FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Holt (What Is Mine, 2006, etc.) makes curmudgeonly Hanna the perfectly astringent guide to this nightmare whodunit out of Ellery Queen's The Siamese Twin Mystery and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None."
A train accident strands retired Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen in the middle of a fierce snowstorm with 268 other passengers, one of whom begins to murder the others in this brainy page-turner.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Justice of sorts is done in this absorbing finale of a distinguished career."
For his last novel, the Argentinian writer (1934–2010) constructed a maze, at the heart of which is a woman who refuses to give her husband up for dead.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Well plotted and smartly paced. Scully goes out a winner."
In his valedictory case, LAPD Detective Shane Scully (
The Prostitutes' Ball, 2010, etc.) finds real danger in the dubious world of reality TV.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Good for a nightmare or three--a taut, fast-paced thriller with wrenching twists and turns."
Another spooky gothic by Norwegian gloomster Nesbø (
The Snowman, 2011, etc.), the poet laureate of boreal psychopathy.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction."
Wheeler (
The Deliverance, 2003
, etc.) brings to life robber barons, Irish immigrant miners and lost souls among the trash heaps and bawdy houses, headframes and smelters of 1890s Butte, Mont.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Another fine outing for Kirsten and Dugan, who set the standard for plotting, pace and hard-boiled humor."
A night on the town lands the Wild Onion, Ltd. partners in the middle of another case with oh- so-many moving parts.
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