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"Kate Parker knows what she's getting into when she marries billionaire businessman Hank Tudor--she's his sixth wife, after all, and was by his side as his assistant when his fifth marriage to actress Caitlyn Howard fell apart. But honeymoon plans go awry when a headless body is discovered near Hank's summer home, forcing Kate to contend with two more of his exes: Catherine Alvarez--the first--who lives as a shut-in with her computers, carefully following...
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the...
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"Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything changes. Since her father became ill two years ago, things have been bad, but not lose your house bad . . . until now. Sarah feels helpless until the day Hannah mentions a treasure rumored to be hidden in...
4) Olivetti
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"Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family-the family he's lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from 12-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries. The least they could do was remember Olivetti once in a while, since he remembers every...
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After a long career as a detective in San Diego, Rick "Chase" Chasen has traded in his badge for a change of scenery in the coastal comforts of Devon, England, until a local murder takes him on a deadly detour... Still grieving the death of his long-time partner, Chase reunites with his dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau for a seacoast holiday of historic sightseeing. Assigned a pair of guides from the tour company Wanderers, Chase...
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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: • A CD with a reading of the adapted story• Helpful notes...
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A 3-in-1 audio bundle of New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock's Moonlighter series, Truth Stained Lies, Distortion, and Twisted Innocence.
Sisters Cathy, Juliet, and Holly moonlight as private investigators in Terri Blackstock's Moonlighter series: Truth Stained Lies, Distortion,and Twisted Innocence-now available as a 3-in-1 audiobook!
"Crisp prose, an engaging story, and brisk pacing make this thriller another home run for Blackstock."...
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There's a fine art to murder… Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he's determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with the painting at its heart. Journalist Jason Brazel is delighted to get the exclusive. Even if his mother in law, Amita, thinks he's making a fuss...
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Inspired by the real-life mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee, and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-WWII Vermont, this debut historical mystery will appeal to fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen. Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the...
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Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast reist zusammen mit seiner Vertrauten Constance Greene nach Exmouth, Massachusetts, um den Diebstahl einer wertvollen Weinsammlung aufzuklären. Im Weinkeller stößt er auf ein Verlies, in dem offenbar ein Mensch lebendig eingemauert wurde. Doch von dem Skelett fehlt - mit Ausnahme eines Fingerknochens - jede Spur. Bald schon erfährt Pendergast von der düsteren Vergangenheit der Stadt. Die Legende sagt, dass 1692,...
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Monteperdido, ein abgelegenes Dorf in den Pyrenäen: Ana und Lucía machen sich nach der Schule auf den Heimweg. Doch die beiden 11-Jährigen kommen nie zu Hause an. Fünf Jahre später wird in einer schwer zugänglichen Schlucht in der Nähe des Dorfes ein Auto gefunden. Der Fahrer ist tot, aber ein Mädchen hat schwer verletzt überlebt. Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass das Mädchen die inzwischen 16-jährige Ana...
12) Brandmal
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Bevor der Mann aus dem Moor erneut das Tageslicht erblickte, würden mehr als sechzehnhundert Jahre vergehen, und das Gold seiner Haare würde sich ein in brennendes Rot verwandeln.Ein Bahnhof in Deutschland, irgendwann in den Siebzigerjahren. Ein Paar wartet auf den Zug. Der Mann, auffallend durch seine pechschwarzen Haare und sein blasses Gesicht, ist nervös. Dann macht einer eine falsche Bewegung. In dem Feuergefecht sterben zwei Menschen, und...
13) Die Witwe
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Wie viel willst du wirklich wissen?
DIE FRAU
Jean Taylor führt ein ganz normales Leben in einer englischen Kleinstadt: Sie hat ein hübsches Haus und einen netten Ehemann. Glen und sie führen eine gute Ehe.
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Dann kommt der Tag, der alles ändert: Sie nennen Glen jetzt das Monster. Er soll etwas Unsagbares getan haben. Und Jeans heile Welt zerbricht.
DIE WITWE
Jetzt liegt Glen auf dem Friedhof, und Jean ist frei. Frei, das Spiel endlich...
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Ein Höllenritt ins Herz afrikanischer Finsternis Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie...
15) Teufelsgold
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Nach dem Ende der Kreuzzüge taucht er das erste mal auf: der Stein der Weisen, mit dem man Gold machen kann - gefährliches Gold, radioaktives Gold nämlich. Der Stein erscheint, als ein Alchimist Gott verflucht, und er zieht eine Spur der Verwüstung durch Europa. Die Deutschordensritter erklären es zu ihrer geheimen neuen Aufgabe, ihn zu finden und sicher zu verwahren. Für alle Ewigkeit. Doch in unserer Zeit kommen zwei Brüder, die unterschiedlicher...
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"The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full. Her complicated relationship with detective Albert Easterbrook doesn't even bear thinking about. But when a new string of murders tears through London,...
17) Away From Him
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When victims are found frozen inside sculpted blocks of ice, only FBI Agent Nina Veil can unravel the mind of a cold-hearted killer in a chilling game of cat and mouse...
"This is an excellent book... When you start reading, be sure you don't have to wake up early!"
-Reader review for The Killing Game
AWAY FROM HIM is BOOK #2 in a new series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, whose bestseller NOT NOW (a free download)...
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High-flying city cop Susan never expected to wind up in Hampstead, Kansas-a sleepy little town where there are more pigs than people. But she moved here to be with the man she loved. One year after his murder, the folk of Hampstead need police chief Susan more than ever. Professor Carena Egersund is out walking in the woods when a dog comes bounding over. Carena looks for the owner-and spots a dead body floating face-down in the creek! A few days...
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Benvenuto a Santa Caterina! In dem malerischen Dorf im Herzen der Toskana lebt, arbeitet und betet Kloster-Schwester Isabella. Doch wie aus heiterem Himmel muss sie plötzlich in einem Mordfall ermitteln! Von da an macht es sich die neugierige Nonne zur Lebensaufgabe, die großen und kleinen Verbrechen der Dorfbewohner aufzuklären. Carabiniere Matteo ist froh über diese himmlische Hilfe, denn schließlich hat er als einziger Polizist von Santa Caterina...
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The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. 'The Admiral' is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. 'The Admiral' is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord's...
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