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Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories
Written by Peter Robinson

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7541-4 (0-7710-7541-3)

July 13, 2010 | $19.99

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Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories
Written by Peter Robinson

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771075414
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Excerpted from "Fan Mail"

The letter arrived one sunny Thursday morning in August, along with a Visa bill and a royalty statement. Dennis Quilley carried the mail out to the deck of his Beaches home, stopping by the kitchen on the way to pour himself a gin and tonic. He had already...

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Death in Holy Orders
Written by P. D. James

Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40038-3 (0-307-40038-7)

June 29, 2010 | $19.95

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Death in Holy Orders
Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307400383
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The Killing Sand

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It was Father Martin’s idea that I should write an account of how I found the body.

I asked, “You mean, as if I were writing a letter, telling it to a friend?”

Father Martin said, “Writing it down as if it were fiction, as if you were standing...

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Shroud for a Nightingale
Written by P. D. James

Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39998-4 (0-307-39998-2)

June 29, 2010 | $19.95

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Shroud for a Nightingale
Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307399984
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Book One: Demonstration of Death

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On the morning of the first murder Miss Muriel Beale, Inspector of Nurse Training Schools to the General Nursing Council, stirred into wakefulness soon after six o’clock and into a sluggish early morning awareness that it was Monday, 12th January, and the day of the John Carpendar...

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Unnatural Causes
Written by P. D. James

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40036-9 (0-307-40036-0)

June 29, 2010 | $19.95

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Unnatural Causes
Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307400369
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Book One: Suffolk

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The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast. It was the body of a middle-aged man, a dapper little cadaver, its shroud a dark pin-striped suit which fitted the narrow body as elegantly in death as...

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The Price of Love and Other Stories
Written by Peter Robinson

Trade Paperback | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7545-2 (0-7710-7545-6)

June 15, 2010 | $19.99

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The Price of Love and Other Stories
Written by Peter Robinson

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771075452
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An excerpt from the new novella about DCI Alan Banks, Like A Virgin, one of three stories about Banks in The Price of Love.


In the soft light of the red-shaded bulb that hung over the centre of the room, the girl’s body looked serene. She could easily have been sleeping, Banks...

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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
Written by Tarquin Hall

Hardcover | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-3827-3 (0-7710-3827-5)

June 1, 2010 | $29.99

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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
Written by Tarquin Hall

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771038273
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Ensconced on the back seat of his Ambassador with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning working full blast, Vish Puri kept a wary eye on the crack in the car’s windshield. It had started off as a chink – the work of a loose stone shot from the wheels...

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Short Squeeze
Written by Chris Knopf

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35730-4 (0-307-35730-9)

June 1, 2010 | $19.95

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Short Squeeze
Written by Chris Knopf

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ISBN: 9780307357304
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I don’t know how to dress. It’s easier to just say, “Oh, you’re right— this skirt and blouse have no business being together on the same body. That’s what I get for dressing in the dark.”
 
I feel that way about my life in general. I know it doesn’t look very good...

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Truth
Written by Peter Temple

Hardcover | 400 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35885-1 (0-307-35885-2)

May 11, 2010 | $32.00

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Truth
Written by Peter Temple

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307358851
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ON THE Westgate Bridge, behind them a flat in Altona, a dead woman, a girl really, dirty hair, dyed red, pale roots, she was stabbed too many times to count, stomach, chest, back, face. The child, male, two or three years old, his head was kicked. Blood everywhere. On the nylon...

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The Shadows in the Street
Written by Susan Hill

Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39912-0 (0-307-39912-5)

May 4, 2010 | $29.95

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The Shadows in the Street
Written by Susan Hill

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307399120
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Leslie Blade stopped in the overhang of the college entrance to put up his umbrella.
 
Rain. Rain morning and evening since the beginning of the week.
 
He could drive to work, but it was only a couple of miles so he didn’t qualify for a college parking permit. He could get a bus...

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The Double Comfort Safari Club

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-676-97925-1 (0-676-97925-4)

April 20, 2010 | $29.95

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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676979251
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Chapter One
YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM

No car, thought Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, that great mechanic, and good man. No car . . .

He paused. It was necessary, he felt, to order the mind when one was about to think something profound. And Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was...

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