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Coyote Linda Barnes (Delacorte, $17.95) A promising American detective comes into her own and joins the small but growing lineup (Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone) of hard-boiled heroines. A- A Faint Cold Fear Robert Daley (Little, Brown, $19.95) A first-rate, thought- provoking thriller set in Colombia. A
The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry Martin Mayer (Scribner's, $22.50) Mayer's book sheds more light on the S&L scandal than any of the half-dozen volumes already written about it. A
In A Child's Name Peter Maas (Simon & Schuster, $19.95) Written in a briskly cliched style, this story of an Indiana-born dentist who murdered his wife is true crime at its best. A-
The Music of Chance Paul Auster (Viking, $18.95) A fast, tricky, fiendishly well-crafted thriller. A
