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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 6th Lamentation
by William Brodrick
Hardcover: Jul 2003
Paperback: 1 Jun 2004
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| For readers of John Le Carré and Alan Furst, a remarkable debut thriller about love, betrayal and the shadows that war leaves behind. |
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Bay of Souls
by Robert Stone
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Jun 2004
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| A psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. |
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Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 7 Apr 2004
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| The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane. |
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The Confessor
by Daniel Silva
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 24 Feb 2004
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| Filled with rich characters, remarkable prose, and a multilayered plot of uncommon intensity, this is one of Silva's best books to date. A must for all who enjoy a good spy thriller. |
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Tropic of Night
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| This intricate thriller ignites in the very first chapter as anthropologist heroine Jane Doe employs the theories of Claude Levi-Strauss, quotes W. H. Auden, kills a drunken woman using advanced aikido techniques and rescues an abused child whom she raises as her own. |
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The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end. |
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The Murder Book: An Alex Delaware Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Apr 2003
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| A classic story of good and evil, sacrifice and sin -- a gripping page-turner that illuminates the darkest corridors of the human mind. A stunning tour de force. |
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The Killing Kind
by John Connolly
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: 1 Mar 2003
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| Charlie Parker has been hired to investigate the untimely death of a brilliant Ph.D. candidate whose death appears to be linked to a mysterious religious community. |
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