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50741) La hermandad
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La Hermandad es una novela corta. Una novela negra sin detectives ni policías, sólo arqueros. Sus personajes se mueven en la Argentina de hoy, en los pliegues marginales de una Buenos Aires violenta.
Es la Buenos Aires del siglo XXI y sin embargo una antigua Hermandad del Arco se niega a desaparecer y esta herramienta que alguna vez se inventó para sobrevivir en el medio hostil de la noche del tiempo, toma una relevancia inesperada. El arco y las...
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How do you investigate a murder when the victim seems to have no past? A puzzling new crime thriller by the author of A Fatal Move.
When Oliver Upton is shot dead on a golf course, DCI Fleming and his team look for details about the man's life, but they aren't easy to find. All they know is that he showed up in Oxford and starting working as a taxi driver. Not even the victim's new partner, Jamila Kazan, knows much about him-and the mystery deepens...
50743) Nevermore: A Novel
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to search for a literary-minded killer It is 1923 and a beautiful young woman has just been found outside a tenement, bones crushed, head ripped from her shoulders. A few stories above, her squalid apartment has been ransacked, and twenty-dollar gold pieces litter the floor. The window frame is smashed. She seems to have been hurled from the building by a beast of impossible strength, and the only witness...
50744) Psychopaths and UFOs
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G. Baxter & Flint, Private Investigators, are two of the best who seldom turn away clients who come to them for help. But when Georgina Baxter takes on a psychopath as a client, she gets more than she bargained for and ends up fighting for her life.
Joseph Flint, her partner in the firm, is persuaded to take on a client who he thinks is delusional, a man seeing aliens and flying saucers every time there's a full moon.
Flint doesn't believe...
50745) Bloody Hound
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The Mystery Writers Guild Conference is about to kick off in Galveston. But when a dead body is found in the convention center, hundreds of armchair sleuths insert themselves in the investigation. Local police hire Xena's team to help make sense of the chaos and find the killer before their prime suspects go home to bloody their literary crime scenes. She'll re-write the ending a few times before the thrilling climax finishes the story.
Bloody...
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Con sus enemigos en la guerra anterior a la guerra civil, Virginia aún buscaba su muerte, Esmeralda se ve obligada a regresar al futuro solo unos días después de casarse con Lance. Debido a que era necesario fingir su muerte para evitar que sus enemigos la siguieran al futuro, su nuevo esposo, Lance, se vio obligado a quedarse. Había colocado debajo de las tablas del piso de la casa una caja mágica para que se comunicaran, hasta que encontrara...
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Have there ever been times when you found yourself drifting aimless as a cloud, heading into nowhere? No direction, no focus, no hope? Living moment to moment and from hustle to hustle, but never losing that innocence of self? Never giving up on adventure and fairy tales, where magic is real, and it must be a way out? A world where fantasy and reality blur into oneness? Where you know the truth lies in your imagination of what is on the other side...
50748) Butterfly Betrayal
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Raising butterflies is peaceful and calm, until someone dies.
Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires the property next door. She and Winifred, her costume-wearing cat, have a fight on their hands. Their land sits next to a milkweed-covered field, essential for monarchs. If she's unsuccessful in buying it, her precious, winged friends won't survive. When people end up dead on her farmland,...
50749) The Frightened Man
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The Frightened Man, first published in 1942, is a fast-paced noir murder mystery set in New York city and featuring private detective Jim Steele. Steele comes upon two murdered bodies and suspicion falls on Steele's good friend Larry Maxwell, part of a wealthy family but who has been threatened by his brother of being cut out of the family will. Dana Chambers was a pseudonym of Albert Leffingwell (1895-1946).
Gruesome twosome as Jim Steele finds,...
50750) Si je parle
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L'agente spéciale Ruby Hunter, de l'Unité d'analyse comportementale du FBI, vit hantée par le spectre du « Tueur au fétiche », dont elle a mis fin à la folie meurtrière en l'envoyant finir ses jours dans une prison de haute sécurité... Mais pas avant qu'il ne lui eût tout volé, son équipier compris. Trois ans plus tard, une nouvelle série de meurtres semble porter la signature du tueur en série. En est-il l'instigateur ?
