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Far From You by Tess Sharpe

"After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find …

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron

Tom Bettany, a British ex-spy crammed with dark skills, comes out of retirement when he learns his estranged son is …

Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman

An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, …

Miss Marple's final cases by Agatha Christie

"Miss Marple always makes a point of 'taking an interest' in other people's affairs, though nothing engages her curiosity quite …

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. …

Reconstruction by Mick Herron

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.

When …

Fletch reflected by Gregory Mcdonald

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #13)

"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by …

Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.

You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …

Nemesis by Agatha Christie

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Nemesis;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of …

Real tigers by Mick Herron (Slough House, #3)

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. …

Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald

When Fletch learns there are four ex-cons on the loose in his part of the county, little does he suspect …

Straight man by Richard Russo

Folk Music by Greil Marcus