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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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Mr. Peanut
by Adam Ross
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 19 Apr 2011
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| Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order. |
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010
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| When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. |
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Arctic Chill: A Thriller
by Arnaldur Indridason
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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| The Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. |
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The Coral Thief
by Rebecca Stott
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 4 May 2010
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| The Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott’s first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we live. |
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Shadow and Light: A Novel
by Jonathan Rabb
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 30 Mar 2010
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| Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. |
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The Killing Way
by Tony Hays
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 2 Mar 2010
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| When a young woman is brutally murdered and the blame is placed at Merlin’s feet, Arthur’s reputation is at stake and his enemies are poised to strike. Arthur turns to Malgwyn ap Cuneglas, a man whose knowledge of battle and keen insight into how the human mind works has helped Arthur come to the brink of kingship. |
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A Quiet Flame
by Philip Kerr
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 23 Feb 2010
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| Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history. |
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The Likeness: A Novel
by Tana French
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 26 May 2009
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| The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods. |
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