Straight Talk from the Heartland  

Big Eddie tells it straight. Lefties will cherish it, righties will loathe it and every American looking for something better will embrace it. A must read for every Ed Head.   
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The Last Templar
Raymond Khoury  
Penguin   Hardcover, 416pp  

An antiterrorist specialist and an archeologist are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights of Templar--a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover a lost secret. Click To Order  

Night Watch: In Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown
Stephen Kendrick  
Berkley   Softcover, 272pp  

It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest's mutilated body has been found in a London church that is hosting a secret interfaith meeting to discuss the possibility of a Parliament of World Religions. A summons from the Prime Minister plunges Holmes into a case with international, political, and ecclesiastical complications. Untrampled snow surrounding the church suggests that the murderer remains within and that he is, presumably, one of the leaders of the world's great faiths." Throughout the night, as more deaths are discovered, Holmes and Dr. Watson follow one false lead after another. But with his legendary astuteness, Holmes manages to wrap the case up in less than twenty-four hours - or so it seems. Two weeks later, Father Brown, the meek young priest-translator, pays a call at Baker Street to reveal "a few loose ends. Click To Order  

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Fear Itself
Walter Mosely  
Little Brown   Hardcover, 320pp  

Another tensely plotted, action-filled thriller from the bestselling writer hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times for “detective fiction at its best – bold, breathtaking, and brutal.” Click To Order  

Small Town
Lawrence Block  
Harper Collins   Hardcover, 464pp  

Lawrence Block's glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Click To Order  

The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith  
Pantheon   Hardcover, 186pp  

In this latest volume from Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Precious manages to cope with assorted dilemmas with her customary mix of insight and good-heartedness. Click To Order  

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown  
Doubleday   Hardcover, 464pp  

A murder at the Louvre and a baffling clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Click To Order