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✍ Ozick, Cynthia 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 188 KB

In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea

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✍ David Wishart 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Severn House Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 158 KB

**_Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor.** _ _June, AD 42._ The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus's help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his sum

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✍ Kimiko Hahn 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 76 KB

**A striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)."** Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly ins

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✍ Colin A Millar 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🌐 English ⚖ 147 KB

Evidence is one thing; the truth is another. A tormented past shapes his twisted future; driven by hate he relentlessly pursues his quest: to expunge her from his psyche. Using DNA as his camouflage he knows it is unlikely he will ever be caught. He can slaughter at will the women he needs to que

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✍ Edwards, Martin 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Poisoned Pen Press, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN EDWARDS Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue – but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known on

Foreign Bodies

✍ Edwards, Martin 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Poisoned Pen Press, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN EDWARDS Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue – but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known on