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The new gripping gangland thriller from Stephanie Harte is perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose. All they want is a brighter future but will taking a risk be worth the gamble? Finn McCaskill feels like he's hit the jackpot when he lands a security job at London City Airport handling pallet loads of cash. Old friend Paul Best sees a lucrative opportunity and can't let it pass them by... Lola Marshall hoped moving to...
2) L.A. times
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English
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Vinnie Callabrese moves from the world of the Mafia in New York to the intrigues of tinseltown and carves a niche in the film industry until his old friends find him.
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination, in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits. Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens' "Three Detective...
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eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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What if our Gospels . . . . . . aren't Gospel? It was supposed to be a simple bit of salvage archeology for Father Duncan MacDonald, the Vatican archeologist: Explore an empty cave uncovered in the Negev Desert by an Israeli construction crew for archeological significance. But then a false wall in the back of the cave reveals a basalt ossuary, inscribed with the name of “Matthew Levi, Beloved Scribe of His Lord.” Behind the ossuary . . . an ancient...
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English
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Miama attorney Gail Connor has just taken on the biggest case of her career, but what begins as a suspected forgery of a wealthy woman's will turns out to mask a brutal murder...and what looked like a greedy family's battle over an inheritance turns out to be a complex and monumentally brazen scheme that involves every layer and dimension of Miami's multicultural worlds.
6) The DCI Fleming Cases Boxset Books One to Three: The Fifth Suspect, The Last Man, and A Fatal Move
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Three crime thrillers in one volume: In England’s Thames Valley, a police detective takes on murder, corruption, and department politics . . . These novels featuring DCI Fleming of the Major Crime Unit include: The Fifth Suspect A body is found on a boat on the River Thames--and newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case. But a belligerent fellow DCI gives Fleming a hostile...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Could a piece of paper in a law firm basement be the key to a serial killer’s identity? A tale of trauma and terror by the author of the Adam Black thrillers. Five years ago, Jonathan Stark was working as a lawyer when a massacre took place, leaving most of his coworkers dead and Jonathan in a coma for eight weeks. Now, he’s found a job as a legal trainee at a different firm, and a relationship with an attorney named Jenny. He spends much of his...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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There are no easy choices when the dark clouds gather DI Shona Oliver’s past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate - now a famous actor - comes to the area to make a Robert Burns biopic. Shona is tasked with keeping him safe during filming on an isolated island in the Solway Firth, and her job is made much harder when a dead man wearing James’s coat is found on the beach in suspicious circumstances. It seems someone wanted James...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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'Boss, we've got a body...' Hardly what Detective Inspector Jack Dylan needs to hear on his day off, especially in the middle of house-hunting with his wife, Jen . Detective Sergeant Vicky Hardacre greets him at the scene, and what awaits them behind the blood-red door of Colonial House is undoubtedly a murder. Dylan is quick to identify several prime suspects but before the killer can be caught, another body is discovered, half-rotted and abandoned...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go back. But evenin these safest...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Delve into the gritty DI Ridpath Crime Thriller series and discover the dark underbelly of Manchester. Includes the first three books; Where the Truth Lies , Where the Dead Fall and Where the Silence Calls Where the Truth Lies : DI Thomas Ridpath was once a promising detective in the Manchester CID who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he's recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police....
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Five novels of action and suspense in one volume, featuring the special forces veteran who’s now a lawyer--but still combat-ready. Unleashed An ex-SAS captain fights back and survives a violent attack in his quiet Scottish village--only to wind up with himself and his family in the crosshairs of a vengeful Glaswegian gangster . . . Violation When Adam Black learns he’s the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, the puzzling legacy is shrouded...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet--reasoned the detective--like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down n the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
14) 13 white tulips
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English
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A young couple and their dachshund star in a stylish San Francisco–set Golden Age mystery of "high ingenuity" ( The New York Times ). Jack Ivers, a man-about-town with a taste for rich women, has been found dead in his bed. What's particularly odd is that the chief suspect, a surgeon's fashionable wife, claims that she spotted thirteen red tulips upon entering the victim's home--that were somehow replaced with thirteen white tulips by the time she...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The sooner Special Agent Macy Stark can sell her childhood home, the sooner she can escape her small town and shameful past-until she discovers a body in the wall and her childhood nightmares return. Handsome local Sheriff Stone Lawson joins the cold case to help Macy locate her missing mother and uncover a dark web of secrets about both her parents. But someone's willing to kill to keep the past hidden...for good"--
16) McNally's gamble
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Series
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English
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Playboy sleuth Archy McNally is hired by wealthy widow Edythe Westmore's adult children to discourage their mother from purchasing a Faberge Imperial egg, but his investigation into the jewel's authenticity leads him into a web of greed, passion, and murder.
17) Darkest Hour
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Mediator volume 4
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English
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"The Darkest Hour is the fourth book in the thrilling, romantic Mediator series, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot. When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation -- and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancě of Jesse -- the same Jesse who was murdered 150 years before. The same...
18) Sullivan's sting
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Deadly Sins seriescomes the story of a female FBI agent on the most dangerous mission of her career Rita Sullivan is the kind of FBI agent who plays by the book and always gets her man. Now, to bring a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scammer to justice, she must become a con artist herself. David Rathbone has walked away from an insider-trading rap in New York, and the Feds are out for blood. When the beautiful...
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This collection of classic short mysteries by the author of The Mousetrap will have you asking, "Whodunit, howdunit, and whydunit?" At the same time every day, Jack's morning golf routine is interrupted by the sound of a woman calling for help. Though the cry is clearly coming from a nearby cottage, the lady who lives there has no distress to report--until she starts having nightmares about a mysterious woman and a blue Chinese vase. Could the cottage...
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Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Are you a lover of crime fiction looking for new discoveries or hoping to rediscover old favorites?Then look no further. There are few contemporary crime fiction guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from the US, Britain and all across the world, but Barry Forshaw, a leading expert in the field, has provided a truly comprehensive survey with definitive coverage in this expanded new edition of the much admired...
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