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21) Les Désossés
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Dans un luxueux chalet à l'écart d'une station de ski chic, une riche famille est bloquée par des chutes de neiges anormales, dues au dérèglement climatique.
L'insouciance fait long feu. Aux premiers rationnements – d'eau, de nourriture, d'électricité – succède la faim, la vraie. Sans compter la promiscuité, les problèmes d'hygiène, le froid.
Ce qu'il reste de civilisation est touché à l'os. Le vernis craque, les masques tombent,...
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Discover the most gripping crime thriller this year.
EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.
Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he's meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away-with his little girl inside.
When he finally gets home after the worst day...
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A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish.
Day 1. A young woman's body is found in a shallow grave in the woods, buried in a white shroud. She's been dead for a week. Her teeth are smashed in, her lips stitched together. Her hands are missing.
She's the fourth young woman found like this.
With no witnesses, no clues and no leads to follow, the investigation is going...
24) Blue Moon
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Alone on a wilderness trek in the New Mexico mountains, Lakota PI Howard Moon Deer meets a barefoot, half-crazed astrophysicist who claims he's been abducted by a flying saucer and has just returned from the planet Klizmor in possession of an illusive equation from their advanced civilization: the Theory of Everything.
Is he a madman or part of a clever fraud? He's not just anyone, Howie soon discovers. He's Dr. Grisha Bloom, a famous Nobel Prize...
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La nouvelle série du duo de choc Preston amp; Child (n°1 des ventes du New York Times), mêlant archéologie, suspense et enquête policière, met en scène l'archéologue Nora Kelly et la jeune Corrie Swanson, du FBI. Par les créateurs de l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast, le Sherlock Holmes des temps modernes.
La deuxième enquête de Nora Kelly
Le corps étrangement momifié d'un homme est retrouvé dans une ville fantme du Nouveau-Mexique....
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After surviving a public shooting and saving someone in the process, Alex Baines's life is forever altered... Video of the tragic event spills across social media. Major newspapers are interested. Even movie deals are being offered.
This could be a career boost for the neuroscientist and meditation guru.
But Alex's marriage hangs on by a thread. His leg is shattered from a bullet wound. Evidence is piling up that the attack was not random. And while...
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The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who seems to choose his victims at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. But what did she really see?
When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else:...
28) Blood Rubies
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Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin's life to completely derail. It starts with a routine heist: lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of wealthy smuggler Charles Lemaire. Rune nearly gets caught when Lemaire's goons give chase, but she manages to escape with her boyfriend Kit. Then Kit delivers some terrifying news: his teenage sister Madee has gone missing. They track her cell phone to the dangerous Khlong Toei slum, but...
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A whisper on the wind tells of murderous intent. An assassin prepares in the highlands. Can new operative Kirsten Stewart hunt down the killer before they strike at the heart of Scotland's democracy.
Having left the Highlands murder team behind and joined the shadowy world of the secret services, former DC Kirsten Stewart overhears a plot that strikes to the very core of Scotland's governance. As the stakes get higher and Kirsten becomes cut off...
30) A Deadly Game
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When local college student, Jaden Pierce, disappears one night playing "Manhunt in the Woods" with his fraternity brothers, Nicole, an empathetic stay-at-home mom living a blissful life, joins the search party.
Combing through the wooded area, Nicole unearths her son Kyle's license and withholds this potential piece of evidence. She trusts him, but a sliver of doubt festers below the surface, thanks to one unresolved incident from middle school and...
31) Twisted
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A family under constant scrutiny from both the police and the press as a fifteen year old goes missing after a sleepover with a friend; a marriage at breaking point; a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi; and a detective feeling the pressure to deliver an arrest, are thrust together to make for yet another incredibly intricate and dark thriller from Lynda La Plante.
Note: this novel contains themes of sexual abuse and self harm.
32) The Women
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Praise for Fatal: A captivating read from one of my favourite authors Praise for Dishonour: A thrilling and gripping novel Praise for Trapped: Gritty and gripping – by a star in the making Praise for Poison: A cracking good read Bestseller Jacqui Rose returns with The Women – whether they are serving time or trying to get out, hell hath no fury like these women inmates of a notorious and hard-hitting prison. Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers...
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When agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only to find the recipient dead – brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees – and the basin holds the power to do just that. In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase...
34) The Image of You
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"Absolutely gripping, this is revenge lit at its best. Provocative and compelling. I was left breathless at the final twist." -Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Remains, on Two Dead Wives
Can you ever trust anyone you meet online?
Anna and Zoe are twins. Identical in appearance, absolutely opposite in personality, they share a bond so close that nothing-and no one-can tear them apart.
Until Anna meets her perfect man.
Anna thinks Nick is the man...
35) Erinnere dich!
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Was hast du mit ihr gemacht? Du bist für ihren Tod verantwortlich. ERINNERE DICH!
20 Jahre ist es her, dass die Abiturientin Maja bei einer Wanderung spurlos verschwand. 20 Jahre, in denen ihr Freund Arno Seitz jede Erinnerung an das traumatische Ereignis verdrängt hat.
Jetzt kommt beim Abiturtreffen vieles wieder hoch - Bilder, Gefühle, längst Vergessenes. Die Freunde von damals beschließen, den Wanderweg noch einmal gemeinsam zu gehen. Und...
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Rachel wakes up, gasping for breath, and immediately knows her children are in danger. The scent of magnolias is heavy in the air, which means the Collector is coming…
Schoolteacher Rachel Logan is living an ordinary life in a small community at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. As a single mother still reeling from the sudden death of her husband, she refuses to allow her life to be shaken by whispers of a local thief called the Collector....
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An impossible heist. An ancient code. A deadly race against time…
High in the Italian alps, cut off from the outside world, sits a chapel battered by winds and icy blizzards. The priests who guard this sacred place have sworn to protect the dangerous treasure that lies within their walls.
But when Joe Mason and his team are called to the remote church, they find its ancient stones reduced to rubble, the priests murdered in cold blood and their...
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NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ When ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason gets a call from the Vatican, he knows it is bad news. Marduk, crazed leader of The Amori cult, has escaped from a fortress-like prison in Milan, and he's hell-bent on revenge. His target? None other than Joe Mason himself. Fuelled by an unrelenting hatred for Mason, Marduk launches a burning vendetta: to not only destroy his nemesis but annihilate the very foundations of the church...
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Anne White only looked away for a second, but that's all it took to lose sight of her young daughter. But seven years later, Abigail is found. And as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about the day she disappeared...
40) Blind Spots
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A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated.
Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see?
Homicide detective Mark Owens has been...
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