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Prime Time Suspect (Petra Delicado Mysteries, No. 2)

by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett

Published: 2007-06-01

Paperback: 299 pages

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"A superlative police procedural."-The Washington Post A detested television journalist specializing in muckraking has been murdered. Inspector Petra Delicado and her sentimental sidekick Garzn are thrown into the ruthless world of show business, high society, and belligerent celebritie...

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

by Sarah Vowell

Published: 2003-10-01

Paperback: 197 pages

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From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell...

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The Accidental Pallbearer (Melville International Crime)

by Frank Lentricchia

Published: 2012-12-05

Paperback: 208 pages

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Introducing a gritty new detective series set in the bleak hinterlands of upstate new YorkWashed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he flamed out of an academic ca...

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The Troubled Man

by Henning Mankell

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 496 pages

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A retired navy officer has vanished in a forest near Stockholm. Kurt Wallander is prepared to stay out of the relatively straightforward investigation—which is, after all, another detective’s responsibility—but the missing man is his daughter’s father-in-law.   With his typical d...

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One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (7)

by Henning Mankell

Published: 2003-01-14

Paperback: 440 pages

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Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series.On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also tu...

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The Man Who Smiled: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (4) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Henning Mankell

Published: 2007-09-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over the head and dies. W...

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Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5)

by Henning Mankell

Published: 2003-05-13

Paperback: 420 pages

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Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called ...

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The Pyramid: And Four other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

by Henning Mankell Laur Thompson

Published: 2013-01-21

Paperback: 604 pages

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At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander...

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Traces of Kara

by Melissa Foster

Published: 2013-02-21

Paperback: 306 pages

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**From International bestselling and award-winning author Melissa Foster comes her newest pulse-pounding thriller and Kindle Bestseller (Amazon US & UK).TRACES OF KARA is an action packed, pulse pounding psychological thriller/suspense n...

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Stardust: A Novel

by Carla Stewart

Published: 2012-05-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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Shortly after burying her unfaithful husband, Georgia Peyton unexpectedly inherits the derelict Stardust motel from a distant relative. Despite doubts from the community and the aunt who raised her, she is determined to breathe new life into it. But the guests who arrive aren't what Georgi...