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"Bodies can tell you a lot. There can be an eloquence about the dead. But you have to be able to interpret what they are telling you. "This captivating, expertly crafted mystery captures the life and essence of Victorian Dublin and draws the reader on a gripping journey of murder and intrigue. When a Dublin Pawnbroker is found murdered and the lead suspect goes missing, Sergeant Joe Swallow is handed the poisoned chalice of the investigation....
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"A distraught businessman who is looking for help walks into the office of a mouthy detective named Jules Bettinger, has a conversation, walks out, and kills himself. Because of this incident, the impolite but decorated policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from their warm lives in Arizona to the frigid north and work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself...
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After a dream honeymoon, Carly and Thorne return home to Lillington, North Carolina, a small town where everyday lives play out amidst a backdrop of hope, beliefs, prejudices, and love.When a neighbor's disturbing report leads to the discovery of a dead body, Police Chief Lolo turns to Thorne to help investigate. As Thorne follows the twisted trails of truth and mistaken identities, he uncovers shocking secrets.Meanwhile, young divorcée Jennifer...
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Swan Song for an Agent A band hits the big time. They become hugely successful and tour. It is taking too much out of them, so they decide to break up.Then their agent is found with her throat cut. Nick Storie investigates.Sing a Song of MurderA band becomes successful on the strength of the front man. Things are looking up!Then the man's girlfriends start getting murdered.Final TourA singer is very popular and making millions. Then there are attempts...
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Welcome to St. Barts, beautiful and sensual, vacation spot of models, moguls and movie stars and home to Gendarme Charles Trenet. Life is one sunny day after another and the life of the young gendarme is one of blissful tranquility-even his love life is looking up-that is, until the annual marbles tournament rolls around. The locals always look forward to the good-natured competition and this one looks to be the most exciting event yet. But what has...
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Del ganador del Premio L'H Confidencial, nos llega Habana réquiem, un thriller policiaco que nos arrastra por las calles de la Habana Vieja.
Cuba se tensa en medio del panorama de recesión y el Estado intenta maniobrar con un falso aperturismo económico, pero la mentalidad insular ha cambiado y el ciudadano de a pie ya no parece tan dócil como ha sido durante el último medio siglo. La marginalidad amenaza con desbordar al sistema.
En la Mazmorra,...
7) Murder Moon
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Sheriff Steele's world shattered as US Marshall Maddox Creel entered her office with a swagger. After he recovered from finding a woman in the Sheriff's chair, he described the days-old escape of a prisoner, Augustus Sims. She couldn't believe her ears. How did this happen?Augustus is not someone you want walking around your neighborhood. A jury sentenced him to life in prison for murder two years ago, and that's where he belonged.Steele promised...
8) Murder Cell
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A student's plea for help on a school paper late one night had Digger arriving at his lab to help. But he was too late to save the boy because he lay dead on the lab floor. As Digger knelt beside him, checking his pulse, an armed security guard arrived, pointing a gun at his head and arresting him for murder. He was transported to jail without regard to his plea of innocence, where Digger phoned a friend. Then he waited in a cold cell for FBI agent...
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Rookie, Jake Cornell didn't know what to expect when he arrived for work as a new recruit in his home town police station, but he was excited. Afer all, how hard could it be, he lived in a quiet town, didn't he...?When the local Magistrates' Court kept releasing violent, recidivist offenders back into the community, instead of jailing them, someone in the the south-east Australian town took it upon themselves to serve up a more suitable punishment...
10) The Box
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No flashes, no bangs, no explosions or car chases, not even a slammed door. Just the high-pitched squeal, odd deep gurgle and long, slow whine from an increasingly malfunctioning toilet cistern. Welcome to Sutton Box, an occasionally visited small police post which, due to an ill-conceived attitude, is now the working home of Merseyside's premier detective, Thurstan Baddeley, as he delves into the world of cold cases.
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Dans la paisible ville de Nashville, dans le Tennessee, la confusion s'installe et la ville devient célèbre pour toute la terreur générée par les diverses lettres qui perturbent la sérénité des habitants de la ville. Les lettres sont provocantes et traitent de sujets sensibles, parlent de culpabilité, de liaisons et de toutes sortes de discours susceptibles de détruire une personne. Personne ne sait qui a écrit ces lettres ni...
12) The Donkey-Vous
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Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting-ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear...
13) The Dark Truth
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Lincoln Berenger buried the memories from a childhood raised in a state-run children's home, under years of new memories. It was how he coped.But when he returned to his home town in southern, regional Australia, after a lengthy absence, people closely linked to his troubled past were found murdered.Was this timing a coincidence, or was something more sinister at play?
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Who tossed three dead young girls into a ditch on the side of a one lane dirt road in south Georgia? And Why?It's after midnight when a teenager peers into the ditch. He couldn't believe his eyes. Sheriff Jada Steele arrives at the scene of the gruesome discovery. She jumped into the ditch, needing a closer look. Then she regretted it. The eyes of three dead young girls tied, bound, and gagged stared back at her. When the FBI database identified the...
15) MOA
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Someone is targeting FBI agents across the country. One by one they fall prey to this ruthless killer. Agent Mac Morris takes the killings personally when she reveals the dead agents were members of her graduating class at Quantico. The closer they get to identifying the sniper, the more danger Mac finds herself. Once the sniper feels threatened, he sets his sights on Mac. Between gunfire and car chases, Spencer, her partner, will do anything to keep...
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Mayo de 1964. El inspector Hilario Soler es el encargado de investigar el asesinato de Gonzalo Romeu Sotomayor, uno de los constructores más importantes de Barcelona en ya desde después de la Guerra Final. El cadáver tiene una nota clavada en la frente con una chincheta en la que se lee una misteriosa nota manuscrita: "Por Simón".
A partir de los primeros pasos de Soler y el subinspector Quesada, todo un mundo de intereses, odios y pasiones envuelve...
17) Murder Cove
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A boy and girl die back-to-back. Literally.A fisherman discovered the boy's body submerged in the lake with his hands tied behind his back. When Sheriff Steele and her troops hoisted the body into their boat, they discovered something unsettling. The boy still held onto a girl's hand, but only a hand.With a promise to find the girl and identify the victims, the Sheriff's Office began their investigation, but when more bodies turn up in the same cove,...
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Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle clinical psychologist, is in dire need of help to save her patient's life. Kae Carlson believes she will be killed on her twenty-sixth birthday, which is less than three weeks away. Through "Connie, Maxine, and Cathleen," Kae's other personalities, Dr. Mitchell learns that Kae was raped by the High Priest of a satanic cult on her thirteenth birthday. A miscarriage prevented her from delivering a baby to be sacrificed,...
19) The Unraveling
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If Ex-Detective Remi Doucet doesn't kill the governor of Louisiana by Mardi Gras Day, his teenaged daughter will suffer the same fate as his murdered wife. Remi must keep his mission a secret from the police and the FBI until he can figure out who had torn his world apart. Partnering with Detective Gracie Castillo, the pair follow the clues left by dead bodies, arsonists, and Latino gang leaders, but Remi realizes that not all evidence is what it...
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Digger drives by the car accident scene of a friend. He knows in his heart that this was no accident. So, when he couldn't let the scene go, he asked FBI Agent Watson for help.Once they joined forces, Watson found a series of murdered scientists who died in a similar manner to Digger's friend. This spurred Digger to find the truth. While searching for the reason for the killings, Digger finds a file, and everything makes sense until a photo falls...
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