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27081) A Song For Bill Robinson
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Tensions are building on the notorious Holds End estate.The local community centre is fighting for survival and the murder of 15-year-old Lewis Matthews remains unsolved…Wannabe teenage singer, Bill Robinson, just got out of hospital after surviving a vicious attack. He thinks he knows who attacked him…and why. When a violent feud escalates between him and local thug Charlie McDonnal, Bill vows to find the killer and help save the community centre...
27082) A Touch of Magic
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A dazzling sleight-of-hand artist is recruited by the State Department to pit her skills – and wits – against a master terrorist. He's about to receive a piece of stolen film used to make US passports, film that could open the door to terrorists around the world. Although Channing Stuart is the fourth generation in a family of acclaimed magicians, she's the first of them not to turn pro. Eye-to-eye with a killer, will she have the nerve...
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Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. The series explores the world of murder in the gay community, whether the victims or the killers themselves, and sometimes both, are homosexual. While the previous books looked at murders in the gay communities of Germany, England, and the United States, this fourth edition of the series visits Canada-a country that has embraced the gay community overall.
But how...
27084) The Content Assignment
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On a rainy night in postwar Berlin, British journalist John Terrant encounters Ellen Content, a young civilian typist in the American Army's office of information. Their romance quickly blossoms, but as soon as Terrant realizes that Content is a spy, she abruptly vanishes into the divided city's treacherous maze of ruined streets. Terrant's anguished inquiries receive only bland assurances from the authorities that Content will contact him when her...
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L'enquêteur Cicéron va reprendre du service ! Immersion dans le milieu de l'art avec des personnages hauts en couleurs !
Quand on n'y connaît rien en barbouille, on ferait mieux de se coller devant une série amerloque à la télé. C'est ce que j'aurais dû faire. C'est ce que je fais de mieux. Alors, quelle idée m'a pris d'aller fourrer mon nez dans ces tubes mal rebouchés ?
Les odeurs de térébenthine ont rendu tout le monde maboul. Momo...
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Retrouvez dans cet ouvrage deux enquêtes de l'inspecteur Sweeney!
Mortelles Hébrides
L'inspecteur Sweeney s'apprête à démissionner... Afin de mûrir sa décision, le jeune homme a choisi de passer une semaine sur l'île de Barra, un morceau de granit oublié à la pointe sud des Hébrides. Mi-décembre, le jour y dure moins de quatre heures...
Mais l'isolement de l'Atlantique nord ne saurait tenir le destin à distance. Ed Robertson, un conteur...
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Plongez dans cette histoire sombre et mystérieuse en plein cœur de Limoges.
Une nuit, un homme est abattu dans une rue de Limoges, sans mobile ni motif apparent. Ce meurtre déchaîne alors des passions aussi violentes et soudaines qu'inattendues...
Il y a tout d'abord les réactions des proches de la victime. Face à l'horreur de la situation, ces derniers sont naturellement en proie à l'incompréhension la plus totale. Mais s'immisce peu...
27088) The Endicott Evil
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In Victorian London, there exists no greater investigative team than master sleuth Colin Pendragon and his loyal partner, Ethan Pruitt. But it will take all their powers of deduction to determine if a fatal fall was a result of misery or murder...
Adelaide Endicott-elderly sister of Lord Thomas Endicott, a senior member of Parliament-has plummeted to her death from the third-floor window of her bedroom at Layton Manor. Did she take her own life-or...
27089) The New Sherlockian
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The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada. Contributors included in the original, and now much sought after, editions included the renowned radio writer, Michael Hardwick, Godfrey Hunt, Michael Kean, Catherine Cooke, crime writer...
27090) House of Lies
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Somewhere in Vixenhead, I'm certain the truth lies...
A sudden disappearance...
When Roz Outlaw's partner Tom mysteriously vanishes, she knows his life is in danger. Tom has been distracted lately, afraid, as though he is being hunted...
A desperate search...
With the police showing little interest Roz knows it falls to her to find Tom. But as Tom's secrets are uncovered nothing can prepare Roz for the dark lies and twisted truths she finds. She thought...
27091) The Island: A Short Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. Two men arrive on an isolated island, having been told that the Queen of Heaven lives there. The locals send them to a croft where a woman named Mary lives with a man named John. However, when the strangers arrive at Mary's door, she tells them that no such Queen lives on the island …
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Twenty-seven million people -- young and old, men and women -- are locked in bondage worldwide. Slavery Today traces the products created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. Co-authored by the world's leading experts on modern slavery, it unpacks the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while setting out solutions and demonstrating how readers can get involved...
27093) Don't Cry
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Nowhere To Run
The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths.
No Place To Hide
Chattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It's clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims' similar physical...
27094) In the Shadow of Time
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"I was in Mexico City for three months,
and yet returned to England on
the same day that I left..."
Through her time-travel research, physicist Dr Sofia Ustinova has attracted the interest of higher beings from a distant galaxy...
Luna, a porcelain-skinned teenager, lives alone in a Danish forest where she guards an astonishing secret...
Pablo, an optimistic shoeshine boy, struggles to earn a living on the sweltering streets of...
27095) La muñeca ciega
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Una muñeca a la que le han arrancado los ojos es abandonada en un hospital. Al mismo tiempo, el multimillonario Déravans, quien quedó ciego a causa de un accidente de tráfico, podría recuperar la vista mediante una intervención que sólo el doctor Linden, amenazado de muerte si se atreve a llevarla a cabo, es capaz de realizar. Jelling, un empleado de la Policía de Boston que cuenta con una sorprendente habilidad para recordar delitos y perfiles...
27096) Witchling
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DI Jack Drummond stared at the horned figure and shivered. The man was dead, pinned to a wall high above an altar in a room deliberately staged to celebrate the Pagan Festival of Samhain.
Was it witchcraft? Or was that just what the killer wanted them to believe?
Sienna Wilde's son, Pagan, is the murder victim, and her daughter Raven is missing.
So why are the authorities trying to shut down Drummond's investigation just when he and his team of detectives...
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Dr Alex is psychologist to the Cambridge elite, keeper of their dirtiest little secrets.
Carrie lives in a pristine mansion and tells no one what she had to do to get there.
Henry has a dangerous predilection for the wives of the men he works for.
Grace hides a dark secret behind the yoga-perfect image she projects to her online fans.
Tony has enough money and connections to bury anything, or anyone.
Now their neighbour Monika Thorpe is...
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Flora Maguire's life is perfect – a beautiful home in Belgravia teeming with servants, a loving husband, and new baby Arthur to enjoy. But when she is invited to tour St. Philomena's Children's Hospital in a deprived area near London's newly-built Tower Bridge, she is shocked.
Because there she uncovers a scandal with a dark heart – poor children are going missing from the hospital. The police seem either unable or unwilling to investigate, so...
27099) Sollicitations criminelles
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« La lumière brillait dans les ténèbres et les ténèbres ne l'ont point reçue. » Alors que le prêtre s'apprêtait à commenter ce prologue de l'évangile de Jean, il est abattu d'un coup de pistolet dans son église. C'était le jour de Noël, une heure avant le début de la messe. Commence ainsi une enquête dirigée avec tact et doigté par un policier, théologien de formation, qui semble se mouvoir avec aisance dans le monde hermétique...
27100) The Underhanded
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Europe' s last line of defense against neofascism- a history professor?
Professor William Dresden has found solitude in the south of France to grapple with his troubled past- a neglected upbringing, failed romances, the recent demolition of his life' s work in academia, and even witnessing genocide, among other secrets. But he soon learns that he has much larger problems when an adrift MI6 officer, Adeline Parker, calls and insists on a meeting,...
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