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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 56 reviews
Maggie O'Farrell
Harcourt, 2007
Brilliantly written in a style that puts you inside Esme's character.
+ A HAUNTING FAMILY DRAMA
+ Quick Read from Heavy Subject Matter
The story intrigued me from it's description. However, the writer's choice to style the narrative as she did, made me FEEL the characters, especially Esme Lennox.
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A Deadly Dozen 10 reviews
Phil Mann, Kris Neri, ...
Uglytown Productions, 2000
A terrific collection of writers who pull no punches!
+ A DEADLY DOZEN
+ The Captivating Dozen
+ Excellent anthology
+ Avid Mystery Reader from LA
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The Lying Tongue18 reviews
Andrew Wilson
Washington Square Press, 2008
A brilliant masterpiece....
+ Don't read Blurbs
+ Mad, Dark, Twisted Mystery
+ Moral Highsmith
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A Place of Execution 119 reviews
Val McDermid
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001
A TRUE ENGLISH MYSTERY...
+ The whole story ...
+ A Stunning Masterpiece
+ A shrewd story and a solid British mystery
+ A shrewd author -- excellent contemporary British mystery
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Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery50 reviews
Donna Leon
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Death at LaFenice
+ Nice Little Crime Story
+ Operatic complexities
+ I enjoyed it so much, I have ordered the second in the series.
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A Sight For Sore Eyes56 reviews
Ruth Rendell
Hutchinson, 1998
Chilling psychological suspense examines beauty
+ The Boston Globe was right - it is high-quality Rendell
+ Five stars for a great story I couldn't put down, as usual...
+ The most DISTURBING novel I've read in a long, long time--that ending!
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What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel90 reviews
Zoe Heller
Picador, 2003
An old maid sweetens her tea with scandal
+ A
+ Brilliantly Written
+ The Best, So Far...
+ Not as good as these four stars would suggest
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A Fatal Inversion12 reviews
Barbara Vine
Penguin Books Ltd, 2004
Dance To The Music Of Time
+ Tensions build and build as you read this book.
+ Excellent!
+ A mystery that keeps you guessing
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What the Dead Know113 reviews
Laura Lippman
Harper, 2008
Great Psychological Suspense
+ a decent read
+ WOW!
+ Pleasurable reading
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The Sixth Lamentation34 reviews
William Brodrick
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
"Once you've heard a child cry out to heaven for help, and go unanswered, nothing's ever the same again. Even God changes."
+ get ready to be glued to this book
+ A Heart Wrenching Tale that Draws the Reader in to Its Moral Dilemmas
+ WONDERFUL READ
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The Sculptress: A Novel 2 reviews
Minette Walters
Picador, 2007
TRUE BEAUTY COMES WRAPPED IN DIFFERENT PACKAGES...
This is an intriguing, well written mystery which garnered the 1994 Edgar Award for best novel of the year for British writer, Minette Walters, who has written quite a number of excellent books. She is a writer in the tradition of that other great British novelist, Ruth Rendell, known also as ...
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel583 reviews
Diane Setterfield
Washington Square Press, 2007
Beautiful book
+ A Modern Gothic Romance
+ "When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void"
+ A little heavy on the dysfunctional, but still a great read
+ A book for book lovers
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Strange but True: A Novel (P.S.)40 reviews
John Searles
Harper Perennial, 2005
Read it in a day
+ Need to know
+ Much more than just a mystery
+ Best Book Club Book I Have Ever Read!
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The Meaning of Night: A Confession76 reviews
Michael Cox
W. W. Norton, 2007
A must read! A+++
+ A Review - The Meaning of Night by Stephens James
+ great read
+ The Talented Mr. Glyver
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Half Broken Things16 reviews
Morag Joss
Delta, 2006
The world will not just go away
+ Excellent
+ Half Broken Things
+ Layer after disturbing layer
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A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women5 reviews
Elizabeth George
Harper Paperbacks, 2005
This Excellent Collection is an Absolute Delight
+ Great
+ Fantastic book
+ An Awesome Collection
+ terrific deference to the ladies of crime
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Ripley's Game32 reviews
Patricia Highsmith
W. W. Norton, 2008
A Great Read
+ Classic stuff
+ A Thrifty Writer Who Could Do a Lot with a Little
Ripley's Game is the third novel in the series by Patricia Highsmith, taking off where Ripley Under Ground left us since we learn the he got off scot-free once again. Ripley's thin skin shows in this novel when he is coldly received at a party given by Jonathan Trevanny that he takes as an insult. ...
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Case Histories145 reviews
Kate Atkinson
Black Swan, 2008
A great story filled with interesting characters
+ Much easier to read than I thought
+ A read-again book
Read all the reviews you like, but a better use of your time is to get and read this book. Now in paperback, it is affordable, cleverly written contemporary fiction. I bought this book on a bargain table as a present and it turned out to be a steal. Atkinson's prose is definitely a cut above ...
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Case Histories145 reviews
Kate Atkinson
Black Swan, 2008
A great story filled with interesting characters
+ Much easier to read than I thought
+ A read-again book
Read all the reviews you like, but a better use of your time is to get and read this book. Now in paperback, it is affordable, cleverly written contemporary fiction. I bought this book on a bargain table as a present and it turned out to be a steal. Atkinson's prose is definitely a cut above ...
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A Deadly Dozen10 reviews
Phil Mann, Kris Neri, ...
Uglytown Productions, 2000
A terrific collection of writers who pull no punches!
+ A DEADLY DOZEN
+ The Captivating Dozen
+ Excellent anthology
+ Avid Mystery Reader from LA
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