Liza Cody, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-684-18586-6
The British author's fourth suspense story is a corker, written with the artlessness and economy that fans admired in Stalker (winner of first prize for a debut in the genre), Bad Company and Dupe. The series' heroine, Anna Lee, works for a private-d
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Liza Cody, Author Scribner Book Company $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-18959-8
Cody's ( Under Contract ) first departure from her series featuring private investigator Anna Lee proves again that she is a gifted writer. Poverty-stricken Ethiopia and its inhabitants are the vivid setting for this provocative thriller that...
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Liza Cody, Author Crimeline $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28345-7
In her fifth appearance, private detective Anna Lee joins the security force of rock star Shona Una on tour with her entourage, an offensive lot. ``The immediacy of rock music's appalling subculture is alleviated by infectious humor and Lee's last...
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Liza Cody, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (279p) ISBN 978-0-385-42231-4
London-based private investigator Anna Lee was first met in Dupe , winner of England's prestigious John Creasey award and an Edgar nominee. This, her sixth outing in Cody's top-of-the-genre series, should bring her the name recogition she richly...
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Liza Cody, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-684-18780-8
Cody's Head Case, Dupe and other novels have won praise in her native England and in America, as well as an increasing readership, devoted to the series heroine Anna Lee. In her fifth appearance, private detective Lee joins the security force of...
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Liza Cody, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (236p) ISBN 978-0-385-46776-6
Cody ( Backhand ) introduces Londoner Eva Wylie, a professional wrestler, junkyard security guard and genuinely off-the-wall heroine. Told with all the confidence and style of Cody's successful Anna Lee series, this story is more an adventure than a
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Liza Cody, Author Mysterious Press $18.45 (246p) ISBN 978-0-89296-600-4
Like Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey, Eva Wylie, introduced in Bucket Nut, is a character of such convincing reality, it's hard to believe she doesn't exist somewhere. She also, like them, inhabits a fully believable world, but hers revolves...
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Liza Cody, Author Mysterious Press $21.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-601-1
Less a mystery than another bruising round in erstwhile professional wrestler Eva Wylie's tragicomic encounter with life, this latest in Cody's admirable series (Bucket Nut; Monkey Wrench) features, to fine effect, Eva's highly dysfunctional family.
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Liza Cody, Author, Michael Z. Lewin, With St. Martin's Press $21.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-10925-7
Edited by crime-fiction veterans Cody and Lewin, the Crime Writers' Association Annual offers a choice, eclectic gathering of largely unpublished crime short stories. Peter Lovesey evokes the spirit of Baker Street as some English criminal types...
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Liza Cody, Author, Peter Lovesey, With, Michael Z. Lewin, With St. Martin's Press $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11736-8
This third annual anthology from the Crime Writers' Association celebrates nothing but good crime writing. Most of the stories are original, but some are reprints from magazines-Ruth Rendell's 1980 ``A Needle for the Devil,'' for instance, which has
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