Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: mysteries, minotaur, martin, horse, pale
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312981716
ISBN-13: 9780312981716

Was it really the Thomasina Tuckerton--dropout heiress turned bohemian beat girl--seen in a cafe brawl with another woman? Her obituary confirms it. Thomasina’s unfortunate demise would have passed unnoticed if it hadn’t been for the priest who suffered a fatal blow at the hand of a stranger only days later. What’s the connection? A list of names hidden in father Gorman’s shoes--among them, Miss Tuckerton’s. It leads to a former country inn, now a house called, The Pale Horse, and a sinister pattern woven by three unusual ladies--a psychic, a medium, and a witch--

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: mysteries, minotaur, house, crooked
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-08-19
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 031298166X
ISBN-13: 9780312981662

Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you’re invited to read... CROOKED HOUSE In a sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunni

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: mysteries, minotaur, martin, mystery, sittaford
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-19
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312979819
ISBN-13: 9780312979812

Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you’re invited to read...THE SITTAFORD MYSTERYM-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night.But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud

Author: Wallace Stroby
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: novels, rane, harry, lounge, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 031265118X
ISBN-13: 9780312651183

Ex-state trooper Harry Rane, who first appeared in Wallace Stroby’s brilliant debut novel, The Barbed-Wire Kiss, is at loose ends. Doing some investigative work for a friend’s firm just to keep himself busy, Harry meets Nikki Ellis, a woman desperate for help. Her ex, Johnny Harrow, was just released from prison after a seven-year stretch for attempted murder. Nikki hasn’t spoken to him since he went down, but she knows what he’s capable of, and that he’ll be looking for her-and for the baby she put up for adoption after Johnny went away. She knows it’s up t

Author: C.J. Box
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: heaven, blue
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312614837
ISBN-13: 9780312614836

“A nonstop thrill ride.” —Harlan CobenA twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives. “Grade `A’ . . . don’t miss it.” —Rocky Mountain NewsRetired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there’s nowhere left for William and Annie to hide . . . and no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins

Author: Michael Koryta
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: perry, lincoln, hour, silent
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312361572
ISBN-13: 9780312361570

Fresh off the critical acclaim of his Los Angeles Times Book Prize--nominated Envy the Night, Michael Koryta returns with a blistering new installment in the Lincoln Perry series.Whisper RidgeHome to DreamsOctober 2, 1992--April 12, 1996So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the door of the home called Whisper Ridge, a multimillion-dollar piece of architectural majesty that once housed the beginnings of a unique program for paroled murderers. The program never got off the ground, however, despite how passionate a woman named Alexandra Cantrell, daughter of a notorious Mafia don, and her hu

Author: Roy Chaney
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: novel, nowhere, ragged
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-11-10
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312582536
ISBN-13: 9780312582531

Bodo Hagen thought his family had left Las Vegas for good. He had joined the CIA and moved to Berlin, while his younger brother had followed in their father’s footsteps and joined the French Foreign Legion. For a while they were free from the criminal underworld upon which the Vegas Strip was built. But when his Legion contract ended, Bodo’s brother returned to Las Vegas. Five days later his body was found on the edge of the desert. Word is that he’d returned from Europe with a valuable—and possibly stolen—ancient relic to sell. Now Bodo must come back and track down that missing