The Poisoned Bride and other Judge Dee Mysteries
By: Robert von Gulik
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Judge Dee, detective extraordinaire and hero of this 18th century Chinese novel, was a real magistr…
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. The Phantom of the Temple
By: Robert van Gulik
4.13
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
A.D. 670 On a wooded hill in the Lan-fang district, a phantom stalks in a century-old Buddhist t… read more
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3. The Lacquer Screen
By: Robert van Gulik
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A.D. 663 Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacque… read more
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4. Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, #10)
By: Janet Evanovich
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, bu… read more
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5. Inspector Imanishi Investigates
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more
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6. The Lemesurier Inheritance: A Short Story
By: Agatha Christie
4.06
Format: 285 pages, ebook
Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. The Lemesurier family is plagued … read more
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7. The Red Pavilion
By: Robert van Gulik
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A.D. 668 A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads… read more
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8. Murder in Ancient China
By: Robert van Gulik
3.90
Format: 77 pages,
Judge Dee--Confucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesm… read more
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9. Poets and Murder
By: Robert van Gulik
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A.D. 668 Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that c… read more
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10. The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #1)
By: Ovidia Yu
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth Su… read more
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11. Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories
By: Robert van Gulik
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
A.D. 663, 666, 668, 670 The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Workcover a decade during which the… read more
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12. Murder in Canton
By: Robert van Gulik
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A.D. 681 Murder In Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justic… read more
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13. The Emperor's Pearl
By: Robert van Gulik
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading b… read more
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14. The Haunted Monastery
By: Robert van Gulik
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A.D. 666 Judge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Tao… read more
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15. The Chinese Maze Murders
By: Robert van Gulik
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A.D. 670 Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer w… read more
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16. The Willow Pattern
By: Robert van Gulik
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A.D. 677 As Judge Dee copes with the administration of the plague-ridden Imperial Capital, he must … read more
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17. The Monkey and The Tiger
By: Robert van Gulik
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A.D. 666and A.D. 676 The Monkey and The Tigerincludes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Mo… read more
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18. Necklace and Calabash
By: Robert van Gulik
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A.D. 668 Due to its proximity to the Water Palace, the summer residence of the Emperor's favorite d… read more
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19. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
20. The Golden Gate
By: Amy Chua
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more
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21. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
By: Martha Wells
4.10
Format: 19 pages, ebook
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more
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"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
22. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
By: Arkady Martine
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more
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"I thought you hated them,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
23. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.02
Format: 32 pages, ebook
No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more
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24. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
By: T.E. Kinsey
4.50
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more
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"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)
25. Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre (Judge Dee, #3)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.97
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Judge Dee returns to solve a new case involving a Parisian party gone wrong. But this time? Everyon… read more
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26. Retreat from Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries Book 14)
By: Harriet Steel
4.27
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Shanti and Jane de Silva’s peaceful retreat at a mountain monastery rapidly turns into something fa… read more
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27. The Yellow Rambutan Tree Mystery (Su Lin #4)
By: Ovidia Yu
4.44
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post'Simply glorious. Every nook and… read more
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28. Beyond the Door of No Return
By: David Diop
3.66
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. … read more
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"Despite all my efforts to block it out, the ordeal on the pier in Gorée, after our brief escape beyond the door to the voyage of no return, came back to me intact. I realized then that painting and m…"-David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return
29. The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #4)
By: Ovidia Yu
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mirza, a secretive neighbour of the Chens in Japanese Occupied Singapore, is a known collaborator a… read more
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"I knew the women were searching for something more precious than watches or coins. They were peering into the faces of the dead, hoping to be disappointed."-Ovidia Yu, The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #4)
30. The Poisoned Bride and other Judge Dee Mysteries
By: Robert von Gulik
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Judge Dee, detective extraordinaire and hero of this 18th century Chinese novel, was a real magistr… read more
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31. The Ingenious Judge Dee
By: Hock G. Tjoa
3.85
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
A double homicide, a "reluctant" corpse, a bride poisoned on her wedding night--all taking place in… read more
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"Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant."-Hock G. Tjoa, The Ingenious Judge Dee
"We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence."-Hock G. Tjoa, The Ingenious Judge Dee
