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25961) Silence
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Passionné de littérature, Martin Tesson, étudiant en situation précaire, vit dans une chambre de bonne et fait la queue devant les banques alimentaires. Entre deux soirées alcoolisées et deux poèmes, cet artiste pessimiste rédige des articles pour un journal universitaire au sujet des conditions de vie de ses camarades étudiants. Un jour, alors qu'il se rend chez sa mère, atteinte d'un Alzheimer précoce depuis quelques années, une vengeance...
25962) Sans titre: Roman
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Boris, un jeune artiste-assassin, est en pleine quête de l'oeuvre d'art parfaite: un crime.
Boris, un jeune artiste à la veille de son exposition « Dura lex silex » (101 pénis sculptés pour dénoncer la tentation imbécile de la reproduction et de l'eugénisme) et après l'échec de la précédente en hommage aux « Merdes de Manzoni », s'interroge sur sa mission d'artiste et sur la recherche du « magnum opus « .
Et si le crime parfait...
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After the father of Ava's best friend, Mimi, loses his family's savings in a Ponzi scheme, Mimi turns to her old friend for help. Ava launches an investigation that sends her from Amsterdam to Antwerp and then to Singapore.
As she tracks the money, Ava is reminded of an old case she worked with Uncle years before that took her to Singapore for the first time. In her mind, the two cases begin to merge, and as they do, Uncle becomes visible to Ava,...
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There's a war for the very soul of Brooklyn... and the stakes are higher than ever!
When perpetrators of particularly heinous and insidious crimes were acquitted after trial in an alarmingly large number across America, it caught the attention of a priest in the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York, who noticed that all preceded satanic exorcisms. His shuddering conclusion-Satan must be directly responsible for the crimes and their aftermath.
In...
25965) The Sweet Ride
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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. Martinique was a cool, creamy piece of dynamite with a ten-second fuse and an I.Q. around one hundred sixty. Those were numbers Shell Scott liked to play--except in...
25966) The Light of Our Yesterdays
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As a U.S. Homeland Security investigator becomes, ensnared in a thicket of terrorist puzzles and codes unraveling his troubled past, his counterpart in a parallel Earth without Christianity experiences strange visions of our world after meeting a charismatic preacher with a new message of peace and forgiveness. The two men wade through intolerance, hatred and terrorism while struggling with their own skepticism as a growing connection between them...
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When another woman attempts to steal her husband, Morgan Davis decides she's not playing games. Outwardly mild-mannered Morgan Davis doesn't really need a reason to kill anyone. After all, she's a serial killer. Her kill friends meet a general profile, but nothing obvious. No one-not even her husband, Dom suspects anything. Then Dom spills about his online pal, Samantha; she doesn't know Morgan mastered the art of the hit long ago. Morgan starts to...
25968) Smoky Mountain Ambush
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Someone's hunting her in the mountains...
An unknown enemy's dead set on killing Lindsey Snow by Christmas—and she doesn't know why. And the only person she can trust to shield her is the man she betrayed, mounted police officer Silver Williams. Now there's nowhere to hide...from danger or their feelings. But can they find the killer before this holiday season becomes Lindsey's last?
25969) Todo se derrumba
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De pequeña, Nora Watts solo conoció a uno de sus progenitores, a su padre Sam. Cuando este se suicidó, ella se negó a sentir dolor y continuó con su vida. Pero un encuentro fortuito con un veterano de guerra que lo conoció le hace enfrentarse a preguntas y emociones oscuras que no puede ignorar. Si quiere hacer las paces con el pasado, debe plantarle cara.
Para descubrir la verdad sobre la vida de su padre y sobre su muerte, Nora viaja de Vancouver...
25970) Pea Pod Murder
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Pea Pod Murder: Suzie is super smart, very successful and flawed, she believes herself to be unlovable.
She is seeking redress for her father's murder but the case is cold. Her route around insufficient data, is to design a cutting edge case management solution and sell it to the Metropolitan Police, so she can plunder their data.
Owen was a personable, successful police officer, a Chief Superintendent. That was until his wife and daughter were...
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The master of classic crime fiction and creator of Sherlock Holmes explores the weird and supernatural in this collection of mysterious tales.
