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1) 1979
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Allie Burns volume 1
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English
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"Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape...
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Cass Neary novels volume 2
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English
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Elizabeth Hand's writing honors include the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and many others. Now, this uniquely gifted storyteller brings us a searing and iconoclastic crime novel, in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners....
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2016
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English
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In the thrilling sequel to One for Our Baby, the Chicago mob is looking for Al Capone’s lost treasure—and former ace fighter pilot Joe Buonomo holds the key to finding it.
When Joe Buonomo returned from World War II, he chose to settle in California rather than go back home to Chicago—and he didn’t plan on revisiting his old stomping grounds any time soon. But when Frank Sinatra asks you to fly him to the...
When Joe Buonomo returned from World War II, he chose to settle in California rather than go back home to Chicago—and he didn’t plan on revisiting his old stomping grounds any time soon. But when Frank Sinatra asks you to fly him to the...
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"In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash--two cynical...
5) Teammates
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Short StoryFormer high school football teammates meet at a wedding ten years after a violent tackle on the football field crippled one. The crippled teammate, whose promising tennis career was ruined, is a bartender at the wedding reception. His teammate is the arrogant, drunken groom.Revenge becomes a deadly wedding present.
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Cass Neary novels volume 3
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English
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"As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Her iconoclastic series of crime novels which features offbeat photographer Cass Neary, began with the underground classic Generation Loss, and that was followed by the brilliant Available Dark. Katherine Dunne, author of Geek Love, describes Cass as "one of literature's great noir antiheroes," and comparisons to Stieg Larsson's Liz Salander abound. As the story...
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Three gripping stories. One breakneck ride...
This special collection includes books 5-7 in the aclaimed Thomas Blume series.
If you enjoy thrilling action, captivating characters and mysteries that keep you guessing then you'll love this three book collection from breakout author Phil Reade
Grave Walker An ex-cop haunted by his past. A body with a message. 72 hours to find the truth...
Ex-cop, Thomas Blume returns to New York hot on the trail...
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2016
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English
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This murder mystery set in the Parisian cathedral is "a twisted and riveting story . . . Highly original" (Toronto Star).
Fifty thousand believers and photo-hungry tourists jam into Notre Dame Cathedral on August 15 to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. The next morning, a stunningly beautiful young woman clothed all in white kneels at prayer in a cathedral side chapel. But when an American tourist accidentally bumps...
Fifty thousand believers and photo-hungry tourists jam into Notre Dame Cathedral on August 15 to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. The next morning, a stunningly beautiful young woman clothed all in white kneels at prayer in a cathedral side chapel. But when an American tourist accidentally bumps...
9) Goodbye L.A
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Four years ago, when Capt. George Steifer charged screenwriter Ben Crandel with murder, it didn't look like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Hollywood makes strange bedfellows, and now the cop has come to his writer pal for help.
A Los Angeles Times reporter named Elise Reilly disappeared two weeks ago while investigating a story on the punk rock scene. Steifer has been trying to find her with the help of a spiky-haired informant who...
10) Only in L.A
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In this sequel to the Edgar Award–nominated Tough Luck L.A., a Hollywood screenwriter searches for his kidnapped son in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
Things are mostly looking up for Ben Crandel. The once down-on-his-luck screenwriter now has a steady job as a studio script doctor. But the transition from Big Brother to single father of an adopted teenager has been bumpy. So when his son, Petey, disappears with their basset hound, Stanley,...
11) Tough Luck L.A
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Edgar Award Finalist: Ben Crandel came to Hollywood to strike it big as a writer-not become the prime suspect in a prostitute's murder.
L.A. seemed like a good idea at the time. Having published two novels, Ben Crandel left a sweet teaching job back east and moved to Hollywood to write a screenplay. Now languishing in development limbo, he pays the rent on his seedy bungalow by cranking out porn novels. And his girlfriend, Ellen, has decided she...
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Dans une région marquée par les éléments, de nombreux événements font perdre la tête aux différents habitants...
Les monts d'Arrée. Lieu prestigieux bâti par une force naturelle puissante o la beauté, l'harmonie, le calme régénérateur ne sont perturbés que par la violence épisodique et habituelle des éléments. Après les grandes souffrances des siècles passés, les hommes qui vivent ici ont enfin trouvé un équilibre.
Rien ne...
13) Napa Noir
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A vineyard becomes a crime scene in this compelling mystery: "Truly surprising twists and turns . . . A brilliant, twisted plot" (James Byron Huggins, international bestselling author of Leviathan).
When northern California's idyllic Napa Valley is shattered by the shooting deaths of two men, investigative-reporter-turned-wine-editor Dante Rath seizes the chance to salvage his sagging career. One of the dead is the winery's top investor, a high-tech...
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The relationship between Nick Fullwood and Johns Mayweather has always been built on favors. In high school, and now years later as adults. Nick, a newspaper journalist, needs a desperate favor from Johns, now a police officer. But, this favor is so secret, so dangerous, it could cost both of them their lives. Against the dark nightlife of Los Angeles, these two friends will come face to face with the truth about their friendship, their professions,...
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When Ember Mackay learns she has a life-threatening illness, she flees to the old Placid River cabin, but instead of solace, she finds mystery, murder and a revenge plot that has taken a generation to unfold.
Diagnosis: hepatitis C. It's a shocker for Ember Mackay. In 2010, there is no cure and she is far too young to die. Ember needs time to process, so she makes for River Lane, the Southwest Washington summer community her grandparents helped establish...
16) World Enough
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A Boston music journalist-turned-corporate writer investigates the suspicious death of a friend from her punk past in this noir mystery.
The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs-the world she's been part of for the past twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home.
With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not...
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When Pastor Jaz Blackwell receives a letter with clues regarding his father's disappearance three decades ago he realizes that hidden secrets are about to come to light. Driven by a determination to uncover the truth Jaz joins forces with Mia, his police partner as they diligently follow every lead connected to the criminal organization that his father was investigating before mysteriously vanishing. However, it becomes clear that influential forces...
18) The Reckoning
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History never forgets...
The newest arrival at a care home for the elderly carries an air of mystery that even an ex-WW2 Resistance fighter can't resist trying to solve.
Then matters take a sinister turn...
The Reckoning forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.
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Une série de meurtres dans le village d'Aurora...
Aurora est une petite fille à part terrorisée par le monde extérieur. Suite à un traumatisme qu'elle tente d'oublier, elle est confrontée à la dure réalité qu'elle a toujours fuie. Des meurtres ont lieu dans le village o elle vit et il semblerait que l'identification du coupable puisse être possible grâce aux rêves qu'elle fait...
Et si les rêves de la petite fille pouvaient résoudre...
20) Gunmetal Blue
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Detective Art Topp has a wife...or rather, had a wife. It's hard to tell. On one hand, he talks to her every day, and she talks back. On the other, he's still in shock from the day he walked into his Triple A Detective AAAgency office and found her lifeless body riddled with bullets, the catastrophic blowback from what should have been a simple investigation. Now he's promised his daughter he's going to figure out what happened. The only problem is,...
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