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2461) Hashtag
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From one of the freshest voices of Southern noir comes a gritty crime story with plenty of Southern flavor and a world and characters you'll be clawing for more of. The repercussions are felt across the American South when a pizza joint in sleepy Lake Castor, Virginia is robbed and the manager, Odie Shanks, is kidnapped. The kidnapping is the talk of the town, but it's what people don't know that threatens to rip asunder societal norms. Odie chases...
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Un psychopathe sème l'horreur dans la capitale britannique des années Thatcher...
Durant les années 1980, les Docks de la ville de Londres sont encore en friche, avant un remodèlement qui en fera une partie intégrante de la cité. Ces bâtiments abandonnés à leur sort sont le repaire idéal de tous ceux qui veulent rester cachés.
Lynn Armitage, inspecteure du district de Tower Hamlets, est amenée à y enquêter lorsque sont découverts...
2463) Bleak Water
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Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Only Darkness, Silent Playgrounds and Night Angels: 'Dark, edgy and compelling' The Times Beyond the new city center developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run-down and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small, innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses. But between the renovations it's a dark and lonely place - the perfect site for an...
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Plongée dans l'univers du rock des seventies.
Décembre 2007, Paris : Jean-Louis Souhanse, ancien musicien d'un groupe de rock " Les crapauds de lune ", soupçonne un médicament fabriqué par Edoxyl Pharma - EP-0699 - d'avoir rendu amnésique son demi-frère, Pierre Poinsignon. Dans une soirée à laquelle participe un ministre actionnaire du laboratoire, il menace de transmettre à la presse un dossier sur le sujet. Poursuivi par les gardes du...
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Marie Hyckz est mère célibataire. Et commissaire de police.
De petits arrangements en gros compromis, elle s'efforce d'être à la fois une mère acceptable et un flic efficace, mais des fillettes disparues, un meurtrier insaisissable et des rumeurs au sujet d'un mystérieux proxénète font monter la pression qui pèse sur ses épaules.
Au cœur de ces trois affaires, elle essaie également de venir en aide à Jeanne, l'amie de toujours, camée...
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Le commissaire nage en eaux troubles...
Quelques bulles et plus rien... Du cté de Chateauneuf-Du-Faou, le canal de Nantes à Brest ne ressemble plus à un long fleuve tranquille. Depuis quelques mois, on s'y noie ferme! Accidents, suicides? On dit que les crimes sont souvent commis en période de lune montante. C'est à l'écluse 218 qu'on assassine!
Des chats disparaissent aux abords des cimetières. Une fatigue soudaine atteint les jeunes filles...
2467) Murder Makes Me Mad
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A brother and sister's reunion is cut short by murder in this 1956 hard-boiled detective novel by the author of Waterfront and Counterfeit Corpse.
After twenty-four years serving with the US navy, Arkansas-native Rex Howard has settled down in Manhattan. He has a private detective's license but works mostly in security. With his work, his navy pension, and a few stocks, Rex has enough to live comfortably. It's a life that's tidy and shipshape.
Then...
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Une gigantesque vague d'intoxications alimentaires touche le nord de la Bretagne.
Plusieurs morts, des milliers de personnes hospitalisées... Si l'hypothèse d'une origine accidentelle paraît la plus évidente, elle laisse bientt la place à un terrifiant chantage dont certains supermarchés sont les cibles. Tremblez, habitants de Saint-Pol, Locquirec, Lannion, Perros, Tréguier, Guingamp et Binic, c'est surtout à vous qu'on en veut! Heureusement,...
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A bargain set of two gritty and gripping reads from a fantastic female crime writer. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Jessie Keane.
In Trapped teenagers Maggie and Johnny fall hard and fast in love. But they don't know that they're from rival gangland families in London's criminal underworld. And Maggie's violent father Max is watching their every step ...
Taken's Casey Edwards has demons to put to rest. Since she had to give away her baby at...
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Sales affaires sur la Cte d'Émeraude...
Cédric Vial et sa collaboratrice arrivent à Saint-Cast pour effectuer des recherches sous-marines. Aussitt, les voilà aspirés dans un tourbillon de mensonges, de meurtres inexpliqués et de trafics en tous genres. Ils vont de surprise en surprise, entraînés malgré eux dans la cour des grands malfrats. Soudain, le ti-punch prend un goût de cocktail Molotov et la vie bascule.
Pour mettre le holà à...
