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After visiting a fortune teller on the Pier in Santa Monica, Anthony Carrick get's riled up about what she told him about the skeletons he carries around. Things get worse when she ends up dead in her tent. Thing is, the fortune teller's sister left moments before.A witchdoctor also ends up dead shortly after meeting Anthony Carrick. Now Anthony's starting to take it personally. This witchdoctor was a friend of the fortune teller. The murders are...
3802) Murder at Mardi Gras
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In this true crime-flavored novel, Detective William Boyett is called out on Mardi Gras evening in Mobile, Alabama to investigate the discovery of a young woman's body wrapped in a carpet in a vacant lot a few blocks from the parade route.
Over the next two months, Boyett works hard to solve the case, but he's frustrated by miscalculations and downright incompetence by other members of the law enforcement community. His investigation goes nowhere,...
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The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth... until a couple of corpses...
3804) Dividend on Death
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A girl begs Mike Shayne to help keep her from killing her own mother Mike Shayne has just poured himself a drink when Phyllis Brighton tries to throw herself out the window of his downtown apartment. Luckily, he blocks her just before she can launch herself over the sill. She tried to warn him she was crazy, but he didn't listen. Her doctor and her new stepfather, on the other hand, both believe Phyllis is suffering from a kind of Electra complex-...
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« Natif de Corse, Napoléon Bonaparte ? Pensez-vous ! Excellent cavalier, "Bony" sillonne le bush australien dans de longues traques contre les criminels. Son seul credo : protéger les gens contre "la violence, les dégénérés et les assassins". Quitte, au passage, à envoyer quelques-uns de ses "clients" à la potence. Aucun scrupule et pas davantage d'états d'âme pour celui qui, bien qu'inspecteur, ne se considère pas comme un flic. Voilà...
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Une intrigue policière vue à travers les yeux d'un félin...
Dans cette nouvelle collection, qui s'écarte totalement de son style habituel, Gérard Chevalier propose une belle originalité : son héroïne et narratrice ! Catia, minette quimpéroise « surdouée », mène l'enquête en assistant son maître, journaliste d'investigation, dans ses recherches. Elle maîtrise le langage humain dans ses nuances les plus intimes et emploie parfois...
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Dans un milieu rural hostile, l'inspecteur Castellon essaie de faire progresser son enquête au sujet d'une paysan assassiné.
Un paysan est retrouvé assassiné dans un bois. Lorsque l'inspecteur Castellon prend en charge le dossier, un suspect est déjà inculpé, c'est André Roure, un jeune Réunionnais. Le policier s'interroge sur cette conclusion aussi rapide avec une culpabilité qui arrange tout le monde. L'enquête progressera de rebondissement...
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L'inspecteur Abert et son stagiaire sont face à un assassinat à la mise en scène macabre...
C'est à Tours que l'Inspecteur Abert, assisté de son stagiaire Karim, se trouve confronté à un premier assassinat dont la mise en scène macabre trouble l'atmosphère paisible du Jardin de la France. Comme disait Brassens, que le policier cite à tout propos, « Y a pas seulement qu'à Paris que le crime fleurit... »
Suivez le sympathique Abert et...
3809) Le retour d'Arsène
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Ferdinand et Victor de La Fosse, deux frères issus de l'aristocratie locale, menaient une vie paisible et discrète à Étretat, dans leur magnifique château situé à quelques encablures des célèbres falaises, inlassablement grignotées par les tumultueuses marées. Lorsque Ferdinand est retrouvé mort sur une plage, avec dans la poche un mot signé « de la part d'Arsène », le commissaire Velcro et sa fidèle équipière, dépêchés en Normandie...
3810) Corporate Asset
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In his seventh appearance, undercover agent Jack Taggart is forced to play a risky game, making a deal with one devil to bring down another. Corporate Asset takes undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies are being bilked out of millions of dollars. Multiple murders take place right under the cops' noses but being written off as accidental. Taggart gets a whiff of what is going on when he...
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A warehouse robbery pulls Mike Shayne into a daring international conspiracy It's been years since Mike Shayne last subjected himself to a stakeout. Miami's most infamous private detective simply doesn't have time to waste sitting in a car, drinking cold coffee and waiting for excitement that will never come. But the Acme Bonding Company is one of his oldest clients, and when his stand-in falls through, he's obliged to keep watch himself. A string...
3812) To Those Who Killed Me
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Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check-until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the official narrative, she teams up with Wayne Capson, a PI willing to bend the law, to find out, who really killed her friend. The search leads Sloane from Vancouver's wealthiest enclaves to the street's darkest corners,...
3813) Sophie Is Still Missing
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Jacaranda Dunne-known to everyone as JD-is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. At first, the work is routine, missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands. Then one day a woman bursts into the agency, waving the photo of a young girl; it's her missing daughter, Sophie.
Together with her best friend, Julie-both aged fourteen at the time-Sophie had disappeared the previous summer. An extensive...
3814) Fit to Kill
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A friend's disappearance sends Mike Shayne to the Caribbean Timothy Rourke made his name as a Miami crime reporter, but he never knew true evil until he came to the Caribbean. In a corrupt tropical country, where beatings and murders pass for ordinary politics, a student group begs him to report the truth about the dictatorship. Rourke has never been one to refuse a story-or a beautiful blonde-but he soon discovers that the men who run this country...
3815) Butcher's Dozen
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Screwed up runaway teen lying to cover her tracks? Or victim of an unthinkable crime?
When a police officer comes to private investigator Sam Arbichaut asking for help with her teenage cousin, he can hardly refuse to at least listen. Everyone says the girl is a runaway, a liar, and a messed up kid.
Except the girl herself, who claims she was kidnapped.
And she says she wasn't alone.
Caught between multiple families, the police, and a powerful local...
3816) The Inheritance
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A young girl from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jo Stewart, short for Josephine, could never imagine the path of her life. Tragedy, mystery, and dangerous circumstances came to define her. Her adventures were unpredictable, frightening and wonderful at the same time. Enjoy her journey.
3817) Marked for Murder
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When a crime wave grips Miami, Mike Shayne comes home to fight In the city room of the Courier, a reporter blocks out the clatter of typewriters to tell Miami the truth. In the past week, three murders have been committed in Miami Beach, and Timothy Rourke is the only person who sees the connection. As the mayor and the chief of police deny rumors of a crime wave, Rourke hollers from page one: Organized crime has taken over Miami, and the bloodshed...
3818) Deadly Riptide
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A relaxing cruise: for many, this is a dreamy type of vacation, with the ability to take part in every comfort and luxury imaginable while also having the opportunity to visit far off, exotic locations. For Elizabeth Finch, this is an opportunity to unwind with her co-worker, Colson Walker, after a series of difficult cases. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, her vacation is cut short when a guest turns up dead - and not just any guest. Head of a massive...
3819) Pack of Wolves
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Someone is trying to kill Eliza Kingston.
Her attempts to free her brother from prison for a crime he didn't commit have drawn the attention of the wrong people. As she digs deeper into the twisted circumstances that found her brother guilty of murdering five classmates, it becomes clear that very powerful people will stop at nothing to guard their dark secrets. Eliza and Evan must decide if they are willing to risk everything to free Michael, including...
3820) Framed in Blood
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When a blackmail scheme goes wrong, Mike Shayne is left to pick up the pieces Bert Jackson could have been a great reporter, if he had the patience for it. Married to a woman with expensive taste, Jackson has spent himself into the kind of debt that he'll never pay off at $62.50 a week. He needs a big score, and he needs it tonight. Working the city hall beat, Jackson has stumbled upon the greatest corruption scandal in Miami history. If he publishes...
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