Peter Abrahams Books In Order

Dog On It

Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog On It, who works alongside Bernie, a down on his luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school ‘I’d been the best leaper in K 9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn’t remember exactly, although blood was involved’, but he’s a detective through and through. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. A well behaved, gifted student, she didn’t arrive home after school and her divorced mother is frantic. Bernie is quick to take the case something about a cash flow problem that Chet’s not all that clear about and he’s relieved, if vaguely suspicious, when Madison turns up unharmed with a story that doesn’t add up. But when she disappears for a second time in a week, Bernie and Chet aren’t taking any chances; they launch a full blown investigation. Without a ransom demand, they’re not convinced it’s a kidnapping, but they are sure of one thing: something smells funny. Their search for clues takes them into the desert to biker bars and other exotic locals, with Chet’s highly trained nose leading the way. Both Chet and Bernie bring their own special skills to the hunt, one that puts each of them in peril. But even as the bad guys try to turn the tables, this duo is nothing if not resourceful, and the result is an uncommonly satisfying adventure. With his doggy ways and his endearingly hardboiled voice, Chet is full of heart and occasionally prone to mischief. He is intensely loyal to Bernie, who, though distracted by issues that Chet has difficulty understanding like divorce, child custody, and other peculiar human concerns is enormously likable himself, in his flawed, all too human way.

Thereby Hangs a Tail

In the irresistible second Chet and Bernie mystery, Chet gets a glimpse of the show dog world turned deadly. What first seems like a walk in the park to wise and lovable canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie to investigate threats made against a pretty, pampered show dog turns into a serious case when Princess and her owner are abducted. To make matters worse, Bernie’s on again, off again girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears too. When Chet is separated from Bernie, he s on his own to put the pieces together, find his way home, and save the day. Spencer Quinn s ‘brilliantly original’ Richmond Times Dispatch and ‘masterful’ Los Angeles Times new series combines genuine suspense and intrigue with humor and insight for a tail wagging good time readers won t soon forget.

To Fetch a Thief

In the third book in the brilliant New York Times bestselling series featuring a lovable and wise dog narrator, Chet and Bernie go under the big top to solve the most unlikely missing persons and animals! case ever. We were outnumbered, some big number against two. When it comes to numbers, two is as far as I go, but it’s enough, in my opinion…
. Sit, Bernie said. I sat. Bernie would think of something he always did. That was one of the things that made the Little Detective Agency such a success, except for the finances part…
Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scents he encounters when an old fashioned traveling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less than greatest show on earth because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only problem is that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one ring circus, has gone missing along with her trainer, Uri DeLeath. Stranger still, no one saw them leave. How does an elephant vanish without a trace? At first there s nothing Bernie and Chet can do it s a police matter and they have no standing in the case. But then they re hired by Popo the Clown, who has his own reasons for wanting to find out what has become of the mysteriously missing duo. After Chet takes a few sniffs in Peanut s trailer and picks up her one of a kind scent, he and Bernie are in hot pursuit, heading far away from the bright lights of the traveling show and into the dark desert night. Some very dangerous people would prefer that Chet and Bernie disappear for good and will go to any lengths to make that happen. Across the border in Mexico and separated from Bernie, Chet must use all his natural strength and doggy smarts to try to save himself not to mention Bernie and a decidedly uncooperative Peanut, too. To Fetch a Thief shows why readers everywhere have fallen head over paws in love with the Chet and Bernie mystery series. Top notch suspense, humor, and insight into the ways our canine companions think and behave make this the most entertaining and irresistible book in the series yet.

The Dog Who Knew Too Much

After Dog On It, Thereby Hangs a Tail, and To Fetch a Thief, here is the fourth mystery featuring an irresistible canine narrator.

