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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Mystery
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 1 Aug 2005
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| Maisie is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as one might desire: the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not only elegantly presented but unostentatious. |
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Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
by Karin Fossum
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar. |
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Live Bait
by P.J. Tracy
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 30 Apr 2005
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| Filled with intelligent, well-drawn characters, sparkling, snappy dialogue, and razor-sharp plotting, P. J. Tracy's stylish, high-voltage new nail-biter will have readers on the edge of their seats. |
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Dead Water
by Barbara Hambly
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 26 Apr 2005
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| 'Hambly's brilliantly crafted eighth historical brings the antebellum South so alive you could swear the author traveled back in time to observe her settings firsthand. This riveting novel of suspense is sure to win Hambly many new fans.' |
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Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Hardcover: Jul 2004
Paperback: 1 Apr 2005
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| Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the devastating Los Angeles riots of 1965. |
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Guardian of The Horizon
by Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 1 Apr 2005
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| A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years", 1907–1908, shedding new light on a remarkable family and an unexpected terror. |
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Inamorata
by Joseph Gangemi
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 28 Mar 2005
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| It's 1922 and Martin Finch is on the case of a lifetime—to determine whether a beautiful Philadelphia socialite is able to contact the spirit realm. He is prepared to debunk a fraud but instead the man of science falls in love with the medium in this debut historical thriller. |
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Dating Dead Men
by Harley Jane Kozak
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 15 Mar 2005
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| Lots of action, quirky characters, an engaging new sleuth who designs greeting cards, and a ferret named Margaret -- what more could any reader want? Dating Dead Men is a superb debut. |
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