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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 6 Oct 2011
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| Tracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished. |
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Thirteen Hours: A Novel
by Deon Meyer
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011
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| An unputdownable thriller from South Africa's #1-bestselling crime writer. |
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Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #6
by Louise Penny
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 2 Aug 2011
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| It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society. |
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Juliet
by Anne Fortier
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 26 Jul 2011
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| Juliet, an ambitious, utterly engaging historical novel on the scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus, follows a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers. |
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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
by Tarquin Hall
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 21 Jun 2011
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| A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest, and Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, must discover the truth: Was it a supernatural death, or murder? |
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A Visible Darkness: A Mystery
by Michael Gregorio
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 26 Apr 2011
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| Dark, intelligent, and vividly written, A Visible Darkness continues a masterful series of historical mysteries that portray a past torn between nationalism and humanism, superstition and science. |
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Mr. Peanut
by Adam Ross
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 19 Apr 2011
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| Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order. |
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Shades of Grey
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Dec 2009
Paperback: 1 Mar 2011
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| An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde: Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. |
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