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Read ReviewsFried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this horror novel set in 1990s suburban Charleston.
by Patrick deWitt
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.
by Judith Flanders
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsIn this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction.
by Lev Grossman
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsA thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsFilled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newtons scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newtons alchemy.
by Mark Mills
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsThe story of two murders, four hundred years apart - and the ties that bind them together.
by Michael Gruber
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsAn intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killeror killersunknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore.
by Jed Rubenfeld
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsIn this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattans wealthiest heiresses
by Martin Davies
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsSeamlessly spanning two time periods, The Conjurer's Bird is at once the story of the romance between the 18th century naturalist Joseph Banks and the enigmatic 'Miss B', and of a present-day conservationist named Fitz, who is drawn into a thrilling and near-impossible race to find the elusive bird's only known remains.
by Matthew Pearl
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsA magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
by Allen Kurzweil
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsA delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous examples of theft, the book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.
by Terry Pratchett
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsEngland's best-known and best-loved modern satirist presents an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.
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