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Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Half novels-in-waiting, half journalistic anecdotes that are equally likely to appeal to Kansas City boosters and strangers."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Fans of Des and Mitch (The Blood Red Indian Summer, 2011, etc.) will giggle as Mitch decorates his Hanukkah bush with her teeny weeny yellow bikini. Others may think it's all bah, humbug."
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night can keep postmen from their appointed rounds. But how about murder?
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Though Ray can be a mite sententious, he's also appealingly fallible and sensitive in this promising series kickoff."
This debut by a New York schoolteacher endows a New York schoolteacher with the power to crack a case the police can't be bothered to solve.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 8, 2012
"Chloe's third (The Heirloom Murders, 2011, etc.) combines a good mystery with some interesting historical information on a niche subject."
A curator is happy to be loaned out to investigate an old lighthouse, until her trip turns from a treat into a nightmare.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A retro puzzler that recalls Anthony Berkeley's classic The Poisoned Chocolates Case in its structure: a hyperextended short story whose complications keep unfolding and proliferating till it's grown to novel length."
A Tokyo CEO's determination to run his marriage as a business is ended by a dose of arsenous acid.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Kit is such an ingratiating narrator that you almost forget how unthrilling his larky debut is. Maybe the planned series can provide him with adventures more worthy of his steel."
Prolific Pulitzer Prize winner Butler (
A Small Hotel, 2011, etc.) casts his net in distinctly shallower waters when he follows the adventures of a brash American journalist in 1914 Mexico.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Giving Jane more spark than readers have seen in a while, Hart (The Lost Women of Lost Lake, 2011, etc.) brings new life to an aging series and hope for future installments."
Her partner's enforced stay in the hospital won't stop a newly minted private eye from investigating the murder of his nephew.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Rebecca's amusing third continues to flesh out its continuing characters while providing an eccentric bunch of murder suspects."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Hide the good china: Sullivan (
Triple Cross, 2009, etc.) launches a new series with even more helter-skelter action than his stratospheric average.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Understated, occasionally very funny (see Kunkle) and very intelligent. In his 23rd appearance (Tag Man, 2011, etc.), the Sage of Brattleboro remains as appealing as ever."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"An enjoyable but run-of-the-mill military procedural."
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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Marlowe (Silent Court, 2012, etc.) makes an agreeable guide to Elizabethan life, and it's fun reading quips between him and Shaxsper that will later appear in plays."
