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They say you can't cheat death... well, that doesn't stop these guys from trying... James DeRossa is a natural born rebel. Just released from Jackson County Jail, he turns his back on the family funeral business in Detroit and heads out to Tinseltown to set up a heist and settle an old score. Who better to hire than a group of unscrupulous undertakers. Only this time they aren t burying anyone, they're out to disinter $25 million in missing cash and...
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Más conocido en tiempos de paz por ser un detective privado de torpes maneras, Dick DeWitt se encuentra enrolado en el ejército de los EE. UU. durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Sin embargo, el ejército lo envía a la costa oeste para descubrir espías, quintos columnistas y saboteadores.
Lo que el pobre DeWitt no sabe es que mientras él está buscando al enemigo, el enemigo lo está buscando a él.
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Max the cat was living a life of luxury and contentment...until Kerry was murdered. With Kerry's last will and testament, Max inherits a lot of money and a caretaker, and suddenly the target of a murderer. Max soon finds himself embroiled in a dangerous and humorous cat-and-mouse game with a killer determined to claim what is rightfully theirs. If you enjoyed the suspense and comedy of Donald Westlake, you'll love Sibling Rivalry. Buy it now! Bonus...
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Linda has the perfect job working at the hospital switchboard, but when Christmas in July starts, she finds herself having to make an impossible choice. With no legitimate excuse to take a week away from work, she is left with no other option than to use her disabled son to take bereavement leave. But when she finds out that her scheme could end up killing someone, she must choose between her job and her family. Lifetime Hallmark Scheme is a humorous...
5) The Backlist
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A Bricks & Cam Job #1 When the mob finds itself on hard times and has to lay people off, the boss decides to give two different hitters separate lists of "overdue accounts" - a backlist - to see who distinguishes themselves enough to remain on the payroll. The sharp-tongued Bricks and the hapless, eager to please Cam find themselves faced with challenges they never imagined when they got into the business. But there's no other choice than to settle...
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Un couple improbable de criminels se lance dans un nouveau coup, qui comporte son lot d'embûches!
Dido n'a aucun scrupule, mais elle a un principe: pour exister, il faut servir à quelque chose, être utile, avoir un talent — même un tout petit — et le mettre au service de tous... Elle, son talent, sa spécialité, c'est de tuer les banquiers! Et d'habitude, elle fait ça très bien... Mais là, elle a dérapé! Enée, lui aussi a un principe....
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Qu'est-ce qui peut pousser un individu à immoler son prochain?
Fred, auteur en mal d'inspiration, se pose la question. Le besoin de se faire connaître? L'obéissance aux injonctions d'un dieu quelconque? La vengeance?
Fred se lance dans l'écriture de son roman. Mais est-ce bien d'une fiction qu'il s’agit? Dans son quartier, les Batignolles à Paris, celui que tout le monde appelle désormais « Le Faucheur » sème la mort sur son passage et...
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Un voisin mi-ange, mi-démon ?
Cécile, obligée de déménager suite à une déception sentimentale aurait-elle trouvé son ange-gardien en s'installant dans le quartier des Batignolles ? Toujours est-il que ses problèmes se règlent les uns après les autres, de manière pour le moins expéditive. Simple hasard ou intervention extérieure ? Quel rle joue son voisin, Servais Marcuse, un grand-père débonnaire qui vit dans les souvenirs d'une vie...
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It's 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David "Itchy" Crane's fledgling "information consultancy" business is slowly getting buried in bad luck, bad decisions, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before he can completely self-destruct, a private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money's right and because the only...
10) What We Reckon
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Meet Jack Jordan. He's a smooth-talking con artist with a penchant for the fast life. He's snuck into Lufkin, Texas, in the dead of night with little more than a beat-up Honda, a hollowed-out King James Bible full of cocaine, and enough emotional baggage to sink a steam ship. He's charming, dedicated, and extremely paranoid. Summer Ashton, his partner-in-crime. She's stuck by him through thick and thin, but lately her mind has begun to slip. They've...
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"Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe. Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military as...
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Willy Goth, notre célèbre inspecteur intérimaire, est de retour dans de nouvelles enquêtes atypiques.
Quand la police de Laville se perd en conjectures, il n'y a plus qu'une solution, faire appel à ce policier hors normes ! Mais cette fois-ci, il va devoir faire face à des enquêtes particulièrement délicates : entre une future star de la
télévision, en quête du scoop qui lancera sa carrière, et la visite surprise de la Secrétaire...
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In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by...
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