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|  | Akunin, Boris SISTER PELAGIA AND THE RED COCKEREL
July 01, 2009 - The leader who in life called himself Manuila is revered by the Foundlings, a messianic Jewish sect, and reviled by both Orthodox Christians and Orthodox Jews as a false prophet. But the biggest surprise about the man beaten to death aboard the
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| | Alfieri, Annamaria CITY OF SILVER
July 01, 2009 - Two young ladies of Potos", jewel in the crown of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, have retreated to the Convent of Santa Isabella de los Santos Milagros. Beatriz intends to remain there until her father relents and lets her marry the man of her
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| | Andrews, Donna SWAN FOR THE MONEY
July 01, 2009 - They're all part of a crime wave engulfing the Caerphilly Rose Show in Virginia. Meg's latest comic nightmare begins with her father's discovery that two of the blooms he's bred for the Winkleson Trophy, given to the darkest rose, have been eaten by
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| | Atkinson, Michael HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS
July 01, 2009 - When law enforcement comes calling on Ernest Hemingway in Key West, it gets a welcome warmer than it might have expected. Relatively sober at this moment in 1956, between projects and without an important woman in his life, the 58-year-old author is
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| | Clare, Alys OUT OF THE DAWN LIGHT
July 01, 2009 - In a small Fenland village, Lassair, who has the uncanny ability to find lost objects and dowse for water, is thrilled to be learning healing skills from her aunt Edild, who's skilled in the ways of the old Gods. Lassair is celebrating the wedding
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| | de Castrique, Mark THE FITZGERALD RUSE
July 01, 2009 - Fresh from solving a murder whose origin stretched back nearly a century (Blackman's Coffin, 2008, etc.), Iraqi war veteran Sam Blackman has a new lease on life despite having lost a leg in combat. Nakayla Robertson, the victim's sister, who roused
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| | Elmore, J. Saunders THE AMATEUR AMERICAN
July 01, 2009 - Everyone wants a piece of young Jeffrey Delanne. He's pushed into sinister black limos; hauled off to undisclosed locations; and forced into behavior that can only be described as reprehensible. And it's all shrouded in mystery. Jeffrey's been
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| | Gower, Iris BOMBERS' MOON
July 01, 2009 - When their home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Meryl Jones is evacuated to Carmarthen, though older sister Hari continues her war work in Swansea. Housed with an abusive family, Meryl runs off. She's found by Michael Euler, a half-German young man
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| | Greenwood, Kerry TRICK OR TREAT
July 01, 2009 - Corinna (Devil's Food, 2008, etc.) is understandably upset when a "hot bread shop" opens just down the street in Melbourne from Earthly Delights. The chain store's product is inferior to hers, but its prices much cheaper. Even more upsetting is the
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|  | Hinger, Charlotte DEADLY DESCENT
July 01, 2009 - Lottie Albright has married an older man and moved to his home in a small western Kansas town, much to the disgust of her twin sister, clinical psychologist Josie. Lottie finds plenty to occupy her time as director of the Carlton County Historical
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| | Keating, H.R.F. INSPECTOR GHOTE'S FIRST CASE
July 01, 2009 - Hours after learning on March 15, 1960, of his promotion from Assistant Inspector to the dizzying heights of the Detection of Crime Branch, Ganesh Ghote is snatched from the side of his loyal wife Protima, pregnant with their first child, whom he'd
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| | Kiely, Tracy MURDER AT LONGBOURN
July 01, 2009 - Facing New Year's Eve alone, newly single Elizabeth Parker is just as ready as Bridget Jones to give up hope of finding her Mr. Darcy. An invitation to help at quirky Aunt Winnie's bed and breakfast on Cape Cod seems like her best option to ring in
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| | Koryta, Michael THE SILENT HOUR
July 01, 2009 - While his partner Joe is in Florida considering retirement, Linc drifts around their Cleveland office ignoring mail and phone calls until the door opens to admit Parker Harrison, who's been trying to reach him for months. Parker, paroled 13 years
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| | Lourey, Jess SEPTEMBER FAIR
July 01, 2009 - The 54th Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, is having her likeness sculpted in butter when the lights go out and the tourists panic. Two minutes later, the lights come back on, but Milkfed Mary doesn't. She's been fatally poisoned with cyanide.
