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Peter Lalor (2005) Blood Stain. Kathy Knight, grandmother and slaughter house worker in Aberdeen, Australia sliced her partner John Price into pieces and cooked him for a meal. Peter Lalor covered the Knight case for the Daily Telegraph, a top newspaper in Australia. His book is one of the most gruesome true crime stories and not for the faint of heart.
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Jane Langton (1997) Dead as a Dodo: A Homer Kelly Mystery. In their 12th appearance, eccentric Harvard philosophy professor Homer Kelly and his quick-witted wife Mary, contemplate Darwinism and the disappearance of Mauritius' Dodo bird, while investigating the attempted murder of Helen Farfrae and the actual killing of a young Anglican priest. A cerebral mystery, with a brilliant debate on creationism versus evolutionism.
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Jane Langton (2002) The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery. In Langton's 16th Homer Kelly book the puzzling drawings of Dutch artist M.C. Escher provide clues for a mystery that is centered on the enigmatic Frieda, who has disappeared. Crystallographer Leonard Sheldrake had met Frieda at an Escher art exhibition in Cambridge and is now searching for her - with the help of Homer and his sharp wife Mary.
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Jane Langton (1981) The Memorial Hall Murder: A Homer Kelly Mystery. With this book Jane Langton started her series of Homer Kelly mysteries. Homer and his smart wife help Harvard students to find their lost professor. If you have ever tried to learn violin and like listening to classical music this book is for you. Here you can also find out how Harvard's Memorial Hall looked like before it was renovated in the 1990s.
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Paul LaRosa (2006) Tacoma Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life. Paul LaRosa tells the true story of Police Chief David Brame of Tacoma, Washington - of his abusive marriage and the resulting deaths. But this is not only a story about a husband, enraged by an impending divorce, killing his wife. It is the story of a sex-obsessed man, who used his power to fulfill his sexual fantasies.
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Erik Larson (2004) The Devil in the White City During the 1893 Chicago World's Fair H.H. Holmes, a charming doctor, killed somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women. The gruesome serial killer actually built a hotel and crematorium to get rid of the corpses. Larson's breathtaking account of these historical events reads like crime fiction.
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John Le Carré (2004) Absolute Friends. LeCarré is mad about what he sees as a fraudulent and unnecessary war in Iraq. The hero in his up-to-date novel, Ted Mundy, is an idealistic out-of-business spy from the Cold War era. He is hired by a mysterious benefactor to counter the widespread propaganda on behalf of an Iraqi war. Even if you don't like LeCarré's political slant, his writing is first class.
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John Le Carré (2005) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. In Le Carré's first masterpiece Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin, is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive. When the East Germans start killing them, Leamas is sent deep into Communist territory to find out why. But nothing is quite what it seems. "The finest spy story ever written" (Graham Green).
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Harper Lee (1988) To Kill a Mocking Bird. First published in 1960, the novel is a classic. It is set in Maycomb, a fictional representation of Monroeville, Alabama. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and within two years sold more than five million copies in 13 countries. Shame on you, if you have not read "the best novel of the century" (Library Journal).
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Don Lee (2004) Country of Origin. Lisa Countryman, a half-Japanese, half-black Berkeley graduate student goes to Japan for her dissertation research, but ends with a job as a hostess girl at a Tokyo men's club. When she disappears, Tom Hurley, lazy junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy and police detective Kenzo Ota investigate the case, which leads them into the heart of Tokyo's nightlife.
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