A Fistful of Collars

Chet the dog and Bernie, his private investigator companion, are back in the New York Times bestselling mystery series as they investigate a movie star with a shady past. Stephen King has called Chet a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre. Robert B. Parker has dubbed Spencer Quinn’s writing major league prose. Each of the books in this irresistible mystery series is a New York Times bestseller and now Quinn returns with a story that reveals the true magnitude of Chet s star power. Hoping to bring some Hollywood money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next major production starring Chad Perry. Known for his bad behavior, Chad needs a babysitter and the mayor hires Chet and Bernie for the job. The money is good, but something smells fishy. When they dig into the details of an old crime, they discover that Chad has links to the Valley that go way back. To complicate matters, for some odd reason, Chad s cat, Brando, seems hellbent on making trouble for Chet. Like the winning books before it, this latest in the series offers a top notch mystery and a rollicking good read about this irresistible human canine P.I. team.

666

This anthology brings together the best of today’s horror writers in one spine tingling collection. All of these stories are guaranteed to terrify! So lock the door. Turn on the lights. Don’t answer the phone. Open the book…
if you dare…
Stories By: Peter Abrahams, Amelia Atwater Rhodes, Isobel Bird, P.D. Cacek, Melissa de la Cruz, Joshua Gee, Heather Graham, T.E.D. Klein, Bentley Little, Jane Mason, David Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Pike, Ellen Schreiber, Sarah Hines Stephens, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Robin Wasserman, Chet Williamson.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next.

Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. Getting them back means getting involved in a murder investigation rivaling those solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has enough on her plate with club soccer, school, and the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of Alice in Wonderland. But much as in Alice’s adventures Down the Rabbit Hole, things in Ingrid’s small town keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Her favorite director has a serious accident onstage but is it an accident?, and the police chief is on Ingrid’s tail, grilling her about everything from bike-helmet law to the color of her cleats. Echo Falls has turned into a nightmare, and Ingrid is determined to wake up. Edgar Award-nominated novelist Peter Abrahams builds suspense as a smart young girl finds that her small town isn’t nearly as safe as it seems.

Behind the Curtain

In Echo Falls you never know what’s coming next and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid’s dad’s job is in jeopardy, but h e won’t explain why. Ingrid’s brother, Ty, is getting buff really buff but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there’s more to his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid’s beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who’s really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story?

In this sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole a clever young girl learns that mysterious forces are at work in her town and exposing them could put her life in jeopardy.

Performed by Colleen Delaney

Into the Dark

In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don’t always stay there.

An idyllic day of snowshoeing on Grampy’s land with Joey Strade turns out to be less than idyllic when thirteen year old super sleuth Ingrid Levin Hill stumbles upon a body lying in the snow. This discovery sends the town of Echo Falls into a tailspin in which secrets long hidden are revealed and Grampy gets sent to jail. While Ingrid works to clear Grampy’s name and uncover what really happened to the man in the snow, she discovers even more secrets she wishes she never knew. Just like the character Gretel, whom Ingid is playing in the Prescott Players’ production of Hansel and Gretel, Ingrid must go deep Into the Darkness to find the truth.

In the third book in the Edgar Award nominated and national bestselling Echo Falls series, Peter Abrahams’s talent for building suspense shines as Ingrid embarks on her most harrowing adventure yet.

Lights Out

Eighteen year old Eddie Nye was bound for U.S.C. and a bright future that fateful summer in the Bahamas. But somebody set Eddie up. Instead of four years of higher education, he did fifteen behind bars for drug smuggling. Eddie went in innocent, but with three prison murders under his belt, he comes out dangerous. Although all he wants is to stay clean, Eddie’s future won t be that easy. The nightmares of his past corruption, greed, and most of all a stunning betrayal are on a collision course with a daring plot hatched in a prison cell. To learn the secret of his own life, half hidden in an ancient mariner s saga, Eddie must face the hardest choice a free man can make.