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| | Maron, Margaret SAND SHARKS
July 01, 2009 - While her new husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, and his son Cal clear out belongings from his first marriage, Judge Deborah Knott (Death's Half Acre, 2008, etc.) heads to Wrightsville Beach for the annual conference of North Carolina district
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| | May, Peter CHINESE WHISPERS
July 01, 2009 - Li Yan, head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Beijing Municipal Police, is appalled when four prostitutes are murdered in a manner exactly replicating that of the Ripper 120 years ago. The mastermind even sends him precisely worded
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| | Myers, Beverle Graves HER DEADLY MISCHIEF
July 01, 2009 - Tito Amato, the principal castrato at Venice's main opera venue, is midway through the debut performance of Armida when a spectator tumbles into the pit from the fourth tier. Zulietta Giardino, a much-admired courtesan, had been sitting in the box
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| | Nugent, Andrew SOUL MURDER
July 01, 2009 - St. Isidore's, with all the secret doorways and hidden staircases proper to a haunted castle, houses seven boarding students in a dormitory tower. Almost caught by a shadowy figure as they return from a late-night barbecue (a St. Isidore's rite of
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| | O'Brien, Charles DEADLY QUARREL
July 01, 2009 - Anne goes to visit her ailing grandfather; Beverly hopes to persuade her estranged husband Thomas to a divorce so that she can continue living in Nice with her lover. There's a checkered history behind her quest. In 1773, the Parker family's dying
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| | Parker, I.J. THE CONVICT'S SWORD
July 01, 2009 - The brutal murder of Tomoe, a blind street singer, offers a stark contrast to the beautiful morning that greets Lord Sugawara Akitada and his beloved wife Tamako. Akitada, who serves as Senior Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, has recently been
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| | Rickman, Phil TO DREAM OF THE DEAD
July 01, 2009 - The city council and planning commission agree to excavate the ancient buried stones beneath Coleman's Meadow and develop luxury housing and a highway, making it easy for posh weekenders to commute to London from Ledwardine, on the Welsh border. But
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| | Rosenfelt, David NEW TRICKS
July 01, 2009 - The shooting of pharmaceutical semi-titan Walter Timmerman in a seedy New Jersey neighborhood way outside his orbit has landed the Passaic County justice system with two problems: identifying and convicting his killer, and resolving a custody battle
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| | Rowson, Pauline DEAD MAN'S WHARF
July 01, 2009 - There's nothing like a murder to make a trivial matter assume more weight. Take Mr. Kingsway's complaint that someone assaulted his mother at the Rest Haven Nursing Home. Sounds like the ramblings of a senile old bat—except that Irene Ebury, the
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| | Schlink, Bernhard SELF'S MURDER
July 01, 2009 - Bertram Welker's history of Weller & Welker, his family's private bank, won't be complete without an account of the silent partner who pumped an undisclosed amount of cash into the firm a century ago. Since Welker's never identified this savior, he
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| | Straka, Andy KITTY HITTER
July 01, 2009 - Separating felines from their rightful owners is the crime in shamus Frank Pavlicek's latest case, and Frank's not happy about it. He's a modern-day Sam Spade, not Ace Ventura. Still, the obligations of friendship are pressing, and Darla Barnes had
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| | Todd, Charles A DUTY TO THE DEAD
July 01, 2009 - Relinquishing for the moment Inspector Ian Rutledge (A Matter of Justice, 2008, etc.), the Todd writing partnership presents Bess Crawford, invalided home when the hospital ship she nursed on is shot out from under her. She's bent on relaying a
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June 30, 2009 - In How Fiction Works, the tutorial by the New Yorker critic and Harvard professor, James Wood writes, "Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. And so on and on."...Contemporary fiction has produced few noticers with a better eye and more engaging voice than Tassie Keltjin, the narrator of Lorrie Moore's deceptively powerful A Gate at the Stairs.
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