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Death of a Dreamer
by M.C. Beaton
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 28 Jan 2007
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| Newcomers usually don't stay long in remove Lockdubh, Scotland, but artist Effie Garrard settles in and apart from being a dreamer and a little odd, seems to be fine. Then she's found dead, an apparent suicide, but police constable Hamish Macbeth feels in his bones it is murder - but is he too distracted by his own personal affairs to see the evil that's getting too close to him? |
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The Poet's Funeral
by John M. Daniel
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 30 Oct 2006
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| A romp rich with poetry, publishing, book collecting, and literary gossip. A story of ego, love, art, and murder during four hot days at the 1990 ABA. |
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The Lighthouse
by P.D. James
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 10 Oct 2006
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| The Lighthouse displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James’s novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. |
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St Albans Fire: A Joe Gunther Mystery
by Archer Mayor
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Oct 2006
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| In his 15th case, Joe Gunter will meet one of his deadliest opponents to date,
and he will need far more than his skills as a policeman to protect the people
closest to his heart. |
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The Conjurer's Bird
by Martin Davies
Hardcover: Dec 2005
Paperback: 1 Aug 2006
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| Seamlessly spanning two time periods, The Conjurer's Bird is at once the
story of the romance between the 18th century naturalist Joseph Banks and the enigmatic 'Miss B', and of a present-day conservationist named Fitz, who is drawn into a thrilling and near-impossible race to find the elusive bird's only
known remains. |
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 25 Jul 2006
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| It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity, Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary are on the case and before long find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. |
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Bangkok Tattoo
by John Burdett
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 11 Jul 2006
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| From the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. |
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He Who Fears The Wolf
by Karin Fossum
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 3 Jul 2006
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| In spare, incisive prose Fossum turns a conventional police procedural into a sensitive examination of troubled minds and a disturbing look at the way society views them. |
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