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When the serial killer known as the Surgeon was put behind bars by Boston cop Jane Rizzoli, she thought that that was the end of his reign of terror. But now, new bodies are piling up and it looks like the surgeon had a student....
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What created Thorn, the brooding hero we have come to know through such novels as BUZZ CUT, GONE WILD, and MEAN HIGH TIDE? In this novel Hall exposes the tragic, formative incident in Thorn's past, adding a crucial dimension to this already compelling character.
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An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expose a murderer's black heart.
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It's been two years since his father mysteriously disappeared, and Jim Hawkins is still having trouble dealing with the situation. Could his father have run off, or has something terrible happened to him? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose, the stepdaughter of his father's childhood friend, who is now the local pastor, Father Fisher. Ruth Rose is obviously unstable, so when she confides to Jim that her her stepfather is a murderer, Jim doesn't really believe her. However, as Jim gets to know Ruth Rose better he becomes desperate to know the truth--not only about Father Fisher but also about what happened to his own dad.
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While most contemporary mysteries kick off with a dead body, and gallop along at a headlong pace, GAUDY NIGHT, first published in 1935, is a far more mannered work. Rather than focus on violence, this classic novel uses both the mystery and the personal lives of the characters to debate whether it`s possible for a woman to balance the demands of the intellectual life and of a successful marriage. The detective novelist Harriet Vane returns to Shrewsbury, her Oxford alma mater. The Dean has asked her to track down a
Poison Pen,
a perpetrator of a series of venomous notes and acts of petty vandalism. The
Poison Pen
seems to be trying to ruin the reputation of Shrewsbury, and, by extension, that of women`s education as a whole. The evidence suggests that the guilty party must be someone at the college: a maid, a student, or possibly even one of the professors. Harriet can`t identify the culprit and is obliged to summon Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur sleuth who, despite Harriet`s many rejections, still wants to marry her. The central issue of the book--the tension between a woman`s personal and professional life--remains relevant today.
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