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P. D. James (2001) The Black Tower. (First published in 1975) Touchstone James' deeply bleak novel is set in an isolated home for patients with a fatal muscular disease. The home's elderly chaplain invites Adam Dalgliesh asking for help. But when Dalgliesh arrives, the chaplain has died. As Commander Danlgliesh begins to investigate, more murder victims keep piling up. More... 
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Cornell Woolrich (1995) Waltz into Darkness. (First published in 1947) Penguin Middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiance died 15 years ago, decides to take one more chance on love and marry a woman he knows only through correspondence. When she arrives, she's younger and more beautiful that he had expected - and far more deadly. A classical novel noire (French movie by Trancois Truffault). More...
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Georges Simenon (2005) The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. (First published in 1938) New York Review Books Classics Kees Popinga, a Dutch bourgeois and model husband, likes to play chess and look on impassively as the trains to the outside world go by. But then his life falls apart as his company goes into bankruptcy. He quickly degenerates into a amoral creature and embarks on a journey of ruthless brutality. More... 
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Kobo Abe (1991) The Woman in the Dunes. (First published in 1962) Vintage In this strangely terrifying book Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist discovers a bizarre village in the dunes, where residents live in deep sand pits. They take him prisoner. While constantly shoveling sand that threatens to bury the community, Niki struggles to escape. With its bizarre plot Abe has created one of the finest Japanese post-war novels. More...
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Ann Cleeves (2007) Raven Black. St. Martin's Minotaur Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of teenage Catherine Ross, found strangled on a snowy hillside at the remote Scottish Shetland Islands. Scottish Novel Noir. More...
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Dennis Lehane (2010) Prayers for Rain. Harper; Reprint edition Private investigators Patrick Kenzie, Angela Gennaro and their gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski investigate the death of a former client. More... 
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