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| BORIS AKUNIN: The State Counsellor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008, $37.00, not signed). The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards the train at Klin, where it has been delayed by snowdrifts on the line. Fandorin is first arrested for the crime, but quickly released when the train pulls into Moscow and the General's staff realise their blunder. Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eighteen million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow. |  |
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JAMES LEE BURKE: Jesus Out To Sea (Orion, 2007, $32.00, not signed). This new collection of James Lee Burke's short fiction ranges across landscapes that he has made his own, from rural Louisiana and Mississippi to war-torn Vietnam and a New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and told with his trademark blend of lyrical prose and hard-eyed realism. |
| POIROT: * The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1920) $33.00 * The Murder On The Links (1923) $33.00 * Poirot Investigates (1924) $33.00 The Big Four (1927) $29.00 Lord Edgware Dies (1933) $29.00 Death In The Clouds (1935) $29.00 ** Three-Act Tragedy (1935) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1936) $29.00 Murder In Mesopotamia (1936) $29.00 ** The ABC Murders (1936) $29.00 Death on the Nile (1937) $29.00 ** Murder in the Mews (1937) MISS MARPLE: (all these are $29.00) A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) A Caribbean Mystery (1964) At Bertrams Hotel (1965) OTHER Agatha Christie: * The Secret Adversary (1922; Tommy & Tuppence) $33.00 * The Man In The Brown Suit (1924) $33.00 * The Secret Of Chimneys (1925) $33.00 |
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ARNALDUR INDRIDASON: The Draining Lake (Harvill Secker, 2007, trade paper original, $23.00, not signed). Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls to reveal a skeleton half-buried in its sandy bed. It has clearly been there many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, it is weighted down by a heavy radio transmitter bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation. This series ('the Reykjavik murders') has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key (both for Tainted Blood and Silence of the Grave) and the CWA Gold Dagger (for Silence of the Grave). |
| PHILIP KERR: A Quiet Flame (Quercus, 2008, $41.00, not signed). Bernie Gunther, Berlin's hardest-boiled private eye, returns, this time to the dangers of Argentina in 1950 and the post-war world of Hitler's most notorious war-criminals. Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. Redolent with atmosphere and featuring compelling portraits of real characters such as Eva and Juan Peron, Adolf Eichmann, and Otto Skorzeny this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-Semitism under the Perons. "He's in a league with John le Carré and Alan Furst," said the Washington Post. |  |
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** After the Mourning (Headline, 2006, $49.00) SIGNED. It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German gypsy who they believe is a Nazi spy. |
| ** Dance With Death (Headline, 2006, $44.00) SIGNED. A body is discovered in a cave in the remote region of Cappadocia, Turkey. The woman died of gunshot wounds, and her corpse has lain undisturbed for twenty years. Inspector Ikmen is summoned from Istanbul to investigate but discovers a complex web of intrigue. |  |
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ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE: The Sun Over Breda (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, $19.00, hardcover, not signed) Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Inigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth. The troops are weary and ill-nourished and the winter has been long. As Spain sinks ever further into depravity and corruption, the soldiers have not been paid and must survive by whatever ways they can. Mutiny is in the air. Of this third in the Captain Alatriste series, The Sunday Times said: "'Perez-Reverte's Alatriste novels brilliantly rework the romances of writers such as Alexandre Dumas for our more cynical times..." |
| TOM ROB SMITH: Child 44 (Simon & Schuster, 2008, $45.00) SIGNED. MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. Lee Child said: "An amazing debut -- rich, different, fully-formed, mature ... and thrilling." |  |
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JACQUELINE WINSPEAR: Pardonable Lies (John Murray, 2005, $17.00) SIGNED. Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, has handled many difficult cases since she opened her office in Fitzroy Square, London. But few requests have been as unusual as the one she receives from Sir Cedric Lawton on a September evening in 1930: She must prove that his son Ralph really is dead. This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways. For Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. If she is to get to the bottom of the mystery, Maisie must make the journey across the Channel to Northern France, where she spent time as a nurse in the Great War. And she soon realises that on the old battlefields, ghosts still linger. |
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