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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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In The Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 1 Mar 2006
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| Mma Ramotswe's normally unshakable composure is rattled when a visitor forces her to confront a secret from her past. |
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All The Flowers Are Dying
by Lawrence Block
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
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| The suspense is breathtaking, the outcome never certain. A series that has garnered no end of awards -- the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe, the Maltese Falcon -- has ascended to a dizzying new height. |
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Tyrant of the Mind
by Priscilla Royal
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 31 Jan 2006
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| A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family's Welsh fortress in Priscilla Royal's second 'country house mystery' set in 13th century England. |
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Wine of Violence
by Priscilla Royal
Hardcover: Dec 2003
Paperback: 30 Jan 2006
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| 'With its intriguing plot, chilling conclusion and characters who exhibit universal and timeless feelings, this fresh first has all the potential to evolve into a series as enduring as Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael books.' |
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Captain Alatriste
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 27 Dec 2005
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| The first in a new series by the author of The Club Dumas , set in 17th Century Spain. Captain Alatristee earns his living as a swordsman-for-hire, but when he's commissioned to murder two travelers by a member of the Spanish Inquisition he finds himself involved in a plot with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe. |
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Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 1 Oct 2005
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| Buckle your seat belts and move into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed. |
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 12 Jul 2005
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| Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Philosophy Club is irresistible, and Isabel Dalhousie is the most delightful literary sleuth since Precious Ramotswe. |
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The Fractal Murders: A Pepper Keane Mystery
by Mark Cohen
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 1 Jul 2005
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| Three specialists in fractal geometry are dead. Private eye, Pepper Keane, must find the link and stop the murders before his favorite math professor, Jayne Smyers, becomes the next victim. |
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