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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
Nevada Barr
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008
Nevada Barr's "Winter Study"
+ Following Anna
Anna Pigeon has a Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)rather tumultous series of experiences in this book - more than "usual" but held interest and was a 'good read' --
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Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware)
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 2008
Another Fine Alex Delaware Story
+ One fans of the genre shouldn't miss
+ Excellent brain candy
+ Not his best, and not his worst....
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The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
All of Leon's books are wonderful reads, and THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS stands tall among them.
+ The Girl of His Dreams
+ Another very good Brunetti novel
THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS is Donna Leon's 17th police procedural featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, the warm-hearted cop who reads the classics and gets his greatest joy from his family. The novel opens upon a gloomy scene at a graveside service in honor of Guido's mother. With him are his wife, ...
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Down River
John Hart
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007
Behind the door in a sports hero's life.
+ Down River
+ Excelent
+ perfect summer read!
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Beautiful Lies: A Novel
Lisa Unger
Three Rivers Press, 2006
A stellar first novel!
+ Couldn't put this one down.
+ wonderful writing
I had not heard of Lisa Unger until I noticed her newly released paperback version of "Beautiful Lies".
I read the back cover and was intrigued. I ordered the book and found that I had a hard time putting it down.
The way Lisa Unger writes is very refreshing. The story is a conversation ...
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The Crime Writer
Gregg Hurwitz
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Great Noir Spin
+ Highly Recommended
+ A welcome surprise
Bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz steps away from his US Marshal Tim Rackley series for his latest novel, THE CRIME WRITER. Hurwitz says that Andrew Danner's story insisted on being told.
I have to admit, I was intrigued by the title and the premise. The title alone is provocative to me because ...
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The Cruel Stars of the Night: A Mystery (Ann Lindell Mysteries)
Kjell Eriksson
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008
Build slowly to WOW
+ A New Star for American Readers
+ It's more a psychiatric study than a real mistery
Laura Hindersten's professor father has gone missing and, while he may have just took off without telling her (though tyrannical, he is exceptionally eccentric), she is convinced something horrible has happened to him.
The members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division are certain the professor ...
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The Black Path
Asa Larsson
Delta, 2008
exhilarating Swedish police procedural legal thriller
+ Just the Beginning
In Kiruna, Sweden, the corpse of the woman found on the frozen lake did not require an autopsy to see she was tortured. Police Inspectors Anna-Maria Mella and Sven-Erik Stainacke lead the investigation into identifying who the Jane Doe is and why she was so brutally battered.
Anna-Maria ...
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Running Scared
Ken Douglas
Bootleg Press, 2003
There is Nothing Like a Little Dose of Revenge
+ Two Brave Women are Running Scared
+ Two Women in Trouble and Running Scared
+ Running scared to stay alive...
+ on the edge
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Beverly Hills Dead
Stuart Woods
Putnam Adult, 2008
Excellent sequel
+ WHO Would Like Beverley Hills Dead and Why? For Some Folks, It Would Be a Great Gift!
Readers will be well advised to read The The Prince of Beverly Hills first, because this is Stuart Woods' much awaited sequel.
Both stories are set in Hollywood and New York City in the 1940s, and feature characters in the movie industry. WWII had ended and the Cold War was beginning. ...
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Santa Fe Dead
Stuart Woods
Putnam Adult, 2008
Woods is Back on Track
+ Light Read-Fun Story
+ An exciting story even if a bit far fetched
+ GREAT!!!!
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The Blonde
Duane Swierczynski
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
The Life of an Assassin Isn't As Easy As You Think
+ Cool Book
+ Pulp Fiction is Alive and Well with Swierczynski
+ Explosive first half, loses steam toward the end.
+ What a rush!!! Absolutely Spellbinding!!
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
Martin Cruz Smith
Pocket, 2008
Another good Russian story
+ Remarkably good at details of Russian life
+ Arkady Is Back!
+ Arkady Fan
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Havana Bay: A Novel (Mortalis.)
Martin Cruz Smith
Ballantine Books, 2008
John LeCarre move over!
+ Arkady Renko Heads South - Way South
+ Out of Place in Havana
+ Havana Bay
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Secret Dead Men
Duane Swierczynski
PointBlank, 2006
Soul Man
+ Wonderfully Imaginative
+ Swierczynski is a master of the imagination
+ A Weird and Infinitely Compelling Read
+ Check into the "Brain Hotel"
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