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A Quiet Flame A Quiet Flame
by Philip Kerr
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 23 Feb 2010
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Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.
The Tourist The Tourist
by Olen Steinhauer
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity. But when the arrest of an assassin exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s holding the strings once and for all.
The Bricklayer The Bricklayer : A Novel
by Noah Boyd
Hardcover: 1 Feb 2010
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Someone gives you a dangerous puzzle to solve, one that may kill you or someone else, and you're about to fail... And there is no other option. No one who can help. No one but the Bricklayer.
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.
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