Shamini's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:49:40 -0700 60 Shamini's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Go Set a Watchman 24817626 To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch�"Scout"—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic.]]> 278 Harper Lee 0062409859 Shamini 1
And then my husband bright home a copy of the sequel thinking I would be excited and it lay on my bedside table for a few days while I debated whether to open it and tried to decide whom I would would be betraying by reading it; my younger self, Harper Lee, Atticus?

Finally, I decided to go ahead. For two reasons. (SPOILER ALERT - don't read on if you want the plot twists to surprise you although they've been in the papers!)

1. Curiosity

2. I wondered whether the key changes (Jem's death/Atticus turning out to be a racist) were a parable for our times. I became a lawyer but I'm not Atticus nor ever will be. The world we live in cries out for men and women of character but none heed the call. Perhaps, it is fitting, that an inspirational book should have a tawdry end in an unexpected sequel, its the way of humanity, after all. We're all going to be on our iPhones, Whatsapping each other about C-list celebrities, while the world ends with a whimper.

So I read Go Set a Watchman.

As I'm sure you know Watchman is being touted as a sequel with a grown up Scout returning to Maycomb County for a visit and as it turns out, confront the changes that have taken place there.

However, there are many who insist the book was merely a first draft of Mockingbird, totally re-written at the behest of the editors into the classic we all know and love. Therefore to publish the first draft is an obscene act by Harper Lee's lawyers and publishers and would never have been allowed by Harper if she was in full control of her faculties or her sister who was formerly her carer but has since died.

Having read it ...

I can assure you that this was an early draft by an enormously talented writer but still a beginner when she wrote Watchman. This book should NEVER have seen the light of day except as a lesson to would-be writers that when an editor suggests changes, they may be on to something ...

My evidence for the assertion above:

1. The actual writing demonstrates the enormous talent of Harper Lee as a wordsmith. The lyricism is still there, it's like listening to Obama when he gave the eulogy after the black church killings. An editor would have been excited to read it.

2. But the only bits that stand out and are memorable are Jean Louise's (Scout's) flashbacks to her childhood (again based on that old adage, write what you know, those sections ring true) so one can see why a top class editor would think that a book set then would be more effective than a book set during Scout's adulthood.

3. The grown-up Scout is somewhat smug and irritating and self-righteous in her 'colour blind' view of the world. What do amateur writers do when their characters aren't sympathetic enough? God knows I've done it often enough myself! We kill of someone close to the character to add depth/burden etc - a plot device in other words. So when we get to the bit where it turns out Jem is dead, I actually laughed out loud. If Harper Lee had written Mockingbird first, there was no way she could have written that section in such an offhand way, she would have sweated blood to kill off our Jem of Mockingbird.

4. There's also a brief mention of forgetting to tell Dill about Jem dying. Again, if she had written Mockingbird first, it would be completely out of character for anyone to forget to tell Dill. He would have the first person Scout ran to for comfort (after Atticus).

5. And then there's Atticus, a racist in his old age despite bringing up Scout to treat all people as equals. The story in Watchman, insofar, as there is a plot, is basically about Scout discovering that she has to take ownership of her own morality and belief system, she can no longer piggy back on Atticus as their views have diverged. She has to 'grow up'.

Again, we have a profound beginner writer's mistake - where the editor write SHOW NOT TELL in the margins in a big red pen. In Watchman, we are told how wonderful Atticus is, but we are never shown. The only major scene showing character is when he sits approvingly through a racist diatribe by some segregationist.

When Harper Lee wrote Mockingbird, she fixed this problem through and through. We don't aspire to be Atticus because we're told he's a good man. Instead, we remember him telling Jem not to shoot a mockingbird, him shooting the rabid dog, accepting payment in kind from the Cunninghams, sitting in front of the jailhouse to protect his client from a lynch mob, letting Scout be who she is, taking care of Boo, taking on the white establishment to defend a black man. That my friends is showing, not telling.

6. Characters that work in one's mind but not on paper. New writers love the idea of mysterious, erudite characters, speaking in riddles. On the page, it's damned irritating. Scout's uncle in Watchman is the sort of character a new writer pens only to discover later that he's a complete creature of fiction with no reality about him. There were no such characters in Mockingbird. The same can be said for Hank but I'm too bored to even talk about his role in Watchman.

