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The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
2) Brandfield
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An ugly mansion.
A dying billionaire.
An impossible request.
Who says no to that?
Not Devon West, a brash, young P.I. who has a penchant for sarcasm and an unusual ability that allows him to find things that nobody else can, sometimes, as Devon himself says, even when he shouldn't.
Like when he's hired by the dying billionaire, Ellis J. Brandywine, to find the bodies of his twin toddlers whose mother is not only Brandywine's beautiful third wife,...
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In a world where genetic engineering has turned a generation of people into Vampires, some humans choose to opt-out of the Earth experience and head to Kapaton.He's left his career as a Bounty Hunter in the past, along with his old flings and bad memories. Now, he's living on Kapaton, a planet that was discovered after they opened up a black hole to Earth and invaded.Leslie Kim is starting fresh a private investigator.Contracted into helping the Kapatonian...
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From the author of Bless Me, Ultima: Four mysteries featuring a Chicano PI in New Mexico. These four novels starring detective Sonny Baca are set against the lush terrain of the American Southwest, blending its Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures.
* Zia Summer: Sonny Baca's cousin Gloria is brutally slain, her body found drained of blood with a Zia sun sign-the symbol on the New Mexican flag-carved on her stomach. His quest to find her...
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Sonny Baca mysteries volume 2
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A PI with deep cultural roots in his native New Mexico, Sonny Baca is guided by his intuition and guardian spirit, the coyote-but is that enough to stop a cult leader's murderous rampage? The world-famous International Balloon Fiesta of Albuquerque is one of the city's most eagerly anticipated annual events and its biggest moneymaker. But when a woman plunges to her death from one of the balloons-foreshadowed by Sonny's vision of a body plummeting...
6) Jemez Spring
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Sonny Baca mysteries volume 4
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A high-profile murder ignites a hotbed of political treachery and terrorist threats that pit the Chicano PI against his most formidable foe Sonny Baca has learned to see beneath life's observable reality and develop a new kind of sight. The Chicano PI will need his most powerful guardian spirits when he's called in to investigate the death of the governor of New Mexico. Before the murder, Sonny dreamed of a body floating in dark, swirling water....
7) Zia Summer
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Sonny Baca mysteries volume 1
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Chicano detective Sonny Baca mines the fertile spiritual terrain of the Southwest in his quest for his cousin's killer The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo's courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the struggling PI looks for missing persons and deadbeat husbands. The game changes when his cousin Gloria-the first...
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Amy, une jeune irlandaise, est depuis toujours hypnotisée par trois croix de pières plantées sur la falaise.
La jeune Amy, à qui la vie semble parfois bien morose, habite Bushmills, un village ctier d'Irlande du Nord.
Trois croix de pierre, plantées sur la falaise depuis des temps immémoriaux, obsèdent la jeune fille qui brûle de comprendre cette attirance inexpliquée qu'elle ressent. En cherchant un peu, elle découvre alors le passé...
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