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1) Mental Case
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NYPD detective Ben Tolliver investigates a series of seemingly motiveless murders. A beautiful woman strides into a jewelry store and asks to try on the finest diamond they have. After admiring it in the mirror, she draws a revolver and kills everyone in the shop, screaming, "Horrible! Vile! Hideous! Filthy!" As the smoke clears, she looks at the security camera, puts the pistol in her mouth, and pulls the trigger. Who was this woman? Why did she...
2) Switchback
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In the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murder The killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car on the passenger side, shot her twice, and escaped without being stained by her blood. He took the gun with him, as planned-but he forgot her purse, the crucial detail meant to make the crime look like...
3) Blood Stone
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After a colleague dies, Lomax get roped into a deadly search for missing gems Four gunmen storm a jewelry store in downtown Denver, wounding a guard and killing a child. They leave with $2.1 million in gems and one hostage: the store manager, who turns out to be in on the job. Most of the gang winds up dead, but the manager lands in jail. Two decades later, he's up for release, the gems are still missing, and a whole lot of dangerous men will be watching...
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Un muchacho de Calpe cae en un Madrid asolado por los combates entre diversas facciones republicanas en marzo de 1939 y su muerte, como tantas otras, jamás se notifica a la familia, que aguarda durante meses su regreso. Basada en un suceso real, Aquellos días de marzo recoge la búsqueda de ese recluta de 19 años, trasladado desde la retaguardia a la capital para defender el golpe de Casado. A partir de las cartas que envía a sus padres a lo largo...
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Teenagers Matt Delaney and his mate Ante Vukovich steal a priceless religious vessel and in the course of the burglary a man is killed, setting in motion personal and political mayhem. It is 1955 and they just want to be milk-bar cowboys against the squares and their suffocating rules banning unmarried sex and excessive speed and anything worth doing. Matt's uncle Dan Delaney is out of the police and in a dead-end job when Matt's alcoholic mother...
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Inspector Richard Queen finally gets a murder case he can call his own When unmarried women get into trouble, A. Burt Finner is waiting at the hospital to save them. This greasy-lipped fat man knows all about babies: how to change them, how to feed them-and how to sell them to the highest bidder. He buys low, getting them from their distressed mothers just a few hours after birth, and sells high to millionaires who are unable to have children of their...
7) The Last Sin
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Redd is still cleaning up the details of a kidnapping last autumn when his contact at the FBI asks him to investigate a series of staged accidents and killings that threaten to set off a feud between crime families.
A few days later, a long-time book club friend confides in Redd about an unfinished letter he found buried in a trunk in his closet. It was written years ago, just before his brother was discovered drowned with weights around his...
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Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, surrounded by an untouched circle of mud, the other guests...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with an intriguing issue featuring 9 original tales of crime and mystery, plus a classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here's the lineup:
CANYON FODDER, by John H. Dromey THE SAN FRANCISCO ADVENTURE, by Hal Charles NO PLACE LIKE HOME, by Veronica Leigh THE THREE LITTLE BIGGS, by John M. Floyd THE CASE OF THE BELGRAVIA BEAST, by Gary Blackwood THE CELL PHONE, by Ellen Wight THE QUIGLEY METHOD, by Marlin Bressi...
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A pair of techno-thrillers featuring a special-forces op--from USA Today-bestselling author Jon Land. In his Jared Kimberlain thrillers, the action is truly nonstop.
The Eighth Trumpet: When the world's finest security systems fail to protect three of the nation's most powerful businessmen--one is electrocuted, one blown up in his sleep, a third hacked to death--Jared Kimberlain, the government's most feared special-forces operative, must come...
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In this mystery filled with "lively and exciting doings," a PI in 1940s San Francisco tries to determine whether a beautiful woman is being framed (The New York Times).
Corpses have been turning up with yellow violets accompanying them, and the clue seems to point to a Spanish performer who is in town with her dachshund, Pancho. But private detective Pat Abbott suspects the plants were a plant-and now he's juggling the murders with a missing person...
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Velda Bellinghausen is a down-on-her-luck private eye barely scraping by in her run-down apartment building. When her elderly neighbor, an antiquarian book dealer named Mr. Arkady, falls ill, Velda agrees to help with his errands in exchange for some much-needed cash. As she delivers rare books to Arkady's eccentric clients, Velda begins to suspect that someone may be deliberately trying to harm the old man in order to get their hands on one of his...
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Former PI and independently wealthy actor Michael Spraggue attends a get-together of great New Orleans chefs where the secret ingredient is murder Sophisticated Boston Brahmin Michael Spraggue will never forget the flaky strawberry tarts Dora Levoyer made for him when he was a little boy. A French immigrant who has worked for Michael's eccentric aunt Mary for decades, Dora has an old-world sensibility, an elegant palate, and a past that cannot be...
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The Tracker takes the case of a French alchemist who is targeted for his secrets in this mystery set in the gritty streets of fourteenth century London.
After losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has found a new calling as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate anything-or anyone. Now famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel needs Crispin to locate his wife, Perenelle, and his apprentice, Thomas Cornhill. But the case takes a sinister turn...
15) Tightrope
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Spaceman and Blue track a trio of Vietnam veterans with murder on their minds As Saigon erupts into chaos, General Tran walks with the easy calm of a man with a plan. After years of working with the Americans, he has no intention of being left behind in Vietnam, and so he has arranged for an escape route. He is nearly home free when he hears footsteps behind him in the darkened alley. He knows then that he will never leave Saigon alive. Tran had...
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Two years ago, a computer software specialist was found dead in Belmont Harbor, an apparent suicide. Now, the body of a low-rent bookie has been found very close to the same spot-and the businessman's wealthy widow hires Paul Whelan to find out whether her husband really killed himself at all. There are, in fact, connections between the two men-and as Whelan tries to sort them out with some unofficial help from a friend on the force, he's drawn into...
17) Bitter Finish
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To save his winery, independently wealthy actor and former PI Michael Spraggue investigates a Napa Valley slaying Shooting on location in Boston for a new film, Michael Spraggue has just tumbled down a flight of stairs when a call comes in from California. On the line is Kate Holloway, Michael's on-again-off-again lover and partner in a fledgling California winery. It's harvest time and their winemaker has disappeared. Right after Kate reported him...
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Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation of the detective Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon") as well as Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man" series), but he is also the creator of another of the most...
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New York City cop Edward X. Delaney solves a string of murder cases in these first two novels in the series by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Lawrence Sanders's first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward X. Delaney. The First Deadly Sin: New York Police Department captain Edward Delaney is called...
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Embark on a mesmerizing journey into 1863 England, where beauty conceals secrets, and danger lurks in the shadows. In this gripping tale, a delicate yet fiercely intelligent woman embarks on a journey of investigation, entwined with the fate of a charming killer hunter, renowned for eliminating his prey with refined cruelty. But beware, for a bloodthirsty murderer, inspired by the macabre allure of Edgar Allan Poe, leaves behind chilling riddles that...