William Heffernan, Author . Morrow $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-16564-2
There's a lot to like about Edgar Award—winner Heffernan's (The Dinosaur Club; Red Angel) f1fth thriller featuring Paul Devlin and his elite NYPD homicide squad. First, like Polly, Heffernan knows how to put the kettle on and keep it...
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William Heffernan, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1710-1
An aging police detective's regrets are examined in raw, moving detail in this superior crime drama revolving around an old murder case. Told from multiple viewpoints spanning a 30-year period from 1945 to 1975, the novel charts the troubled...
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William Heffernan, Akashic, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-936070-61-9
A lead whose psychology is underdeveloped and an easily solvable puzzle mar Edgar-winner Heffernan's contemporary whodunit, his first novel in seven years. When Florida homicide cop Harry Doyle was 10, his religious fanatic mother tried to kill him...
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William Heffernan, Author Signet Book $5.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-16397-4
A controversial New York police lieutenant investigates ancient Toltec ritual murders taking place in modern-day Manhattan. ``Heffernan's style is gripping and dramatic, while his hard-driving prose reveals a penchant for the grisly and macabre. The
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William Heffernan, Author Onyx Books $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-18295-1
The cruel murder of NYPD Captain Joe ``Little Bat'' Battaglia of the Organized Crime Control Unit causes waves of alarm to sweep from the mayor's office to the patrolmen's locker room. The murdered captain, who may have been gay, is the son of...
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William Heffernan, Author Signet Book $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-17628-8
Heffernan provides color and punch in this scathing view of an alliance between mobsters and ``nice'' rich people. (Mar.)
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William Heffernan, Author Signet Book $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-17863-3
Paul Devlin, now a police chief in rural Vermont after being forced to retire from the NYPD, returns to the big city in a clever, well-paced thriller. His old pal, detective Eddie Grogan, asks him to play guardian angel to Adrianna Mendez, Eddie's...
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William Heffernan, Author Onyx Books $6.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-18865-6
Edgar Award-winner Heffernan's new Paul Devlin police procedural is a tough, glitzy thriller with a plot that, after a trite start, picks up speed until it's careening through Manhattan. Natasha Winter, ex-wife of publicity-hound tycoon Roland...
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William Heffernan, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-16563-5
Edgar Award-winner Heffernan's strong new entry in his series featuring New York City detective Paul Devlin, last seen in Winter's Gold (1997), opens with a bangDa mob shooting in Manhattan. Later, when Devlin's lover, Adrianna Mendez, learns that...
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William Heffernan, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-86226-2
An obscure state racial law decreeing that third-generation offspring of mixed marriages are white (commonly called ""bleached"") is the springboard for this mesmerizing tale of murder and malice in a hardscrabble Vermont community during the...
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William Heffernan, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-453-00618-7
Heffernan's latest chiller/thriller begins as Stanislaus Rolk, a controversial New York police lieutenant, listens intently to the pleasant voice of Kate Silverman, lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum. Her description of ancient Toltec ritual...
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William Heffernan, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-24962-7
This fourth novel by the author of Ritual contains a veritable school of red herrings, which are initially intriguing but ultimately strain the novel's effect. Haunted by an incident in his past--he was forced to kill his partner, who was a serial...
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William Heffernan, Author Dutton Books $22 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-93465-3
If Mario Puzo and Richard Condon teamed up, they might write a novel much like this colorful, eventful and scathing view of an alliance between mobsters and ``nice'' rich people. In 1980 Alex Moran, American Defense Intelligence Agency station chief
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William Heffernan, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-14988-8
In this wryly twisting, engaging tale, 1996 Edgar Allen Poe Award winner Heffernan (for Best Original Paperback: Tarnished Blue) revisits the time-honored theme of one man battling an avaricious system. Jack Fallon, lifelong employee and now vp-sales
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William Heffernan, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-16406-5
Heffernan (The Dinosaur Club) whips up a superior potboiler in this tale of corrupt newspapering, brutal cops and greedy doctors. It is New York, 1975, and in the post-Watergate era of journalistic hubris, newspapers are out to nail bigshots any way
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William Heffernan. Akashic, $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-61775-135-6
Predictability mars this otherwise solid historical from Edgar-winner Heffernan (The Dead Detective). In 1865, Jubal Foster, a Union soldier who lost an arm in the Civil War, returns home to Jerusalem’s Landing, Vt., to serve as deputy to his father,
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William Heffernan. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61775-535-4
Edgar-winner Heffernan’s ambitious if flawed sequel to 2010’s The Dead Detective offers an engaging critique of the Church of Scientology. Det. Harry Doyle tangles with the secretive church in Clearwater, Fla., its spiritual headquarters, after his...
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William Heffernan, read by John McLain. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-6777-3
Heffernan works in a critique of the Church of Scientology into this cat-and-mouse tale, the second installment in his Dead Detective series. Det. Harry Doyle’s hunt for the person who shot and nearly murdered his adoptive father leads him to the...
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