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EXTRAORDINARY POWERS Author: Joseph Finder Published: February 15, 1994 by Ballantine Books Category: Thriller Main Character: Ben Ellison, Vladimir Orlov The news is shattering: Harrison Sinclair has been killed in a car accident. While his daughter, Molly, and her husband, Ben Ellison, mourn the tragedy of a powerful man cut down in his prime, the realization slowly dawns that Sinclair's death was no accident. Harrison Sinclair was the director of the CIA. Harrison Sinclair may have been a traitor—or the Agency's last honest man. Click for more info. |
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Scandal in Fair Haven Author: Carolyn Hart Published: January 1, 1994Series Name: Henrie O Mysteries Main Character: Henrie O Collins Agatha Award-winning Hart takes her retired Missouri newspaperwoman, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, introduced in Dead Man's Island, to Tennessee, where she becomes the honorary aunt of a young man accused of killing his wife. Henrie O is vacationing at the mountain cabin of her friend Margaret, who is recovering from heart surgery, when Margaret's nephew, Craig Matthews, arrives distraught and bloodied. Click for more info. |
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice Author: Laurie R. King Published: January 1, 1994 by St Martin's Press/Picador/Poisoned Pen Press UK Series Name: Mary Russell Category: Historical Main Character: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes (Agatha Award nominee; ALA notable book) "I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him." (Mary Russell #1) For a more complete description, photographs, a bibliography, and an excerpt from the book, see the Books and Reviews page of Laurie King’s web site at http://www.laurierking.com/books_and_reviews.php#tad Click for more info. |
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Glass House Author: Christine Wiltz Published: January 1, 1994 by Voices of the South, LSU Press Category: fiction; crime Main Character: Thea Tamborella, Burgess Monroe, Delzora Monroe, Bobby Buchanan; characters from the black and white neighborhoods of a city divided by fear. When Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence, she finds the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest. When she meets again her childhood friend, Burgess Monroe, she finds out that he has become the biggest drug dealer in one of the city's most violent and dangerous housing projects. Click for more info. |
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TORSOS Author: John Peyton Cooke Published: January 1, 1994 by Mysterious Press Category: Thriller Main Character: Hank "Lucky" Lambert Mysterious Press/Warner Books, New York, 1994, $19.95 ISBN 0-89296-522-3 (First U.S. edition, hardcover) Click for more info. |
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