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When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell
SUMMARY: This is a crime writing gem featuring vanished children, haunted mansions and family secrets from one of the masters of the crime-writing genre. -
What To Do When Someone Dies - Nicci French
SUMMARY: Ellie Faulkner's world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash and he wasn't alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone a woman Ellie... -
Underground - Haruki Murakami; Alfred Birnbau
From Publishers Weekly On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were i... -
The Sinatra files_ the secret F - Tom Kuntz; Phil Kuntz
EDITORIAL REVIEW: An American Icon Under Government SurveillanceWhen Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of ... -
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduard - Jimmy Breslin
Amazon.com ReviewJimmy Breslin's The Story of Eduardo Gutierrez tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young illegal Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City constructio.... -
The Petting Zoo - Jim Carroll
A moving, vividly rendered novel from the late author of The Basketball Diaries. When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing t... -
The Other Wind - Ursula K. le Guin
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that sep... -
The Net Delusion - Evgeny Morozov
ReviewMichael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton“Evgeny Morozov is wonderfully knowledgeable about the Internet—he seems to have studied every use of... -
The Murder of King Tut - James William Patterson; Martin
Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot... -
The Last Camel Died at Noon - Elizabeth Peters
From Publishers WeeklyIf Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventur...