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A group of scientists in the Antarctic face a desperate battle for survival as they are hunted down by hostile intruders. Having spent the summer conducting fieldwork on stark Livingston Island, marine biologist Andrew Berrister is looking forward to returning to civilization. But his final days in Antarctica take an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that he and his small group of scientists are not alone on the island. Deducing that the intruders...
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In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder. In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud's Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph....
3) Whirlwind
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A ruthless psychopath with a long-held grudge unleashes a terrifying scheme of revenge on a small New England town in this tautly-paced, compelling thriller. Liza Plain, a Boston-based journalist hoping for her big break, is dreading spending Christmas in Shiloh, Rhode Island, with her difficult grandfather – until news of the disappearance of a retired local priest triggers her realization that this could be linked to a series of unsolved, church-linked...
4) Ashes, Ashes
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Dr. Barrett Conyors knows just how dangerous Richard Glash is. She's studied him. An easily triggered paranoid schizophrenic, and devotee of Manson and Gacey, he's currently serving four life sentences for an appalling series of murders. What a terrible mistake it would be if he were to be transferred to a local, far less secure, hospital for the criminally insane. It's what Glash's bleeding-heart attorney Carla Phelps demands. It's what Barrett fears....
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An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Award nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries. Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman. He's always played the rules, assuming that's the surest way to climb the corporate ladder. When he's passed over for promotion by a ruthless colleague, something snaps. On a drunken walk home late that night,...
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In this thrilling mystery, a broken engagement leads a woman to an isolated Welsh hotel-where she finds peace, healing, and a criminal conspiracy. For Clare Laurie, breaking off her engagement to Philip, left only remorse and feelings of guilt, rather than the relief and freedom she craved. Seeking time alone, Clare has come to the isolated Welsh hotel of Carreg Coed to heal. But the atmosphere seems strangely oppressive, with all the residents absorbed...
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The NYPD hides a killer within the ranks in this hard-boiled noir thriller. Detective Boots Littlewood of Brooklyn's 64th Precinct has been tasked with an investigation that's hitting close to home: the murder of his police captain. It's been called another tragic cop killing. Boots suspects something closer an organized hit and he knows in his gut that the perp in custody is an innocent man. Boots's new partner, "Crazy" Jill Kelly, is taking it personally,...
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A thrilling World War One spy story from the author of the acclaimed Jack Haldean series. "There's a spy in England. Frankie's letter. Read Frankie's letter…" The last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke in Kiel in Germany during the height of World War One. But who is Frankie? With his cover blown and the German army at his heels, English secret agent Anthony Brooke's search to discover the truth leads him to an innocent-seeming country...
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A compelling tale of childhood trauma and sinister discoveries-Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain; that is until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. But on Alice's 12th birthday, Nicola disappears, only to be found days later, battered, bruised and dead. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will...
10) Pyrophobia
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Jason Evans has a perfect life-until he starts receiving messages that claim he's dead-in this haunting mystery from the bestselling Dutch author of Zone. Despite his fear of fire, life has been smooth sailing for Jason Evans. He has a loving wife, Kayla, a good job, and plenty of friends. There's nothing standing in the way of his happiness, until an unknown enemy starts sending him strange photographs. The chilling images of a graveyard all have...
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Chantal Frazer has come to Westerby Lodge in the Cotswolds to find some answers about the murder of her sister, twenty-three years before. What really happened that terrible night when the wealthy Mrs. Palliser was said to have gone berserk and stabbed her two sons to death, as well as their au pair, Chantal's sister Sabine? As Chantal questions those who were there at the time, she discovers matters weren't quite as straightforward as she'd been...
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Kit Faulkner naval adventures volume 2
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The nation is at arms… he must decide where his loyalty lies.
1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists.
Captain Kit Faulkner, bound to the Royalist cause, has been living in exile for the past four years, and must support himself with only the tiny rump of the Royal Navy that remains loyal.
But when the predatory nature of Prince Charles becomes ever more obvious, Kit finds his loyalties...
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Kit Faulkner naval adventures volume 3
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The shattering finale to the Kit Faulkner naval adventures.
England, 1659. Captain Kit Faulkner's house is prospering; his eldest son has recently returned from a profitable trip to Jamaica in the good ship Faithful, and his daughter is to be married.
But the resignation of the Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, throws England into uncertainty. Will the republic flourish, or will a King return to the throne?
Kit is content to let matters take their...
14) Shadowed
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For fifteen years, her name was Nicole Jones. Then her criminal past caught up to her. Now the brilliant computer hacker has reinvented herself once again, living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec, Canada. Susan lives a quiet life, but she hasn't given up her computer. While in an online chatroom, she discovers she has a shadow. Someone's hacked into her laptop-someone who knows who she is. Capable of watching her every move, they want...
15) Hidden
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Nicole Jones lives off the grid. She doesn't have a driver's license, passport, or even a bank account. She definitely doesn't own a computer. Operating bike tours on Block Island, she hasn't left her New England refuge in fifteen years. But it's not that she's afraid of the world. She's afraid of what she could do to it if she ever plugged back in. Because Nicole Jones isn't her real name. Still wanted by the FBI, she was once one of the best cyber...
16) Hearts of Stone
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The hunter becomes the hunted: Carl Burns pursues the ruthless gang who targeted him in this fast-paced, suspenseful thriller. Happily ensconced at River Road Farm and planning to start their own maple syrup business, life is good for Carl Burns and his partner Frances, who also stars in her own TV show. But, unwittingly, Frances's TV exposure has attracted unwelcome attention.
Targeted by a gang of small-time criminals who need to get their hands...
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Gary Stephens is brought into a government-sanctioned cover-up when he discovers that his father helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landing in the 1960s.
After China announce a space mission to place their own flag next to the one US astronauts planted during the Apollo 11 mission, few people bat an eyelid. Shortly after this statement Charlie Stephens, a 81-year-old former filmmaker, is murdered. The incident is made to look like an accident, but...
18) Noose
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Britain, 1956. A young actress seemingly tries to commit suicide over a tangled love affair, but is taken to the hospital and her life saved. The story is just the sort of thing that journalist Ian Charteris likes to cover: a poignant mix of near tragedy, possible thwarted romance, and glamour, needing sensitive but-of course-dramatic treatment. It should be a routine assignment, a welcomed assignment. It would be, if it weren't for the identity of...
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As the Kentucky Derby approaches, a Louisville woman is tormented by a mysterious killer in this suspense novel by the author of Can't Find My Way Home. Louisville interior designer Kelsey March is thrilled to have her fashion model sister Lorelei in town for Derby Week. But after a night of talking men, family, and horses, the sisters leave a local bar followed by a man with a gun. When Lorelei is shot and killed in front of Kesley's eyes, the police...
20) Kill Monster
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A golem created to assassinate a criminal in 1856 is reawakened in the present … intent on targeting his victim's innocent descendants.
When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the steamship Arcadia from a Kansas cornfield, a buried creature awakens – a mindless assassin of accursed earth, shaped like a man though in no way mortal, created to kill a slave trader in 1856.
With the original target long dead, the monster sets its...
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