7. The soapbox treatment. Whenever my Singh feels strongly on some subject (or I do) there is an inevitable scene in my first draft where a character will make a long speech justifying MY position on the issue. It inevitably comes out in the final edition when my editor points out that more subtle means are needed to get my point across. Harper Lee is obviously a woman with a profound sense of the wrongness of segregation despite growing up in the South. She credits Scout with these strengths - Scout too is 'colour blind' on race. But again we have Scout making angry speeches which are a lot less effective than Atticus leading by example in the rewritten version.

8. Lastly, in an attempt to justify Atticus's attitude she suggests the argument is about state rights versus federal government intervention and that he believes that integration needs time and can't be done in a twinkling because the black race is not ready. This bit sounds like a C- essay on law written by Thomas or Scalia. In Mockingbird, she ditches the politics and focuses on the ethics, as it should be.

As you can see, I was quite worked up reading this book as I usually don't bother to write reviews - too much else to write :-)

Anyway, there's good news and bad news.

The bad news is that my husband paid for the book so we have lined the pockets of the publisher. If you must read it, I am happy to post you my copy FOC (just PM me) so that we don't further this act of literary sabotage.

The good news for those who grew up with Mockingbird is that Watchman changes nothing. Nothing in it sticks or changes the way you feel about the characters. It is an early draft by a genius who then gave us the book so many of us needed growing up.

Maybe its time to try and live up to Atticus again ...]]> 3.28 2015 Go Set a Watchman
author: Harper Lee
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2015
rating: 1
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I was extremely reluctant to read Go Set a Watchman, firstly because of all the shenanigans that have gone on behind the scenes re the publication and secondly, because I'm one of those people who changed my own life because of To Kill a Mockingbird. When I didn't fit in anywhere as a child, school, family etc, I took courage from Scout and I always knew that I wanted to be just like Atticus when I grew up - the main reason I'm a lawyer.

And then my husband bright home a copy of the sequel thinking I would be excited and it lay on my bedside table for a few days while I debated whether to open it and tried to decide whom I would would be betraying by reading it; my younger self, Harper Lee, Atticus?

Finally, I decided to go ahead. For two reasons. (SPOILER ALERT - don't read on if you want the plot twists to surprise you although they've been in the papers!)

1. Curiosity

2. I wondered whether the key changes (Jem's death/Atticus turning out to be a racist) were a parable for our times. I became a lawyer but I'm not Atticus nor ever will be. The world we live in cries out for men and women of character but none heed the call. Perhaps, it is fitting, that an inspirational book should have a tawdry end in an unexpected sequel, its the way of humanity, after all. We're all going to be on our iPhones, Whatsapping each other about C-list celebrities, while the world ends with a whimper.

So I read Go Set a Watchman.

As I'm sure you know Watchman is being touted as a sequel with a grown up Scout returning to Maycomb County for a visit and as it turns out, confront the changes that have taken place there.

However, there are many who insist the book was merely a first draft of Mockingbird, totally re-written at the behest of the editors into the classic we all know and love. Therefore to publish the first draft is an obscene act by Harper Lee's lawyers and publishers and would never have been allowed by Harper if she was in full control of her faculties or her sister who was formerly her carer but has since died.

Having read it ...

I can assure you that this was an early draft by an enormously talented writer but still a beginner when she wrote Watchman. This book should NEVER have seen the light of day except as a lesson to would-be writers that when an editor suggests changes, they may be on to something ...

My evidence for the assertion above:

1. The actual writing demonstrates the enormous talent of Harper Lee as a wordsmith. The lyricism is still there, it's like listening to Obama when he gave the eulogy after the black church killings. An editor would have been excited to read it.

2. But the only bits that stand out and are memorable are Jean Louise's (Scout's) flashbacks to her childhood (again based on that old adage, write what you know, those sections ring true) so one can see why a top class editor would think that a book set then would be more effective than a book set during Scout's adulthood.

3. The grown-up Scout is somewhat smug and irritating and self-righteous in her 'colour blind' view of the world. What do amateur writers do when their characters aren't sympathetic enough? God knows I've done it often enough myself! We kill of someone close to the character to add depth/burden etc - a plot device in other words. So when we get to the bit where it turns out Jem is dead, I actually laughed out loud. If Harper Lee had written Mockingbird first, there was no way she could have written that section in such an offhand way, she would have sweated blood to kill off our Jem of Mockingbird.

4. There's also a brief mention of forgetting to tell Dill about Jem dying. Again, if she had written Mockingbird first, it would be completely out of character for anyone to forget to tell Dill. He would have the first person Scout ran to for comfort (after Atticus).

