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"When nobody will talk and corruption runs deep, turning to outsiders is the only way to make sure women stop disappearing... For three years, women have been going missing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls...
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"Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender to, and the lengths we'll go to for the truth ... When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished. Beautiful, brilliant--and reckless--Jocelyn has gone off the grid before,...
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One minute, Katrina King's enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she's painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn't the man she's hungry for . . .With the internet on the hunt for #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh...
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Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long, hot, Australian summer of 1992. The TV news in the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy ("dingo took my baby") Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters--Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia--mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run far away from their harsh, evangelical parents, or were they taken? While the search for the girls united...
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Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from the Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring--at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence. Years earlier, ten-year-old Patty...
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Secrets, scandal and seduction...Chef Giselle Cesare has fought hard to step out of the shadow of her overprotective clan. She has a week of freedom when all of her brothers are out of town, and a sexy stranger arrives in her kitchen right on cue. Too bad he's a journalist and fixated on the club's shady past-- a past she won't discuss.Driven journalist Hugh Duncan doesn't usually mix business with pleasure, but Giselle is worth breaking a few rules....
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12 cold cases. 12 kidnapped women. One diabolical serial killer. In this riveting suspense thriller, a brilliant FBI agent faces a deadly challenge: decipher the mystery before each one is murdered.
"Molly Black has written a taut thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat... I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to read the next book in the series!"
-Reader review for Girl One: Murder
In the Maya Gray series (which begins with...
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What makes a good God-fearing woman go bad? And once she's gone, is there any way to get her back? Eva spends much of her life torn between the man she had and the man she has. On paper they both look like ideal husband material. But looks, as we all know, can be bought, faked, or photo-shopped.
Everyone around Eva seems to keep shoveling lies to bury their secrets. As Eva starts to dig for the truth she realizes it's impossible to stay clean, especially...
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A social worker turns amateur sleuth when a teen in her care goes missing, and the girl's mother is found murdered, in this southern domestic thriller.
Claire Conover is in a bind. The thirteen-year-old girl who had been taken into custody for sleeping behind a grocery store has disappeared without a trace. Worse, her mother's dead body is discovered on a construction site. Is it possible the runaway daughter pulled the trigger? Or is the girl...
10) Girl Gone North
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Sisters Emma and Thalia Holden are raised in a home of limited means, reasonable happiness, but abundant love, and life in the Lower Ninth Ward is good to their youthful eyes despite vicious battles for and against segregation flaring in the streets of their city and across America.
In what seems a dream opportunity, nineteen-year-old Emma accepts a job for a prominent white family outside of Boston, where she could attend Lesley College, one...
11) Little Girl Gone
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Nothing matters more to her
when a child's life is at stake.
Special agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a twenty-eight-year-old cold case-her twin sister's abduction. Working with her former partner, Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first…until...
12) Little Girl Gone
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A tense psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, B A Paris and C.L. Taylor. Will she ever see her daughter again? It's every parent's worst nightmare. Alex Granger only turned her back for a moment - but a moment was all it took for her world to be destroyed. Her two-year-old daughter Carol-Anne has vanished into thin air. Alex's husband Ray is a detective, so he's used to dealing with horrific...
13) Real Gone Girls
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An investigative look at women who committed murder then went on the run from the law, some more successfully than others. Michelle Theer and Linda McElroy are among those profiled.
14) Girl Gone Ghost
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On a cool fall night in Brenham, Texas, it's three weeks before Sonora attends Fall Fling with her boyfriend. She's on the lookout for the perfect gown when her murdered best friend appears as a horrifying ghost. Is her BFF haunting her or is it all in her head? Under mounting pressure from the ghost and sleepless nights experiencing her death, Sonora hunts for the killer. A boy's odd behavior draws her attention, or is the killer someone closer to...
15) Little Girl Gone
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Four murders. One missing girl. A bone-chilling mystery. Former criminal lawyer Siya Rajput had sworn off taking on cases involving children because of a brutal mistake she once made. But she is pulled into the frantic investigation when her ex-boyfriend turns to her for help in finding his missing niece. The prime suspect in the murders is in police custody, denying all charges and having any knowledge of the missing girl. Something tells Siya that...
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Lucy has been a very bad girl!
After her night with the mysterious billionaire Lucy finds herself given an unusual proposal. A proposal that will require her to test her own limits and boundaries. A proposal that in the end could end up making her a millionaire.
Does she have it in her? Is she willing to cross that line? But most importantly what the heck is this mysterious second option???
Good Girls Gone Bad is a steamy romance series with...
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Good Girl Gone BadBrandt's Dozen: Book TwoSage Grayson's world is torn apart when a video of her getting wild with a stripper during a bachelorette party goes viral. Needing help, she turns to her aunt, who enlists former Navy SEAL Kristian Rodriquez to be her bodyguard.Finding him sexy-as-sin, she intends to remain professional, though it isn't long before their attraction ignites temptation. After a stalker's obsession with Sage's traumatic past...
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Handle the Most Difficult Girl in the Galaxy, or Everything Blows Up
When an alien princess arrives, a jaded celebrity handler has to keep her happy. But will he manage to get through her visit, when catering to her spoiled needs is the only way to prevent her from exploding the Earth, when rebels are trying to assassinate her and when he starts to seriously fall in love with her?
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Lily has always lived up to her preacher father's expectations of how she should behave, but all that changes when a hot stranger walks in to her hair salon and a feral need to have him takes over her common sense. On a whim, she screws him in the supply room, caving to a desire that only grows with each kiss.
When she learns he's the billionaire alpha who wants to boot her out of her business for the sake of his own, she's livid. But the pulse between...
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Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé complet et une analyse de Gone Girl de Gillian Flynn. Il propose une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des principaux thèmes du roman, notamment les rles des hommes et des femmes dans la littérature, la construction de fausses personnalités et l'influence des médias. Le style clair et concis facilite la compréhension, offrant l'occasion parfaite d'améliorer vos connaissances...