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1) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
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Ernest Cunningham volume 01
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started."--...
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"Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to pump the brakes and live on island time. After years of manic road tripping across their beloved Sunshine State, the irrepressible anti-heroes drop anchor in the Florida Keys. They settle down in Pelican Bay, a thriving condo complex with scenic views and friendly neighbors. But the community is at war with investors who are buying up units and leasing them to young vacationers...
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Rabbit factor volume 2
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2022
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English
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Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company ... Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainen's bestselling series...
‘In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?' Chris Brookmyre
‘The antic novels of Antti
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Simon, New York's top organic grocery store owner has a secret: his dad is the head of one of New York's biggest mob families. When his dad dies, Simon agrees to head the Family, provided that instead of murder, numbers and other rackets, the mob uses its muscle to enforce green regulations and promote healthy eating habits. At first the mob's hit men and extortionists resent being pressed into green service, but they soon become Simon's biggest supporters....
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McCabe, the main character, is a street-tough former semi-pro hockey player from Detroit. He's on a scholarship studying art history in Rome. McCabe crosses paths with a Mafia gang, that, in a case of mistaken identity, is convinced McCabe is Chip Tallenger, his roommate and the son of a wealthy US senator. Using lovely Angela as bait, they kidnap McCabe and demand a ransom. McCabe is eventually freed, but he's been pushed too far and now he's going...
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Teenage delinquent, Wayne Banstead is expelled from yet another school and finds himself hauled off to Gafin School for Misdirected Boys: a special school for 'special children'. It plays host to the worst of the worst, the cream of teenage offending – thieves, bullies, arsonists and pervs. The teachers have their work cut out. But far from rehabilitating the boys, the teachers seem more intent on instructing them how to get away with their misdeeds....
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Ernest Cunningham volume 02
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"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real"--
"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The...
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Trent's Last Case (1913) is a detective novel by E.C. Bentley. Adapted three times for the cinema-including a 1952 feature film starring Michael Wilding, Orson Welles, and Margaret Lockwood-Trent's Last Case, which was titled The Woman in Black in the U.S., earned the acclaim of such writers as Dorothy L. Sayers, and was followed by a sequel and a collection of short stories involving its main character.
When Sigsbee Manderson, a prominent American...
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Serge Storms novels volume 26
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry. Meanwhile, a...
13) One Hit Wonders
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LIla is dead. And the likely suspects are all men: her flash-in-the-pan literary husband, a washed up golf pro turned criminal with a cocaine habit, and two small-time thugs looking for the perfect score. As a crime novel for a new age, this is sex, drugs, and a story that unfolds as a map of bad intentions. In One Hit Wonders, Patrick Warner weaves an energetic tale that is part caper and part murder mystery-relentlessly satiric, brutally funny,...
14) Piedras lunares
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Caracas, esa "película abrumada de asesinos en serie, superhéroes y archivillanos", es el escenario, siempre nocturno, a la vez que protagonista, donde se recrean estas historias bajo una premisa confesa de su autor: "necesito contar esta historia. Necesito inventarla. Más bien torcerla y concluirla … Necesito llenarme las manos de tinta. De la tinta imaginaria de la escritura. A ver si con la tinta lavo el ardor de mis manos".
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15) Toxic Octopus
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A popular marine biologist is dead. An octopus named Fred is accused of killing her. Can Xena interrogate Fred and solve the crime before more people die?Xena Cali is a somewhat overzealous investigator with a passion for poetic justice. Her latest case takes her to the Biological and Aquatic Research Labs (BARL) in Galveston, where Dr. Jane Moore is found dead in a tank with a large octopus wrapped around her body. When Dr. Ari Pani (42 and very...
16) Milo's Marauders
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Darren Miles has been in and out of prison since he was 15. Now aged 27 he is released from his latest stretch and returns home vowing to go straight. But things aren't as easy as all that; his girlfriend's got married in his absence, he can't get a job to save his life, he has no money, he's living on his brother's sofa, the police are pulling him in for every little thing that happens in town and his former criminal mates have a hum-dinger of a...
17) Novocaine
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Willard Mosely is desperately in need of money. Randy Harrigan is in need of a favor. When the two reconnect at their high school reunion a pact is made, and with the mafia involved there is no turning back. Enter a retired professor determined to flee the nursing hme, and a dental assistant fleeing her abusive husband. Mosely quickly finds himself entangled in deception, a case of mistaken identities, and an unspeakable crime. The Chicago PD has...
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Bex and Ollie are a couple of small-time burglars. They eke out a living by robbing shops, burgling factories and emptying offices around the back-water town of Tatley. Bex is the brains. Ollie drives the van. Neither is particularly ambitious, preferring to think small and live comfortably rather than aim high and risk time. But things are about to change. No one can evade responsibility forever. Following on from Danny King's best-selling debut,...
19) Milo's Run
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Petty thief, Darren Miles, has finally scored some real money: a hundred grand in used notes and it's all tax-free. However, if Milo ever hopes to spend a penny of it he'd better shake off the army of angry coppers who are in hot pursuit and more than a little curious as to how he got hold of it in the first place. Milo and his partners in crime Goody and Patsy have a 30-second head-start, a stolen motor and absolutely no idea where they're going....
20) Back in Business
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Deep down, Mark knew that he'd been kept alive for a reason despite his willingness to end things permanently. More than a year ago he had accidentally started a domino effect of mayhem that resulted in the untimely death of 13 people over the course of one very long and drug-fuelled day. Now his old ruthless supplier and unofficial task master is back with more shadowy narco-business on behalf of the covert leaders of the United Kingdom, as well...
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