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Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is the story of nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Watch a beaten and broken man survive against all odds. Later in life the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues... -
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Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police...Categorized as:
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![Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray]()
Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity--and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson...Categorized as:
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![Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer]()
Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword...Categorized as:
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![Zły by Leopold Tyrmand]()
Zły by Leopold Tyrmand
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPowieść kryminalna i jednocześnie romans brukowy, a zarazem barwny obraz życia i obyczajów powojennej Warszawy. Tytułowy Zły to samotny romantyczny bohater, walczący w obronie pokrzywdzonych przeciw kryminalnemu półświatkowi powstającego z ruin miasta...Categorized as:
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![Riiginõunik by Boris Akunin]()
Riiginõunik by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSince the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book and the first mystery featuring Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin’s historical mystery series has become a worldwide sensation, selling millions of copies and propelling Akunin into the ranks of Russia’s most widely read contemporary novelists...Categorized as:
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![Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman]()
Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall--from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife On a chilly early morning walk on the wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in his right hand... -
![And Four to Go by Rex Stout]()
And Four to Go by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmbark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing... -
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Twenty-One Days by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch.It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father... -
![Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose]()
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system...Categorized as:
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Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUsing scholarly, historical insight, and evocative storytelling that brings to life the glories of ancient Rome, Steven Saylor takes the reader from the bloody lines of clashing Roman armies to the backrooms of the Senate floor, where power-hungry politicians wrestle the Fates for control of Rome's destiny...Categorized as:
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![Advise and Consent by Allen Drury]()
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into a major crisis... -
![El viñedo de la luna by Carla Montero]()
El viñedo de la luna by Carla Montero
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUna familia asediada por la ocupación naziUna exiliada española tras el tesoro vinícola más preciado del mundoUn triángulo amoroso marcado por el deber, la fidelidad y la pasiónTras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil, llega al Domaine de Clair de Lune, una imponente bodega de Borgoña... -
![Before Midnight by Rex Stout]()
Before Midnight by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters one who kills trying. At the Pour Amour perfume riddle contest, a million dollars goes to the contestant who can answer five questions. Someone doesn't like the heat of competition, so he murders the contest founder and steals the answers to the riddles. Now Wolfe has to sniff down a trail of clues that leads disturbingly close to home... -
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![Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert, Michael Mcstay]()
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert, Michael Mcstay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother classic Michael Gilbert thriller, set within the legal profession. The mystery begins when the body of a client is found dead in a deed-box of the impeccable legal firm of Horniman, Birley and Crane. But why? And how was the Horniman system broken? A classic English murder mystery.Michael Francis Gilbert ( 1912- 2006) is recognized as one of the most versatile British mystery writers... -
![Z by Vassilis Vassilikos]()
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events... -
![The Lacquer Screen by Robert van Gulik]()
The Lacquer Screen by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEarly in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife... -
![Hart's War by John Katzenbach]()
Hart's War by John Katzenbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria... -
![Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce]()
Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I did not kill anyone, Francesca. And the fact that you wish to destroy evidence suggests you think me capable of murder." Called to the home of her fiancé Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill's curiosity is piqued... -
![All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh]()
All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history... -
![The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer]()
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel—one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel... -
![Pleasantville by Attica Locke]()
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Locke’s bestseller Black Water Rising, returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to winFifteen years after the events of Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal... -
![Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard]()
Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned...Categorized as:
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![Crippen by John Boyne]()
Crippen by John Boyne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJuly 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr... -
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![The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc]()
The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc The world’s premier thief looks back on a lifetime of adventure in these tales of his outrageous exploits...Categorized as:
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![Maigret Bides His Time by Georges Simenon]()
Maigret Bides His Time by Georges Simenon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaigret's longest-running case involves two decades of jewelry heists, a generation of conspiracy, and the revelation of a long-buried secret from World War II. “[Simenon could] turn the simplest of romans policiers into a moving and memorable form of art.” — The Times (London) “[Maigret's investigation] is a bittersweet elegy for the glory days of both thief and cop... -
![Carolina Skeletons by David Stout]()
Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom! HC: Mysterious Press... -
![The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, G. Valmont Thomas]()
