Mystery & Thriller

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Phillip Margolin is a talented storyteller. He’s got a silky, deceptively simple style that snakes back around when you least expect it and grabs you.

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Breaking Wild hardly seems like a debut novel. The story flows easily and the characters seem real, not forced.

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“a cop’s loyalty to justice and the law must take precedence over her personal opinion of the victims.”

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The title of the novel comes from a Charles Atlas slogan. This book is for the reader who enjoys experimental or postmodern fiction. This is a book to think about.

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For generations, Los Angeles has confounded writers attempting to define its shimmering quicksilver character, qualities that jumble up glamour and tawdriness, success and failure, riches and pover

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“if you like your novels dark and stormy, this one is a winner.”

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“With a fast-paced story and surprise ending, River Road is a destination you’ll surely want to take.”

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It’s said that people go to Alaska to start new lives, or at least to forget an unsuccessful past.

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a solid short story collection . . .”

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“a nifty bit of fine suspense.”

Briskly told and packed with plot, The Ex rocks.

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Tricky Twenty-Two is the most recent in the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Her heroine, Stephanie Plum, is a bounty hunter who works for her cousin Vinnie, a bail bondsman.

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“‘My brother and I were kidnapped off a street in Chungking, China, when I was five years old . . . We never saw our father or mother again.

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a classic noir mystery that is wrapped inside an alt-history golden age science fiction setting.”

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a good, solid, page-turner . . .”

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All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke is the second in the Under Suspicion series and features Laurie Moran as the hard-hitting producer of the popular reality TV se

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Ruth Rendell’s career as a crime and mystery writer is superbly capped with this, her final novel.

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“while a serial killer threatens the beleaguered city, two old friends fight a new but very intimate foe . . .”

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"The story is breathtakingly laid out . . ."

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A fascinating mystery set in the dusty Texas outback featuring a short, slightly overweight, cynical female sleuth who is as tough as boot leather and as determined as any gumshoe crafted by Raymon

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If you are going to read this novel, make time to do so. There is no point in starting and then going off to do something else, for when you come back you will probably have to start again.

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Gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox returns in his 13th adventure as a one of England’s first private detectives.

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Venice, renown the world over for its beauty and riches, becomes the setting for Gabrielle Wittkop's Murder Most Serene.

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Not a religious novel, but a novel about religion, The Christos Mosaic by Vincent Czyz is a search for the roots of Christianity and the identity of Christ.

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It’s not every day you get a PI book sent to you for reviewing written by an actual authentic-to-the-bone private investigator, so I was really intrigued and looking forward to reading this debut n

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