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Carl Hiassen meets Tartan noir in this comic crime caper set on the sunny Costa Blanca.
What Carl Hiassen does for Florida and Elmore Leonard did for LA, Morgan Cry does for Spain's sun-splashed Mediterranean coast, where British expats and certain notorious criminals go to escape-slash-retire.
When Daniella Coulstoun's estranged mother, Effie, dies in Spain under suspicious circumstances, Daniella feels it's her duty to fly out for the funeral....
1002) Faking It
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"I haven't full on belly-laughed like this for a long time" Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meet Hannah Thompson: wife, mother, teacher and... secret erotica author? My Guilt List: 1. If we have a date night then I'm always asleep before it's halfway through and honestly, if I had to choose, I'd rather have a hot bath and read my book than engage in any other nocturnal activity. 2. If we do actually have you-know-what then it's not unheard of for my...
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An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected...
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Des personnages ordinaires aux prises avec le passé.
Avec une grande liberté formelle, Tavares nous entraîne dans un voyage o nous suivons d'abord Martha, une jeune fille borderline, au fil de ses errements dans Berlin, pour assister ensuite au transport d'une statue monumentale de Lénine, de Bucarest jusqu'à Budapest, tandis qu'un violoniste rapatrie dans le trajet inverse le corps putréfié de sa mère...
Un diptyque qui nous expose sans...
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Cicéron, ancien célibataire endurci, découvre la vie de couple. A cté de ça, il doit s'employer à faire délivrer la jeune Xiao, accusée à tort de proxénétisme...
Rien ne va plus ! L'équipe s'éparpille. Comme si, fatigué, mon univers s'effondrait sur lui-même. O sont mes repères ? C'est bien connu, quand on touche le fond, il suffit d'un coup de pied pour rejoindre la surface. Une rencontre avec un jeune avocat d'origine chinoise...
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Un polar dans le style jouisseur et goguenard du détective Simon Rose
Ma capacité à accumuler les ennuis est égale à la célérité avec laquelle je passe du septième ciel au trente-sixième dessous. Il y a une heure encore, j'étais dans les bras de la plus belle fille du monde - enfin disons la plus jolie des serveuses du café de la République à Bordeaux
Une nouvelle noire et piquante!
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La police m'attendait à la réception....
1007) Death grip
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"Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk - a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jace Budewitz wants Angela on the scene.Terri Gibbons, the popular Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been found strangled. Could a message found in Terri's shoe hold the key to catching her killer?...
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An essential tool for all reading groups - a detailed guide to Sunday Times Number One bestseller, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine!
A comprehensive guide to Gail Honeyman's acclaimed bestseller, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes & imagery; character analysis; twenty-two thought-provoking discussion...
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Dans un monde post-apocalyptique, l'officière Modesty Williams doit quitter l'armée et la Californie. Fraîchement arrivée à La Nouvelle-Orléans, elle se retrouve impliquée dans la recherche d'un parrain local, aussi brutal qu'impulsif, qui tente de retrouver un mystérieux arsenal capable d'assurer l'indépendance de La Nouvelle-Orléans. C'est à ce moment-là qu'elle croise le chemin de Sam, qui, ayant tout perdu depuis la destruction du...
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An essential tool for all reading groups - a detailed guide to exciting debut novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder!
A comprehensive guide to Sarah J. Harris's The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes & imagery; character analysis; twenty-two thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further...
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An essential tool for all reading groups - a detailed guide to exciting debut novel, The Rules of Seeing!
A comprehensive guide to Joe Heap's The Rules of Seeing, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes and imagery; character analysis; thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and even a quick quiz.
This companion...
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Last detail volume 2
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Now a major movie starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by Richard Linklater!
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-was made into an award-winning...
1013) Histoires extravagantes
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Extrait : "Quel sacré gobe-mouche je suis ! J'en sais que l'institution des rosières fait rire aux larmes. Moi, je la prends fort au sérieux et j'y vois passer un souvenir troublant des vestales d'autrefois, je ne sais quelle apparition de candeur liliale. L'objet qu'on y honore a toujours été, au choix, pour moi, l'oiseau du Paradis ou le merle blanc. La timidité de mon caractère ne m'a jamais permis de m'adresser, en amour, qu'à des vertus...
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Lynne Truss's first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers.
'It was nobody's fault, this widely held assumption that 'Come Into the Garden' had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine rack in the sky. Nevertheless, it required strength of character for those intimately acquainted with the title not to take the comments personally. After all, it was a bit like being dead but not lying down'.
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1015) Very bad company
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2024.
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"A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . . Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami and this year, Caitlin Levy-Aurora's newest hire-is joining the team as Head of Events. The benefits are outstanding: a seven-figure...
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Serge Storms novels volume 26
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry. Meanwhile, a...
1017) Selected Fairy Tales
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This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen's most popular fairy tales - including 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'Thumbelina' - in a celebration of one of the world's most widely recognized children's authors. With universal themes and dark humor at their heart, these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century and continued to be well loved today.
The fairy tales of...
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Willy Goth, notre célèbre inspecteur intérimaire, est de retour dans de nouvelles enquêtes atypiques.
Quand la police de Laville se perd en conjectures, il n'y a plus qu'une solution, faire appel à ce policier hors normes ! Mais cette fois-ci, il va devoir faire face à des enquêtes particulièrement délicates : entre une future star de la
télévision, en quête du scoop qui lancera sa carrière, et la visite surprise de la Secrétaire...
1019) Poso Wells
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In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre, darkly hilarious accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor-next in line for the presidency-inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail,...
1020) Little Grey Cells
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Discover the man behind the moustache in this book of one-liners by the world's most famous Belgian detective, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hercule Poirot and his creator, Agatha Christie.
'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.'
The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' solved some of the twentieth...
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