Tag: mystery
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August 24, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the days of Deng Xiaoping's reign, the US ambassador's son is found dead his body entombed in a frozen lake. Almost simultaneously, American officials . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
I'd seen the old 1945 movie And Then There Were None years ago, and came across the book recently.
The story should be a quick read, but the archaic language of Christie's 1930's . . .
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April 25, 2009 01:25 PM EDT --
This book is one that, once I started it, I couldn't stop reading until the end, which I finally reached at 2:30 this morning. But I must warn anyone who doesn't like Special Forces type of violence . . .
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November 10, 2007 09:39 PM EST --
J. D. Robb is the pen name of Nora Roberts, author of a series of books including the protagonist Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke. Eve is a Lieutenant in the NYPSD (New York Police and Security Department) . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:40 PM EDT --
An ancient manuscript, several holy men, a gifted but afflicted child, and a great mystery power the plot of this mystery thriller. The Vonyich Manuscript rests in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book . . .
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August 03, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
I love Patricia Cornwell, but this was not her best.
Trace- Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Forensic Medical Examiner is called back to Richmond to assist in the investigation of a girl’s murder. . . .
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July 04, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
This murder mystery is as charming as Vienna itself. Like the city's famed waltz, Frank Tallis moves his book, A Death in Vienna, along at the perfect tempo. The year is 1902, and Vienna is at . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:03 AM EST --
Reece Gilmore has to be Roberts' quirkiest heroine yet, especially if you count only her big titles, and not the category romances.
On the run from her memories, in search of herself, she lands . . .
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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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October 21, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
From page one of this story, DeVa Gantt (Debra & Valerie Gantt) managed to pull me into Charmaine Ryan's life. I was transported from the here and now to 1800s Virginia and then to Les Charmantes, . . .
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July 07, 2007 05:11 PM EDT --
The strengths ofThe Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco are not what you'd expect from a murder mystery based around a serial killer named "The Surgeon." The two greatest advantages this book . . .
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March 28, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
Yet another one of those paperbacks I purchased after reading the flyleaf. When I am in between releases from my favorite authors, I tend to pick up some filler to read while I wait for one of my regulars. . . .
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February 23, 2009 09:33 PM EST --
Martin Cruz Smith is a mystery writer who never disappoints me. I'm not really an enthusiastic mystery fan, but I do like a number of authors who specialize in writing mysteries. Martin Cruz Smith . . .
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August 13, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
Ah, New Jersey. The pollution. The Mob. Stephanie Plum.
I've been hearing raves about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, so I had to try at least one. I started at the beginning, with . . .
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July 26, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
The Smart One by Ellen Meister
First off, let me just say that there is one section of dialogue in this book that had me laughing so hard that I was almost crying. . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:59 PM EST --
Tremolo: cry of the loon by Aaron Paul Lazar
I have never been to Maine. I wasn’t even around yet in 1964, but Aaron Paul Lazar made me wish that I had been there. Set in the Belgrade Lakes . . .
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September 02, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
"A Dead-End Job Mystery"
Author: Elaine Viets
When I was in San Diego, I went to a book talk with my mother. The person who leads the talks discusses a dozen books. She mentioned . . .
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August 25, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
Promise Not To Tell is a coming of age story, a gripping murder mystery and psychological thriller.
Set in both present and past, Promise Not To Tell, is a story of friendship, . . .
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December 31, 2007 02:36 PM EST --
"We are gathered here today to witness the coming together of two people, Clarice Fenster and Tad Owens, whose hearts and spirits . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
author: Lou Jane Temple
This was NOT what I'd expected!
It was a fun light read (as light as a murder mystery could be).
Old New York - Civil War era. The beginning of department stores, . . .
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