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Robert J. Muller has a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has had a long career in the software industry as a software developer, architect, CTO, and CFO. Now he's a full-time novelist, writing science fiction, mysteries (historical and contemporary), and thrillers. He lives with his wife and illustrator, Mary L. Swanson, in San Francisco. ...more

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	Death of a Golden State 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) 2.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hyperkill: A Pirates of Khonoë Space Opera (Pirates of Khonoë #1) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at Mount Vernon: A Founding Fathers Mystery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Two Kites (Menmenet, #1) by Robert J. Muller (Goodreads Author), Mary L. Swanson (Illustrations) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jackal of Inpu (The Menmenet Series, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blockchain Killing 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Bull of Mentju (The Menmenet Series, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Productive Objects: An Applied Software Project Management Framework really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1)

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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

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Robert Muller and 29 other people liked Tim's review of Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime (Fall of the Welfare State #1): "This novel inspires me to identify a new genre in mystery fiction: the police dysfunctional. Given the current interest in Scandinavian mystery and my enthusiasm for the Beck series (Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall), the Wallander novels by Henning Mankel" Read more of this review »
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Possibly the translation was just bad, but I found the writing in this book really bad. Particularly the adverb "delightedly" used so often as to bring the whole concept of delight into question. But ultimately it was the psychological depravity of t ...more
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