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The Blue Hammer

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27906-4 (0-307-27906-5)

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.

Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Chill

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76807-4 (0-679-76807-6)

In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Drowning Pool

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76806-7 (0-679-76806-8)

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Galton Case
A Lew Archer Novel
Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76864-7 (0-679-76864-5)

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Instant Enemy

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27905-7 (0-307-27905-7)

Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel.

At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Ivory Grin

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27899-9 (0-307-27899-9)

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Moving Target

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70146-7 (0-375-70146-X)

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.

As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Three Roads

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74076-2 (0-307-74076-5)

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him—that’s how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man—her lover, her killer—who had been with her that... Read more >
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The Way Some People Die

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27898-2 (0-307-27898-0)

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a... Read more >
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The Wycherly Woman

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70144-3 (0-375-70144-3)

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the... Read more >
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse

Written by Ross Macdonald


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70145-0 (0-375-70145-1)

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Debba

Written by Avner Mandelman


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-370-5 (1-59051-370-3)

In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is a terrorist. To David... Read more >
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Before the Frost

Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9581-0 (1-4000-9581-6)

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father—the maverick approach... Read more >

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The Dogs of Riga
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (2)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3152-8 (1-4000-3152-4)

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is... Read more >

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Faceless Killers
The First Kurt Wallander Mystery
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3157-3 (1-4000-3157-5)

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the... Read more >
Also available as a paperback.

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The Fifth Woman
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (6)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3154-2 (1-4000-3154-0)

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered—the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird... Read more >

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Firewall
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (8)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3153-5 (1-4000-3153-2)

A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing... Read more >

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Kennedy's Brain

Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38591-8 (0-307-38591-4)

From internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell comes a gripping mystery and a depiction of every parent’s worst nightmare.
When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight year old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this, and with nothing more than few suspicions and a... Read more >

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The Man from Beijing

Written by Henning Mankell
Translated by Laurie Thompson


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47284-7 (0-307-47284-1)

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.

January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.

Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >

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The Man Who Smiled
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (4)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9583-4 (1-4000-9583-2)

After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin.
A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over... Read more >

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One Step Behind
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (7)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3151-1 (1-4000-3151-6)

On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues—someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime—also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue... Read more >

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The Return of the Dancing Master

Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7695-6 (1-4000-7695-1)

When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowÉas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his... Read more >

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Sidetracked
A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5)
Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3156-6 (1-4000-3156-7)

In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former... Read more >

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The Troubled Man

Written by Henning Mankell


Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47740-8 (0-307-47740-1)

A retired navy officer has vanished in a forest near Stockholm. Kurt Wallander is prepared to stay out of the relatively straightforward investigation—which is, after all, another detective’s responsibility—but the missing man is his daughter’s father-in-law.

With his typical disregard for rules and regulations, Wallander is soon pursuing his own brand... Read more >

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The Troubled Man

Written by Henning Mankell
Translated by Laurie Thompson


Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59349-8 (0-307-59349-5)

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.

On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to... Read more >
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