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38741) The Assassin's Riddle
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The only way to win this murderer's deadly game... is to play along.
Summer, 1380. Brutal and sudden death is not uncommon in the foul alleys and streets of London. The corpse of a clerk has been pulled from the Thames. They drowned, but not before receiving a vicious blow to the back of the head.
Then Bartholomew Drayton, a usurer and money-lender, is found dead in his strong room, a crossbow bolt firmly embedded in his chest: a real mystery because...
38742) Murder in the Museum
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When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are aroused when he finds a packet of poisoned sugared almonds in the dead man's pocket; and a motive becomes clearer when he discovers Arnell's connection to...
38743) Tricks and Treats
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30 CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES GOOD TO THE LAST LINE
The McGuffin has long been a staple tool in any crime and mystery writer's arsenal. A perfectly placed last line of a short story can pull together subtle plot threads into a devastating dénouement or give everything that came before it a brand-new meaning, sometimes even reshaping the story entirely for the reader.
Joe Gores and Bill Pronzini, two of the most talented mystery writers of the 20th...
38744) Write to Die
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A young investigative reporter, a best-selling author and a twenty-year old murder converge in a deadly dance. Jessica Kallan thinks working for her favorite author, Ethan Miller, is the job of a lifetime, until she realizes that researching a cold-case has, resurrected a killer.
38745) Murder in the Cathedral
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The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action again when one of her young pupils is found murdered at St Fin Barre's Cathedral.
"This series ranks near the top among mysteries with a religious lead" –Publishers Weekly Starred Review
1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother's Christmas Day festivities are shattered when the protestant bishop of Cork arrives at the convent with terrible news: one of the Reverend Mother's...
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. An immediate bestseller for Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a gripping novel with an atmospheric intensity and tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. Published the year before Arthur Conan Doyle's debut, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Hume's novel became the first international bestseller to be published in Australia. Adapted countless times for film, theater,...
38747) The Night of the Dog
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Night Kill is a mystery set in fictional Finley Memorial Zoo in Vancouver, