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"In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry?...
2) Next in line
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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....
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Revenge comes to Branton. Inspector Stone's past catches up to him with blood and flames. A series of murders rocks the small town of Branton and leaves Inspector Stone with his toughest case, one which may see him paying a tremendous personal price if he can't solve it quick enough. At first glance the murder of the wife and mother of an Asian shopkeeper appears racially motivated, and the local paper is quick to stir up tensions within the community....
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The past just won't stay dead for Nathan Stone. When the Larsson Studio and its owner suffer a series of attacks, Nathan Stone must not only figure out who is responsible, he must try to lay to rest the rumours that have led to them. Rumours that have been encouraged by the local paper.
Just as he is putting that case to bed a body is discovered in a burned out car in Branton Wood, a car that is connected to Kurt Walker, the man who murdered his...
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A dead model, a studio suspected of abuse, and a depressed detective.
Three months after losing his family in a deadly blaze the discovery of a teenage girl's body on the riverbank draws Nathan Stone back to work and into a complicated case.
Ellen Powers was a popular internet model with many adoring fans, so who would want to kill her?
The investigation soon turns up many secrets, including the fact that Ellen was pregnant and planning an abortion....
6) Perfect Dead
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Sometimes perfection is worth killing for... The second gripping crime novel in an exciting new series. Ex-priest DI Frank Farrell finds himself on the trail of a vicious killer in rural Scotland. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Val McDermid. Each murder brings him one step closer to the perfect death. Ex-priest DI Farrell is called on to investigate a gruesome death in rural Scotland. All evidence points to suicide, except for...
7) Beguiled
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Art thieves are hitting North Bend's wealthiest residents with a vengeance, and the most sophisticated security systems can't seem to stop them. The homeowners are outraged, and the sheriff's office is baffled. How do the thieves know which valuables lie behind those stone walls and iron gates, and how do they know when to hit? The only possible answer is inside information, but from whom?
When a caretaker goes missing during a heist and signs of...
8) Travesty
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In six counties lie numerous bodies, all with one thing in common-a tie around the neck of each victim. With a multicounty task force set up, the Washburn County Sheriff's Office finds itself in the middle of the mayhem when the body of an unidentified woman is found in a nearby lake. A well-meaning local man insists he knows the woman, yet all signs indicate he's mistaken. But when a Chicago homicide detective charges into town and tries to take...
9) Saving Molly
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Molly Brown always faces life with a smile, even when a frightening thug is intent upon killing her. At first, Detective Sean Cushing finds Molly's cheery disposition unnatural, especially when he discovers the seriousness of her injuries. When she asks for police protection, he instead offers her a job and home being a nanny to his five-year-old daughter, hoping her cheery disposition can pull his child from her dark hole of misery. Never did he...
10) Diabolical
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Solving cases with the help of her psychic abilities makes Kate Pierce a huge asset to her team, yet when news surfaces that a celebrity psychic has gone missing and she's found brutally murdered days later, Kate takes it upon herself to dig deeper on her own time. After nights of research, Kate realizes the killing isn't an isolated incident, and a madman is prowling the Midwest in search of particular psychics to murder. Joining forces with the...
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The kidnapping of a child is every parent's worst nightmare, for the Keatings though it isn't a nightmare, it's a reality. Inspector Stone is tasked with finding Alice Keating and bringing her home safely. Hard enough under normal circumstances, but between investigating an unrelated armed robbery, family problems, and the machinations of an ambitious underling, it's almost impossible. Unbeknown to either Stone or Alice's parents, the kidnappers have...
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Meraner Atmosphäre, Humor und skurrile Figuren . . . eine tödlich-unterhaltsame Mischung.
Ispettore Emmenegger hat als neuer Chef der Meraner Mordkommission alle Hände voll zu tun. Seine Nachbarin Lisa Granelli wird bei einem frühmorgendlichen Spaziergang erschlagen. Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur, doch Feinde hatte Granelli viele. Als Leiterin der Kreditabteilung einer Meraner Bank stürzte sie so manchen in den finanziellen Ruin. Emmeneggers erster...
