Miami Public Library Online
New Books - June, 1999

FICTION

DeMille, Nelson. The Lion's Gate. Plum Island's Detective John Corey battles a terrorist called the Lion, a young Arab whose family died in the Libya bombing.

Dickinson, Peter. Some Deaths Before Dying. Two-time Golden Dagger Award winner Dickinson comes up with an unusual mystery plot: a dying woman realizes that an important possession with a dangerous past is missing and that to die in peace she must find it.

Goudge, Eileen. One Last Dance. Daphne, Alex, and Kitty are really confused when their mother shoots their father after 40 happy years.

L'Amour, Louis. Beyond the Great Snow Mountains. Ten stories that have never before appeared in book form.

Peters, Elizabeth. The Falcon at the Portal. Fake artifacts, dead bodies, and a mysterious child demand Amelia Peabody's attention in her latest.

Steel, Danielle. Granny Dan. Granny has a secret that comes out after her death: she was a great ballerina, favored by the Tsar, until love, illness, and the revolution intervened.

Walters, Minette. The Breaker. A woman is found dead in the water and her little girl abandoned--too close for comfort to a troubled young man her mother was seeing. But then the little girl also seems awfully frightened of her dad. Walters is an Edgar Award winner.

NON-FICTION

Douglas, John. The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals. The author that brought you Mindhunter and other best sellers on tracking criminals is back with more.

Gabaldon, Diana. The Outlandish Companion. Not an outlandish idea: the novelist herself offers a guide to her celebrated "Outlander" series.