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"In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life ... When a mysterious letter signed "Palma"--Clotilde's mother--arrives, the truth about her family, her parents' death,...
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Pot thief Hubie Schuze is back, and this time his larceny is for a good cause. He wants to recover sacred relics lifted from San Roque, a mysterious pubelo that is closed to outsiders. Usually Hubie finds his pottery a few feet underground--but these artifacts are one hundred fifty feet above the New Mexico soil, on the top floor of the Rio Grande Lofts.
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The morning after the aged Ute shaman receives a perplexing visits from a silent, disheveled matukach "magician," daisy's neighbor Nathan McFain discovers something astonishing buried in the dirt on his foundering Colorado dude ranch: the bones of gargantuan beast from a prehistoric age. It is a find of enormous scientific importance that attracts the attention of a wide variety of individual: noted paleontologist Moses Silver and his archaeologist...
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Leo Stanhope dreams of making a home with Maria, the prostitute he loves, and he dreams of a world where no one cares what is tucked between his legs. Because Leo has a secret and in Queen Victoria's England, that secret could get him locked up for life or killed. But it's a prostitute who's killed instead, and Leo who becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name will he give up his secret?
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Foggy Moscowitz is called to Mary's Shallow Grave, everyone's favorite bar. A man has been killed-shot three times-by a young girl. With no parents, no fixed abode, and no services to help her, Foggy is forced to shelter her in his beachside apartment. The victim was the son of the richest Seminole in Florida, Ironstone Waters, who sends several of his men, including Mister Redhawk, to collect the girl and find out what happened. With Ironstone's...
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Weitab vom Schuss erlebt die CIA-Agentin Fortune Redding ihre bisher schwierigste Mission:
Weil ein Waffenhändler ein Kopfgeld auf sie ausgesetzt hat, muss sie kurzfristig in dem Provinzkaff Sinful in Louisiana untertauchen. Ihr Chef will sie ausgerechnet als ehemalige Schönheitskönigin und Bibliothekarin tarnen, obwohl sie weder mit Schminke noch mit Büchern etwas am Hut hat. Womit Fortune nicht rechnet: dass eine Leiche auftaucht, noch ehe...
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Es hätte ein ereignisreicher, aber friedlicher September werden sollen für Leander Lost und Soraia: erst der Umzug in ein neues Haus, dann ihre Hochzeit. Doch die Nachsaison bringt keine Ruhe nach Fuseta. In einem Golfteich wird eine tote Frau gefunden. Kurz darauf kommt es zu einem brutalen Überfall auf einen Geldtransporter, der dunkle Erinnerungen weckt an einen alten ungelösten Fall ...
Sieben Jahre zuvor ist Elias, Graciana Rosados Bruder,...
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Festtagsstimmung im Périgord und ein mysteriöser Mord
Es ist Sommer in Saint-André-du-Périgord, und das mehrtägige Traditionsfest Félibrée steht bevor. Dieses Mal will auch Kommissarin Marie Mercier daran teilnehmen. Doch während ihre Großtante Léonie sich als begnadete Köchin auf kulinarische Highlights freut, gibt es für Marie plötzlich einen ernsten Anlass: Die 16-jährige Tochter der dort ausstellenden Winzerin Jeanne Laroussine...
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London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in...
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“His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to “Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes”. All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that...
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Who killed Danute Zukas, a twenty-three-year-old Lithuanian woman, in July 2014?
In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team investigates cold cases and has successfully resolved more than a dozen. Headed by former police detective Gus Freeman, the team uses old witness statements plus fresh clues to start the hunt again.
Danute Zukas arrived in Bath, England, in March, 2011, worked in a late-night bar, and was well liked and happy. Then in April,...
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Shona McMonagle is your ordinary, garden-variety librarian: comfortably padded, in her middle years, expert in various arcane martial arts. She also has an impressive knack for time travel (“impressive” may be overstating things: her first two forays—revolutionary Russia, 19th-century France—went less than smoothly). Her latest mission? Head to 11th-century Scotland, cozy up to Macbeth and Lady M, prevent them from murdering Duncan. In the...
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Before James grew up to be a ruthless, remorseless villain, he was a curious boy from Boston, with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue. Thrown into a boarding school against his wishes, James winds up rooming with a most unlikely companion: a lanky British know-it-all named Sherlock Holmes ("Lock" to his friends). An heirloom Bible, donated by the Moriarty family more than a hundred years ago, has gone missing, and it doesn't take long for the...
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"All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep: John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged lying cheat of a husband.Not only is John's sudden reappearance...
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The most evil book ever conceived falls into the hands of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition in this ingenious bibliomystery from the bestselling creator of Repairman Jack. In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throughout the land, with Prior Tomás de Torquemada serving as the ultimate judge of who will live and who will be consigned to the purifying flames. Never has Torquemada questioned his own faith or his sacred...
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Prime Minister Peter Fraser is back in New Zealand in 1945 before he continues to lead the small counties pushing to remove colonialism and great power veto from the fledgling United Nations. A plot is under way to kill him. If successful, New Zealand's influence on the international stage ends and the country could descend into chaos, a divided country ripe for international manipulation.Detective Dan Delaney has returned from the war seeking a peaceful...
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