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The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler Publisher Comments A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011 Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith Publisher Comments The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain, just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of... (read more) Your price: $3.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Redbreast by Jo Nesbo Publisher Comments 1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum Publisher Comments When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infants death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party. Alexander McCall Smith by Alexander Mccall Smith Publisher Comments The twelfth installment in the beloved, bestselling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a profoundly touching tale of the human heart. Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo Publisher Comments “An elegant and complex thriller….Harrowingly beautiful.”—New York Times Book Review “A hugely impressive achievement—ambitious in scope, and skilled in execution.”—Los Angeles Times “The... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Mystery Stories (Best American Mystery Stories) by Harlan Coben Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell Staff Pick The final installment in the Wallander series is a story about the transitory nature of memory. As Wallander sifts through the fading memories of witnesses and suspects to untangle the connections between recent events and those that occurred decades in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels) by Janet Evanovich Publisher Comments Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head - literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one shell talk to is... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do by Daniel Woodrell Synopsis A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for Woodrell]. Possibly more. In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lucifer's Tears (Inspector Vaara Novel) by James Thompson Publisher Comments Inspector Kari Vaara, recovering from brain surgery, is back to doing police work—under circumstances most cops only dream of. Reporting directly to the national chief of police, Kari and his partners Milo and Sulo have been granted secrecy and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Was Thursday (Crime Classics) by G K Chesterton Publisher Comments A group of anarchists dedicated to overthrowing the world order are under surveillance by Scotland Yard and are about to be infiltrated, in this fast-moving, funny, surreal detective story with a highly anarchic take on anarchy Gabriel Syme is... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Evil Eye by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments Sleuth. Cook. Ottoman. Lover. Have you met Yashim yet? Its Istanbul in 1839, and as the new sultan installs his harem in the palace, the intrepid investigator Yashim is set adrift on the swirling currents of loyalty and betrayal. The dramatic treachery... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum Publisher Comments When a body surfaces in a lake, Inspector Sejer must uncover a dark secret of betrayal and paranoia. Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Broken by Karin Fossum Publisher Comments Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristines horror, kneels down and takes photographs... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard Publisher Comments In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Woman With a Birthmark by Hakan Nesser Publisher Comments Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort. Why? Why in hell's name should anybody march up to somebody's... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Husband of Zebra Drive Uk Edition by Alexander Mccall Smith Publisher Comments The eighth installment in the universally beloved, internationally bestselling series. In the life of Mma Ramotswe - a woman duly proud of her fine traditional build - there is rarely a dull moment, and in her newest round of adventures, challenges and... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Scrub-A-Dub-Dead (Charlotte Larue Mysteries) by Barbara Colley Publisher Comments While cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel as a favor for a friend,. professional maid Charlotte LaRue stumbles upon the dead body of a young woman, which leads her to the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties with... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Hardcover
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