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2011 Best of Fiction: The Complete List (page 3)

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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
Kirkus Star THE TROUBLED MAN
by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson
"Though shivering in the winter of his discontent, Wallander will grip the reader hard. Flawed and occasionally exasperating, he is that rare thing: a true original."
Swedish detective Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander (The Pyramid, 2008, etc.) makes a riveting 10th appearance in the strange case of the spy who was and wasn't. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
Kirkus Star THE MIGHTY WALZER
by Howard Jacobson
"A delight from start to finish, and a note-perfect evocation of the gray 1950s."
An entertaining Jewish picaresque novel, following on Jacobson's Man Booker Prize–winning The Finkler Question (2010). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
by Donna Leon
"As languid in its movement as a gondola ride. Yet none of Brunetti's earlier cases (About Face, 2009, etc.) is as remorselessly clear in connecting the delicately comic anti-authoritarian gestures Brunetti winks at to the miasma of corruption that hangs over his beloved Venice."
Perhaps the quietest of all Commissario Guido Brunetti's cases concerns a murder that may not even be a murder. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
Kirkus Star OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
by Justin Cartwright
"Witty, thoughtful, briskly paced and entertaining—a terrific novel about excess, hubris, class and the age-old (usually one-sided) tussle between art and commerce."
From South African/British novelist Cartwright (To Heaven by Water, 2009, etc.), a winner of the Whitbread Award and Hawthornden Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a tale half comic and half cautionary—and all compelling—about the financial crisis. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
Kirkus Star ECHOES OF THE DEAD
by Sally Spencer
"Shifting seamlessly between past and present versions of the case, Spencer produces a tour de force readers won't quickly forget."
A convicted murderer's dying declaration prompts an unexpected investigation for DCI Monika Paniatowski (The Ring of Death, 2010, etc.) and a world of trouble for her beloved Charlie Woodend. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
Kirkus Star ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS YOU
by Elizabeth Berg
"Berg's masterful portraits and keen insight makes for a memorable read."
The prolific Berg delivers the goods in this perceptive novel about a divorced couple reunited when their daughter goes missing. Read full book review >