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The Best Mysteries of 2010

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THE JANUS STONE

By Elly Griffiths (Author)

Pub Date: Jan 21, 2011

A forensic archaeologist's murder investigation puts her and her unborn child in mortal danger.
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By Jeffery Deaver (Author)

Pub Date: Nov 2, 2010

Deaver's latest nail-biter features a blank-faced hero from a shadowy federal agency whose job is to protect menaced innocents from kidnappers and killers who don't want them to be protected.
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WORTH DYING FOR

By Lee Child (Author)

Pub Date: Oct 19, 2010

Whatever business Jack Reacher has in Virginia will have to wait till the world's most distractible soldier of fortune cleans up the mess he's stumbled into amid the cornfields of the Midwest.
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THE CHARMING QUIRKS OF OTHERS

By Alexander McCall Smith (Author)

Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010

Edinburgh moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie's seventh round of adventures among ethical conundrums (The Lost Art of Gratitude, 2009, etc.) marks her finest hour to date.
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By Louise Penny (Author)

Pub Date: Oct 5, 2010

The sixth appearance of Armand Gamache, North America's most humane detective.
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By Charles Kipps (Author)

Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010

Conor Bard, the NYPD's singing detective, makes a second page-turning appearance in the case of the blood-red diamond.
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