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by Lisa See
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsLisa See has garnered international acclaim for her great skill at rendering the intricate relationships of women and the complex meeting of history and fate. Now comes her highly anticipated new novel, China Dolls.
by Geoff Dyer
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA sophisticated and enthralling narrative puzzle.
by Emily St. John Mandel
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsThe Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida's exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory.
by Joe Gores
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsWhen Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect; what we dont know is how Spade became who he is. Spade & Archer completes the picture.
by Leonardo Padura
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsMario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s, who disappeared mysteriously. Condes intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder.
by Sandra Scoppettone
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsGoing 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.
by Walter Mosley
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsEasy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the devastating Los Angeles riots of 1965.
by Walter Mosley
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsWalter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars," returns to mysteries at last! Fearless Jones is a dazzling new thriller, set in 1950s L.A. and featuring the most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins.
by Sue Grafton
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsKinsey's fifteenth excursion into the dark side of human nature.
by Sara Paretsky
Published Sep 2000
Read ReviewsV.I. Warshawski returns in a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services.
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