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Guillermo Saccomanno, translated by Andrea Labinger

"I’ve always resisted attributing prophetic qualities to dreams."


The Coronation

Boris Akunin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

"He died in front of my very eyes, this strange and disagreeable gentleman."


What We Did

Christobel Kent

"From the turnoff into the cul-de-sac, Bridget saw the lights on downstairs and up: that meant they were both home"


Never Tell

Lisa Gardner

"Every day, I work out. "


Tombland

C.J. Sansom

"Next morning, we rose early and, after breakfasting, rode the short distance to Hatfield Palace with Fowberry and his men. "


The Killer Collective

Barry Eisler

"'It looks like you were right about Malaysia,' Trahan called out by way of greeting. “I think we got him.'"


The Overnight Kidnapper

Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli

"As Montalbano stood blissfully under the warm, long-awaited water of the shower, he started thinking about that morning of mix-ups."


Blood Echo

Christopher Rice

"Charlotte Rowe’s even tone sends a ripple of new energy through the room, something between wonder and nervousness."


Any Means Necessary

Jenny Rogneby, translated by Agnes Broomé

"The hospital bed was hovering a foot above the floor."


Brothers Keepers

Donald E. Westlake

"I have not always, of course, been Brother Benedict of the Crispinite Order of the Novum Mundum."



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