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Barnett, Mac
THE GHOSTWRITER SECRET
September 1, 2010 - Partially thanks to his solving The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity (2009), 12-year-old Steve Brixton has been able to start his own detective agency. Now he’s a real sleuth like his heroes, the fictional Bailey Brothers, no matter ... Full Review |
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Brown, Rita Mae
A NOSE FOR JUSTICE
September 1, 2010 - City dog meets country dog to solve crimes ancient and modern. Magdalene Rogers’s Wall Street life is a bust. So she and her dachshund Baxter head west to her feisty great aunt Jeep, née Magdalene Reed, who welcomes Mags to ... Full Review |
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Bruce, Alison
THE SIREN
September 1, 2010 - Cambridge DC Gary Goodhew (Cambridge Blue, 2008) must deal with arson, kidnapping, murder and worse. Three years after Nicholas Lewton disappeared from his job at the Celeste pub with a sizable sum belonging to his father, Celeste owner Dougie Lewton, ... Full Review |
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Byrd, Bobby
LONE STAR NOIR
September 1, 2010 - Noir and Texas link 14 previously unpublished stories—two first-rate, the rest not bad. Done to a turn, Claudia Smith’s “Catgirl” is a banality-of-evil story centering on four children, girls, aged about 10, and the charismatic mom of two of them. ... Full Review |
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Child, Lee
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2010
September 1, 2010 - Guest editor Child chooses 20 atmospheric tales whose settings and crimes are all over the map in this 14th entry in Penzler’s annual series. Crime is everywhere. In teeming Campeche City on the Yucatán, a hit man catches up with ... Full Review |
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Cleeves, Ann
BLUE LIGHTNING
September 1, 2010 - Nobody, not even the murderer, can leave the island until the storm clears. Jimmy Perez, a thoughtful, taciturn inspector in the Highland and Islands Police, takes his fiancée Fran, an artist steeped in London gossip, mores and sociability, home to ... Full Review |
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Duffy, Margaret
CORPSE IN WAITING
September 1, 2010 - A holiday in Bath designed as a little break from household routine plunges the vacationers into danger. Ingrid Langley is recovering from childbirth, and her husband Patrick Gillard still isn’t back to normal after being drugged in his last case ... Full Review |
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Gorman, Ed
STRANGLEHOLD
September 1, 2010 - A Chicago political consultant hired by a suburban Illinois Congresswoman discovers that dirty tricks are even dirtier, and more felonious, outside the Windy City. Dev Conrad isn’t running Susan Cooper’s campaign himself. His staffers Ben Weinberg and Kristin Daly are ... Full Review |
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Gregorio, Michael
UNHOLY AWAKENING
September 1, 2010 - Could the serial killer terrorizing the village of Lotingen be a vampire? Procurator Hanno Steffeniis has witnessed multiple tragedies in his small town, including a pack of murderous dogs and the horrible death of his baby son Anders during a ... Full Review |
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Handler, David
THE SHIMMERING BLOND SISTER
September 1, 2010 - Even in toney Dorset, background checks are advisable. Connecticut state trooper Des Mitry has her hands full. A flasher is spending his weekend nights ringing the doorbells, but not the chimes, of the town’s rich old ladies. He leaves no ... Full Review |
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Hannah, Sophie
THE TRUTH-TELLER'S LIE
September 1, 2010 - Professional and personal relationships collide with the energy of supernovas. When Naomi Jenkins’s married lover Robert fails to show up at Traveltel’s Room 11 for their regular three-hour tryst, she scurries to his house, glances in his living room window ... Full Review |
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Hart, Carolyn
GHOST IN TROUBLE
September 1, 2010 - The latest case for one of Heaven’s cleverest sleuths forces her to break a lot of rules. Wiggins, her boss in Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions, knows that Bailey Ruth Raeburn (Merry, Merry Ghost, 2009, etc.) means well. Even though ... Full Review |
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Macbain, Bruce
ROMAN GAMES
September 1, 2010 - A respected Roman senator turns sleuth to solve a baffling closed-door mystery. It’s 96 CE. Her husband already executed for atheism, Flavia Domitilla, niece of the Emperor Domitian, has been exiled to the island of Pandateria. With the wildly popular ... Full Review |
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Mayor, Archer
RED HERRING
September 1, 2010 - Joe Gunther (The Price of Malice, 2009, etc.) pursues a vindictive killer and pays heavily for catching him. Three people meet sudden deaths: two middle-aged women and a 19-year-old boy. A car wreck kills one; another dies horribly in the ... Full Review |
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Oldfield, Pamela
THE BOAT HOUSE
September 1, 2010 - Prolific Oldfield (The Birthday Present, 2010, etc.) spins yet another tale of England, this one just before World War I in the town of Henley-on-Thames. Marianne Lefevre is a new governess. After losing both her parents, she’s found herself in ... Full Review |
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Ritter, Todd
DEATH NOTICE
September 1, 2010 - A small-town sheriff has her hands full with a vicious serial killer. Perry Hollow, Pa., has never had a murder of its own until a corpse is discovered in a coffin on the side of the road. George Winnick was ... Full Review |
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Sampson, Fay
THOSE IN PERIL
September 1, 2010 - Tracing the history of their paternal forebears turns deadly for the Fewings family (In the Blood, 2009, etc.). Suzie Fewings has done a bang-up job of tracing her West Country ancestry. When her husband Nick inherits a portrait of his ... Full Review |
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Sobol, Donald J.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN AND THE CASE OF THE SECRET UFOS
September 1, 2010 - Cranking out the cases for his brainy, perpetually ten-year-old sleuth since 1963, Sobol dishes up ten more—from stolen cookies and rare stamps to faked photos (see title) and a bogus 18th-century diary. Though the plots are as formulaic as they ... Full Review |
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Spencer, Sally
BLACKSTONE AND THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
September 1, 2010 - Marooned in the United States, Inspector Sam Blackstone investigates the kidnapping of a business tycoon. Since an attempt on his life seven years earlier, banker William Holt has lived in seclusion in his Coney Island mansion, running his business from ... Full Review |
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