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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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Pardonable Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 27 Jun 2006
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| In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death |
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This Dame For Hire
by Sandra Scoppettone
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 27 Jun 2006
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| Going after the bad guys and fighting a good fight on the home front, Faye is as scrappy and endearing as any character Sandra Scoppettone has ever created, and This Dame for Hire's period setting is rendered so real you can hear the big band music, see the nylons and fedoras, and feel the rumble of the Third Avenue El. |
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Dead at Daybreak
by Deon Meyer
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| Deon Meyer recreates the beauty, wildness, and danger of modern Africa with an immediacy and force no other writer has achieved. |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
by Barbara D'Amato
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| The former residents of The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children attend the first-ever reunion 15 years after the school closes, but events turn into a bloody nightmare when the school's founder is found tortured to death in the basement. |
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The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 25 Apr 2006
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| A twisting, turning, emotionally charged story, and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave us. |
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Oblivion
by Peter Abrahams
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 1 Apr 2006
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| What determines your identity? Is it the clothes you wear?
The way other people treat you? When private investigator Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room everyone treats him like a victim but he can't remember how he got there in the first place. Digging for answers when he doesn't even know the questions, he begins to fear he is searching for the most elusive quarry he has ever hunted: himself. |
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The Sign of The Book: A Cliff Janeway Bookman Novel
by John Dunning
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: 28 Mar 2006
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| Rich with the intricacies of book collecting that only an expert like John
Dunning can offer, this is a beautifully crafted,
enthralling novel of suspense from the consummate bookman himself. |
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Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Kerry Greenwood
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 21 Mar 2006
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| Join Phryne Fisher, the feminist sleuth who always gets her man, on a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. |
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