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1) Fiddle City
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Duffy mysteries volume 2
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Duffy's latest clients: The thieves of Heathrow Airport Down-and-out Duffy takes a stranger home from the pub for a one-night stand to take his mind off his scuffling private security business. But his bedmate surprises him with a job offer the next morning. Turns out Mr. Right Now is chummy with the freight thieves of Heathrow. The airport's crooks pride themselves on their restraint, but someone has been pilfering much more than his share. The Heathrow...
2) Bad Luck
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A celebrity real estate tycoon wants to open the biggest casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey-the only problem being that he still owes millions to the mob, and he's not quite as rich as he seems to be . . . As FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons investigate, the story soon involves an oversexed trophy wife, a Mafia boss who pretends to be a mental patient, his sister (the nun), a championship prizefight, and Gibbons's reluctant wedding preparations,...
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 124 Taschenbuchseiten.
Nachdem Mark Mossman zehn Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht hat, will er Rache. Der Wissenschaftler hatte seine Forschungen in Bezug auf Anthrax an Terroristen verkaufen wollen, war aber durch eine Zeugenaussage aufgeflogen. Nun hat er den FBI-Agent Milo Tucker in seine Gewalt gebracht und bedroht darüber hinaus ganz New York, wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden....
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Tres niños desconocidos entre sí se ven unidos por unos actos de violencia extrema que parecen carecer de motivo. Huérfanos y solos, son acogidos como estudiantes en Evensong, un internado para niños emocionalmente traumatizados en un remoto bosque salvaje de Maine.
¿ES UN LUGAR SEGURO?
La patóloga forense Maura Isles ya tiene una conexión con la escuela: Julian 'Rata' Perkins, el chico de dieciséis años que conoció durante un caso anterior,...
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In Hollywood, a screenwriter gets involved in an impossible murder. In a steamy tropical jungle, a sinister American woman pushes the natives too far and gets exactly what she deserves: a rusty knife buried deep in her back. At least, that is the way the movie is supposed to end. But when the loathsome starlet Caresse Garnet learns her character is about to be killed off, she refuses to die, forcing the studio to rewrite the ending the night before...
6) Drawing Dead
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An ex-cop gambles with his life in Las Vegas in this mystery. Jake Morgan, who left the Boston police force and wound up in Vegas thanks to his taste for games of chance, finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous suite. Then an assassin enters and breaks the lady's bliss by popping two lead pills into her forehead. Before Morgan knows it, he's not only being grilled over the murder, he's also targeted by a femme fatale...
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Ein Gangsterboss wird vor Gericht freigesprochen, weil Beweismittel auf ungesetzliche Weise beschafft wurden und sich außerdem Zeugen plötzlich nicht mehr erinnern können. Noch auf den Stufen des Gerichtsgebäudes trifft ihn die Kugel eines Killers und für die Ermittler beginnt die Jagd nach dem Mörder. Denn dieses Attentat ist nur der Beginn einer Welle der Gewalt...
Ein Action Thriller von Henry Rohmer (Alfred Bekker)
Henry Rohmer ist das...
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There is a body in a gazebo, and the chief suspect is not long for this world Small-town lawyer and private detective Sam McCain is enjoying a cocktail party, dancing with a lovelier specimen than his five-foot-five-inch frame usually attracts, when the hostess confronts him with a problem the likes of which Good Housekeeping has never seen. There is a corpse in the backyard gazebo, and the party is definitely over. The murdered girl was the twenty-year-old...
9) Dead Ball
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Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who's on the verge of making history Fifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls "sad man-ism" when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team's star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio's "unbreakable" fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving...
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A city, gripped in the fear of terrifying crimes, will be pushed to breaking point.
London, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. His victims have one thing in common: all the blood has been drained from their bodies. Who could do such a thing – and why would he want his victims' blood?
As the killer's reign of terror continues, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard's Special Crimes department realises that, in...
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A death at the ballet draws Reuben Frost into a backstage conspiracy While striding down Fifth Avenue, reveling in the beauty of the city, Reuben Frost loses his footing-and is caught by a ballerina. Hailey Coles is a slip of a girl, but her firm grip keeps the retired lawyer from crashing down to earth. Soon, Frost will have a chance to return the favor. When the stage of the National Ballet is darkened by murder, only he can ensure that the show...
12) the Semper Fi
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The Six-Chambered Heart, book 1 in An American Crime Trilogy, follows Maddock, a Denver private investigator returning from Chicago where he has meted out revenge for the killing of his buddy Charlie by a powerful crime family.
'the Semper Fi', book 2 in 'An American Crime Trilogy', finds the protagonist Maddock hurriedly leaving Denver, on his way south, eventually to Florida, after putting in motion the elements of a scheme designed to ensnare...
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Parker thrillers volume 22
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"Lots of bleak fun . . . This stellar series just gets better and better." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The saga begins with a poker game gone lethally awry. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a beautiful, relentless cop, too many people have...
14) The Mortal Nuts
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Targeted by drug addicts, a carnival taco vendor must defend his fortune After years playing professional poker, Axel Speeter knows not to trust people. Retired from the table, this no-nonsense old salt makes ends meet by selling tacos at the Minnesota State Fair, and he's got two things on his mind: developing a state-of-the-art burrito, and keeping an eye on the $260,000 he's got squirreled away in coffee cans inside his room at the Motel 6. He's...
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At a car dealership's big opening day, the festivities are marred by the discovery of a corpse It is September 1957, and America is waiting to meet the Edsel, Ford's top-secret new automobile, whose promotional campaign has redefined the word hype. Sam McCain, lawyer, detective, and car fiend, has been dreaming of the Edsel for months. But when the sheet comes off Ford's new creation, the car is a nightmare. Pastel colored, bulky, and with a distinctively...
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When a decapitated corpse washes up on the banks of the Hudson River, a New York suburb is sent into an uproar. Commuters waiting for the morning train into Manhattan in the small Hudson River town of Riverside are the first to see the body. She drifts out of the river, naked and headless, shocking the onlookers before they board their train to work. Riverside Police Chief Harold Baltimore can't get away from her so easily. A black chief in a white...
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Chester Drum novels volume 10
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Drum guards a killer against an assassin with diplomatic immunity Everybody knows George Brandvik killed Jorgen Kolding. As soon as the jury acquits him, Brandvik sells his story to View magazine, confessing to the crime in exchange for a payday. Once the magazine hits newsstands, the death threats start rolling in-semi-literate garbage which nevertheless must be taken seriously. A reporter from View hires private detective Chester Drum to protect...
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A phone call at midnight. A cocktail lounge on New Orleans's West Bank. A young woman who wants to photograph prostitutes and re-create Bellocq's famous Storyville portraits. And murder. These are the threads that lead private eye Neal Rafferty into a labyrinth of danger in the Crescent City... where crime is always hot, spicy, and full-flavored with suspense. The phone call is from his old girlfriend Jackie Silva. A loan shark named Bubba Brevna...
19) Glass House
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A novel inspired by the true story of a lone policeman who was killed at the edge of one of the most dangerous housing projects in New Orleans. Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest. Burgess Monroe...
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When an Albanian husband and wife are found dead in their home, Inspector Costas Haritos, a veteran junta-trained homicide detective on the Athens police force, is called to what seems at first to be an open-and-shut case. For the Greek police, two dead Albanians are hardly a matter of concern. But when Albania's celebrity television news reporter Janna Karayoryi insists that the case was closed too early, Haritos becomes unnerved. He doesn't exactly...
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