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Al volver a su ciudad natal para comenzar una nueva vida, Sara Mason se entera que hay un asesino serial aterrorizando la zona. A pesar de luchar contra el recuerdo de la muerte de su hermana y de sus padres alcohólicos, Sara está decidida a hacer las paces con su pasado.
Sin embargo, Sara descubre que el psicópata suelto la tiene en la mira. Su intento de recostruir su vida se ve también obstaculizado cuando descubren restos humanos en su propiedad....
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England, 1859. After schoolteacher Lorna Buchanan witnesses a strange ceremony on the grounds of St. Anne's College, she is sacked by the tyrannical headmistress. Soon, Lorna is entangled in a web of mysticism and murder. Together with class troublemaker Margaret and the staunch Police Sergeant Caswell, Lorna investigates the cryptic clues that surround the deadly crimes happening in their small town. But are supernatural forces really to blame, or...
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Una trilogía de historias que destruyen los mitos de las islas típicas del paraíso. En Promesas, a fines de la década de 1960, el ketch, Misericordia, se hunde durante una tormenta marina frente a Culebra, cerca de las Islas Vírgenes. Ciara Malloy asume la custodia del hijo de su prometido ahogado y descubre un secreto devastador sobre el niño que cambia su vida para siempre. En A la Deriva, a fines de la década de 1990, la fotógrafa submarina...
4) Poach
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Middle-aged widow Gwen Lindstrom is the owner of Rancher's Cafe: a restaurant in Dubois, Wyoming. After Donny Myers, boyfriend of Gwen's morning waitress Lacey, is found dead in a barn, the local county sheriff begins to investigate the case.Learning that Myers was shot and killed, Gwen begins to wonder if his girlfriend Lacey might have murdered him. Drugs, poachers and an unidentified man are all somehow connected to the case.Soon, Gwen feels drawn...
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Ahnia a un passé trouble, qui cherche désespérément à refaire surface.
Elle a touché le fond. Fauchée et voulant à tout prix remonter au sommet, elle s'allie à Mac, un homme qu'elle connaît à peine. Il est complètement inaccessible mais, bientt, ils se retrouvent tous deux en péril.
Leur décision dangereuse sera-t-elle un succès, ou Ahnia se retrouvera-t-elle aux prises avec une force implacable, déclenchée par le crime de son adolescence?...
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Recientemente separada de su marido infiel y sin darse cuenta de un embarazo incipiente, Georgia Charles se dirige a Yukon para visitar a una amiga de la infancia.
Después de que es atacada por hombres desconocidos, el viaje de Georgia se convierte en una lucha por la supervivencia. Escapando a la naturaleza, busca refugio en una cabaña abandonada.
Sin habilidades de supervivencia y un parto inminente, Georgia tiene que enfrentar los elementos...
7) 133 Horas
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Cuando llega al trabajo y se da cuenta de que ha perdido más de cinco días y medio de su vida, Briony no recuerda ni dónde ha estado ni qué ha pasado. ¿Ha estado enferma, ha tenido una crisis nerviosa o pudo haber sido drogada y secuestrada?
Al dudar de su propia cordura, Briony teme a lo que le pudo haber sucedido, pero se empeña en descubrir la verdad. Cuando analiza sus escasos recuerdos, se da cuenta de que algo terrible podría haberle...
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Ahnia tiene un pasado peligroso que está rasguñando bajo la superficie; muriendo por salir.
Ha tocado fondo. Sin un centavo y desesperada por volver a estar en la cima, se asocia con Mac: un hombre al que apenas conoce. Él es completamente intocable, y pronto ambos están en peligro.
¿Tendrá éxito su peligrosa decisión, o se enfrentará a las garras de una fuerza implacable, provocada por el pecado que cometió en su infancia? En este emocionante...
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A strange glowing light, an ominous green mist, and deadly secrets unearthed - chased by the military, a woman races against time to save her family and expose the truth. A calm, peaceful night for Sarah Maine and her family turns sinister as swirling tendrils of a mysterious green vapor descend over the valley. Terrified when her husband doesn't return from work, Sarah desperately begins searching for him in the hills outside London - and instead...
