Gregory Maguire: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years

A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years


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Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

"This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form." "Library Journal" (starred review) "Fiendishly clever Higashino offers one twist after another Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution." "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)***Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out. "Malice" is one of the bestselling the most acclaimed novel in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years download PDF one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia."


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Author: Gregory Maguire
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2009
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780060859725
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