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61) Dark Moon
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Nightmare hall volume 23
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By moonlight, a psychotic teenager unleashes a terrifying evil on Salem University Eve Forsythe has been chosen to cochair Salem U's annual Founders' Day celebration, and she is determined to make sure everything goes off without a hitch. The honor student can't let anyone see that beneath her perfectionist exterior is a teenager terrified she'll make a mistake. Eve's worst fears are realized when, on the first day of the festival, a runaway horse...
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His drive to preserve their beauty for eternity cannot be controlled Derrick, now David, tried to suppress the bad place within himself-the part that wanted to punish the girls who had shunned him. He knew he was good at his work-his actual photography-and he tried to make that more important than the darkness inside. But it was no use. His mission was to immortalize the beauty of young women-and nothing would stop him. Senior Vicki Valentine is...
63) Beirut Noir
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories by: Rawi Hage, Muhammad Abi Samra, Leila Eid, Hala Kawtharani, Marie Tawk, Bana Baydoun, Hyam Yared, Najwa Barakat, Alawiyeh Sobh, Mazen Zahreddine, Abbas Beydoun, Bachir Hilal, Zena El Khalil, Mazen Maarouf, and Tarek Abi...
64) Hidden Agenda
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In this series opener by the author of The Appraisal, a Toronto journalist and amateur sleuth tackles a case involving murder and a missing manuscript.
So here's the question: You're about to kill yourself. How vital is it that you get your teeth cleaned? That's the question that keeps bugging Judith Hayes, though admittedly, she keeps returning to it: It's so much easier to deal with than the real question of why her friend George Harris would have...
65) The Summer Snow
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In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering local police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished,...
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A page-turning crime thriller set in Catalonia.
A killer is targeting figures of corruption in the Catalan city of Girona, with each corpse posed in a way whose meaning no one can fathom.
Elisenda Domènech, the head of Girona's newly-formed Serious Crime Unit, believes the attacker is drawing on the city's legends to choose his targets, but soon finds her investigation is blocked at every turn.
Battling against the press, the public and even her...
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"It has a plot as satisfying as an Indiana Jones film and offers enough historical knowledge to render the reader a fascinating raconteur on the topics of ancient Egypt and Napoleon Bonaparte." -USA Today
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon's Pyramids-an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves.
The...
68) Albatross
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Can Davina Graham uncover the traitor in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service before it's too late? Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has been compromised: A mole high in their ranks has been feeding national secrets to the Soviets. Undercover at a prominent ad agency, SIS agent Davina Graham has been tasked with the unenviable job of uncovering the traitor, who goes by the code name Albatross. Could it be Davina's boss, Brigadier Sir James White,...
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Three novels in one volume featuring a police detective dealing with the darker side of Devon, England.
This trio of crime novels starring Dan Hellier includes:
Death in the Woods
DI Dan Hellier has returned to Exeter under a cloud. But a chance for redemption comes when the body of a talented young singer is found in the woods. When links are revealed to a recording studio boss, a predatory gang, and a school music teacher, Hellier has to untangle...
70) Helsinki Noir
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In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, the spotlight is on Finland and its southern capital of Helsinki, a city “synonymous with noir. There is a darkness in the Finnish soul, perhaps echoing the country’s long winter nights, that lends itself to tales of horror and degenerate behavior” (Reviewing the Evidence).
This...
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Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is fifty-six years old, and though he is widely respected on the police force for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with transfer because he's too hard on them; his fellow commissioner is trying to force him out. Even his family has walked out of his life: his adult daughter has moved to Bologna, and his wife has left him for New York. All signs are telling...
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In the heart of a bustling metropolis, the city's most renowned orchestra conductor is found dead, his life silenced by a mysterious assassin during the crescendo of his final symphony. Enter Detective Arietta, a classical music enthusiast whose love for melody is only matched by her prowess in solving crimes. The maestro's death is a shock to the community, and Arietta must navigate through a complex network of jealous musicians, rival conductors,...
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Three crime thrillers in one volume: In England's Thames Valley, a police detective takes on murder, corruption, and department politics . . .
These novels featuring DCI Fleming of the Major Crime Unit include:
The Fifth Suspect
A body is found on a boat on the River Thames-and newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case. But a belligerent fellow DCI gives Fleming a hostile...
74) Hong Kong Noir
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, fourteen of the city's finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.
This anthology includes brand-new stories by Jason Y. Ng, Xu Xi,...
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Morning Star volume 1
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1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family's hopes and happiness turn to ashes.
One year following her husband Nathan's death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure--to scatter her husband's remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett...
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Heartthrob volume 2
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Callie tried to go straight. She escaped both Mercer and the FBI to Canada. She got a new beau, a new job, and with the few years remaining on her borrowed heart, everything should be perfect. But Callie's old life isn't entirely done with her. As her old crew keeps robbing and sucks her back into the one thing she's great at, Callie sets out to create a criminal empire of her own.
77) Never Rest
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A London PI hunts for a missing person-and a vicious killer running loose on an island off the coast of Devon...
Chris Sigurdsson has left the police force to start his own detective agency in London. He and his assistant, Priya, have built a strong reputation, and their casebook for the coming months is full. But Sigurdsson's mind drifts back to his time as a Detective Inspector, and to the surreal week he spent investigating a case on Salvation...
78) Little Criminals
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An Irish thug's scheme for success flies dangerously off the rails in this crime novel by the author of The Midnight Choir.
Frankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. He's a small-time thug who thinks that kidnapping one of Dublin's newly rich businessmen just may be the low-risk fast track to the status and money he's certain he deserves. When the local crime boss won't let him make the snatch, he shoots the boss and commences with...
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Ten must track down and stop rogue scientists behind the development of criminal technology in THE HUMANZEE EXPERIMENTS, the next installment of The 'Ten' Mystery Series!
The International Security for Technological Innovations, a federal agency tasked with finding unsanctioned and unethical technologies that pose a threat to global safety, hires Ten to track down the scientists behind the creation and weaponization of chimpanzee human hybrids....
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An old friend is murdered, and Hastings will do anything he can to avenge her When Frank Hastings knew Meredith Powell, she was a gawky ten-year-old without a care in the world. More than two decades later, she has grown into a stunning beauty-but the gleam in her eye is gone. Over lunch, Meredith confesses that she lives in terror of her emotionally abusive boyfriend, a possessive, rage-filled man named Charles. Hastings, a homicide lieutenant with...
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