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For fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton-an eerie, evocative thriller set in the unforgiving Arctic from the author of The Orpheus Descent.
Deep in the Arctic, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its way through the frozen sea. A gaunt figure skis out of the fog on the pack ice. He says his name is Thomas Anderson, and that he's the lone survivors of a terrible accident at the research outpost Zodiac Station, located on the ice-bound...
42) Ashes
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A lawless land of violence and deprivation, The Meadow Well Estate is a no-go area for police and non-residents alike and a hotbed of ritual violence. No one dares enter of their own accord, and few make it out alive. But Jack was one of the good ones. Recently released from prison, he is determined to turn his life completely around: by getting out.
When, however, rumors spark of the police's involvement in the death of two young joy riders, the...
43) Atomic Beauty
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"You wouldn't call me angel if you really knew me," Erika said.
Erika Nile knows her devastating beauty always leaves men begging for more, but her lust for Jace Mitchell is raw and powerful. And although she's just obeying orders when she cozies up to the rogue agent, giving in to temptation is the worst possible idea. Still, how can she ignore what her body craves: to be with Jace, no matter the cost. And that cost will be high. Because there's...
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
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A detailed account of the sensational murder trial that shocked Victorian Scotland and ended in Glasgow's last public hanging.
In July of 1865, Dr. Edward William Pritchard was put on trial for the murder of his wife and mother-in-law. He slowly poisoned his wife, Mary Jane, while pretending to treat her for a mysterious illness. When her mother came to help care for her, Pritchard poisoned her, as well. He then falsified both women's death certificates....
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Books 1-5 in the Whiskey Empire series. The story of Rocco and Besha DeLuca. Watch them rise from poverty to feed alcohol to the monsters of 1920s prohibition - Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz and the many other ruthless American mobsters who fill their pockets with riches while blood stains their hands. But Rocco and Besha are no saints themselves. He's the muscle and she's the brains as they climb over the bodies to become king and queen...
47) Sharp-Shooters
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The latest from Bruce H. Thorstad's "Gents" series find the boys in another sticky situation of their own concoction. Cass McCasland really knew how to get Riley Stokes into trouble. He had cooked up a hustle that combined the boys' twin fortés. With Cass' talent for betting and Riley's skills as a sharpshooter, Cass hoped to win them both a whole heap of cash? But even rich men--especially rich men--don't like getting swindled by two raggedy con...
48) The Seducer
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Jonas Wergeland, a famous TV documentary producer with an almost magical knack for infidelity, returns one evening from the World's Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, and an endlessly inventive look at the conditions that have brought Wergeland to this critical juncture in life.
From his hairsbreadth escape from a ravenous polar bear while filming in Greenland to a near-death...
49) The Life
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The mafia life is a dangerous one revolving around honor, duty, and greed-a troublesome thing like love isn't meant to play a part, but no one follows the rules.Surrounded by men waiting for the Russian mob boss to show weakness, Anton Avdonin should have known showering affection so openly on his new bride wasn't a good idea. Of course, that didn't stop him. When Anton's wife begins attracting unwanted attention from an unknown source, he's determined...
50) Shadow's Justice
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Two days after the State of Louisiana executes her father for the murder of a prominent banker, Shadow McClane buys a gun and vows revenge against the real murderer and on the same day, her stepbrother's best friend Raven Deveroux pisses her off.Raven flat out refuses to help her in her dangerous quest. The murderer still roams the streets a free man and the law considers the case officially closed. He calls her a fool for putting herself and her...
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Ana Avdonin had always been a little difficult. Particular, hard to please, and she didn't deny any of it. As a Bratva princess and the daughter of Anton Avdonin, she was taught that if-not when-she chose to have a man stand by her side, he should be worthy of the position.When Koldan Vasin swept into her life like a hurricane, he quickly turned everything that Ana thought she knew upside down. He'd always called her beautiful even at her ugliest;...
52) Sister Death
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To save a life, she must face Death. Holed up in London, former assassin Acid Vanilla is trying to drink away the demons of her past when an old acquaintance turns up in need of her help. His nephew has stolen from a Spanish gangster and is being hunted by Acid's ex-colleague and rival, Sister Death. Reluctantly, Acid takes the job and travels to San Sebastian in search of the nephew. Unfortunately, he has plans of his own that involve stealing a...
53) Toughing It
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When Tuff's brother is killed, he loses the best friend he ever had-but he may be about to find the father he never knew Tuff was there when Dillon died. Riding behind his older brother on the back of his dirt bike, Tuff saw it all-except who shot him. Now Tuff has no one. When his mother, too drunk to know which way is up, hears the news that her son has died, her response is, "Well, one less to worry about." Tuff has never been close to his half...
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"A delicious tale of jealousy, ambition, competition, sex and skulduggery..."After the interview - business gets personal...Job interviews can be hell. This is the story of Andrew Aycliffe's thirst for revenge.It's also the tale of Jed Gardner, an IT genius who prefers computers, music and trains to human beings – that is, until he meets the girl of his dreams. But she's about to marry a boring beancounter.Three love triangles, two murders and a...
55) Blameless
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From the bestselling author of The Art Forger In Blameless, a psychological thriller set in Boston's Back Bay, psychologist Diana Marcus must fight to save her good name, career, and marriage when a patient, James Hutchins-who suffers from borderline personality disorder-commits suicide, and his family files charges of malpractice, sexual abuse, and wrongful death against her. Although she is far from blameless, Diana clears her name by proving that...
56) Best Friends
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Jimmy and Tiffany have been best friends since before they were out of diapers. When Tiffany calls Jimmy begging for help with a messy problem, what's a best friend to do besides help clean up her mess?
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Dewey Decimal System volume 2
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This detective story set in a dystopian New York stars “a seriously weird dude . . . A good time for fans of the likes of Charlie Huston and Charles Stross” (Kirkus Reviews).
Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for...
Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for...
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Murder Inc volume 1
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From the creators of the Eisner Award-winning, bestselling POWERS comes this brand-new world of historical crime fiction like you've never seen before.
Discover a world in which the five families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Now, half the country is a smorgasbord of sex and sin ruled by loyalty and "family values" and the rest of the world looks on in awe, rage, or jealousy. Join us as newly "made" Valentine...
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From Eric Powell (Eisner award-winning creator) and Tim Wiesch (former bricklayer) comes Big Man Plans: An Expanded Edition. First published in 2015, this brutal crime drama and in-triguing mystery shocked readers with its visceral violence and heart wrenching tragedy.
Big Man is a little person who has been brutalized and abused his entire existence. A person born to be life's punching bag...or so it appears. He just might also be one of the deadliest...
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