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  • THE CALLER
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    THE CALLER
    KARIN FOSSUM
    "Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless to start with. . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of Ruth Rendell." —Stephen King in  Entertainment Weekly One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is stunned: the child is covere...

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  • BAD INTENTIONS
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    BAD INTENTIONS
    KARIN FOSSUM
    "[A] penetrating tale of a falling-out among conspirators" from the author of The Water's Edge and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ( Kirkus Reviews). In the wake of Stieg Larsson's bestselling novels, readers are discovering the rich trove of modern Scandinavian crime fiction. If you've devoured the Millennium trilogy and are looking for your next read, Karin Fossum ...

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  • THE WATER'S EDGE
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    THE WATER'S EDGE
    KARIN FOSSUM
    "An intelligent thriller . . . [a] slim-but-dense marvel of a mystery" from the award-winning author of The Murder of Harriet Krohn ( The Washington Post Book World). Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine's...

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  • BLACK SECONDS
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    BLACK SECONDS
    KARIN FOSSUM
    A missing child mystery drives this "dark, intense . . . impossible-to-put-down investigation. . . . Essential reading for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction" ( Booklist, starred review). Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, he...

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  • THE INDIAN BRIDE
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    THE INDIAN BRIDE
    KARIN FOSSUM
    Murder unsettles a Nordic town in this "heart-stoppingly suspenseful" crime novel from "a master at probing the plague of guilt that infects a community" ( Washington Post Book World). When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of ...

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  • DISTURBANCE-LOVING SPECIES
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    DISTURBANCE-LOVING SPECIES
    PETER CHILSON
    Peter Chilson's fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson, who traveled to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our "disturbance-loving species" thrives in the...

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  • HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF
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    HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF
    KARIN FOSSUM
    An "impressive" and "gripping" Scandinavian mystery from an author who "succeeds in evoking sympathy for all her characters . . . [in a] fair-play whodunit" (Publishers Weekly). Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a ...

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  • THE MATTER OF DESIRE
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    THE MATTER OF DESIRE
    EDMUNDO PAZ SOLDÁN
    "A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father's past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas" ( Booklist). The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate...

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  • THE BONE FIRE
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    THE BONE FIRE
    GYÖRGY DRAGOMÁN
    "A story in which dreams and phantasms are kinder . . . than the random brutality of the concrete world. . . . [the] telling is not just magic, but enchantment." —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review    Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she's taken to an ...

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  • THE TUNNEL
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    THE TUNNEL
    A.B. YEHOSHUA
    A "spryly amusing [and] deeply affecting" novel of a Tel Aviv family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his seventies, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible...

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  • A LUMINOUS REPUBLIC
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    A LUMINOUS REPUBLIC
    ANDRÉS BARBA
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos. San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown ...

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  • MRS. MOHR GOES MISSING
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    MRS. MOHR GOES MISSING
    MARYLA SZYMICZKOWA
    A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland "An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime."—Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker International Prize winner  Flights Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotynska—professor's wife, socialite, and bored h...

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  • SURRENDER
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    SURRENDER
    RAY LORIGA
    "[A] riveting, and original, achievement."— WIRED From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and]  Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation). Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple...

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  • THE CASTLE OF KINGS
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    THE CASTLE OF KINGS
    OLIVER PÖTZSCH
    An epic standalone novel of historical fiction tinged with mystery, set against the backdrop of medieval Germany's Peasant War from the best-selling author of the Hangman's Daughter series. In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but ...

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  • THE DROWNED BOY
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    THE DROWNED BOY
    KARIN FOSSUM
    A Norwegian police detective must unravel a grieving mother's shifting stories in a novel by "a truly great writer and explorer of the human mind" (Jo Nesbø) Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden...

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  • THE LUDWIG CONSPIRACY
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    THE LUDWIG CONSPIRACY
    OLIVER PÖTZSCH
    A modern-day Munich bookseller is caught in a decades-old conspiracy in this thriller by the bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter series. In 1886, Ludwig II, the Fairy-tale King of Bavaria, was deposed after being declared insane by doctors who had never met him. He died mysteriously soon thereafter, his eccentric and beautiful castles his only legacy. In  The Ludwig Co...

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  • THE PRAGUE CEMETERY
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    THE PRAGUE CEMETERY
    UMBERTO ECO
    The #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times –bestselling author of The Name of the Rose . Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and ce...

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  • THE TIN DRUM
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    THE TIN DRUM
    GÜNTER GRASS
    One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world. In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed t...

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  • WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS THE CANDLE
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    WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS THE CANDLE
    KARIN FOSSUM
    This novel in the acclaimed Scandinavian mystery series is "an engrossing psychological thriller" about a missing teen being held by a deranged captor. ( Sunday Telegraph) When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They foll...

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  • THE CLUB DUMAS
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    THE CLUB DUMAS
    ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE
    A rare book investigator gets caught in a deadly plot among Europe's elite literati in this acclaimed thriller—"a cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice" ( New York Daily News). Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the o...

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