Search Results: Authors starting with O from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 2016. First U.S. Edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Translated from Dutch By Hester Velmans. An award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister’s fight to clear his name. A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother. She also has a brother—shocking news she uncovers by accident. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her? Curious about this sibling she has never known, Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. What she discovers surprises—and horrifies—her. Her older brother is autistic—and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter. Visiting Ray, she… Read More

Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. It's January 1788 and Anne Cartier and her husband Paul, the Provost of the Paris Highway Patrol, are spending their winter in Nice at the home of Beverly and Thomas Parker. Paul and Anne are hoping that the warmer climate and the break from work will cure Paul's chronic cough. But when a man named Jean Lebrun escapes from a prison in Toulon, Paul cannot help but investigate. After some digging, Paul discovers that the man may have been wrongly convicted. Meanwhile, Anne is getting caught up in the sordid affairs of the expatriate community of Nice. This unsavoury group of characters may be more dangerous than Anne first thought.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Pinnacle, 2005. 1ST. ED. NEAR FINE.PBO Book shows minor creasing to spine & a crease across the bottom of the front cover. SPOTTED OWL AWARD WINNER. Bridget Corrigan's work with her twin brother's senatorial bid is messed up with a divorce - and murder. Someone is picking off their campaign workers. Seattle.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2006. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Daniel Jacquot, a former rugby player, now a homicide chief inspector, in Marseilles, France, is featured in the DEBUT book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2003. 1st edition, August 2003, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. John Bright is a hardworking London detective who believes vacations are a waste of time. But when he and his girlfriend, Jude, begin getting death threats, Bright decides that perhaps a quick trip abroad might be manageable after all. He is beginning to enjoy the food, wine, and sunshine in the south of France when a young woman's body turns up at their hotel. Not only that, but the French police are convinced Bright is the killer. His options appear limited: he speaks no French, and the legal system does not consider him innocent until proven guilty. O'Brien has constructed an intricate plot that will keep readers guessing. She deftly portrays the atmosphere of a small French village, which is picturesque but sinister. A nice mix of cozy and procedural." -- Booklist . 1st Ed. Hard Cover.… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 1st ed. Glue remains at ep's where jacket was pasted down along with remains at fep else near fine in dust jacket. "O'Brien, winner of a National Book Award for Going After Cacciato (1978), has written his most accessible novel to date. John and Kathy Wade are a young, idealistic couple living the American Dream until John's bid for the U.S. Senate is trashed by media reports of his involvement in the infamous massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War. Still very much in love but without direction for the first time in their marriage, John and Kathy flee to a remote cabin. When Kathy disappears without a trace, a massive but fruitless search ensues. Did John murder her or did she simply flee? O'Brien develops several maddeningly plausible explanations, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions in this dark but wonderful novel that should gain him a host of new fans." --Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. NF/Fine. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 1994. 1st edition, June 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Light wear at edges, a few early pages wrinkled at top else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly rubbed at folds, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by author at title page. A P.I. Delilah West title. "Delilah West is a spunky California PI who calls for, and sustains, comparison to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone. Hired by a wealthy Orange County lighting manufacturer to find his runaway teenage daughter, Delilah smells something putrid coming from the house next door. It's the battered remains of a woman, not the daughter, but a friend and neighbor who was also more than friendly with the missing girl's deadbeat boyfriend, who's also AWOL. The murder and the missing persons don't come together until Delilah, fired by her first employer and deciding to work for the murdered woman's husband, finds herself targeted by a truck in an isolated parking lot. Her… Read More

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1997. 1st edition, November 1997, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page.. A Delilah West mystery "Private eye Delilah West must be the toughest cookie in Orange County: In her sixth case (Trade-Off, 1994, etc.), she survives two of the most violent meet-cutes on record. The first takes place in the pre-Christmas rush at the Main Street Mall, when an unemployed aerospace worker goes homicidally berserk. Delilah not only kills the perp (guiltily covering up her heroic complicity and letting a dead security guard take the credit) but meets her newest and youngest client: mall-rat Brian Hall, 12, who pays her a ten-dollar retainer to find his missing dad. Delilah starts phoning Texas, where trucker Travis Hall was last seen, but hardly has time for a nibble before the second meet- cute, when her lunch with her… Read More

N.Y.: Putnam, 1998. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. "Readers familiar with Mallory, the intriguing and original heroine of O'Connell's four previous suspense novels, will recognize familiar themes of loss and abandonment in the brilliant, enigmatic forensic psychologist Ali Cray, whose scarred face only hints at the emotional residue of a childhood trauma. Ali ties the mysterious disappearance of two young girls to the rape and murder long ago of Susan Kendall, the twin sister of a small-town New York policeman, Rouge. Realizing that the priest who was convicted of Susan Kendall's murder is probably innocent, Rouge has a personal as well as professional reason for joining Ali in tracking down Susan's killer before he completes the ritual murder of at least one of the missing girls. The protagonists of Judas Child are direct literary descendants of Mallory, the author's earlier creation; like her,… Read More