The Fan

Baseball sensation Bobby Rayburn’s major league career is booming, and he just signed a multimillion dollar contract with the Sox. Knife salesman Gil Renard s job is hanging by a thread and he just sold his most prized possession to stay afloat. All that keeps Gil going, in the face of divorce, destitution, and desperation, is rooting for the Sox and the team s new savior, Bobby Rayburn. But when his idol sinks into the worst slump of his career, Gil realizes he alone has the power to restore the slugger s mojo. At the lowest point he has ever known, Gil finds his mission in life a mission he will carry out no matter what it takes or who gets hurt.

A Perfect Crime

In this gripping novel of suspense, acclaimed author Peter Abrahams gives us an explosive thriller of lust and retribution, desire and accountability, murder and reckoning set in motion by an illicit love that ticks like a time bomb. A master at creating menacing intrigue and shocking reversals, Abrahams has indeed devised A Perfect Crime. When an adulterous affair is revealed, a devious mind begins to construct the perfect, flawless crime. No loose ends. Everything considered: motive, means, opportunity, evidence, suspects, alibis. The perpetrator must remain an invisible presence, seeing the plot through to its chilling conclusion, manipulating the players like chess pieces in an intricate, deadly game. The unfaithful wife. With her no nonsense business savvy and exquisite eye for acquisition, Francie is a rising star in the Boston art world. But her personal life is about to take a decidedly dark turn…
. The cheating lover.A virile and charismatic radio psychologist, Ned hosts a popular show poised on the brink of syndication. Though married and successful, he has one fatal weakness…
. The loyal friend. Anne, a vulnerable and trusting wife and mother, desperately needs to confide in someone. Unfortunately, some secrets aren’t meant to be shared…
. The jealous husband. Exeter, first in his class. Harvard, summa in economics. Now out of work and falling fast, Roger conceives a brilliant, violent plan that could put him back on top…
. The ultimate act of revenge. In Peter Abrahams’s stunning new thriller, four lives hang in precarious balance as a cunning mastermind prepares their roles in A Perfect Crime.

Crying Wolf

It was more than a white lie. It was deception on a grand scale. But the motive was admirable to save the bright future of a deserving young man. And the victim, too, was deserving an arrogant billionaire who would hardly notice his loss, crumbs from a vast fortune. All the plotters needed was a believable story, desperate and frightening, but false. Nothing bad was supposed to happen. They were only Crying Wolf. But what if the wolf were real?For Nat, a shining all American boy with blue collar roots, acceptance to New England’s exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined. It begins at Christmas break. Nat, unable to afford going home for the holidays, remains alone on the deserted campus. Alone until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, twin sisters who, although biologically identical, are utterly different. Thrown off by the irresistible attraction of this astonishing pair, Nat’s moral compass starts to fail him. How could it not, as he enters a seductive new world of private Caribbean islands, personal jets, and endless possibility? A world where folly, even crime, now seems like a good idea. When clas*ses resume, Nat and the twins fall under the influence of a charismatic philosophy professor with dangerous ideas and a secret of his own. His teachings will be used to justify a bold scheme, plotted deep beneath the school in the lair of a forgotten social club, banished for almost a century. But someone in the underground shadows is listening, someone who thinks he deserves a future just as bright as Nat’s. Suddenly, a risky but basically innocent game will take a horrifying turn. An intricate, tightly coiled plot, relentless tension, stunning reversals, and vividly rendered characters as real as people you know. Peter Abrahams weaves these powerful elements into a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Folly quickly turns to crime in Crying Wolf.

Last of the Dixie Heroes

Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven year old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly it all starts to unravel. He is losing control of his life. When his best friend joins a Civil War reenactment group, spending his weekends in camps where the year is forever 1863, Roy finds the idea laughable…
even though he is the descendent and namesake of a Confederate Civil War hero. But when he visits the regiment just to be polite, something unexpected happens, gradually opening Roy’s eyes to the secret of a distant conflict that never ended and leading him down a path that grows more menacing at every turn. With his job disappearing in a way he could never have foreseen, his whole life slipping out of control, Roy falls deeper and deeper into the Rebel past. A strange and powerful idea takes hold: that his life went wrong long before he was born, in the fateful campaigns that preceded the burning of Atlanta. Among the men, a hard core splinter group is formed with Roy at its center. On an ancient battlefield, the once clear lines between reenactment and reality begin to disappear. When his son is taken hostage is it real? When the old muskets fire will they still fire blanks? Or will a bloody history come stunningly to life? An extraordinary novel about the fate of men and women no longer in step with the rhythms of the modern world, marching back into Southern history to make things right, Last of the Dixie Heroes is Peter Abrahams’s most dazzlingly original work yet.

