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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads
Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela
Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y acaba de salir de...
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"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children-especially fifteen-year-old Etty-grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father-and the...
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Silver Medal Winner for best terrorist thriller in the 2013 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest.Imagine a couple young hacktivists, both former members of the internet freedom fighters group Anonymous, and one of them an ex-black ops officer, breaking away and creating a militant group of anarchists committed to social change. But social change precipitated by acts of violence against CEOs of major corporations responsible for crimes...
9) Jamaica
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On the emerald green island of Jamaica, an unpredictable adventure awaits twins Ana and Nicky who travel there to celebrate their coming of age. Under the Caribbean sun, they anticipate a holiday filled with fun, freedom, and excitement. But the idyllic island harbours hidden dangers beyond their expectations.
As the twins revel amid the natural tropical beauty, the thin veneer of paradise soon peels away. Their riveting journey quickly becomes a...
10) If It Kills Me
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Her dad's song became her song-a slave's song, a wary song of anger without the means of expression, a song of surviving--a song of escape.Like any slave, she'd do what she had to do."Dad," she whispered. "Somehow, I'll get home. If it kills me, I'll get home."
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The oldest and most dangerous organization in the world is rearing its head in the city of Chicago. It's been in existence since the dawn of man, and now secretly serving as members are some of the most prominent people in the city who have sold their souls for worldly goods. Unnatural occurrences of killings and deaths are a result, and what is dubbed the M.O.T.B. (Mark of the Beast) murders prompt homicide detective Lt. Christian to seek help from...
12) Gothic Revival
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The Psychological Thriller Inspired by the Creation of Frankenstein
Chris, Anne, Fiona, and Lauren were inseparable friends while earning MFAs in Creative Writing. Years later they've grown apart and are surprised to receive an invitation to a reunion from the fifth member of their group, Eric, a successful screenwriter. Eric flies them to a remote lake villa where he reveals his new obsession: their group is a modern version of the famous one from...
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Robert Goddard's international bestselling third novel is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits quietly at home when the creak of the garden gate announces the arrival of a mysterious visitor. The stranger claims he is Sir James Davenall, the former fiancé of Trenchard's wife, Constance. He was thought to have committed suicide...
14) Looking Back
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Fear is only the beginning.Rena's mother left her a roadmap to freedom. This is the beginning of a story of disappearance, built on bravery and hard choices.Book One in a three part series, formerly published in part as Borderlines.
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Dieses Buch entstand 2007, als Jutta Duwe ihre Akteneinsicht bei der Stasiunterlagenbehörde beantragte und geschockt feststellen musste, dass ihr gesamtes Leben in der DDR bis ins kleinste Detail dokumentiert war, hauptsächlich von 1977 bis zur Wende 1989.
Der Stasiapparat mit seinen zerstörerischen Methoden gegen das eigene Volk war derart widerlich, dass die Autorin sich entschloss, einen Teil ihres Lebens, welches heute zur jungen deutsch-deutschen...
16) Timeslip
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The US Army has developed a secret base in the outback of Australia with the aim of controlling time travel.
When a young Australian man, Matthew Fraser, inadvertently interferes with the Army's latest experiment, he is ruthlessly hunted down and captured. After exhibiting the ability to bounce back a few minutes in time, Matthew is used as a pawn by the Army while they try to replicate his power of time travel.
Meanwhile, terrorists hatch a plot...
17) Busisiwe
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This follows on one of the kidnapped twins lives and follows how she moves on and finds her family and gets her revenge.
18) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
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Atemberaubender und spannender Psychothriller:
Helen Toussaint scheint als Ehefrau eines erfolgreichen Rechtsanwaltes das perfekte Leben zu führen. Sie ist jung, attraktiv und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Nick und den zwei kleinen Kindern in einem schönen Haus. Doch als Nick Toussaint den zwielichtigen arabischen Geschäftsmann und vermeintlichen Geldgeber eines Terrornetzwerkes, Ahmed Al Shain, erfolgreich vertritt, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig.
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Im Jahr 1957 wurde ein achtjähriger Junge Opfer des seitdem so genannten Drachenfelsmörders. 60 Jahre später bringt ein erfahrener Kriminalist in seinem Ruhestand Licht in das Dunkel des ungeklärten Mordfalls und des sorgfältig gehüteten Ergebnisses der polizeilichen Ermittlungen.
Die Schilderung des Kriminalfalls und der Recherchen zur Arbeit der Strafverfolgungsbehörden beruht in Gänze auf Tatsachen. Die maßgeblichen Dokumente sind in Originalfassung...
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