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A Beautiful Place to Die A Beautiful Place to Die : A Novel
by Malla Nunn
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 20 Oct 2009
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A stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.
Beat the Reaper Beat the Reaper : A Novel
by Josh Bazell
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2009
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Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital; Pietro "Bearclaw" Brwna is a hitman for the mob.

And Nicholas LoBrutto, Dr. Brown's new patient who has three months to live, has a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brwna might - just might - be the same person ...
Eclipse Eclipse
by Richard North Patterson
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government’s charge of murder
Play Dead Play Dead
by David Rosenfelt
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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Attorney Andy Carpenter loves dogs, especially his own beloved Tara. When Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder, it will take all the tricks he knows to convince a jury to take canine testimony seriously.
The Fifth Floor The Fifth Floor
by Michael Harvey
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 14 Jul 2009
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Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
The Secret Speech The Secret Speech
by Tom Rob Smith
Hardcover: 19 May 2009
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Former state security officer Leo Demidov is also struggling to change as the Soviet Union changes around him. The two young girls he adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the death of their parents, and they are not alone; now that the truth is out, Leo and his family are in grave danger from someone consumed by the dark legacy of Leo's past.
The Bellini Madonna The Bellini Madonna : A Novel
by Elizabeth Lowry
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is a disgraced, middle-aged art historian, overly fond of the bottle and of his fresh young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece.
Shadow and Light Shadow and Light : A Novel
by Jonathan Rabb
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 30 Mar 2010
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
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