5. And then there's Atticus, a racist in his old age despite bringing up Scout to treat all people as equals. The story in Watchman, insofar, as there is a plot, is basically about Scout discovering that she has to take ownership of her own morality and belief system, she can no longer piggy back on Atticus as their views have diverged. She has to 'grow up'.

Again, we have a profound beginner writer's mistake - where the editor write SHOW NOT TELL in the margins in a big red pen. In Watchman, we are told how wonderful Atticus is, but we are never shown. The only major scene showing character is when he sits approvingly through a racist diatribe by some segregationist.

When Harper Lee wrote Mockingbird, she fixed this problem through and through. We don't aspire to be Atticus because we're told he's a good man. Instead, we remember him telling Jem not to shoot a mockingbird, him shooting the rabid dog, accepting payment in kind from the Cunninghams, sitting in front of the jailhouse to protect his client from a lynch mob, letting Scout be who she is, taking care of Boo, taking on the white establishment to defend a black man. That my friends is showing, not telling.

6. Characters that work in one's mind but not on paper. New writers love the idea of mysterious, erudite characters, speaking in riddles. On the page, it's damned irritating. Scout's uncle in Watchman is the sort of character a new writer pens only to discover later that he's a complete creature of fiction with no reality about him. There were no such characters in Mockingbird. The same can be said for Hank but I'm too bored to even talk about his role in Watchman.

7. The soapbox treatment. Whenever my Singh feels strongly on some subject (or I do) there is an inevitable scene in my first draft where a character will make a long speech justifying MY position on the issue. It inevitably comes out in the final edition when my editor points out that more subtle means are needed to get my point across. Harper Lee is obviously a woman with a profound sense of the wrongness of segregation despite growing up in the South. She credits Scout with these strengths - Scout too is 'colour blind' on race. But again we have Scout making angry speeches which are a lot less effective than Atticus leading by example in the rewritten version.

8. Lastly, in an attempt to justify Atticus's attitude she suggests the argument is about state rights versus federal government intervention and that he believes that integration needs time and can't be done in a twinkling because the black race is not ready. This bit sounds like a C- essay on law written by Thomas or Scalia. In Mockingbird, she ditches the politics and focuses on the ethics, as it should be.

As you can see, I was quite worked up reading this book as I usually don't bother to write reviews - too much else to write :-)

Anyway, there's good news and bad news.

The bad news is that my husband paid for the book so we have lined the pockets of the publisher. If you must read it, I am happy to post you my copy FOC (just PM me) so that we don't further this act of literary sabotage.

The good news for those who grew up with Mockingbird is that Watchman changes nothing. Nothing in it sticks or changes the way you feel about the characters. It is an early draft by a genius who then gave us the book so many of us needed growing up.

Maybe its time to try and live up to Atticus again ...
]]> <![CDATA[Journey of the Chosen (The Animal Talkers, #2)]]> 16671892 250 Shamini Flint 9810728719 Shamini 5 5.00 2011 Journey of the Chosen (The Animal Talkers, #2)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seeds of Time (The Animal Talkers, #1)]]> 16671891 250 Shamini Flint 9810728700 Shamini 5 5.00 2008 The Seeds of Time (The Animal Talkers, #1)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (Inspector Singh, 2)]]> 16202660 336 Shamini Flint 1937384357 Shamini 5 3.79 2009 Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (Inspector Singh, 2)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[A Calamitous Chinese Killing (Inspector Singh Investigates, #6)]]> 17738824 Inspector Singh's expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political intrigue to get to the bottom of a very murky and complex crimeĚýInspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but the young man's mother demands that Singapore's finest (in his own opinion) rides to the rescue. But solving a murder in a country that practices socialism "with Chinese characteristics" is a dangerous business, and it soon becomes apparent that getting to the bottom of this calamitous killing will be his toughest case yet.]]> 320 Shamini Flint 0749957794 Shamini 5 3.82 2013 A Calamitous Chinese Killing (Inspector Singh Investigates, #6)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2013
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]]> Death Comes to Pemberley 12875355
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth’s sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy’s sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.

Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.

Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it.]]> 291 P.D. James 0307959856 Shamini 2 3.32 2011 Death Comes to Pemberley
author: P.D. James
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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]]> Party Time 17792586 28 Shamini Flint 9810879024 Shamini 5 4.00 2010 Party Time
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 5
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]]> The Undone Years 17026996
Against a backdrop of the fall of Singapore, the communist insurgency and the eventual Japanese surrender, The Undone Years is a very human story of love and betrayal in a time of war.]]> 344 Shamini Flint 9810720610 Shamini 5 4.40 2012 The Undone Years
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.40
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]]> Diary of a Soccer Star 11516716 Shamini Flint Shamini 5 4.18 2010 Diary of a Soccer Star
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Sasha Visits Bangkok (Sasha in Asia, 4)]]> 2125849 24 Shamini Flint 9810565410 Shamini 5 4.67 2006 Sasha Visits Bangkok (Sasha in Asia, 4)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.67
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]]> Jungle Blues 2125847 Shamini Flint 9810538944 Shamini 5 4.60 2005 Jungle Blues
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.60
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]]> Sasha Visits Singapore 2125852 24 Shamini Flint 9810565402 Shamini 5 4.14 2006 Sasha Visits Singapore
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.14
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]]> Sasha Visits Kuala Lumpur 10015503 24 Shamini Flint 9810558066 Shamini 5 4.25 2006 Sasha Visits Kuala Lumpur
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]]> <![CDATA[Journey of the Chosen (The Animal Talkers, #2)]]> 15783238 Journey of the Chosen, book two of The Animal Talkers, the thrilling sequel to The Seeds of Time.]]> 278 Shamini Flint 9810701047 Shamini 5 4.40 2011 Journey of the Chosen (The Animal Talkers, #2)
author: Shamini Flint
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average rating: 4.40
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]]> Sasha Visits Hong Kong 2125850 24 Shamini Flint 9810561903 Shamini 5 4.25 2006 Sasha Visits Hong Kong
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.25
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]]> Diary of a Cricket God 14625111 108 Shamini Flint 1742378269 Shamini 5 4.35 2011 Diary of a Cricket God
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.35
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]]> Sasha Visits Bali 1880779 24 flint-shamini 9810554044 Shamini 5 4.08 2006 Sasha Visits Bali
author: flint-shamini
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 5
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]]> Ten 6921851 146 Shamini Flint 9810815972 Shamini 5 3.86 2009 Ten
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Curious Indian Cadaver (Inspector Singh Investigates #5)]]> 11486977 Unfortunately, the beautiful bride-to-be disappears on the eve of her wedding - did she run away to avoid an arranged marriage, or is there something more sinister afoot? When a corpse is found, the fat inspector is soon dragged into a curious murder investigation with very firm instructions from Mrs Singh to exonerate her family. But as he uncovers layer upon layer of deceit, he knows it isn't going to be that easy...]]> 320 Shamini Flint 074995342X Shamini 5 3.78 2012 A Curious Indian Cadaver (Inspector Singh Investigates #5)
author: Shamini Flint
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]]> <![CDATA[A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (Inspector Singh Investigates #4)]]> 11053574
But for the first time the fat Sikh inspector is on the verge of losing his appetite when a key member of the tribunal is murdered in cold blood. The authorities are determined to write off the incident as a random act of violence, but Singh thinks otherwise. It isn't long before he finds himself caught up in one of the most terrible murder investigations he's witnessed - the roots of which lie in the dark depths of the Cambodian killing fields. . .]]> 317 Shamini Flint Shamini 5 3.95 2011 A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (Inspector Singh Investigates #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (Inspector Singh Investigates #2)]]> 6483055 292 Shamini Flint 0749929766 Shamini 5 3.73 2009 A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul (Inspector Singh Investigates #2)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.73
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]]> <![CDATA[The Singapore School of Villainy (Inspector Singh Investigates #3)]]> 6670541 320 Shamini Flint 0749929774 Shamini 5 3.79 2010 The Singapore School of Villainy (Inspector Singh Investigates #3)
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates #1)]]> 6483054 295 Shamini Flint 0749929758 Shamini 5 3.54 2009 A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates #1)
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name: Shamini
average rating: 3.54
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Win a Nobel Prize: A Stay-at-Home Mums Guide]]> 838223
- climate change
- global poverty
- the war on terror

and what it all means for our children?

