Mystery Books
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Son of Holmes (An Auguste Lupa Novel)They say he is the son of Sherlock Holmes...The author of The Fall and the Dismas Hardy and Wyatt Hunt series takes us
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Kane and AbelWilliam Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, b
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Now You See HerWith the scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills that distinguish all of her blockbusters of romantic suspense, Linda Ho
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Faces of the Gone: A Mystery (Carter Ross Mysteries)Investigative reporter Carter Ross finds himself with gruesome front-page news: four bodies in a vacant lot, each with a single
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Blacklist (A V.I. Warshawski Novel)V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling
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Remember MeA killer turns a young family's dream holiday into an unfathomable nightmare....Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal a
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Lucky YouA Florida woman wins millions in the lottery only to have her ticket stolen.
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Mystery Movies
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Vanilla SkyA renowned womanizer meets his match in his best friend's girlfriend. Just as begins to develop feelings for her, his last girlfri
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BasicAcademy Award(r) nominees John Travolta (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Pulp Fiction, 1994) and SamuelL. Jackson (Best Actor in a S
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A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen)(2001)Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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Lost - The Complete First SeasonGet lost in the hottest series of 2004. From J.J. Abrams, the creator of ALIAS, comes the action-packed adventure that became a wo
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The Next Three DaysLife seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into
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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)