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  • THE BEAST OF BARBARESCO: A Wine Lover's Mystery. by Aspler, Tony.
    Aspler, Tony.
    THE BEAST OF BARBARESCO: A Wine Lover's Mystery.

    Edition: First Canadian printing.

    Toronto and Chicago: Warwick Publishing, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - For wine writer Ezra Brant, the trip to help judge the annual wine competition in the Piedmontese village of Barbaresco went from being a restful interlude to a serious investigation when a fellow writer is found dead at the bottom of a quarry. 187 pp. ISBN: 1-894020898.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76497
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  • Brown, Andrew.
    COLDSLEEP LULLABY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in a small university town in South Africa, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). "Brown skillfully creates a handful of compelling and well-drawn characters and offers a plausible sense of a country still consumed by racial tensions and suspicion of immigrants from other African nations. American devotees of international crime fiction will embrace the emotionally scarred Eberard and the fractious society that is at once exotic and all too familiar. (Booklist) "A thriller novel that functions both as a superb mystery and an engrossing historical…

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    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in a small university town in South Africa, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). "Brown skillfully creates a handful of compelling and well-drawn characters and offers a plausible sense of a country still consumed by racial tensions and suspicion of immigrants from other African nations. American devotees of international crime fiction will embrace the emotionally scarred Eberard and the fractious society that is at once exotic and all too familiar. (Booklist) "A thriller novel that functions both as a superb mystery and an engrossing historical fiction. It marks Andrew Brown out as a superb talent. (author John Connolly) Recommended. List of sources. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-1250035998.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89128
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