Death of the Party #16
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Murder Walks the Plank #15
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Engaged to Die #14
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April Fool Dead #13
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The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
Jonas Jonasson is the Scandinavian Carl Hiaasen, retelling a 20th-century Thousand and One Nights.
Not enough of a description? Huh.
Like Hiaasen (and his Florida-insane cohorts Tim Dorsey and Dave Barry), Jonasson starts with the every-man anti-hero who gets sucked into an increasingly unbelievable series of events. …
Sugarplum Dead #12
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White Elephant Dead #11
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Timpson’s Country Churches
John Timpson
Any of my fellow Anglophiles will love this collection of country churches, collected by former BBC news reporter John Timpson. Each church is featured with a short description of the most unique features and a photo or two. The tidbits of fascinating history Timpson ferreted out are not …
Yankee Doodle Dead #10
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Mint Julep Murder #9
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
Sloan creates the perfect balance of old and new, neither one better than the other. Out of work designer, and now accidental clerk, Clay Jannon lands a strange job manning the third shift at a 24-hour bookstore. While virtually no-one buys the normal used books, a serious of …
The Norumbegan Quartet
M.T. Anderson
It’s amazing how divided the genre of young adult novels can be. There is the mindless shlock full of sparkling vampires, short words, poor grammar and insipid plot-lines. Then there are brilliant, complex and wildly imaginative series like Jinks’ Evil Genius, Stewart’s Mysterious Benedict Society and …
Earth on Fire
Bernhard Edmaier
Edmaier’s aerial photos of volcanoes, both active and dormant, around the world are works of art. Some are so alien, so intensely colored and strangely shaped, that they can’t be of this planet. Some are brooding dead hunks of rock, other fiery pits and still others glowing pools …
Southern Ghost #8
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Heavenly Vaults
David Stephenson
Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture catalogs dozens of vaulted ceilings. Each one, shot from a prone position below, is a masterpiece. The ability of humans with nothing but crude tools and sweat-labor to make some magnificent structures is mind-boggling. We have wildly advanced tools, …
Gothic and Lolita and Advanced Style
Masayuki Yoshinaga and Katsuhiko Ishikawa
Ari Seth Cohen
Like Fruits and Fresh Fruits, Gothic and Lolita and Advanced Style are photo collections of street fashion – people wearing their own style as they go about their day. The gothic and lolita styles, photographed in Japan, follow relatively rigid lines. …