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Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career...
London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of an employee of the House of Brackley, an upmarket Kensington department store, Silas finds himself investigating one of the most bizarre cases of his career. For the chief murder suspect is a monkey.
One of the store's fashion models has been found dead on her bed, strangled with a red silk scarf. The room...
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 124 Taschenbuchseiten.
Nachdem Mark Mossman zehn Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht hat, will er Rache. Der Wissenschaftler hatte seine Forschungen in Bezug auf Anthrax an Terroristen verkaufen wollen, war aber durch eine Zeugenaussage aufgeflogen. Nun hat er den FBI-Agent Milo Tucker in seine Gewalt gebracht und bedroht darüber hinaus ganz New York, wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden....
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Ein Krimi aus Brandenburg
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von Peter Wilkening
Ein Mord am Lehnitzsee in der kleinen Kreisstadt Oranienburg schreckt die Bevölkerung auf. Als dann noch der zweite und dritte Mord passieren, greift Panik um sich! Gelingt es den Protagonisten Kriminalhauptkommissar Werner Winter, Kriminalkommissarin Martha Hoffmann und dem Schriftsteller Friedrich Wilhelming, die Situation in den Griff zu bekommen und den Mörder zu überführen?
Peter Wilkening...
4) Dead Drop
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Jack Salvo teaches philosophy one night a week at a community college, but he pays his bills by working as an L.A. private detective. A wealthy woman hires him to find her wayward daughter Lillie, who has been missing for a week. Salvo figures the girl is probably hiding out with her friends. All he has to do is interview the friends, bust their stories, and deduce the missing brat's location. Salvo soon learns that her "friends" are somewhat parasitical....
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Ein Gangsterboss wird vor Gericht freigesprochen, weil Beweismittel auf ungesetzliche Weise beschafft wurden und sich außerdem Zeugen plötzlich nicht mehr erinnern können. Noch auf den Stufen des Gerichtsgebäudes trifft ihn die Kugel eines Killers und für die Ermittler beginnt die Jagd nach dem Mörder. Denn dieses Attentat ist nur der Beginn einer Welle der Gewalt...
Ein Action Thriller von Henry Rohmer (Alfred Bekker)
Henry Rohmer ist das...
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Jade Mendoza's sister, Ezmé, has gone missing in Puerto Vallarta, México, and Jade hits the ground running. But the hunt for her sister is complicated by a bull-headed lieutenant and a stubborn Federale. When each man reignites a long dormant flame of desire, she's surprised, then frustrated. And, against her better judgement, Jade accepts assistance from an unexpected source.
Agente Eladio Ortiz requests DEA Agent Mendoza be allowed to join...
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It is Senior Sergeant Gordon 'Laney' Lane's last day at work before retirement. He has had a full life of watching changes occur with not only the police department, but in his life; not all of which are good. He is walking the beat he used to walk, back in the day when cops used to 'walk the beat,' in the rain, remembering his life to that point.'Laney' has an appointment. An appointment which, to him, will right a wrong; a serious wrong. He will...
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A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.
With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker...
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A death at the ballet draws Reuben Frost into a backstage conspiracy While striding down Fifth Avenue, reveling in the beauty of the city, Reuben Frost loses his footing-and is caught by a ballerina. Hailey Coles is a slip of a girl, but her firm grip keeps the retired lawyer from crashing down to earth. Soon, Frost will have a chance to return the favor. When the stage of the National Ballet is darkened by murder, only he can ensure that the show...
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Would-be district attorney Richard Cotton has hired private detective Neal Rafferty to keep tabs on his wife. His wife, Paula Cotton, has hired the cool and classy Lee Diamond to keep tabs on her husband. It's almost Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and when the masks go on they hide a multitude of sins - like bribery, corruption, and drug-running, not to mention Richard Cotton's particular secret. And when the bodies start showing up, Rafferty realizes...
