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1) Taken
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8-year-old Leila Smith has seen and heard things that no child should ever have to. On the Hawthorn Estate, where she lives, she often stays out after dark to avoid going home. But what Leila doesn't know is that someone has been watching her in the playground. One day, she disappears without a trace... The police start a nationwide search but it's as if Leila has vanished into thin air. Who kidnapped her? What do they want? Will she return home safely...
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Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more... DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word. Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case....
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'DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine' Elly Griffiths The second book in Michael Wood's darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven...
4) Stolen
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'Wait just one minute while I catch my breath and pick my heart up off the floor. Wow! This book grabbed onto me and would not let go... Five stars' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You thought she was safe. You were wrong... Alex knows her daughter would never wander off in a strange place. So when her three-year-old vanishes from an idyllic beach wedding, Alex immediately believes the worst. The hunt for Lottie quickly becomes a world-wide search,...
5) Good Girl
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Erin was a good girl. But someone wanted her dead... 'I love all Mel Sherratt's books' IAN RANKIN 'An absolute masterpiece' ANGELA MARSONS 'Twists and turns and delivers a satisfying shot of tension' RACHEL ABBOTT When sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis is attacked, she dies in the arms of her best friend Molly, just meters from her home. Molly is the surviving girl but says she easily could have been the victim — it was a random mugging gone wrong. With...
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"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes...
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Who killed Sophie? A body lies by the seafront, mutilated beyond recognition. A teenage girl has secrets to keep. And a detective is watching helplessly as his life falls apart at the seams... Early one morning, Sophie Washington is found dead in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay. There's a mysterious dragon tattoo on her hip, but her face is no longer there. As DI Jack Brady is forced to investigate, he begins to uncover a web of secrets, not least...
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Franck Amelin, commandant d'un groupe d'enquête à la section criminelle du S.R.P.J. de Lyon n'est pas ravi lorsqu'il doit annoncer à son équipe qu'Alexandra Serrano, une jeune officier de police judiciaire, psychologue de surcroît, débarque de Paris pour travailler avec eux en tant que «profileuse».
Mais la série d'assassinats qui s'amorce dans la capitale rhodanienne en ce milieu de printemps, ne leur laisse pas le loisir de s'appesantir...
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Leith and Dion are on the hunt for a different kind of murderer … and he's a real animal. It seems the October rains have brought death and disaster to North Vancouver. A missing hiker is found by his son and daughter, a foul smell leads to a mauled body in a crawl space, and a small boy is attacked by a man in wolf form. Once an up-and-coming Serious Crimes investigator, these days Constable Cal Dion is back on general duties, feeling out-of-the-loop...
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Jack Warren, a young officer who's been working in a virtually crime-free area, is now moving into Toronto's notorious 51 Division. Suddenly, he's entered a dangerous downtown world where drugs and prostitution are rampant-and he's immediately thrown into a brutal war against a dealer intent on taking over the city's trade.
Warren soon discovers that no one is safe from the dealer's quest for domination when the war turns horrifically personal....
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In these two crime novels, a veteran Toronto cop puts his firsthand experience on the page-"characters ring true, and the gritty side of Toronto shows" (Library Journal).
Lethal Rage
New to Toronto's infamous 51 Division, officer Jack Warren finds himself thrown into a brutal war against a crack-cocaine dealer determined to dominate the city's drug trade. Working with the division's elite major-crime unit, Jack soon learns the unspoken difference...
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Un an après la série de crimes qui a défrayé la chronique et ému le landerneau tournaisien, de nouveaux meurtres sont perpétrés.
Le mode opératoire est quasi semblable à celui de la première affaire. Afin de résoudre cette énigme, l'inspecteur Héron de la police fédérale est dépêché sur place avec son équipe.
De rebondissement en rebondissement, de fausses pistes en vrais indices, les enquêteurs finiront-ils par découvrir le fin...
13) River of Lies
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In rain-drenched Vancouver, detectives Dion and Leith work to separate truth from lies in two seemingly unrelated cases.
February is the month of romance, but in North Vancouver it's also become the month of murder. While the North Shore RCMP slog through the rain in the search for whoever left a young woman to die in the Riverside Secondary School parking lot - their first clue a Valentine's Day card - a toddler mysteriously vanishes from a Riverside...
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After the murder of his partner, Jack Warren's been transferred to 53 Division-known as the "Sleepy Hollow of Toronto." But he yearns to return to 51 Division, where his former colleagues are busy pursuing a criminal mastermind.
Randall Kayne has been committing violent, bloody crimes, yet he manages to stay just one step ahead of the police. Although Jack's wife wants him to leave the force entirely, an old enemy soon drags him into the Kayne...
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A string of incidents causes Cal Dion to learn some harsh truths about himself.
A single-vehicle crash on the Sea to Sky Highway is blamed on the notorious stretch of road - but when bad things start happening to the good people who stopped to help the victim, North Vancouver RCMP Constable Dave Leith starts to wonder if something darker is at play.
Leith and his partner, JD, work through clues that are as close to bizarre as they've ever seen. At...
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«Bien. Je vous rappelle la situation. Il y a deux ans, dans la nuit du passage à l'heure d'hiver, une jeune femme a été assassinée dans son appartement du centre-ville. L'an passé, lors de cette même nuit, une autre jeune femme a été assassinée dans son appartement du centre- ville. Deux crimes en tous points similaires, pas d'effraction, pas de violences sexuelles, même mode opératoire, aucune trace, deux crimes qui nous donnent à penser...
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Que faire quand le hasard dépose, au pied de votre immeuble, le cadavre d'une jeune fille connue de toute la ville ? Lise ne se pose pas vraiment la question. À presque soixante ans, elle a suffisamment vécu pour peiner à s'émouvoir. Presque distraitement, elle laisse se dérouler à ses pieds, dans le plus grand désordre, les interrogations, les découvertes, les errances et les conclusions hâtives du jeune inspecteur chargé de l'affaire,...
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Dans un espace culturel réputé de Bruxelles, Flagey, une violoniste est retrouvée tuée d'un archet planté dans la gorge...
À l'issue d'une répétition au Flagey, prestigieux espace culturel bruxellois, une musicienne est retrouvée morte sur la scène du Studio 4, son archet planté dans la carotide. La fantasque juge d'instruction Victoire Overwinning dépêche pour l'occasion son meilleur enquêteur, Gidéon Monfort, fraîchement sorti de...
19) Blind eye
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 5
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Investigator Logan McRae tackles another thankless case in gritty Aberdeen, Scotland. Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a brave new world of drug wars, prostitution rings, and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.
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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...
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