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51521) An Uncertain Ceremony
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Will another murder turn amateur sleuth Arabella Stewart's long-awaited wedding into an uncertain ceremony? She and her betrothed are determined to crack the case ahead of their nuptials, but can they? Excitement is in the air as Bella and her best friend prepare for their double wedding. Only days ahead of the big event, the young women head to the final fittings of the gowns, only to find their dressmaker strangled with Bella's veil. Shreds of lace...
51522) The Hunter
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Welcome to Hope, Louisiana. The cobblestone streets remind you of times past. With very little crime in this quaint town, everyone goes about their daily tasks with little disruption, but without warning... things start to change. And, not for the better.
The best part of being a Hunter is watching as your prey scatter once they realize they are in your sights. Hope has turned into the perfect hunting grounds for me. But now, it's time to show everyone...
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L'habit ne fait pas le moine...
Après l'assassinat de Miss Cornwell dans son htel particulier à Vannes, les soupçons de la police se portent très vite sur un certain Jim Flemming.
Mais qui est Jim? Un quadra qui veut vivre avant l'âge mûr? Un séducteur?
Un assassin? Ou bien un coupable trop parfait?
Avec cette histoire menée tambour battant, hantée par des personnages doubles, nous sommes entrainés dans un univers machiavélique, jusqu'à...
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This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1891 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Old Stone House and Other Stories' is one of Green's collections of short stories. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced...
51525) Death in a Funhouse Mirror
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 2
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After surviving her husband's tragic death, then solving her sister's murder, Thea Kozak thought her amateur detective days were over, until she met a woman who had it all, and then some. Helene Streeter, the perfect wife, mother, and consummate professional, is brutally murdered, leaving friends and family with more questions than answers. Helene's daughter--Thea's old college roommate--begs for her help. Thea agrees, and is drawn into a web of deceit...
51526) La Familia de los Sueños
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La Dra. Sara Alderson pensaba que no tenía ningún problema en el mundo, cuando entró a su oficina en su primer día como socia en su propia práctica médica privada. Y entonces se presentó la policía y la arrestó por un crimen que no podía haber cometido. Veinticuatro horas después, luego de un día y una noche aterradores en la cárcel, Sara regresa a casa convertida en una mujer diferente – y completamente rota.
Su primer reto es limpiar...
51527) Backstabbed on Broadway
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Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyrannical she's looking forward to the day she can quit when she enters the office and finds him dead on the floor. That narcissistic agent is one of the most hated characters on Broadway, and it's not really a surprise that he finally got stabbed in the back. Already in shock, young Jasmine is furuther astonished to find out that the boss she couldn't abide left her the agency, and everything else he owned, in...
51528) Taste of Murder
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Dig into the delectable books that kicked off your favorite mouth-watering mystery series-collected for the first time, in one box set!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
The First Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes!
A heroine with an insatiable appetite for solving crimes, Hannah's Swenson's popular Lake Eden, Minnesota, bakery, The Cookie Jar, becomes a site for murder. And her suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies top the list of suspects....
51529) Roommates
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Perry Stark is a detective working in New York. A veteran of the force, he is struggling to balance his home and work life. When Stark and his new partner catch a murder case, he hopes to get a quick solve so he can take some time to work on his marriage. But when he and Baker meet up with an old friend, they discover their case is anything but routine.With pressure from his chief, a growing need to save his relationship, and a chance to redeem himself,...
51530) Playing with Mischief
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In an Australian country town in the mid-1960s, a couple of adolescent boys are busy experimenting with incendiary devices while their town, including their school, is suffering a series of arson attacks. Are the boys responsible? At least, in part? Or, is there something larger afoot? And, how did it all go so dreadfully wrong?
Meanwhile, in a small city not far away, another group of boys, somehow connected to those in the other place, get up to...
51531) L'énigme d'Armor
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Le commissaire Sébastien Bressac, méridional en exil, vient d'être nommé à Saint-Brieuc.
Sa première enquête bretonne le conduit entre Erquy et le Val-André, o les membres d'une famille fortunée sont frappés d'un mal mystérieux qui les ronge de l'intérieur.
Épaulé par ses lieutenants Morgane Bozec et Yvon Marquis, Bressac va découvrir le monde de l'aquaculture et se confronter à des notables locaux aussi bien qu'à des industriels...
51532) After the Bloodwood Staff
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The sedentary and impractical Hoyle meets Sybil Alvaro in a used bookstore, and she invites him to follow in the footsteps of her favourite author in a search for the mysterious Bloodwood Staff. He's spent his entire life reading vintage adventure action, and thinks he knows how these things should go.
In the mountains west of Sydney, his expectations are almost immediately derailed, as nobody — not Sybil, and certainly not the irrepressible Ada...
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Marco travaille en tant que chercheur et conférencier au musée du Capitole, à Rome. Un jour, sa meilleure amie, Giulia, archéologue, l'informe d'une découverte intéressante : des ossements viennent d'être retrouvés, datant de l'Antiquité, accompagnés d'une bague en or, sur laquelle est gravée la lettre B. Marco ne peut s'empêcher, en découvrant cela, de penser à Britannicus, ce jeune prince romain, fils de l'empereur Claude et frère...
51534) Dan of the Dead
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Cassandra Dean may have a generally good life in the small town of Havenholm, but she won't particularly have a good day, once her firestorm of a difficult big sister, Helena, breezes into town for a friend's funeral. Stuart Wellington, the blonde, dashing leader of Cassy and Helena's old childhood group of friends, the Havenholm Gang, has died at his own hand-or so it seems. The other members of the group, jokester Elliot, ever emotional Cat, aloof...
51535) Braquages en Cornouaille
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Un car-jacking à Quimper lance le capitaine Paoli sur une nouvelle enquête en Bretagne.
Alors qu'il travaille sur une série de braquages à domicile, le capitaine Paoli est témoin d'un car-jacking en plein centre-ville de Quimper et l'enquête va s'accélérer, d'autant que les agressions se font de plus en plus violentes.
Avec ce cadavre découvert dans les bois, les malfrats sont-ils en train de passer la vitesse supérieure ?
Paoli se...
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Shona McMonagle is your ordinary, garden-variety librarian: comfortably padded, in her middle years, expert in various arcane martial arts. She also has an impressive knack for time travel ("impressive" may be overstating things: her first two forays-revolutionary Russia, 19th-century France-went less than smoothly). Her latest mission? Head to 11th-century Scotland, cozy up to Macbeth and Lady M, prevent them from murdering Duncan. In the ordinary...
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A fantastic collection of twelve mysterious short stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Contains: • The Brown Hand • The Usher of Lea House School • B. 24 • The Great Keinplatz Experiment • Cyprian Overbeck Wells • Playing with Fire • The Ring of Thoth • The Los Amigos Fiasco • How it Happened • Lot No. 249 • De Produndis • The Lift
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Au décès de son mari, Cassie Nolan retourne chez elle en Irlande, à Inis Mòr, dans l'archipel des îles d'Aran, battu par les vents.
C'est le mois de Samhain. Cette fête marque le début et la fin de l'année celtique, et annonce le début du Temps Noir.
En effet Samhain n'appartient ni à l'année qui se termine, ni à celle qui commence: c'est un jour en dehors du temps qui permet aux vivants de rencontrer les défunts.
Dans la maison familiale,...
51540) Eucalyptus
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By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce-if at all-Wells has consistently said what he thinks aloud. The pieces in this collection comprise revisionist assessments of some big names in Canadian Poetry (Margaret Atwood, Lorna Crozier, Don McKay and Patrick Lane, among...
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