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"In life you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. A business empire worth ten billion dollars. This is the tantalizing offer made by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India's richest men, to Sapna Sinha, a simple salesgirl in an electronicsstore in downtown Delhi. She can be the next CEO of his incredibly huge and profitable company. There is only one catch--she needs to pass seven tests from the "textbook of life." Thus begins the most...
42) Mission Hill
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"Abby Endicott is chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, where she investigates and prosecutes the city's most dangerous killers. She attended the elite Winsor school, graduated from Harvard Law School, and has been known to change intoan evening gown amidst bodies in the morgue. She loves her job, and is committed to it. But among Abby's many secrets is her longtime affair with fellow prosecutor Tim Mooney, a married father of...
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The first in a transporting new cozy mystery series set in beautiful Positano, Italy, as a widowed B&B owner discovers a body in one of her bedrooms before opening day… Perfect for fans of Mario Giordano and Lorenzo Carcaterra!
For young widow Bria Bartolucci, running a B&B in the sun-soaked village of Positano, Italy, was supposed to be like going on a permanent vacation. But it’s hardly la bella vita when her first guest is a dead body . ....
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Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II' end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
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Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is hospitalized, local bookseller Claire Malloy finds herself in the midst of a barely controlled disaster. Not only do each of the writers...
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An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different—sometimes lethally so.
After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances...
47) Long time gone
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When DNA results reveal a disturbing connection to the mysterious disappearance of a famous baby nearly three decades ago, a forensic scientist is plunged into a dangerous search for answers in this engrossing, propulsive new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.
Thirty years ago, Baby Charlotte vanished. Today, she’s still in danger.
When Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research...
48) Husbands
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In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine.
Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he's single again at 28 and sleeping in his childhood bedroom beneath a 'Hard Candy' Madonna poster.
He gets a call claiming he drunkenly married top Hollywood director Aaron Biedermeier in Vegas six years ago. Rather than panic, he sees a golden ticket to fame and...
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La " porte d'Ishtar " est à Babylone le lieu o certaines condamnations sont exécutées... Taliya, vingt ans, vient d'être nommée par la reine à la tête du Service de la Justice royale. Simultanément, un haut dignitaire de ma ville est assassiné dans des circonstances inexplicables. Alors que tout le monde s'attend à ce que l'affaire soit classée, Taliya soupçonne un complot de plus vaste envergure...
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Bom dia und willkommen in Colares!
Zwei rivalisierende Sportgruppen machen ganz Colares unsicher, rasen auf ihren Rennrädern die Küstenstraßen entlang und bevölkern in Joggingpulks die Strände. Zu allem Überfluss feuern sie auch noch die Konkurrenz zwischen Ben und Monteiro ordentlich an, denn eine Gruppe ist in The Shacks abgestiegen, die andere in der Vila Calma. Doch dann stürzt einer der Sportler mit seinem Rennrad von einer Klippe! Schnell...
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En ce temps la Judée, terre juive, est occupée par les Romains. Le cadavre d'une femme, que l'apparence semble désigner comme romaine, est découvert dans un quartier mal famé de Jérusalem. Afin de résoudre ce meurtre, le juge Shimon de Samarie, à l'éducation romaine mais au service du Sanhédrin de Jérusalem, se retrouve au cœur d'une réalité historique o les querelles entre peuples s'ajoutent aux divisions intra-communautaires. Rabbi...
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Le Réseau Bombyce déploie son intrigue policière dans un univers rétro-futuriste, qui revisite le style Belle Époque.
Ils ont braqué le mauvais coffre chez la mauvaise personne. Mouche et Eustache, deux cambrioleurs spécialisés dans les opérations à hauts risques, se retrouvent plongés dans une sombre histoire de trafic de femmes, de meurtres et de corruption policière. Aux dangers qui pèsent sur eux et sur la bien-aimée d'Eustache...
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Le policier impérial Wang vient d'être affecté dans une petite ville de province de la Chine médiévale. A peine arrivé, le maitre de la cité lui confie sa première enquête. Malgré l'hostilité ambiante, Wang fait tout pour lever le voile de secrets qui plane sur la ville et découvrir qui a tué l'intendant L. C'est à ce moment qu'intervient Tigre Blanc, un bandit qui lui complique la tâche... Tout en essayant de mettre à jour les secrets...
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When a reproduction of a famous painting is stolen from a traveling show of impressionist art, librarian Lucy is painted into a corner when a murder occurs, while Louise Jane is captivated by handsome art dealer, who might be the killer--and the person threatening to break her heart.
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"In 1583, the nineteen-year-old Christopher Marlowe---with a reputation as a brawler, a womanizer, a genius, and a social upstart at Cambridge University---is visited by a man representing Marlowe's benefactors. There are rumors of a growing plot againsther majesty Queen Elizabeth I, and the Queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has charged young Marlowe with tracking down the truth. The path to that truth seems to run through an enigmatic prisoner...
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30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author
Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail...
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"When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life. Emily travels to thesleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered in a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of...
58) Hall of mirrors
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Suspicious after his lover and writing partner's death in house fire is ruled a suicide in 1954 Washington, DC, Lionel joins forces with two friends and amateur sleuths to investigate and stop a serial killer.
59) Treachery
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Jack Somerton wants to put his horrific misdeeds of A Fall to the Top behind him. He wants to begin a new era in partnership with the mysterious genius known as Jupiter. He wants to build a better Britain, a better world. To do that he needs power, he needs to get himself elected and there are obstacles in his way from day one. And there are dark forces at work on both sides of the Atlantic, the so called 'special relationship' takes on a new meaning....
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"A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to...
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