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The Bomber
Written by Liza Marklund

Trade Paperback, 400 pages December 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35843-1
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Stockholm is bustling with preparations for the upcoming summer Olympics when a bomb explodes in the city's new Olympic arena. One of the most powerful women in Sweden, Christina Furhage, is blown to bits. The police begin a wild and desperate chase for the killer, while crime reporter and mother of two, Annika Bengtzon, discovers connections no one else sees. Thus begins the first stand-alone crime novel by Liza Marklund, which follows the impulsive and passionate reporter Annika Bengtzon on her thrilling assignments.


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Sweden
Sweden

Erasing Memory
Written by Scott Thornley

Trade Paperback, 320 pages July 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35926-1
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MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing the Schubert Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe's ancient grievances, which reach out to breach all the walls that have been thrown up to keep the past at bay.


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Canada

A Mind to Murder
Written by P.D. James

Trade Paperback, 256 pages June 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-40047-5
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In the midst of an explosive mixture of psychiatry, sex, and drugs, the unenviable task of analyzing the clues falls to Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh -- clues that lead him to a diabolically cunning killer bent on proving that the first slaying was no Freudian slip.


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Britain
Britain

The Murder Room
Written by P.D. James

Trade Paperback, 512 pages June 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-40060-4
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The case is fraught with danger and complications from the outset, but for Dalgliesh the complications are unexpectedly profound. His new relationship with Emma Lavenham -- introduced in the last Dalgliesh novel, Death in Holy Orders -- is at a critical stage. Now, as he moves closer and closer to a solution to the puzzle, he finds himself driven further and further from commitment to the woman he loves.


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Britain
Britain

Original Sin
Written by P.D. James

Trade Paperback, 576 pages June 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-40048-2
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity as they begin to probe the dark, private tragedies of Etienne’s mistress and colleagues. But the mystery at Innocent House may prove too deep, too old, and too evil to stop at just one death....


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Britain
Britain

Exposed
Written by Liza Marklund

Trade Paperback, 560 pages June 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35847-9
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Sweden
Sweden

Crime Machine
Written by Giles Blunt
On-sale April 26, 2011

Trade Paperback, 304 pages April 2011 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-679-31434-9
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The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series. The quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The victims, visitors from Russia, are in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction.


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The Man from Beijing
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 464 pages March 2011 • Vintage Canada $21.00 978-0-307-39786-7
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From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America.


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Australia


Truth
Written by Peter Temple
Trade Paperback, 400 pages February 2011 • Vintage Canada $21.00 978-0-307-35887-5

At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.

So begins Truth, the sequel to Peter Temple's highly acclaimed The Broken Shore, winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award.


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Australia
Australia


The Shadows in the Street
Written by Susan Hill

Trade Paperback, 384 pages February 2011 • Vintage Canada $14.95 978-0-307-39913-7

Simon Serrailler is on a sabbatical when he is recalled to Lafferton to investigate the murders of two local prostitutes. By the time he returns, another girl has disappeared.


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Britain
Britain


The Snowman
Written by Jo Nesbo
Trade Paperback, 464 pages January 2011 • Vintage Canada • $19.95 • 978-0-307-35866-0

A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbø's position as an international star of crime fiction. For the first time in his career Harry Hole finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity.

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Hypothermia
Written by Arnaldur Indridason
Trade Paperback, 320 pages October 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35782-3

The latest installment in the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award–winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.


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Iceland
Iceland


Talking About Detective Fiction
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback, 208 pages October 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-39881-9

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P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey, among many others.


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Red Wolf
Written by Liza Marklund
Trade Paperback, 512 pages October 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35845-5

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In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of the death, which is soon followed by a series of shocking murders.


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A Certain Justice
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback, 544 pages August 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-676-97168-2

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P.D. James enters the labyrinthine world of the law, forging a deeply compelling human drama from the complex passions that lie behind both murder and justice.


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Unnatural Causes
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback, 272 pages June 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-40036-9

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Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer -- but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre neighbours: the cruel and cynical drama critic, the celebrated recluse, the rakish young heir, the terrified woman waiting for her killer in a lonely house...


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Shroud for a Nightingale
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback, 416 pages June 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-39998-4

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Two student nurses lie dead, the great hospital nursing school of Nightingale House is shadowed with terror, and a secret medical world of sex, shame, and scandal is about to be exposed.


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Death in Holy Orders
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback, 544 pages June 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-40038-3

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On a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast, high atop a sweep of cliffs, sits the theological college of St. Anselm's. Down below, smothered by a fall of sand, lies the body of a young ordinand, the son of a powerful business mogul who wants Scotland Yard to investigate his death. Dalgliesh, doubting there is much to uncover in the case, agrees to go, motivated only by a desire to revisit a place where he spent several happy summers in his boyhood.

