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20161) Remous à Pleumeur-Bodou
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Joël, dont le couple bat de l'aile depuis plusieurs semaines, trompe dans un moment d'égarement, son épouse avec la sulfureuse Nikki. Cette femme, à la beauté irrésistible, est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée, peu de temps après leur étreinte passionnée.
Joël devient aussitt le suspect numéro un du commandant Forisse, ainsi que Claire, son épouse, aperçue sur les lieux la nuit du drame, et qui s'évanouit mystérieusement dans...
20162) The Sunday Killer
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A serial killer is stalking the streets of Crystal Falls. Heather Moody has spent seven years on the Crystal Falls Police Department and never expected to be made lead detective, tasked to investigate cold case murders that rocked their small town. Even though she took down the notorious serial killer, Marcus Pew, nothing could ever prepare her for what was about to come. When her team reaches the river where an earlier murder took place, they find...
20163) A World of Deceit
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Portland, Maine
Unable to awaken her father, eminent geologist, Ted Gabbro, nine-year-old Arielle approaches the vacationing Joe Burgess, desperate for his help. Loathe to let anything interfere with his much needed rest on the mountains of western Maine, Joe can't ignore the girl's plea for help and can't deny that something is very wrong.
As the frightened girl's father languishes in a coma and her mother can't be found, Burgess finds himself...
20164) Daisy Chain
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In 2009 the body of five-year-old Daisy Prospero was found in Shropshire woodland. Her killer has never been caught.
Ten years on, Detective Chief Inspector Kath Fortune and her new Cold Case team are on the hunt to find the truth.
Alongside the new investigation into his daughter's murder, Todd Prospero has his own mystery to solve. Who is the woman he finds in his garden in the middle of the night on the brink of death?
A chain of secrets and...
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In this future adventure, Gardai inspector Declan McGuinness leads a team that includes an Ethiopian inspector and a very sophisticated robot. The body of Daryl McGivern, the retired and eccentric CEO of an Irish American robotics company, is missing. The mystery of his whereabouts opens the door to the disappearance and apparent theft of hundreds of soldier robots. These robots, called soljabots, are internationally banned as weapons of war but,...
20166) What She Fears
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To solve the murder of a Galway professor involved in investigations into ancient Irish history, a Philadelphia police detective in Ireland must first confront his own truths. Visiting Galway in an effort to strengthen his struggling romance and explore his family legacy, Philadelphia police detective Adam Kaminski stumbles onto a murder scene. Quite literally. Now he must solve the grisly murder of a university professor before he becomes a convenient...
20167) Better Than Suicide
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A bag of drugs. A twisted cop. A mob on the verge of self-destruction...
Nao Murata is the new Godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate. When Detective Yamada confronts Nao over a dead drug dealer, the Nao knows his organization isn't responsible. The Matsukawa doesn't deal drugs...or does it?
When Nao discovers drugs in a locker owned by his syndicate, he no longer knows whom to trust. With the police bearing down on the Matsukawa, Nao must make unlikely...
20168) Angle of Attack
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Gabe Wager mysteries volume 4
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A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to reopen a cold case A year ago, Marco Scorvelli was murdered while picking up his morning paper. A sawed-off shotgun put a hole in his stomach, and streaked the inside of his sports coat with the mob boss's innards. As Scorvelli crawled towards his front door, the killer left the shotgun angled neatly on the sidewalk. No prints were recovered, and no headway was ever made on the case. Now a reliable...
20169) Exodus of Evil Book Two
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading"-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast Communication with the generation ship, Conservation, has been lost. The Universal Mining Agency-the corporation behind the space project-seems to have lost interest in the legendary vessel. Things change, however, when the CEO of the corporation receives a strange letter in the post. Someone out there wants to know what happened to the...
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This book is former Police Chief Mark Beckner's second release of a series of crime thrillers. His first book, Behind The Lies, contained three separate crime dramas. In this book, two short novels take the reader through two more fictional crime stories of mystery, drama, suspense, and action. The first story, Deadly Desires, follows Miami detectives Rick Baez and Leah Mitchell as they try to unravel the mysterious deaths of two wealthy married men....
