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30221) A Foreboding Future
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The rise of authoritarian aggression abroad thrusts the dashing British Military Intelligence officer, Richard Cordwell, into mortal danger as he faces his most formidable foe to date, only to be saved by the beautiful French spy Madame Duvernay. Meanwhile, at home, mirroring today's cultural wars and the controversy over book bans, passage of the anti-obscenity Comstock Law creates an uproar in New York City as it puts an innocent woman on trial....
30222) A Deeper Fear
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FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is back in the new eNovella, A Deeper Fear, from New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan.
FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid's husband, Sean Rogan, is in a dark place after being held captive. He won't talk about it with anyone, not even Lucy. She's hoping a conference in Sacramento, which includes family and the unveiling of a highly sought after drone Sean's been working on, will help him heal.
But, the upcoming drone demonstration,...
30223) The Fifth Man
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National bestselling author James LePore's searing, intense novel SONS AND PRINCES riveted readers with its epic depiction of a man caught between crime and conscience. Now LePore returns with a sequel to SONS AND PRINCES. It is eight years later and life has changed overwhelmingly for Chris Massi and his son Matt. Chris now possesses more power than he ever could have imagined. But with power comes considerable, unremitting risk. And when Matt finds...
30224) Tea for Two
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When Emily wakes up in a hospital room on Hilton Head Island, she has no memory of how she arrived there. Suddenly, she has a fiancé and a new life in South Carolina. What happened to her husband in Cornwall, and why can't she remember anything? Come visit Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for a romantic beach murder mystery. This is the first in the Lynne's Tea Shop Mystery series.
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New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock's Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume. Cape Refuge When Thelma and Wayne Owens are found murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services, their son-in-law Jonathan is arrested for the crime-but his wife Morgan and her sister Blair, Thelma and Wayne's daughters, are confident that he didn't do it and set out to find the real killer. Southern Storm Police Chief Cade disappears...
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Two novels of suspense and danger by author Lenora Worth.
Assignment: Bodyguard
When Kit Atkins is threatened, her protective father calls in Agent Shane Warwick for help. Despite Kit's protests, Shane refuses to leave her side. And soon a powerful bond grows between them-even as danger rises. When connections to the mysterious death of Kit's late husband reveal old betrayals, suddenly Kit's bodyguard is the only person she can trust.
The Soldier's...
30227) Fraude: Thriller médical
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« Je ne sais pas par quel sang raconter cette histoire. Beaucoup de ceux qui l'ont approchée de près ou de loin ont fini dans leur propre hémoglobine ».
Quand une scientifique coréenne est retrouvée assassinée dans des conditions étranges au cœur de l'animalerie du Centre de Recherche BioStratégique, alors le biologiste Romain Maldone reprend du service, sollicité par l'inspecteur Bussière pour son expertise scientifique. Parallèlement,...
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Antoine est le petit caissier d'une petite banque. Le jour o il se fait braquer, sa vie change. Humilié par sa hiérarchie, qui le tient pour responsable, il décide de remonter la piste fraîche de son braqueur. Il tombe sur une bande de brutes, mélange de pieds nickelés et de branquignols. Peu à peu, Antoine va prendre de l'assurance, se faire accepter par ces voyous, et devenir lui aussi voleur à la sauce Robin des bois. Et quand son patron...
30229) Stalk
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Survival is just the beginning. For three years, ex-CIA agent Barney McLean has been leading a quiet double life in Fortune, California. His peaceful retirement is shattered when two hit men break-in, looking for his long-time girlfriend Angie. But she's already gone, along with her young son Tony. It turns out, Angie was hiding some dangerous secrets of her own. A mafia informant in the witness protection program, Angie Simmons-formerly Angela Marchetti-lived...
30230) Midnight on the Mississippi
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Midnight on the Mississippi begins the new Secrets of the South Mysteries from bestselling author Mary Ellis. These complex crime dramas follow an investigator's quest to make the world a better place...solving one case at a time.
New Orleans-Hunter Galen, a stock and securities broker, suspects his business partner, James Nowak, may be involved in embezzling their clients' money, but he's reluctant to jeopardize their friendship based on suspicion...
