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What do readers say about The Thursday Murder Club?
engaging, quick-paced, and witty clever and hilarious a fun little mystery brilliant murder mysteryA New York Times bestseller!
"Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." -Wall Street Journal
"Don't trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman's own laugh-out-loud whodunit." -Parade
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up... More details on The Thursday Murder Club
I knew who she was, of course; everybody here knows Elizabeth. She has one of the three-bed flats in Larkin Court. It’s the one on the corner, with the decking? Also, I was once on a quiz team with St...
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What do readers say about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
quick, simple, fast paced unique voice and tone plain and unadorned meticulous and cleverMurder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson's thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of... More details on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose. The written verdict was handed down at 10:00 on Friday morning, and all that...
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What do readers say about Last Act?
a truly good book young adult novel a straight-out mystery brilliant murder mystery.When the gunshot murder of a Cave High actress takes place during an opening night performance, Melanie becomes determined to find the killer, before murder makes an encore appearance... More details on Last Act
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What do readers say about The Thin Man?
tight and loose sharp and witty language hard boiled mystery good and complexIn Dashiell Hammett's famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly r... More details on The Thin Man
1 I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other ...
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What do readers say about The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
dry and witty light and clever complex and intriguing fun and funnyWINNER OF THE AGATHA
ARTHUR ELLIS
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IT WAS AS BLACK IN THE CLOSET AS OLD BLOOD. THEY had shoved me in and locked the door. I breathed heavily through my nose, fighting desperately to remain calm. I tried counting to ten on every intake ...
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What do readers say about The Bone Collector?
extremely fast paced a series of kidnappings a serial-killer suspense novel a gory, suspenseful horrorDON'T MISS THE NBC TELEVISION SERIES LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR
The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme-from the author of The Never Game.
"Lightning-paced…a breakneck thrill... More details on The Bone Collector
She stood in the line of passengers, her lean body listing against the weight of her laptop computer. John rattled on about interest rates and new ways of restructuring the deal but all she could thin...
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What do readers say about The City & The City?
imaginative and entertaining noir detective novel metaphysical crime noir noir police procedural novelNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú... More details on The City & The City
I COULD NOT SEE THE STREET or much of the estate. We were enclosed by dirt-coloured blocks, from windows out of which leaned vested men and women with morning hair and mugs of drink, eating breakfast ...
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What do readers say about Gone Girl?
crazy plot twists rich and colorful love, hate and revenge it defied prediction#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The "mercilessly entertaining" (Vanity Fair) instant classic "about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships" (Lev Grossman, Time).
NAMED ONE OF... More details on Gone Girl
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. The shape of it, to begin with. The very first time I saw her, it was the back of the head I saw, and there was something lovely about it, the angl...
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What do readers say about A Study in Scarlet?
crisp non-florid prose murder mystery detectives short and sweet pulpy detective storySir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel-and the origin story of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson-is reimagined in the first unabridged, fully illustrated version since its debut, by acclaimed and bestselling illustrator Gris Grimly.
The year is 1881. Th... More details on A Study in Scarlet
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies t...
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What do readers say about Sharp Objects?
dark, dark book dark and disturbing novel dark and gritty gruesome, dark and scaryNOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker face... More details on Sharp Objects
My sweater was new, stinging red and ugly. It was May 12 but the temperature had dipped to the forties, and after four days shivering in my shirtsleeves, I grabbed cover at a tag sale rather than dig ...
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