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50241) Because of a Girl
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If they hadn't lost the girl, Meg wouldn't have found Jack...;
She hadn't hesitated to take in Sabra, her daughter's pregnant best friend. Yet maybe that was Meg Harper's first mistake. It was hard enough raising one teen, but two? And now the girl has disappeared. Because Meg's the responsible adult, police suspicion falls on her. Which brings her entirely too close to Detective Jack Moore. The man's clearly attracted to her, but she hasn't been...
50242) The Past
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Detective Paige Stone barely survived her first homicide case. Narrowly escaping death at the hands of a serial killer, she hasn't fully recovered physically or emotionally. Before she has time to come to grips with the lingering memories and the ongoing nightmares, a phone call from a familiar voice sends her flying to California as a consultant. Hollywood buzzes about a celebrity arrested for murder. He maintains his innocence yet offers no exculpatory...
50243) Book Two of Five
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David Hughes presents a further five intriguing short stories in which scheming and plotting are uniting themes. 'Osama bin Laden's Children' tells how the male offspring of the head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda may have been hidden away and groomed by the elders to work undercover in enemy countries; 'Black Rain' shows how two opposing gangs could be used to unwittingly provide cover for other, more sinister organisations in the heart...
50244) The Killer Performer
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It should have been Craig Campbell's dream job, working for a rock star who was his boyhood hero. But when the target of his investigation is murdered, Craig is the prime suspect.
Despite the police suspicions, The Reluctant Detective is released and begins his own pursuit of the killer.
His investigations bring him to the attention of a Glaswegian drug lord with a vested interest in the case. Craig's own safety is threatened and he is ready to...
50245) Hostage at Crystal Manor
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Plunge back into heart-pounding drama with this thrilling romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Trust the enemy?
Desperate to escape her kidnappers, Kody Cameron can turn to only one man...and he's holding a gun. Outnumbered and trapped in the deadly Everglades, she has little recourse, but something in this captor's eyes makes her believe she can trust him. Does she dare to take the risk?
Undercover agent...
50246) The Six Faces Of A Die
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In our lives, who decides the road we take to get to work or to a date? Do we decide it? Or is it destiny? This is the feeling this book means to communicate, the way fate can change an ordinary-looking situation into something dangerous or strange, or both. In "The six faces of a die" you will find math equations which might transform our reality, movies which seem to become alive, and trips to the mountain in which tranquility will never be present,...
50247) Dead Dames Don't Sing
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The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex–Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction. Now a private detective, Kiley has agreed to investigate the provenance of a newly discovered manuscript. Lost for decades, Dead Dames Don't Sing is typical pulp fodder: "Hard, fast, and deadly," according to Daniel...
50248) Lasseter's Cave
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It's hot, remote, desolate and dangerous - and about as deep into the infamous Australian outback as anyone would dare to venture. An eminent neurosurgeon and his family, on the holiday of a lifetime, are shot dead, their shattered bodies left to the ravages of the desert sun and carrion-eating wildlife. Detective Inspector Russell Foley and his best friend, Detective Sergeant Sam Rose, are sent into the heart of the legendary Harold Lasseter, "Lost...
50249) A Streak of Light
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Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan's finest, but that doesn't stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough . . . Über-conservative political columnist Roger Claye has been killed with a bullet to the head in his own office at the far-right rag, the Sentinel. As Det. Lt. Nathan Shapiro and Det. Anthony "Tony" Cook get the scoop on their victim, they aren't surprised to learn that he rubbed plenty...
50250) Sin Pit
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She was dirt... and hungry and cheap and demanding. But, it didn't matter. She was all those things, and I knew it, but she was much more, too. She was fire and ice and fury, and when she came up to me- that first time- her mouth making little squirming noises, I knew she was all I ever wanted.
I was a cop. An honest one. Tough, but honest. And, she was the wife of another man. Maybe she was a killer. Maybe she was a- a kind of person even tough...
50251) Abiding Conviction
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Lawyer Dutch Francis faces an impossible situation-search for your missing wife or defend your high-profile client
Dutch Francis is a defense attorney in the case of a judge accused of killing his wife. Just as the trial is about to begin, Ginnie Turner, Dutch's wife and TV news broadcaster, goes missing.
Under extreme duress, Dutch tries to extricate himself as the judge's attorney-or at least postpone the trial. The judge insists that the trial...
50252) The Silver Chariot Killer
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WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED... So begins one of the most famous quotations in all of crime fiction. And just as the murder of Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, sets off the quest in the great Dashiell Hammett's greatest novel, so the murder of Hobart Lindsey's partner, Cletus Berry, sets off the quest in The Silver Chariot Killer, the sixth of Richard A. Lupoff's classic series of "Killer" mysteries. It's Christmas week in New York and Cletus...
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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...
50254) The Great Hotel Murder
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"This twisty whodunit from Starrett, best known for his writings about Sherlock Holmes, stars an eccentric amateur sleuth." -Publishers Weekly
When a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he'd...
50255) A Fly in Amber
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Three bottles of the Shackleton Scotch have returned to Scotland over 100 years after the failed Antarctic expedition. But how do they taste? Only a group of famed "noses," that is, chemical engineers, will ever find out. And only one man has the talent to unlock the recipe.
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When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one-time world-famous Heldentenor has been poisoned. The detective assigned to the case, Lt. Quentin, finds himself immersed in the backstage drama of professional opera. His task is made more difficult when he decides...
50257) Arms and the Women
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 18
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Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made them "the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction" (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Ellie Pascoe is a novelist, former campus radical, overprotective mother-and as an inspector's wife, on high alert of suspicious behavior. When she thwarts an abduction plot,...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its January/February 2014 issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories:
A Scandal in BO Media, by Hal Charles
Challenger's Titanic Challenge, by Gary Lovisi
We Hate the Taste of Jellyfish, by Jay Carey
The Disappearance of the Vatican Emissary, by Jack Grochot
Last Man Standing,...
50259) The Wrathful Cup of Scorn
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A plowman who fails to prevent a murder A corpse stolen while a priest prays over it A clever killer that must be caught in three days Cathar country, (now southern France), late autumn in the year 1200. The alchemist sends Bertwoin to work in the château's kitchen to prevent the murder of the visconte's son. Bertwoin fails.And before the alchemist can examine the corpse for clues, the killer commits the impossible crime of stealing the body while...
50260) Preach No More
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Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan's finest, but that doesn't stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough...
Rev. Jonathan Prentis may have been a man of god, but he certainly didn't die in a sacred manner. Anyone found dead in an East Village dive bar with an ice pick in his back is certainly no stranger to sin.
The popular preacher-better known as "the Voice"-made a name for himself saving...
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