SI JE PARLE...
50751) Retribution
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As people around him come under attack, Chief Detective Koa Kane wonders if he might be the real target
In the back alley of a bar on Hawaii Island, a young man is found stabbed to death. When Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kane begins investigating the crime, the murder weapon is recovered only a few feet away from the body. Crime scene technicians find fingerprints on the knife¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ...
50752) Miss Mephistopheles: A Novel
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Miss Mephistopheles (1890) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Miss Mephistopheles is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. A sequel to Madame Midas (1888), a story of fortune and loss set in the shadow of Australia's nineteenth century gold rush, Miss Mephistopheles examines the...
50753) The Pipes Are Calling
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Randall Grey was fifty-two years old; he would not see fifty-three. He had spent the last sixteen years in this ten by ten foot cell, seeing the light of day, feeling the warm sun or the cool rain, for one hour of every twenty-four. Tomorrow, he would pay for the brutal murder of his cheating wife. Frank Bianco was a good ol' boy, a rural North Carolina hard-working family man. He drove a pickup truck, took his family to church more Sundays than not,...
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Un roman historique o le présent se mêle à la période de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Mai 1940 : Samuel Goldfarb, sa femme Martina et son fils David fuient l'avancée allemande sur les routes de l'exode. Ils trouvent refuge au Monastère, dans les faubourgs de Rodez, au sein d'une famille aveyronnaise.
Hiver 1943 : Samuel contribue à la parution de Combat, journal de la Résistance, dans une imprimerie clandestine ruthénoise de la rue de l'Embergue.
Printemps...
50755) Watching You Fall
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The Lizard peninsula is known for its beautiful scenery and tourist attractions, but all is not so idyllic for Revd Anna Maybury, vicar of the most southerly parish of mainland Britain. Much of Anna's little flock are dealing with their own problems, and when the wife of a local architect is found dead in the churchyard, each of them has to come to terms with the fact that they may be living with a murderer. The year will take them to the very edge...
50756) Jake of All Trades
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Former Hell's Angel Jake Murray turns his life around when he gets out of jail and returns to the mean streets of Glasgow. But society is unforgiving for an ex-con with a record of violence. Limited to low-paid jobs that barely cover the cost of living, he sets up shop as a private investigator and downloads a fake license to prove it.One day an ex-teacher hires him to find her missing granddaughter. She offers free advertisement instead of cash as...
50757) Perdido y Encontrado
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Un atropello y fuga.
Un camino rural desierto.
La peor pesadilla para unos padres.
En una cálida mañana de otoño en Gardiner, Washington, Richard y Maggie celebran el regreso de la feliz pareja formada por Sam y Marcie. Lo que sucede a continuación cambia sus vidas para siempre. Un conductor que se da a la fuga en una carretera rural desierta, y Richard y Maggie sufren la peor pesadilla para unos padres.
Ahora, un año más tarde, Maggie McCafferty...
50758) Devil's Playground
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Deputy Samantha Cody finally bagged her man. The jury's verdict: three counts of murder in the first with special circumstances and a recommendation of death by lethal injection. Only Judge Westbrooke's final decree stands between Richard Earl Garrett and death row. After three weeks of an exhausting trial and being haunted by images of the three sacrificially mutilated children, Sam's only wish is to wash her hands of Garrett, whose only defense...
50759) The Diabolical
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Bruno Johnson is a wanted fugitive-and unless he helps the Costa Rican police, they're turning him in
Ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson is hiding from US law enforcement in Costa Rica with his wife, Marie, and the twelve children they rescued from toxic homes in south central Los Angeles. Bruno works at the Lido Cabana Bar at the Punta Bandera Hotel, and his friend, Karl Drago, is getting married on the beach right outside. After the festivities, Bruno...
50760) Lies of Omission
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When Pomeranian immigrant Hanneke Bauer reaches Wisconsin in 1855, she believes her dearest dreams are coming true. After reuniting with her husband Fridolin at his farm near Watertown, she will help create a true home. Instead, she receives the shocking news that he is dead.
Hanneke quickly learns that Wisconsin life is not as bucolic as it seems. Alone and destitute, she is determined to discover the details of Fridolin's death. Her efforts prompt...
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