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What do readers say about Magpie Murders?
literary, meta-and cleversmart, crafty story-tellingvintage, atmospheric christie stylethe publishing worldAnthony Award for Best Novel Nominee
Barry Award for Best Novel Nominee
Macavity Award for Best Novel
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A bottle of wine. A family-sized packet of Nacho Cheese Flavoured Tortilla Chips and a jar of hot salsa dip. A packet of cigarettes on the side (I know, I know). The rain hammering against the windows...
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What do readers say about The Eighth Detective?
short mystery storiesold fashioned mystery talesingenious and originala bit oddA New York Times Top Ten Thriller of 2020
"One of the most innovative mysteries in recent memory." - The Wall Street Journal
"Dizzying, dazzling… When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over."
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The two suspects sat on mismatched furniture in the white and almost featureless lounge, waiting for something to happen. Between them an archway led to a slim, windowless staircase: a dim recess that...
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What do readers say about The Night Before?
lots of twistsfast-paced twisty storysuspense and mysterychilling and scary thrillerA Today Show and New York Post Summer Reads Selection!
Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker's The Night Before "takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go" as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an i... Read more about The Night Before
I put it on first so I won’t change my mind, rolling that optimism right across my lips. Next comes the concealer. Two stripes under my brown eyes, and the dark circles from weeks of insomnia disappea...
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What do readers say about Kingdom of the Blind?
high quality writingsad and elegiac qualitya bag of chipsa story of secretsINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A December 2018 Indie Next Pick
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018 Picks
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There he parked the car and sat in the warm vehicle looking out at the cold day. Snow flurries were hitting the windshield and dissolving. They were coming down with more force now, slightly obscuring...
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What do readers say about Moonflower Murders?
golden age stylecleverly plotted, clearly writtena book editorcozy, christie-style mysteryFeaturing his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
The Polydorus is a charming family-run hotel, located a short walk away from the lively town of Agios Nikolaos, one hour from Heraklion. Rooms cleaned daily, all with Wi-Fi and air con, some with sea ...
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What do readers say about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
quick, simple, fast pacedunique voice and toneplain and unadornedmeticulous and cleverMurder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson's thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of... Read more about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose. The written verdict was handed down at 10:00 on Friday morning, and all that...
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What do readers say about Night Film?
overwrought and over-italicizedmixed media formatthe mysterious character cordovaa very unusual novelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR
Cosmopolitan ... Read more about Night Film
A large chandelier showered golden light on the crowd as I surveyed the party in the bronze mirror over the mantel. I was startled to spot someone I barely recognized: myself. Blue button-down, sports...
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What do readers say about The Burning?
mystery within a mysterypolice procedural/psychological thrillercomplex and intriguingthe characterization is fabulous"Astute, complex, layered-and very twisted. You'll remember this one for a long time."-Lee Child
The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in seclu... Read more about The Burning
I didn’t know where I was or what I was doing when the phone rang; I didn’t even know that it was the phone that had woken me. I came up from miles below the surface and opened an eye as one part of m...
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What do readers say about City of Glass?
metafictional/metaphysical noir detective storiesself-referential, existential qualityhardboiled detective fictionnoir detective novels'It was a wrong number that started it ...'Chosen as one of the '100 Most Important Comics of the Century', Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, Da... Read more about City of Glass
IT was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Much later, when he was able to think about...
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What do readers say about Perdido Street Station?
dense, heavy stylebizarre, inventive, and fascinatingexcellent escape literaturea work of fantasyBeneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants a... Read more about Perdido Street Station
A window burst open high above the market. A basket flew from it and arced towards the oblivious crowd. It spasmed in mid-air, then spun and continued earthwards at a slower, uneven pace. Dancing prec...
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