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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him-to save him....
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"In Amy Gentry's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Good As Gone, two assaulted women make a pact to kill each other's tormentor. But in the fallout, their paranoia grows until neither is sure whom she can trust. At what cost will their vengeance come?"--
Dana Diaz is an aspiring stand-up comedian--a woman in a man’s world. When she meets a tough computer programmer named Amanda Dorn, the two bond over their struggles in boys’ club professions....
3) The breakout
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"James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He's done two tours in Afghanistan. He's considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge. Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for James's sister, Layla's death, and he intends to make Rocha pay for it. James goes AWOL from his unit and travels to Mexico, ready to enact bloody vengeance, but before he can go through with his plan, he...
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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One snowy night in 1998, Brooke Mulcahy's car slides off the road in rural Vermont. Her car is discovered. She is not. Twenty-one years later, Robert Kirby, Brooke's stepbrother, is paid a visit from a young woman (Lily), claiming to be Brooke's daughter. Since a tumultuous upbringing, Robert has enjoyed considerable success, but after Lily's visit, Robert's life is upended. As Robert's world unravels, he revisits that night twenty-one years ago where...
6) Struck dead
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"When a tragic hit-and-run takes the life of a hardworking family man, multi-millionaire Christopher Hillington becomes the prime suspect, and the whole city of New York alights with speculation as to what happened. But before the NYPD can establish Hillington's guilt, he himself is brutally murdered in his own home."--
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They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you. Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished. Homicide Detective J. Novak believes Angela knows what happened to Saskia. He wants the truth, and he wants...
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Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads
Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela
Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y acaba de salir de...
9) The Delusion
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet. It'll drive you crazy. Literally.Hotel ballroom lights flicker as the University of Baltimore announces the winner of this year's Tiberian Research Award in Psychology. Years of toil and sacrifice weigh on Emma's shoulders. Years of enduring her professor's unearthly demands. Years of researching mass persuasion on the internet late into the night, living in a single-bedroom apartment on campus while...
10) The Body Below
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Conn Whitman's long-distance swims keep him centered and sane-until a terrifying underwater encounter in a woodland lake plunges him into the middle of a murder investigation.
Once a superstar investigative reporter, disgraced by misconduct, Conn returned to his Vermont hometown to put his life back together. Now, after ten years covering local news, he knows his community like nobody else. When he kicks a submerged object while swimming-something...
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"The town of Whistling Ridge guards its secrets. When seventeen-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn't believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment...
12) Ice cold kill
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"Daria Gibron is a woman with a deadly past and an uncertain future. A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., she works primarily as an interpreter. But Daria is a thrill junkie who can't resist the occasional freelance job as an operative--a habit that has left her with a trail of corpses behind her, and a few still living, very dangerous, high-powered enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge....
13) Dystopia
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Dystopia' is a high-octane political thriller set during the UK's Brexit referendum, with an intriguing love story that enthrals up to its climactic ending. Ellis has the right degree, family, connections - and a great pad in Brighton. But he's in with the wrong crowd - a notorious DJ and the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine who has a hold over him from the moment they meet. When Ellis becomes prime suspect in the murder of a model, he escapes by...
14) East End Honour
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Jason Frasier grew up in the East End of London and was always told to look out for his younger brother. He did this willingly and could never see in Vincent what others could see, that he was a thoroughly nasty piece of work. The brothers were as different as chalk and cheese. Vincent had a nasty jealous streak and what he wanted he usually got, even if it was at the expense of his beloved brother. Vincent had a knack of dragging Jason into his dodgy...
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Former CIA undercover operative Chase Brandon takes us deep into the mystery of Cryptos, a work of art containing a seemingly uncrackable code, in The Cryptos Conundrum.
A fifteen-foot-tall steel sculpture stands in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency, emblazoned with a message that no one can decipher. The three-inch-high letters on the sculpture form a coded message that is central to the survival of mankind--a message hidden in plain...
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Belinda Bauer is an award-winning British crime writer of the highest caliber, whose smart, stylish novels have captivated readers and reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic and earned her a reputation. Her latest, The Beautiful Dead, is a riveting narrative centered on a down-on-her-luck journalist and a serial killer desperate for the spotlight. TV crime reporter Eve Singer's career is flagging, but that starts to change when she covers a spate...
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"Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decipher the riddle in order to unravel an espionage plot so vast that the Free World's fate hangs in the balance-and to prove his own innocence. And he's running out of time . . .
At the Publisher's request,...
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In dieser Geschichte geht es um eine junge aufstrebende Journalistin, die versucht, ein politisches Netz voller Korruption und Intrigen zu entwirren.
Bei ihren Recherchen trifft sie den smarten Fabrikarbeiter Joshua. Es kommt zu einem schweren Unglück und sie beschließen der Sache gemeinsam auf den Grund zu gehen.
Dabei geraten sie immer wieder in gefährliche Situationen, die Melissa und Joshua einander näher bringen. Unterstützung bekommen...
19) Deadly Playmates
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But the perpetrator does not know about her lack of recall. When he finds her again, he must kill her to save himself.A young business owner stuck with a wife whose only communications are lies, finally has had enough of her fabrications. He perceives only one solution to his problem. Tec and his crew find physical evidence of both crimes buried on Mount Lemmon.Meanwhile one of Tec's earlier cases has come back to haunt him. Julie, the killer Tec...
20) If It Kills Me
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Her dad's song became her song-a slave's song, a wary song of anger without the means of expression, a song of surviving--a song of escape.Like any slave, she'd do what she had to do."Dad," she whispered. "Somehow, I'll get home. If it kills me, I'll get home."
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