Make a warm cup of cocoa, turn down the lights, and snuggle up with some twisted individuals this holiday season. The thrills and chills in these books have nothing to do with the weather.
Crime Machine
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31433-2 (0-679-31433-4)
August 10, 2010 | $32.00
The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31433-2 (0-679-31433-4)
August 10, 2010 | $32.00
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The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
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The Charming Quirks of Others
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39956-4 (0-307-39956-7)
October 12, 2010 | $29.95
The seventh installment in the beloved chronicles of Isabel Dalhousie finds our inquisitive heroine facing new intellectual challenges, but buoyed by her recent engagement to the nearly perfect Jamie.
After having dinner with Jamie, Isabel is approached by a pair of old friends, asking her to help them in a rather tricky...
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39956-4 (0-307-39956-7)
October 12, 2010 | $29.95
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The seventh installment in the beloved chronicles of Isabel Dalhousie finds our inquisitive heroine facing new intellectual challenges, but buoyed by her recent engagement to the nearly perfect Jamie.
After having dinner with Jamie, Isabel is approached by a pair of old friends, asking her to help them in a rather tricky...
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eBook.
Bad Boy
Hardcover | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7612-1 (0-7710-7612-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.99
Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner.
Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into...
Hardcover | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7612-1 (0-7710-7612-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.99
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Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner.
Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into...
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eBook.
The Nesting Dolls
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1275-4 (0-7710-1275-6)
August 17, 2010 | $29.99
Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1275-4 (0-7710-1275-6)
August 17, 2010 | $29.99
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Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
Operation Napoleon
Hardcover | 336 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35938-4 (0-307-35938-7)
October 19, 2010 | $32.00
From the CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of the Reykjavík Murder Mystery series comes an international thriller sweeping from modern Iceland to America and Nazi Germany at the end of World War II.
1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on...
Hardcover | 336 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35938-4 (0-307-35938-7)
October 19, 2010 | $32.00
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From the CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of the Reykjavík Murder Mystery series comes an international thriller sweeping from modern Iceland to America and Nazi Germany at the end of World War II.
1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on...
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Never Look Away
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67029-6 (0-385-67029-X)
September 7, 2010 | $17.95
Linwood Barclay is back with more unexpected twists and superb characters in a spine-tingling, mesmerizing thriller about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together.
David Harwood, a reporter in Promise Falls, New York, is stressed out. The newspaper he works for is outsourcing...
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67029-6 (0-385-67029-X)
September 7, 2010 | $17.95
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Linwood Barclay is back with more unexpected twists and superb characters in a spine-tingling, mesmerizing thriller about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together.
David Harwood, a reporter in Promise Falls, New York, is stressed out. The newspaper he works for is outsourcing...
The Vintage Caper
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Travel - Europe - France
978-0-307-38919-0 (0-307-38919-7)
July 13, 2010 | $16.95
From Hollywood to Marseille with delicious stops in between, Peter Mayle’s latest novel is filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters that make him our treasured chronicler of French food and life.
The story begins high above Los Angeles at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Travel - Europe - France
978-0-307-38919-0 (0-307-38919-7)
July 13, 2010 | $16.95
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From Hollywood to Marseille with delicious stops in between, Peter Mayle’s latest novel is filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters that make him our treasured chronicler of French food and life.
The story begins high above Los Angeles at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting...
Heartstone
Hardcover | 640 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-35618-5 (0-307-35618-3)
September 28, 2010 | $34.95
Shardlake goes to war...
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has...
Hardcover | 640 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-35618-5 (0-307-35618-3)
September 28, 2010 | $34.95
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Shardlake goes to war...
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has...
Also available as an
eBook.
Red Wolf
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35845-5 (0-307-35845-3)
October 19, 2010 | $19.95
In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of...
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35845-5 (0-307-35845-3)
October 19, 2010 | $19.95
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In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of...
Also available as an
eBook.
