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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
: A Novel
by
Michael Chabon
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. |
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A False Mirror
: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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The nineth Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in Post-World War I England. Rutledge is called on to prove the innocence of a man he dislikes and distrusts. But the deadly triangle also stirs up memories of the woman he himself loved and lost when he went to France to fight. |
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Sacred Games
: A Novel
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Vikram Chandra
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singhand into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. |
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Echo Park
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Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2007
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More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here? |
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The Rabbit Factory
by
Marshall Karp
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 20 Mar 2007
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Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit
Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped
in sharp, comedic prose. |
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The Big Over Easy
: A Nursery Crime
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Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 25 Jul 2006
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It's Easter in Readinga bad time for eggs. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity, Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary are on the case and before long find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. |
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