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Ordinary People (Thrillers)
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Search results: The best new books - Thrillers about ordinary men/women placed in extraordinary circumstances
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Angelmaker: A Novel
by Nick Harkaway
Hardcover: 20 Mar 2012
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| A blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. |
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The Quiet Twin: A Novel
by Dan Vyleta
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed, the latest victim in a string of unsolved murders. Speckstein wants answers - but these are uncharitable times, and one must be careful where one probes... |
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Save Me
by Lisa Scottoline
Hardcover: Apr 2011
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| Save Me will have readers wondering just how far they would go to save the ones they love. Lisa Scottoline is writing about real issues that resonate with real women, and the results are emotional, heartbreaking and honest. |
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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: 18 Oct 2011
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| Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. |
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Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery
by Carson Morton
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? |
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Mar 2008
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| An intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore. |
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery
by Matt Beynon Rees
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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| For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis, Omar is sure he has been framed. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussef’s former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. And, as no one else will, it is up to him to investigate. |
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The Poe Shadow
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 10 Jul 2007
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| Through the eyes of a Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, Pearl opens a new window on the truth behind Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent enigma. |
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