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Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
82) Mole Creek
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English
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A hellish war. A deadly secret. Fifty years on, in a small Tasmanian town, the truth unfolds and the killing begins again …
Betrayal cannot be buried forever
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In the tiny Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, retired Australian cop and Vietnam veteran Pete McAuslan has retreated to his fishing cabin to write his memoirs. In Sydney, his grandson, journalist and trashy true crime author Xander, learns that Pete has taken his own life, begging forgiveness...
83) Hamlet and Eggs
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English
Description
As a former New York City cop who's working as a private detective in the state of Georgia, Myron Abramowitz is a stranger in a strange land. His big city detective agency has been hired by two rich heiresses to find their kidnapped father. This seems pretty straight-forward to Myron at first, but to his dismay he quickly discovers that so far south of the Mason-Dixon Line there are more things than he can possibly imagine in his philosophy.
84) Bone Lands
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English
Description
Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?'
1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher.
Detectives arrive from Sydney and the disgraced Hawkins, a traumatised veteran of...
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English
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MEET AMY BREWSTER, THE FEMALE NERO WOLF
A Matter of Policy is an enthralling listen that begins when a young friend of Amy Brewster finds his life in jeopardy after an unknown mastermind insures it for one million dollars. When a private detective hired to protect the young man is the first victim, Amy Brewster must think fast and act faster if she is to learn who is behind the plot on the young man's life in time to save him.
Is it Tosta...
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Deutsch
Description
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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Deutsch
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Sizilianische Sommer sind heiß-und mörderisch, wenn man der Wahrheit zu nahe kommt
Alle machen Urlaub-bis auf Commissario Montalbano. Als er auf der Suche nach einem vermissten Feriengast eine alte Villa durchforstet, macht er eine grauenvolle Entdeckung: In einem Koffer findet er die Leiche einer Frau, die seit Jahren als vermisst gilt. Kurz darauf nimmt eine geheimnisvolle Unbekannte Kontakt zu ihm auf, die der Toten zum Verwechseln ähnlich...
88) Afterwards
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Language
English
Description
Nathan DelAmico, a successful New York lawyer finds his professional life taking off while his personal life suffers following his break up with Mallory, the love of his life.
89) Ghostly Findings
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English
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As a medical examiner, seeing ghosts has its advantages. After being informed by a ghost that there is a mass grave in the area, Lance and Detective Angus Young feel the fallout. As one investigates the murders, the other investigates the bodies, both trying to piece together what happened. Luckily, the dead aren't all silent. As ghosts of the victims appear, clues to what happened start to come together. The only problem now is figuring out who the...
90) Murder in Copper
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English
Description
A copper theft investigation puts Arizona and the Apache Tribal Police on the trail of a deadly conspiracy in this borderland mystery thriller.
Sgt. Bren Allred has seen all manner of criminality in beautiful Graham County, Arizona. He has managed to keep the worst of it from his wife, Monica, who is having a troubled pregnancy. But it will be difficult to keep the devils at bay as a new kind of trouble erupts across the region...
When deputies...
91) Fortune's Favor
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English
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A tragic past… Consummate adventurer Jeremy Spade arranges 'life-changing trips' in the deserts, mountains and jungles of Asia. His firm lets the world's richest experience the world's wildest parts, all from the comfort of an air-conditioned tent with a Michelin-class chef on call. After growing up in the US foster care system, Jeremy is fascinated and repelled by the billionaires. So he never suspects his own life will be changed by one of them....
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English
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There's no such thing as safety in numbers ...
Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making it through a tough year by taking their children, Emmet and Bridie, to their first stadium concert. By the end of the night, one of the four has vanished without a trace.
As the police investigation intensifies, suspicion is cast on the remaining family members. Everyone has been deceiving one another, but who is to blame for what went wrong? The passing...
93) Bluebell Wood
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English
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A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER!
A hanging man's body found by an uncontrollable dog, a murdered historian with an unpublished book, and a mysterious cottage, hiding in the shadows of Bluebell Wood.
Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy Norfolk murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance, one that will have you guessing until the very end, when the...
94) Less Than Kin
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English
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Lewis Vickers, a young American languishing in South America because he is "wanted" for a crime that was the result of an accident, comes across another American-Hobart Lee who greatly resembles him. That man dies and Vickers, to get back to the United States, decides to impersonate him. He is taken to the family group upon his arrival in New York City and soon finds himself embroiled in a situation he cannot just walk away from, no matter how badly...
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English
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They thought it was over. They were wrong ...
The Petrosyan trafficking operation is in tatters and Interpol and the NCA are working furiously to build their case. They want put the people responsible behind bars once and for all, but before the dust can even settle following their latest bust, key witnesses begin to die. Three suspicious deaths in a week has everyone scrambling. But the NCA are closing the cases faster than Detective Jamie Johansson...
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Français
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Solomon, Joe et Anna, trois flics au passé sombre, sont envoyés à Salem, puis Atlantic City. Que ce soit dans les ruelles poussiéreuses d'une petite ville des États-Unis ou sur les marches de marbre d'une luxueuse villa de la grande ville, la violence sera au rendez-vous. Une série qui se distingue par son traitement pictural.
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Français
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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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Français
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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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Français
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L'aventure et le surnaturel cèdent le pas dans Carême à la fantaisie, la tendresse et la poésie.
Deux êtres solitaires se rencontrent par hasard dans une auberge, un soir d'hiver: Martinien Fidèle, frêle représentant en aspirateurs perdu dans la montagne et Aimé Carême, esprit subtil en butte aux moqueries, à cause de son extraordinaire obésité. Une amitié se noue, et désormais, la route sera commune. Mais pas de tout repos: des avaries...
100) To Dye For
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English
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Imogene's client has a special request. The only hitch is, the client is dead.
It's an ordinary day at Harry's Hair Stop until Imogene hears her favorite client's dying wish. Two days later, she finds herself in the embalming room at Greener Pastures Mortuary, bottle of hair dye and scissors in hand.
Styling her client's hair for the funeral is creepy. She'd expected that. But she hadn't expected the body to buzz like it was loaded with corpse caffeine....
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