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The California Roll
Hardcover | 272 pages | Shaye Areheart Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-46317-3 (0-307-46317-6)
March 16, 2010 | $27.95
Meet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave.
What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They’re all the work of...
Hardcover | 272 pages | Shaye Areheart Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-46317-3 (0-307-46317-6)
March 16, 2010 | $27.95
Meet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave.
What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They’re all the work of...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Snowman
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35865-3 (0-307-35865-8)
March 16, 2010 | $24.95
The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series.
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its...
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35865-3 (0-307-35865-8)
March 16, 2010 | $24.95
The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series.
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Redeemer
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35573-7 (0-307-35573-X)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
The Redeemer is the fourth in the Harry Hole series to be translated into English.
A mixture of religion, urban misery, modern European history and grisly horror story, The Redeemer takes the crime writing of Jo Nesbø to yet another level, establishing him firmly as one of the international top names in...
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35573-7 (0-307-35573-X)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
The Redeemer is the fourth in the Harry Hole series to be translated into English.
A mixture of religion, urban misery, modern European history and grisly horror story, The Redeemer takes the crime writing of Jo Nesbø to yet another level, establishing him firmly as one of the international top names in...
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trade paperback.
Spade & Archer
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-27706-0 (0-307-27706-2)
March 9, 2010 | $18.95
A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade.
It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-27706-0 (0-307-27706-2)
March 9, 2010 | $18.95
A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade.
It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-676-97924-4 (0-676-97924-6)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
The 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.
Mma Ramotswe’s tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. But having made numerous repairs to the van over the years, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni – her estimable husband and...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-676-97924-4 (0-676-97924-6)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
The 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.
Mma Ramotswe’s tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. But having made numerous repairs to the van over the years, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni – her estimable husband and...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66584-1 (0-385-66584-9)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
Flavia de Luce didn't intend to investigate another murder - but, then again, Rupert Porson didn't intend to die. When the master puppeteer's van breaks down in Bishop's Lacey, he puts on a show with his loyal assistant, the disarmingly charming Nialla, prone (by Flavia's estimation) to strange bruises and long...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66584-1 (0-385-66584-9)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
Flavia de Luce didn't intend to investigate another murder - but, then again, Rupert Porson didn't intend to die. When the master puppeteer's van breaks down in Bishop's Lacey, he puts on a show with his loyal assistant, the disarmingly charming Nialla, prone (by Flavia's estimation) to strange bruises and long...
Control
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06145-9 (0-593-06145-4)
March 8, 2010 | $34.95
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06145-9 (0-593-06145-4)
March 8, 2010 | $34.95
The Janus Stone
Hardcover | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-3587-6 (0-7710-3587-X)
March 2, 2010 | $29.99
The second novel in the highly praised new mystery series featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, a woman who is very intimate with old bones and big trouble.
The Janus Stone, the second Ruth Galloway mystery, sees Ruth literally up to her neck in trouble. She's standing in a trench cut into the...
Hardcover | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-3587-6 (0-7710-3587-X)
March 2, 2010 | $29.99
The second novel in the highly praised new mystery series featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, a woman who is very intimate with old bones and big trouble.
The Janus Stone, the second Ruth Galloway mystery, sees Ruth literally up to her neck in trouble. She's standing in a trench cut into the...
Also available as an
eBook.
Blood Money
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-15308-9 (0-552-15308-7)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
A stunning new historical thriller set during the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
New York, 1929, a city of speakeasies, swells and hoodlums at the fag end of the roaring twenties. It’s a hell of a time and place for a young cop to be trying to make his way in the...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-15308-9 (0-552-15308-7)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
A stunning new historical thriller set during the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
New York, 1929, a city of speakeasies, swells and hoodlums at the fag end of the roaring twenties. It’s a hell of a time and place for a young cop to be trying to make his way in the...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Means of Evil and Other Stories
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953492-1 (0-09-953492-4)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Here are five classic Wexford cases that display his remarkable ingenuity — and that of his creator. Ranging from the more everyday crimes of passion and violence in quiet Kingsmarkham, to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia, each is a case which challenges Detective Chief Inspector Wexford's considerable imagination and resourcefulness, and...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953492-1 (0-09-953492-4)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Here are five classic Wexford cases that display his remarkable ingenuity — and that of his creator. Ranging from the more everyday crimes of passion and violence in quiet Kingsmarkham, to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia, each is a case which challenges Detective Chief Inspector Wexford's considerable imagination and resourcefulness, and...
Murder Being Once Done
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953486-0 (0-09-953486-X)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
On doctor's orders, Wexford is supposed to be resting. But he can't resist taking a peek into the investigation of a macabre crime.
In a vast, gloomy, overgrown London cemetery, a girl is found murdered. A girl with a name that isn't here, and little else that is. A girl with no...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953486-0 (0-09-953486-X)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
On doctor's orders, Wexford is supposed to be resting. But he can't resist taking a peek into the investigation of a macabre crime.
In a vast, gloomy, overgrown London cemetery, a girl is found murdered. A girl with a name that isn't here, and little else that is. A girl with no...
Also available as a
paperback.
Put On By Cunning
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953493-8 (0-09-953493-2)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Sir Manuel Camargue's death was ruled Misadventure, yet in spite of himself, Chief Inspector Wexford has niggling doubts.
Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into water to be trapped under a...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953493-8 (0-09-953493-2)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Sir Manuel Camargue's death was ruled Misadventure, yet in spite of himself, Chief Inspector Wexford has niggling doubts.
Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into water to be trapped under a...
Shake Hands For Ever
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953488-4 (0-09-953488-6)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times, but she had never witnessed death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. "There’s been an accident," she said. "Your wife’s dead."
Chief Inspector Wexford could...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953488-4 (0-09-953488-6)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times, but she had never witnessed death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. "There’s been an accident," she said. "Your wife’s dead."
Chief Inspector Wexford could...
Also available as a
paperback.
Skin and Bones
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Preface Publishing | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-84809-073-6 (1-84809-073-0)
March 1, 2010 | $19.95
In this brilliant first thriller, in the vein of Peter James, a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness — a woman fighting for her life.
On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the...
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Preface Publishing | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-84809-073-6 (1-84809-073-0)
March 1, 2010 | $19.95
In this brilliant first thriller, in the vein of Peter James, a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness — a woman fighting for her life.
On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
A Sleeping Life
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953489-1 (0-09-953489-4)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
With no clues as to the murdered woman's identity, all Wexford has to go on is his imagination.
The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-09-953489-1 (0-09-953489-4)
March 1, 2010 | $21.95
With no clues as to the murdered woman's identity, all Wexford has to go on is his imagination.
The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic...
Also available as a
paperback.
