Bryson's Staff Picks

I enjoy mystery, sci-fi & fantasy, horror and range of non-fiction. I am also a huge reader of graphic novels of all kinds, with graphic novel biographies being a particular favorite.
 

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1. Catch and kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators

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Author:
Farrow, Ronan, 1987-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. 
One of the Best Books of the Year  Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal  In...

2. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

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Author:
Gran, Sara
Series:
Claire DeWitt mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Détection - the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette. The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she's avoided since...

3. The murder of Roger Ackroyd: a Hercule Poirot mystery

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Author:
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Series:
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Formats:
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Description:

"This is Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she'd have still gone down as the Queen." –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Ingenious and unexpected." –NEW YORK TIMES

The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers' Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now featuring a new introduction by

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