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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....
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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....
4) Sun damage
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"A luxury house in France. A gathering of wealthy, reckless friends. And a woman on the run. Deep in the lavender fields of Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. They all know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger is the young woman hired to do the catering. Over the course of their break, loyalties will be tested, secrets revealed, and tensions pushed to the point of no return ..."--Provided by publisher....
5) Ragdoll
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Fawkes and Baxter novels volume 1
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William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case. When his former partner and friend, Detective Emily Baxter, calls him to a crime scene, he's sure this is it: the body is made of the dismembered parts of six victims, sewn together like a puppet--a corpse...
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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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Tommy Carmellini novels volume 8
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"After one of the most contentious and divisive elections in American history, the new president is finally settling into the West Wing. But when his chief of staff discovers evidence that voting machines in key counties in swing states were tampered with, the whole administration is in danger of unraveling. Did someone steal the election? Are America's enemies involved? Were the tampered-with machines actually rigged to swing the election the other...
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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...
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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...
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"In this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl-but some fight to keep the truth about her death a secret. For fans of Jane Harper, Ashley Flowers, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the...
11) 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...
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Silver Medal Winner for best terrorist thriller in the 2013 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest.Imagine a couple young hacktivists, both former members of the internet freedom fighters group Anonymous, and one of them an ex-black ops officer, breaking away and creating a militant group of anarchists committed to social change. But social change precipitated by acts of violence against CEOs of major corporations responsible for crimes...
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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...
15) Visions
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After unleashing the magic of her ancestors, Olivia Osborne finds herself plagued by visions. She will need those new skills and more as she and Silas Branch are thrust back to the case they knew was never finished. Under the moss-covered trees of a small town in Florida exists an ancient evil that hungers for more. Following the death screams of a young girl, Olivia uncovers the secrets of a killer. Larry Wayne Pittman confessed his crimes, but he...
16) Hilltop
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The pain in my jaw was like heat growing rapidly over facial tissue, like a bush fire destroying valuable habitats. I stopped to look at my reflection and with the heaviest of self-pity and pain, did not recognise the woman staring back at me. How would I explain this to my mum? To my daughter? This time I couldn't think of an excuse, I couldn't think of a way to explain away my injuries. Not this time. He was able to blend in and control people's...
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Nachdem seine Frau und sein achtjähriger Sohn nach einem Urlaub auf Pernan weder zu ihm zurückkommen, noch sich bei ihm melden, beschließt Nicolas Corbyn selbst zur nordischen Insel aufzubrechen und seine Familie sicher nach Hause zu bringen. Auf der Insel angekommen, muss Nicolas jedoch feststellen, dass Pernan nicht der verträumte Urlaubsort ist, von dem stets geschwärmt wird.
Er fängt an zu begreifen, dass er mit jedem weiteren Tag, den...
18) Gothic Revival
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The Psychological Thriller Inspired by the Creation of Frankenstein
Chris, Anne, Fiona, and Lauren were inseparable friends while earning MFAs in Creative Writing. Years later they've grown apart and are surprised to receive an invitation to a reunion from the fifth member of their group, Eric, a successful screenwriter. Eric flies them to a remote lake villa where he reveals his new obsession: their group is a modern version of the famous one from...
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Atemberaubender und spannender Psychothriller:
Helen Toussaint scheint als Ehefrau eines erfolgreichen Rechtsanwaltes das perfekte Leben zu führen. Sie ist jung, attraktiv und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Nick und den zwei kleinen Kindern in einem schönen Haus. Doch als Nick Toussaint den zwielichtigen arabischen Geschäftsmann und vermeintlichen Geldgeber eines Terrornetzwerkes, Ahmed Al Shain, erfolgreich vertritt, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig.
Als...
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Im Jahr 1957 wurde ein achtjähriger Junge Opfer des seitdem so genannten Drachenfelsmörders. 60 Jahre später bringt ein erfahrener Kriminalist in seinem Ruhestand Licht in das Dunkel des ungeklärten Mordfalls und des sorgfältig gehüteten Ergebnisses der polizeilichen Ermittlungen.
Die Schilderung des Kriminalfalls und der Recherchen zur Arbeit der Strafverfolgungsbehörden beruht in Gänze auf Tatsachen. Die maßgeblichen Dokumente sind in Originalfassung...
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