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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale
by Oliver Potzsch
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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| Chock-full of fascinating historical detail, The Beggar King brings to vibrant life another tremendous tale of an unlikely hangman and his tough-as-nails daughter, confirming Pötzsch's mettle as a storyteller at the height of his powers. |
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Beneath the Abbey Wall
by A. D. Scott
Paperback: 13 Nov 2012
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As a decade of change comes to a close, murder hits close to home in a small Scottish town...
On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened. |
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Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery
by Carson Morton
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? |
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 24 Sep 2013
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| Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day. |
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The Blackhouse
by Peter May
Hardcover: 2 Oct 2012
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| From acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy - a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition rules and people adhere to ancient ways of life. |
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Black Fridays
by Michael Sears
Hardcover: 18 Sep 2012
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| Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He's unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. |
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Something Red
by Douglas Nicholas
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 18 Jun 2013
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| An intoxicating and spirited blend of fantasy, mythology, and history, Something Red features the most fascinating of characters, as well as an epic snowstorm that an early reader described as "one of the coldest scenes since Snow Falling on Cedars." |
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The Malice of Fortune
by Michael Ennis
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince. |
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