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  • crazyschool orig The Crazy School

    Jan 17, 2008

    Round two of the adventures of unlikely detective Madeline Dare is sold but stolid.

  • Art Thief The Art Thief

    Oct 04, 2007

    An interesting milieu and a real-life expert don't necessarily add up to a worthwhile thriller.

  • shotgun large The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Shotgun by Ed McBain (1969)

    Sep 13, 2007

    (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing over 75 vintage science fiction, crime,...

  • doug stumpf wall street sho Confessions Of A Wall Street Shoeshine Boy

    Sep 06, 2007

    A class conscious novel doesn't quite capitalize on good intentions.

  • New England White New England White

    Aug 16, 2007

    A a sophomore mystery novel from a Yale law professor wraps a whodunit in East Coast privilege and the African-American upper class.

  • the devil you know carey bo The Devil You Know

    Jul 19, 2007

    The ever-busy comic book writer makes his novel-writing debut with a supernatural mystery.

  • Nancy Drew Nancy Drew

    Jun 15, 2007

    The doggedly old-fashioned teen sleuth from River Heights gets an '00s makeover in Hollywood.

  • michael connelly overlook Michael Connelly

    May 24, 2007

    Looking down on Mulholland, an author delivers a slim chapter in his ongoing look at L.A.

  • Chabon book The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    May 17, 2007

    Michael Chabon's latest imagines a Promised Land that never was.

  • it rhymes with lust cover It Rhymes With Lust

    Apr 26, 2007

    An early graphic novel suggests an alternate direction the form might have traveled.