Blakney: England: Scorpion Press, 1995. 1st ed. LIMITED EDITION, one of 85 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED by O'Connell. Quarter bound in red leather, with marble-colored boards decorated in red and white., in acetate dust wrapper. The novel includes an appreciation of the author by Barry Maitland. A Mallory title.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Quarter-Leather. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

NY: Putnam, 1995. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Kathleen Mallory title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Putnam 1996 Uncoreccted Proof, fine in decorated wrap. A Kathleen Mallory title. 1st ed.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1994. 1st ed. The advance reading copy, Uncorrected Proof, of the first American edition of the first book in the acclaimed Mallory series. A Fine, unread copy in wrappers, with comment card laid itn. Author's first book. AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST, an ANTHONY AWARD FINALIST and a DILYS AWARD FINALIST. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Mysterious Press 1996, 1996. 1st ed. Uncorrected Page Proofs. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

Blakeney, Glos: England: Scorpion Press, 1997. 1st ed. Only 15 LETTERED DELUXE COPIES were produced for private distribution and were SIGNED BY BOTH O'CONNELL AND VAL MCDERMID. This is LETTER "K". Very fine in crimson red goatskin with five raised bands, striking red and cream patterned marbled paper sides, red top edge and cream end papers in transparent dust jacket. A Kate Mallory novel by an author who is fast becoming one of the most sought-after of the new wave of women writers. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author, contributor, editor, publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome, bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised… Read More

Blakney: England: Scorpion Press, 1995. 1st ed. LIMITED EDITION, one of 15 LETTERED DE LUXE COPIES, (this being Letter "K") SIGNED by BOTH O'CONNELL and BARRY MAITLAND who wrote the appreciation. Quarter bound in red goatskin, with marble-colored boards decorated in red and white., in acetate dust wrapper. A Kate Mallory novel by an author who is fast becoming one of the most sought-after of the new wave of women writers. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author, contributor, editor, publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome, bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised bands. In addition these books contain the signature of the… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st edition, November 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in dust jacket. New England setting. His second book following the award winning Box Nine. "Like many of the old factory towns in New England, Quinsigamond has seen better days. Racial tensions, poverty, and crime are the day-to-day realities. Into this maelstrom of late 20th-century angst appear the "jammers"--radio pirates whose irreverent subculture mocks the crumbling of the American dream. This subterranean community is populated by citizens like the midget ballroom dance champs, a stuttering 15-year-old who dreams of conquering the world via the power of his speech, and the mysterious Ronnie, whose Libido Liveline call-in show makes her the object of jammer lust. A series of violent incidents by a deranged ex-FBI agent bent on righting this aberrant society brings battle-hardened Detective Hannah Shaw on the scene to restore order. O'Connell ( Box Nine ,… Read More

N.Y.: Putnam, 1999. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. A Mallory title. New York. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED by the author at title page. . A Kathleen Mallory title. "Readers, beware! That sly (and oh so gifted) Carol O'Connell is just as cunning as her beautiful, near-sociopathic heroine, Kathy Mallory, creeping up on unsuspecting readers with softly caressing words and languidly flowing sentences, then sucker-punching them with shockingly explicit violence that's as vivid as it is grisly. In her third and most stunning book, O'Connell follows NYPD investigator Mallory, who, with the aid of old pals Riker, Coffey, and, of course, faithful admirer Charles Butler, is determined to solve the brutal "art as death" murder of an untalented but highly touted artist-critic. Mallory believes the case is the work of the same killer who, 12 years earlier, hacked a young artist and a talented ballerina to pieces. The case is as baffling… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. New England setting. His second book following the award winning Box Nine. "Like many of the old factory towns in New England, Quinsigamond has seen better days. Racial tensions, poverty, and crime are the day-to-day realities. Into this maelstrom of late 20th-century angst appear the "jammers"--radio pirates whose irreverent subculture mocks the crumbling of the American dream. This subterranean community is populated by citizens like the midget ballroom dance champs, a stuttering 15-year-old who dreams of conquering the world via the power of his speech, and the mysterious Ronnie, whose Libido Liveline call-in show makes her the object of jammer lust. A series of violent incidents by a deranged ex-FBI agent bent on righting this aberrant society brings battle-hardened Detective Hannah Shaw on the scene to restore order. O'Connell ( Box Nine , Mysterious Pr.,… Read More