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The Broken Shore
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Winner of the Colin Roderick Award as well as Australias
major prize for crime fiction, Peter Temple has written a transfixing and moving
novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently
in a world where so much is rotten.Farrar Straus & Giroux
Lucky Strike
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A conservative account is forced to flee to the remote
eastern shore of Nova Scotia and assume a new identity after he helps to send several
Mafia dons to jail. However, the steamroller hospitality of the rambunctious inhabitants
overwhelms any hope that he has to keep his profile lower than low. Within days
he is embroiled in their nefarious doings and wild antics. Full of love, mystery
and murder, this rollicking tale hurtles like a runaway train to its inevitable
disastrous climax.
Eye of the Beholder
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The Edgar Award-winning author of "Line of Vision"
and "In the Company of Liars" delivers a stunning new thriller where every character
has a secret--and every secret has a price.
REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 05/21/2007
Nothing is as it seems in this stunning tale of illicit
sex, murder and betrayal from Edgar-winner Ellis (Line of Vision ). The brutal murders
of six young women by Terry Burgos, a Mansbury College janitor, in June 1989 seems
self-evident. After all, Burgos confessed, and then-assistant county attorney Paul
Riley found enough evidence, including the song lyrics that inspired the murders,
to get Burgos the death penalty.
The Torso
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When part of a human torso that is so mutilated that
its gender can only be established by DNA testing washes up on a beach near Goteborg,
Sweden, Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with
police there in pursuing the killer.
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
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From the bestselling author of "No Nest for the Wicket"
comes this outrageous, fun mystery that features an eccentric cast of characters
and lighthearted humor.
REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 06/04/2007
In Agatha-winner Andrews's deliciously daffy eighth
Meg Langslow mystery, blacksmith Meg and her fiancé, Michael, are at last moving
into their new house in Caerphilly, Va., assisted (and occasionally hindered) by
Meg's vast clan of maternal relations. Then Meg's dad announces that, while digging
a pool in the new house's basement for penguins fostered from a bankrupt local zoo,
he has discovered a dead body.
Acts of Nature
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Award-winning author King returns with a new thriller
featuring private eye Max Freeman and Detective Sherry Richards. The isolation the
two seek in the Florida Everglades becomes a deadly enemy as undesirables invade
the area and Max and Sherry must escape before its too late.
Obit: A Mystery
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Long ago, Declan Burke fled Ireland in the dark of
night, started a new life in New York City, and has never looked back—until one
morning he picks up the newspaper and reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. He
sees at once that the obituary is not about Murphy at all, but is instead a coded
summary of his own life and probably a thinly veiled death threat. After turning
to an attorney for advice, Declan decides not to reveal his IRA past, but keeping
old secrets becomes much more difficult after a burst of gunfire at a family wedding
and the appearance of Leo Killeen, the commanding officer of Declan’s former battalion
in Dublin. The subsequent discovery of a body in a rundown Brooklyn flat brings
other enigmatic characters onto the scene, including a woman nursing a grudge; a
shady importer of Irish artifacts; the owner of a nightclub frequented by the New
York mob; a sultry chanteuse; and Declan’s hotheaded son Francis, whose resentment
and criminal activities force Declan, the past master of self-control, to confront
the suspicion that he has been manipulated all along by an unseen hand.
Scots on the Rocks: A Bed-And-Breakfast Mystery
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Loony locals, evil spirits, and murder most foul await
amateur sleuths JudithMcMonigle Flynn and Renie Jones in this splendid new entry
in the bestsellingbed-and-breakfast mystery series.
Reduced Circumstances
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Frank Cole is moonlighting as the evening dispatcher
for the Midnight Taxi Service. After a driver picks up a nervous teenage boy, strangers
start appearing, questioning Frank about the boy and a dead man he has never even
met.
The Exception
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A bestseller throughout Europe, this unique and intelligent
thriller delivers a gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia
and obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts.
