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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 Lake of Dead Languages
by Carol Goodman
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: 1 Jan 2003
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| An eloquent thriller, an intricate balance of suspense and fine storytelling that proves Carol Goodman is a rare new talent with a brilliant future. |
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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
by Ruth Rendell
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Jan 2003
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| With consummate skill, Ruth Rendell pulls the colorful strands of this harrowing story ever tighter, increasing the tension page by page. |
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The Grand Complication
by Allen Kurzweil
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: 1 Aug 2002
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| A delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous examples of theft, the book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun. |
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Martha Peake
by Patrick McGrath
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: 1 May 2002
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| A hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay. |
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The Muse Asylum
by David Czuchlewski
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| Part love story and part journey into the psychology of genius, The Muse Asylum is a tale of stunning reversals and reflections in a world where things are never quite what they seem. |
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| A tense and unnerving psychological thriller - also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family. |
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Forty Words For Sorrow
by Giles Blunt
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: 1 Mar 2002
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| Superbly paced, with fully fleshed characters and utterly convincing police detail. "Blunt has done for Canada's north what James Lee Burke did for Cajun Louisiana." |
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A Heart of Stone
by Renate Dorrestein
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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| Seamlessly alternating the past and present, taut with Hitchcockian tension and warmed by a redemptive love story, A Heart of Stone tells a darkly humorous, yet ultimately compassionate tale. |
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