A Christmas Odyssey
Hardcover | 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-51858-3 (0-345-51858-6)
October 26, 2010 | $20.00
In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation. Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the blessed light of the holiday.
Ten days...
Hardcover | 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-51858-3 (0-345-51858-6)
October 26, 2010 | $20.00
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In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation. Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the blessed light of the holiday.
Ten days...
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eBook.
Talking About Detective Fiction
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Mystery & Detective Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39881-9 (0-307-39881-1)
October 26, 2010 | $19.95
P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes...
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Mystery & Detective Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39881-9 (0-307-39881-1)
October 26, 2010 | $19.95
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P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66585-8 (0-385-66585-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66585-8 (0-385-66585-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the...
Zero Hour
Trade Paperback | pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-593-06499-3 (0-593-06499-2)
December 28, 2010 | $25.00
The pulsating new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.
A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The...
Trade Paperback | pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-593-06499-3 (0-593-06499-2)
December 28, 2010 | $25.00
The pulsating new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.
A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The...
Also available as an
abridged audio CD.
The Monster in the Box
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66887-3 (0-385-66887-2)
December 7, 2010 | $19.95
Inspector Wexford returns in his most surprising case yet
"He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66887-3 (0-385-66887-2)
December 7, 2010 | $19.95
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Inspector Wexford returns in his most surprising case yet
"He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of...
Erasing Memory
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35925-4 (0-307-35925-5)
January 11, 2011 | $29.95
A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series.
MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35925-4 (0-307-35925-5)
January 11, 2011 | $29.95
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A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series.
MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young...
Also available as an
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Shift
Hardcover | 368 pages | Crown | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-45345-7 (0-307-45345-6)
August 10, 2010 | $29.95
A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise
of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Crown | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-45345-7 (0-307-45345-6)
August 10, 2010 | $29.95
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A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise
of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed...
Dexter Is Delicious
Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday | Fiction
978-0-385-53235-8 (0-385-53235-0)
September 7, 2010 | $29.00
America’s most-read, most-watched, and most beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday | Fiction
978-0-385-53235-8 (0-385-53235-0)
September 7, 2010 | $29.00
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America’s most-read, most-watched, and most beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter...
Worth Dying For
Hardcover | 400 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction
978-0-385-34431-9 (0-385-34431-7)
October 19, 2010 | $33.00
“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller—a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown.
...
Hardcover | 400 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction
978-0-385-34431-9 (0-385-34431-7)
October 19, 2010 | $33.00
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“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller—a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown.
...
Also available as an
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
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The Confession
Hardcover | 432 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Suspense
978-0-385-52804-7 (0-385-52804-3)
October 26, 2010 | $33.00
An innocent man is about to be executed.
Only a guilty man can save him.
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t...
Hardcover | 432 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Suspense
978-0-385-52804-7 (0-385-52804-3)
October 26, 2010 | $33.00
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An innocent man is about to be executed.
Only a guilty man can save him.
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t...
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition
Hardcover | 528 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-385-53382-9 (0-385-53382-9)
November 2, 2010 | $40.00
The most explosive bestseller of 2009 . . .
Over 5 million copies sold . . .
Now available in a beautifully illustrated gift edition just in time for the holidays!
Dan Brown’s record-breaking novel The Lost Symbol weaves a breathtaking trail through the hidden artwork, chambers, tunnels...
Hardcover | 528 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-385-53382-9 (0-385-53382-9)
November 2, 2010 | $40.00
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The most explosive bestseller of 2009 . . .
Over 5 million copies sold . . .
Now available in a beautifully illustrated gift edition just in time for the holidays!
Dan Brown’s record-breaking novel The Lost Symbol weaves a breathtaking trail through the hidden artwork, chambers, tunnels...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Emperor's Tomb
Hardcover | 464 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-345-50549-1 (0-345-50549-2)
November 23, 2010 | $30.00
The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why?
That question is at...
Hardcover | 464 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-345-50549-1 (0-345-50549-2)
November 23, 2010 | $30.00
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The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why?
That question is at...
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