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Short Squeeze
Written by Chris Knopf
Trade Paperback, 288 pages June 2010 Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35730-4

Chris Knopf has been praised for his humour and broad knowledge of Hamptons life. Now, in this new series, he brings a smart-aleck Southampton attorney to centre stage.


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Blood Safari
Written by Deon Meyer
Trade Paperback, 384 pages April 2010 • Vintage Canada $19.95 978-0-307-35663-5

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When the rich and famous visit South Africa, their first port of call is often Body Armor, the personal security company offering two types of protection: the big and intimidating muscle men called Gorillas or the lean and hungry former government body guards, referred to as Invisibles.


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The Chalk Circle Man
Written by Fred Vargas

Trade Paperback, 256 pages  •  January 2010  •  $19.95  • 978-0-307-39688-4
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The Chalk Circle Man is the first book featuring Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, one of the most engaging characters in contemporary detective fiction.

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France


Drawing Dead
Written by Grant McCrea

Trade Paperback, 400 pages  •  December 2009  •  $19.95  • 978-0-679-31401-1
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Lawyer Rick Redman decides it is time to make a career change. Murder can do that to a guy.

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Talking About Detective Fiction
Written by P. D. James

Hardcover  •  December 2009  •  $29.95  • 978-0-307-39880-2
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An exploration of the craft of writing a good mystery

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The Pyramid: The Origins of Kurt Wallander
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 416 pages  •  October 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-307-39835-2
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Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.

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Arctic Chill
Written by Arnaldur Indridason

Trade Paperback, 352 pages  •  September 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-307-35683-3
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On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood.

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No Such Creature
Written by Giles Blunt

Trade Paperback, 228 pages  •  August 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-679-31432-5
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The road trip soon turns into a chase, by turns comic and horrifying. The most disturbing twist: Owen's slow realization that the person he loves most in the world is the one who can do him the most harm.

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Curse of the Pogo Stick
Written by Colin Cotterill

Trade Paperback, 256 pages  •  August 2009  •  $17.95  • 978-0-307-39726-3
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A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village

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High Chicago
Written by Howard Shrier

Trade Paperback, 336 pages  •  July 2009  •  $19.95  • 978-0-307-35608-6
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After his successful debut, Buffalo Jump, Howard Shrier is back with High Chicago, the next in the Jonah Geller series.

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The Eye of the Leopard
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 336 pages  •  April 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-307-39784-3
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Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for over twenty years.

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The Private Patient
Written by P.D. James

Trade Paperback, 480 pages  •  March 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-307-39779-9
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With all the qualities that P. D. James’s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery.

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Head Wounds
Written by Chris Knopf

Trade Paperback, 384 pages  •  March 2009  •  $17.95  • 978-0-307-35659-8
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Sam Acquillo can hide in his windswept waterfront cottage all he wants, but the demons of his past are going to find him.

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Revelation
Written by C.J. Sansom

Trade Paperback, 560 pages  •  February 2009  •  $21.00  • 978-0-307-35617-8
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It is spring, 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife — but this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies.

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Nemesis
Written by Jo Nesbo

Trade Paperback, 480 pages  •  January 2009  •  $19.95  • 978-0-307-35575-1
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When archaeologist Louise Cantor’s son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Despite traces of sleeping tablets in his system, several clues that only a mother knows lead her to believe something more sinister took place.

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This Night's Foul Work
Written by Fred Vargas

Trade Paperback, 416 pages  •  January 2009  • $19.95  • 978-0-307-39686-0
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A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos.

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Kennedy's Brain
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 336 pages  •  November 2008  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97918-3
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When archaeologist Louise Cantor’s son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Despite traces of sleeping tablets in his system, several clues that only a mother knows lead her to believe something more sinister took place.

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Anarchy and Old Dogs
Written by Colin Cotterill

Trade Paperback, 288 pages  •  August 2008  • $17.95  • 978-0-676-97952-7
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A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos.

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Buffalo Jump
Written by Howard Shrier

Trade Paperback, 368 pages  •  June 2008  •  $19.95  • 978-0-307-35606-2
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Toronto investigator Jonah Geller is at a low point in his life. A careless mistake on his last case left him with a bullet in his arm, a busted relationship and a spot in his boss's doghouse. Then he comes home to find notorious contract killer Dante Ryan in his apartment — not to kill him for butting into mob business, as Jonah fears, but to plead for Jonah's help.

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Canada


The Broken Shore
Written by Peter Temple

Trade Paperback, 352 pages  •  February 2008  •  $19.95  • 978-0-307-35571-3 (0-307-35571-3)
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Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then. He was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before.

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Australia


Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Written by Fred Vargas

Trade Paperback, 400 pages  •  January 2008  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97799-8
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Between 1943 and 2003, nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge Fulgence.