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, the sharp detective who tracks down brilliant criminals through his devotion to logic and reason. But in The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories, Doyle sets his sights beyond the bounds of reason and ventures into the shadowy...
25972) Forcing Amaryllis
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When it comes to picking jurors, Calla Gentry is one of the best. She can discern the right people to serve, steering trials towards acquittals or convictions before they even begin. It's both an art and a science, knowing people better than they know themselves. And Calla plays the system like a master. Her newest case seems open and shut: get the wealthy son of a rancher acquitted of rape and murder. But as Calla investigates, she discovers evidence...
25973) Broken Steel
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After ten years in prison for his wife's murder, Brian Armstrong is free. When a freak accident with the prison transport gives him and two others an opportunity to escape, they seize it. With revenge in his heart, Brian disappears into the storm-filled city. After an ex-schoolteacher is found dead, Detective John Steel is brought in to investigate. The circumstances are mysterious - just the way Steel likes it. His partner Samantha McCall is convinced...
25974) Un mari de trop
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Roxane a la bonne soixantaine aujourd'hui. Elle coule enfin des jours paisibles dans son bungalow sur la Cte d'Opale. Il faut dire que sa vie n'a pas été de tout repos. Son premier mari, Lucas, était assez violent avec elle.
Mais, encore... S'il n'y avait eu que ça.
Depuis sa délivrance, sa meilleure amie, Laurence, rêve de proposer l'histoire extraordinaire de Roxane à la célèbre Lucie Bravet, biographe parisienne et reine internationale...
25975) Messes amères
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Que cherche ce jeune homme idéaliste en ces saints lieux ? Des réponses à ses questions existentielles et sa voie parmi tant de chemins de vie, sans doute. Mais c'est un frère novice assassiné qu'il découvre bientt derrière les murs de son institution religieuse... D'un couvent bruxellois à un ermitage ardennais et d'une Semaine Sainte bien peu régulière à un sombre passé guerrier, l'enquête policière bute et trébuche entre cachotteries...
25976) The Hiking Trip
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'A breathtaking page-turner of a mystery' Susi HollidayDon't trust everyone you meet here…
A young British backpacker goes missing on the West Coast Trail.
No one is sure whether she died or simply disappeared.
Apart from Laura.
Twenty years later, a body has been found.
And there's only one person who could reveal the secret that Laura's been hiding all this time.
But she knows that two can keep a secret.
IF ONE OF THEM IS DEAD.
A...
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While working for the State of New Jersey, a civil servant with a troubled past discovers an ancient Egyptian terror is stalking the streets of Trenton. With no one to believe him, he must confront the vicious apparition all on his own.
Giant frogs, hopping mad, and with an insatiable appetite for human flesh, wreak havoc in a lakeside town in upstate New York.
A small, family-owned theater in Florida, and the popular film playing there, become the...
25978) Nowhere Safe
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FBI BAU special agent Harley Cole, as brilliant as she is at hunting serial killers, has bent the rules one too many times and, put on leave, decides to return to her small-town Southwestern roots and visit her dying father. But when a new killer strikes nearby, leaving a trail of women in abandoned desert mines, it hits close to home for Harley, eerily reminiscent of her sister's unsolved case-and forces her to consider the local FBI field office's...
25979) Nowhere Safe
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FBI BAU special agent Harley Cole, as brilliant as she is at hunting serial killers, has bent the rules one too many times and, put on leave, decides to return to her small-town Southwestern roots and visit her dying father. But when a new killer strikes nearby, leaving a trail of women in abandoned desert mines, it hits close to home for Harley, eerily reminiscent of her sister's unsolved case-and forces her to consider the local FBI field office's...
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Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance.
FIVE WAYS TO SURRENDER
Mission: Six
by Elle James
Navy SEAL Jake Schuler rescues Alexandria Parker, a teacher, from a group of terrorists in Niger. Will their teamwork be enough to save the other captives?
DELTA FORCE DADDY
Red, White and Built: Pumped Up
by Carol Ericson
Delta Force lieutenant Asher Knight has amnesia after a botched mission. When...
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