Books by Christopher Pike and Complete Book Reviews

Christopher Pike, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1098-9
Bestselling children's author Pike (The Cold One ) delivers a somewhat muddled elvish fantasy, the first in a new series aimed at an adult as well as a YA audience. Passionate about saving trees, 13-year-old Alison Warner just happens to live in
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Christopher Pike, Author . Forge $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-765-31718-6
Bestseller Pike's gripping thriller pays homage to Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, particularly in the character of FBI agent Kelly Feinman, who fills the Clarice Starling role. An unlikely law-enforcement agent, Kelly was an...
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Christopher Pike, Harcourt, $16 (416p) ISBN 978-0-547-34247-7
Not even three wishes can save this magical adventure. Pike, a prolific author of teen horror in the 1980s and ’90s, takes things abroad when 15-year-old Sara Wilcox travels to Turkey with her emotionally distant father, who is there on business....
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Christopher Pike, Author Harper Teen $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-89968-5
Following the success of Slumber Party and Weekend, Pike's latest thriller is instantly engaging, as a chain letter forces seven teenagers into bizarre and dangerous activities. A year earlier, they were involved in a car accident in which a man was
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Christopher Pike, Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85895-7
In this workmanlike foray into horror from bestseller Pike (The Season of Passage), commercial artist David Lennon returns home from two months in New York after breaking up with his girlfriend, Sienna Madden, to Lompoc, Calif., where he promptly
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Christopher Pike, Author Pocket Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65967-7
New opportunities for friendship, love and rivalry are created when two high schools merge in this first book of the Final Friends trilogy. Sweet-tempered Alice throws a huge party to break the ice between the two groups of students. The fun ends,...
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Christopher Pike, Author Pocket Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64979-1
Lonely Melanie, Last Act's heroine, has won a big part in the school play and believes she will have a chance to make friends with the kids in her new high school. But when it seems that someone has put a real bullet into the gun Melanie fires in...
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Christopher Pike, Author Tor Books $18.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-312-85115-6
The year is 2004 and, detente in place, the U.S. has sent a manned mission to Mars to find out what happened to and perhaps rescue the Russian cosmonauts who landed there two years earlier and have not been heard from since. Lauren Wagner, chief...
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Christopher Pike, Author Pocket Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67654-4
Shari is dead, and she knows that she didn't kill herself. So rather than merging with the cosmos as other spirits do, she lingers near the world of the living, determined to find her murderer. Fortunately for Shari, she is not alone in the...
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Christopher Pike, Author Pocket Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67655-1
Just when you think you have this well-written, expertly crafted mystery all figured out, along comes a startling transition that moves the story in another direction. Sharon McKay, 18, is on trial for murdering her best friend, the wealthy,...
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Christopher Pike, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-312-85095-1
Does God exist? Is she a blonde, blue-eyed woman named Sati, encountered hitchhiking in the Arizona desert where she is picked up by Michael, a long-haul trucker at odds with life? The questions crystallize back in Los Angeles at the trucker's...
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Christopher Pike, Author Tor Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85117-0
Known for his bestselling young-adult horror fiction, Pike crossed over to adult fiction with The Season of Passage (1992). Here, he brings his considerable-albeit unevenly applied-skills to bear on a murky, labyrinthine tale of betrayal, unearthly...
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Christopher Pike, Author, Patricia MacDonald, Editor Pocket Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69055-7
In this hokey, meandering novel, Julia is a girl gifted with a healing touch and the power to glimpse the future. When she sees a vision of her best friend's boyfriend, Jim, shot and bleeding to death, she does her best to keep him out of danger....
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Christopher Pike, Author, Pike, Author Simon Pulse $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67657-5
When Mark, 18, meets Becky, he's sure it's love. But Becky is involved with Ray, 20, and isn't interested in a new relationship. Then Mark befriends Kara and Vincent, a young couple new to the area. Kara soon embarks on a mission to turn Becky...
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Christopher Pike, Author, Pike, Author, Huggins, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-671-87255-7
A queasy blend of grisliness and New Age unctuousness characterize Pike's latest offering. Terminally ill teens Kevin, Ilonka, Spence and Anya meet each midnight to spin fantastic tales in the candlelit study of their luxurious private hospice. Much
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Christopher Pike, Author, Pat MacDonald, Editor Pocket Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74508-0
The heavy metal aesthetic teams up with wishy-washy New Age mysticism in this reworking of the film It's a Wonderful Life. When Teresa discovers that her boyfriend Bill has dumped her in favor of her best friend, she jumps into her car and takes off
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Christopher Pike. Simon Pulse, $17.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3028-0
In this bloated series launch from the prolific Pike, when Jessie accompanies her graduating class to Las Vegas for the weekend, she meets a mysterious man with a knack for winning at cards. Soon after, Jessie is killed, but she returns to life to...
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Christopher Pike. Simon Pulse, $19.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5059-1
In a novel presented as an unconventional love story recounted 10 years after the fact, Pike (the Witch World series) offers a less-than-subtle exploration of faith and spirituality. Seventeen-year-old struggling musician Fred Allen can’t wait to...
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