Cook is an engaging writer, and he peppers his high-tech detective story with digressions both rich and entertaining.
This detective story is a thrilling and eerily suggestive tour of a territory whose boundaries are maddeningly elusive, murderously fluid.
However, Sturges deftly puts his own spin on the hard-boiled detective story.
It is a hardboiled detective story set in an affluent Californian high school where everyone speaks a wonderful mixture of teen slang and 70-year-old pulp lingo.
"It's a beautiful accident of evolution, " says Philip A. Beachy, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Johns Hopkins University and one of the key players in this genetic detective story.
While such may make for a good detective story, that should not be the standard of presentation for a formal regulatory document setting forth the circumstances on which an individual has been barred from the securities industry.
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When the novel came out in Paris, from a different publisher, Morini had already made his fourth and fifth films, a conventional but engaging French detective story and a turkey about a supposedly amusing family vacation in Saint-Tropez.
In form, the movie is a detective story, but we watch with increasing apprehensiveness as it dawns on us that Pharaon might be a kind of sluggish Oedipus, a sleuth who uncovers the traces of a crime that he has committed himself.
That sensibility led Topkis to her first winner, a 1995 British detective story called Death in the Garden, by Elizabeth Ironside. (In January Garden briefly beat out The Da Vinci Code as the top mystery seller on Amazon.com.) To publish this out-of-print title, Topkis had to track down the book's rights.
The story follows detective Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli) as he discovers that he has the power to see various ghouls, werewolves, and other creatures disguised to normal human eyes behind normal human faces.
With his new thriller, "Stay Close, " a story about a washed-up photographer, an ex-stripper and detective who team up to unravel a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, Mr. Coben isn't leaving anything to chance.
Next up: The story, set between 1895 and 1905, of a legendary, Chicago-based detective agency that sends its detectives all around the country.
L.A. Noire is a crime thriller that is the story of Cole Phelps, a decorated World War II veteran and newly-minted detective in the LAPD.
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