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The Eyre Affair  (Thursday Next #01)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01)
by Jasper Fforde
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The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more)

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Little Bitty Lies
Little Bitty Lies
by Mary Kay Andrews
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In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, Parker, telling her he's gone — and has taken... (read more)

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The Typhoon Lover
The Typhoon Lover
by Sujata Massey
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A young woman with a foothold in two cultures, Rei Shimura has gone wherever fortune and her unruly passions have led her throughout her chaotic twenties. Now, after the streamers for her thirtieth birthday celebration have been taken down, the Japanese-... (read more)

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A Long Shadow (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
A Long Shadow (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
by Charles Todd
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It's New Year's Eve, 1919. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but gets a call from the office and has to leave. On the steps outside, he sees a brass cartridge casing, like countless... (read more)

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Crooked Little Vein (P.S.)
Crooked Little Vein (P.S.)
by Warren Ellis
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Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution — the real one the Founding Fathers... (read more)

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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
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Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from... (read more)

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Legal Tender
Legal Tender
by Lisa Scottoline
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Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. <P>Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All... (read more)

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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.)
The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more)

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The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed
by William March
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Now reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more. What happens... (read more)

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A Pale Horse (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
A Pale Horse (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
by Charles Todd
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A body found in the ruins of an ancient abbey sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge after a brutal killer in another superb atmospheric mystery by the author of "A False Mirror."... (read more)

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The War Against Miss Winter
The War Against Miss Winter
by Kathryn Miller Haines
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It's 1943, and the war in Europe and the Pacific is escalating. At home in New York City, ordinary citizens are feeling the effects as the war has slowly taken over nearly every part of their lives, with food rations, frequent air raids, blackouts and... (read more)

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A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu
A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu
by Michael Stanley
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Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour — no body, no case. But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough... (read more)

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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.)
Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.)
by Joanne Harris
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For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however... (read more)

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The Pale Blue Eye (P.S.)
The Pale Blue Eye (P.S.)
by Louis Bayard
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At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man's heart. Augustus Landor&#... (read more)

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Where Are You Now?
Where Are You Now?
by Mary Higgins Clark
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From America's Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went... (read more)

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Mr. Timothy (P.S.)
Mr. Timothy (P.S.)
by Louis Bayard
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It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing... (read more)

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Citizen Vince (P.S.)
Citizen Vince (P.S.)
by Jess Walter
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Darkly hilarious and unexpectedly profound, Citizen Vince is an irresistible tale about the price of freedom and the mystery of salvation, by an emerging writer of boundless talent. Eight days before the 1980 presidential election, Vince Camden wakes... (read more)

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Bad Debts: A Jack Irish Thriller (Jack Irish #01)
Bad Debts: A Jack Irish Thriller (Jack Irish #01)
by Peter Temple
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A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long... (read more)

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The Stolen Heart: A Novel of Suspense
The Stolen Heart: A Novel of Suspense
by Lauren Kelly
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From Lauren Kelly, "a writer of formidable talent" (Scott Turow), comes the page-turning story of Merilee Graf, whose past and present mysteries converge in a revelation too painful, and too shocking, for her to accept. Sixteen years ago, a vivacious... (read more)

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