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'The Professionals' serves up likable criminals

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 8:17am

"THE PROFESSIONALS." By Owen Laukkanen. Putnam. $25.95.

In his excellent debut, Owen Laukkanen mixes the economic downturn and a bleak job market for a suspenseful and insightful thriller about four out-of-work, newly graduated college friends who become kidnappers.

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Chaon's latest collection is quietly haunting

Chris Barton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 7:56am

"STAY AWAKE: STORIES." By Dan Chaon. Ballantine. $25.

A father, fretting about a young son's night terrors, is gradually haunted by his own terrors from an alcohol-fueled past.

Another man, marooned as a single parent since his wife's tragic death, decodes meaning out of the scribbled scraps of paper and debris left behind by strangers.

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Sociopathic photographer on the brink in stunning novel

Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel

Last updated Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 8:28am

"AVAILABLE DARK." By Elizabeth Hand. Minotaur. $23.99.

In addition to introducing many readers to international mysteries, especially those from Scandinavian countries, Stieg Larsson's heavily tattooed heroine has allowed unconventional characters to flourish.

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Jack the Ripper resurrected in cerebral thriller

Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel

Last updated Monday, May 23, 2011 - 3:02pm

"NOW YOU SEE ME." By S.J. Bolton.Minotaur. $25.99.

The fascination with Jack the Ripper, who terrorized London's Whitechapel area beginning in 1888, never seems to wane. For more than 120 years, facts and myths about the deranged killer have melded until even Ripperists find separating reality from fiction difficult. Jack the Ripper, who was never caught, has spawned a plethora of nonfiction books about who he might have been and just as many novels that use those crimes as a background.

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