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Burglars Can't Be Choosers

★★★★★
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a gentleman burglar, he takes pride in his doings. But when he is accused of the more baser crime of murder, he needs to solve it to exonerate himself.

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Death On The Nile

★★★★★
Murder follows Poirot on vacation, as a wealthy young woman is shot dead on his boat while on a cruise down the river Nile

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The Last Devil to Die

★★★★★
A friend of Elizabeth’s husband, Stephen, has been killed, and a package he was protecting is now missing

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance

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The Black Echo

★★★★☆
LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade

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The Bullet That Missed

★★★★★
The four senior citizen detectives are at it again, this time solving a ten year old case of a murdered TV journalist... while other events happen around them

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The Devotion of Suspect X

★★★☆☆
Tokyo police detective Kusanagi has a perplexing case on his hands; he has a body, but is unable to piece together the events leading up to the death...

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A Murder is Announced

★★☆☆☆
Miss Marple decodes a very complicated murder which is preceded by an announcement of the murder in the local newspaper, replete with location, date and time.

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The Man Who Died Twice

★★★★★
The four pensioners at Cooper’s Chase are at it again, solving a case involving a ghost from Elizabeth’s past and £20 million in diamonds.

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The Snowman

★★★★★
Detective Harry Hole is investigating a case where several young mothers have gone missing, with a snowman being left at the scene. Harry is personally being toyed with by the killer too, as he receives ominous communiques from the purpoted killer...

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The Lincoln Lawyer

★★★★☆
Mickey Haller is a criminal defense lawyer who works from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, mostly with decidedly guilty clients. Then a very high-paying job drops in his lap, where the client insists he is innocent...

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Endless Night

★★★★★
Some are born to sweet delights, and some are born to the night that will engulf all, even those aforementioned, born to sweet delights

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Bad Luck And Trouble

★★☆☆☆
One Reacher is tolerable, barely. Four of them isn't four times the fun.

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Tell No One

★★★★☆
Gripping thriller in which a widower doctor is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of life-threatening scenarios, starting when he gets a mail from beyond the grave...

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Memory Man

★☆☆☆☆
Muscle-man ex-cop who is down and under is caught up in an investigation of a series of crimes which seem to involve him specifically and directly...

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The Killing Floor

★★★★☆
Jack Reacher. Ex-Military Police, current drifter, is passing through a small town when he is suddenly arrested for a murder he knows nothing about. He expects the case of mistaken identity to be quickly resolved, but soon finds out that he is connected to the case... very intimately.

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