FICTION
Released: Jan. 20, 2011
"An intriguing literary mystery mixing fact and fiction."
Terrorism, political conspiracies and financial shenanigans combine in the latest from Rubenfeld (
The Interpretation of Murder, 2006, etc.)
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FICTION
Released: July 7, 2009
MI-5 and the CID protect London--think anti-Semitism, elitism and pithy verbal snapshots of blackout raids and chicanery in the War Office--during the blitz.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2009
"Atkins (Wicked City, 2008, etc.) writes so well that some readers--but not all--will forget to ask if that's enough to validate time spent with irredeemable lowlifes in a modern-day Sodom."
Facing a manslaughter rap, big-time movie star Fatty Arbuckle gets the Pinkerton agent Dashiell Hammett working on his behalf.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 20, 2009
"A well-appointed period mystery with interesting roman à clef notes that remains appealing despite the sometimes flat-footed prose of Jones (Hitler in Vienna, 2002, etc.)."
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a lawyer and a criminologist team up to exonerate their friend Gustav Klimt from a false charge of murder.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 20, 2009
"Stop-and-go detection, inconsequential complications and a heroine who alternates between tough-cookie smarts and breathtaking stupidity."
1931 brings a second breezy outing for L.A. shamus Dexter J. Theroux and Kitty Pangborn, the Gal Friday who was the brains of the outfit in their debut (
Death Was the Other Woman, 2008), but who isn't this time.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 26, 2008
"Who says they don't write 'em like this anymore? Long may Bayard reign."
Having previously channeled Dickens and Poe, historical novelist Bayard (
The Pale Blue Eye, 2006, etc.) throws down the gauntlet to Dumas in another high-energy melodrama.
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