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While investigating her client's claim that her husband is trying to kill her, Cora Felton must prove her client's innocence after the husband is killed by a car bomb.
"It's been a cold, lonely winter for Cora Felton. Long distance has cooled the Puzzle Lady's on-again-off-again affair with Sergeant Crowley, and the only case Chief Harper has for her to investigate is a routine liquor store robbery. So when her attorney friend Becky asks her to explore...
3762) The big fix
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"Linda Grimes's sexy and hilarious urban fantasy series that began with In a Fix and Quick Fix continues in The Big Fix. Aura adaptor extraordinaire Ciel Halligan, who uses her chameleon-like abilities to fix her clients' problems--as them--is filling in on set for action superstar Jackson Gunn, whose snake phobia is standing in the way of his completing his latest mega-millions Hollywood blockbuster. There's only one thing Jack fears more than snakes,...
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"Jack McEvoy tiene los días contados como periodista de sucesos; sus momentos de gloria languidecen y su nombre se baraja en las listas de recortes previstos por Los Ángeles Times. Sin embargo, guarda todavía un último cartucho: la redacción de la que pretende que sea la crónica criminal más impactante de su carrera. Para este propósito, elige a Alonzo Winslow, un drogadicto de dieciséis años encarcelado tras confesar la autoría del asesinato...
3764) Among the ruins
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"On leave from Canada's Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country's beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak's supposed break from work is cut short when he's approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of renowned Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani. Zahra was murdered at Iran's notorious Evin prison, where...
3765) La caja negra
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¿Qué relación puede guardar un asesinato acontecido dos décadas atrás con una serie de nuertes sucedidas tiempo después sin explicación aparente? El inspector Harry Bosch debe plantearse dicha pregunta cuando la investigación de un antiguo homicidio le retrotrae a la peor época que recuerda de su larga trayectoria profesional: las revueltas raciales que arrasaron Los Ángeles en 1992. A medida que avance en la investigación del viejo caso...
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"In Top 10 Sunday Times (UK) bestselling author Chris Carter's electrifying follow-up to his "chilling" (Daily Mail) thriller An Evil Mind, the LAPD's Ultra Violent Crimes Unit lead detective, Robert Hunter, races to stop a serial killer whose past secrets rival those of Hunter's himself. Seven days after being abducted, the body of a twenty-year-old woman is found on a grassy area by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her...
3767) El sexto hombre
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Edgar Roy, presunto asesino en serie confinado en un centro federal de máxima seguridad, está a la espera de juicio. Su condena parece segura. El abogado de Roy, Ted Bergin, viejo amigo y mentor de Sean King, pide ayuda a este y a michelle Maxwell. Pero la investigación queda desbaratada antes de empezar camino de su primera reunión con Bergin, puesto que Sean y Michelle se lo encuentran muerto. Ahora serán ellos quienes tendrán que responder...
3768) The dissident
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"A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish...
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"Watanbe Yuichi, a young guard with a passion for reading, is ordered to investigate a murder. The victim, Sugiyama, also a guard, was feared and despised throughout the prison and inquiries have barely begun when a powerful inmate confesses. But Watanbe is unconvinced; and as he interrogates both the suspect and Yun Dong-ju, a talented Korean poet, he starts to realize that the fearsome guard was not all he appeared to be ... As Watanbe unravels...
3770) The land of dreams
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" Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl's critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the region's small towns and deep forests. The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has...
3771) The drowning girls
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"In the thin glow of moonlight, a mess of auburn curls gleams against the rocks. Hands bound, the girl's fragile body is limp and still. Seconds later, a wall of raging white water crashes down, swallowing her whole... A knock on the door late in the evening can only mean trouble for Detective Josie Quinn, but fear chokes her at the news that one of her own team is missing. No one has seen Denton PD's Press Liaison Amber for days. Sweet-natured and...
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"The follow-up to Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's second historical mystery follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a killer with shocking abilities through Gilded Age Manhattan. Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she's learning to shoot a gun and...
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"Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he's been...
3774) La casa de la playa
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"Durante más de trescientos años, la casa de la playa ha guardado sus secretos. Para Eli Landon será su salvación. Tras once meses de pesadilla, Eli Landon queda absuelto del asesinato de su esposa por falta de pruebas. Ahora es un hombre libre, pero las brutales y misteriosas circunstancias del crimen hacen que la sombra de la sospecha siga cerniendo sobre él. Con la reputación destrozada, nada queda ya del abogado de éxito que fue. Incapaz...
3775) The emperor's sword
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"Having survived the Nightmare Feast, Austin Lively is living the dream. He has returned to Hollywood and his movie career is in full swing. His new script, Another Kingdom, has been unexpectedly purchased by a top producer at an enormous price. Beautiful women flock to his bed, movie stars court his attention, and the powers-that-be are predicting stardom. His only problems: a recurring vision of a magical landscape he can't quite remember, and a...
3776) She died famous: a novel
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"The headline read: 'Hollywood Superstar Kelly Trozzo Found Dead.' With no suspect in custody, authorities turn their attention to best-selling author Kaleb Reed, whose obsessive relationship with the star has been followed by social media and tabloids alike. In his online confession, Reed claims that his relationship with Trozzo began with a tweet, an unexpected endorsement from the pop star herself. Almost overnight, Reed's novel garners national...
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Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart knows how to treat her customers. But sometimes life on Main Street can get a bit sticky. A spat she has with a local blacksmith -- one that could have been resolved with a handshake and a mixed dozen -- ends when the man is murdered. Suddenly everyone in April Springs has their eyes on Suzanne. With little choice but to catch the killer herself, she starts lining up suspects. But the case is full of holes . .
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"1807, Cambridge, England. A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols the streets of this placid college town has no idea how to investigate a serious crime and the private bounty hunters the girl's family has hired to catch the killer employ methods that are questionable, at best. What Cambridge needs is a hero, and, in a situation such as this, it's very easy for a gentleman...
3779) The dark backward
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"William Darnell thought he had seen every kind of human conflict, every type of human tragedy, seen them in all their immense variety ... He had known, and defended, every kind of murderer, all of them, despite their differences, driven by the same desire, known since Cain slew Abel: the need to kill because, in their twisted imaginations, it was the only way their own lives would be worth living. But that was before he knew Adam and began the strangest...
3780) Cry wolf
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A mysterious death brings Deputy DeeDee Clawson to the scene of a movie being filmed at an old mansion in Silver Hollow. Tucker Rockwood, the star of the movie, is found dead, a stake through his heart. Lots of people might have wanted to kill Tucker, but when DeeDee's investigation points in the direction of the movie's producer, Caine Hunter, she thinks she has her man. As if investigating this murder isn't enough, DeeDee has something else hanging...