By the Book

10 best books like By the Book (Dean Wesley Smith): Babel-17, Desperate Hours, Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, Naked Heat, Drastic Measures, A Choice of Futures, The Way To The Stars, Fear Itself, Red Specter, Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War

AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0839823282
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted...
Desperate Hours
AuthorDavid Mack
ISBN1501164570
An all-original novel based upon the explosive new series on CBS All Access

Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou...
AuthorLee Goldberg
ISBN0451217292
Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, their home is not quite up to Monk's standards of cleanliness and order.

But while Monk attempts to arrange his surroundings...
Naked Heat
AuthorRichard Castle
ISBN1401324029
As a fairly straight-forward work of mystery fiction, THREE STARS. People are murdered, clues are discovered, twists and turns, a narrow escape, a revelation, a sudden dead-end, kissy kissy, frantic chase, mystery solved, wait or is it?, ok now yes, mystery solved. Or something like that? I don't...
Drastic Measures
AuthorDayton Ward
ISBN1501171755
An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access!

It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home....
A Choice of Futures
AuthorChristopher L. Bennett
ISBN1476706751
      A new nation has arisen from the ashes of the Romulan War; The United Federation of Planets , an unprecedented union of diverse species cooperating for the good of all. Admiral Jonathan Archer — the former captain of the Earth starship U.S.S Enterprise, whose efforts made this union...
The Way To The Stars
AuthorUna McCormack
ISBN1982104759
Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the U.S.S. Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to the Stars recounts for fans...
Fear Itself
AuthorJames Swallow
Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators…and a being who very intimately understands the nature of fear. Challenged on all sides, he is determined to surpass his origins and succeed as a Starfleet officer aboard the U.S.S. Shenzhou. But...
Red Specter
AuthorBrian Andrews
It’s strike—and counterstrike—as John Dempsey takes the fight to the Russians in a riveting Tier One Thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of American Operator.

When shadow warrior and former Tier One Navy SEAL John Dempsey goes undercover to meet with a Vory arms...
Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War
AuthorJohn Jackson Miller
An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!

A shattered ship, a divided crew—trapped in the infernal nightmare of conflict!

Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts...
Heat Rises
AuthorRichard Castle
ISBN1401324436
Heat rises in the coldest New York winter of a century. The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a bondage club pits NYPD Nikki Heat against a vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad. The conspiracy reaches the top of the NYPD. When she gets too near the truth, Nikki is disgraced,...
The Lonely Witness
AuthorWilliam Boyle
ISBN1681777959
Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route, where Mrs. Epifanio, the elderly woman who lives there, says she hasn’t seen her usual caretaker, Diane,...
A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself
AuthorWilliam Boyle
ISBN1643130587
Goodfellas meets Thelma and Louise when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts.

After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes...
Frozen Heat
AuthorRichard Castle
ISBN1401324444
Hot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years.

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat...
Death Don't Have No Mercy
AuthorWilliam Boyle
ISBN1940885191
Eight stories about broken men making bad decisions.

“William Boyle does for the small damaged towns of New York what Nelson Algren did for Chicago: he makes the streets sing with piss-pot poetry and gut-bucket blues. These are edgy stories about people who would have to pull themselves...
Gravesend
AuthorWilliam Boyle
ISBN1940885035
Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and still howling for Ray Boy's blood. When the chips are down and the gun is drawn,...
Mind Over Magic
AuthorWilliam Rabkin
ISBN0451227441
Based on the hit usa network series. Shawn Spencer has convinced everyone he's psychic. Now, he's either going to clean up- or be found out.

Murder and Magic are all in the mind...

When a case takes Shawn and Gus into an exclusive club for professional magicians, they're treated to a...
The Call of the Mild
AuthorWilliam Rabkin
ISBN0451228766
Based on the hit USA Network series

A new novel fans will be totally "psyched" about...

Shawn Spencer has convinced everyone he's psychic.

Now, he's either going to clean up-or be found out...

Shawn Spencer has always hated the wilderness-by which he means anything...
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