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Une série de meurtres sur la presqu'Île d'Arvert lance le capitaine Rémy Noisier sur une nouvelle enquête, aidé par ses adjoints Maud et Arnaud.
Un meurtre entre deux claires dans le marais ostréicole de la presqu'île d'Arvert, cela ne s'était jamais vu ! Le capitaine de gendarmerie Rémy Noisier de La Tremblade devra résoudre cette énigme avec l'aide de ses adjoints, la gentille Maud et Arnaud.
Ce meurtre sera rapidement suivi d'un...
2472) Cat-Girls Have Four Ears
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The war of all against all ensues, unnoticed.The investigation into the death of a genetically engineered cat-girl leads detectives Burroughs and Roussel into the strange world of the super-rich. Those rich enough to breed their own cat-girls as party favors are also rich enough to be above the law. They even have their own private inter-personal wars going. Burroughs and Roussel find themselves involved in such a war.Mike Hammer never had this...
2473) The Missing Father
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Eighteen years ago, Luke O'Connell's father was there one day, gone the next. His mother sat him and his siblings down and told them their father was gone, it was just them now, and they wouldn't be seeing him again. But Luke never believed his father could just walk away from a family he'd said he loved. Now, from his role within a secretive military organization, he uses the intelligence he can access to follow leads on his father, but each is a...
2474) Caring for Justice
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A Justice novella featuring the original cast members, yes, Pete is back!DI Lorne Simpkins and her partner, Pete Childs have one of their toughest cases to crack in this fast paced novella. Someone is intent on attacking pensioners in their own homes. Can Lorne and Pete put an end to these heinous crimes? Or will someone else intervene to give the investigation a helping hand?
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Bushwick Brooklyn in the 1970s is a cesspool of drugs, violence, and depravity. Every aspect of life in the blighted neighborhood has been contaminated by the Mafia. Butchie Bucciogrosso is an Italian cop who detests the Mob. A survivor of the streets, he returns from Vietnam only to find Bushwick in ruin. His partner, Fast Eddie Curran, had to kill his way out of Belfast. The only cops with the courage to take on the Mob, they become a deadly nuisance...
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Enquête dans les milieux écologiques
Éminente apicultrice consultante dans le Quercy, la jeune Audrey Astier parcourt le monde à la recherche de méthodes de travail différentes dans le but d'assurer la sauvegarde des abeilles. Alors qu'elle a rendez-vous avec son vieux maître de stage, Janissou Laborde, dit le Papé, celui-ci disparaît mystérieusement...
Aux ctés du troublant lieutenant Steinberger, fraîchement affecté à la gendarmerie...
2477) Chances Like That
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When Jack's old friend Peter is on the run and injured, Jack agrees to help him out. Ollie has severe misgivings about all of it, but he can't let Jack handle it alone. With little to go on and no chance to investigate, they have to make a plan to get Peter out of the country safely. Meanwhile, Jack's abusive ex is being investigated for murder. Jack and Ollie try to dodge the murder investigation, with mixed results. But one nosy cop thinks Jack...
2478) The Family Secret
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Raymond O'Connell was the love of Iris's life-from the day she met him, to the day a year later when she married him, to the tragic night before she never saw him again.
Some would say they had the perfect all-American life. Now, eighteen years later, questions arise about the night her husband disappeared, leaving a bloody knife and a letter addressed to her, in which he said goodbye and told her not to look for him, with not even a second thought...
2479) Moonlight Goes Viral
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THE NO. 1 "HOT NEW RELEASE!"IT'S MARCH 2020. CAN COVID-19 TRULY BE THE DEATH OF DICK MOONLIGHT?PI Dick Moonlight only wants to grab a quick beer and maybe a conversation with a good looking lady. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the world, he's got nowhere to go to have a couple drinks and wish his troubles away. So instead he ends up at the supermarket to grab a few supplies, including toilet paper. But there is only one package of...
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Dans la plaine de la Bièvre, rongée par les lotisseurs, dans un temps o l'informatique efface la valeur du geste accompli, des hommes disparaissent...
Rimbe, le poète libertaire, après avoir élucidé les meurtres de Saint Antoine L'Abbaye, reprend du service sur les traces des « évaporés ».
Avec ce nouvel opus, Gilbert Vincent Caboud met en scène un monde en déséquilibre o la peur de l'éphémère ctoie une envie de survivre à tout...
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