Rock Bottom
10 best books like Rock Bottom (Sarah Andrews): Dick Francis's Damage, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian, Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography, Tahoe Blowup, Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists, Evidence of Murder, Code White, The Herring Seller's Apprentice, Reversion, Poor Poor Ophelia
| Author | Felix Francis |
| ISBN | 0399168222 |
Felix Francis is back with another edge-of-your-seat thriller, in the classic Dick Francis tradition.
Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he’s tailing his quarry...
| Author | Stuart Palmer |
| ISBN | 0553259342 |
Miss Withers needs recovery time after her trip to Catalina where she bore some responsibility in identifying the guilty. So what happens after she boards a ship to England? Someone disappears from the railing. Did she go into the water voluntarily? Was she pushed/pulled in?
Then when in London,...
| Author | Tom Williams |
| ISBN | 1845135261 |
A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters...
Owen McKenna has moved to the Tahoe area after a life changing event that occurred when he was a policeman in a populated California city. This is the second book in the series. A forest fire starts below his cabin and a body is found. Notes start arriving from the arsonist who tells what the results of the...
Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists
Twenty-one unfinished projects from one of the twentieth century's most popular and prolific writers, lovingly reconstructed by the author's son
Delving deep into the creative process of an American original, the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures project brings to light complete, unpublished...
| Author | Lisa Black |
| ISBN | 0061544485 |
Jillian Perry has been found dead in the woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a young daughter. Her body shows no visible marks, and the autopsy reveals no sign of foul play. Apparently it was a suicide—Jillian purposely wandered into the forest and succumbed to the freezing weather....
| Author | Scott Britz-Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0765331926 |
Ali O’Day, a dedicated young neurosurgeon, might have a Nobel Prize in her future—if she can survive the next eleven hours.
Under the glare of live television cameras—and with her lover, Dr. Richard Helvelius, and her estranged husband, Kevin, both looking on—Ali is about...
The Herring Seller's Apprentice
| Author | L.C. Tyler |
| ISBN | 0230529658 |
Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle, a diminutive but determined individual who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature...
| Author | Amy Rogers |
| ISBN | 1940419018 |
Rabies kills. Can it also cure?
Tessa Price, PhD, knows what it’s like to lose a child to a genetic disease. To spare another mother this pain, she invents a radical new gene therapy that might save the life of seven-year-old Gunnar Sigrunsson. Unable to get regulatory approval to treat Gunnar...
| Author | Carolyn Weston |
| ISBN | 1941298494 |
THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER THAT BECAME THE HIT TV SERIES
"THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO"
It’s the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. The generation gap has never seemed so wide and perilous, especially for veteran Santa Monica homicide detective Al Krug and his new partner, university-educated...
| Author | Ed McBain |
| ISBN | 0451150821 |
First published in 1958, this is the eighth entry in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. By this point, the main characters were fairly well-established and needed no introduction, but the book itself is something of an oddity in the series in that most of the books have the detectives of the 87th working...
| Author | Sandra Parshall |
| ISBN | 1464200270 |
When veterinarian Rachel Goddard and Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger take teenagers on an outing to clean up roadside trash in rural Mason County, Virginia, they make a grisly discovery: the plastic-wrapped body of a young woman. One teen peers at the face through the plastic and screams. The dead girl is...
In the Atlantic Ocean, hurricane Helena is gathering strength, becoming the most powerful storm in recorded history. As Helena bears down on Bermuda, Donovan Nash, along with other members of the scientific research organization Eco-Watch, are called to fly in and extract key government people...
| Author | Beth Groundwater |
| ISBN | 0738727032 |
When Claire Hanover saddles up for the opening event of her brother Charley's new riding stable, the last thing she expects is a murder investigation. Kyle Mendoza, one of the stable hands, is found dead in Gunpowder's stall. Everyone thinks the horse trampled him, until it's discovered someone killed...
| Author | R.G. Alexander |
| ISBN | 0425243338 |
In the sultry heat of the Big Easy, desire can be a dangerous thing... Gabriel Toussaint Giodarno has returned to New Orleans to make amends with his estranged family. The last thing he expected was to be hounded by a magical wannabe-guardian angel-or to be tempted by a beauty who's strictly off-limits.
Angelique...
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
| Author | John Jakes |
| ISBN | 0095132414 |
Go ahead and yuck it up...but I'll have you know these books were my only friend that long lonely summer when I was thirteen and stuck on my grandparent's farm in the middle of South Dakota with nobody to talk to except a fat shetland pony who chewed her oats and stared all drowsy-eyed at me and a dog named Brownie...
Boston Blackie is a man who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie...
| Author | William Westbrook |
| ISBN | 1590137442 |
Hailed as groundbreaking by David Donachie, author of the John Pearce Naval Series and the Privateersman Mysteries— "All sea stories should tell you something new, and The Bermuda Privateer meets that criterion in spades. Fast paced and covering an area new to me; I was enthralled by the author's...
Sometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire, Ellis Holloway, hires renegade marine biologist, Sam Aston, to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something...
| Author | Michael Baden |
| ISBN | 1400044324 |
Forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden of the HBO series "Autopsy" and trial attorney and legal commentator Linda Kenney Baden bring us a chilling new thriller featuring their crack crime-fighting duo: Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist;...
| Author | Erle Stanley Gardner |
| ISBN | 0884114252 |
I would like to begin my review by saying that the number of plot twists and red herrings in this novel puts The Great Dame of Mystery (I am talking about the one and only Agatha Christie) to shame. This all happens in a relatively small number of pages which means it is impossible to give any coherent outline...
