Mystery Books
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Mathematics of Heat Transfer (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Conference Series)This collection provides a comprehensive look at current work on heat transfer, and topics include heat exchangers, phase-change p
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)some scratches on cover and bending in spine
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Skipping Christmas: A Novel#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitca
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Run Before the Wind (Will Lee Novel)#1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods presents a breathtaking story of suspense and high-adventure in the s
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The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (Joe Pike Novels)Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underwo
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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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Claws and Effect: A Mrs. Murphy MysteryCLAWS AND EFFECTWinter puts tiny Crozet, Virginia, in a deep freeze and everyone seems to be suffering from the winter bla
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Mystery Movies
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Mystic RiverThree friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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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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Contact (Snap Case)After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and t
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has b
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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)