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21461) The Terminal City Murders
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When a young Englishman is accused of fraud, Granville and Scott take the case as a favor to a friend. Even though the two know more about searching for gold-though not finding it-than they do about real estate fraud.The resulting scramble to extricate their client involves them in a break-in and two murders, drawing Granville-and his fiancée Emily Turner-deeper into the murky side of real estate than they'd ever imagined. With their client panicking...
21462) Killer With Black Blood
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The story starts in 1986, two years after Maria's kidnapping. Nicky is the head of his family. He is taking Sal to see the mausoleum he built for their mother and father. Sal is living in a mental ward after he smothered his parents. Nicky believes someone got to Sal and made him do it. At the grave site Sal is shot and falls to his knees. Nicky thinks he is crying but then sees the blood. Then Nicky is shot. Pauley and Rocky rush Nicky to the hospital,...
21463) Dead or Alive
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It's a race against time to rescue a kidnapped scientist in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award–winning author.
The world is under threat of destruction. As the politicians hedge their bets with atomic weapons, it seems no one is safe.
The only hope? A brilliant professor who knows how to make nations and people invulnerable to atomic attack. The only problem? Professor Julian Conway has been kidnapped by power-hungry men wishing to use...
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When she re-lives this night, over and over, Nancy will wonder if she'd just gone upstairs a few minutes earlier, what might have been…
A devastating fire.
A grieving mother.
A picture-perfect village full of dark secrets.
And now, a son who has seemingly come back from the dead.
A detective called back to her hometown, back to the memories she thought she'd left behind…
An electrifying novel from a compelling new voice in Irish crime...
21465) Shifter 3+
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The Shifters came to our world, hungry and desperate.Even with G1 being hot on their tracks, the alien forces continue their plans to control and dominate the world.Not to gain power and control...but to feed themselves...humans!In the third installment of Shifter+, the G1 team is coming together with a plan.March has regained his memories and Higgins is coming out of her sense of defeat and loss.But unless they can get a firm grip on the invasion,...
21466) Devils And Dust
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Jack Keller novels volume 4
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"You bring death," the voice said, and Hell follows with you." Relentless bounty hunter Jack Keller returns in Devils and Dust, the long-awaited fourth installment of the critically acclaimed series from award-nominated author J. D. Rhoades. Keller's been in exile, living a quiet life in the desert, since his disappearance after the cataclysmic events of 2008's award-winning Safe and Sound. Now his old friend and former employer Angela has tracked...
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Scarlet Stiletto; the Fifteenth Cut showcases the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize and category-winning stories of the 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.
The Fifteenth Cut coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Scarlet Stiletto Women's Crime and Mystery short story competition run by sisters in Crime Australia.
Fifteen rivetting, intriguing, creepy, mysterious, hard boiled and cozy crime stories for your reading pleasure.
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Discover a serial killer you'll never forget!
Between 1918 to 1919 a serial killer ran rampant throughout New Orleans. His weapon of choice? The axe.
He didn't spare women. Or children. Or even men. There was only one kind of person who could be sparred from the blade of his axe: the home of a person playing jazz music. At least eight people were brutally murdered. Who could have been responsible for this crime, and how was the Mafia connected?
Did...
21469) Sign of the Seed
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Sign of the Seed begins with the Templeton Police Department in the midst of its annual Christmas robbery season. During his patrol duties, veteran Officer Jeramy Doodeman witnesses numerous situations which demonstrate other people's faith through signs of the seeds of faith. The investigation of a series of robberies comes to a dramatic climax at the very same time Officer Jeramy Doodeman is
confronting his faith in God.
Among other characters,...
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Serials can't feel emotions as humans do.Or so Ptolemy Jovan Lane has always insisted. Yet when he learns that an old friend, Marija, might still be alive, he leaves an unsolved murder behind him in order to dash across the fringes to find her, bringing his human assistant, Ninety-Nine, with him. His intention is purely to learn the truth, but his impetuous mission goes swiftly and spectacularly awry, leaving Ninety-Nine and him cut off and at the...
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When A Billionaire's Fortune is Up for Grabs, a Murderous Schemer is Willing to Kill in Six Murders Too Many, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Ex-special forces operative, ex-cop, and newly forged private investigator, Carlos McCrary, lands a client whose uber-wealthy father has died. It seems Daddy had a sweet young wife, who recently gave birth to a child she claims is heir to half the family fortune.
It looks like a simple paternity...
21472) No Part in Your Death
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 8
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From an Edgar award winner, French Inspector Castang investigates cases close to his personal life in a mystery rich with "penetrating character sketches" (Kirkus Reviews).
It seems there's no escape from crime for Police Commissaire Henri Castang. While in Munich with his wife, he becomes embroiled in a child custody case that suddenly turns sinister. Once back at home, Castang is faced with the mysterious disappearance of a friend's wife, along...
21473) Never Forget
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Victor Lessard volume 1
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Tormented, rebellious police detective Victor Lessard races to track down a ruthless killer in Montreal.
When a homeless man jumps to his death in Old Montreal, the police discover two wallets in his possession: one belonging to a retired psychiatrist who was murdered in a bizarre ritual, the other to a powerful corporate lawyer who has vanished. As Montreal police detective Victor Lessard and his partner, Jacinthe Taillon, work to solve the separate...
21474) The Case of the Cheese Thief
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The secret recipe for a million-dollar mozzarella is stolen aboard a European train trip. Should Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang investigate or end their vacation early? Will the gang stick together or split up? Does Scooby find the missing cheese or eat the evidence? In this interactive story, YOU CHOOSE the path the gang should take. With your help, they'll solve this case of the cheese burglar. A new series of You Choose Books featuring Scooby-Doo...
21475) Davies: La mort qui tue
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Davies a une double vie: détective privé le jour, agent de la sureté de l'État la nuit. Davies a un don: le don de se placer au centre des situations les plus rocambolesques.
Engagé par le notaire Gentil-qui n'a de gentil que son nom-pour retrouver l'assassin de son client décédé, Davies doit combattre des terroristes internationaux tout en poursuivant des agents secrets qui en savent beaucoup trop... Une seule certitude: si Davies ne sauve...
21476) The Devil's Right Hand
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Jack Keller novels volume 1
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The critically-acclaimed debut novel by J.D. Rhoades, and the introduction of iconic bounty hunter Jack Keller. Keller is a man tormented by the nightmares he's had ever since a disastrous tour in Desert Storm. Destroyed by his experience, Keller now makes his living tracking bailjumpers for H&H, a North Carolina bail bonds company run by a reclusive, beautiful, and horribly scarred woman named Angela. In truth, Keller doesn't work bail enforcement...
21477) High Stakes
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Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Steve Berry.
An authentic Stradivarius violin turns up in Romania. A Stradivarius is rare enough, but this one is even more special. It is thought to hold the code disclosing the location of a treasure hidden in the fifteenth century. The violin is steeped in haunting mystique: it is believed to have been hidden by Vlad Dracula, whose historic tyranny led to the fabrication of the myth of vampirism. Russian, Chinese,...
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"Toutes choses sont purifiées par le sang et il n'y a pas de pardon sans que du sang soit répandu."
Les meurtres s'enchaînent dans la pasisible bourgade de La Neuveville au cours d'une semaine sanglante. Un tueur en série sévit-il dans la cité ? Toujours le même procédé de mise à mort.
Un rituel ? Peu d'indices aiguillent l'équipe du commissaire Bouvier.
Crimes sadiques ochestrés par un psychopathe ? Oeuvres d'un fanatique à la poursuite...
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Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters-as well as the wrongfully accused-in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.
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