Akunin - Wallis Martin

Richardson, Robert

Significant Others

London, Victor Gollancz, 1995

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

Psychological thriller  -  a leading Fleet Street columnist is found fatally wounded in a Cornwall cottage.  Author is Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.

Akunin, Boris, Bromfield, Andrew translator.

Leviathan.

London, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 2004

Set in 19th century London, Russian novelist Boris Akunin "pays homage to Agatha Christie with a cast of characters and plot that will grip you from the first page".

SIGNED by author on title page.

Aubert, Brigitte.

Death from The Woods.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.

Translated by David L. Koral.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

British debut of prizewinning French novelist.

Cottam, Francis.

Slapton Sands.

London, Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

SIGNED by author on title page.

A mystery based on the tragic events during the preparations for the D-Day landing when nearly 1000 American soldiers were killed at Slapton Sands in Devon.

Dickinson, David.

Death & The Jubilee.

London, Constable, 2003.

Fine/Fine (unread).

Signed by author.

.It is 1897 and England is preparing for the Jubilee. The immense importance of the occasion inevitably brings danger in its wake. Second in the Lord Francis Powerscourt murder mystery series.

French, Nicci.

Killing Me Softly.

London, Michael Joseph, 1999.

Near Fine (slight darkening of page edges). Signed on bookplate attached to title page.

French, Nicci.

The Safe House.

London,  Michael Joseph, 1998.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Lake, Deryn.

Death in The Setting Sun.

London, Allison & Busby, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author.

Latest in the popular John Rawlings serie in Georgian England.

Lake, Deryn.

Death in The Peerless Pool.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by author. Popular Georgian crime series featuring apothecary, John Rawlings.

MacDonald, Marianne.

Smoke Screen.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Fine in Fine protected dustjacket.

 Signed by author.

O'Connor, Ed.

Yeare's Midnight

London,Constable, 2002. F/F.

 Signed by author.

Crime novel set in Cambridge. Serial killing - a poem by John Donne provides the clue to the killer. Much heralded first novel.

Pattison, Eliot.

The Skull Mantra.

London, Century, 2000.

 Edgar Award winning novel by US author.

Fine in Fine dustjacket. UK First Edition.

Signed by author.

Benton, Caroline.

The Path of The Dead

London, Constable & Robinson, 2006.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

 Signed by the author. 

  First novel  -  author now working on the follow-up.

"A middle of the night call-out to a burnt-out house is pretty much routine for Devon Fire Brigade photographer, Guy Tavender.  Discovering a charred body in a secret room is not".

Brodrick, William.

Gardens of The Dead

London, Little Brown, 2006.

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Tense thriller featuring Father Anselm, barrister/turned priest.  Second novel - by the author of "The Sixth Lamentation".

Bruen, Ken

Priest

London, Bantam, 2006

Near Fine (slight shelf wear at base of spine) in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Reported to be a small print run.

Connor, John

The Playroom.

London, Orion, 2005.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket. 

Signed by author.

John Connor's first novel, "Phoenix" received excellent reviews and his powerful second novel looks set to establish him as a major new thriller writer.  Connor works as a senior criminal lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Dickinson, David.

Goodnight Sweet Prince.

London, Constable & Robinson, 2002.

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket. 

Signed by author.

First in series featuring Lord Francis Powerscourt.  Small print run.

England, 1892, and Queen Victoria, Queen and Empress,  is in the54th year of her reign.  Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, second in line to the throne, is found slaughtered in his bed at the royal country house of Sandringham.

Dickinson, David

Death Called To The Bar. 

A Lord Francis Powerscourt murdery mystery.

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

 Signed by the author. 

Set in 1902 in the London Inns of Court. "On 28th February, at a Queen's Feast, Lord Alexander Dauntsey, senior barrister,  collapses into his soup.  He has been poisoned."

Fifth in this popular series.

Jecks, Michael

The Death Ship of Dartmouth

A Knights Templar mystery.

London, Headline 2006

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

"It is 1324 and a disastrous autumn looms large, for as the leaves begin to fall there are those who wish to bring the Kingdom down as well".

McPherson, Catriona

The Burry Man's Day

London, Constable, 2006

A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery, second in this most promising series, with another stunning dustjacket by Ken Leeder.

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket

Signed by the author.

Mills, Jenni

Crow Stone

London, Harper Collins, 2007

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

A thriller set in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city of Bath;  well-reviewed first novel.

Raichev, R.T.

The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette

London, Constable & Robinson, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by author.

 "Country House" murder mystery novel set in the 1980s.  Author is working on the sequel.

Roberts, David.

A Grave Man.

London, Constable & Robinson, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by author.

"Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon, killed a few months before when the Hindenburg airship burst into flames as it docked in New Jersey,  Also present are the distinguished archaeologist Professor Pitt-Messenger and his daughter, Maud.  As the congregation disperses after the service, Edward hears Miss Pitt-Messenger cry for help. Her  father is slumped in his seat, stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger."

Roberts, David.

The More Deceived.

London, Constable & Robinson, 2004

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by author.

Fifth book in this most popular and collectable Thirties crime series.

Rubenfeld, Jed

The Interpretation of Murder

London, Headline Review, 2006

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.  UK First Edition.

Signed by the author, a Yale Professor of Criminal Law.

Winner of the Richard and Judy Book Award. 

Wallis Martin, Julia.

The Bird Yard.

NY,  St. Martins, 1999

US first, preceded by UK.  Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by author (signed US copies are scarce).

Author is Edgar Award finalist.