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Leonardo Padura Fuentes (2005) Havana Red. A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Inspector Mario Conde, a Havana policeman, is investigating in Cuba's marginalized and persecuted homosexual community. Fascinating portrait of a crumbling post-revolution society - painted with a sharp eye for the repressions of a totalitarian regime. Rather explicit sexual details.
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Leonardo Padura Fuentes (2006) Adios Hemingway. Retired Inspector Mario Conde is obsessed with Hemingway. When a dead body is discovered on Hemingway's property (Finca Vigia) in Cuba, Conde is reluctantly taking the case. During his investigation he visits all the places that bring to life Hemingway's time in Cuba during the last days of the Batista era.
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Jefferson T. Parker (2006) The Fallen. San Diego homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw suffers a head trauma that lets him see visual effects related to speakers' emotions. This helps him to investigate a case in which a man, who has uncovered a corruption scandal, was killed while waiting for a meeting with his estranged wife. Parkers first-class police procedural has psychological depth and vivid characters.
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P.J. Parrish (2007) A Thousand Bones. Joe Frye, a lone female homicide detective in the Miami-Dade Police Department, looks back at her rookie years when she was working at the Echo Bay, Michigan police department. Human bones are found in a forest area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the hunt is on for a serial killer.
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James Patterson / Andrew Gross (2006) Judge & Jury. Fast paced.
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James Patterson (2007) Double Cross. (Alex Cross Series) [Large Print] Investigator-psychologist with family life and new girl friend is hunting two serial killers and his old arch enemy Kyle Craig. Not much depth, but lightning fast.
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James Patterson (2007) Cross. (Alex Cross Series) Patterson's trademark is pace. His horrendously violent crime fiction is so fast, that you have finished the book before you even realize that the serial killer, aka butcher of Sligo, is just a little too monstrous and the forensic psychologist Cross just a little too brave and competent.
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James Patterson (2007) Double Cross. (Alex Cross Series) Investigator-psychologist with family life and new girl friend is hunting two serial killers and his old arch enemy Kyle Craig. Not much depth, but lightning fast. Full of stereotypes.
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Richard North Patterson (2007) Exile. Rare combination of a thrilling story with an intelligent political analysis of the ongoing tragedy between Israelis and Palestinians. A courtroom drama, a love story, and a political thriller on a most complex and controversial subject. There is not one page that is boring!
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Stef Penney (2008) The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel. Stef Penney's haunting debut casts the frigid isolation of Scottish immigrants living on the late 19th-century Canadian frontier. In this harsh, unforgiving environment a seventeen-year old boy disappears the same day his mother discovers the scalped body of his friend. The gripping story reveals a complex web of human desires, motivations, and relationships.
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