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Un accident de parachute est rare... Thomas Laverne a réussi dans les affaires, mais personne n'atteint les sommets sans se faire d'ennemis. Jalousie, vengeance, les mobiles et les suspects ne manquent pas pour l'équipe chargée des investigations. Camille en est la responsable, et elle connaît déjà la famille de la victime. Quelques années auparavant, elle a enquêté sur la disparition de la petite Héloïse Laverne. Les recherches basculent...
56722) Black Sand
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A massacre at a Greek resort leads to an unlikely transatlantic partnership On a long overdue vacation, Maj. Andreas Vassos takes his family from Athens to a resort village on the Grecian coast, hoping for sun, surf, and a few days without worry. It's just the holiday he needs-until the family goes to get a treat and the crowded café is raked with gunfire. Acting on instinct, Vassos grabs a pistol from a murdered cop and chases after the killers....
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In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape...
56724) When Found in Spirit Gardens
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A crisis of conscience haunts Almon Campbell. He abandoned innocents. Left them to evil. When a survivor pleads for help, Almon must promise the impossible. The detective must evolve into something more. A hero. If he doesn't, he may lose a friend. Cozy mysteries in a paranormal world. A Pact with Demons investigates uncanny tales with heart and danger. In a world where cats talk. And darkness lurks everywhere. Why do lost hearts sell their souls...
56725) The Tuesday Night Club
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs. Jones is found dead. Although a bout of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further…
56726) A Twisted Festival
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The St. Maurice Founders Festival isn't normally an event to die for...
As the festival kicks off, Star Sinclair announces her grand plan for developing St. Maurice's waterfront. Plans that will likely destroy the merfolk town, and the magical protection they cultivate. The leader of the Merfolk and Star are on a collision course of epic proportions over the future of the bay.
But then a key player turns up dead, Amanda's father gets locked in Star's...
56727) Overload
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Finder Vince Grable just wants to enjoy his favorite meal at his favorite restaurant in Zyga Space Station's Zone 4. His waiter just wants to hire him. The case? Find a struggling gamer with a gambling problem named Dent Antwerp-because his brother Corwin wants to kill him. When tragedy strikes, Vince and his assistant Bella launch a murder investigation to save an innocent man. A challenge for a Finder who usually locates those still among the galaxy...
56728) The Vision
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A green-eyed woman, a psychic and a whole lotta trouble!!!
Fifteen years ago Judy's mother was brutally murdered. The murderer walked away with money and their freedom. Now fifteen years later Judy is having dreams about a woman whose only discernible feature are her green-eyes. This green-eyed psycho professes to be the murderer and warns Judy to leave her alone or she would regret it.
Judy turns to the police for help, but their reluctance...
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A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #5Long ago, the cozy southern town of Hopemore, Georgia fell on dark times after the murder of a little girl shook its easygoing citizens, sending one man to prison and changing the lives of two young boys forever. Years later, residents all settled back into their routines, the suicide of one of the town's most beloved teachers, Dwanye Evans, brings Hopemore's dark past back into the present. Southern lady, county magistrate...
56730) The Silence
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A rash of unexplained suicides. An old woman's baffling illness. A brutal murder. Detective Gary Goodhew must figure out what's connecting them-or die trying . . .The esteemed Detective Gary Goodhew must solve a disturbing puzzle when he stumbles upon a circle of friends who seem to be afflicted by a plague of teenage suicides. Poor Charlotte Stone . . . her whole life she has been burdened by grief. First her terminally ill mother dies and then,...
56731) Redemption
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Annette Watchworth has aspirations of becoming a compelling reporter, but life has other plans for her. After a disappointing start on her career, she finds herself behind her monitor composing unimportant stories. She spends ten years in anonymity but when an opportunity knocks at her door, she embraces it, unaware of the danger and heartbreak. She finds herself tangled in a web of deception, lies and a murder. All her hopes of reviving her career...
56732) Valentine and the Undead
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Valentine and the Undead is a 92, 000 word Science Fiction novel. Valentine and the crew of his Trading Spaceship undergo injections to put language nanobots into their systems. A good plan, an even better plan if it worked. Instead, planet based criminals sabotage the scheme and the nanobots turn the crew into the Undead, walking through the ship looking to invite people for lunch. And pirates turn up to join the party.Valentine is an experienced...
56733) A Gem of a Problem
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A death. An inheritance. A problem left behind.Emma's family never approved of her marriage. So, when her husband's questionable behaviour threatens ruin for those nearest and dearest to her, whatever she decides to do had better be done on the quiet. After all, once she's put the matter to rights, her family need never know what deep pit her marriage brought them to the edge of. Do they? Except Nella has her own opinion on the matter, and Major Barnaby...
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A beautiful young French girl walks into a bar, nervously lights a cigarette, and begs the bartender for help in finding her missing artist brother. In a moment of weakness, the bartender-a lone wolf named Caesar Stiles with a chip on his shoulder and a Sicilian family curse hanging over him-agrees. What follows is a stylish literary mystery set in Brooklyn on the dawn of gentrification. While Caesar is initially trying to earn an honest living at...
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Sur fond de lande, de tourbe et de château, une intrigue et des paysages... ébouriffants!
"Une randonnée dans le massif du Kintail, à l'ouest des Highlands, je suis toujours partant! Pourtant, cette fois...
Sept disparus en moins de deux ans, sans qu'aucun corps n'ait jamais été retrouvé... Un fugitif armé d'un fusil, un projet pharaonique de parc animalier, et puis cet inquiétant berger, Pat McKenzie... Qui est-il vraiment? Enfin, cette...
56736) Cat in a Neon Nightmare
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Cat in a Neon Nightmare is the fifteenth Midnight Louie mystery, and this tough-talking tomcat is as feisty as ever, raising hell (sometimes literally) in Las Vegas, America's Sin Capital.
The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel this town, and bad guys still abound. And Midnight Louie, the feline Sam Spade has his paws full keeping those he loves safe.
This time Midnight Louie treads...
56737) Vendetta à Auray
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Des vacances qui s'annoncent plus mouvementées que prévu...
Maxime Moreau et sa compagne Murielle Garrec sont invités pour une semaine chez des amis à Auray. Au début, l'ambiance décontractée est de rigueur, mais une embrouille va ternir la première journée.
Dès le lendemain, un nouvel incident est signalé. Le troisième jour, une catastrophe va nécessiter l'intervention de la gendarmerie locale.
Même en vacances, Maxime Moreau va...
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A horse psychologist with a nose for a mystery!Four brilliant cozy mystery books in one boxed set:Saddles and SabotageReins and RobbersRacehorses and RevengeManes and MurderWhen mystery and murder come to call at the stables where Hayley Argent works, she is forced to turn her expertise to a new task - examining the psychology of a murderer.Will she take the reins and reveal the killer?Or has the murderer performed a perfect clear round?Saddle up......
56739) Deceptive Calm
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"Deceptive Calm" begins against the turbulent backdrop of 1968. Two American legends, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, are felled by assassins. In the South, it was a tough time to be black.
A stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, lives in a Catholic orphanage for Black children in the Jim Crow South.. Her personal traumas include a Ku Klux Klan attack, the death of the nun who reared her, and a back-alley abortion which lead Vanessa...
56740) Blood Under the Oaks
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Tressa Harrison, a timid social worker, has always seen the best in people. After a robbery rocks her sense of security, she quits her job and moves to suburbia. She loves her cozy new neighborhood but things aren't always what they seem. Her plans to devote time to settling into her home and volunteering are upended when her friend Laura Mills is murdered and Tressa is named as a person of interest. Claire Taylor is a prim street-smart woman. Her...
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