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Une journaliste du Courrier Ligérien cherche à rendre son portefeuille à un inconnu rencontré lors d'un covoiturage, mais bien des ennuis l'attendent...
Qui n'a pas un jour croisé une personne en se disant que, peut-être, c'était là l'homme ou la femme de sa vie ? Que, en tout cas, la vie ne pouvait qu'être douce et agréable à ses ctés ? Mais voilà, à peine aperçu(e), entre deux trains ou deux avions, le ou la belle inconnu(e) disparaît...
6322) Nobody Drowned
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Former Coast Guard Boatswain Frank Anderson knows stuff about boats. When the local cops ask for his help to recover two university students who have died violently in a small boat accident, he tells them he's damn sure the deaths were not the result of negligence. The collision was deliberate and the crime was murder.
For the second time this summer, Anderson finds himself patching together a network of cops, local leaders and talented young women...
6323) Aloha Honeybun
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In a battle between evil and Honeybun, tall red and sexy will always win.
Alfric and Pleasance are getting married on the romantic and beautiful island of O'ahu! Or are they? Violence in the rainforest has a way of upsetting even the best-laid plans. And when that violence comes a little too close to home...the brothers might need to exchange their lei for a slightly more deadly form of body ornament. Invasion, war and centuries of the best and worst...
6324) The Lazurai Emergence
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I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose.
Not lonely.
Waiting.
Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took.
Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted.
The very reason all of my kind had submerged into hiding was to save humankind from ourselves, from the virus within us.
While that virus had saved us from certain death, and evolved...
6325) The Missing Guest
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What happens when the safety of your home is no longer safe?
Every Friday night during lockdown, six friends meet onscreen to take part in a quiz.
But when it's Barton Hinton's turn to host the event, he introduces a set of personal questions that clearly aren't random and which set off a fatal chain of events.
When the police start to ask questions, the friends agree to hide the truth.
Is it possible that one of the six guests killed a fellow...
6326) Hunting Gold
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author returns with a stunning mystery proving that Noir is the new black.
A golden city of prosperity, energy, the exciting engine of the American Dream. Just underneath, though, is a dark city, with darker ambitions. This is the world of Cantor Gold, dapper art thief and smuggler, who has her own way of securing the rewards of the American Dream. In the conformist 1950s, when same-sex romance was illegal, Cantor decides...
6327) Murder in the Manger
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"A cracking example of cozy crime!" Bestselling author Katie Fforde.
It's a time for goodwill to all men…
But when Sophie Sayers' plans for a cozy English country Christmas are interrupted by the arrival of her ex-boyfriend, her troubles are only just beginning. Before long, the whole village stands accused of murder!
Damian says he's come to direct the village Nativity play, but Sophie thinks he's up to no good. What are those noises coming...
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Dans le sud de la France, une Russe perd brutalement son mari et se retrouve démunie avec ses quatre enfants.
Olga, russe d'origine, vit avec sa famille dans un petit village du sud de la France. Son mari Piotr, homme d'affaires, s'écroule au retour d'un de ses fréquents voyages d'affaires entre Nice et Moscou. Il décède subitement, Olga se retrouve seule avec ses quatre enfants. Sans ressources, démunie, ne parlant pas bien français, elle...
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Suivez l'ultime enquête saintaise d'Ari Ferguson!
Une nouvelle aventure d'Ari Ferguson, enquêteur malgré lui. Nous retrouvons, pour la troisième et dernière fois, Ari Ferguson dans une nouvelle affaire saintaise. Une maternité désaffectée semble prendre en charge le suivi obstétrique de femmes enceintes... Comment démêler le vrai du faux et trouver les véritables complices de cette manigance? Dans quel but opèrent-ils? Cette dernière...
6330) The Pierogi Peril
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Lydia Wienewski has opened her Polish-American cafe and bakery on the shore of Lake Erie, but her idyllic new venture is shattered when the low tide leads to a terrible discovery.
July, 1982. Lydia Wienewski's dream has finally come true: Lydia's Lakeside Cafe and Bakery, selling delicious Polish-American fare on the shore of Lake Erie, is now open and her fortunes are looking up. Even her old nemesis and tutor, the irascible Madame Delphine, has...
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Eco-Terrorists. Sabotage. Tanner's 6th grade summer vacation just got interesting...Warren LeBlanc wants to challenge his son Tanner and his friends with a 'rite of passage' along the legendary River o Fire. But wjhat Warren didn't bank on was sharing his cause with an illegal mining operation. When the boys conquer the first obstacle they discover their father's have been kidnapped and labeled 'eco-terrorists'.Should the boys alert the authorities...
6332) A Fatal End
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Don’t miss the next gripping mystery from million-copy bestseller Faith Martin!
Oxford, 1963
In a backstreet club, people dance the night away to their favourite band. But behind the scenes there is trouble afoot. An argument is brewing between bandmembers, two possessive girlfriends have plans for their partners, the club manager is creaming off profits – and a tragic accident leaves the lead singer dead.
But was it an accident at all? Coroner...
6333) Innocent or Guilty?
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A gripping psychological thriller full of twists and turns! Is the right person behind bars? One morning ten years ago, the town of Twin Rivers changed forever when the body of Tyler Washington was found in the woods. Son of the mayor, star of the high school basketball team - his death struck right at the heart of this tight-knit community. For Olivia Hall, Tyler's death heralded the start of her own personal nightmare - her twin brother, Ethan,...
6334) The Training: Mysti
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They call me Mysti. Because of my mystic origins.
The beings who raised me almost killed me before they found out my real value.
They became my mentors, and then - as my powers expanded - my servants.
What they never knew is that "mystic" means both master and novice.
So, I left them to find someone who could actually teach me balance between the two extremes that lived inside me. And, like a double-edged sword, could cut both ways.
And, like...
6335) Mystery Stories
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A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of a stranger-three chillers from the New York Times–bestselling "grandmaster" of mystery (Publishers Weekly). A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two sisters...
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In one volume, the first two mysteries featuring a journalist who investigates a murder, from the Diamond Dagger winner known as "Britain's Queen of Crime" (The Times).
Self-proclaimed cynical socialist-lesbian-feminist and freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garroted with her own cello string moments before...
6337) A Fatal Truth
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‘An explosive read… Characters, dialogue and plot were superb.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars As the Hughes family celebrate bonfire night, a terrible accident leaves the garden shed in flames – and father and grandfather Thomas trapped inside. Tragic though it is, Thomas’s death passes without suspicion – until a local journalist makes accusations of a police cover-up in the press. WPC Trudy Loveday is sent to investigate, and asks coroner...
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The Reluctant Rector is a boxset of the first three books in The Father Tom Mysteries. Meet Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr, former lovers reunited after twenty years, as they solve crimes old and new--and explore the profound mysteries of the human heart. The Penitent Priest (Book 1)--My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me. Fifteen years later, I'm...
6339) Death of a Damn Yankee
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A Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown must smoke out a fire-starting killer in this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author.
Laura Fleming is always happy to visit her ever-extending family in Byerly, North Carolina. This time, though, it's not kin calling her back home, but businessman Burt Walters. Burt's hoping Laura can dig up dirt on Marshall and Grace Saunders, proposed buyers of Walters Mill.
Laura knows Burt has good...
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The follow-up to Under Tower Peak is another taut, fast-moving thriller that builds to an explosive, action-filled conclusion.
Under Tower Peak was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Ten Best Mysteries of 2013. In this sequel, Tommy Smith, the Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra packer, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call...
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