Catch That Catch Can

Vincent Zandri: Godchild, Dell 2000

Mass Market Paperbound Fine 0440226228 6.86x4.16x.92 in. .36 lbs. Publisher Comments: He wanted justice, truth, revenge...whichever came first. Prison-warden-turned-P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car--and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him. Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison. Now Keeper's chase through Mexico follows a trail of bodies and lies back home: to the truth about a woman on the run, to a man sitting behind the wheel of a black Buick, and to a story that someone will kill to bury.... Synopsis: P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi had lost everything - his wife, reputation, and almost his life. Now he's managed to rebuild his world and everything is falling into place. Until he sees the black Buick that killed his wife and offered an investigation job he can't refuse. Now Keeper is south of the border, trying to save a woman whose story could ruin many lives - but can save his. Review: Zandri keeps the pace fast "If you want a novel that runs wild like a caged beast let loose, Zandri is the man." --(Albany) Don't miss Vincent Zandri's acclaimed novel As Catch Can "Sensational...masterful...brilliant." --New York Post "Probably the most arresting first crime novel to break into print this season." --Boston Herald "A thriller that has depth and substance, wickedness and compassion." --The Times-Union (Albany) Praise for Vincent Zandri's debut thriller As Catch Can "Vincent Zandri explodes onto the scene with the debut thriller of the year. As Catch Can is gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting. Don't miss it." --Harlan Coben, author of The Final Detail "A Satisfying Yarn." --Chicago Tribune "Compelling...As Catch Can pulls you in with rat-a-tat prose, kinetic pacing...characters are authentic, and the punchy dialogue rings true. Zandri's staccato prose moves As Catch Can at a steady, suspenseful pace." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Exciting...An Engrossing Thriller...the descriptions of life behind bars will stand your hair on end." --Rocky Mountain News "Readers will be held captive by prose that pounds as steadily as an elevated pulse... Vincent Zandri nails readers' attention." --Boston Herald "A smoking gun of a debut novel. The rough and tumble pages turn quicker than men turn on each other." --Albany Times-Union Please turn the page for more extraordinary acclaim... "The story line is non-stop action and the flashback to Attica is eerily brilliant. If this debut is any indication of his work, readers will demand a lifetime sentence of novels by Vincent Zandri." --I Love a Mystery "A tough-minded, involving novel...Zandri writes strong prose that rarely strains for effect, and some of his scenes...achieve a powerful hallucinatory horror." --Publishers Weekly "A classic detective tale." --The Record (Troy, NY) "[Zandri] demonstrates an uncanny knack for exposition, introducing new characters and narrative possibilities with the confidence of an old pro....Zandri does a superb job creating interlocking puzzle pieces." --San Diego Union-Tribune "This is a tough, stylish, heartbreaking car accident of a book: You don't want to look but you can't look away. Zandri's a terrific writer and he tells a terrific story." --Don Winslow, author of The Death and Life of Bobby Z "Satisfying." --Kirkus Reviews ..Rare Books make rare gifts... Experience, Quality, Value..

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Hornby, Nick. About a Boy Uk. Trafalgar Square, January 1, 1998.
Paperback. Book Condition - Used, Good. Fair condition slight creasing to c over. From Amazon Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blit hely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as e ntirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is , his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's incr easingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for mea ningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie C hristie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and rememb er, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mot her on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Hi ghgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents-- Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emo tional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but i n the noblest, most profound sense of the word." What in. Fiction.

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Brown, Rita Mae: Catch as Cat Can, Bantam 2002
0553107445