A Stay-at-home mum sets out the small steps we can each take to save the future for our children - without compromising the present with our children.]]> 123 Shamini Flint 9810565372 Shamini 5 4.00 How to Win a Nobel Prize: A Stay-at-Home Mums Guide
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]]> Diary of a Rugby Champ 17184156 Dad's totally lost it! He wants me to play rugby.
Rugby's different from soccer and cricket.
In soccer and cricket you get hurt by accident.
In rugby, they hurt you on purpose!]]> 108 Shamini Flint 1743313594 Shamini 5 4.05 2013 Diary of a Rugby Champ
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]]> An Elephant in the Room 2125846
This is Shamini Flint's eleventh children's little. Previously she has produced seven travel books for children and three titles to date in her "Endangered Species" series. She has also written a crime novel and a book on how to win the Nobel Prize for stay-at-home mums.]]> 24 Shamini Flint 981057813X Shamini 5 4.67 2007 An Elephant in the Room
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.67
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]]> Sasha Visits London 2125851 24 Shamini Flint 9810578113 Shamini 5 4.80 2007 Sasha Visits London
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
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]]> <![CDATA[Diary of a Taekwondo Master (Diary of a...)]]> 17356605 In illustrated diary format, the hilarious tale of a boy who is a taekwondo master—not!

Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sports. But his dad, a self-help author, is convinced otherwise. He believes that Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to—with hilarious results. Flint's gentle, satiric humor and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about taekwondo.]]> 108 Shamini Flint 1743431600 Shamini 5 4.26 2013 Diary of a Taekwondo Master (Diary of a...)
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.26
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]]> Sasha Visits Sentosa Island 9747907 24 Shamini Flint 9810523432 Shamini 5 5.00 Sasha Visits Sentosa Island
author: Shamini Flint
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]]> <![CDATA[Sasha Visits the Botanic Gardens]]> 10015511 24 Shamini Flint 9810498853 Shamini 5 5.00 2003 Sasha Visits the Botanic Gardens
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 5
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]]> A T-Rex ate my Homework 3796717 24 Shamini Flint 9810587090 Shamini 5 5.00 2007 A T-Rex ate my Homework
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 5.00
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]]> Turtle Takes a Trip 2125853 28 Shamini Flint 9810565399 Shamini 5 4.20 2006 Turtle Takes a Trip
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Partners in Crime: Asian Crime Fiction Series]]> 2958649 255 Shamini Flint 9810546289 Shamini 5 3.33 2005 Partners in Crime: Asian Crime Fiction Series
author: Shamini Flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seeds Of Time (The Animal Talkers, #1)]]> 9525438 282 shamini-flint 9810804512 Shamini 5 3.95 2008 The Seeds Of Time (The Animal Talkers, #1)
author: shamini-flint
name: Shamini
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)]]> 76914 304 Colin Dexter 0804114897 Shamini 4 3.86 1986 The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories]]> 859795 304 Colin Dexter 0804113092 Shamini 4 3.75 1993 Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The First Inspector Morse Omnibus [The Dead of Jericho / Service of All the Dead / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn] (Inspector Morse, #3-5)]]> 191880 586 Colin Dexter 0330335588 Shamini 4 4.21 1991 The First Inspector Morse Omnibus [The Dead of Jericho / Service of All the Dead / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn] (Inspector Morse, #3-5)
author: Colin Dexter
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse #6)]]> 191881 The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all . . .

By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.

Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder . . .]]> 272 Colin Dexter 0804114889 Shamini 4 3.82 1983 The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)]]> 76915 304 Colin Dexter 0804114854 Shamini 4 3.93 1979 Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)
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book published: 1979
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)]]> 76908 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
The case seems so simple, Inspector Morse deemed it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady's handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her late husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinking--and drinking--in the hotel's bar, certain the solution is close at hand--until conflicting stories, suspicious doings, and a real murder convince him otherwise....
"It is a delight to watch this brilliant, quirky man [Morse] deduce."
MINNEAPOLIS STAR & TRIBUNE]]> 241 Colin Dexter 0804109818 Shamini 4 3.86 1991 The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse #3)]]> 76916 288 Colin Dexter 0804114870 Shamini 4 3.83 1977 The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)]]> 76907 Chief Inspector Morse, investigating the murder on Bloxham Drive, follows a trail that leads first to a tabloid journalist, then to the strip clubs of Soho. It soon winds back, however, to the university. For Morse and his partner, Sergeant Lewis, the question becomes: Is the Mastership of Lonsdale worth killing for?]]> 347 Colin Dexter 0517707861 Shamini 5 4.05 1996 Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11)]]> 969346 320 Colin Dexter 0804113645 Shamini 4 4.01 1994 The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)]]> 1003488 256 Colin Dexter 0330370308 Shamini 4 3.95 1989 The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)]]> 76906 The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse.

Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes, this way, he almost managed to forget. But not tonight . . .

Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit.

He turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 3rd October.

He hadn't planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day - as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation . . .

]]> 304 Colin Dexter 0804114862 Shamini 4 3.98 1981 The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)]]> 76910 326 Colin Dexter 0804114919 Shamini 4 3.86 1976 Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)]]> 76917 320 Colin Dexter 0804111421 Shamini 4 4.12 1992 The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)]]> 76912 "Things are moving fast."
"We're getting near the end, you mean?"
"We were always near the end."

For a year, the murder of Yvonne Harrison at her home in the Cotswold village of Lower Swinstead has baffled the Thames Valley CID. But one man has yet to tackle the case--and it is just the sort of puzzle at which Chief Inspector Morse excels.

So why is he adamant that he will not lead the reinvestigation, despite two anonymous phone calls that hint at new evidence? And why, if he refuses to take on the case officially, does he seem to be carrying out his own private inquiries?

When Sergeant Lewis learns that Morse was once friendly with Yvonne Harrison, he begins to suspect that the man who has earned his admiration, and exasperation, over so many years knows more about her death than he is letting on. When Morse finally does take over, the investigation leads down highways and byways that are disturbing to all concerned.

And then there is that final twist!

The Remorseful Day is full of the wonderful, unique touches that characterize Colin Dexter's novels. There is the brilliant, cranky Morse, the stubborn Sergeant Lewis, determined to best his boss at his own game, and, of course, the lovingly described town of Oxford, where grand colleges and old traditions are confronted by the new and the nasty. And throughout, there is today's world, as seen by Chief Inspector Morse.]]> 384 Colin Dexter 0609606220 Shamini 4 4.22 1999 The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
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]]> <![CDATA[Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)]]> 76909 282 Colin Dexter 0804114900 Shamini 5 3.85 1975 Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1975
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]]> <![CDATA[Second Son (Jack Reacher, #15.5)]]> 12191246 32 Lee Child Shamini 4 3.95 2011 Second Son (Jack Reacher, #15.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)]]> 13359067
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.

All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat - to both sides at once.

14 hr., 30 min]]> 15 Lee Child 0307749606 Shamini 4 3.99 2012 A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)]]> 2211221 It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.

]]> 416 Lee Child 0385340567 Shamini 4 3.89 2008 Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)]]> 455930
He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She’s alone, driving a Cadillac. She’s beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn’t kill her first.

Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen’s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can’t be trusted. The lawyers won’t help. If Reacher can’t set things straight, who can?]]> 432 Lee Child 0515133310 Shamini 4 3.98 2001 Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
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]]> Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7) 455941
The ultimate loner.

An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments.

And without fear. Which is good, because trouble--big, violent, complicated trouble--finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once...not ever.

But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.

Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...justice.]]> 496 Lee Child 0440241006 Shamini 4 4.09 2003 Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
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]]> The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8) 231562
New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets� motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.

Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.]]> 496 Lee Child 0440241014 Shamini 4 4.14 2004 The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)]]> 383028
Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.

On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer’s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows He’s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.]]> 384 Lee Child 0385336691 Shamini 3 4.13 2006 The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)]]> 10428708
Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer?

The adrenaline-pumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him?

Is this his last case in uniform?]]> 427 Lee Child 0593065700 Shamini 3 4.11 2011 The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
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]]> 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14) 6977769 Ěý
The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1Ěý New York Times Ěýbestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.
Ěý
Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearbyĚýBolton,ĚýSouth Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming toĚýBolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save.
Ěý
InĚý 61 Hours , Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with anĚýexplosiveĚýending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.]]> 383 Lee Child 0385340583 Shamini 3 4.08 2010 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
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]]> <![CDATA[Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)]]> 455925 512 Lee Child 0515130974 Shamini 4 4.09 2000 Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)]]> 108942
A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story—about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don� t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing—and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.

