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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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By the Time You Read This: A Novel
by Giles Blunt
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 29 Jul 2008
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| Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife’s tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense. Published in the UK as The Fields of Grief. |
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The Savage Garden
by Mark Mills
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 6 May 2008
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| The story of two murders, four hundred years apart - and the ties that bind them together. |
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The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
by Stef Penney
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 4 Mar 2008
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| A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year. |
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Mar 2008
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| An intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore. |
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Christine Falls: A Novel
by Benjamin Black
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Feb 2008
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| In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of
a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society |
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
by Gyles Brandreth
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. (UK title: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders). Published in the USA simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. |
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A Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel
by Dana Stabenow
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 2 Jan 2008
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| A brutal murder takes place in a small Alaskan community. People know who the culprit is, and he has evaded justice for many years. But Kate Shugak is determined to find the evidence needed to convict him. |
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery
by Matt Beynon Rees
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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| For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis, Omar is sure he has been framed. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussef’s former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. And, as no one else will, it is up to him to investigate. |
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