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A Vengeful Longing: A Novel
by R. N. Morris
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 26 May 2009
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| Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle Axe, featuring the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia |
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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 4 Mar 2009
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| Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the “new” New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. |
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The Garden of Evil
by David Hewson
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 24 Feb 2009
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| From modern forensics to the realm of the Medicis, from the force of faith to the corruption of power, The Garden of Evil is a novel steeped in Roman history—and an unforgettable experience in richly atmospheric, modern-day suspense. |
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The Shadow Walker
by Michael Walters
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| Murder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester.Together with Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, they follow the trail of the dead from the abandoned factories of the city's decaying suburbs to the icy expanse of the barren steppes. |
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By the Time You Read This: A Novel
by Giles Blunt
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 29 Jul 2008
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| Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife’s tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense. Published in the UK as The Fields of Grief. |
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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| For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. |
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A False Mirror: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by Charles Todd
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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| The nineth Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in Post-World War I England. Rutledge is called on to prove the innocence of a man he dislikes and distrusts. But the deadly triangle also stirs up memories of the woman he himself loved and lost when he went to France to fight. |
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Sacred Games: A Novel
by Vikram Chandra
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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| Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. |
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