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Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.
On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied, her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby...
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"The Surgeon's Blade" is chilling and tense. It has been described in certain reviews as a 'real corker of a read'.Nursing sister, Libby Hunter wakes up in hospital with amnesia after a traumatic sailing accident. The stranger she finds sitting by her bedside claims to be her fiancé. As she cannot remember ever being engaged, she finds excuses to put him off until she is completely sure of her true feelings.Returning home, Libby finds herself in...
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
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Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men's paths for only a few hours or moments.
In "Beaching It," an artist traveling on the summer...
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With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere between his small town in Northern Ireland and Iowa ... and maybe between heaven and hell.
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From Eric Powell (Eisner award-winning creator) and Tim Wiesch (former bricklayer) comes Big Man Plans: An Expanded Edition. First published in 2015, this brutal crime drama and in-triguing mystery shocked readers with its visceral violence and heart wrenching tragedy.
Big Man is a little person who has been brutalized and abused his entire existence. A person born to be life's punching bag...or so it appears. He just might also be one of the deadliest...
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What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?
Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand.
Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was given up for adoption by her mother, Jackie Latham. Welcomed into the well-adjusted Grady family, she lived a happy life. Then, in the late 1990s, she came back into contact with...
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she thought she was settled.But things don't always work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent, and as it turns out,...
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she experienced some trying times.Things seldom work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent except the past. And sometimes...
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Strange things are happening in Jessie's life and neighborhood. Will her hopes or fears be met as she and Theo dive into a missing person's case?Jessie and Theo have made it clear that they don't want to dig into the darker cases, but when Paul Higgins asks for their help, how can they say no? Will they grow closer together as they follow the clews to the big city, or will the fear of their own faults pull them apart?Find out if the duo can bring...
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Alessandro Smith a été élevé dans une famille o la torture et le meurtre étaient des passe-temps privilégiés, et son enfance a été marquée par des enlèvements et des abus. Cette éducation volatile a façonné Alessandro en un individu froid et rancunier qui nourrissait une profonde animosité envers l'humanité.En dehors de tourmenter ses ennemis, Alessandro entretenait un passe-temps moins sinistre : la peinture. Ses œuvres d'art stupéfiaient...
12) Breathing Water
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 3
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Timothy Hallinan brings Bangkok, Thailand, to life in all its exotic, seedy, dangerous glory in Breathing Water, his third novel of unrelenting suspense to feature expatriate American travel writer Poke Rafferty. A breathtaking thriller in which innocence and evil, power and poverty collide on neon streets and in palatial Asian mansions, Breathing Water is Hallinan's finest work yet, capturing the raw excitement and perilous uncertainty of the Thailand...
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The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let him go; it's back in Poke's life with a vengeance, in the guise of his long-estranged father, Frank, the last person he ever wanted to see again. And Frank hasn't come empty-handed, arriving with a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers,...
14) The Toy Taker
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Sean Corrigan novels volume 3
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Outside the house, it's cold and dark.
Inside, where it's warm, children are sleeping.
D.I. Sean Corrigan might have a tiny new office at Scotland Yard and a huge new beat-all of London-but the job is the same. His team has a knack for catching the sickest criminals on either side of the Thames, thanks in large part to Corrigan's uncanny ability to place himself inside the mind of a predator.
But he just can't get a read on this new case. Four-year-old...
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Lucky Santangelo series volume 4
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Lucky Santangelo is back-with a vengance!
Dangerously sensual, breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly unforgettable, she is Lucky Santangelo, the sizzling star of Chances, Lucky, and Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, betrayal, drugs, intrigue, and murder.
A scorching new installment of the wildly popular Lucky series, Vendetta finds Lucky in the...
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Power grid collapses. The economy nosedives. Ruthlessness rules.Will Major, Aimee Louise, his granddaughter, and Deputy Stuart succeed in their struggle to protect the families who have banded together? The cost of failure is death. Danger in the Clouds, Book 1When the power grid collapses after a cyberattack, only Major can stop the conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The price of failure is death. Danger in the Wind, Book 2Major sets a trap...
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Miracle Kingdom volume 3
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Billions and billions served! Our angelic auditor Winston Donovan breaks the fourth wall to take televangelist Lester Benny beyond the boundaries of the comic panels in an effort to unmask the truth behind Lester's improbable miracles. However, Winston's audit of Lester's healing powers leads to an unsettling revelation. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, the seeds of seismic events take root as an underground group of unnatural beings who call themselves The...
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Mi Estimado AlguacilUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Esta es la historia de un juez de pueblo al cual le asignan algunos casos muy polémicos dentro del ámbito politico y social convulsionado por la revolución política para que dicte sentencia, dicho juez que tambien es polémico en sus sentencia cuenta con su alguacil que es su mano derecha y él cual fue comprado por los enemigos del juez para que le tendiera...
19) Acid Town Vol. 2
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In a run-down city beset with poverty and gangs, survival is a daily struggle for Yuki and his best friend Tetsu. In a desperate attempt to pay for Yuki's brother's hospitalization, the two of them get caught trying to break into a yakuza vault. But the gang's young boss, Kazutaka Hyoudo, takes an interest in Yuki and they strike a deal: Hyoudo is willing to take care of the hospital bills- for a price.
A weekly visit to the Seidoukai office doesn't...
20) Death on a Train
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1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming, all Flora Maguire wants is to keep her family safe.
But when a body is found on a train bound for Paddington and her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Flora has trodden the path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it's personal.
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