Frank Smith, Author Severn $28.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6749-0
In Smith's solid if unflashy seventh police procedural to feature Det. Chief Insp. Neil Paget (after 2008's Breaking Point
), Paget looks into a series of unsolved burglaries that have baffled the authorities in Broadminster. Before Paget...
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Frank Smith, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-18186-4
Instantly gripping and wonderfully perplexing, this English procedural begins with what looks like an open-and-shut case of murder: photographer Peter Foster has shot and killed someone in the bedroom of the well-appointed cottage he shares with his
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Frank Smith, Author . Severn $28.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6878-7
In Smith's engaging eighth procedural to feature Broadminster Det. Chief Insp. Neil Paget (after 2009's The Cold Hand of Malice
), Paget looks into a 13-year-old case after new information comes to light. Scrawled notes, written by 19-year-
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Frank Smith, Author Severn House Publishers $28.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6621-9
DCI Neil Paget investigates a missing-persons case in this workmanlike entry in Smith's police procedural series (Acts of Vengeance, etc.). Mark Newman, a jack-of-all-trades who aspires to be a journalist, vanishes after a covert meeting in a...
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Frank Smith, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-20771-7
Shropshire police inspector Neil Paget investigates the brutal murder of a single mother in the intriguing followup to 1997's Stone Dead. When Beth Smallwood's body is found in front of the altar of Broadminster's village church, she appears to be...
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Frank Smith, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-30739-4
In Arthur Ellis-finalist Frank Smith's (Fatal Flaw) gripping Acts of Vengeance, DCI Neil Paget barely survives an assailant who tries to cut his throat. DS John Tregalles and the rest of the Broadminster precinct crew have their work cut out for...
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Frank Smith. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8152-6
Det. Chief Insp. Neil Paget investigates the murder of Antonia “Toni” Halliday, the willful 23-year-old stepdaughter of Charles Bromley of Bromley Manor, and a near-fatal accident involving Maj. Adrian Farnsworth, a Bromley neighbor, in Smith’s well-
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Frank Smith. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8271-4
In British author Smith’s winning 10th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Neil Paget (after 2012’s In the Shadow of Evil), Paget must contend with a new boss, Det. Supt. Amanda Pierce, with whom he has a bitter personal history. He must also try to...
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Frank Smith, trans. from the French by Vanessa Place. Les Figues (SPD, dist.), $17 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-934254-53-0
Smith’s book-length poem is a document of, among other things, the War on Terror, the plight of prisoners, U.S. misdeeds, conceptual art, and the cruelly circular logic that keeps detainees behind bars. Smith took the transcripts, released in 2006,...
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Frank Smith, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-26947-0
DCI Neil Paget returns for another smoothly executed British police procedural, Canadian writer Smith's fourth (following Candles for the Dead). Successful contractor James Bolen, after a public argument with his brother Harry over a new deal that's
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Frank Smith, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14332-9
Somewhat hobbled by uninspired writing, Smith's solid plot finds England's Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget facing a policeman's nightmare: the woman he cares for becomes a prime murder suspect and clearly has something to hide. Paget's travails
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