Mystery Books
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The Charm School#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage p
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Moment of TruthWhen attorney Jack Newlin discovers his wife dead in their home, he's convinced he knows who killed her—and is equally determ
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Die Trying (Jack Reacher, No. 2)See Jack Reacher now in his first major motion picture. When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad dayli
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The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century SevilleIn the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city fa
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The Cat Who Went into the ClosetQwill's moved into the old Gage mansion--and the cats are on a treasure hunt! The house's fifty closets are crammed with seve
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Manhattan Is My Beat (Rune Trilogy)Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan fo
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The Fifth Witness (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused
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Mystery Movies
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The ArrivalCalling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in
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SolarisSuperstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this "brilliant sci-fi movie" (New York Daily News) from Academy Award
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Vanilla SkyTom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz. Cameron Crowe's thrilling remake of Open Your Eyes , a sexy psychological tale of wealth,
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The Ninth GateDVD
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Primal FearDVD
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Mystery Authors
Anthony Price biography
Anthony Price
(1938 - )
Anthony Price was born in Hertfordshire, England. From 1947 to 1949, he was in the British Army where he rose to the rank of captain. He studied at Merton College, Oxford where he obtained a MA in 1952. In 1953, he married Ann Stone with whom he had three children, two sons and one daughter. From 1952 to 1988, he was a journalist with the Westminster Press and from 1972 to 1988, he was an editor with the Oxford Times. His books are espionage books, or something; not precisely mysteries. Whatever they are, they're just wonderful. They're highly intellectual, not primarily action-oriented. They're not particularly violent, though a certain number of people do get killed on stage. There's usually a historical tie-in of some sort, from Troy to WWII; it's usually being used by one side to try to distract or confuse the other side in the pursuit of the real problem, and it's often not clear until the end, if then, just who was using it on whom, either. Nice technical thing: All these books take place in and around an (imaginary, I believe) department of British Intelligence (which, at least in these books, isn't an oxymoron). They have lots of characters in common. There's one character, Dr. David Audley, who appears in all of them. But he's not the central or viewpoint character in all of the books, and people who are the central character in some of the books are not immortal, even in their own books (not too big a spoiler, I think). It's also very interesting seeing the same characters from different viewpoints.
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