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France


The Man Who Smiled
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 256 pages  •  August 2007  •  $17.95  • 978-0-676-97834-6
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In this riveting Henning Mankell thriller, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a deep personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. After almost a year of sick leave, he hits rock bottom and resolves to quit the police force for good. Against his better judgment Wallander stays on the force when unforeseen circumstances compel him to investigate the murder of a friend. While working closely with Ann-Britt Hoglund, the department’s first female detective, he stumbles on a horrific world where human body parts are traded like stock, and just as he comes close to uncovering the truth, the same shadowy threats responsible for the murders close in on Wallander himself.

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Disco for the Departed
Written by Colin Cotterill

Trade Paperback, 256 pages  •  August 2007  •  $17.95  • 978-0-676-97834-6
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Dr. Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to assume power. Now, as a major celebration of the new regime is scheduled to take place, an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk that had been laid from the President’s former cave hideout to his new house beneath the cliffs. Dr. Siri is ordered to supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify the corpse and discover how he died.

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By the Time You Read This
Written by Giles Blunt

Trade Paperback, 320 pages • May 2007 • $19.95 • 978-0-679-31500-1 (0-679-31500-4)
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In this eagerly awaited new novel from Canada’s king of crime, Detective John Cardinal faces his most personal case yet.

For years, John Cardinal’s wife, Catherine, has battled severe depression. People are saddened when she finally takes her own life, but they are not really surprised. Cardinal, of course, is devastated. Despite the suicide note in Catherine’s own handwriting and the coroner’s finding that there is no evidence of foul play, Cardinal cannot bring himself to believe that Catherine has really killed herself.

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Two Time
Written by Chris Knopf

Trade Paperback, 368 pages  • May 2007 • $19.95 • 978-0-679-31451-6 (0-679-31451-2)
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Sam Aquillo – ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive and accidental hero of The Last Refuge – is back in this action-packed, page-turning sequel.

All Sam wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, hang out with his dog, Eddie, and stay out of trouble. But trouble seems to find him anyway. When a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial consultant and injures Sam and his lawyer friend Jackie Swaitkowski, he is drawn into the investigation. Where the police have met roadblocks, Sam makes inroads with his trademark wit, instinct and charm. Also, he just wants to know: Why would someone go to such lengths not only to kill someone, but annihilate them?

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Dead Money
Written by Grant McCrea

Trade Paperback, 352 pages  • December 2006  • $19.95 • 978-0-679-31399-1 (0-679-31399-0)
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With dialogue reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Elmore Leonard’s works, a ripping pace and a cast of characters you won’t soon forget, Dead Money is a first-rate mystery like no other.

When Rick Redman’s infuriating boss puts him on the Jules Fitzgibbon case, Rick suspects he’s being set up to lose. After all, the murder victim was found dead in a nearby alleyway after a very vocal argument with the accused, a young man with an unhealthy fondness for sharp implements. But Jules’s father is an important client of the firm, and Rick is told to keep the young man out of jail. Could it be, though, that Jules’s father also wants Rick to fail? Rick turns to the one person he knows he can trust – in life and on the case – Dorita, a leggy dame with a platinum cigarette lighter and a wit as sharp as her stilettos.

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White Stone Day
Written by John M. Gray

Trade Paperback, 352 pages  • October 2006  • $19.95  • 978-0-679-31480-6 (0-679-31480-6)
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From award-winning author John MacLachlan Gray comes a mesmerizing novel of corruption and murder through the looking-glass of Victorian London.

Edmund Whitty writes lurid articles for the London press. He’s investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whitty’s late brother. Whitty’s search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling children’s stories and taking little girls’ pictures, may or may not be involved with a murderous ring of child pornographers.

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Thirty-Three Teeth
Written by Colin Cotterill

Trade Paperback, 240 pages  •  June 2006  •  $17.95  •  978-0-676-97832-2 (0-676-97832-0)
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Something wild and evil has been let loose in the city of Vientiane and a series of mutilated corpses lands in Dr. Siri’s morgue. With the assistance of his helpers – Mr. Geung, a mentally challenged lab technician, and Nurse Dtui, whose nickname means “Fatty” – Dr. Siri investigates these strange deaths. But it is only when Nurse Dtui is threatened that the prickly, independent doctor can identify the creature, animal or spirit that has been slaying the innocent.

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The Last Refuge
Written by Chris Knopf

Trade Paperback, 432 pages  •  June 2006  •  $17.95  • 978-0-679-31449-3 (0-679-31449-0)
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Available in Canada for the first time – a compelling debut from a fresh new voice in crime fiction.

