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The Department of Sensitive Crimes

Alexander McCall Smith

"The case that Ulf had mentioned to Dr. Svensson at the end of his last therapy session had started, as many of the department’s cases did, with a simple report from the local police."


Redemption

David Baldacci

"A gentle rain kicked in as Decker trudged along the pavement."


The Tale Teller

Anne Hillerman

"For the past twenty minutes, Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo police lieutenant turned private investigator when the job suited him, had focused on not losing his temper."


Triple Jeopardy

Anne Perry

"'There was another reason I came to England,” Patrick said after only a moment or two.'"


They All Fall Down

Rachel Howzell Hall

"No one asked me if taking my daughter to the other side of the country was fine."


Metropolis

Philip Kerr

"Mathilde Luz was a good-looking girl all right and still wearing the clothes she’d been murdered in: the hat, the coat, and the dress all from C&A, but no less becoming for that."


Confessions of an Innocent Man

David Dow

"If you ask a lucky person to tell you what happened on the worst day of his life, he can do so without hesitation."


The Eighth Sister

Robert Dugoni

"A week after Thanksgiving, at 10:30 p.m., Jenkins boarded Aeroflot flight 2579 from Heathrow Airport to Sheremetyevo Airport, roughly twenty miles from the Moscow city center."


Who Slays the Wicked

C.S. Harris

"His name was Sir Felix Paige, and he’d been a friend of Ashworth since the two were boys together at Eton."


Trap

Lilja Siguroardottir, translated by Quentin Bates

"Sonja was wrenched, shivering, from a deep sleep."



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