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Un muchacho de Calpe cae en un Madrid asolado por los combates entre diversas facciones republicanas en marzo de 1939 y su muerte, como tantas otras, jamás se notifica a la familia, que aguarda durante meses su regreso. Basada en un suceso real, Aquellos días de marzo recoge la búsqueda de ese recluta de 19 años, trasladado desde la retaguardia a la capital para defender el golpe de Casado. A partir de las cartas que envía a sus padres a lo largo...
2) Goofy Foot
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In David Daniel's Goofy Foot, private investigator Alex Rasmussen, embarking on a rather routine search for a missing teenager, finds himself in cold water that couldn't be hotter, as the simple task balloons into a case of murderous surfers and a heart-stopping search for a killer. Kirkus Reviews raves, "The characters are painfully human, the dialogue sharp without being over the top, and the small-town ambience dead-on."
3) Blood Stone
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After a colleague dies, Lomax get roped into a deadly search for missing gems Four gunmen storm a jewelry store in downtown Denver, wounding a guard and killing a child. They leave with $2.1 million in gems and one hostage: the store manager, who turns out to be in on the job. Most of the gang winds up dead, but the manager lands in jail. Two decades later, he's up for release, the gems are still missing, and a whole lot of dangerous men will be watching...
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Amiable, wisecracking Alex Rasmussen was first introduced--to great acclaim--in The Heaven Stone, which won the PWA/St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Now ghosts from the past and a murderous Halloween haunt his second case.
A former cop gone private, Rasmussen makes a living in the decaying New England mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts....
5) Switchback
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In the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murder The killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car on the passenger side, shot her twice, and escaped without being stained by her blood. He took the gun with him, as planned-but he forgot her purse, the crucial detail meant to make the crime look like...
6) Mental Case
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NYPD detective Ben Tolliver investigates a series of seemingly motiveless murders. A beautiful woman strides into a jewelry store and asks to try on the finest diamond they have. After admiring it in the mirror, she draws a revolver and kills everyone in the shop, screaming, "Horrible! Vile! Hideous! Filthy!" As the smoke clears, she looks at the security camera, puts the pistol in her mouth, and pulls the trigger. Who was this woman? Why did she...
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Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September night is torn by a scream. Rasmussen rushes to a nearby field to find a woman's body in the weeds.
One of the carnival workers---a man with trouble in his past and a motive for murder---is arrested and...
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An egomaniac crook comes to town and issues a challenge to Nick Carter: I have come to town to do business. I give you notice before I begin, because I am quite certain you will be informed immediately after I commence operations. It really makes little difference; you cannot reach me. Really, my dear Nick, I have a contempt for the so-called detective ability. You, with your Ida, Chick, and Patsy, are a little better than the rest, but you are in...
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Krise? Welche Krise? Als Fahrradkurier hat Ex-Privatdetektiv Max Koller genug zu tun. Und wird dann doch rückfällig: Als ein Bekannter, der Schriftsteller Robert Usedom, erschossen aufgefunden wird, nutzt Koller die Vermisstenanzeige einer Lokalpolitikerin für eigene Ermittlungen. Er kommt einem Umweltskandal auf die Spur, jagt einen selbsternannten Rächer und lernt zutiefst verunsicherte Mitmenschen kennen. Die Krise ist überwunden, aber der...
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Percy Andreae (1858–1924) was an English-American brewer and influential anti-prohibitionist during the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Clapham, London to a German father, Carl Andreæ of Frankfurt, and an English mother, Emilie Sillem. During the 1890s, Andreae published short stories and novels, many of which first appeared in The Windsor Magazine. His fiction drew on his roots, incorporating international mystery and suspense with...
11) Code 197
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One of Shell Scott's friends, a writer working on an expose, turns up dead-and his manuscript is missing. Of course, Shell Scott is hot on the case!
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Inspector Richard Queen finally gets a murder case he can call his own When unmarried women get into trouble, A. Burt Finner is waiting at the hospital to save them. This greasy-lipped fat man knows all about babies: how to change them, how to feed them-and how to sell them to the highest bidder. He buys low, getting them from their distressed mothers just a few hours after birth, and sells high to millionaires who are unable to have children of their...
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Was wäre die Freiburger Kantonspolizei ohne ihr ehemaliges Mitglied Jean-François Murith, der als Bruder Marius im Freiburger St.-Martins-Kloster lebt? Immer wenn es schwierig wird, greift der beleibte, kettenrauchende Inspektor Schneuwly zum Telefon, um sich bei Marius Rat zu holen. Dieses Mal ist jedoch nicht nur Marius' Rat gefragt, denn es geht um einen geheimnisvollen Mord in einem nahegelegenen Zisterzienserkloster. In einer Vollmondnacht...
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Der Großgastronom Pit Baldauf möchte einen Biergarten eröffnen - ausgerechnet am Karlsgraben bei Treuchtlingen, der unter Denkmalschutz steht. Das erhitzt die Gemüter der Anwohner sowie der Historikerin Ricarda Held, die über die Geschichte des Landstrichs forscht. Das Projekt soll zu Fall gebracht werden. Da kommt die Leiche des Hobby-Archäologen Meindl, die im Karlsgraben entdeckt wird, gerade recht. KOK Hans Wörle ermittelt: Hat die Tat...
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Teenagers Matt Delaney and his mate Ante Vukovich steal a priceless religious vessel and in the course of the burglary a man is killed, setting in motion personal and political mayhem. It is 1955 and they just want to be milk-bar cowboys against the squares and their suffocating rules banning unmarried sex and excessive speed and anything worth doing. Matt's uncle Dan Delaney is out of the police and in a dead-end job when Matt's alcoholic mother...
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Ron Reed, the ace pitcher of the L.A. Wave, the newest franchise in major league baseball, hires our "Celebrity PI" to surveille his lingerie model wife who he suspects is cheating. This fourth novel in the "Sherlock Jones" series of contemporary L.A. murder mysteries finds Sherlock, Sasha (his partner in Archer Investigations and sharpshooting lover), plus the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) "Disreputables" (his zany yet adept rag-tag...
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The Old Angel is everything an old English inn should be, with ancient beams, gleaming copper bedwarmers, pewter tankards, and platters heaped high with red roast beef. But then, as Mr. Pinkerton quickly discovers, the Old Angel also harbors some less homey items. Such as a frightened young girl, a series of secret passageways -- and a most unpleasant Knight who is suddenly killed in a most unsavory way.
The next thing he knows. Mr. Pinkerton is mixed...
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"Mystery fans will be delighted by this first installment in a promising new series." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When a social media star washes up dead on a sleepy island, the residents are forced to confront their own secrets - the money, murder, and lies behind the idyllic small town façade - as a wave of fans descends.
Pete Brown is a retired pro-surfer looking to live the perfect beach bum life and put the trauma of a career-ending...
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