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by Richard North Patterson
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by Olen Steinhauer
J.B. O’Sullivan’s ‘I Die Possessed’
There was a time when almost all the crime fiction I read had been recently published. I was young and callow and dismissive of any novels my parents or—heaven forfend!—my grandparents might have enjoyed in their own salad days. I desired nothing so much as to stay current with the genre’s latest developments, its freshest authors, its most wet-behind-the-ears trends. read more
You Just Can’t Keep a Good Sleuth Down
“More than any other writer, except perhaps Elmore Leonard, [Robert B. Parker] shaped my style and taste in storytelling,” Ace Atkins told me last spring after he’d delivered to his publisher the first installment of a new string of novels starring Parker’s celebrated Boston private eye-cum-knight errant, the single-monikered Spenser. read more
Coast of Schemes
Mark Mills’ impressive fourth novel, House of the Hunted, is all about imminent loss.  read more
Remembering Arthur Lyons
There’s no better way to demonstrate respect for an author—especially one who’s no longer among the living—than to continue enjoying his or her work. read more
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by John Grisham
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Mary Higgins Clark
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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by Harlan Coben
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James McGee
Pub Date 5/15/2012
Even though he's a Bow Street Runner, Matthew Hawkwood can get caught up in international intrigue.
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Gerard Macdonald
Pub Date 5/8/2012
Living in Paris in 2004, former CIA spy Shawn Maguire accepts a freelance job to find an Iranian named Darius ...
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Jefferson Bass
Pub Date 5/8/2012
Can the ancient bones discovered in a stone chest in Avignon, France, possibly be the remains of Jesus of Nazareth ...
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Christopher Farnsworth
Pub Date 5/1/2012
Farnsworth's universe of vampires and otherworldly creatures comes alive for the third time in this latest installment of the ...
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Mark Henshaw
Pub Date 5/1/2012
The Chinese are gearing up for a takeover of Taiwan, offering a scary vision of the future with the monstrous ...
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Paul Goldstein
Pub Date 5/1/2012
Intrigue snares an American lawyer visiting Cuba in this sluggish third novel from Goldstein (A Patent Lie, 2008, etc.).
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James Swain
Pub Date 5/22/2012
An adequate thriller set in a world that includes demons, witches, warlocks and New Yorkers.
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P.T. Deutermann
Pub Date 5/22/2012
Deutermann's latest (Nightwalkers, 2009, etc.) is a strong thriller that mixes archaeology, history and geopolitics.
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Jeremy Robinson
Pub Date 5/22/2012
One of the only survivors of a bizarre holocaust in Miami caused by lethal red flakes falling from the sky ...
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Joseph Kanon
Pub Date 5/29/2012
In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business.
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Clive Cussler
Pub Date 5/29/2012
Cussler (Devil's Gate, 2011, etc.), with co-author Brown, dips into the NUMA Files for another Kurt Austin action-on-the-sea escapade.
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Howard E. Wasdin
Pub Date 5/29/2012
Capitalizing on the success of the memoir Wasdin wrote with Stephen Templin, Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy ...
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