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THE GIRLS
by Lori Lansens
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Extraordinary. |
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ANGEL AND APOSTLE
by Deborah Noyes
With THE SCARLET LETTER as her inspiration, Noyes recreates the life of Pearl, daughter of Hester Prynne and an unnamed father. |
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THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS
by Robert Wilson
A nude male turns up in a municipal dump. Before Seville's Insp. Jefe Javier Falcón has time to investigate, a huge bomb explodes in a mosque flattening an apartment complex and a day-care center. |
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GLAD NEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
by T. R. Pearson
Narrator Louis Benford is back again. The Thirty-four year old slacker from Neely, North Carolina is shipped off to New York to work for an insurance company.
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OLD FILTH
by Jane Gardam
Raised as a Raj Orphan, Sir Edward Feathers (Old Filth) is a retired barrister looking back on the past that produced him. Sophisticated and subtle.
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THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL
by Paul Malmont
It's 1932 and the two top pulp fiction writers, Walter Gibson (THE SHADOW) and Lester Dent (DOC SAVAGE) are tying to solve a real crime. |
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54
by Wu Ming
The midlife crisis of Cary Grant, the founding of the KGB and the Neapolitan years of mafioso Lucky Luciano are just three of the plot lines woven into this dense, playful and always surprising literary behemoth set in 1954.
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LOVE BURNS
by Edna Mazya
Obsessive love drives a middle-age man to murder. Debut novel by the famed Israeli playwright. |
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NO TRACE
by Barry Maitland
The latest Brock and Kolla mystery finds the Scotland Yard partners looking into the kidnapping of a six-year-old girl. |
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RESTLESS
by William Boyd
Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity and WWII profession of her aging mother and is understandably surprised to learn that she had been a spy. |
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PAINT IT BLACK
by Janet Fitch
The author of WHITE OLEANDER does not disappoint in her second novel, which is about a woman who contends with her boyfriend's unexpected suicide. |
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THE NIGHT GARDENER
by George Pelecanos
A literary page-turner, set once again in the gritty streets of Washington, D.C. Three detectives have a chance to solve a twenty year old case -- that is similar to a current murder. |
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THE WRONG MAN
by John Katzenbach
For art student Ashley Freeman a one night stand with Michael O'Connell has dire consequences. |
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THE TRUDEAU VECTOR
by Juris Jurjevis
Full Arctic night--the kind that lasts for months--unveils a biological nightmare at Trudeau Arctic Research Station. |
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THE BOOK OF FATE
by Brad Meltzer
Hot shot Wes Holloway's face was disfigured while shot during a frantic assassination attempt the President's life. That was eight years ago. |
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FROM A CROOKED RIB
by Nurrudin Farah
Ebla runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when her grandfather promises her in marriage to an older man. Farah's first novel reprinted. |
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MESSENGER OF TRUTH
by Jacqueline Winspear
British psychologist and PI Maisie Dobbs is asked to look into the death of a classmate's brother. 4th in this set in post-WWI. See also our review of PARDONABLE LIES now available in paperback. |
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NO GOOD DEEDS
by Laura Lippman
The old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished" is proven once again in Laura Lippman's new Tess Monaghan novel. |
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HOPSCOTCH
by Julio Cortazár
This novel is a classic Latin American novel originally published in 1963, it's title reflects its nonlinear format. A rewarding challenge.
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SICK PUPPY
by Carl Hiaasen
Florida muckraker Hiaasen writes a devilishly funny caper revolving around the environmental exploitation of his home state by greedy developers.
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TO A POWER OF THREE
by Laura Lippman
Stand-alone mystery about three high school girlfriends and a school shooting. |
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