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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional police procedural mysteries
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A Case of Two Cities: An Inspector Chen novel
by Qiu Xiaolong
Hardcover: Nov 2006
Paperback: 1 Oct 2007
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| The fourth book in the Inspector Chen series, this unusual and compelling crime novel blends character, poetry, insights into Chinese society and culture, and food with a compelling plot. |
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Farthing
by Jo Walton
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 30 Aug 2007
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| In an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children. |
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Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2007
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| More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here? |
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The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2007
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| The haunting story of three cops—one good, one bad, one broken—and the murder that reunited them in a showdown decades in the making. |
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By a Slow River
by Phillipe Claudel
Hardcover: Jun 2006
Paperback: 1 Jun 2007
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| The daily life of a small town is hardly disturbed by the First World War raging nearby. But this illusion is shattered by the deaths of three innocents. Twenty years on, a policeman still struggles to make sense of the deaths which both torment and sustain him. |
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The Art of Detection: A Novel of Suspense
by Laurie R. King
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 29 May 2007
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| Kate Martinelli is investigating the death of Philip Gilbert, an avid Holmes collector who even transformed his home into a copy of 221B Baker Street, when she discovers what could be the motive: a previously unpublished story from Arthur Conan Doyle that could be worth millions |
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The Rabbit Factory
by Marshall Karp
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 20 Mar 2007
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| Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit
Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped
in sharp, comedic prose. |
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Ten Second Staircase: Bryant & May Mysteries
by Christopher Fowler
Hardcover: Jun 2006
Paperback: 30 Jan 2007
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| It’s a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence – it’s business as usual for the Unit’s cantankerous founding partners, |
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