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Chourmo

Jean-Claude Izzo, translated by Howard Curtis

"There’s nothing more pleasant, when you have nothing to do, than to have a snack in the morning and sit looking at the sea."


Black Diamond Fall

Joseph Olshan

"Looming constantly to their left is Black Diamond Fall, whose headwalls are built up from ice melt that has gathered layers of snow; the slope looks almost vertical in places, dark dashes of rock to be avoided at all costs."


The Mystery of Three Quarters

Sophie Hannah

"'I must say, I was rather disappointed,’ McCrodden went on. ‘The famous Hercule Poirot, allowing himself to be used for such frivolities.'"


Pieces of Her

Karin Slaughter

“Don’t talk to the police. Don’t sign a statement. Tell them you can’t remember anything.”


City of Ink

Elsa Hart

"The courier rode out of camp in the yellow haze of a dust cloud."


The Breakers

Marcia Muller

"He looked somewhat like my image of Satan: wild black hair, thin, waxed mustache, spade-shaped patch of hair on his chin."


Swift Vengeance

T. Jefferson Parker

"Home from World Pizza I sat in front of the west-facing window in my upstairs office and looked out at my rancho."


Sister of Mine

Laurie Petrou

"I had been here before. I had seen the eyes of someone I loved shift towards my sister."


Don’t Send Flowers

Martín Solares

"He told them there was someone who could find the girl: an ex-cop."


Smoking Kills

Antoine Laurain, Translated by Louise Lalaurie Rogers

"Looking back over the somewhat dizzying landscape of my life, I would say that before the events that turned it upside down, I was an unremarkable man, bordering on the dull."



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