruthless serial killer and the dedicated detective determined to bring her in. Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is investigating the murder of a computer salesman....
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2586-6
Former army intelligence officer Dan Chase, the hero of this engrossing if not flawless thriller from bestseller Perry (Forty Thieves), has lived in a small Vermont town with his two dogs for 35 years. A widower, he’s been in hiding after allegedly...
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2748-8
An unnamed bomber wreaks havoc in this exciting if frustrating thriller from bestseller Perry (The Old Man). When a large cache of explosives blows up under a Los Angeles house, killing the 14 members of the LAPD Bomb Squad at the scene, Dick Stahl,
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4806-3
At the start of this uneven thriller from bestseller Perry (The Burglar), a thousand inmates break out from a high security federal correctional facility in rural Colorado. They rampage through nearby Weldonville, causing widespread death and...
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61316-259-0
At the start of Edgar winner Perry’s engrossing eighth Jane Whitefield novel (after 2015’s A String of Beads), Jane, a Native American guide who specializes in helping people in trouble disappear, finds a stranger, Sara Doughton, waiting for her one
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-1-61316-383-2
Chicago PI Harry Duncan, the protagonist of this strong crime novel from Edgar winner Perry (The Old Man), accepts a contract from his ex-wife, Ellen Leicester, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to investigate a sudden spike...
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Thomas Perry, read by Peter Berkrot. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8387-4
Nearly half a lifetime ago, an Army intelligence officer using the name Dan Chase participated in a mission in Libya during which he allegedly stole $20 million from a corrupt “asset.” Since then, he’s been in hiding, living in Vermont with his two...
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2900-0
Burglar Elle Stowell, the whip-smart, fearless protagonist of this uneven standalone from Edgar winner Perry (The Bomb Maker), comes from a family of thieves. She approaches every job analytically and is meticulous in her planning. But when she...
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5777-5
Edgar-winner Perry’s superbly crafted fourth Butcher’s Boy novel (after 2011’s The Informant) opens with retired hit man Michael Schaeffer driving a car with the bodies of three inept assassins he killed earlier that night as they were breaking into
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Thomas Perry. Mysterious, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61316-477-8
A security guard flees from a professional killer after she gets on the bad side of an L.A. crime boss in this low-voltage chase thriller from Edgar winner Perry (The Left-Handed Twin). Justine Poole works for a private agency as a bodyguard for...
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