false 28135 4 0 86736 1582343594 9781582343594 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171080759m/86736.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171080759s/86736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86736.City_of_Masks_A_Cree_Black_Novel 3.96 122 --Jane Adams]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 2003 194685 1582344736 9781582344737 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172591003m/194685.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172591003s/194685.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194685.Land_of_Echoes_A_Cree_Black_Novel 3.70 93 </div>]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 2004 194700 1582344965 9781582344966 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172591006m/194700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172591006s/194700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194700.Skull_Session 3.54 96 Willow on the Windham Hill label might be sitting in your closet. But in 1989 a hand ailment turned Hecht's talents to writing, and the first published result is as dazzling and moving as his music. In this novel, gifted Vermont woodworker Paul Skoglund has learned to live with and basically control his Tourette's syndrome, thanks to early training from his caring father and daily doses of haloperidol. But the drug has also burned away the once-sharp edge of his creativity, and Paul has been having a hard time earning a living. So when his eccentric Aunt Vivien offers him a job restoring her old house in Lewisboro, New York, Skoglund is glad to accept--even though it will take him away from his 8-year-old son, Mark, who suffers from neurological troubles of his own. It turns out that the house has been savaged by vandals who are apparently linked to several local teenagers who have disappeared in recent months. While state police investigator Morgan Ford pursues the mystery in an official way, Paul and his fearless lover Lia discover that the damage to the house is of unnatural--possibly even demonic--origins. Hecht balances these diverse elements with impressive artistry, all the while making us care for the fate of his characters.]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 1998 49992 1596910860 9781596910867 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170366074m/49992.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170366074s/49992.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49992.Bones_of_the_Barbary_Coast_A_Cree_Black_Novel 3.34 70 In this thrilling novel set in two periods of San Francisco history, Cree Black confronts the mystery of one of the strangest victims of the Great Quake.

Bert Marchetti, an old family friend of Cree’s and an SFPD homicide inspector, has asked Cree to help investigate a human skeleton recently unearthed in the foundation of a fine Victorian home—apparently the bones of a victim of the 1906 earthquake. The bones have been sent to UC Berkeley for analysis, where their peculiar characteristics have intrigued the forensic anthropology team. They call the skeleton Wolfman.
Who was the wolfman? What caused his anatomical deformities, and how did he end up in that grand hilltop home? Cree’s historical research takes her back to the unholy glory days of the Barbary Coast, old San Francisco’s infamous red-light district. As she assists at the forensics lab, she also begins to realize that Bert Marchetti’s involvement with the case is more complex than he has let on. Her narrative is illuminated by entries from the 1889 diary of Lydia Schweitzer, a Victorian woman with her own secrets—and her own compelling interest in the person who would come to be known as the wolfman. A vivid and elegantly plotted thriller that reveals San Francisco’s hidden face across two centuries, Bones of the Barbary Coast tells the story of two women determined to face human nature’s darkest aspects with courage and compassion.

</div></div>]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 2006 657631 0743449541 9780743449540 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176833679m/657631.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176833679s/657631.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657631.The_Babel_Effect 3.74 23 When pregnant Jess is kidnapped by a religious leader, who fears that science will destroy his faith-based empire, the action ratchets up several levels, skipping over some of the hard science that keeps this would-be thriller mired in detail much of the time. Author Daniel Hecht posits as good a raison d'être for the root causes of violence as any other suspense novelist; it's an intriguing idea, well-worked out in the plot. And Jess McCloud, vainly trying to reconcile her decidedly unscientific faith with scientific empiricism, is an interestingly complex character. Unfortunately, she's missing for much of the novel, and her husband, whose efforts to retrace her research in order to find her, is a much less fascinating hero. But that won't stop fans of Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, et al. for sticking with Hecht to the last page. --Jane Adams

]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 2000 657632 1582344957 9781582344959 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176833680m/657632.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176833680s/657632.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657632.Puppets 3.07 27 The thrilling prequel to the bestselling Skull Session, published for the first time in the United States.

The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan and another in the Bronx, in a thirteen-month period. And all of them hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets. Finally the murderer was caught in New York City. Or so it seems—until State Police detective Mo Ford finds another victim, killed and arranged in exactly the same way. Is it a copycat crime, or did the police catch the wrong man? Mo’s theory about what happened soon expands to involve U.S. intelligence agencies and a horrific experiment with human beings. With so many forces behind the scenes, who is the real puppet master?
</div><div><div>A Times of London bestseller * A WH Smith Read of the Week

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Om Lila te helpen moet Cree wel in het verleden gaan graven. Al snel wordt ze tegengewerkt. Wat mag Cree niet ontdekken? Welk geheim bewaart het huis?]]> 28135 3.61 475 107 2007 2973906 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205002804m/2973906.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205002804s/2973906.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2973906.Tot_op_het_bot 3.00 1 28135 3.61 475 107 2007 2973900 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205002684m/2973900.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205002684s/2973900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2973900.Het_land_van_de_echo_s 3.00 1 28135 3.61 475 107 2004 7168611 9024539951 9789024539956 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7168611-moordlust 1.00 1 28135 3.61 475 107 2001