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The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of c... -
The Iron Thorn - Caitlin Kittredge
FromSteampunk fans will delight in this first title in the sure-to-be-popular Iron Codex series, featuring an alternate, Victorian-flavored America tightly controlled by Proctors a... -
The Interrogation - Thomas H. Cook
Amazon.com ReviewIn this tight, suspenseful tale of a race against the clock to get a confession out of the chief suspect in the death of young Cathy Lake, every cop has his own pr... -
The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin; Chirs Lehmann
From Library Journal"Most of Elkin's prose is alive, with its wealth of detail and specifically American metaphors, and the surreal elements in the narrative are tightly controlled... -
The Brush-Off_ A Hair-Raising M - Laura Bradley
SUMMARY: Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer's hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles ti... -
Swordbird - Nancy Yi Fan; Mark Zug
From Publishers WeeklyYi Fan's tightly woven story delivers a manifest message promoting peace and freedom. Starring woodland bird characters, the saga pits the tyrannical hawk Tur... -
Severed - Simon Kernick
ReviewPraise for Simon Kernick: “Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!”–Harlan Coben “Great plots, great characters, great action... -
Paragon Walk - Anne Perry
From Library JournalResidents of Paragon Walk tighten their lips when Inspector Pitt begins his investigation after young Fannie Nash is murdered. In the third in Perry's Victorian... -
My Life as a Fake_ A Novel - Peter Carey
Review"My Life as a Fake_ _is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling." –John Updike, The New Y... -
KBL - John Weisman
“Weisman is perhaps wired more tightly into the reclusive special operations community than any other writer, and his knowledge of weaponry and field techniques is staggering.”—<.....