Tag: mystery
group name: booksuggestions
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May 31, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
I recommend only books that I found not-put-downable, and I recommend What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. This book came with me to the dinner table, and I didn't put it down to go to sleep but fell . . .
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June 05, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
If you aren't familiar with Lee Child's books, as I wasn't, you should know that his stories involve Jack Reacher, a former army officer who went to Westpoint, a big man who now, apparently, doesn't own . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
A man is released from prison after he spent 13 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Or did he? Throughout, Stephen White’s The Best Revenge , it seems so, then it seems not, . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:46 AM EDT --
A Foreign Affair
By Caro Peacock
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Avon +
Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061445894 . . .
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May 28, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
If I don't like a book, I don't read another by the same author--usually. But I read Oblivion by Peter Abrahams even though I had disliked another of his books, The Fan . It was a good decision. . . .
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June 09, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
A 13-year-old boy, Johnny, and his friend, Jack, search for Johnny's twin sister, Alyssa, a year after she has gone missing, after everyone else, it seems, has given up. "It seems" because the case . . .
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June 27, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
The first half of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO presents two separate lives in Sweden: Mikael Blomkvist, a 40-something journalist convicted of libel, and Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Without giving away too much of the story, I'll say that John Hart's Down River centers on a young man, Adam, who had been accused of murder five years before, was acquitted, moved out of town for five . . .
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June 13, 2009 07:32 PM EDT --
Martin Cruz Smith is a new author for me, and I didn't realize that HAVANA BAY is part of a series of books about a Russian prosecutor's investigator, Renko Arkady. The series begins with the book . . .
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June 17, 2009 08:48 AM EDT --
Michael Connelly's latest book, THE SCARECROW , involves a soon-to-be-laid-off long-time LA Times reporter Jack McEvoy, who decides to "go out with a bang" by writing an investigative story . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
IN THE WOODS by Tana French is a novel about the investigation into the death of a child. But it is more complex than that; much more is going on with the people involved.
A . . .
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September 03, 2008 01:35 AM EDT --
Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award in Fiction
Published 2006 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Available also in paperback.
ISBN: 978-0-06-056478-0
If your . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny is a mystery that is very different from your usual mystery. That's why I read it.
The story takes place in Canada around the time of the U.S. Civil War, maybe . . .
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June 11, 2008 08:05 AM EDT --
The green digits on the alarm clock flashed: 5:30 am. Awake again! Brad kicked the covers off and wiggled his legs from side to side bumping into the wall. A scab on his knee opened up blood . . .
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August 21, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
In VODKA NEAT , Faith Zanetti is a 35-year-old English journalist, a foreign correspondent. Her current assignment is to Russia simply because she lived there 16 years ago when it was the Soviet Union . . .
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July 12, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
The program in Stephen White’s THE PROGRAM is the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), better known as the Witness Protection Program. Designed to protect people who testify at trials for . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
1. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Polish Catholic zookeepers hide Jews.
2. The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory Cat ownership is funny but precious.
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August 31, 2009 08:49 PM EDT --
First, no, RED ROVER is not a book about a dog. Deidre McNamer could have chosen a better title for this very moving story.
And whoever chose the cover (or dust jacket) should have picked . . .
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December 18, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
We really shouldn't be telling you about this book. It's full of SECRET THINGS that kids aren't supposed to know about like aliens, conspiracy theories, and ghosts. They'll love the weird . . .
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July 03, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
Donna Leon is an author I was not familiar with. So I recently picked up her novel DOCTORED EVIDENCE , which is, apparently, one novel in a series about the cases of a police detective, Commissario Brunetti, . . .
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