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A Fatal Thaw
Author: Dana Stabenow
Published: February 18, 1993 by Berkley
Series Name: Kate Shugak series
The second in the Kate Shugak series. An opportunistic killer uses a massacre to hide a murder.
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Dead in the Water
Author: Dana Stabenow
Published: February 18, 1993 by Berkley
Series Name: Kate Shugak series
The third in the Kate Shugak series. Young men and large amounts of money make for a volatile -- and homicidal -- mixture in the wild and woolly west of Alaska, where crab is king and commercial fishermen play as hard as they work.
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A Grave Talent
Author: Laurie R. King
Published: January 1, 1993 by Bantam
Series Name: Kate Martinelli
Category: Mystery/ police
Main Character: Kate Marinelli; Al Hawkin; Lee Cooper
(Edgar Award, best first novel; Creasey Award) Kate Martinelli, new to the San Francisco Police Department's homicide division, in no time at all finds herself over her head in murder, in the art world, in alternative lifestyles, and in a storm-flooded creek. Hard to say which is the most dangerous. (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)
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Dead Man's Island
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 1993Series Name: Henrie O Mysteries
Main Character: Henrie O Collins
In this action-packed series launch, the author of the Death on Demand mysteries introduces Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, a widowed former reporter whose investigative instincts have not been blunted by retirement. Forty years after their love affair ended, media magnate Chase Prescott calls "Henrie O" for help in figuring out who tried to kill him with poisoned candy. He invites her and all those he suspects of wanting him dead to his private island off the coast of South Carolina, hoping that Henrie will be able to ferret out the identity of his would-be killer.
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Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer
Author: Gary C. King
Published: December 1, 1992 by Onyx
Category: True Crime
Main Character: Dayton Leroy Rogers
Dayton Leroy Rogers was known in Portland, Oregon, as a respected businessman and devoted husband and father. But at night he abducted women, forced them into sadistic bondage games, and thrilled in their pain and mutilation. His murderous spree was stopped only after, in plain view, he slashed to death his final victim...and when a hunter accidentally stumbled onto the burial grounds of seven other women Rogers had killed one by one in the depths of Molalla Forest.
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