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Amateur & Private Detectives
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & author biographies of exceptional amateur detective books
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 19 Jan 2010
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| An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions—and a rich literary delight. |
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When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 11 Jan 2010
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| Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News? |
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The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery
by Ian Sansom
Paperback: 1 Jan 2010
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| Israel Armstrong - the hapless librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland - suspects a teenage girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town. |
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Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Mystery
by Claude Izner
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 15 Sep 2009
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| Murder on the Eiffel Tower is a painstakingly researched but seemingly effortless evocation of 19th century Paris, and an exciting opening to a new series featuring second-hand bookseller and amateur detective Victor Legris. |
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Tethered: A Novel
by Amy Mackinnon
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 11 Aug 2009
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| Clara Marsh is an undertaker who doesn’t believe in God. Suddenly, her carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected girl desperate for a friend. And when Detective Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, Clara must choose between the existence of loneliness and the perils of binding one’s life to another. |
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
by Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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| In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village. |
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The Big Steal
by Emyl Jenkins
Paperback: 14 Jul 2009
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| Hired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than she’d anticipated. The antiques, she realizes, are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands, others are well-done replicas. |
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The Fifth Floor
by Michael Harvey
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 14 Jul 2009
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| Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. |
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