For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his life—and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them…]]> 378 Lee Child 0385340559 Shamini 3 4.17 2007 Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)]]> 8357992
The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late—and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.Ěý

For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.]]> 400 Lee Child 0440339340 Shamini 4 4.20 2010 Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)
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]]> <![CDATA[Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)]]> 4494917
Lee Child er einn vinsælasti spennusagnahöfundur heims og söguhetja hans, einfarinn Jack Reacher sem flakkar um Bandaríkin og tekst á við illvirkja og hryðjuverkamenn, á sér ótal aðdáendur.]]> 441 Lee Child 0593057058 Shamini 4 4.17 2009 Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
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]]> Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) 220969 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline. . . and a burning match. The FBI is desperate to rescue the woman, a Special Agent from the Chicago office, because the FBI always - always - takes care of its own, and because this woman is not just another agent. Reacher and the woman join forces, against seemingly hopeless odds, to outwit their captors and escape. But the FBI thinks Jack is one of the kidnappers - and when they close in, the Bureau snipers will be shooting to kill.]]> 567 Lee Child 0515142247 Shamini 4 4.04 1998 Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
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]]> Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3) 220970 432 Lee Child 0515128635 Shamini 4 4.08 1999 Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)]]> 21745
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast - because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Reacher.]]> 14 Lee Child 1590860624 Shamini 3 4.15 2002 Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
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]]> One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9) 220968
The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away–point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands. And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best.

Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot…]]> 466 Lee Child 0440241022 Shamini 3 4.21 2005 One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)
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]]> <![CDATA[Talking About Detective Fiction]]> 7016470 Ěý
Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.]]> 198 P.D. James 0307592820 Shamini 4 3.78 2009 Talking About Detective Fiction
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]]> Innocent Blood 3834 400 P.D. James 0743219635 Shamini 4 3.66 1980 Innocent Blood
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]]> <![CDATA[The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)]]> 46019 352 P.D. James 0743222059 Shamini 5 3.79 1982 The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh, #2)]]> 764263
On the surface, the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is one of the most reputable institutions in London. But when the administrative head is found dead with a chisel in her heart, that distinguished facade begins to crumble as the truth emerges. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate and quickly finds himself caught in a whirlwind of psychiatry, drugs, and deceit. Now he must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts has resulted in murder and stop a cunning killer before the next blow.]]> 256 P.D. James 0743219589 Shamini 5 3.81 1963 A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)]]> 3815
The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose ruthless ambition has made him many enemies: a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author and rebellious colleagues. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a killer who is prepared to strike again.]]> 511 P.D. James Shamini 4 3.89 1994 Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)]]> 29204
A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest.ĚýĚýIn her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, she has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror. As each character leaps into unforgettable life, as each scene draws us forward into new complexities of plot, she proves yet again that no other writer can match her skill in combining the excitement of the classic detective story with the richness of a fine novel. In its subtle portrayal of morality and human behavior, A Certain Justice will stand alongside Devices and Desires and A Taste for Death as one of P.D. James's most important, accomplished and entertaining works.]]> 688 P.D. James 0770429912 Shamini 4 3.93 1997 A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)
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]]> <![CDATA[Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)]]> 3828 306 P.D. James 0571204201 Shamini 5 3.95 1977 Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)]]> 46020 480 P.D. James 0446679194 Shamini 5 3.97 1989 Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)]]> 78129 474 Lee Child 0515141429 Shamini 3 4.08 1997 Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh, #3)]]> 3827 An Adam Dalgleish Mystery

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break.

However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a drifting dinghy to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation.]]> 218 P.D. James 0571204104 Shamini 5 3.91 1967 Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh, #5)]]> 3833 346 P.D. James 0743219619 Shamini 5 3.96 1975 The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)]]> 443291
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne—a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time—when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room—and is preparing to kill again—Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.]]> 415 P.D. James 1400076099 Shamini 4 3.82 2003 The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)]]> 3830 459 P.D. James 1400096472 Shamini 4 4.02 1986 A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray, #1)]]> 365307 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way� (The New York Times).

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.]]> 256 P.D. James 0743219554 Shamini 4 3.83 1972 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)]]> 3825
On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote, rarified community of the faithful–and the frightened. And when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime but to begin an unholy order of murder. . . .

“Gracefully sculpted prose and [a] superbly executed mystery . . . Death in Holy Orders is among [James’s] most remarkable and accomplished Dalgliesh novels.�
�The Philadelphia Inquirer

“An elegant work about hope, death, and the alternately redemptive and destructive nature of love.�
�The Miami Herald

“Absorbing . . . [James’s] plotting and characterization [are] impeccable.�
�Orlando Sentinel

“P. D. James is in top form.�
�The Boston Globe

Open the exclusive dossier at the back of this book, featuring P. D. James� essay on penning the perfect detective novel.]]> 448 P.D. James 0345446666 Shamini 3 3.89 2001 Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)]]> 4162673 416 P.D. James 0571242448 Shamini 3 3.78 2008 The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> Innocent House 758407 Innocent House - taken from Original Sin - he is confronted with a suspicious death and a puzzle at a respected publishing house.]]> 58 P.D. James 0141022574 Shamini 4 3.89 2005 Innocent House
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average rating: 3.89
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)]]> 764434 The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series.

