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Poppet, A Detective Jack Caffery Mystery by Mo Hayder

On May 19, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Mo Hayder has for years been a master of chilling, seamlessly-plotted thrillers that keep the reader glued to the page long after lights out, and fresh off of winning the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone, Hayder is at the top of her game. Her latest novel, Poppet, is Hayder at her most terrifying: a gripping novel about the search for a dangerous mental patient on the loose.

Little Green, The Last Detective Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley

On May 17, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal. In the incendiary and fast-paced Little Green, he returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of L.A.’s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Strip.

Inferno, The New Robert Langdon Thriller by Dan Brown

On May 13, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

Every Contact Leaves A Trace: A Mystery About a Murder at Oxford University by Elanor Dymott

On May 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Elanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut tells the story of Alex, a solitary lawyer who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one midsummer night on the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex’s life as he knows it vanishes.

A Delicate Truth, A New Thriller by John le Carre

On May 1, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right.

The Tooth Tattoo, A Peter Diamond Investigation by Peter Lovesey

On April 30, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn’t know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever.

Telling the Bees, A Novel About the Friendship of Two Elderly Beekeepers by Peggy Hesketh

On April 28, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

With echoes of The Remains of the Day, an elderly beekeeper looks back on his quiet life, and the secrets of a woman he never truly knew. As he pieces together the memories of their shared history, he will come to learn the painful truths about Claire’s life, and the redemptive power of laying the past to rest.

The Famous and the Dead, The Latest Charlie Hood Mystery by T. Jefferson Parker

On April 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

The explosive conclusion to T. Jefferson Parker’s New York Times bestselling Charlie Hood series – Los Angeles County sheriff ’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border.

A Man Without Breath, The Latest Bernie Gunther Mystery by Philip Kerr

On April 22, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

From the national bestselling author of Prague Fatale, a powerful new thriller that returns Bernie Gunther, our sardonic Berlin cop, to the Eastern Front. This is no psycho case. This is a man with motive enough to kill and skills enough to leave no trace of himself. Bad luck that in this war zone, such skills are two-a-penny. Somehow Bernie must put a face to this killer before he puts an end to Bernie.

The Other Child: A Psychological Suspense Novel by Charlotte Link

On April 21, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

An old farm, a deserted landscape, a dark secret from times past with fatal consequences for the present.In the tranquil northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. The Other Child is a suspenseful, atmospheric new psychological crime novel from Germany’s most successful living female author.