Mystery Books
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The Postcard Killers
Paris is stunning in the summerNYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities.
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Curses! (Book Five in the Gideon Oliver Series)
"Mayan ruins in the Yucatán…a secret room in a tomb…age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton
- Murder in the Museum: A Fethering Mystery
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Not Comin' Home To You
A New York Times Bestselling Author A gripping account of the actual murders that inspired the highly acclaimed film Bad
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Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
Between baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar and unravelling the mystery of her cat Moishe's recent strange behaviour, Hannah Swen
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Taking
On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known...Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find an eerily luminous downpour
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The Burglar in the Library (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries)
Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic
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Mystery Movies
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Mystic River
Three friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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Mulholland Dr.
Laura Harring, Naomi Watts. Betty is a small-town girl who comes to Hollywood with stars in her eyes and looking for sidewalks of
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Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
A retiring cop and his replacement track a psychotic killer who's using the seven deadly sins as a guide. Starring Brad Pitt, Morg
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Arlington Road
Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins. A professor whose wife was killed during an anti-terrorist operation begins to suspect that his new nei
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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Dispatching Baudelaire
Dispatching BaudelaireAuthor: Ken Bruen Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike meets Laura in a bar off The Strand, their lives are irrevocably changed. Small, sexy, smart - and utterly dangerous - Laura instantly spellbinds Mike and leads him into a world of moral depravity, dominated by the sinister presence of her powerful and rich father, Harold Benton. Dressed in safari suits, dining in West End restaurants, Benton drinks only the best of wines and whiskies, imitates Richard Burton, and quotes French poet Baudelaire at every opportunity. He is also without conscience, on a hell-bent mission to mould others to his likeness. Dispatching Baudelaire is about what can happen to the blandest of men when he is seduced by money, power and sex. As we follow Mike on his journey to the heart of darkness, we come to discover that there are few more dangerous animals than an Englishman off balance. Set against the paranoia of early 1990s post-Thatcher London, this is yet another addictive page-turner from Ken Bruen, author of the bestselling Vixen, The Guards and The Killing of the Tinkers - and one of the critically acclaimed greats of modern crime and suspense fiction. Tags:
US publication:
2004
Detective:
n/a
Genre:
novels
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