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4341) A Familiar Death
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Out of the Jungle
Forced to return home to investigate a death, Marlot finds himself confronted with all the reasons he left. With council more interested in getting him to close the case quickly than getting the real killer to pay, his family expecting him to stay and having to deal with the male while killed his first love, and is now the town's Enforcer, is it any wonder all his insecurities are coming back?
Can even having Trembor at his side...
4342) Native Blood
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In the back-biting world of academia, a biological anthropologist studying indigenous genetics is bludgeoned to death. The university chancellor's son, an Athabascan native and archeology student, is charged with murder. He'd led a violent protest against the genomic studies of the first Americans. PI Harry Przewalski becomes immersed in a tangle of deceit, personal vendettas, unethical research, and archeological fraud.In Native Blood, the fourth...
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Twelve delightful mystery stories featuring one of the Golden Age's greatest detectives from the author of Murder in Peking.
From their headquarters in Chicago, private investigator Jimmy Lavender, with his trademark lock of white hair, and his sidekick, Gilly, tackle some of the city's toughest cases. Their assignments have been known to take them all over the country and even to foreign lands. Featured in this volume are twelve of their finest...
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This complete collection of the original Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories is a treasure trove of Arthur Conan Doyle's intricate detective fiction.
Experience the full scope of Sherlock Holmes's detective abilities in this comprehensive, unabridged collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's works. Featuring all four of the original novels alongside the 56 short stories, this volume encompasses the remarkable legacy of literature's favourite sleuth....
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Julia Castello, addicte au jeu, criblée de dettes, se trouve harcelée par des créanciers sans scrupules. Au casino de La Baule, elle tente une dernière fois sa chance et perd. Un mystérieux individu, Nicolas Slavko, témoin de sa défaite, se propose alors de la renflouer. À une condition : qu'elle séduise Vincent Céserac, propriétaire d'un magasin de fournitures maritimes à La Trinité-sur-Mer. Acculée, financièrement au bord du gouffre,...
4346) Affair of the Doctors
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A Private Investigator. An Eccentric Doctor. A Complex Affair.
People investigate all sorts of crimes.
When Private Investigator Amelia Pinkie meets an eccentric woman, she learns of a strange plot. She knows the woman needs urgent help. Amelia investigates puzzling affair.
Amelia quickly learns she's way out of her depth.
A riveting, unputdownable, intoxicating suspenseful mystery story.
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Just An Eight Banger With Big Baloneys.
In July 1886 the newspapers reported on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1—a mere 6 months after filing the patent in January of that year.
Since then the race has been on for the Bigger-Faster-Better-More product that has become a variety of symbols over the decades, with the C3 Corvette Stingray repeatedly stated as being purchased almost exclusively as a middle-age...
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LollapaloozaThe Case of the Woman in BlackAnother Detective Vincent James Gideon Novel In this continuing Whodunnit Series, Vincent James Gideon is walking on Broadway in downtown Black Rock Cove when a three-alarm fire burns a three-story building. He rushes to the scene and stares up and sees a young girl standing on a window ledge with smoke billowing out on all sides. The detective doesn't hesitate. After all, he is now a world-famous detective...
4349) Last One Alive
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Louisa's eyes narrowed, trying to get a clearer look at the person standing before her. Their expression was cold. Mercilessly cold. Louisa crawled back against the wall and screamed... When Detective Kjeld Nygaard is called to the discovery of a body in the burnt-out shell of a house, his heart sinks. He never wanted to see this house again. The house of a notorious serial killer. The house where he rescued Louisa Karlsson from being murdered. But...
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Une énigme à plusieurs inconnues.
Se savoir « né de père inconnu », comme on dit, et retrouver, quelque quarante ans plus tard, cet inconnu fracassé sur sa table de cuisine, c'est tout Cicéron, ça ! Découvrir que René a une maîtresse, ça décoiffe aussi pas mal. Quant à ces honnêtes commerçants en articles de souvenirs pieux « made in China », que viennent-ils faire dans cette embrouille?
