Mystery Books
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The Winds of ChangeRichard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the cold case o
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The Cat Who Blew the WhistleJim Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff in this myste
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She Walks These HillsA story of mountain journeys, both literal and figurative, weaves together the tales of a restless spirit from the 1700s, a derang
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The Sudoku Puzzle Murders: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries)Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady (who actually couldn’t solve a crossword puzzle to save her life), is surprisingly goo
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Maximum Ride Saving The World And Other Extreme SportsIn MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ulti
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Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at SeaAmerica's Queen of Suspense -- Mary Higgins Clark -- joins forces with her daughter Carol -- bestselling author of the Regan Re
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Silence of the Grave (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries, No. 2)Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger AwardInspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton
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Mystery Movies
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OldboyOh 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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The NegotiatorNegotiator, The (DVD)Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Samuel L. Jackson ("Snakes on a Plane," the second
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Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, d
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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CubeSix ordinary strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves in a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambe
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Death Of The Detective
The Death Of The Detective
Author: Mark Smith
Mark Smith’s Literary Masterpiece of Crime Fiction.
A National Book Award Finalist
The blockbuster New York Times bestseller.
“Remarkable for both its ambition and its accomplishment, it reads as though it were written by a resurrected Charles Dickens, one chilled by a hundred years of graveyard brooding…every page is a pleasure to read,” New York Times
A killer calling himself The Deathmaker is on the loose, pursued by Arnold Magnuson, a grief-stricken detective on the verge of a mental breakdown. Magnuson’s dogged investigation to find the killer, and himself, takes him deep into urban Chicago, laying bare the corrupt city and its seething soul in all its macabre, heartbreaking, and violent complexity. It’s a sprawling, utterly compelling story, widely regarded as a stunning literary achievement and perhaps the best detective novel ever written.
“A masterpiece . . . raises Dickens’ benign ghost to remind us again that we're all connected, all both innocent and guilty,” Kirkus Reviews
“A brilliant and arresting novel which so far transcends the detective genre that inspired it as to stand in a category of its own,” Arkansas Gazette
“In its sustained vitality, power and scale, it is unlike any other fiction I have read....A complex and unforgettable novel,” The Times (London)