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47521) Detective First Grade
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There's a secret war on the streets of the city. Only a New York cop can win it.
His claim to fame is finding guns on the bad guys, and Detective Second Grade Brian McKenna has just spotted the beard carrying a piece. What he doesn't know is that he's about to shoot his way into a war with a highly disciplined, well-armed enemy so treacherous, not even the NYPD knows they exist.
Exiled from the bright lights of Manhattan for breaking one too many...
47522) The Poison Oracle
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Take a medieval Arab kingdom, add a ruler who wants to update the kingdom's educational facilities, include an English research psycholinguist (an Oxford classmate of the ruler) invited to pursue his work on animal communication, and then add a touch of chaos in Dinah, a chimpanzee who has begun to learn to form coherent sentences with plastic symbols. When a murder is committed in the oil-rich marshes, Dinah is the only witness, and Morris has to...
47523) Death and the Maiden
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Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot...
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In Agatha Christie's classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts....
47525) Dernière chance
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Kaylie Brooks, une modeste fille du Midwest qui n'a pas sa place parmi les riches de Palm Beach, a décidé d'utiliser son esprit brillant à suivre sa passion pour le profilage, en travaillant pour la police. Lorsqu'une riche divorcée est retrouvée morte, flottant sur le ventre dans la piscine de sa résidence, les suspects abondent. Mais pour trouver le tueur, Kaylie devra retourner dans le monde des ultrariches et déterrer leurs plus sombres...
47526) Person of Interest
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A moneymaking opportunity turns into a murder mystery for a real estate agent, in this suspenseful new tale from the author of Reap What You Sow.
Real estate is a competitive business and Kirstin likes to work the angles-so she keeps an eye on the obituaries and has a mortician notify her when a property's about to go on the market. The latest tip could lead to a big payoff: a famed child psychologist has died, and the stunning Millford estate...
47527) Free Form Jazz
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Disgraced city cop Ray Tate and outcast state trooper Djuna Brown track down a wealthy sexual sadist and a depressed career criminal flooding a Midwestern U. S. city with killer ecstasy pills. Mismatched and mutually suspicious of each other, Tate and Brown hunt the mythic Captain Cook and his henchman, the homicidal Phil Harvey. But as Captain Cook sinks deeper into a spiral of sexual depravity, Phil Harvey begins to question his role as a lifelong...
47528) The Grid
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Christopher Marlowe and his Elizabethan set are reincarnated in a near-future dystopian London on the brink of destruction, battling AIDS and trapped by their shared past. A typically original and erotically charged novel by one of Britain's most idiosyncratic writers, The Grid is set in the not-too-distant future, when Britain is ruled by the autocratic Commissar, London has merged with Tokyo and police use flying cars to combat rogue Boeing pilots...
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Con sus enemigos en la guerra anterior a la guerra civil, Virginia aún buscaba su muerte, Esmeralda se ve obligada a regresar al futuro solo unos días después de casarse con Lance. Debido a que era necesario fingir su muerte para evitar que sus enemigos la siguieran al futuro, su nuevo esposo, Lance, se vio obligado a quedarse. Había colocado debajo de las tablas del piso de la casa una caja mágica para que se comunicaran, hasta que encontrara...
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It's 1995, and life is great for Washington, DC intern Trent Norris. But life can change in a moment-and does when Trent becomes the prime suspect in two murders and a slew of other crimes. Overnight, he becomes the most wanted man in America. Trent has to find a way-any way-out. He holes up at The Watergate on a senator's dime and enlists a call girl as his unwitting ally. But with the media eating Trent alive, he doesn't have long before they catch...
47531) The Yard Sale
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It was late fall and the family decided to have a yard sale to make some extra spending money. Little did they know their most valued treasure would be stolen. Who took 5 year old Cindi and how does the family pull together to solve her mysterious disappearance?
47532) Too Pretty To Die
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Detective Sugar Ray Hinton has a dead prostitute on his hands; a woman he'd just had sex with hours earlier. Who killed Casandra Dupree and why is a question Detective Ray has to investigate. His prime suspect is Frederick Williamson, the owner of two clothing stores in Nashville, a rich man and a philanderer who was involved with Casandra. Sugar Ray is shot at and witnesses are killed but the detective prods on and eventually the killer is unmasked....
47533) Ciudad en llamas
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La nueva trilogía del prestigioso escritor y superventas internacional Don Winslow, autor de la trilogía del Cártel: El poder del perro, El Cártel y La Frontera además de Corrupción policial y Rotos. Ciudad en llamas es la primera novela de una nueva y épica saga sobre los sindicatos del crimen italianos e irlandeses en los años 80 y 90.
1986, Providence, estado de Rhode Island. Danny Ryan es un estibador muy trabajador, un marido enamorado,...
47534) The Peripheral Son
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Gay investigative reporter Victor Koseva is working on an exposé about doping within a boxing syndicate, when he mysteriously disappears. Hired by the journalist's sister-in-law, P.I. Dick Hardesty takes on the case, following a cast of unsavory suspects ranging from construction unions to bitter ex-boyfriends to a middleweight boxer determined to win a championship. When Koseva's body is found, not only does Hardesty have to determine whether the...
47535) Goblin Precinct
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Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded port city of Cliff's End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters of business or pleasure-or on quests. The hard-working, under-appreciated officers of the Cliff's End Castle Guard work day and night to maintain law and order as best they can.
A new drug called...
47536) The Auschwitz Violinist
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What if your friend was murdered and the police wouldn't investigate?Israel, 1950 – When private detective Adam Lapid runs into Yosef Kaplon on a crowded Tel Aviv street, he can hardly believe his eyes.The last time they met was in Auschwitz. They were prisoners together in the same barracks. Then one day, Kaplon was gone. Adam was sure he was dead.Soon after Kaplon tells Adam his remarkable story of survival, he's found dead in his apartment. The...
47537) The Smiler with the Knife
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In 1930s England, Nigel and Georgia Strangeways have settled into rural bliss, thinking their days of globe-trotting detective work are behind them-but little do they know a disturbing mystery is lurking in their own front yard. When a letter arrives commanding the couple to tend their hedges, the most menial of domestic duties propels the Strangeways out of their cozy life, and into the peril of a power-hungry plot. With the help of Nigel's uncle,...
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Jusqu'o Jacky est-il prêt à aller pour satisfaire le désir le plus profond d'Oriane?
«Ce que fait Jacky, c'est mal, c'est immoral et il le sait. Mais comment refuser à Oriane ce qu'elle souhaite le plus au monde? Et ce qu'elle souhaite là, maintenant, c'est d'avoir un enfant, un petit, rien que pour elle...»
Alors, ne perdez pas votre enfant des yeux... parce qu'il suffit d'une seconde d'inattention pour qu'il disparaisse. Et là, tout bascule....
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A missing author and a peaceful English village full of secrets. . . September 1923. After solving her first case, socialite detective Olive Belgrave has found no new clients. So she accepted a job as a hat model in order to pay for her tiny room in a boarding house. It is then that he is offered a new mission: to discreetly investigate the disappearance of a famous writer. Olive travels through the English countryside in search of the missing detective...
47540) The Reggis Arms Caper
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In the fast and funny sequel to The Dada Caper, former Chicago PI Chance Purdue comes out from behind the bar to get back in the game. Try as he may, Chance Purdue can't seem to escape the world of private investigation. The now tavern owner returns to action to protect Princess Sonia of Kaleski, who claims to be the wife of an old Army buddy. Convinced he'll get to the bottom of things at his Army battalion's reunion, Chance indulges in the entertainment...
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