New York, NY: Bantam (1996)

Former DEA-agent Paul Masterson faces his worst nightmare--an insanely clever, deeply evil man seeking revenge against the agents who are now his sworn enemies. But the killer doesn't want the agents. He's after their families. One by one, he's stalked and destroyed them. Now, there's only one family left--Masterson's own.

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New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1996)

An eagerly awaited new collection of short stories includes tales of ardent voyeurs, killers, and lovers desperate for a sanctuary beyond good and evil, written in a darkly comic and fiercely tragic style that provides insight into the fabric of American life.

New York, NY: Mysterious Press (1996)

Crumley brings his two greatest detectives together in one smashing case. When a fickle twist of fate foils two assassins from snuffing out Detective C.W. Sughrue, Detective Milo Milodragovich joins his colleague in an effort to track down the would-be killers. The two hard-drinking, hard-living gumshoes sweep across the American southwest and Mexico on a wild journey of hardcore violence, sex, and cyberspace.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books (1996)

Near fine in dust jacket.

Convicted and sentenced on a vehicular homicide charge, Glen is the bad seed - the haunted, angry, drunken, and dangerous son of Virgil and Emma Davis. Bobby Blanchard is the sheriff, as different from Glen as can be imagined, but in love with the same woman - the mother of Glen's illegitimate son.

Before he's been back in town thirty-six hours, Glen has robbed his war-crippled father, bullied and humiliated his younger brother, and rejected his son, David. Bobby finds himself sorting through the mayhem Glen leaves in his wake - a murdered bar owner, a rape, Glen's terrorized family, and the little boy who needs a father. And, as he gets closer and closer to the murderous Glen, tension builds like a Mississippi thunderstorm about to break loose.

New York, NY: Doubleday (1996)

Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses to
carry on with the case against his father's wishes. In his zeal to prove himself, Peter neglects his client and ends up losing everything—the case, his
job, and his father.

Unemployed and disinherited, Peter takes the only job he is offered—that of a public defender in a small Oregon town. He hopes that if he can make good there, he can reinstate himself in his father's good graces. But his ambition again gets the best of him when he takes on a death-penalty case, representing a mentally retarded man accused of the brutal hatchet murder of a college coed. He's in way over his head, and it's only when Peter realizes that his greed and his ego may end up killing his client that he begins to understand what it really takes to be a good lawyer—and to become a man.

New York, NY: Knopf (1996)

The creator of vast universes of vampires and witches, the Chronicler of Lestat and the Mayfairs, now takes readers into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel the Ghost, the Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genrii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible, who now finds himself amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

New York, NY: Henry Holt (1996)

In the sequel to the critically acclaimed novel Edisto, Simons Manigault, fresh from college, tries to forestall his father's plans for his career with the help of his hard-drinking, literary-minded mother.

New York: Doubleday (1996)

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?

New York, NY: Hyperion (1996)

Elvis Cole is back on his own turf in Los Angeles, and embroiled in a controversial high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defense attorney hires Elvis to find proof that police detective Angela Rossi fooled around with the evidence. Rossi had been cleared of an earlier charge of planting evidence to convict a counterfeiter, but her career was damaged and she's rumored to be willing to do anything to get it back on track - even if it means framing an innocent man. Yet as Elvis investigates Rossi for the defense team, he begins to be more suspicious of the media-loving lawyers than the cops. As the investigation continues, Elvis is visited by Lucy Chenier, the Louisiana lawyer he'd met several months ago. Lucy is in Los Angeles for a business trip, and as she and Elvis spend more time together, their mutual attraction grows. As the fireworks ignite, Elvis and Lucy are drawn deeper into the intrigue and dangers surrounding the case of the missing woman.

New York, NY: Norton (1996)

Watson, in precise and beautiful prose, writes about people and dogs--dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions--and people responding to dogs as missing parts or reflections of themselves. In each of these stories he captures the animal crannies of the human personality--yearning for freedom and mourning the loss of something wild.

New York, NY: Harper Collins (1996)

Ron Hansen's deeply affecting novel opens in winter on the high plains of Colorado, where rancher Atticus Cody receives an unexpected visit from his wayward young son. An artist and wanderer, Scott has recently settled into a life of heavy drinking and recklessness among expatriates and Mexicans in the little town of Resurreccion on the Caribbean coast. Weeks later, Atticus himself goes down to Mexico to recover the body of his son, thinking he has committed suicide. Puzzled by what he finds in Resurreccion, he begins to suspect that Scott has been murdered. Atticus is the story of a father's fierce love for his son, a love so steadfast and powerful that it bends the impersonal forces of destiny to its own will. As Atticus uncovers the story of his son's death, fitting together the pieces of the mosaic that was Scott's life in Mexico - and encountering a group of disturbing characters along the way - he suffers a father's grief and rage, but is driven forward in his quest to understand by the even more powerful force of a father's love.

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (1996)

On Mother's Day, 1961, a busload of freedom riders arrived in Birmingham from "up North". A group of Klansmen, armed with pipes and clubs, greeted them. Life in this most segregated of Southern cities would never be the same. It is to this pivotal moment that novelist Vicki Covington returns, in her fourth and richest novel to date. Birmingham crackles with tension - at the foundry where Pete, Dinah Fraley's husband, works; on the baseball field where white and black company teams uneasily take turns; and most of all in Dinah's hotel, where Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor holds court just as he did when Dinah's mother ran the place as a bordello. When Dinah takes in a freedom rider injured in the Mother's Day melee, the conflicts within and beyond her well-ordered world reach a crisis point.

New York, NY: Doubleday (1996)

In a masterful departure from her earlier work, the author of Playing with Fire and Fugitive Blue tells the story of Solomon Grossman, a once-prominent psychologist who seeks his own redemption by searching for his long lost son.