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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Louise Cantor refuses to believe her son's recent death was a suicide, despite all evidence to the contrary. Armed with only her suspicions anda mother's intuition, she and her ex-husband set out to discover the truth. Their search will take them across three continents and into a dark underworld of people exploiting the victims of the AIDS epidemic--a place where people are more than willing to kill to cover up their secrets.
In this fascinating biography, Judith Freeman takes a new look at one of the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Much of his prewriting life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery--until this book. Freeman uncovers details about the terrain of Los Angeles that served as Chandler's inspiration and the marriage that was a wellspring of creativity, resulting in a more complete portrait of the writer than we've ever had before.
On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Narrowing the list of suspects, Beck is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim and to the psychopathology of a terrifying murderer.
Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the foreign office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished. With the coolly efficient local police on his side and a predatory nymphet on his tail, Beck pursues a case whose international implications grow with each new clue.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds...particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Meanwhile he's planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancé's two kids--who might just have dark tendencies themselves.
Kennedy's Brain
by Henning Mankell
The Long Embrace
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
by Judith Freeman
MAJ SJÖWALL and PER WAHLÖÖ
Edgar Award Winners
Roseanna
The First Martin Beck Mystery
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell
The
Man Who Went Up In Smoke
A Martin beck Mystery
With an Introduction by Val McDermid
Dexter in the Dark
by Jeff Lindsay