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, G. Valmont Thomas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the great classic tales of The Great American West...IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of 34, is at the height of his fame and powers as a singularly successful outlaw. Robert Ford is the skittish younger brother of one of the James gang: he has made himself an expert on the gang, but his particular interest - his obsession - is Jesse James himself... -
![Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly]()
Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSimla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal court for the socialites. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age... -
![The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly]()
The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn her award-winning mysteries–from The Last Kashmiri Rose to The Damascened Blade–Barbara Cleverly paints a dazzling portrait of the British Raj, infusing it with intrigue, enchantment, and menace. And in her detective hero Joe Sandilands, war veteran and Scotland Yard policeman, Cleverly gives us a gallant guide to this paradise lost... -
![The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst]()
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn Autumn Evening In 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attache from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw, the new novel by Alan Furst.War is coming to Europe... -
![Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys]()
Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling...Categorized as:
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![The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert J. Serling]()
The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert J. Serling
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a calm night in a nervous world, Air Force One jets off from Andrews Air Force Base. Aboard is the President of the United States, Jeremy Haines, an idolized leader whose image combines the best qualities of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - but whose inner thoughts remain a dark secret even to his closest aides. The flight is normal - until the plane is high over Arizona... -
![White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair]()
White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novel about London -- its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness."In this extraordinary work Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period... -
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![The Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan Santlofer]()
The Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan Santlofer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpieces, masterminds, and mystery. For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait... -
![The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson]()
The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'[An] addictive tale of intrigue' - the IndependentIn 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal.For Reggie, justice is not the only draw to this case...Categorized as:
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![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons... -
![The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman]()
The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England -- yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso -- a Jew who practices her prohibited religion clandestinely -- helping others of her banned faith escape persecution and death... -
![Sutton by J.R. Moehringer]()
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWillie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't failing outright, causing countless Americans to lose their jobs and homes, they were being propped up with emergency bailouts...Categorized as:
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![The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash]()
The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYour heart will be set afire with The Duke Diaries, the third book in Sophia Nash’s Royal Entourage series set in Regency England. After a wild, scandalous night, Rory Lennox, the Duke of Abshire, finds himself in the bed of his sworn enemy’s wholesome sister, Verity Fitzroy... -
![In the Still of the Night by Jill Churchill]()
In the Still of the Night by Jill Churchill
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929... -
![The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks]()
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime."A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining."―Nelson DeMilleWhen the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr... -
![The Berlin Conspiracy by Tom Gabbay]()
The Berlin Conspiracy by Tom Gabbay
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTom Gabbay's debut novel, a Cold War thriller revolving around John F. Kennedy's historic visit to Berlin in 1963, is nothing short of an espionage masterwork -- comparable to the very best from heavyweights like John le Carre, Ken Follett, and Robert Ludlum. Jack Teller is a former CIA operative who quit the Company after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961... -
![The Garden on Sunset by Martin Turnbull]()
The Garden on Sunset by Martin Turnbull
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRight before talking pictures slug Tinsel Town in the jaw, a luminous silent screen star converts her private estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel. The lush grounds soon become a haven for Hollywood hopefuls to meet, drink, and revel through the night... -
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![All the World's a Stage by Boris Akunin]()
All the World's a Stage by Boris Akunin
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEliza Altairsky-Lointaine is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe. Her love life is a colourful as the parts she plays. She is the estranged wife of a descendant of Genghis Khan. And her ex-husband has threatened to kill anyone who courts her.He appears to be making good on his promise...Categorized as:
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![Mad Hatter's Holiday by Peter Lovesey, Graham Roberts]()
Mad Hatter's Holiday by Peter Lovesey, Graham Roberts
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrighton in 1882 is the setting of this novel of crime and tangled emotions... -
![Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey]()
Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of London, interfering with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. A trapeze artist misses her timing when the trapeze ropes are shortened. A comedian who invites the audience to sing along with him finds the words of his song “shamefully” altered... -
![The Last Judgement by Iain Pears]()
The Last Judgement by Iain Pears
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Iain Pears--who "exhibits quite a masterful touch at suspenseful storytelling"*--has delighted fans and critics alike with his charming mystery series featuring art dealer Jonathan Argyll. In The Last Judgement, Argyll agrees to transport a decidedly nondescript painting from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome... -
![Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott]()
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingIn October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade... -
![The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong]()
The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since, as a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable...
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