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Tag Archives: Mystery & Detective/General

A Dancer in the Dust

by Thomas H. Cook

“Edgar Award winner Thomas Cook has a string of beautifully written and elegantly plotted thrillers to his name. A Dancer in the Dust is…

The Crime of Julian Wells

by Thomas H. Cook

“Philip’s own odyssey . . . is one of the many pleasures of Mr. Cook’s intelligent and elegant work.” —The Wall Street Journal

The Cry of the Owl

by Patricia Highsmith

“Kafka with a vengeance.” —The Spectator (London)

Comrades in Miami

by Jose Latour

From an acclaimed crime writer, a riveting espionage novel that takes us inside the battle of wits between Cuba and the United States.

Carlito’s Way

by Edwin Torres

Published to coincide with a major motion picture release based on Edwin Torres’s classic gangster novel, which Newsweek calls “exhilarating . . . boils…

By its Cover

by Donna Leon

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft…

Blood from a Stone

by Donna Leon

“Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart.” —Paul Skenazy, Washington…

Bear Is Broken

by Lachlan Smith

A twisty debut thriller in the tradition of Brad Meltzer’s The Tenth Justice, about a young San Francisco lawyer who must investigate the shooting…

Beastly Things

by Donna Leon

In the latest novel of this celebrated series, a dead man is found in a canal, and Brunetti will need all his ingenuity and…

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

by William S. Burroughs

The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the…