This list changes about every week and these virtual shelves mirror our Staff Picks shelves in the store. Marina and Alex both have great commentary to go with their titles.
See our choices at left or click below.
JOE (Um, yeah, we're lacking in the picture department)
There must be something in the cold arctic air that makes Scandinavia such an incubator for contemporary mystery/thriller writers. Although Stieg Larsson may be the most popular name in the genre, Joe Nesbo may just be the grittiest of a group of contemporary writers who use the starkness, isolation and bitter cold of the region to their advantage to create a brand of brutal, harsh, dramatic suspense noir fiction that has resonated with readers across the globe...
(also discussed: Arguably By Christopher Hitchens, FINALLY! A Locally Produced Guidebook To St. Louis Produced by and for St. Louisans, Neighborhood By Neighborhood By Amanda Doyle, Charles Dickens: A Life By Claire Tomalin, A History of The World In 100 Objects By Neil MacGregor)
