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What do readers say about Maigret Defends Himself?
digestible mysteries, pretty shortpretty funfrench"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." -The Guardian
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A little phrase the detective chief inspector would remember later, but which hadn’t struck him at the time. Everything was familiar – the setting, the faces, even the movements of the people involved...
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What do readers say about The Innocence of Father Brown?
straight-forward lateral-thinking-style murder mysteriesextravagant descriptive prosecollection of short storiesplayful way with languageTwelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil."... Read more about The Innocence of Father Brown
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What do readers say about Bruno, Chief of Police?
french detective novelsolving a murderpolice procedural mysterysheriff andy taylorThe first installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno. Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He's a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures a... Read more about Bruno, Chief of Police
On a bright May morning, so early that the last of the mist was still lingering low over a bend in the Vézère River, a white van drew to a halt on the ridge that overlooked the small French town. A ma...
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What do readers say about The Shape of Water?
descriptive and paceya light thrillergood, sometimes very funnyfun mediterranean noir"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen…transpo... Read more about The Shape of Water
No light of daybreak filtered yet into the courtyard of Splendor, the company under government contract to collect trash in the town of Vigàta. A low, dense mass of clouds completely covered the sky a...
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What do readers say about Last Bus to Woodstock?
a british detective novelrealistic police dramainspector morse seriesfirst inspector morse"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."
-The New York Times Book Review
"YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW MORSE UNTIL YOU'VE READ
HIM. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in... Read more about Last Bus to Woodstock
FROM ST GILES’ in the centre of Oxford two parallel roads run due north, like the prongs of a tuning fork. On the northern perimeter of Oxford, each must first cross the busy northern ring-road, along...
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What do readers say about The Chalk Circle Man?
french criminal novelit is quite entertaininga character studyfrench crime novel"Wildly imaginative."-The New York Times
"Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action."-Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series
When blue chalk circles begin to appear on t... Read more about The Chalk Circle Man
She made another note in the diary: ‘He sat down too close to me, as if we knew each other, but I’ve never seen him before. No, I’m sure I’ve never seen him before. Not much else to say about him, exc...
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What do readers say about Firewall?
fast-moving and interesting plotan engrossing novelmethodical and thorough narrativemy least favoriteThe mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander
From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the eighth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series.
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He was standing on the balcony. Some days he could see a sliver of ocean between the buildings across the way. Right now it was too dark. Sometimes he set up his telescope and looked into the lighted ...
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What do readers say about From Doon With Death?
classic british mystery styleingenious and absorbing plotentertaining and niceinspector wexford murder mysteryThere is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the n... Read more about From Doon With Death
“I think you’re getting things a bit out of proportion, Mr. Parsons,” Burden said. He was tired and he’d been going to take his wife to the pictures. Besides, the first things he’d noticed when Parson...
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What do readers say about A Morbid Taste for Bones?
fast paced and intriguingmedieval murder mysterya work of hatea murder mysteryThe ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred's sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.... Read more about A Morbid Taste for Bones
ON THE FINE, BRIGHT MORNING IN EARLY MAY when the whole sensational affair of the Gwytherin relics may properly be considered to have begun, Brother Cadfael had been up long before Prime, pricking out...
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What do readers say about The Sentence is Death?
fun vacation reada genteel mysteryan entertaining murder mysteryless engaging readNew York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery, the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder, to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer an... Read more about The Sentence is Death
Usually, I enjoy visiting film sets. I love the excitement of seeing so many professional people working together – at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds – to create a vision that will have begun p...
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