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January 15, 2019

It’s a Mystery:  “We all have public lives, and private lives, and secret lives”

January 15, 2019/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  “We all have public lives, and private lives, and secret lives”

A giddy, heart-stopping read with distinctive, vibrant characters coming at you full throttle.

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January 15, 2019/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Stephen Mack Jones, Soho Crime, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, crime fiction, mystery fiction
November 20, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”

November 20, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”

Not your ordinary pastiche as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself pursues Jack the Ripper. . .

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November 20, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Bradley Harper, Seventh Street Books, historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, mystery fiction, Penguin Random House
October 29, 2018

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

October 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

A grand arrangement of five classic and addictively readable pulp novels,

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October 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Anthologies/Short Stories, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Leslie S. Klinger, crime fiction, anthology, Otto Penzler, classic American fiction, 1920s America, Earl Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, Ellery Queen, Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, Little Caesar, W. R. Burnett, detective fiction, noir, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
October 26, 2018

The Big Book of Female Detectives

October 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Big Book of Female Detectives

An anthology of stories by the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years.

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October 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Anthologies/Short Stories, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime, female detective, anthology, Black Lizard, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Anne Perry, Penguin Random House, Steve Donoghue
October 23, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “Life is never good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil”

October 23, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  “Life is never good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil”

Felix Francis pens another edge-of-your-seat thriller in the tradition of his father Dick Francis.

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October 23, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
Felix Francis, Dick Francis, suspense, thrillers, crime fiction, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, mystery fiction
September 26, 2018

Foe by Iain Reid

September 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Foe by Iain Reid

This little “what-if” story develops into a complex tale bristling with unease and tension.

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September 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, Literary Fiction
Iain Reid, Simon & Schuster, thrillers, suspense, literary fiction, science fiction, Steve Donoghue
September 25, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”

September 25, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed”

Inside the select clubs of the world’s most prestigious places of higher learning.

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September 25, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Ian K. Smith, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, conspiracies, Harvard University, secret societies, St. Martin's Press, MacMillan Publishers, mystery fiction
September 15, 2018

An Act of Villainy by Ashley Weaver

September 15, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
An Act of Villainy by Ashley Weaver

An escapist mystery set in a wonderful evocation of the carefree high society world of 1930s London.

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September 15, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
An Act of Villainy, Ashley Weaver, Minotaur Books, amateur detective, series, St. Martin's Press, MacMillan Publishers, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
September 11, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “When one is unique, one knows it!”

September 11, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “When one is unique, one knows it!”

Agatha Christie’s legendary detective Hercule Poirot returns in this elegantly ingenious mystery set in 1930’s London.

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September 11, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
Sophie Hannah, Morrow, Harper Collins, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie, detective fiction, Closed Casket, mystery fiction
August 27, 2018

Cherry by Nico Walker

August 27, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Cherry by Nico Walker

A debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin by a veteran, drug addict, and criminal.

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August 27, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, Literary Fiction
Cherry, Nico Walker, literary fiction, crime fiction, military fiction, drug addiction, military veterans, debut novels, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
August 23, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first”

August 23, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first”

A multilayered, complex novel that explores how the sins of our fathers reflect upon us in an entirely new way.

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August 23, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, Fiction-Debut
Sweet Little Lies, Caz Frear, Harper Collins, detective fiction, female detective, crime fiction, police procedural, Irma Heldman, debut novels, mystery fiction
August 06, 2018

The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

August 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

A thoroughly, exhaustively annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel The Big Sleep.

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August 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Raymond Chandler, Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, Anthony Dean Rizzuto, Vintage Crime, Philip Marlowe, noir, hard-boiled detective, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
July 31, 2018

It’s a Mystery:  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer

July 31, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer

This is a world-class trip with a lovable psychopath.

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July 31, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Aidan Truhen, Doubleday, suspense, noir, crime fiction, Irma Heldman, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, mystery fiction
June 23, 2018

A Blood Thing by James Hankins

June 23, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
A Blood Thing by James Hankins

A meticulously plotted thriller from the ever reliable James Hankins.

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June 23, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
James Hankins, Thomas & Mercer, crime fiction, Amazon Publishing, thrillers, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
May 13, 2018

So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

May 13, 2018/ Wilson Shugart
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

A successful professional, Mara is suddenly confronted by a new reality filled with unexpected mental, emotional, and physical challenges.

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May 13, 2018/ Wilson Shugart/
Literary Fiction, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
So Lucky, Nicola Griffith, Wilson Shugart, autobiographical fiction, disabilities, victimhood, LGBTQ, Straus and Giroux, MacMillan Publishers
May 11, 2018

A Handful of Ashes by Rob McCarthy

May 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
A Handful of Ashes by Rob McCarthy

Grieving parents are demanding answers, but everyone has secrets. Harry Kent and Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Noble have to find out which secrets were worth killing for.

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May 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Rob McCarthy, Pegasus Books, detective fiction, medical drama, medical fiction, Steve Donoghue
May 10, 2018

It’s a Mystery:  “Being a lawyer doesn’t feel as honest as being a good con man”

May 10, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  “Being a lawyer doesn’t feel as honest as being a good con man”

Iconic Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene and unsolved crimes.

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May 10, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
It's a Mystery, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Robert B. Parker, Old Black Magic, Ace Atkins, Spenser novels, private eye, Boston, Irma Heldman, suspense, crime fiction, art & artists, mystery fiction
May 06, 2018

The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews

May 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews

Love lost and found, cocktails on veranda, dinner dances, and a murder mystery adorn this satisfying summer read.

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May 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Mary Kay Andrews, beach reads, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
April 05, 2018

It’s a Mystery: “The moral high ground is nothing but quicksand”

April 05, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “The moral high ground is nothing but quicksand”

A hard-hitting, gripping, thriller featuring a dynamic and compelling anti-hero.

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April 05, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
It's a Mystery, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Derek Haas, Pegasus Crime, Pegasus Books, Irma Heldman, crime fiction, series, antihero, mystery fiction
March 19, 2018

The Château by Paul Goldberg

March 19, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Château by Paul Goldberg

A colorful cast of characters deliver a wild spin on life in Florida, petty crime, Jewish identity, and Trump's America.

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March 19, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
The Château, Paul Goldberg, metafiction, Jews, immigration, modern America, comedy, crime fiction, Jewish fiction, dark comedy, MacMillan Publishers, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
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