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• Book Review: Bad Blood
  Book Review - Bad Blood. In the exciting ninth Alexandra Cooper legal thriller from bestseller Fairstein (after Death Dance), the Manhattan prosecutor is confronted with the trial lawyer's greatest fear—a witness who's destroyed on the stand...
  
  
• Book Review: The Secret
  It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Fragments of this Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries.
  
  
• Book Review: Web of Evil
  Heart-stopping! Jance deftly brings the desert, people, and towns of southeastern Arizona to life.
  
  
• New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
  At some 1,800 pages, with the additional volume to come, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is a considerable undertaking, and some readers may balk at its sheer heft. One could do worse than to heed the advice of le Carré: "Do not be dismayed," he writes in his preface. "Nobody writes of Holmes and Watson without love".
  
  
• The Terror: A Novel
  Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus, is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror, is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him...
  
  
• Book Review: The Killing Moon
  Hogan's fourth novel (after the Hammett Award–winning Prince of Thieves) convincingly and movingly brings alive the dying Massachusetts community of Black Falls, which is plagued by a brain drain and by a corrupt, if small, police force.
  
  
• True Evil: A Novel
  Smooth prose, psychological depth and crafty plotting lift bestseller Iles's latest suspense thriller, which puts a fresh twist on a familiar theme-the cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a fiendishly-clever serial killer.
  
  
• Book Review - Hit and Run
  Moreton's tepid novel of political intrigue begins with an I Know What You Did Last Summer set-up: Harvard students Nick Calevetti and Steven Adler are driving to Boston in a thick fog. Nick, a rich kid, hits a pedestrian, then finishes off the injured man with a tire iron and convinces Steve to keep it a secret.
  
  
• Book Review - Crime and Punishment
  This is an adaptation of the main storyline of the classic novel Crime and Punishment. There are no superfluous characters or persistent illustrations of nineteenth century Russian society, which the editor believes dissuade many from reading Dostoyevsky s greatest masterpiece...