The Tutor

Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home. When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage a troubled business deal and gives Scott expert advice on his tennis game. Only eleven year old Ruby funny, curious, devoted to Sherlock Holmes has doubts about the stranger in their midst who has so quickly become like a member of the family. But even the observant Ruby is far from understanding Julian’s true designs on the Gardners. For Julian, the Gardners are like specimens in jars, creatures to be studied and manipulated. Scott is a gambler with no notion of odds, festering in the shadow of his more successful brother. Linda is ambitious, hungry for the cultured stimulation Julian easily provides. Brandon is risking his future late at night in the town woods. And Ruby well, she s just a silly little girl. And in that miscalculation lies the Gardner family s only possible salvation. In The Tutor, Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of an American family, their town, their secrets, their dreams and a portrait just as compelling of the menace they welcome into their home. It is his most chilling, suspenseful novel to date. From the Hardcover edition.

Their Wildest Dreams

Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist. STEPHEN KING Mackie dreaded the mail. From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who linger in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex husband whose get rich quick schemes left her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one; Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler she loves, who gets a dangerous onetime offer that could take him to the life he’s always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip club owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a 19th century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty first century captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems; and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than anything he imagined. Utterly original, multilayered, and marked by the gripping suspense, sharp wit, and fascinating psychological insights for which Peter Abrahams has been acclaimed, here is a major work a riveting story of modern day desperadoes living Their Wildest Dreams. From the Hardcover edition.

Oblivion

Nick Petrov was a world famous private investigator until a brain trauma destroyed part of his memory and changed who he is forever. Now a killer is on the loose, looming up from a past that Nick can no longer remember.

End of Story

Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing at a maximum security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by enigmatic codes of honor, ceaseless aggression and absolutely savage violence. But one of the prisoners there is unlike any of the others, and unlike any man she has ever met before. Vance Harrow is unique. He is soft spoken, charismatic and brilliantly talented. Two things trouble Ivy deeply. First, she suspects that Harrow shouldn’t be in prison at all. He possesses an intellect that separates him from the other inmates and a selflessness that might just get him killed. Second, he has at the same time deep reservoirs of rage and brutality that seem perfectly in line with the other prisoners a dichotomy Ivy finds difficult to reconcile. Trying to understand the complex picture, perhaps even get some recognition for a writer as gifted as Harrow seems to be, Ivy begins to ask questions. How did such a man end up in prison in the first place? Is he truly guilty? If not, who could have been responsible for putting him there, and why hasn’t he tried harder to free himself? But the more questions Ivy asks to free a man she believes to be innocent, the more attention she draws to herself. Soon other people begin to ask questions about Ivy Seidel. In the span of just a few days, Ivy’s life will be completely turned upside down. What begins as an inquiry into one man’s innocence may explode into a love affair, and what begins as an obsession to save one man’s life might just end up costing Ivy her own.

Nerve Damage

Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams…
at least that’s true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well known sculptor in the art world. His newest piece, a magnificent creation he calls Delia, has just been finished, a sign that he’s found a little closure at last. Then Roy gets some news of the grimmest kind. It’s the kind of news that forces thoughts in unexpected directions, such as the contents of one’s obituary. Roy and his lawyer, a close friend, find themselves wondering whether Roy’s obituary will mention a big goal he scored in college hockey. Roy’s friend suggests that they could probably find out. With some help, they hack into the morgue files of the New York Times. There’s no mention of the goal, but something else about his obituary bothers Roy. According to the New York Times, his wife was working for the United Nations when she died& 8212not the think tank. At first, Roy thinks it’s a simple mistake, but when a conversation with the writer of his obituary fails to clear things up, he suspects something more. The deeper he digs, the more confusing his wife’s past becomes. Delia’s former colleagues deny ever knowing her, the building that housed the think tank has supposedly served as the offices for another organization for decades, and Roy can’t find any records of its existence. Who was Delia? Who did she work for? How did she really die? Did she really die? With time running out, a desperate Roy won’t stop until he knows the truth about the woman he can’t stop loving.

