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Riley Thorn volume 2
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Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of "the Guild." Then there's the homicide detective who needs her help figuring out who murdered the well-dressed corpse in the walk-in closet. Nick's got his own hands full with a tricky missing person case and his parents who want to know why he didn't tell them about his live-in girlfriend. Then there's the fact that he's still the...
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Emily Bestler Books / Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
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For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes...
3) Bang Stick
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It is New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty-nine and Southern California's normally placid climate is experiencing a bitter winter cold snap. It is certainly not the weather for murder. The strange unknown weapon constitutes the perfect crime. Bodies are stacking up faster than chips in a winning hand of high stakes poker. The only thing piling up faster is the ever growing list of suspects. Incompetent San Diego Police Detective Jake Smith is in charge...
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Chicago PI, Mike Shepherd spots a child silently crying on an otherwise empty mall bench. Mike and his fiancé try to help four-year-old Madison. A surveillance tape reveals one hour earlier a man had kidnapped Madison's mother. Mike must rescue the woman despite dealing with a disgruntled federal officer.
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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An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook… Where has the master gone? Who has cut the...
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Ifenna, a young journalist, takes the job of reporting on a popular megachurch in Lagos but veers off-script to investigate the death of a priest during the construction of the church. The article offends the young and powerful Pastor Nicholas who runs the church and Ifenna gets fired from his job. Down and out of luck, Ifenna becomes a blogger to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of the men of God and his path crosses with Pastor Nicholas wife,...
9) Diego Killer
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A steamy hot August in San Diego, California. The rotting body of an immigration attorney, Diego Ortiz found with a Mexican stiletto protruding from his chest. Disgraced Jake Smith is back from Arkansas and set up a private investigation service. He has been keeping a low profile, not wanting to confront his old nemesis, SDPD Detective Stephen Lyle. Now fruitless with the death of his only client. Smith has no choice but to insert himself in the...
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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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When Nathan, a seasoned detective, receives a call in the middle of the night, he is thrown into a race against time to find the murderer before they strike again. As Nathan delves deeper into the case, he discovers that the murders may be connected to an old case and a person from his past. With the help of his partner Jason, Nathan must navigate the twists and turns of the case and confront his demons before it's too late. "Bloodline Justice" is...
12) A Step Too Far
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Threaten CD Grimes' family? What? You're totally crazy ?This is the final book of the CD Grimes Mystery seriesCritic commentAnother one more in an action vein. I've stated before I like this kind of crap, and Moulton handles it far better than most.– JDM ****
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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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Una nueva novela de Roberto Sánchez donde nada es lo que parece. En junio de 2018 se localiza un yate varado en aguas internacionales. Está siendo consumido por el fuego. No hay rastro de sus tripulantes, los Vila Monsonís -una conocida pareja de abogados de Fotheringale-, ni del patrón del barco.Desde ese momento, se abren todas las hipótesis sobre qué ha podido ocurrir en alta mar. No hay testigos.El caso genera muchísima expectación mediática...
15) Hunted to Death
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A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target…until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house. Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts...
16) Pool Party
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A pool party. A man is murdered. There is an old gun in a chest. Investigation leads to murders ten years ago. A brothel that is now a private home. an attic full of valuable antiques.
How is all thia connected?
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On a much needed vacation with his daughter Regan and close friend Oz in Puerto Rico, John Bekker finds his vacation cut short when, on a hot night, he can't sleep and takes some fresh air on the balcony of his hotel room. Bekker's hotel is directly across the street from the famed Luquillo Beach. The ocean is invisible in the dark, but street lights illuminate the sidewalks. A man is calmly smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk, seemingly minding his...
18) The Instinct
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Alp's closest friends betray him and choose him as a victim for a crime he did not commit.After a while, his friends call him and just ask him for help, but they don't tell him why.Alp becomes suspicious and starts calling his friends to help.When he finds them, the chain begins to open, he leaves the grave of death and emerges into the light, and the dark traces of the past begin to follow him even in the light... - I read it in the published book...
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New York City cop Edward X. Delaney solves a string of murder cases in these first two novels in the series by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Lawrence Sanders's first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward X. Delaney. The First Deadly Sin: New York Police Department captain Edward Delaney is called...
20) Death Bus
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A bus has been modified in the driving, seven passengers of each mind, a well-designed conspiracy slaughter, to the initial who can escape from their own sins, in the trap of killing everywhere to find the initial line of vitality.
1, a reflective hall outside, several primary car winding display docked in front of the front door, followed by a moment, from the reflective hall came out of a number of people, one of them was behind a number of people...
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