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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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Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution-the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom's homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity-and...
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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...
4) Prodigal son
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"With the clarity of Robert B. Parker and the complexity of Michael Connolly, [this thriller] disturbs and charms at the same time." -Booklist
Once a cancer patient, former Orlando detective Mike Garrity is a survivor-for now, at least. Death has a way of following him around, like a black cloud over his head. If it's not his own mortality he's thinking about, it's someone else's. Like his teenage daughter's friend who just died of a suspected...
7) Warlock
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As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock. Now, at forty-two years of age, Johnny has decided to take up that moniker again. It might be an odd name for an unemployed business executive living in Traverse City, Michigan. But perhaps it fits his new job working for an eccentric doctor as a personal trouble-shooter and private investigator.
Warlock suddenly finds himself on a range of bizarre assignments-everything from battling...
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A playboy P.I. becomes entangled with passion, murder, and unabashed greed in these three adventures by a New York Times–bestselling author. Privileged bachelor Archy McNally enjoys sipping late-night port with his girlfriend of the moment and tooling around South Florida in his red Miata sports car. Only occasionally does he get around to doing actual work as a part-time investigator for his father's law firm. In these three witty novels, he's...
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Novela negra del afamado autor mexicano Orlando Ortiz, donde el reportero Pablo Mistral, en conjunto con un equipo policíaco de dudoso talento, deberá resolver una serie de homicidios con sobretonos religiosos en una ciudad porteña en la que es un recién llegado junto con su esposa e hijo próximo a nacer.
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McNally's Caper: In this New York Times bestseller, Griswold Forsythe II wants to know which greedy, conniving relative is making off with the family treasures, including an original Picasso and an irreplaceable Edgar Allan Poe first edition. Suspects abound, including the sexy Forsythe women who all seem to find McNally irresistible. But things take a nasty turn when Griswold is murdered. McNally's Trial: In the past six months, Whitcomb Funeral...
11) Headlock
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Jeff Reynolds-an author who became a PI to find ideas for books-is about to get some new material. He's having breakfast with a potential client who tells a long story involving barroom brawls, professional wrestlers, and prostitutes; reveals that this is the first time he's been out of the house in fifteen years; and announces that his father was murdered. What he wants is for Reynolds to find out whether they're still after him. Though when Reynolds...
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McNally's Gamble: In this New York Times bestseller, McNally is enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg. But when widow Edy the Westmore's children become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally cracks open a case of lust, greed, and murder that stinks like a rotten egg. Now the detective will have to scramble to lay a trap for someone who's counting dividends before they hatch....
13) Les Discrets
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Dans le roman d'Arnaud Le Gouëfflec (remarqué au festival de Chambéry pour son premier roman, Massue et Basile, l'Escarbille éd.), les Discrets ont formé une société secrète (fatalement!) pour cultiver leur art de l'esquive et vivre dans notre monde comme s'il était un autre.
Sauf que quelqu'un les a repérés et commence à les éliminer, un à un.
Un détective privé devra suivre un entraînement de Discret pour traquer un assassin d'autant...
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Une vraie enquête à l'aveugle.
Traquer un criminel, ça devrait pouvoir être dans mes cordes. Avec l'aide de Vanessa, c'est plus facile et, surtout, bien plus agréable. Mais quand la victime, ma commanditaire, ne se souvient de rien et ne peut donner la moindre orientation, le retrouver relève du miracle. Une vraie enquête à l'aveugle. Endosser, tour à tour, le rle de trésorier d'une asso sportive bidon et de pseudo handicapé en fauteuil,...
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Une énigme à plusieurs inconnues.
Se savoir « né de père inconnu », comme on dit, et retrouver, quelque quarante ans plus tard, cet inconnu fracassé sur sa table de cuisine, c'est tout Cicéron, ça ! Découvrir que René a une maîtresse, ça décoiffe aussi pas mal. Quant à ces honnêtes commerçants en articles de souvenirs pieux « made in China », que viennent-ils faire dans cette embrouille?
Vous mourrez d'envie d'en savoir plus?...
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Retour vers le passé...
Nonchalant et séducteur malgré lui, Cicéron Angledroit est détective privé en banlieue parisienne. En manque d'argent, il accepte l'étonnante offre de Madame Costa: enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans. Ses aventures rocambolesques ne font que commencer...
Mais qu'est-ce qu'il lui prend, à la mère Costa, de me demander d'enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans? Si j'accepte,...
17) Head games
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Mike Garrity mysteries volume 1
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"[A] thriller that reads like a high-speed theme park ride . . . with dark humor so sharp it'll make you bleed." -Brian Freeman, New York Times–bestselling author
Former Orlando detective Michael Garrity doesn't have a good track record when it comes to women. With two ex-wives and a teenage daughter he rarely sees, the most significant relationship in his life right now is with the tumor in his head. Terminal cancer is no joke, but Mike...
18) The painted gun
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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...
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Un mystère avec un personnage central atypique : le Gringet.
Au pied du Mont-Blanc, la pression foncière et immobilière met en danger une appellation locale.
Un affairiste sans scrupules tente par tous les moyens de racheter des vignes pour y construire des chalets de luxe. Claire, l'assistante du lieutenant Lecoanet, est précisément allée faire les vendanges dans ce vignoble en peau de chagrin au cépage unique au monde : le Gringet. Ce que...
20) The Disappeared
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YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME... A twisty, compelling, characterful crime thriller from a major new talent. NOT TO BE MISSED! A distraught mother...When Susan Wilkins walks into No Stone Unturned, Leeds's newest private detective agency, owners Lee and Jo are thrilled. Their first client is the kind of person they always hoped to help-a kind woman desperately worried about her son, Jack. A missing son...The case seems simple-kid starts college, takes up with...
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