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Intellectual Mysteries/Thrillers
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional psychological & intellectual thrillers
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The Dinner
by Herman Koch
Hardcover: 12 Feb 2013
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| An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal. |
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The Good Father: A Novel
by Noah Hawley
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 8 Jan 2013
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| An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son. |
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The Technologists: A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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| The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept. |
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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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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 10 Jul 2012
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| Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. |
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Turn of Mind
by Alice LaPlante
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 27 May 2012
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| A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired surgeon with dementia who clings to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame and unspeakable loss. |
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Luminarium: A Novel
by Alex Shakar
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 8 May 2012
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| Do you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting? |
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Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel
by S.J. Watson
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 7 Feb 2012
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| Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine's life. |
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