Sam Acquillo’s at the end of the line. A middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parents’ ramshackle cottage in the Hamptons, Sam has abandoned his friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. But when the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub it seems like Sam is the only one who wonders why. Burned-out, busted up and cynical, the ex-engineer, ex-professional boxer, ex-loving father and husband finds himself uncovering secrets no one could have imagined, least of all Sam himself. Meanwhile, a procession of quirky characters intrudes on Sam’s misanthropic ways. A beautiful banker, pot-smoking lawyer, bug-eyed fisherman and gay billionaire join a full complement of cops, thugs and local luminaries in this tale of money and murder.

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Before the Frost
Written by Henning Mankell

Trade Paperback, 384 pages  •  February 2006  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97763-9 (0-676-97763-4)
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Sweden's bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.

Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is living with her father, and like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, whom she will have to work alongside. Linda's boredom doesn't last long. Soon she is embroiled in the case of her childhood friend Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. A few rookie mistakes result in life-threatening scenarios. And as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more calculated and dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge.

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The Three Evangelists
Written by Fred Vargas

Trade Paperback, 240 pages  •  February 2006  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97797-4 (0-676-97797-9)
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France's bestselling and award-winning crime writer Fred Vargas joins Vintage Canada.

The Three Evangelists is an enormously entertaining departure from Vargas's Commissaire Adamsberg series. Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. As her husband doesn't give a damn, she asks her new neighbours to dig around the tree to find out if something has been buried. Her neighbours are eccentric: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and sharing the house are three impecunious historians: Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists, as Vandoosler calls them. They accept the job because they are desperate for money and rather curious. When they find nothing and Sophia's dead body turns up weeks later, they decide to investigate.

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The Lighthouse
Written by P. D. James

Trade Paperback, 448 pages  •  April 2006  •  $21.00  • 978-0-676-97817-9 (0-676-97817-7)
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A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James's novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.

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Britain

Birdman
Birdman

Written by Mo Hayder

Trade Paperback, 336 pages  •  February 2006  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97794-3 (0-676-97794-4)
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With the forensic acumen of Patricia Cornwell and the atmosphere of Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect series, Birdman - already an international sensation prior to publication - introduces a troubled homicide detective battling the demons of his past while facing the psychopath of the century.

In the chilling opening to Birdman, the bodies of five women are found, ritualistically mutilated and dumped on wasteland in Greenwich, England. When post-mortem examinations reveal a single, horrific signature linking the victims - a tiny bird sewn into each chest - the police realize they are on the trail of a serial killer with a terrifying mind.

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing both hostilities within the force and his own memory of a lethal failure, as he struggles to unravel the most macabre murders he's ever seen. Now, as he employs every weapon science can offer, he knows he has little time before the sadistic killer strikes again. But he has so little evidence. All he has are five mutilated corpses and five dead little birds.

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The Treatment
The Treatment

Written by Mo Hayder

Trade Paperback, 368 pages  •  February 2006  •  $19.95  • 978-0-676-97437-9 (0-676-97437-6)
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The suspense is relentless in The Treatment, an emotional powerhouse of a thriller that brings back Jack Caffery, the detective from Mo Hayder’s acclaimed novel Birdman. A masterful blend of psychological insight and forensic detail, Hayder’s latest thriller is as chilling as it is heartbreaking, a gritty, gripping tour de force of suspense.

It is a perfect summer day in London’s up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been taken prisoner in their own home and their young son has disappeared. But the final horror of their terrifying ordeal is still to be revealed.

Called in to investigate, Jack Caffery tries desperately to make sense of the meager clues found at the crime scene. But the echoes of a devastating disappearance in his own past make it impossible for him to view the crime objectively. And as Jack digs deeper, as the disturbing parallels between past and present mount, the real nightmares begin...

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Blackfly Season
Written by Giles Blunt

Trade Paperback, 336 pages  •  November 2005  •  $19.95  • 978-0-679-31442-4 (0-679-31442-3)
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The highly anticipated new novel in the bestselling John Cardinal series from Giles Blunt, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award and the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger Award.

It's summer in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a different sort of mystery on their hands: a young woman has wandered bug-bitten out of the bush and can't remember her name or where she comes from. The reason? She has been shot in the head with a small-calibre weapon and the bullet is lodged in her brain.

Then a body turns up in a cave in the woods, the corpse of one Wombat Guthrie, a biker/drug dealer whose head, hands and feet have been removed but whose tattoos are unmistakable. At first the two cases could not seem further apart. But subsequent clues, and another brutal murder, seem to connect both of them to the fortunes of a small, even amateurish, drug gang that has recently hit the big time under the leadership of an Ojibwa shaman named Red Bear.

With the help of a neuropsychologist, the mysterious young woman regains some of her memory. But try as he might, Cardinal just can't tie all these threads together. He begins to suspect that the innocent young woman may not be so innocent after all, and that her recently returned "memories" may not be the whole truth. And Red Bear may not be what he seems, either. Is he really a native shaman or is he just another drug dealer with an appetite for savage murder?

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