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Your Inner Hedgehog

Alexander McCall Smith

"Professor Dr Dr (honoris causa) (mult.)"


Lord of Order

Brett Riley

"The man stood on the crumbling road."


What the Devil Knows

C.S. Harris

"Molly Maguire hated the fog."


She Was Found in a Guitar Case

David James Keaton

"While I was still trying to figure out what to do with the mystery animal I’d rescued from the dumpster, cops were working my door like a speed bag, eager as hell to tell me my wife had been found dead in a guitar case."


Northern Spy

Flynn Berry

"I rush out of Broadcasting House and turn north toward the police station."


The Night She Disappeared

Lisa Jewell

"The baby is starting to grumble"


The Water Rituals

Eva Garcia Saenz, translated by Nick Caistor

"xxxx"


The Night Gate

Peter May

"The old lady sits in her favourite rocker."


Fallen Angels

Gunnar Staalesen, translated by Don Bartlett

"The funeral took place on a Friday."


On Harrow Hill

John Verdon

"Although their partnership had lasted only ten months, Gurney knew more about the personal life of Mike Morgan than that of anyone else he’d worked with in his twenty-five years in the NYPD."



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