Vous mourrez d'envie d'en savoir plus?...
4351) The First Rung
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The new broom sweeps clean...Dot Sayers sat at her desk, huffed on the plastic card that was her new class A Private Security licence, and buffed it with her sleeve. She was now a fully licensed private investigator!Problem is, she knows there's something wrong with a background check. Can't explain it.Needs to convince her boss to trust her intuition.Must find the truth behind the fiction.
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Dans la plaine de la Bièvre, rongée par les lotisseurs, dans un temps o l'informatique efface la valeur du geste accompli, des hommes disparaissent...
Rimbe, le poète libertaire, après avoir élucidé les meurtres de Saint Antoine L'Abbaye, reprend du service sur les traces des « évaporés ».
Avec ce nouvel opus, Gilbert Vincent Caboud met en scène un monde en déséquilibre o la peur de l'éphémère ctoie une envie de survivre à tout...
4353) Why was Rachel Murdered?
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A mathematician's murder draws Toronto PI Neil Walker into a web of Ponzi schemes, political corruption and global cybersecurity nightmares.
Walker, an ex-RCMP financial-crimes specialist, has out-fought warring bikers and put Mafia dons behind bars. Now he's forced to work with Carole Lisgar, a high-powered political operator he once arrested for corruption. As more bodies drop and the stakes ramp up, Walker uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from...
4354) Charlie Parker
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The New York Times–bestselling author tells the story behind private detective Charlie Parker, the haunted hero of John Connolly's eerie supernatural crime thrillers.
Recounting his days as a journalist for the Irish Times and the Dublin murder that led him to question the ways we think about perpetrators and victims; discussing his crime-fiction idols; and reflecting on empathy and evil, John Connolly offers a short work that lets us learn more...
4355) Corrupt Driving
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A Pregnant Private Eye. A Nephew Upset. A Corrupt Driving Experience.Crimes happen in the least likely of places.Private Eye Bettie English waits for her nephew Sean at the heart of Canterbury. Scents of coffee surround Bettie. She enjoys being pregnant.What Sean says shocks her to the core.This gripping, unputdownable mystery short story adds a rich dimension to the growing best-selling series readers love.
4356) Sois zen et tue-le
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Retour vers le passé...
Nonchalant et séducteur malgré lui, Cicéron Angledroit est détective privé en banlieue parisienne. En manque d'argent, il accepte l'étonnante offre de Madame Costa: enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans. Ses aventures rocambolesques ne font que commencer...
Mais qu'est-ce qu'il lui prend, à la mère Costa, de me demander d'enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans? Si j'accepte,...
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The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.
Honey.
As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer's cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles' population of hired guns hulking,...
4358) Lies Between Us
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Will they ever learn the truth? Three people, leading very different lives, are about to be brought together - with devastating consequences ... John has a perfect life, until the day his daughter goes missing. Maisie cares for her patients, but hides her own traumatic past. Miller should be an innocent child, but is obsessed with something he can't have. They all have something in common, though none of them know it - and the truth won't stay hidden...
4359) Murder and Gold
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New York City, 1954.
Two women are found murdered. One is Lorraine Quinn, Cantor Gold's most recent one-night-stand. The other is political power broker and aspiring New York socialite Eve Garraway, a regular client of Cantor's stolen art trade.
Police nemesis, Lieutenant Norm Huber, wants to pin the murders on Cantor, send her to prison, and put her in the electric chair. He'll get evidence on her any way he can. Into this cauldron of danger and...
4360) Collateral Casualties
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A dark secret triggers a deadly game of cat-and-mouse...When a former client reaches out to psychotherapist Kate Huntington and reveals a foreign diplomat's secret past, then dies of "natural causes" just days later, Kate isn't sure what to think. Was the man delusional or is she now privy to dangerous information? Soon she discovers her client was totally sane... and he was murdered. Now someone is trying to eliminate her, plus anyone and everyone...
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