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18021) High Velocity
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There's a new criminal element in town and they state their arrival by knocking off a few of Vincent's men. Recker and the team get drawn into the middle of it and start investigating to learn the identity of the mystery player. Recker and Haley get a tip about a high-level meeting of the new crew in an abandoned building, but all is not what it seems. Instead of a meeting, they run into Malloy, who's also there to investigate, and an otherwise empty...
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Through the 1970s and 80s, a dangerous serial killer stalked Northern California along Interstate 5. Dubbed the I-5 Strangler, Roger Kibbe was incredibly skilled at staying ahead of investigators as his victim count rose. Even after he was identified, there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with murder. Instead, investigators had to build their murder case over the course of months while Kibbe was locked up on an assault conviction.
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18023) Bouche cousue
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J'ai lâché le volant une fraction de seconde seulement.
Juré.
Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès.
Pas que je m'en sois voulu, de toute manière. J'étais plutt indifférente. Sauf que ça allait m'occasionner davantage de problèmes. Je l'ai senti à l'instant o ma voiture a fait une embardée vers la droite. Vers ce piéton qui ne m'a jamais vue venir.
Non mais, que fabriquait-il là, aussi, en plein milieu de la nuit?
J'ai pourtant tenté de freiner....
18024) Game Players
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When a group of six children playing in their den in the woods spot a man burying drugs nearby, it marks the beginning of the end of their childhoods. Unsure what to do, the children dig up the drugs and take them away. But when the dealer, who they watched bury the supply, shows up dead, the youngsters are thrown into turmoil. Scared of what might happen, the children tell the police about the body they have discovered. Meanwhile, a group of gangsters...
18025) Desperation Road
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In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.
For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives...
18026) The Safe House
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No place left to run...
After the shocking events of last Christmas, Jess Croft is determined this festive season will be the one to remember, for all the right reasons.
But when a stranger turns up on her doorstep claiming to be her estranged father, Jess is shocked. Moreso, when the man claims that the little girl with him is none other than Jess's sister - a child she knew nothing about.
Jess isn't sure she wants these strangers to stay, but...
18027) El hedor del jazmín
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Cris Abello, una joven estudiante de Criminalística con un pasado turbio, emprende una investigación para dar con las razones detrás del misterioso homicidio de Santiago Heredia, sin saber que sus pasos la llevarán no solo a encontrar las respuestas sobre el asesinato del joven, sino a desentrañar los fantasmas de su pasado. La pregunta obvia que se hace Abello es: ¿Quién mató a Santiago Heredia? Su vida albergaba muchos secretos y, a través...
18028) Stone Heart Deep
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Stone Heart Deep is a compelling and claustrophobic thriller with a remarkable twist, as if Iain Banks had rewritten The Wicker Man. When burned-out investigative journalist Adam Budd's estranged mother dies, he inherits her estate. This includes Stone Heart House, a huge, ramshackle mansion on a remote Scottish island. He visits the island to sort out her tangled affairs, and at first, it seems like a charming haven of tranquility. Bu,t after he...
18029) Trembling River
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August 1979. Twelve-year-old Michael disappears in the woods of Trembling River under the gaze of his friend Mamie Duchamp. He seems to have been swallowed by the forest. Despite an extensive search, only a muddy sneaker is found. Thirty years later, in a neighboring town, little Billie Richard, who is about to celebrate her ninth birthday, does not come home. Again, it is as if she has disappeared from the face of the earth. Just like Mamie, who...
18030) Beware of Dogs
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Winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for Fiction
She's isolated. Trapped. Hunted. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller.
Not much daylight left now.
So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she carefully rations out her meagre supplies, while desperately trying to figure out how to escape the men...
18031) The Carmarthen Murders
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One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.
When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's inquiries lead him to the graves of five young women - each of whom looks just like Emma.
With a serial killer on the loose and his latest victim already in his control, can the police find Emma in time?...
18032) List of Secrets
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It could just be coincidence. It also could be revenge.
But hardened cop Frank Zimmerman doesn't believe in coincidences. Neither does FBI profiler Nathan Thomas.
A drowned lawyer, a fatal car accident, a heart attack and a socialite's lethal fall in front of a huge crowd all have their cop antennae pinging - hard.
They dig for evidence to support his theory of a trail of bodies that lead into the past.
What's going on? And who will die next?
18033) Ghost Town
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FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD
Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.
The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor...
18034) The Tywi Estuary Killings
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Is it revenge or is it justice?
DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he's shocked when the case leads him to the victim from an old case
Seventeen years ago, the system failed Rebecca. They let the abuser of a six-year-old girl walk free. But she's all grown up now and talking the law into her own hands.
Is this one killer DI Gravel doesn't...
18035) White: A Novel
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The award-winning author blends fiction and memoir in this "captivating, careening, thrilling, and magical" novel of neocolonial corruption in the Congo (Foreword Reviews, starred review).
Assigned to write an exposé on the elusive conservationist Richmond Hew, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But then he meets Sola, a woman looking for a white orphan girl who believes herself possessed...
18036) Brackish Water
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FBI Special Agent Angus Green returns to the world of stolen art when a Cuban refugee uses the location of an old master painting to negotiate for his freedom. The perilous waters along Florida's coastline get easily breached by those smuggling drugs, stolen goods, and human refugees. Angus wades in eagerly, as always, only to discover hidden currents and dangerous obstacles.
At the same time, Angus's romantic life is heating up as it presents new...
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A serial killer emerges from the past to stalk a witness in a harrowing novel of missteps and madness from the author of Intention and All I See Is You.
When Sarah was seventeen years old, she hid in a wardrobe while her mother was murdered in the bedroom.
As the weeks and months passed, Sarah gradually moved on from the horror of that night and managed to settle into her changed family life.
After the police confirm that her mother...
18038) Firing Line
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Jones finally has his number called. Someone from his past is gunning for him. What's really worrisome is that whoever it is, might have skills that even surpass Jones'. After finding out that their secret office isn't as secretive as they thought, the team has to assume that they're being watched, and listened to, at all times.Recker will have to call on old friends, and some new ones, in order to help find the identity of the person who's after...
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A small-town summer on the coast of Oregon, sparkling water, tall trees, lots of festivals...and murder.
Big-city transplant Felice Bowes is as shocked as everyone else when a controversial local official is viciously, killed during the biggest festival of the season. She's even more surprised when the local police chief asks her to help with the investigation, especially when she didn't like the victim and some of the locals would like her to be...
18040) The House Guest
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A gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author, L. H. Stacey!
A woman on the run…
Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy.
Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father – the extraordinarily beautiful Wrea Head Hall. The reunion is tense, but Maddie's father agrees to...
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