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A day after closing down the Whispering Pines country club house for winter break, the narrator is surprised to see what looks like smoke emanating from the building's chimney. Upon investigating, he witnesses his sister's fiancé flee the building crying and, upstairs, finds her dead body. The third book in Green's detective series featuring Caleb Sweetwater, "The House of the Whispering Pines" is a riveting page-turner brimming with intrigue not...
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In Alice Springs one can reinvent oneself. This is exactly what Hank Jefferson needs. His wife, Bettina, disagrees. Hank settles in Alice Springs nevertheless and learns about the local art trade from Blue, a local Aboriginal man. Bettina's revenge does not work out the way she intended it to...
The dark world of the art trade in Alice Springs is described in this novella. Although they are located a short distance from town now, the painting...
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A man finds himself trapped in a deadly love triangle in this haunting mystery from one of America's earliest detective fiction writers.
Acting on a suggestion that the perfect model for his sculpture of Antigone could be found at the Beech Grove estate, Mr. Ruxton, an artist, travels to Cooperstown, New York, to find her. There, he is overcome by passion at his first sight of Miss Hurd, a companion to the lady of the house. But Ruxton is not...
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The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale.
"The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with...
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A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader.
Dark, deft, murderous, and witty, No One Will Miss Her tackles the thorny issues of identity and belonging at the heart of women's lives.
On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from...
26) Sole Intention
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Former police officers Ellen Brazil and Brian Lynx have joined forces to start a successful missing persons investigation firm which has just been contracted to find the wife of bodybuilder Will Endersbe. Ellen discovers that a number of women with similar features and hair color have also vanished in the Worcester area. Ellen and Brian suspect a serial kidnapper is to blame, and without a body, the police are happy to leave the case in their hands...
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Joe Smith pose ses valises à Chicago et devient inspecteur de la brigade des mineurs. Un beau jour, il reçoit l'appel du 911 intervenant dans un cas de maltraitance. Il parvient à secourir l'enfant, Agathe, à qui il s'attache très rapidement. Quand celle-ci lui dévoile l'existence de son frère et sa sœur, Joe se lance dans une course contre la montre pour les retrouver... Seulement, cela ne se fera pas sans mal. Parviendra-t-il à supporter...
28) A Good Man
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Decades after a brutal childhood trauma, a famous novelist finds his life shattered once again, in this unsettling psychological mystery thriller.
After years of turmoil, Brooks Anderson is sober and has a stable life with his wife and two kids. He should enjoying life, but the persistent nightmares and sleepwalking tell a different story.
As hard as he's tried, Brooks can't run away from the defining event of his life: the senseless murders...
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The author of the Mongo Mysteries reveals the interior life of a troubled writer in this deeply personal autobiographical novel. At the age of fifty-eight, author Garth Fugue is adrift. For the last forty years he has poured his soul into twenty-three novels and countless short stories, all filled with murder and mayhem. By delving into the troubled minds of his characters, he has kept his own demons at bay. Now, Garth is at a crossroads. Despite...
30) Now you see me
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"The Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England, has become one of the rural village of Marsden's main tourist attractions. Now it's also a crime scene. Six students went into the tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, who had been knocked unconscious." -- Provided by publisher.
31) The last request
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Sixty million dollars. Five potential heirs. One house in remote rural Alaska. It’s a recipe for murder . . .Summoned by letter, Holly Shaw and five of her cousins—virtual strangers to each other—have gathered at a grand house in the rugged wilds of Alaska. Equally unfamiliar to Holly is her great-aunt Lydia, who has called the family together and is dangling a massive inheritance before them. Her condition: they must remain in the house, with...
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Entre Poitou et Lot-et-Garonne, un thriller en Nouvelle-Aquitaine!
Christophe, cycliste amateur poitevin, est renversé par un chauffard qui prend la fuite. Galo, un jeune Gitan, seul témoin, prétend que l'automobiliste a foncé délibérément sur le cycliste mais personne ne le croit. Après plusieurs semaines de convalescence, Christophe se rend en Lot-et-Garonne à la recherche de Galo pour lui offrir un cadeau. Il y retrouve une ancienne camarade...
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Le Minotaure est un récit intime, une sorte de confession qui dépeint une journée entière de la vie d'un inspecteur de police dont l'existence est complètement bouleversée par la découverte du cadavre d'une jeune fille. C'est un voyage dans l'inconscient d'un personnage assez complexe, une odyssée intime qui permettra aux lecteurs de déceler les traits distincts de cet homme-Minotaure, de comprendre sa névrose, son passé et son identité...
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La montagne basque « totem » au cœur d'une enquête haletante!
Quatre doctorants en archéologie font une découverte capitale qui pourrait permettre le déchiffrement d'une très ancienne langue disparue. Leur succès à double tranchant risque fort de bouleverser non seulement les conceptions scientifiques en vigueur dans leur discipline, mais aussi, et peut-être surtout, leur propre existence. Si leur découverte présente un intérêt majeur...
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John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes - the color of murder. But did he really commit the heinous crime he was accused of? Told innovatively in two parts: the psychiatric assessment of Wilkins and the trial for suspected murder on the Brighton seafront, Symons' award-winning mystery tantalizes the reader with glimpses...
36) Mortel exil
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Un voyage au Japon qui prend une tournure effrayante...
La nouvelle aventure du capitaine de gendarmerie Alexis Arkhipov et de sa collègue et épouse Rachel, en poste à Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat. Cette fois, à l'occasion de congés, il vont rejoindre au Japon Chloé, la fille de Rachel. Quand ils arrivent sur place, ils tombent en plein drame et en pleine enquête policière locale. Un des trois jeunes dont s'occupait Hiroshi, le conjoint de Rachel,...
37) Nightmare
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Driven to madness by the cruelty of a small group of people, a young novelist sets about taking murderous revenge.
Simon Whalley is an unsuccessful novelist who is gradually going to pieces under the strain of successive setbacks. Brooding over his troubles, and driven to despair by the cruelty of his neighbours, he decides to take his revenge in the only way he knows how - by planning to murder them ...
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L'enquête d'Ever s'annonce des plus compliquées...
« ...Le véritable mensonge réside dans l'image que nous choisissons de lui substituer. »
Deuxième et dernier volet d'Ever Lightwess, ce roman vous permettra d'accéder à l'univers étendu construit autour de l'histoire. Plongez plus profondément au cœur de l'enquête d'Ever, perdez vos repères... Et si les pages que vous lisiez n'étaient pas une barrière, mais un portail entre...
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Dr. Pepper Hunt novels volume 2
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When the fiancée of a prominent attorney is murdered, Dr. Pepper Hunt joins forces again with Detective Beau Antelope of the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department to search for the killer.
Prosecutor Connor Collins' dreams are shattered when Stacy Hart is found strangled in their home a month before their wedding. He's convinced Jack Swailes, the contractor who found the body, killed her in a jealous rage. And Jack looks guilty when he mysteriously...
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From the author of The Good Life: He was always destructive-and now his sudden death will bring even more danger and chaos to those who knew him . . .
When the body of social worker Dermot Carine is discovered in a hotel room, the ripples of suspicion start to spread in many directions.
There's Trina, a psychology professor who has a habit of crashing weddings, picking up men, and drinking to a state of oblivion.
There's a prominent surgeon...
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