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Amateur & Private Detectives
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & author biographies of exceptional amateur detective books
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The Lola Quartet
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
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| The Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida's exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory. |
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The Truth of All Things: A Novel
by Kieran Shields
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He's even more surprised to learn that this death by "sticking" is a traditional method of killing a witch... |
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The Midwife's Tale
by Sam Thomas
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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| In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale |
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The Prophet
by Michael Koryta
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 13 Aug 2013
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| Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him "one of the best of the best." |
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Homesick
by Roshi Fernando
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Jul 2013
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| A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful. |
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The Neruda Case: A Novel
by Roberto Ampuero
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Evocative, romantic, and full of intrigue,The Neruda Case is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era. |
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat: A Jimm Juree Mystery, #1
by Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill launch of a brand new series which is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. |
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The Trinity Six
by Charles Cumming
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 13 Mar 2012
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| The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed – the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it… |
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