Delusion

A woman’s world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago in this latest ingenious thriller from the author Publishers Weekly calls ‘one of the best contemporary thriller writers around.’

Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau witnessed the murder of her boyfriend. Her testimony put a man behind bars and led her to her husband, Clay, the gentle detective who solved the case. They’ve been happy ever since and have raised a daughter together but then one phone call changes everything.

New evidence has exonerated Alvin DuPree, aka Pirate the man Nell helped to convict and now he’s a free man. Nell is consumed by feelings of guilt, and for the first time in their marriage, Clay is no help. The case is closed for him, this new turn of events a mistake, nothing more, and Nell’s attempts to talk to him about the situation are met with anger. And to make matters worse, the whole ordeal is beginning to wear on her relationship with her daughter.

Nell is determined to find the answers to her questions, though. Is DuPree, now a much changed man, really innocent? Could Nell have been wrong all those years ago? Does her husband or her daughter know something about the case Nell doesn’t? But secrets buried for twenty years tend to grow roots, to burrow deep; and they are not unearthed easily. Every answer produces more questions, and Nell’s search eventually leads her to the one person she hasn’t approached: the freed man himself. As the pieces fall into place, Nell realizes that the truth and very real danger could be much closer than she ever imagined.

Reality Check

A woman’s world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago in this latest ingenious thriller from the author Publishers Weekly calls ‘one of the best contemporary thriller writers around.’

Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau witnessed the murder of her boyfriend. Her testimony put a man behind bars and led her to her husband, Clay, the gentle detective who solved the case. They’ve been happy ever since and have raised a daughter together but then one phone call changes everything.

New evidence has exonerated Alvin DuPree, aka Pirate the man Nell helped to convict and now he’s a free man. Nell is consumed by feelings of guilt, and for the first time in their marriage, Clay is no help. The case is closed for him, this new turn of events a mistake, nothing more, and Nell’s attempts to talk to him about the situation are met with anger. And to make matters worse, the whole ordeal is beginning to wear on her relationship with her daughter.

Nell is determined to find the answers to her questions, though. Is DuPree, now a much changed man, really innocent? Could Nell have been wrong all those years ago? Does her husband or her daughter know something about the case Nell doesn’t? But secrets buried for twenty years tend to grow roots, to burrow deep; and they are not unearthed easily. Every answer produces more questions, and Nell’s search eventually leads her to the one person she hasn’t approached: the freed man himself. As the pieces fall into place, Nell realizes that the truth and very real danger could be much closer than she ever imagined.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King’s award winning, best selling novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is stunningly told in this, the first pop up book by the master of suspense. It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, retold with intricate pop ups and a breathtaking text. This is the ultimate must have edition for Stephen King fans of all ages. Regular pop up package includes: Pop up with 3 piece case, acetate, maylar, foil stamping, pull tabs: shrink wrapped with a slip sheet 16 pages.

Quacky Baseball

It’s opening day at the ballpark, and Thumby Duckling is nervous. He hopes it won’t be one, two, three strikes, he’s out! Trailing by three in the bottom of the ninth, the Webbies are counting on Thumby to save the day. Can Thumby shake his jitters and show his team that he’s a star player? From Peter Abrahams and Frank Morrison comes the story of one duck’s quest to make it in the big leagues.

Up All Night

A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what’s up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you Up All Night? This remarkable collection of award winning and bestselling authors is thought provoking, insightful, heartfelt, and powerful.