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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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Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Thriller
by Lee Child
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| Brilliantly plotted. ..For anyone who thinks the hard-boiled genre is growing soft around the edges. |
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Cold Paradise
by Stuart Woods
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| Cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago-and must settle romantic entanglements that still haunt him. |
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Hearse of a Different Color: A Novel
by Tim Cockey
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Feb 2002
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| When a murdered waitress is unceremoniously dropped off at his door, charming mortician-about-town Hitchcock Sewell investigates and his delving takes him down an increasingly twisted and wicked trail. |
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Right As Rain
by George Pelecanos
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Feb 2002
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| A masterwork of psychological intrigue and dramatic plotting leading up to an explosive, unforgettable climax. |
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Claws and Effect: A Mrs.Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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| Only her quick-witted cat and its animal pals stand between postmistress Mary "Harry" Haristeen and a homicidal maniac who means to ensure that she carries what she knows to the grave. |
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When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 1 Oct 2001
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| An English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, 20 years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging. |
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Tears of The Giraffe
by Alexander McCall Smith
Paperback: 1 Sep 2001
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| "This is a superior piece of detective fiction, written in simple, direct but effective prose. Perhaps most importantly, this novel offers a refreshingly positive picture of an African nation - and probably deserves a wide audience in the West on those grounds alone." |
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The Mile High Club
by Kinky Friedman
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 1 Sep 2001
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| Intrigue, irreverence, international terrorism, humor, suspense, and cross-dressing, in which the intrepid Kinky Friedman encounters a mysterious vamp on an airplane. |
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