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A phone call at midnight. A cocktail lounge on New Orleans's West Bank. A young woman who wants to photograph prostitutes and re-create Bellocq's famous Storyville portraits. And murder. These are the threads that lead private eye Neal Rafferty into a labyrinth of danger in the Crescent City... where crime is always hot, spicy, and full-flavored with suspense. The phone call is from his old girlfriend Jackie Silva. A loan shark named Bubba Brevna...
12) Drawing Dead
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An ex-cop gambles with his life in Las Vegas in this mystery. Jake Morgan, who left the Boston police force and wound up in Vegas thanks to his taste for games of chance, finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous suite. Then an assassin enters and breaks the lady's bliss by popping two lead pills into her forehead. Before Morgan knows it, he's not only being grilled over the murder, he's also targeted by a femme fatale...
13) the Semper Fi
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The Six-Chambered Heart, book 1 in An American Crime Trilogy, follows Maddock, a Denver private investigator returning from Chicago where he has meted out revenge for the killing of his buddy Charlie by a powerful crime family.
'the Semper Fi', book 2 in 'An American Crime Trilogy', finds the protagonist Maddock hurriedly leaving Denver, on his way south, eventually to Florida, after putting in motion the elements of a scheme designed to ensnare...
14) Underground
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Reissue of the first book from the British crime writer whom Ian Rankin would later call 'The Godfather of British Noir'.The hero of this tense thriller has been lying low in the urban decay of south-east London, waiting to be called on for his 'job'. Now his enemies have smoked him out and it is time for him to act. He says he'll stop at nothing - and he means it. Is he a crook or a terrorist? What is he about to do? 'Britain seen through a gun-sight,'...
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"When beauty's the prizeWhat mortal fears dying?"Tim Hawk plans his assassinations well, rehearsing them with cool detachment, and his professionalism makes him a rising star in Kazan's gang. Hawk's only other interest, an unexpected love for baroque opera, is kept concealed. When Kazan returns with his beautiful bride-to-be, Hawk presents the pair with a macabre wedding present. Other guests are shocked, but Kazan and Irena are intrigued. Then Kazan,...
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Cuando Florián Falomir descubre el cadáver de una muchacha en una playa de Cádiz, no puede imaginar hasta dónde le conducirá este caso.
La muerte de la chica estará relacionada con una baraja de plata dorada que perteneció a los Borbones. Concretamente, a Carlota de Borbón, primogénita de Carlos IV y hermana de Fernando VII. Dándose la circunstancia de que ese valiosísimo juego de naipes se acaba de subastar en una sala de Nueva York,...
17) Count Me Out
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South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears with a two million pound payload Jet doesn't know whether Scott was victim or thief. But Scott's old gang knows – and they reckon Jet knows where he...
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With Harris Bishop's daughter needing more treatment for cancer, it falls on Detective Nathan Price to lead the case of the Retirement Killer. Nathan while facing his own demons attempts to track down the killer of elderly members in various retirement homes. The cause of death is all the same, an insulin overdose. Who the murderer is, shocks everyone. On The HuntBook One: On The HuntBook Two: Always WatchingBook Three: Retirement Killer
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En mi negocio, te encuentras con todo tipo de personas; algunos, llamémoslos civiles, son ordinarios, lo que los políticos llaman "gente común"; luego están los personajes, los tipos peculiares, personas con extraños caprichos: lo que un viejo amigo mío podría llamar "personas que asustan a los caballos". Algunos, llamémoslos "los desesperados", vienen a mí porque se encuentran en una situación, a veces creada por ellos mismos y otras veces......
20) Deadly Patterns
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This is the third book in the DP series. Deadly Payback, Deadly Pairs and now Deadly Patterns.In Tucson, Detective John Hoffman known as "Tec" and his partner Bill Jenkins have added one new detective to their team. Frank Alvarez was useful in finding a pair of serial killers which made both Bill and Tec seek to add him to their team. Now the three of them face new challenges, a trio of golfer's lying dead on the third tee of a local golf course,...
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