L Is For Lawless
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L Is For Lawless
Kinsey Millhone, who sometimes lies just to keep up my skills, is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevarications who quite literally take her on the ride of her life. Quick-witted, smart-mouthed private eye Millhone joins up with a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in an adventure that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with an empty bank balance and a major headache.
Mystery/Crime
Chasing Shakespeares
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Chasing Shakespeares
Joe Roper is a graduate student whose lowly origins make him antipathetic to the idea that anyone but Shakespeare himself--another lad from the working class--was the writer of the plays. When Joe stumbles on a letter that seems to be from the Bard himself in which he admits that he didn't write the plays, he knows he needs to find the truth. With a fellow graduate student--the lovely Posy Gould--he travels to London to check things out.
Mystery/Crime
Hunting in Harlem
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Hunting in Harlem
In this Harlem-based novel, three ex-cons--including Cedric Snowden, who sort of murdered his father but not quite--team up with an outfit that wants to transform Harlem into a crime-free middle-class paradise. Gradually, Cedric begins to realize that the lowlife inhabitants of the apartments that are being rehabbed died in mysterious accidents, and when a feisty reporter gets wind of the story the course of Harlem history gets amusingly changed....
Mystery/Crime
Naked at the Window
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Naked at the Window
Monstrously funny, with very real violence distanced by elaborate stylistic strokes. A touch too cryptic for the new readers perhaps, but addicts will savour every line.
Mystery/Crime
Cold Pursuit
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Cold Pursuit
When a prominent member of the San Diego community is found beaten to death,
homicide cop Tom McMichael finds himself and his investigation tangled in a web of politics and corruption in which no one can be ruled out as a suspect.
Mystery/Crime
The Cat Who Brought Down the House
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The Cat Who Brought Down the House
Let`s return once again to the town called Pickax (that`s up in Moose County somewhere) and visit Jim Qwilleran and his irrepressible Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for the 25th book in Lilian Jackson Braun`s series. This time, an aging Hollywood star--a local girl who made good--returns to town, and all heck breaks loose when she turns the old opera house into an art-film theater.
Mystery/Crime
Drama City
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Drama City
The dog-eat-dog metaphor...provides a brutal, tender new way for Pelecanos to get at his great subject: the miraculous survival of lilies among the toxic weeds of the Nation's Capital.
Mystery/Crime
Still Life With Crows
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Still Life With Crows
One of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child`s most popular heroes, the Holmes-like FBI Special Agent Pendergast, takes an interest in a series of grotesque murders occurring in a remote Kansas farming community. Despite opposition from both the town cops and politicians, who would prefer that the investigation be handled both locally and quietly, Pendergast, with the aid of purple-haired teenager Corrie Swanson, manages to connect the deaths to a 19th-century massacre. But will this knowledge be enough when Corrie becomes the killer`s next target?
Mystery/Crime