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VPL - Books Just For You - Mysteries & Fantasies

A list of mysteries and fantasies selected for you by Vancouver Public Library's Readers' Cafe staff.

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  • "It is only a week in the life of a 35-year old bachelor school teacher in a small Minnesota town. But it is an extraodinary week, filled with the poetry of living, the sweetness of expectation, and the glory of surprise that can change a life…
    Book, 1977New York : Atheneum, 1977.
  • Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero as he attempts to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to…
    Book, 2011New York : DAW Books ; [New York] : Distributed by Penguin Group, c2011.
  • To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the…
    Book, 1988Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988.
  • Killing Floor introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader's perfect action hero. Margrave has just had its first homicide in…
    Book, 1997New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1997.
  • The Tarman expedition has at last found Kelsingra, a city filled with ancient treasures. Here, the dragons and their Elderling keepers may discover their full potential, but only if the magic of Kelsingra can be unlocked. Already rumours of the city…
    Book, 2013New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2013]
  • Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance.…
    Book, 2004London : Doubleday, 2004.
  • High-society journalist Gus Bailey is caught in the middle of two stressful situations. The first is an $11 million slander suit from a powerful congressman he accused of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman. The second is…
    Book, 2009New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.