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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional police procedural mysteries
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Death of a Dreamer
by M.C. Beaton
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 28 Jan 2007
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| Newcomers usually don't stay long in remove Lockdubh, Scotland, but artist Effie Garrard settles in and apart from being a dreamer and a little odd, seems to be fine. Then she's found dead, an apparent suicide, but police constable Hamish Macbeth feels in his bones it is murder - but is he too distracted by his own personal affairs to see the evil that's getting too close to him? |
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The Fallen
by T Jefferson Parker
Hardcover: Feb 2006
Paperback: 1 Jan 2007
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| Following an accident, homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw, develops synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to him, he see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. When a sergeant in the Professional Standards Unit is found dead, will need all his talents, normal and paranormal, to solve the murder. |
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The Lighthouse
by P.D. James
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 10 Oct 2006
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| The Lighthouse displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James’s novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. |
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St Albans Fire: A Joe Gunther Mystery
by Archer Mayor
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Oct 2006
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| In his 15th case, Joe Gunter will meet one of his deadliest opponents to date,
and he will need far more than his skills as a policeman to protect the people
closest to his heart. |
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Fever
by Sean Rowe
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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| 'Sean Rowe's Fever is as fresh and blistering and relentless a thriller
as any tropical noir I've read. Rowe knows this territory well--especially the
creatures that slither about it when the sun goes down. Jump on board, hang on
tight.' |
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The Hot Kid
by Elmore Leonard
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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| With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard - a true master -at his best. |
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The Sacred Cut: A Nic Costa Mystery
by David Hewson
Hardcover: Jan 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2006
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| The snow is falling in Rome - in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....this horrific murder hurtles Rome's police force into a collision with U.S. agents–and a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now unraveling in the world's most enigmatic city. |
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 25 Jul 2006
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| It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity, Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary are on the case and before long find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. |
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