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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery 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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Hour of the Red God: A Detective Mollel Novel
by Richard Crompton
Hardcover: 16 Apr 2013
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| The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the Black God, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of anger, vengeance, and death. |
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. |
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The Gods of Gotham: A Novel
by Lyndsay Faye
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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| 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever. |
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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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No Mark Upon Her: A Novel
by Deborah Crombie
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a Met detective - an accomplished rower - on the Thames. |
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Villa Triste
by Lucretia Grindle
Paperback: 22 Jan 2013
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| Alessandro Pallioti, a senior policeman agrees to oversee a murder investigation, after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero. When the case begins to unravel, Pallioti finds himself working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war, the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago. |
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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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