Mystery Books
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The Winds of Change
Richard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the col
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Divine Justice (Camel Club)
Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club re
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A Sight for Sore Eyes
Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy
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Dead Heat
After a six-year absence from the bestseller lists, Dick Francis roared out of the gate with 2006's Under Orders, demonstra
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Even Money
The New York Times-bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel.O n the first day of Royal Asc
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Double Whammy
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam
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Black Betty: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were
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Mystery Movies
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The Prestige
Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turnin
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Phone Booth
A single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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The Game
Nicholas Van Orton is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and
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Cube
DVD. Feature film. Rated R.
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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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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Portobello
PortobelloAuthor: Ruth Rendell Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting Hill.Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction—and his own good intentions—Wren hatches a plan to find the money’s rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners—people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren’s life—and the life of his trusting fiancée—the consequences will change them all.
Portobello is a wonderfully complex tour de force featuring a dazzling depiction of one of London’s most intriguing neighborhoods—and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer. Tags:
Middle-aged men
Notting Hill (London, England)
Psychological fiction
Secrecy
Suspense fiction
West End (London, England)
Fiction
General
Mystery & Detective
Psychological
Suspense
US publication:
2008
Detective:
n/a
Genre:
novels
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