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3041) Deliver Us From Evil
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Dark, gritty supernatural suspense at its finest, fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz will devour this briskly paced, heart-pounding puzzle mystery that will leave you breathless-a haunting tale highlighting the fantastical side to life waged by the dark, powerful forces of the Unseen Realm.
3042) The Devil's Origins
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Blood, ashes, and bones.That's all she saw.When she awoke amongst the debris and dead bodies drenched in a mysterious substance, she found two things.A single initial on her half-burnt uniform's nametag.And all her memories erased.Abandoned, confused, hungry, and cold, K trudges on into a small town she doesn't recognizeFailing to consider that she looks like an escaped, dangerous convict…That her appearance would turn heads, raising dangerous questions...
3043) By Dawn's Early Light
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When a naked corpse is found in the Luxembourg Gardens, Captain Gereau approaches Max Anderson to take on the case "to aid a fellow Canadian." Sarah St. John, the wife of the deceased, is the primary suspect but Max has his doubts. Mark St. John was in Paris, supposedly to visit his mistress, Irina Pavlovna, but he clearly had other reasons to be there -- politics, arms smuggling and stolen Italian money. Max soon finds himself embroiled in the violent...
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All six novels of the Dan Sharp mystery series, winner of the Lambda Award for best gay mystery.
Collected into a single volume, the Lambda Award–winning Dan Sharp series by Jeffrey Round follows a gay father and missing person's investigator as he weaves from upper-class enclaves to the seedy underbelly of Toronto and Southern Ontario.
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Lake on the Mountain – #1
Dan Sharp, a gay missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to...
3045) Pay-Off in Blood
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A desperate doctor hires Mike Shayne for a case that starts with blackmail and ends with murder Back when Mike Shayne was living in New Orleans, his best friend, Tim Rourke, got shot on Miami Beach. Rourke, star reporter for the Miami News, was working on the story of his career when gunmen pumped him full of lead. It took quick work by the brilliant Dr. Ambrose to save him. So when the good doctor finds himself in mortal danger, Rourke repays the...
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"L'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte est un gentleman, courtois avec les dames. Il roule ses cigarettes à la main. Il est aussi malin que Sherlock Holmes. Surtout, fils d'un père blanc et d'une mère aborigène, il possède les deux cultures et navigue de l'une à l'autre. Ses enquêtes se déroulent dans le bush australien, royaume des aborigènes, qui sont les héros secrets de ces livres : traqueurs, pistards, broussards, grande connaissance des...
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Une fois encore, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte se retrouve confronté à urie affaire des plus étranges qui parviendra un moment à le désorienter. De mystérieux enlèvements de bébés ont été signalés dans un petit bourg de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bony va trouver néanmoins une aide de taille auprès d'une coéquipière efficace, Alice, qui, si elle connaît les enfants, sait aussi comment en découdre avec les grands. Leur enquête révélera...
3048) Love Stinks
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Ida Belle and Fortune feel it's time to set Gertie up with the perfect man. After all, keeping her busy with a guy of her own--one they don't have to worry about--is a win/win situation for everyone. But when the FBI shows up, they learn that Gertie's perfect man is far from that. But what happened? How did an old friend of Walter's end up on the wrong side of the law? It's not only the fertilizer he sells that is offensive... in this case, Love Sinks....
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Ask the Right Question: Private investigator Albert Samson gets a shake-up with his new client: sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal is desperate to find her biological father. What the detective unearths is the kind of dirt that makes people do desperate things. Thrust into a moneyed clan of old secrets and killer deceptions, Samson discovers that the first lie may be Eloise's. The Way We Die Now: When Vietnam veteran Ralph Tomanek is charged with manslaughter,...
3050) The Long Escape
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Globetrotting detective Al Colby makes his debut in this dazzling mystery from the author of To Catch a Thief. Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker's mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can't tap the family coffers without proof...
3051) Low Hanging Fruit
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Volume two of the Henry and Hobbs Saga introduces our intrepid sleuths to a new world of intrigue and mayhem.
A new murder injects Hobbs and Henry into a whole new realm of crime and money and plenty of new PI business opportunities. While on the search for clues, our heroes tour Europe with stops in Amsterdam, Zurich, and Monte Carlo. An entrepreneurial professor and the mysterious Corps cause more trouble for NYPD Captain Frank Valentine.
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3052) The Book of Joel
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If the past doesn't kill you, the present will.This story is a departure from the focus on New York City private investigator Gabriel Ross's cases-his boyfriend Joel's life becomes the case for them. For Joel, his initial success as an artist is shadowed by his need to confront his parents, who threw him out at age 15. Joel finds his mother is anxious to reconnect with him but his father is still hostile. After discovering Joel's father is involved...
3053) An Author Bites the Dust
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A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room.
But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback,...
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Dura, resistente, manipuladora y valiente, Jacaranda Dunne es una antigua oficial de la Policía Metropolitana que se ha trasladado a España para abrir una agencia de detectives en Málaga. Al principio el trabajo de la agencia es mera rutina, perros perdidos, pasaportes robados, maridos infieles, etc. Un día, una mujer llega a la agencia y quiere que JD encuentre a su hija desaparecida y se encuentra investigando el mundo tenebroso del tráfico...
3055) Murder by Proxy
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A beautiful woman vanishes while on vacation in Miami, and it's up to Mike Shayne to find her When Ellen Harris leaves New York for her 2-week trip to Miami, her husband playfully reminds her to be careful. In a city famous for playboys, loan sharks, and gigolos, a beautiful woman can find trouble-and Ellen wants all the trouble she can get. Although she adores her husband, she intends to have fun, and that means flirting with every man she sees,...
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LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: Mark Dalton isn't sure if he finds trouble or if trouble finds him. But ever since his wife traded him in for a prettier model, and he traded in his Private Eye business for a Peterbilt, it seems to be everywhere he goes. In this collection of loosely interwoven who-dunnits, Edo van Belkom introduces Mark Dalton, Trucker Detective. Whether he's scooping up pretty hitchhikers with secrets, getting back goods stolen right out from...
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A missing teenager. A suspicious car accident, a mouthy client. Will Charity survive her first case?
When Charity Deacon witnesses a car crash, the police push her aside. But she can't ignore what she saw; a bullet hole in the driver's temple. In a new PI agency, clients are hard to find. So, when a teenager with an attitude bangs on her front door, Charity reluctantly agrees to search for a missing sister.
Her first two cases lead her into the dark...
3058) Duffy
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In the grimy underbelly of London, private detective Duffy takes on an extortion case and finds himself pitted against one of the city's most dangerous crime lords Rosie McKechnie was alone when the two men entered her home, tied her to a chair, and cut her with a switchblade. It was a message for her husband, Brian. To outside appearances, Brian McKechnie is just a businessman. But to Big Eddy Martoff, London's underworld kingpin, McKechnie is a...
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hungrier...Rika's father, Chef Diego Martín, has finally been able to return to Los Angeles after 15 years, brought over to work in the VIP Center restaurant of the Temple of Microtology by its founders. But, a month later, his sous chef is found dead, Diego, missing. Rika is panicked at the thought of losing her one living parent permanently. All she knows is that she has to find her father, and she needs Nick Owen...
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New York detective Mr. Gryce employs the aid of Miss Amelia Butterworth to unravel the mystery of multiple disappearances on a particular stretch of country road. The ninth book in Green's detective series featuring Mr. Gryce and the second featuring Miss. Butterworth, "Lost Man's Lane" is a riveting murder mystery not to be missed by fans of classic detective fiction. Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American novelist and poet. Among the...
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