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College students Morgan and his girlfriend Emma plan to make love in her SUV. They're parked behind the bookstore when men in ski masks interrupt them. They drag Morgan out of the vehicle and beat him, showing no signs of stopping until Frankie drives up. The men leave quickly in the SUV taking Emma away from Morgan. Frankie, who used to be a paramedic, takes the injured boyfriend home with him, because Morgan recognized the tattoo on a man's wrist...
2) What Remains
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Lily O'Hara lives on Lake Road and has ignored the past for as long as possible. Her parents and brother were gone before she was a year old and she was raised by her father's siblings, Billie and Darcy. Her father's suicide and the disappearance of her mother and brother were never spoken about. But when the bones of a woman and child were found in the dried lake outside her home Lily could no longer avoid searching for the truth. She must bring...
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La ejecución del plan maquiavélico ideado por los tres criminales, Mascarot, Hortebize y Catenac, avanza sin contratiempos y parece que nada más que un milagro podrá impedir la catástrofe. Con la minuciosidad y precisión de un orfebre, el lazo se estrecha sobre las víctimas que, imperceptiblemente y en la más perfecta ignorancia, parecen encaminarse al desastre. Solo el genio de Lecoq podrá hallar algo de luz entre tanta oscuridad... Émile...
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Meet Helen Thorpe. She’s smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families in the world, she is called back to a spiritual retreat where she used to work, the Yatra Institute, on one of British Columbia’s gulf islands. The owner of the lodge, Helen’s former employer Edna, has died while...
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1903Twenty-year-old Max Eyer is still reeling from his father's recent death when a mysterious stranger's offer to buy the family farm outside of Hamburg, Germany presents to him and his mother an unexpected opportunity to make a fresh start in America. Welcomed by his uncle's bustling family in St. Louis Max finds employment on the grounds of the upcoming 1904 World's Fair, where he is hired as a zookeeper at Hagenbeck's Animal Paradise on the Pike....
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Mira Hawkings and Rose Wallace are able to ghost from their bodies to solve crimes. An NSA Black Ops team has taken Mira Hawkings' fiancée hostage and Mira and Robin will need all their Astral Projection powers, as well as help from a band of mysterious mercenaries to find and rescue him. An evil serial killer, and Agent John Taggart are using Borden to set a trap for the women, hoping to use them as Ghost Spies for the government. Will the ghostly-duo...
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
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Paige pretends to have a husband and a more glamorous life to impress her coworkers with surprising results, when she takes a winter vacation in the Caribbean with "Steve" her imaginary husband, only to find the real Steve there pretending to be someone else. Furthermore, he may have tried to kill his girlfriend. Paige becomes involved in unravelling the truth with the help of an attractive marine biologist.
10) A Mystery Yarn
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Pru Pendergast, proprietor of Driftwood Creatives, returns to her shop after a walk around Ominpodge Village Center to find her obnoxious landlord, Bart Cunard, dead-garroted with driftwood handles and brown Vicuna yarn. Detective James Moriarty arrives, questions Pru, and accuses her of murder-though every one of Pru's fellow shopkeepers could attest to having a motive. Pru must escape attacks on her own life and the threat of being arrested while...
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About The Morose Mistress Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running...
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In 1788 Vienna, Court Poet Lorenzo Da Ponte is putting some finishing touches on the libretto for the premiere of his new opera with Mozart, Don Giovanni. A huge success when it debuted in Prague, the Emperor has decreed that it shall be performed in Vienna. But, Joseph II is off prosecuting a less-than-popular war against the Turks, and the city itself is in a bit of turmoil. There are voices protesting the war, others who see Turks around every...
13) Midnight
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A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their noses where according to the police they have no business being was strengthened when a second person dies-the second death of a member of the small crew building a beachfront home. With no connection between...
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A Jazz Age rake investigates an utterly divine art-world mystery Everyone who's anyone knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village to open a gritty little art gallery showcasing the most shocking European artists imaginable. The gallery is a money pit, and Green is in debt to some of the roughest loan sharks south of 14th Street, but that doesn't stop him from...
15) Four For A Boy
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Barnes & Noble pick for "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018"
"Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family-some 20 people-and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Some people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating...
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Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no- "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman-he thinks at first she's a log...
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Un juego trepidante en el que realidad y ficción se confunden, y en el que la narrativa serial parece inmiscuirse, cada vez más y sorprendentemente, en la vida de los protagonistas. Asesinos de Series es el nombre del blog de tres jóvenes (Andrés, Marta y Rubén) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, sueñan con crear su gran éxito internacional: una serie de referencia como podría ser Lost. Andrés se gana la vida escribiendo textos...
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A mystery not just Moms will love!
After the death of his wife, New York City detective Dave heads west to the small town Mesa Grande, Colorado, and takes a job as Chief Investigator for the Public Defender. When a rivalry between two professors at the nearby college reaches a deadly level, it is with the help of his visiting Mom - a wise, tough, shrewd Jewish New Yorker - that Dave untangles a complex puzzle that leaves everyone, except Mom, guessing....
19) Six for Gold
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The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.
Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the Singularity. He only knows that after the deadly challenges of his last job for security firm Prime Protection, he swore he'd stop risking his life on assignments. Then his good friend Ted Lewison, head...
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Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, catches liars and cheats-and, from time to time, killers.
Cat's brief marriage to runaround Johnnie Rizzo was a bust. But it gave her the mad skills she needed for her agency. She doesn't investigate for insurance companies and she won't find your long lost Uncle Harry. But if you're in Chicagoland and you suspect your partner is stepping out, give her a call.
Cat comes...
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