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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 Informationist: A Thriller
by Taylor Stevens
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 18 Oct 2011
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| Gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent. |
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City of Dragons
by Kelli Stanley
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 30 Aug 2011
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| San Francisco's Chinatown, 1940: Miranda Corbie, a private investigator, stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. But Miranda wants justice - whatever it costs. |
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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
by Tarquin Hall
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 21 Jun 2011
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| A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest, and Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, must discover the truth: Was it a supernatural death, or murder? |
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The Dangerous Edge of Things: A Tai Randolph Mystery
by Tina Whittle
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache - until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother's driveway. |
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The Debba
by Avner Mandelman
Paperback: 13 Jul 2010
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| Disguised as a breathtaking thriller, Avner Mandelman’s novel reveals Israel’s double soul, its inherent paradoxes, and its taste for both art and violence. (Paperback Original) |
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Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
by Joe Gores
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 9 Mar 2010
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| When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect; what we don’t know is how Spade became who he is. Spade & Archer completes the picture. |
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Freeze Frame: The Fourth of the Enzo Files
by Peter May
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Mar 2010
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| A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. Enzo rashly boasted he could solve the case - but that proves to be more difficult than he thought... |
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Revelation
by C.J. Sansom
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 23 Feb 2010
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| Spring, 1543. When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to both Archbishop Cranmer and Catherine Parr – whom King Henry VIII is wooing to become his sixth wife - and the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. |
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