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Bernard Cornwell When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner...

Orhan Pamuk At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the...

Lezanne Clannachan Tell me, where did Lily go? When Anna takes a job with a family whose niece is missing, she finds herself increasingly haunted by the mystery around her...

Frederick Forsyth In the spring of 1963, after the last conventional attempt to assassinate President de Gaulle had failed, Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS, launched the plan...

Jude Morgan From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live - the intense,...

William Boyd When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in...

Scott Turow Tommy dwelled for a minute on an idea that had not visited him in months. It was against the odds, against the evidence and the course of pure...

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James Lee Burke No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous black civil rights leader in Louisiana. After all, his family...

Michael Curtis Ford Winter, 401 BC. When leadership is forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms, it is up to him to inspire the...

Kate Quinn   The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network.First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all--and fixes his gaze on...