A Welcome Grave
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From award-winning author Koryta comes the third novel
featuring private investigator Lincoln Perry. "A Welcome Grave" is an intense exploration
of both character and crime by one of Americas top young mystery writers--"Toronto
Sun."
REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 04/09/2007
Edgar-finalist Koryta stakes a claim as one of today's
pre-eminent crafters of contemporary hard-boiled mysteries with his third Lincoln
Perry whodunit, which finds the cops trying to pin murder charges on the Cleveland
PI. Formerly a detective with the Cleveland PD, Perry was forced out of the department
when he assaulted a rich lawyer, Alex Jefferson, who had married Perry's still beloved
ex, Karen. When Jefferson's brutalized corpse is discovered in a field, suspicion
soon focuses on Perry, and the gumshoe only makes more trouble for himself by accepting
Karen's commission to find the dead man's estranged son, Matt, who has inherited
millions from his father.
The Burma Effect
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A taut thriller set principally in Thailand and Burma
featuring series character Frank Delaney, freelance journalist and sometime spy.
Shooting Star
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Victoria Trumbull, 92-year-old poet and deputy, has
written a play for Martha's Vineyard's community theater. But when one actor after
another drops dead, she hopes to finger the murderer through a cast of eccentric
supporting characters.
Justice Denied: A J. P. Beaumont Novel
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The killing of an ex-con seems straightforward enough,
but when Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont starts digging, the case becomes deeply
complicated in this twisting tale of corruption, conspiracy, and murder.
Triple Homicide
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The debut novel from longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes,
Triple Homicide is the gritty saga of two generations of New York City police
officers fighting to stay on the right side of the law.
In the early 1990s in New York, easy money stands to be made at every turn, and
temptation proves a bitter struggle for the young and much-decorated NYPD Sergeant
Steven Holt---and for Steven and his uncle Robert, an officer before him, an increasingly
violent mess endangers their careers and the reputation of the entire department.
Born out of real stories of corruption and centered around two men who ultimately
dare to challenge the fabled “blue wall” of silence, the novel works toward a majestic
courtroom on Long Island, where Sergeant Holt is about to stand trial for triple
homicide and where, as he comes to know his past, he’ll learn that nothing he’s
known has ever been as it seemed.
The Red Dahlia
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REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 05/21/2007
In her second Det. Insp. Anna Travis novel (after 2004's
"Above Suspicion"), British author La Plante, best known for TV's "Prime Suspect"
featuring DCI Jane Tennison, transports the unsolved Black Dahlia murder to present-day
London.
Ham Bones
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REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 05/07/2007
In the outrageous seventh episode of Haines's
delightful Southern Belle series, PI Sarah Booth Delaney explores the Mississippi
Delta in search of clues to a scandalous murder. She has more than a professional
interest: the accused killer is Sarah herself. When the New York cast of "Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof" comes to Zinnia, Miss., lead actor Graf Milieu persuades Sarah to
understudy for obnoxious prima donna Renata Trovaioli. Sarah dwells on memories
of her acting experience in New York and her fling with Graf, further confusing
her already complicated feelings for sheriff Coleman Peters. Then Renata is found
dead in her dressing room, and Coleman arrests Sarah. Aided by her partner, Tinkie,
and Jitty, a friendly ghost who has taken to wearing Scarlett O'Hara hoop skirts,
the sassy heroine sets out to clear her name.
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
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A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming
twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved
shepherd, in this internationally bestselling tale.
Dead Ex
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When David Zetrakis, the producer of a popular soap
opera, is found shot to death the day after Christmas, Wollie Shelley finds herself
caught up in a murder in which there is no shortage of suspects.
Death Under the Dryer
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REVIEW: Publisher's Weekly 06/25/2007
The popular and prolific Brett takes us into the world
of cut, color and curl in his witty eighth Fethering cozy. Carole Seddon needs a
haircut: exactly the same, just shorter. She risks going to a salon in her small
English town of Fethering, only to witness the discovery of the assistant, Kyra,
strangled in the back room with evidence of a tryst all around her.