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"Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place for a light purse. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling decadence of the Belle Epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud is hired by Christian Morel as companion to his beautiful, young sister, Sylvie....
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"Sisters Samantha and Monte Waters are vacationing together in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, enjoying a festival and planning to meet with their brother, Cal--but the idyllic plans are short-lived. When terrorists' attacks rock the city around them, Monte, a U.S. foreign service officer, and Samantha, an international television correspondent, are separated, and one of them is whisked away in the frenzy. The family mobilizes, using all their contacts...
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"When former party girl and society photographer Theophania Bogart flees to San Francisco to escape a high-profile family tragedy, a series of murders drags her unwillingly out of hiding. In no time at all she discovers she's been providing cover for a sophisticated smuggling operation, she starts to fall for an untrustworthy stranger, and she's knocked out, tied up and imprisoned. The police are sure she's lying. The smugglers are sure she knows...
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"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
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An exciting first mystery by actor Ron Ely, star of Tarzan and Doc Savage.
Jake Sands has had a truly action-packed life as a recoverer of stolen objects and people. His work has made him a very rich man, but he paid a steep price: the murder of his wife and child. Jake now spends his days working out and his nights haunted by memories.
One night, while jogging along the path of Coco Palms- an exclusive enclave in Santa Barbara where...
7) Secret lives
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Ethel Fiona Crestwater volume 1
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"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...
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"The third book in an amazing series that features crime à la library at America's most famous institution of higher reading. A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off ona murder investigation, one that he pursues reluctantly until a second murder upends the world as he knows it. The second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's-and the prime suspect is McNulty himself....
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Agent to the paws volume 2
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"The second in this hilarious cozy mystery series features a woman who is a talent agent for show biz animals and discovers that she has a talent herself: solving crimes. "Admirers of old comedy sketches and anyone looking for a laugh-out-loud mystery should pick up this series launch by Copperman." --Library Journal (starred) on Dog Dish of Doom "Readers will root for Kay to be more than pals with Sam Gibson, proprietor of Cool Beans coffee house--and,...
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While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
11) Judas horse
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Jack Warr novels volume 2
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"Violent burglars have been terrorizing residents across the English countryside. But when a mutilated body is discovered in a luxurious Cotswolds manor house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves. As Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes-and hits countless dead ends. With few leads and the violent attacks escalating, he will have to act as audaciously as the...
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Ballad novels volume 5
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One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.
In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question. A spellbinding...
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When resting in peace isn't an option... Corrie Locke may not be the best rookie lawyer in town, but when it comes to catching a killer, she's got the skills to bring a band of shifty-eyed suspects to their knees. When the wealthy matriarch of the dysfunctional Means family dies in her sleep, the family is convinced her death was anything but peaceful. They hire Corrie to prove it, but the only evidence they have to go on is a psychic's half-baked...
14) Bone dust white
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"Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne--a woman who abandoned her...
15) Slow Burn
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Slow Burn volume 2
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Roxane and Patti are faced with one final, all-or-nothing showdown with Kary and his men.
With all of the chips on the table, will the two of them be able to make it out alive? Or will the fires claim two more victims…
Iconic crime writer Ollie Masters (Snow Blind, The Kitchen) and artist Pierluigi Minotti (Lost Falls) bring the simmering crime drama to a burning conclusion in an ending that readers are not going to want to miss.
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Monica's fate is revealed after Andrew received some terrifying orders from the Killer himself. The Sheriff and Sara face-off in a fight for their lives, but the Sheriff runs into an unexpected obstacle thanks to the local villagers. And Nick gets some new information from Cayce that she found in Patel's files.
A Legacy of Violence is 12 issue maxi-series by masters of horror Cullen Bunn and Andrea Mutti, with letters by Rus Wooton.
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Ein Krimi zwischen Venedig und Sizilien
Markusplatz, Riva degli Schiavoni, Rialtobrücke - Venedig ist menschenleer in Zeiten von Corona. Jetzt tritt die Schönheit der Lagunenstadt spektakulär hervor. Doch der aus Sizilien hierher versetzte Commissario Morello weiß immer noch nicht, ob er das wirklich genießen kann. Zusammen mit seiner Kollegin Anna Klotze ist er in der Stadt unterwegs, als sie einen jungen Mann, einen Flüchtling aus Nigeria,...
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Fragen Sie sich auch manchmal, was Ihr Nachbar so in seinem Garten vergräbt? Der humorvolle Garten-Krimi Amsel, Drossel, tot und starr ist der zweite Teil einer Krimi-Reihe rund um die Schrebergarten-Kolonie Harmonie in Berlin.
Ein Mord in einer Schrebergartenkolonie ist nichts für Hobbygärtner, das weiß jeder. Noch dazu, wenn es sich beim Tatort um die Vorzeige-Kleingartenanlage von Berlin Pankow handelt und beim Opfer um einen honorigen Bezirksvorstand....
19) Die Tote am Watt
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Eine vermögende Witwe wird auf Sylt erdrosselt aufgefunden. Eigentlich müsste der Täter per DNA-Analyse problemlos zu überführen sein, weshalb Hauptkommissar Erik Wolf auf einen schnellen Ermittlungserfolg hofft. Doch da hat er die Rechnung ohne seine italienische Schwiegermutter Mamma Carlotta gemacht, die gerade zu Besuch auf der Insel ist. Die quirlige Italienerin hält wenig von solch modernen Ermittlungsmethoden und verlässt sich stattdessen...
20) Mordseestrand
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Hochsommer auf Borkum, am Strand tummeln sich die Feriengäste. Auch Hobbydetektivin Caro Falk freut sich auf einen sonnigen Tag am Meer, da schreckt ein schriller Schrei die Urlauber aus ihren Strandkörben auf. Ein kleiner Junge steht knietief im Wasser und brüllt wie am Spieß - in seinem Eimer schwimmt ein abgetrennter Finger. Als wenig später die dazugehörige Leiche auftaucht, ist Caros Neugier geweckt. Der tote Wattführer war ein engagierter...
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