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.]]> 368 P.D. James 0743219600 Shamini 5 4.03 1971 Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)
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]]> The Children of Men 41913 The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.]]> 241 P.D. James 0307279901 Shamini 5 3.69 1992 The Children of Men
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]]> <![CDATA[Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)]]> 3832 Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

]]> 250 P.D. James 0743219570 Shamini 4 3.93 1962 Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13)]]> 3826 383 P.D. James 0307275736 Shamini 3 3.81 2005 The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13)
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]]> Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14) 6528
She and her team --- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece, Lucy --- track the odd connections between several horrific crimes and the people who are the likely suspects. As one psychopath, safely behind bars and the subject of a classified scientific study at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact --- or fantasy --- the number of killers on the loose seems to multiply. Are these events related or merely random? And what can the study of one man's brain tell them about the methods of a psychopath still lurking in the shadows?]]> 453 Patricia Cornwell 0425210278 Shamini 3 3.72 2005 Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
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]]> Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13) 6530
Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence --- traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak --- and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear ...]]> 401 Patricia Cornwell 0425204200 Shamini 3 3.81 2004 Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)]]> 123598 441 Patricia Cornwell 0425175405 Shamini 3 3.90 1999 Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)]]> 320167 Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0751525359

Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security she needs when she discovers that Anna has been subpoenaed to appear before a Grand Jury which is investigating Scarpetta for murder. Kay knows she is being framed and she also knows she can trust no-one. Meanwhile it appears that Chandonne killed a woman in New York before his murderous spree in Virginia, but when Scarpetta looks more closely into that case with the prosecutor Jaime Berger, proof of his guilt is far from certain - in fact she begins to believe that he may not be the perpetrator of any of the crimes he is accused of. As she follows the forensic trail to the real killer she gradually realises that someone has been spinning a web for years with the aim of entrapping her. Who is it, and why are they so desperate to be rid of her?]]> 565 Patricia Cornwell 0751525359 Shamini 3 3.89 2000 The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
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]]> Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12) 31623
She is settling into a new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta. Only to her will he tell the secrets he knows the authorities desire: the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a swift conclusion. Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and her colleague Detective Pete Marino are left to wonder: After all the death and destruction, what sort of endgame could this violent psychopath have in mind? And could this request be somehow related to the Louisiana case?

Her friends and family by her side, Scarpetta must unravel a twisting conspiracy with an international reach and confront theshock of her life - a blow that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear.]]> 467 Patricia Cornwell 0425198731 Shamini 3 3.81 2003 Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)]]> 6541 356 Patricia Cornwell 0425213382 Shamini 3 3.95 1996 Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)]]> 232145 here

Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we're dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta's mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta's gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.

Unnatural Exposure boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta's gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let's face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell's most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy's FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it's less jarring than Hannibal's, and it's the logical culmination of Cornwell's philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel's finale, read Cornwell's remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. --Tim Appelo]]> 370 Patricia Cornwell 0751530492 Shamini 3 4.08 1997 Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)]]> 6537
The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.

Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.]]> 383 Patricia Cornwell 0425204693 Shamini 4 4.06 1995 From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)]]> 6531 A farmhouse destroyed by fire
A body amongst the ruins

Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.

The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.

Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling.]]> 440 Patricia Cornwell 0751530484 Shamini 2 4.05 1998 Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1998
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)]]> 232123 373 Patricia Cornwell 0684193957 Shamini 5 4.08 1992 All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)]]> 132336 403 Patricia Cornwell 0743493915 Shamini 5 4.04 1991 Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)]]> 6539
From Author’s Website]]> 351 Patricia Cornwell 0425201449 Shamini 5 4.08 1994 The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)]]> 85379 An earlier cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution. Several days after the execution, a young boy is discovered murdered in the fashion of Waddell's earlier killings, with Waddell's prints near the body. Scarpetta, along with FBI Agent Benton Wesley and Detective Pete Marino, try to discover how a dead inmate could have possibly committed another murder after his death. As the story progresses she seeks the assistance of her 17-year-old niece Lucy after she discovers a strange folder on her computer.]]> 407 Patricia Cornwell 0380718340 Shamini 5 4.14 1993 Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
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