3 KILL THE MESSENGER, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $7.99.) A bicycle messenger becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a sleazy Los Angeles defense attorney.
4 RAGE, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $7.99.) The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware tries to figure out who murdered a young man who had spent time behind bars for killing a child when he was a teenager.
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7 THE BROKER, by John Grisham. (Dell, $7.99.) The C.I.A. arranges a presidential pardon for a power broker who may know crucial secrets, laying a trap for the foreign intelligence service that wants him dead.
8 IMPOSSIBLE, by Danielle Steel. (Dell, $7.99.) A romance blossoms between the owner of a Parisian art gallery and a bohemian painter.
9 THE CLOSERS, by Michael Connelly. (Warner, $7.99.) Detective Harry Bosch investigates the long-ago death of a 16-year-old girl.
10 WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, by Elizabeth George. (HarperTorch, $7.99.) Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his colleagues hunt for a serial killer.
11 HONEYMOON, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Warner, $13.95.) An F.B.I. agent who is investigating a beautiful and mysterious woman finds himself becoming obsessed with her.
15 CORDINA'S ROYAL FAMILY: GABRIELLA & ALEXANDER, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $7.99.) Reprints of two romances set on a Mediterranean isle.
(Paperback fiction this week)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)
3 THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $24.95.) A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.
8 THE TWO MINUTE RULE, by Robert Crais. (Simon & Schuster, $24.95.) A robber just released from prison tracks down the killers of his son, a Los Angeles cop.
9 SOUR PUSS, by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. (Bantam, $25.) Aided by her cats, a Virginia woman investigates a mysterious death.
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11 LOVERS & PLAYERS, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin's, $24.95.) After their father calls them together, Red Diamond's three sons (and their friends and relations) grapple with sex, secrets and murders on both coasts.
12 SEA CHANGE, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $24.95.) Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., searches for the killer of a woman whose body washed ashore.
13 THE OLD WINE SHADES, by Martha Grimes. (Viking, $25.95.) Richard Jury of New Scotland Yard investigates a disappearance that involves a murder.
14 MEMORY IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $24.95.) Lt. Eve Dallas tracks the killer of a woman who was blackmailing her; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
16 THE FALLEN, by T. Jefferson Parker. (Morrow, $24.95.) A San Diego detective investigates the death of a colleague in an atmosphere of municipal corruption.
(Hardcover Fiction this week)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)
Oh yeah. Wikipedia sez of Rita Mae Brown:
She is also, along with her cat Sneaky Pie Brown, author of a mystery series featuring animals, including Wish You Were Here (1990), Rest In Pieces (1992), Murder At Monticello (1994), Pay Dirt (1995), Murder, She Meowed (1996), Murder On the Prowl (1998), Cat On the Scent (1999), Sneaky Pie's Cookbook (1999), Pawing Through the Past (2000), Claws And Effect (2001), Catch As Cat Can (2002), The Tail Of the Tip-Off (2003), Whisker Of Evil (2004), Cat's Eyewitness (2005)
Now I knew these existed but I had no idea they hit the bestseller lists; I figured they were just these super-niche things.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)
Yes, it absolutely is.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)
My little pet theory about murder mysteries is that their appeal partly rests on the fact that they can rehabilitate the most quotidien facts of existence -- when they're evidence in a crime, even the tiniest thing can become interesting, matters of life of death.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)