Wilderness
by Robert B. Parker | 
The House of Stairs
by Barbara Vine | 
A Suspension of Mercy
by Patricia Highsmith | 
The Ax
by Donald E. Westlake | 
Out on the Rim
by Ross Thomas | 
The Blunderer
by Patricia Highsmith | 
Found in the Street
by Patricia Highsmith | 
The Secret House of Death
by Ruth Rendell | 
Missionary Stew
by Ross Thomas | 
Ties That Bind
by Phillip Margolin | 
Strangers on a train
by Patricia Highsmith | 
All Dressed in White: An Under Suspicion Novel
by Mary Higgins Clark | 
Thanksgiving
by Michael Dibdin | 
Cold in July
by Joe R. Lansdale |
Hide and Seek
by James Patterson | 
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twiss | 
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien | 
The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini |
St. Ives goes to London on a job for the least trustworthy con artist he knows Philip St. Ives has only been in the pub a few minutes before he realizes his whiskey is drugged. Instantly sick, he'??s vomiting on the sidewalk when the muggers appear. He fights as best he can in his drugged state, and only when he feels the handcuffs does he realize his assailants aren'??t muggers'??they'??re cops. He wakes in a dingy cell to the knowledge that English Eddie Apex has pulled a fast one on him. English Eddie is not English, but talks with a British accent that once made him New York'??s most refined con artist. In retirement and living in London, he had hired St. Ives'??a professional mediator between crooks and their marks'??to come to England to help him recover a stolen painting. The drugged whiskey won'??t be the last surprise St. Ives gets in Blighty, and the police won'??t be the only ones who try to cause him pain.
