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The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

8 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (Carl Hiaasen): Die Trying, Tripwire, Running Blind, Echo Burning, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World, Six Years, Sanctuary: A Tale of Life in the Woods, The Last Cruise

Die Trying
AuthorLee Child
ISBN0515142247
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In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop...
Tripwire
AuthorLee Child
ISBN0515128635
This isn't a review, because I just started reading this book, but I couldn't help sharing my irritation.

I like Lee Child's storytelling skills, and Jack Reacher is a fun character to read about.

Unfortunately, his prose is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Most irritating of all,...
Running Blind
AuthorLee Child
ISBN0515130974
“But you are kind of arrogant, you know?” she said. “Prosecutor, judge, jury, executioner, all in one? What about the rules?”
He smiled.
“Those are the rules,” he said. “People mess with me, they find that out pretty damn quick.”


FIVE SOLID STARS, YES!!!

Once...
Echo Burning
AuthorLee Child
ISBN0515133310
Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs...
The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World
AuthorMatthew Kelly
ISBN1937509265
What FOUR things did... Mother Theresa, Francis of Assisi, John Paul II, Catherine of Siena and Ignatius of Loyola all have in COMMON?

THEY ALL PRACTICED THE FOUR SIGNS.

Over the course of the past few years, The Dynamic Catholic Institute has conducted research to explore the difference...
Six Years
AuthorHarlan Coben
ISBN0525953485
Harlan Coben, the master of domestic suspense, returns with a standalone thriller in the vein of #1 bestsellers Hold Tight, Caught and Stay Close that explores the depth and passion of a lost love . . . and the secrets and lies at its heart. Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love...
Sanctuary: A Tale of Life in the Woods
AuthorPaul Monette
ISBN1555835317
"It may not have been - how could it have been - the very last forest. But to all the creatures who lived there...." Like a shaman, Monette, the novelist, poet, essayist, AIDS activist and National Book Award winner (Becoming a Man) who died of AIDS in 1995, creates a magic space within this animal fable,...
The Last Cruise
AuthorKate Christensen
ISBN0385536283
From the acclaimed PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen’s signature wit, irony, and humanity to create a striking and unforgettable vision of our times.

The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making...
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