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Super in the City
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Daphne Uviller
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, January 05, 2009
Talk about art imitating life, to impressive effect. New Yorker Daphne Uviller, author of the new novel Super in the City, was a grad student who couldn’t get a job, so she took over as superintendent of her family’s Greenwich Village brownstone--which gave her a great idea for a mystery series. It’s a sensational book, full of laughs and sex and lovely writing and repair tips. Get your hands on 27-year-old protagonist Zephyr Zuckerman while she’s still the newest thing on the block.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Stieg Larsson
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, August 31, 2008
After a diet of serial killers, apocalyptic scenarios, burned-out private detectives and the usual crop of honest or bent federal agents and cops, it's like a blast of cold, fresh air to read this latest entry in the booming Swedish crime fiction sweepstakes. Larsson's debut features at its center two unique and fascinating characters: a disgraced financial journalist and the absolutely marvelous 24-year-old Lisbeth Salander -- a computer-hacking Pippi Longstocking with pierced eyebrows and a survival instinct that should scare the meatballs out of anyone who gets in her way.
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Fifth Floor
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Michael Harvey
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, August 31, 2008
By choosing to continue down the traditional private-eye route he explored so well in "The Chicago Way," Harvey joins the Raymond Chandler firm by creating a familiar core around which he can spin a million dark dreams. Michael Kelly, his resourceful ex-police officer, can still crack wise with the best of them and bed anything that looks female. But he also can bring you to tears with memories of old loves and hatesâespecially when a case involving wife and child abuse touches some old wounds: "I thought about the guy who once called himself my father. The death of quiet inside an apartment. A footfall on the doorstep and voices down a hallway. A quiet, dangerous sort of rumble. Something you developed an instinct for. Ten years old and creeping through the kitchen as the voices got closer. Out the back door and into the fading sunlight."
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Good People
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Marcus Sakey
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, August 31, 2008
The best thriller yet from Chicago's Sakey -- about a couple very much like us who suddenly find some much-needed cash and decide to keep it. The trouble is that the thieves who stole it originally are extremely BAD people.
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Last Enemy
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Grace Brophy
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, June 07, 2008
Soho is reprinting Brophy's highly-lauded first book about Umbrian police officer Commissario Cenni - a worthy addition to the mysteries of Donna Leon and the sadly-late Magdalen Nabb.
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Deadly Paradise
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Grace Brophy
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, June 07, 2008
Brophy's second book about Italian police Inspector Alessandro Cenna should win the same kind of reviews as her first, THE LAST ENEMY - including favorable comparisons to Donna Leon. Cenna is sent to a small village in Umbria to look into the brutal murder of an elderly German woman.
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David Golder the Ball Snow in Autumn the Courilof Affair
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Irene Nemirovsky
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, June 07, 2008
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with DAVID GOLDER, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, SUITE FRANCAISE was published posthumously. Now the stalwart Everyman's Library is publishing four of her shorter novels in one handsome volume, a gorgeous hardcover complete with a gold cord bookmark. And the especially good news for lovers of crime fiction is that one of them, THE COURILOF AFFAIR, is a classic Conradian (or Dostoyevskian) spy novel. It's the story of a Russian revolutionary, Leon M., living out his last days in Nice, first meeting in the 1930s a man who jogs his memory and then writing in longhand about his relationship with Valerian Courilof, the minister of education in imperial Russia. Léon grew to like the decrepit, politically ruined Courilof, even as he was ordered to kill him.
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What Was Lost
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Catherine Oflynn
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, June 07, 2008
O'Flynn won the Costa First Novel Award for this debut novel which got rave reviews in the UK and a film sale. It's a sad, scary and touching story of two young people who come together to probe the disappearance of a teenage girl years before from a shopping mall in Birmingham.
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Fer-De-Lance / The League of Frightened Men: A Nero Wolfe Mystery: Nero Wolfe 1 and Nero Wolfe 2
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Rex Stout
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, June 07, 2008
Splendidly informative introductions by two top crime writers make this double edition of two of Stout's best Nero Wolfe novels a treat and a bargain. Loren D. Estleman does the honors for FER-DE-LANCE, while Robert Goldsborough holds up the side for THE LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN.
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The Road to Samarcand
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To Be Announced
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, May 14, 2008
THE ROAD TO SAMARCAND, by Patrick O'Brian Read by Simon Vance Blackstone Audio; 6 unabridged CDs; 8 hours; $29.95 ISBN: 9781433206559 Years before a top sailor named Jack Aubrey, rising through the ranks of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, joined forces with his best friend – an Irish-Spanish doctor, naturalist and spy called Stephen Maturin – to make the seas safe and profitable for the British Empire, another young spy named Richard Patrick Russ was falling in love with the sea. He began his long and eventually illustrious career by changing his name to Patrick O'Brian, and his first work of oceangoing adventure was this unformed but energetic tale of a teenaged American boy who goes on a dangerous voyage across the typhoon-tossed South China Sea. Vance, whose audio career is almost as star-studded as O'Brian's, is perfect as the reader here: catching every vocal social nuance and foreign accent without veering into caricature. O'Brian would have been justly proud.
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The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue
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David Samuels
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, May 03, 2008
I had read Samuels' original piece about James Hogue in the New Yorker in 2001, and remember thinking then that it would make a great book. Now, seven years later, Samuels has expanded his piece about the petty thief and compulsive runner Hogue into an amazing work -- short but stuffed with obviously hard-won details. Hogue first conned his way into Princeton University and became a top student. He then used his odd charms and talents to bedazzle (and defraud) many citizens of Telluride, Colorado, from his shack across the street from Oprah Winfrey's former home. It's a sad and bitchily amusing story, told by a master.
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