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Jorge Vane, funcionario del Ministerio Británico de Informaciones, es el hilo conductor de los seis cuentos de este libro, escritos en Buenos Aires en las décadas de 1930 y 1940, en pleno estallido de la narrativa policial argentina. Vane actúa resolviendo misterios con su arriesgada presencia en la zona de la Triple Frontera, o mediante un intercambio de cartas a distancia, o en la zona de teatros de la Rive Gauche de París, o en el interior...
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"Las cosas del mundo tienen sus nombres cambiados y se ha perdido la clave de los cambios", nos dice Peyrou en esta novela publicada en 1959. El protagonista, Francisco Berthier, es un viudo cuarentón que se siente descolocado del marco de referencia habitual, tras haber matado inesperadamente a un hombre en el centro de una Buenos Aires contemporánea. La mujer por la que mató, según se va revelando poco a poco, tal vez no merecía ningún sacrificio......
15) Marea de fervor
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Cuentos policiales, costumbristas o fantásticos componen esta colección de placeres variados. Pablo S. Laborde, el viejo investigador, y su sobrino narrador son el hilo que enlaza este volumen con los anteriores libros de relatos, al volver a aparecer en "Uno en dos" y "El crimen de don Magín Casanovas". La pintura mordaz de la alta sociedad porteña, en "La Doradilla", alterna tintes ligeros y sombríos donde se mezclan las apuestas, la pasión...
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Borges dijo una vez que el relato que da título a este libro es uno de los mejores de la literatura argentina, y confesaba que había logrado hacerlo llorar. El cuento "La noche repetida" es, en efecto, una pequeña obra maestra que juega con el tiempo y el espacio para relatar una historia de lealtad filial y de malevos en un Palermo realista de comienzos del siglo xx.
Los cuentos policiales conviven en este libro con los que presentan misterios...
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El protagonista de los cuentos policiales que conforman El árbol de Judas es don Pablo S. Laborde, un hombre de edad e ingenio cuyo joven aprendiz aparece como narrador. Laborde es del interior y, como antiguo administrador de campos, ha aprendido a interpretar las palabras y a confiar en su propia astucia para sonsacar información a la realidad. Al ser presentado desde distintos ángulos, Laborde termina perfilado con un detalle psicológico que...
18) Acto y ceniza
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Una fábrica de dulces cierra en el barrio de Villa Crespo, forzada por las extorsiones ejercidas desde el gobierno en el primer peronismo. En varios lugares de la ciudad, otras empresas son asfixiadas hasta dejar la actividad o ser vendidas a precio vil a testaferros del poder. Sammy Liberman, heredero de la fábrica y la fortuna familiares, quiere destacarse en los negocios, pero sus movimientos se ven barridos por un entorno abiertamente hostil...
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Un país imaginario habitado por personajes germánicos o centroeuropeos. Una crisis institucional mayor: es asesinado el viejo dictador Gesenius. La sorpresa del lector es temprana, porque el nuevo dictador dispone que la indagación del crimen la realice precisamente la persona acusada de haber matado a Gesenius... Ese investigador, Félix Greitz, es un intelectual, admirador de Shakespeare y de los cuentos policiales de Chesterton, y (según cree...
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In The Verge Practice, Kathy Kolla and David Brock, Scotland Yard's superlative detective duo, take on a puzzling case in the posh world of big-name international architecture, and it has them chasing red herrings and hopping fences from London to Barcelona.
Charles Verge, a powerful, cutting-edge architect, has disappeared into the blue, leaving behind his firm; his beloved—and pregnant—daughter; and his young and very dead...
Charles Verge, a powerful, cutting-edge architect, has disappeared into the blue, leaving behind his firm; his beloved—and pregnant—daughter; and his young and very dead...
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