Book Club Edition; 1.11 x 9.27 x 6.28 Inches; 304 pages; Never have two species co-created a work of such suspense and humorous catitude as the wildly popular mystery series by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. This time out, that agile-witted tiger puss Mrs. Murphy makes the round of parties where Virginia’s Very Best People mingle with some of the worst. Together, she and her human must unravel a veritable cat’s cradle of ambition, greed, and murder at the center of which waits a killer with the most tangled of motives.<br><br ><b>CATCH AS A CAT CAN<br></b><br>Spring has come to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and spring fever to the tiny town of Crozet. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, romantic maneuvers are rampant. Even equable postmistress Mary <br>Minor “Harry” Haristeen inadvertently snatches a blind date from under the nose of manhunter Lottie Pearson, the university fundraiser. <br><br>As for Mrs. Murphy, her interest in the exploding bird population is intensified by Pewter̵ 7;s discovery of a dead rare woodpecker near the back porch. Feline intuition tells her more mysteries lie ahead. And they do. <br><br>A case of stolen hubcaps seems relatively straightforward until the truck that transported them to the unsuspecting O’Bannon brothersR 17; upscale salvage yard turns out to be completely untraceable. And while everybody deplores the tipsy, raunchy behavior of young mechanic Roger O’Bannon, nobody is sure it accounts for his sudden death over a sobering cup of coffee. But when his brother Sean will not authorize an autopsy and presses on with preparations for the Wrecker’s Ball, the climax of the season’s junketing, people start to whisper.<br><br>Then, as violent thunderstorms sweep in from the west to shadow spring festivities, another death occurs–c ould it be murder? Harry ponders whether the two deaths are connected. And as she and her furry cohorts–the cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker–get mud on their boots and paws mapping local terrain and relationships and sniffing out telltale scents of villainy, someone is watching their every move.<br><br>When a shooting leads to the discovery of a half-million crisp, clean dollar bills that look to be very dirty, Harry’s blood is really up. But by the time she’s close to fingering a cold-blooded murderer, Mrs. Murphy already knows who it is–and who’s next in line. She also knows that Harry, curious as a cat, does not have nine lives. And the one she does have is hanging by the thinnest of threads. Hardcover

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Sandford, John: BROKEN PREY, New York Penguin Group (USA) 2005
ISBN: 0-399-15272-5 Brand New

<strong> For years, a trio of vicious serial murderers has been locked behind bars in Minnesota Security Hospital. But a new killer is on the loose, and his bloody handiwork manifests disturbing similarities to the techniques of the "Big Three." Are these monsters outsourcing terror? Only Lucas Davenport can face down this living nightmare. <P> FROM THE PUBLISHER Lucas Davenport faces a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Sandford sends series hero Lucas Davenport's family off to London to ensure that domestic concerns never slow the action in this sexy, bloody thriller. Davenport, a Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator, had lately been doing political fix-it jobs for the governor, but this time he's got a psychopathic serial killer on his hands. ("All major metro areas had them, sometimes two and three at a time. The public had the impression that they were rare. They weren't.") The first victim, a young woman, was "scourged" with a wire whip; number two, a young man, had his penis cut off. Evidence first points to recently released sex offender Charlie Pope. Though Charlie is pretty dumb and the killer is extremely smart, it takes Davenport and his series partner, Detective Sloan, a while to realize they're chasing the wrong guy. Sandford introduces some lighter moments, the most entertaining about Davenport's new iPod and his quest to compile a list of the 100 best rock songs ever recorded, which every cop on the force gives him suggestions for. These moments allow readers to catch their breath amid the otherwise nonstop tension as the killer taunts the authorities while snaring more victims, and the cops race around the countryside always just a few minutes too late. For those who thought Davenport (and Sandford) were slowing down and showing signs of age and prosperity, this superlative entry will dispel all such notions. This is tough, unstoppable, white-knuckle fiction. Agent, Esther Newberg. 500,000 first printing; main selections of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and BOMC. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Lucas Davenport is back, and, yes, this is billed as his scariest adventure yet. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Now that Lucas Davenport's gone up against a Russian spy ring (Hidden Prey, 2004), it's almost anticlimactic to ask him to catch a mere serial killer. But that's the only anticlimax here. What are the odds that the M.O. behind Angela Larson's murder-she was bound, scourged with a wire whip, and repeatedly raped before her throat was cut and her body laid out in a ritualistic display-would be repeated with a male victim? But Adam Rice, an old acquaintance of Blue Earth County sheriff Gene Nordwall's, presents the same grisly picture. Was their killer gay or bisexual? How did he find his victims? And what do they have in common? Lucas, who runs the Office of Regional Research for the Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is all over the case, amassing evidence against Charlie Pope, a sex offender just released from St. John's Security Hospital with a few months to run on his sentence but his attitude still intact. Charlie has celebrated his freedom by sawing off his ankle monitor and vanishing-except for the trace evidence he's left at the crime scenes and the phone calls he makes, first to ambitious Star-Tribune reporter Ruffe Ignace, then to Lucas himself. The only trouble is that Charlie's clearly not smart enough to be the murderer. He must be getting help from somebody-maybe from one of the habitual Big Three offenders he spent time with at St. John's. <P> Wondering whether anybody not named Hannibal Lecter can be issuing murderous instructions from inside a prison, Lucas and Co. hunker down to take a long hard look at the hospital just as things start to get really interesting. A tale so fast-moving you won't even notice the unobtrusively expert detective.... Published at Twenty Seven Dollars. </strong> Brand New Book Jacket Hardcover 6 x 9"

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