New Releases by Ross THOMAS

Quasi-P.I.s Wu and Durant of Wudu, Ltd. call in a couple of less-than-reputable cronies to help solve a rich playboy''s murder--then find their own lives on the line.

Als ein langjähriger Mitarbeiter unverhofft stirbt, reagiert der CIA mit Panik. Die posthum veröffentlichten brisanten Memoiren lösen eine Mordwelle aus.

Actor-detective Granville Haynes and his friends from the notorious bar Mac''s Place move through a Washington labyrinth of deceit and murder when the memoirs of Granville''s CIA father threaten to come to light

Philip St. Ives is hired to help a great thief, and becomes involved in murder and a million-dollar scam.

A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister-- it'' s her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart-- has died in a car bomb explosion. It'' s the chief of police calling-- Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do-- but it'' s a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, " One sure thing about Ross Thomas'' s novels: A reader won'' t get bored waiting for the action to start."