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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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Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by Ruth Downie
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 4 Mar 2008
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| Murder in Roman-occupied Britain sets the scene for the most original and compelling novel of the ancient world since I, Claudius. |
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Christine Falls: A Novel
by Benjamin Black
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 1 Feb 2008
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| In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of
a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society |
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
by Gyles Brandreth
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. (UK title: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders). Published in the USA simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. |
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A Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel
by Dana Stabenow
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 2 Jan 2008
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| A brutal murder takes place in a small Alaskan community. People know who the culprit is, and he has evaded justice for many years. But Kate Shugak is determined to find the evidence needed to convict him. |
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Blue Shoes and Happiness
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 13 Mar 2007
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| There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty blood–pressure readings are being recorded there. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose advice is rather curt for Mma Ramotswe’s taste. |
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Speak of the Devil
by Richard Hawke
Hardcover: Jan 2006
Paperback: 27 Feb 2007
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| In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a
tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes.
It's literary suspense that doesn't let go until the last page. |
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 3 Oct 2006
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| What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed—and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an
adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful—and utterly unforgettable. |
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The Inside Ring
by Mike Lawson
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 1 Aug 2006
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| A Washington conspiracy thriller in which 'the bad guys are sufficiently evil, the plot properly labyrinthine, the solution to the mystery completely satisfying. This is high-level entertainment from a writer who could soon rise to the top of the thriller heap'. |
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