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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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The Sign of The Book: A Cliff Janeway Bookman Novel
by John Dunning
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
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| Rich with the intricacies of book collecting that only an expert like John
Dunning can offer, this is a beautifully crafted,
enthralling novel of suspense from the consummate bookman himself. |
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Unlucky For Some
by Jill McGown
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
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| McGown's storytelling genius
will captivate longtime fans as well as first-time readers. Unlucky for Some
is lucky for all admirers of virtuoso suspense writing. |
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Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Kerry Greenwood
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 21 Mar 2006
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| Join Phryne Fisher, the feminist sleuth who always gets her man, on a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. |
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In The Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 1 Mar 2006
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| Mma Ramotswe's normally unshakable composure is rattled when a visitor forces her to confront a secret from her past. |
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All The Flowers Are Dying
by Lawrence Block
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
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| The suspense is breathtaking, the outcome never certain. A series that has garnered no end of awards -- the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe, the Maltese Falcon -- has ascended to a dizzying new height. |
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Relative Danger
by Charles Benoit
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
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| 'A smashingly good, action-packed first novel....Benoit is a rare discovery, and one hopes that he plans to produce more adventure-oriented mysteries with the same skill and energy that propel this excellent debut' - Publishers Weekly |
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The Devil's Wind
by Richard Rayner
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 31 Jan 2006
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| Set in 1950s Las Vegas, Rayner uses the unsettling realities beneath Vegas's glossy surfaces as symbols of a deeper and more sinister social corruption. |
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Skeleton Man
by Tony Hillerman
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 31 Jan 2006
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| The stakes are high and the danger escalates clear through to the final pages. Hillerman continues to shine as the best of the West. |
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