Chris Ewan, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-312-37633-8
This impressive debut, a comic whodunit from British entertainment lawyer Ewan, owes much of its charm and success to its compelling antihero, Charles Howard. An established author of mysteries featuring a burglar-detective, Howard himself is a...
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Chris Ewan, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-37645-1
Charlie Howard, a crime writer who’s also an international burglar, once again makes a funny, fast-talking narrator in Ewan’s delightful second mystery (after 2007’s The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
). Tipsy after a...
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Chris Ewan, Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58082-7
Charlie Howard, the self-mocking narrator of Ewan's Good Thief Guide series who's both a mystery writer and smallscale thief, once again shows he's not terribly good at either in his diverting third outing (after 2008's The Good Thief's Guide to...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-58085-8
Now a resident of Venice, thief and mystery author Charlie Howard promises his long-suffering literary agent, Victoria Newbury, that he'll devote himself professionally only to his Michael Faulks burglar novels in Ewan's hilarious yet suspenseful...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-01256-2
Set on the Isle of Man, this beautifully plotted thriller from Ewan (The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice and three other mysteries starring professional thief Charlie Howard) offers as many twists and turns as motorcycle enthusiast Rob Hale encounters...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-00297-6
A burglary assignment brokered by Charlie Howard’s agent, Victoria Newbury, proves much more trouble than it’s worth in Ewan’s outstanding fifth Good Thief’s Guide mystery (after 2011’s The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice). A representative of the...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-04707-6
Englishman Daniel Trent, the hero of Ewan’s unexceptional second standalone (after 2012’s Safe House), specializes in the recovery of kidnapping victims. When Trent’s fiancée and business partner, Aimée Paget disappears in France, Trent suspects...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-07442-3
On the Isle of Man in 2005, friends of 18-year-old Claire Cooper, the narrator of this derivative thriller from Ewan (Safe House), rope her into a reckless act on Hop-tu-naa, as Halloween is known on the island. Claire’s friends want to terrify...
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Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-11739-7
Former lawyer Kate Sutherland, the heroine of this disappointing thriller from Ewan (Dark Tides), is in witness protection on the Isle of Man, waiting to testify against Russell Lane for murder. Russell’s rich sociopath brother, Connor, would rather
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Chris Ewan, read by Simon Vance. AudioGO, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $59.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-445-8
Narrator Simon Vance shines in this audio version of the comic whodunit that spawned Ewan’s popular the Good Thief’s Guide series. By day, Charles Howard is a successful mystery writer. But at night he transforms into an equally successful burglar....
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