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30141) Wading Into War
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Houston, 1940
Benjamin Wade is a laid back private investigator whose jobs are so mundane that he doesn't even carry a gun. He thought his latest job was going to be easy.
He thought wrong.
Hired by beguiling Lillian Saxton to find a missing reporter with knowledge of her brother's whereabouts in war-torn Europe, Wade follows a lead and knocks on a door. He gets two answers: bullets and a corpse.
Now Wade must unravel the truth about the reporter's...
30142) Connections
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Suspicions their husbands were straying, sent two wives running to Private Investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, to investigate. While each case had some unusual aspects, both seemed likely to be straightforward investigations... that is until one of her clients disappears. Suspecting foul play, Sonny finds herself working well outside her original briefs to find her missing client. Her investigations have her unravelling some clues in her quest...
30144) Out Of The Shadows
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Faced with bomb outrages, a mounting death toll, plus impatient politicians and media, this team of investigating detectives are up against it.
There is information aplenty, though none of it points to a motive, or obvious killers. Worse, other agencies seem to be working against them; more so, when their focus turns to Germany and long forgotten events during World War Two, the Cold War, let alone the present day.
Months of work reveals there are...
30145) Defiance
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Surviving their ordeal with Travis, Helena and G.R.I.T. stumble upon another group of survivors fighting their way to the high school. Within this group is someone Helena never thought she would see, again.
As old ghosts are stirred, and scars reopened, Helena must fight not only the monsters who stalk them, but also the ones who now stalk her. Together, this new group and G.R.I.T will face dark times as they struggle to discover the true meaning...
30146) Bottom Feeder
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In the bayou behind Martin Landry's home lurks a hungry killer, a monster of extraterrestrial origins. When Martin's son, Oscar, unwittingly encounters the mysterious bottom feeder and becomes its first human victim, what follows could mean the end of mankind-unless three veteran lawmen find a way to track and stop this alien menace.
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Blue White & D Flawless is a mystery/crime thriller that focuses on the high-stakes world of the gem and jewelry trade and a deal gone bad. Part New York story, part heist, and part flawed hero arc, it's The Thomas Crown Affair set in New York City's Diamond District, with the plot revolving around Tom Strawbridge. A well-known New York City-based gemstone and jewelry merchant, Tom's life is changed forever when an extraordinary world-class jewel...
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Jon Matteson has thoroughly enjoyed his millionaire's holiday in Rhodes, and reluctantly heads back to his everyday, mundane existence at home in Norway, already eager for the next time he can go back to his other hidden life on the Greek island, happily unaware that it will never be.When his house explodes from an apparent gas leak, his death is at first taken to be an unfortunate accident, even by experienced fire investigators, but it is actually...
30149) The Great Reminder
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Major Lewis Stiles is dying of cancer, but he wants all his affairs in order before he is "called home." To that end he wants to hire Moroni Traveler and his father, Martin, to track down one of the prisoners he was responsible for during World War II. Unseen since his mysterious disappearance from the POW camp at Cowdery Junction, Utah, Karl Falke is still owed $132.07 in back pay, and Stiles wants Falke to receive his due. Knowing the chances of...
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La bête est-elle réellement celle que l'on croit?
Le corps d'un notable est retrouvé égorgé en plein centre de Brive. Tout laisse à penser qu'un animal dangereux erre dans les rues de la ville. À la suite de son affectation au commissariat de la cité gaillarde, le lieutenant Gabriel Marcini est chargé de l'enquête. Après une longue période de soins, il reprend du service dans un climat tendu, d'autant qu'une seconde victime est bientt...
30151) Pirate's Moon
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An ill wind blows beneath the Pirate's Moon...
Bath, North Carolina. Historic. Quaint. Forgotten to time. Forgotten to crime...or so people believed. When murder moves to town and hangs up its black cloak to stay, the State Bureau of Investigation takes up residence, too.
When a mother is murdered and a young girl is taken, Agent Sarah Melindez calls her friend, Mick Priest, for help. Mikhael "Mick" Priest is a private investigator with an unearthly...
30152) Forsythia's Ride
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Like many twenty-somethings, Forsythia Shea sought her fortune in Manhattan. With visions of success and luxury, she jettisoned her tedious post-grad New Hampshire lifestyle in exchange for life on the Upper West Side.
Still wrestling with the visions of witnessing her father's suicide, her own life is in disarray. Her dad died by his own hand as an aging IRA operative with a secret. A secret that ultimately lead to a violent, bloody suicide in Fory's...
30153) Untethered
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PART ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING FIVE PART SERIALThe HIDE Omnibus is now available.When Keegan finally gets away from his brutal mother on his sixteenth birthday, things go from bad to strange as his father picks up a hitchhiker in the desert during their escape. The strangeness of the day gets scary as Keegan notices the hitchhiker's odd behavior. But with Keegan's failing memory and bizarre dreams of a red wind, he can't be sure about what his father's...
30154) The Black Sky
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Bishop and Tessa Dawes survive on opposite sides of the Manhattan Island seawall, one of fifteen corporation-controlled cities across the United States in the post-asteroid apocalypse. While Bishop works off citizenship debt in the drone command center, slowly building credit to secure her entry in two years, Tessa survives in the lawless boroughs surrounding the city, reconditioning knives for the black market Free Zone controlled by bullet gangs....
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Choc des cultures entre le Moyen-Orient et l'Amérique
L'odyssée de la famille Ward en Iran à la recherche d'un être cher ressemble à un rêve éveillé. Avec pour seuls indices une photo jaunie, un nom propre et le nom d'un village déformé par le temps, ce petit groupe traverse un pays, une culture, une histoire que d'aucuns voudraient opposer au reste du monde. Chemin faisant, ces Américains singuliers composent une ode unique à la rencontre...
30156) Dirty Weekend
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In the latest mystery from New York Times Bestselling Author Liliana Hart, it's a full moon and Friday the 13th, which means things are about to get crazy in King George County, Virginia.J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are ready to settle in and enjoy a regular weekend. But they're in for a surprise when things don't go as planned. From a supposed suicide to a shocking murder, nothing is as it seems. But one thing is for sure......
30157) The Mandarin Club
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A contemporary Washington mystery with a high tech, China twist...A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis. It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the U.S. recognizes the People's Republic of China. Intense demand arises for...
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CONWOMAN OR HUMANITARIAN?
Who was the enigmatic Susan Mitchell?
What happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars she stole from the investors who flocked to her innovative investment fund?
At the height of her success but with major questions being asked, Susan Mitchell disappeared without a trace along with all the money that her customers had invested.
This documentary will investigate the company that she took over and the...
30159) Way of a Wanton
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Sherry is Lady Luck in the flesh. Her figures, 36-22-35, are Shell's favorites, and this time they may add up to murder. Two-to-one says this beautiful broad is involved...
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À l'ombre de la cordillère des Andes, la bête immonde a survécu...
Samuel Atlan possédait la capacité de se souvenir de tout. Un cas rare d'hypermnésie, selon les médecins. Une mémoire sans faille, à l'exception d'une seule: Samuel ne se rappelait rien de ce qui précédait le jour o on l'avait trouvé, à l'âge de sept ans, errant au bord d'une route. Quand son passé refait surface de la plus singulière des façons, il se retrouve...
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