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The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of c... -
The Magic of Recluce - L. E. Modesitt
SUMMARY:With The Magic of Recluce, L.E. Modesitt made his impressive hardcover debut, breaking out in wide scope and grand scale with a novel in the great tradition of the w... -
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
SUMMARY: In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city ... -
The Last Tycoons_ The Secret Hi - William D. Cohan
From Publishers WeeklyThis astute if not entirely cohesive debut account from investigative journalist and former banker Cohan chronicles the long metamorphosis of Lazard Frères. C... -
The Last Time I Saw Paris - Lynn Sheene
From Publishers WeeklyA farm girl turned Manhattan socialite lands in Paris just ahead of the Wehrmacht in Sheene's perfunctory debut. When Claire Harris's rich husband finds out s... -
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gif... -
The Informationist_ A Thriller - Taylor Stevens
SUMMARY:“Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, t... -
The Informant - Thomas Perry
Amazon.com ReviewIn Thomas Perry’s Edgar-winning debut The Butcher’s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice D.... -
The House of Lost Souls - F. G. Cottam
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. British author Cottam (_Dark Echo_) makes his U.S. debut with a riveting supernatural thriller. A decade earlier, while on a research trip to ... -
The History of History - Ida Hattemer-Higgins
From Publishers WeeklyA promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins's overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September ...