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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
2) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
3) Lumberjack
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One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The Lineup
Nebraska city, 1901.
There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner,
J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate.
It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world.
Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father...
4) Rail Birds
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Colin is a cash game poker pro, so is Jordan, but Jordan has something that Colin does not. A beautiful girlfriend named Isabelle. What happens when sex, money and deceit fill the air between them? This story is a original screenplay written by James Paul Nelson. In this story, James writes about themes he knows quite well. Gambling, drugs, sex, and fast money. Characters are forced to look at themselves and their situations and deal with the consequences....
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"Fans of Lawrence Block's Keller stories are going to love One More Kill. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages."-George R.R. MartinHe was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless...
6) Boomerang
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Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
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Si Dejas Una Puerta Entreabierta Pronto Escucharás Los Susurros...
Hace quince años un psicópata conocido como el Hombre de los Susurros sembró el caos en el apacible pueblo de Featherbank.
Ahora, con el asesino entre rejas, el pueblo es un lugar seguro para que Tom y su hijo Jake, de siete años, empiecen de nuevo.
Hasta que otro chico desaparece. La historia parece repetirse. ¿Estará el asesino fuera? ¿Podrá Tom proteger a su hijo?
8) DARK Murders
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A serial killer the media has dubbed the DARK killer grips a small town in Arizona in fear. No one knows who is next, and the killer is notoriously unpredictable. Pastor Joe lives in the small town. He's a well-known televangelist and travels to his megachurch in Phoenix every single Sunday to give his sermon, televised around the world. Sure, his teachings are sometimes a bit over the top, but he's a family man, generous with his time and money,...
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The occult is but a breath to him. His darkness goes much deeper. For centuries Devon has hidden among us. He is "The Beast", the Black Dragon, the Blood-lusting one who is to come, the one who already is and the one who has been. For centuries, Devon has had many names. He is the blood-lusting devil who will bring war upon humanity and his own kind. Devon is the King of all Vampyres with an obsession for the porcelain skinned tempest. She is the...
11) Rocks Beat Paper
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A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he couldn't see a way to make the heist work, but the score-millions of dollars in diamonds-motivated him to try. Wilson came up with a plan he knew would work . . . until the inside man got killed and took the job with him.
With no way inside, the crew walks away without the diamonds. Now, on his own, Wilson is free to execute the job his way. He sets a con in motion...
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El objetivo de la obra es lanzar a unos personajes sobre una vasta superficie para que, a través de sus vivencias, quede urdido un tapiz representativo del mundo actual, ése que ha producido la crisis financiera y social que aún perdura. Para ello se inspira, cambiando cuanto haya que ser cambiado en materia de nombres propios, o simplemente elidiéndolos, en los casos llamados "Malaya" (que ahora se está juzgando) y "Ballena blanca", posiblemente...
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"A masterful story of murder, corruption, and sexual obsession, with the tension meter on high" from the author of Midnight and A Shattered Circle (Booklist).
For law clerk Linda Conover, who studied art in college, her boss's new case is close to her heart. The ownership of an ancient Roman silver urn-part of a treasure valued at seventy million dollars-is being contested by the governments of Croatia and Hungary and the Earl of...
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Intelligent, wry, and seriously twisted, Peter Crumb is a man who suffers two personalities, only one of which is capable of remorse. His life has been derailed by a single, devastating act of violence, and now, in what he intends to be his last week on earth, he is determined to leave his mark upon humanity-randomly, unjustly, with infinite attention to detail. Allowing the morning's newspaper headlines to loosely dictate his actions, Crumb sets...
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A judge's wife struggles under the deadly weight of secrets both past and present in "Egan's excellent third legal thriller . . . his best to date" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Ever since a fall from a stepladder, Judge Lonergan hasn't been the same. The accident triggered traumatic dementia-a condition that his wife and secretary, Barbara, is desperate to keep hidden from the public. With the help of the judge's law clerk, she seems...
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Dave Bushinsky is one of London's more powerful gangsters, and he has a dream -- to raise enough money to buy a football club. To realize those funds, he has imprisoned a chemical genius who is working hard on an insanely addictive designer drug that will sweep through the world like a virus and generate a quick fortune for its unscrupulous distributor. Big Sandy is the ganglord's strong right arm, loyal and dependable, swift to follow his master's...
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In 1991, Jack falls in love with a beauty. Twenty-nine-year-old Jack Trexlor doesn't realize that his life has gone off the rails: tending bar at a topless club, getting too close to the dancers, and getting involved in drugs. He thinks he's living the good life. But when a mysterious stranger stops into the club on a hot September evening, Jack's world gets suddenly turned upside down. Now, Jack works desperately to put together one last big deal...
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A seventeen-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnap victim. It's a common occurrence in the region-prime narco territory-but the girl's parents are rich and powerful, and determined to find their daughter at any cost. When they call upon Carlos Treviño, he tracks the missing heiress north to the town of La Eternidad, on...
19) Taking
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A Dark Kidnapping Romantic Suspense Novel Hot as a California summer and off limits. Too young. A rich, snobby princess, but I couldn't help crave her innocence as much as the next man. No matter how much her feigned hatred stirred up obsessive want inside me, I found myself protecting her from the real predator. Betrayed by Addilyn and my father, I ended up in jail for assault. But I'm a free man now, and I have what I need to get my revenge. I'll...
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A Bowdlerized, cleaner version of Sardoodledom: Darkened Promise Part Two Fury's Truth; It was almost eight months later, after the harrowing, deadly, shocking incident that changed all of their lives in an instant; Resilient and brilliant, the young athletic beauty Eir stumbles upon a fated cryptic message from the missing, abducted, enigmatic princely Imre. This leads to an unexpected trip for Eir and the now non-tyrant turned Templar Tony, cagey,...
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