|
Police & Law Enforcement
|
|
Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional police procedural mysteries
|
|
Page 7 of
18
|
Total books found: 141 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bangkok Tattoo
by John Burdett
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 11 Jul 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Burdett)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review  |
|
| From the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. |
|
|
|
He Who Fears The Wolf
by Karin Fossum
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 3 Jul 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Fossum)
Author interview (Fossum)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| In spare, incisive prose Fossum turns a conventional police procedural into a sensitive examination of troubled minds and a disturbing look at the way society views them. |
|
|
|
Alice in Jeopardy
by Ed McBain
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 23 May 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (McBain)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem. |
|
|
|
Blood From A Stone: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by Donna Leon
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 25 Apr 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Leon)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| A pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change. |
|
|
|
The Water Room: The Second Bryant & May Mystery
by Christopher Fowler
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Fowler)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| They are detection's oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the most shocking crimes…. |
|
|
|
Unlucky For Some
by Jill McGown
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (McGown)
Author interview (McGown)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| McGown's storytelling genius
will captivate longtime fans as well as first-time readers. Unlucky for Some
is lucky for all admirers of virtuoso suspense writing. |
|
|
|
Valley of Bones: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Gruber)
Author interview (Gruber)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| A genuinely exhilarating thriller that simultaneously offers a profound, deeply provocative exploration of the nature of faith itself. |
|
|
|
Before The Frost
by Henning Mankell
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 14 Feb 2006
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Mankell)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
BookBrowse Review |
|
| In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda, just graduated from the police academy, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree and soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
« prev
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
next » |
| |
