The Best American Mystery Stories 2006

10 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (Scott Turow): Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons, Sputnik Sweetheart, The Offing, Sarah Jane, Hell's Corner, Shadow of the Silk Road, Deep Freeze, Pale Kings And Princes, Beach Road, Fleshmarket Close

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	0896214400

"Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption is subtitled 'Hope Springs Eternal' - and that perfectly sums up the soul of his book.



It's hope that keeps you going - even after everything horrible...

Sputnik Sweetheart

Author	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	0099448475

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Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours...

The Offing

Author	Benjamin Myers
ISBN	1526611317

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...

Sarah Jane

Author	James Sallis
ISBN	1641290803

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised...

Hell's Corner

Author	David Baldacci
ISBN	0230706150

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in #1 bestselling author David Baldacci's most stunning adventure yet.

An attack on the heart of power . . .

In sight of the White House . . .

At a place known as . . .

HELL'S CORNER

John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most...

Shadow of the Silk Road

Author

Colin Thubron

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local...

Deep Freeze

Author

John Sandford

Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford.

Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it...

Pale Kings And Princes

Author	Robert B. Parker
ISBN	0440200040

Wheaton is a typical New England small-college town, not the sort of place for drugs and murder. But when a reporter gets too inquisitive, he finds both -- the latter on his own. Spenser's call comes when the local cops work a cover. He needs help to solve this one -- Hawk for back-up and Susan for insight...

Beach Road

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	0316159786

Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in America's wealthiest resort town: legendary East Hampton. But his job barely keeps him in paper clips. His clients make a living serving the rich. The billionaires and celebrities swarming the beaches already have lawyers on their payroll.Very Expensive
Then...

Fleshmarket Close

Author	Ian Rankin
ISBN	0752865633

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn...

Hidden River

Author	Adrian McKinty
ISBN	0743470575

After Alexander Lawson -- a rising star on Northern Ireland's police force at twenty-four -- is assigned to the corruption-ridden drug squad, he becomes addicted to heroin under unusual circumstances. Forced to resign in disgrace, he is still an addict when he learns that his high school girlfriend,...

Home Land

Author	Sam Lipsyte
ISBN	0312424183

What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told...the truth! Here is an update from hell, a brilliant work from novelist Sam Lipsyte, whom Jeffrey Eugenides calls "original, devious, and very funny" and of whose first novel Chuck Palahniuk wrote, "I laughed out loud---and...

Mr In Between

Author	Neil Cross
ISBN	0099778718

I don't mind admitting that this unsparing and disturbing novel by Neil Cross had me in a vise-like grip right from the opening line. This is relentless storytelling, incorporating literary components as well as heart-pounding passages of inhuman violence, and combining this potent mix with a totally...

Time Streams

Author	J. Robert King
ISBN	0786913444

Urza's Legacy Unfolds.

Urza Planeswalker has enlisted the most brilliant minds from across Dominaria to study at his academy on Tolaria. Together they work to bring to life the greatest artifact weapon Urza has ever devised, hoping to use it to defend their home from an imminent Phyrexian...

The Red Room

Author

Nicci French

Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway...

The House Husband

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	1786530988

Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband...well, maybe not.


Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she--and you, dear reader--will never see coming.

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The Diamond Caper

Author	Peter Mayle
ISBN	0385353901

Bon vivant and expert sleuth, Sam Levitt, and his partner in love and intrigue, Elena Morales, return in the latest installment of the delightful, sun-splashed, Provençal Caper series.

When a Riviera socialite's diamonds are stolen--the latest in a string of seemingly unconnected, but...

Winter's Tales

Author	Isak Dinesen
ISBN	0679743340

In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value...