Cotterill, Colin.

Summary: Coroner Siri Paiboun must identify a corpse found near the mansion of the new Laotian president, an investigation which includes communication with the dead, sacrificial rituals, a marriage proposal, and strange disco music that only the doctor can hear.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2006

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Cotterill, Colin.

Summary: A tale of justice done, Laotian shamanic style. With the assistance of his helpers, Dr. Siri Paiboun, the national coroner of Laos, elucidates the causes of mysterious deaths.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2005

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Cotterill, Colin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004

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Dereske, Jo.

Summary: When a corpse turns up buried in her neighbor's garden, librarian-turned-sleuth Helma Zukas sets out to find the killer before her police chief boyfriend, Wayne Gallant, becomes the next victim of a murderer who will do anything to hide the truth, using an incriminating library book that is found at the murder scene to track down the killer. Original.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2001

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Nesbø, Jo

Summary: Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes. When...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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Dereske, Jo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. 1997

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Nesbø, Jo

Summary: "From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Walton, Jo.

Summary: Lucy and David Kahn are invited to a country retreat hosted by the well-connected Farthing set, who overthrew Churchill in 1941 and negotiated peace with Hitler; and find themselves involved in a political murder where David becomes the prime suspect.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006

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Bannister, Jo.

Summary: Hired to help her friend, Daniel Hood, refresh his driving skills, Brodie Farrell must look for answers when, following a seemingly minor accident involving an hysterical young woman, the victim accuses Daniel of attempted murder.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006

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Dereske, Jo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Twilight 1999

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Nesbo, Jo

Summary: Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2013

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Bannister, Jo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995

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Dereske, Jo.

Summary: When a dead body turns up right in the middle of the fiction stacks, librarian Helma Zukas and her best friend, Ruth, begin sleuthing, putting their lives at risk in the process.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1994

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Dereske, Jo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006

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Nesbø, Jo

Summary: Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

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Rowland, Laura Joh.

Summary: When an unknown arsonist sets fire to a cottage on the grounds of the Black Lotus Temple, killing three sect members, seventeenth-century samurai detective Sano Ichiro attempts to solve the case.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001

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Rowland, Laura Joh.

Summary: A shogun's concubine dies in 17th century Japan, poisoned by the ink she used to tattoo her private parts. As he investigates the murder, Inspector Sano Ichiro is drawn into a world of intrigue among the shogun's women. By the author of The Way of the Traitor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's 1998

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Rowland, Laura Joh.

Summary: In 1698 Japan, samurai detective Sano Ichiro finds his role as the shogun's trusted advisor threatened when the shogun's heir, Lord Mori, is found murdered, with Sano's pregnant wife, Reiko, lying beside him, naked and covered in blood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006

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Hayder, Mo.

Summary: In Greenwich, England, Inspector Jack Caffery investigates the case of a woman with a live bird sewn in her body. The case is the latest in a series of murders of women whose bodies were surgically mutilated. A debut in fiction by a British woman.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999

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Talton, Jon.

Summary: Unable to keep away when his sheriff friend is nearly killed by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy David Mapstone discovers a cryptic note written by his friend that forces him to confront his own personal history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

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Hayder, Mo.

Summary: Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011

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Hayder, Mo.

Summary: Police diver Flea Marley's discovery of a human hand underwater, as well as evidence that it had been recently amputated while the victim was alive, sends Flea and Detective Inspector Jack Caffery on a search for a young man who recently vanished.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2008

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