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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional police procedural mysteries
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The Winter Queen: A Novel
by Boris Akunin
Hardcover: May 2003
Paperback: 9 Mar 2004
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| In this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years. |
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Lost Light
by Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Mar 2004
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| Without a badge to open doors and strike fear in the guilty, Bosch learns afresh how brutally indifferent the world can be, but with every conversation and every thread of evidence he senses a larger more ruthless presence than he has ever known before. |
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Tropic of Night
by Michael Gruber
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| This intricate thriller ignites in the very first chapter as anthropologist heroine Jane Doe employs the theories of Claude Levi-Strauss, quotes W. H. Auden, kills a drunken woman using advanced aikido techniques and rescues an abused child whom she raises as her own. |
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Soul Circus
by George Pelecanos
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| 'One more superb installment in what has become a remarkably revealing portrait of urban life, encompassing both the broad sociopolitical questions and the most intimate matters of heart and mind.' |
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Close To Home
by Peter Robinson
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 8 Jan 2004
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| Detective Inspector Alan Banks has never forgotten the disappearance and presumed death of his best friend in the summer of 1965. When the tragic bones are shockingly unearthed and identified more than 35 years later, the imagined skeleton in the detective's closet becomes all too real and he is drawn into an investigation that hits dangerously close to home. |
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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| With the brilliant eye for character and place that have made him a major international bestseller, Ian Rankin delivers yet another page-turning novel of intricate suspense set in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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The Bone Vault
by Linda Fairstein
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| Atmospheric, chilling, and rich with the kind of procedural authenticity that only Linda Fairstein can provide, The Bone Vault is a page-turning tour de force from one of crime writing's brightest stars. |
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Four Blind Mice: An Alex Cross Thriller
by James Patterson
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| Alex Cross returns in the most harrowing case of his career—one that risks the life of his closest friend and partner, John Sampson. |
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