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Kate Wilhelm
Sam and Lori had only just met and now they are dead, the result of a car accident. Accident? No. Dead? Not exactly. In life, Sam was a successful playwright…
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In the small town of Brindle, six young girls have gone missing over the past twenty years - but no one in the town seems concerned. Newcomer Todd Fielding looks…
Kate Wilhelm’s 25th novel is a tour de force that skillfully melds the finest talents of this gifted storyteller. At once a complex mystery, a science fiction novel, and a…
When he was a kid, Teddy Wendover had an accident that left him stunted at the mental age of eight. Physically, he’s six-foot-two and twenty-eight years old, but he acts…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2000.
House-sitting for her grandfather, Lees stay is troubled by strange and menacing noises at night. She soon discovers their source: a young man, who is accidentally killed during the course…
Here is a tour de force courtroom drama from one of America’s premier mystery thriller writers. When attorney Barbara Holloway agrees to take a murder case, she discovers that incompetent…
When the sister of Baby Killer Kennerman asks for help, attorney Barbara Holloway reluctantly looks into matters and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing…
Trial lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases and winning them. But this time it looks as though she’s up against an unbeatable opponent.
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases-and winning them.
When Stef, an eccentric artist, dies in an accident in her studio, her latest lover suddenly shows up with a contract granting him the right to sell her work. Convinced…
Charlie didn’t want to take this casehe hated cases involving crazy willsbut when one of the new clients mentioned that the Bainbridge men are cursed, he knew resistance was hopeless…
Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime, often just ahead of others who had already been working the same ideas. His son John…
In Wilhelm’s latest crime novel, a small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder.
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Having foreseen and planned for the worldwide devastation of war and pestilence, the landed Sumner family of Virginia have assured themselves physical survival but are hard put to provide for…
Part memoir and part writing manual, an affectionate account of teaching writing at the Clarion workshop.
‘If all SF was as finely crafted as WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG, we’d have great cause to rejoice’ VECTOR
Harlan Ellison
A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.
Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called on to follow the trail of a suspected arsonist but finds himself teaming up with his quarry to face a much deeper problem: a…
Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is Kate Wilhelms science-fiction award-winning story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve…
When Louise Braniff discretely hands Barbara Holloway a large retainer and asks for complete anonymity, the attorney is both intrigued and suspicious. Soon Barbara unravels a stunning trail of deception…
When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the Oregon woods, his daughter, Abby, embarks on her own investigation. She soon realizes that the…
Charlie Meiklejohn is a former arson detective and Constance Leidl a psychologist. Together, the husband-and-wife team has a knack for unraveling a mystery. Seven Kinds of Death is a famous…
What would happen to the precarious balance of power if scientists could extend life for centuries? High in the mountains, a mysterious government agent tries to manipulate writer Lyle Taney…
After a terrified young boy seeks Barbara’s help for his battered mother, and then disappears, the boy’s family accuses her of aiding in his disappearance. As Barbara delves into the…
Seven Kinds of Death is a famous sculpture, but the name takes on new meaning when bodies start turning up at the creator’s art colony. Husband-and-wife detectives Charlie and Constance…
Attorney Barbara Holloways toughest battle may be in the court of public opinion as she fights for a client facing a double charge of murder, for both the recent death…
Attorney Barbara Holloway investigates one of her most complex cases yet when Binnie, a mute woman who smuggled herself into the U.S., asks for her help. Immigration wants to deport…