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«L'unité pour une ambition sociétale ne semble pas une préoccupation collective, le pays se vide déjà, et surtout, de ses enfants aux têtes bien faites qui ne perçoivent aucune vision d'intégration et de développement. Personne ne transcende, quelquefois seulement, si rarement, pour rassembler, pour entraîner, pour motiver, pour construire dans la durée par sa connaissance, par son aura et son leadership. Le détenteur d'un pouvoir, quel...
20172) Night Of The Pawns
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On the night shift at the Huesca police station, Andrés learns of the death of an old friend he has not seen for twenty years, but who for some reason has travelled from the Barcelona coast to tell him something. With the help of Diana, a young police trainee, the veteran police officer sets out on an investigation that will force him to go back to his childhood to find out what has reunited them after so long.
Ths novel La noche de los peones...
20173) Mrs. White
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In the suburbs of Connecticut, a carpenter embarks on a gruesome killing spree While she's preparing dinner for her husband, Mrs. Porter runs out of lemons. Driving to the supermarket through the achingly quaint downtown area of suburban Putnam Wells, she yearns for life in New York City. The Porters moved to Connecticut because it was supposed to be safer, quieter, more predictable-until that afternoon, when she returns home and finds a madman waiting...
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'A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.'-Sourav Ganguly, cricketer
Brother kills brother using the plague bacteria as a murder weapon.
A man is killed in his sleep and his body walled up in the house.
A seemingly docile housewife masterminds a gruesome twin murder…
The Kolkata Police is one of the oldest and most illustrious police forces...
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Meet Chris Heifner, overachieving drug runner for a Mexican marijuana cartel. But he wasn't always. This one-time econ student from Texas-broke, deep in debt, and facing eviction with a growing family to support-yielded to the temptation that he had resisted countless times before and went to work for his best friend from college, Jake Andes. But it wasn't exactly a Career Day kind of job. Andes was a big-time dealer, captaining a $25-million-a-year...
20176) The Fort Terror Murders
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Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, "Fort Terror") with no thought of treasure or tragedy - but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now, but when the Spanish controlled the Philippines, it had been an ill-fated and much-used fort. Some legendary menace hung over its somber vaults and passages, but when two men vanished into its depths one evening and did not reappear, North saw only a living...
20177) The Scarlet Imperial
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Handed a mysterious package, a woman finds herself caught in a deadly game Her name is not Eliza Williams. A fashionable young woman with a taste for adventurous men, she made the mistake of falling in love with Towner Clay-a New York City playboy whose international jetsetting conceals dangerous secrets. On Towner's behalf, she has spent six months pretending to be Eliza Williams, a dowdy Midtown secretary. It's dull work until the day Gavin Keane,...
20178) Incentive for Death: A Novel
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They all sold their life insurance policies to the same company- and now they' re all dead. Mac and Oliver are on the case.
On a beautiful spring morning in Washington, D.C., a high-profile attorney is found dead in his office. McDermott " Mac" Burke and Oliver Shaw, homicide investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department, are called to investigate. There appear to be no signs of foul play, but there is also no obvious...
20179) Muñecas de hollín
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En la isla francesa Nouvelle Lune se desencadena una peligrosa revuelta entre clases sociales, pero todo apunta a que los hilos de esta revolución están siendo manipulados por un misterioso y peligroso culto pagano.
El detective Gaspard Lombard investiga el extraño asesinato de mademoiselle Cassandra Abbadie, hija de una familia adinerada de la isla. El misterioso cuerpo de la chica no presenta indicios letales de violencia ni agresión, pero la...
20180) If I Should Die
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Mystery, suspense, as undercover detective, Julius C. Armstrong, searches for last links in a chain of characters in an international crime ring. The last trail leads to a small mid-western town...but everyone knows nothing ever happens in small, sleepy mid-western towns.
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