FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Jocelyn's third adventure (Death Makes the Cut, 2012, etc.) is a charming combination of humor and romance with a nice little mystery."
FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Kuhns' follow-up to Will's debut (A Simple Murder, 2012) offers a sensitive look into matters of the heart woven into a nifty puzzle."
Weaver Will Rees copes with family woes while investigating the murder of his childhood friend Nate Bowditch.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The fifth in the series (Breaking Silence, 2011, etc.) continues to provide details on the Amish way of life along with a fast-paced mystery that will leave readers stunned."
FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Hip, smart, inventive and thoroughly infuriating. The heroine (Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, 2011) is someone you'll either love or love to hate."
"The very best detective in the world"--just ask her--solves what she dubs the Case of the Kali Yuga, with digressions to, among a hundred other subjects, the Case of the End of the World.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Not the finest hour for Hanne (Blind Goddess, 2012, etc.) and her detective team, who are equally upstaged by the unforgettable 12-year-old at the heart of the matter."
The murder of an Oslo foster home director points, inexplicably and disturbingly, to her latest charge.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Siri is an interesting heroine, but this case, like her debut (Some Kind of Peace, 2012), lacks the core of cold logic that fuels the best of the recent flowering of Scandinavian thrillers."
A second round of homicide, troubled patients and scarcely less troubled personal relationships for Stockholm psychotherapist Siri Bergman.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2013
"Not as funny as Hiaasen's best (Star Island, 2010, etc.), with a title character more vicious than amusing, but still the gold standard for South Florida criminal farce."
A severed arm that a visiting angler hooks off Key West kicks off Hiaasen's 13th criminal comedy.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Middling for the endless recent crop of Scandinavian procedurals apparently designed to inhibit tourism and make you glad you're staying in the temperate zone."
Something new is rotten in the state of Denmark in this debut from a sister-and-brother team: five middle-aged men drugged, stripped, mutilated and hanged in a geometrically precise formation.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A spare, fast-moving parable whose lure, even more than that of The Thief (2012), is more philosophical and abstract than visceral."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"The whodunit unfolds slowly, but Flavia demonstrates appealing wit and grit."
A second-generation Roman sleuth who lives by her wits needs all of them to solve a string of killings that strike too close to home.
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2013
"The creator of Dandy Gilver (Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder, 2012, etc.) has produced a stand-alone that is worlds apart, a fascinating, mysterious ramble you can't put down."
A mystery a young woman finds in her childhood home leads her to revelations about her clouded past.
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Released: June 4, 2013
"Carlisle's eighth Bibliophile mystery provides interesting suspects, a historical puzzle and the usual appended recipes."
