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Bruen, Ken
THE DEVIL
August 1, 2010 - Someone’s killing Jack Taylor’s friends, and there’s the devil to pay. Literally? Galway’s leading bipolar private eye (Sanctuary, 2009, etc.), whose mood swings from the merely dark to the stygian, is at his low point again. He’d like to resign ... Full Review |
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Davidson, Hilary
THE DAMAGE DONE
August 1, 2010 - Even death doesn’t stop the family’s black sheep from causing more problems. Claudia, who ingested drugs the way most of us breathe air, apparently took her last fix, then toppled into her bathtub, where she died. Eerily, the date of ... Full Review |
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Fowler, Christopher
BRYANT & MAY OFF THE RAILS
August 1, 2010 - London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit has exactly a week to solve a case that promptly blossoms into two cases. After killing PC Liberty DuCaine, the deadly Mr. Fox (Bryant & May on the Loose, 2009) has made his escape from a ... Full Review |
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Francis, Dick
CROSSFIRE
August 1, 2010 - The late Dick Francis’s 44th, and last, canter around the track echoes several of his greatest hits. Capt. Tom Forsyth has returned from service in Afghanistan without his right foot. Since the Army’s been his only home for half a ... Full Review |
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Indridason, Arnaldur
HYPOTHERMIA
August 1, 2010 - A suicide reminds a veteran inspector of previous sad cases—and of ghosts from his own past. María, a historian, is found hanged in her country cottage by her childhood friend Karen, with whom she'd planned a getaway weekend. María's husband ... Full Review |
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Izner, Claude
THE MONTMARTRE INVESTIGATION
August 1, 2010 - A single red shoe draws Parisian bookseller Victor Legris into another tantalizing murder puzzle. The young ladies of Mademoiselle Bontemps' boarding school look forward to every outing with breathless anticipation. Love-struck Élisa contemplates a secret rendezvous with her admirer Gaston, ... Full Review |
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Jaffarian, Sue Ann
MURDER IN VEIN
August 1, 2010 - Odelia Gray (Corpse on the Cob, 2010, etc.) and Granny Apples (Ghost à la Mode, 2009) have a new cousin: Madison Rose, a human living in Los Angeles’s twilight world of vampires. Waitress Madison Rose can hardly believe it. First ... Full Review |
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Kiely, Tracy
MURDER ON THE BRIDE'S SIDE
August 1, 2010 - A Jane Austen fan who’s spent too much time with Sense and Sensibility tries to solve a murder at her best friend’s wedding. The friendship between no-nonsense Elizabeth Parker (Murder at Longbourn, 2009) and flighty Bridget Matthews dates back to ... Full Review |
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Kipps, Charles
CRYSTAL DEATH
August 1, 2010 - Conor Bard, the NYPD’s singing detective, makes a second page-turning appearance in the case of the blood-red diamond. Diamonds were not Zivah Gavish’s best friend. Her elegant throat cut, she’s discovered in her sumptuous New York apartment, the fabulous red ... Full Review |
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Larsen, K.J.
LIAR, LIAR
August 1, 2010 - A private eye searches for a suspect while her mother tries to find her a man. If Caterina “Cat” DeLuca learned one thing in her divorce, it’s how to catch a cheater. Now older and wiser, Cat has her own ... Full Review |
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Lindsay, Jeff
DEXTER IS DELICIOUS
August 1, 2010 - Fatherly affection, empathy, guilt—could everyone’s favorite law-enforcement sociopath (Dexter by Design, 2009, etc.) be turning soft? As he gawps at his newborn daughter Lily Anne, Dexter Morgan feels a rush of unfamiliar feelings and familiarly satirical thoughts about how sappy ... Full Review |
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Meier, Leslie
WICKED WITCH MURDER
August 1, 2010 - A coven of Wiccans brings murder and mayhem to Tinker’s Cove. Star reporter Lucy Stone (Mother’s Day Murder, 2009, etc.) has two brand-new neighbors. Diana Ravenscroft owns Solstice, a new purple-painted shop full of crystals, handmade jewelry and books of ... Full Review |
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Parker, Robert B.
PAINTED LADIES
August 1, 2010 - Spenser’s last case. The opening sequence, in which Spenser (The Professional, 2009, etc.) makes a monkey out of a college professor who clearly needs him more than Spenser needs the professor, hearkens back to the Boston private eye’s very first ... Full Review |
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Russell, Sheldon
THE INSANE TRAIN
August 1, 2010 - A one-armed railroad-security agent’s troubleshooting branches out into new territory. Hook Runyon (The Yard Dog, 2009) and his scruffy dog Mixer have a new assignment: Stop checking the tracks around Needles, Calif., and hustle over to Barstow, where the inmates ... Full Review |
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Sim, Alastair
THE UNBELIEVERS
August 1, 2010 - A police inspector tracks a Duke’s killer in 1865 Scotland. Nineteenth-century Edinburgh is a dark industrial city whose shadows Inspector Allerdyce knows all too well. Still mourning his first wife despite his remarriage, Allerdyce has thrown himself into the work ... Full Review |
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Thurlo, Aimée
NEVER-ENDING-SNAKE
August 1, 2010 - Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has several cases to solve, including her own attempted murder. When Ella, together with Kevin Tolino, the attorney father of her daughter Dawn, and war hero-turned-lobbyist Adam Lonewolf return from a trip to Washington, ... Full Review |
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