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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional mystery books
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This Dame For Hire
by Sandra Scoppettone
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 27 Jun 2006
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| Going after the bad guys and fighting a good fight on the home front, Faye is as scrappy and endearing as any character Sandra Scoppettone has ever created, and This Dame for Hire's period setting is rendered so real you can hear the big band music, see the nylons and fedoras, and feel the rumble of the Third Avenue El. |
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Alice in Jeopardy
by Ed McBain
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 23 May 2006
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| From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem. |
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A Slight Trick of The Mind
by Mitch Cullin
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 9 May 2006
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| This subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered. |
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Down The Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery
by Peter Abrahams
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next (Ages 10+). |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
by Barbara D'Amato
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| The former residents of The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children attend the first-ever reunion 15 years after the school closes, but events turn into a bloody nightmare when the school's founder is found tortured to death in the basement. |
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Blood From A Stone: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by Donna Leon
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 25 Apr 2006
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| A pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change. |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 4 Apr 2006
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| Unafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty. |
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The Water Room: The Second Bryant & May Mystery
by Christopher Fowler
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
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| They are detection's oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the most shocking crimes…. |
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