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Play Dead
by David Rosenfelt
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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| Attorney Andy Carpenter loves dogs, especially his own beloved Tara. When Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder, it will take all the tricks he knows to convince a jury to take canine testimony seriously. |
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The Fifth Floor
by Michael Harvey
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 14 Jul 2009
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| Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. |
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City of the Sun
by David Levien
Hardcover: Feb 2008
Paperback: 24 Feb 2009
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| Riveting suspense in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly,
City of the Sun introduces retired detective Frank Behr—an imposing, charismatic former cop who agrees to take the case of a boy who’s been missing for over a year. |
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Winter In Madrid
by C.J. Sansom
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 27 Jan 2009
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| A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices. |
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An Ordinary Spy: A Novel
by Joseph Weisberg
Hardcover: Dec 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2009
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| A former CIA case officer’s novel about two embattled spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep their informants out of harm’s way, published as vetted by the agency itself. |
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The Ghost
by Robert Harris
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 19 Aug 2008
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| Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving prime minister of the last half century. Retiring to Martha's Vinyard to write his memoirs, his ghostwriter suddenly and mysteriously washes up, dead. Enter our hero -- Lang's new ghostwriter; and it doesn't take him long to realize he has made a fatal error in judgment, as he begins to unearth the circumstances of his predecessor's death. |
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Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 3 Jun 2008
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| Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy. |
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The Walking Dead
by Gerald Seymour
Hardcover: 29 May 2008
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| A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. An armed protection officer is charged with neutralizing the growing menace to London's safety. With intelligence and deep understanding, Seymour shows us the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities, and the choices we are forced to make. |
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