30231) Pleins phares sur Ouessant
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Quinze ans plus tt, une jeune fille disparaissait et l'affaire ne fut pas résolue. Le commandant L'Hostis y parviendra-t-il?
Ouessant: dix jours de vacances à Noël avec sa compagne! « Que du bonheur en perspective! », pense le commandant L'Hostis. Et pourtant, au cœur d'une tempête décennale, il apprend la disparition non élucidée d'une jeune fille, quinze ans auparavant. Il n'en faut pas plus pour que notre policier, passionné et perspicace,...
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Un accident de parachute est rare... Thomas Laverne a réussi dans les affaires, mais personne n'atteint les sommets sans se faire d'ennemis. Jalousie, vengeance, les mobiles et les suspects ne manquent pas pour l'équipe chargée des investigations. Camille en est la responsable, et elle connaît déjà la famille de la victime. Quelques années auparavant, elle a enquêté sur la disparition de la petite Héloïse Laverne. Les recherches basculent...
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L'amour sera-t-il plus fort que l'appât du gain ?
Seul à connaître l'endroit o est caché le magot de la Résistance que les Anglais ont parachuté au cours de l'été 1944, Jacques Daubrac attend patiemment la fin de la guerre. Au moyen de cette bonne fortune, le jeune menuisier-charpentier espère séduire Fleur Guitton, dont il s'était entiché mais qui lui avait préféré le dénommé Guitton avant de devenir une jeune et belle veuve.
Seulement...
30234) Dead End Street
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The old house at the end of a dead end street was more of a dead end than any of them realized ...They were five misfit kids who banded together in their small Ohio River town. Over the years, they had organized various clubs, and now they form the Halloween Horror Club. The premise is simple: each week, each teen would spin a horrifying tale, and at the end of five weeks, the scariest story wins a prize.The twist: the stories have to be told in the...
30235) Gone Black
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A Vengeful Plot
His wife is dead, and he knows exactly who's to blame. Nothing will bring her back, but exacting justice is the next best thing-at least for a grieving mafioso…
A Vanquished Love
Claire Morgan's life is finally coming together. The newly minted private investigator is about to marry the man of her dreams, psychiatrist Nicholas Black, and embark on an Italian honeymoon. But dreams have a funny way of vanishing into thin air…...
30236) Grave Consequences
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Archaeologist Emma Fielding encounters murder and mystery on the site of an old English Abbey in this second "rip-snorting good mystery" (Aaron Elkins) written by a real-life archaeologist.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her summer vacation in England helping friends excavate a 12th-century abbey, especially after they uncover an all-too modern skeleton in the nearby medieval graveyard. But it's the second...
30237) Viral Dreams
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But there in the forest...that's where it all began...
Max Tyler, single father and former SWAT team leader, and Beth Collins, brilliant infectious disease specialist, rush headlong into an accelerating vortex of intrigue and danger to rescue Max's kidnapped daughter, Megan, from the final steps of a horrific genetic manipulation experiment.
Viral Dreams rockets in pace and intensity, captivating and propelling the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey...
30238) Some Clouds
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Someone is running a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior police officials. Is Garvin, the Commandant, playing power games, or is he trying to get to the bottom of the allegations of corruption? What about Garvin's senior deputy, McPhee, a man who might finally be going round the bend? And what of the Mamur Zapt himself? He may be the British head of the city's Secret Police, but is he above suspicion? After all, he does have an Egyptian mistress,...
30239) Every Lie We Wrote
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It all started with a lie…
When I saw you for the first time I fell in love with your wild spirit, with how free you were and what you made me feel. But it was all a lie, wasn't it? Just one of the thousands we told. It was easier to pretend and ignore the signs. It was easier to write each other letters and hold hands. But that was my mistake, I guess. Going along with your game.
Now you're gone…
One day you simply disappeared, turning...
30240) Brume sur le Croisic
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Il ne bougea pas tout de suite, troublé par la densité du brouillard. On ne voyait rien, hormis le pointillé de fanaux suspendus dans le vide, des boules colorées aux contours imprécis qui signalaient simplement la présence d'une embarcation.
Les lieux étaient déserts. Pas une silhouette en vue. La nuit compressait tout. Désorienté, Nazer Baron remonta soigneusement le col de son manteau avant de s'éloigner. L'humidité froide le faisait...
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