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SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Rumpole in Retrospect

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Rumpole in Retrospect

by Francine Levitov

Fri, Jan 23, 2009

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, who died on January 16, 2009, was a British playwright, novelist, bon vivant, and former practicing barrister. His works include twelve collections of Rumpole stories, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He also wrote three acclaimed volumes of autobiography. He is pictured here with bewigged actor Leo McKern, who immortalized the role on television.

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The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey

The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey

by Mary Purucker

Sat, Jan 24, 2009

Michael Harvey is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the television series Cold Case Files, as well as an Academy Award-nominee for his documentary Eyewitness, and is a former investigative reporter for CBS. He earned a law degree at Duke and a masters in journalism from Northwestern. He alsoowns a bar inChicago.

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The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman

The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman

by Sue Rosenzweig

Sat, Jan 24, 2009

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-five novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. This is her first novel for teens and her first time writing with her daughter.

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Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton

by Nola Theiss

M.C. Beaton, who writes popular historical romances under her real name, Marion Chesney, has written 20 Agatha Raisin mysteries.

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Out of Range by C.J. Box

Out of Range by C.J. Box

by Mary Purucker

C. J. BOX is the author of four novels featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. His debut novel, Open Season, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the prestigious Anthony Award, as well as nominations for the Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

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Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

by Nola Theiss

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became the best selling novelist in history. She wrote 79 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare.

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Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

by Jodi Israel

Fri, Jan 02, 2009

KAY HOOPER is the award-winning author of Sleeping with Fear, Stealing Shadows, and more than ten other novels of suspense and intrigue along with dozens of other books. She lives in North Carolina, and is working on the third book in her Blood Trilogy

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Green Monster by Rick Shefchik

Green Monster by Rick Shefchik

by Miles Klein

Thu, Jan 01, 2009

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Ten-Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler

Ten-Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler

by Mary Purucker

Thu, Jan 01, 2009

Chrisopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen previous novels, including the award-winning Full Dark House, and four other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries, White Corridor, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, and Ten Second Staircase. He lives in London.

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The Other Side of Silence by Bill Pronzini

The Other Side of Silence by Bill Pronzini

by Mary Purucker

Thu, Jan 01, 2009

Bill Pronzini has published sixty novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, novelist Marcia Muller, and twenty-nine in his popular "Nameless Detective" series. Pronzini has received three Shamus Awards, and six nominations for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and published in nearly thirty countries.

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Oxygen by Carol Cassella

Oxygen by Carol Cassella

by Nola Theiss

Thu, Jan 01, 2009

Carol Cassella, a freelance medical writer and a practicing anesthesiologist, grounds her haunting debut novel Oxygen in the life-or-death scenarios of the modern medical field. Marie Heaton’s successful anesthesiology practice is derailed when a child dies under the mask. Faced with a major lawsuit, she must turn to a former lover for moral support.

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