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A telephone call to the local veterinarian's office breaks the peace of Alderney Island. After several reports of injured animals in rapid succession, vet Jenny sets out to examine what might be causing the injuries. Later the same night, she's roused from her sleep by strange sounds and an unnerving chill in the air. Something unnatural is lurking in the shadows, causing her stomach to churn with fear. But what connects the mysterious attacks, the...
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After a lifetime of being protected and sheltered by her parents, Kate's life turn upside down after their sudden death. With nowhere else to turn, she ends up with her fiancé: a conniving businessman who is well on his way to becoming a corrupt lawyer. At the same time, Kate's father's law firm houses more secrets than a politician's hard drive. Later, she receives a shocking surprise when a long-lost half-brother enters her life. Can Kate rise...
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English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body in a chest and finds herself teamed up with hapless crime writer Richard Parry. What unfolds is an edge of seat mystery brimming with intrigue, as they try to unravel the clues together, and find the killer. Setting...
13) Storm Dreamer
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When twenty-three-year-old Madie Hayes moves to Stoney Creek to work at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, she believes her life is on track; a dream job, great bosses and co-workers, and maybe even love.
Her life begins to spiral out of control when the nightmares she suffered as a child return to haunt her in her sleep. The lurid dreams only happen during thunderstorms - and the region is in the midst of its rainy season.
In her dreams, Madie...
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Little Hamsden is a picturesque town nestled in the English countryside. But when a young girl disappears, tensions run high and a private investigator is called in to help solve the case. Lisa Reynolds is the key witness.
A bakery assistant by day and a club singer by night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a tragic event. So begins a journey of intrigue, romance, love and passion, combined with a burning desire to unravel the mystery. What...
15) Missing Thread
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A husband she doesn't know, a family she doesn't recognize, a mysterious connection - recovering from a coma, a shaken Georgia attempts to piece together a life she doesn't remember.
Forced off the road by an unknown black pickup, Georgia Charles Dixon awakens from a coma to a sea of faces she has no memory of, in a place she doesn't remember traveling to. When she returns to a home she doesn't recognize, Georgia faces an emotional inner battle...
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Sara Mason joins in searching for Huxley's MIA brother's remains in the Vietnam jungle. She is joined by her friend Esmerelda. Later in Hawaii, Sara learns that a six-year-old neighborhood girl had gone missing ten years earlier. Something odd is going on at the nearby forest cliffs; someone wants this cold case to stay cold. But even after attempts are made on Sara's life, she pushes on with the investigation and pursues the leads that take her on...
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Bank teller Claire Bennett's life changes when she wins the lottery, and buys an ancient fixer-upper on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. After moving to the island's sleepy inland village, Claire is confronted with a dark mystery. Her new home, known to the locals as the Casa Baraso, is shrouded in otherworldly superstition. Her mystic aunt Clarissa has warned her of danger, but Claire pays no heed. Can she uncover the secret of Casa Baraso?
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Agnes Lockwood returns to Tyneside, only to stumble across another dead body. On her first visit, she helped the police solve a murder and gained quite the reputation as an amateur sleuth. Now, she is simply looking forward to meeting again with Alan Johnson, a D.C.I. with the Newcastle police force. She is hoping their relationship will continue to blossom, but on her first day back in the city, she gets caught up in another murder. And this time,...
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In book two of the Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries series, Jamie has returned to her family law practice after a hiatus due to her mother's death. It's business as usual until a bitter divorce case turns into a murder investigation, and Jamie's client becomes the prime suspect. When she can't untangle truth from lies, Jamie enlists the help of Duke Broussard, her favorite private investigator, to try to clear her client's name. Jamie's also hoping that...
20) The Daughter
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If you were the parent of a twenty-five-year-old daughter, who is an unemployed perpetual student and descended upon you with her cat, what would you do?
Rachel and Joe, who retired to a 50-Plus condo, must exercise tough love on their only child Angie after she leaves an ashram, searching for her purpose - again. At the insistence of Joe, Angie finds a job at a burger joint on the shores of Daytona Beach.
She is dating Josh, the son of man...
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