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| Always a popular choice among readers, quality mystery and suspense novels are now becoming more
popular with reading groups as well. From courtroom thrillers to classic crime fiction, we have a
selection that fits every taste. Here are just a few of our recommendations in this category--read more
about them, print our free Reading Group Guides, and learn what other readers have to say!
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On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife
named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She
performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of a
stroke. But what if Sibyl's patient wasn't dead--and Sibyl inadvertently killed
her? As Sibyl faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional
doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages,
moves, and transfixed us as only the very best novels ever do. Read a Q & A with the author!
Rare-book sleuth Lucas Corso is hired to authenticate a manuscript chapter of
Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, discovered after its owner's mysterious
death. The assignment leads Corso into unexpectedly dangerous waters as he
becomes the target of devil worshippers, unscrupulous bibliophiles, and a cast of
characters that seems to have come straight out of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by
an enigmatic beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to
Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. Part
mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly
original thriller that is a must-read for fans of smart mystery and suspense.
This riveting work of legal reportage is at once the story of an emotionally
explosive lawsuit and a searing expose of the American legal system. When young
lawyer Jan Schlichtmann initiates a civil suit against two of the nation's
largest corporations who stand accused of the deaths of children in a
Massachusetts suburb, he finds himself locked in an epic struggle that costs him
his home, his reputation, and very nearly his sanity.
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