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The Sultan of Sarawak
Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.
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The Therapist
From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.
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The Trap
The Trap follows the reclusive novelist Linda Conrads who sets out to trap the man she believes murdered her sister using her latest novel.
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The Two Sisters of Borneo
The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner, Ian Hamilton.
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The Water Rat of Wanchai
In the first book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar.
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The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head of Hong Kong
Get the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel — The Dragon Head of Hong Kong.
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.
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Three
Set against the backdrop of the gritty suburbs of Tel Aviv, Three is a slow-burning psychological thriller from master of suspense D. A. Mishani.
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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
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Undercard
Undercard is the story of four childhood friends reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino and an even higher-profile murder.
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{"id":6815467864123,"title":"Undermajordomo Minor","handle":"undermajordomo-minor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. 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I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief , sly fun, and tenderness.","OtherText_Review_20":"Page by page, the book is often a hoot, brimming with winningly quirky characters operating by their own twisted fairy-tale logic.","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Michael Bourne","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_21":"By turns whimsical and macabre, fanciful and sinister…it is a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, complete with sinister twists and menacing turns. It is a mythic journey from darkness to light, during which the hero accepts his fate and becomes the man he was destined to be. Moreover, it is a darn good read.","OtherText_Review_21_Auth":"Rob Reid","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Waterloo Region Record","OtherText_Review_22":"Undermajordomo Minor is an audacious fairy tale in the form of a novel. Or an outlandish novel as a fairy tale. Doesn’t matter. It’s a bold, genre-twisting narrative, worthy of a read.","OtherText_Review_22_Auth":"Thomas Trofimuk","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_23":"…a darkly funny fable.","OtherText_Review_23_Auth":"Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others","OtherText_Review_3":"Undermajordomo Minor is a wonderfully wry and wise novel, and reading it is like coming across some twisted classic — Cervantes by way of Louis C.K. I marvel at all that Patrick deWitt is able to do on the page.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins","OtherText_Review_4":"Undermajordomo Minor is brutal, brilliant, sly, absurd, and poignant. It's both gripping tale and hilarious subversion. Once again Patrick deWitt proves his wild, original talent, generous wit, and exquisite control.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask","OtherText_Review_5":"In his delightful and dark new novel, Booker nominee deWitt brings his amusingly off-kilter vision to a European folk tale . . . DeWitt uses familiar tropes to lull the reader into a false sense of grounding, delivering with abundant good humor a fully realized, consistently surprising, and thoroughly amusing tale of longing, love, madness, and mirth.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_6":"... eerily precise ... DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images. This is a bizarre, darkly funny, passionate ... book.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Times","OtherText_Review_7":"with its blend of fantasy and gothic romance, Undermajordomo Minor sounded unlikely to enchant a literalist like me. How wrong I was. From its pitch-perfect opening onwards, it's clear from the unusual atmosphere and droll narration that deWitt has created a unique fictional universe….The challenge for the reader is to resist the temptation to devour a novel which should be savoured.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Max Liu","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_Review_8":"Fans of The Sisters Brothers will rejoice at the return of deWitt’s wry, funny dialogue and over-the-top, almost slapstick violence.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Sue Carter","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_9":"Undermajordomo Minor is a masterpiece of wit.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Danny Gorny","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Is Awesome","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Leacock Medal for Humour","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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Vantage Point will publish simultaneously in the U.S. and Canada in November 2018.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOR FANS OF POLICE PROCEDURALS WITH STRONG SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMacNeice is a sophisticated and literate detective who appreciates a good book, a glass of fine grappa, and a Miles Davis record on the stereo. He’ll appeal to fans of Peter Robinson’s beloved Inspector Alan Banks. Along for the ride are Fiza Aziz, the Division’s only homicide detective with a doctorate in criminology — and its only female — and Michael Vertesi, a second-generation Italian who was born two miles from Division HQ, but still considers himself Sicilian.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. EXPOSURE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will be giving away ARCs of Erasing Memory at Bouchercon, Winter Institute, and ALA Midwinter.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A really good, twisty whodunit that also has an art-world background. One of Thornley’s best.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"In the Toronto writer Scott Thornley’s fourth and most accomplished novel featuring Mac MacNeice, he puts readers on edge in the opening pages and leaves them hanging out there until the authentically spectacular windup.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"[MacNeice is] one of Canada’s best-loved fictional detectives, whose insight-laden conversations with his deceased wife and fascination with bird calls herald the kind of oddball investigative savant whom readers adore.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"If you read only one mystery this year, make it this one","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Oakville Beaver","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the fourth novel of the series, MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated killer who draws his inspiration from classic works of art.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-11-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The MacNeice Mysteries","ShortDescription":"In the fourth novel of the series, MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated killer who draws his inspiration from classic works of art.","Subtitle":"A MacNeice Mystery","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Vantage Point
In the fourth novel of the series, MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated killer who draws his inspiration from classic works of art.
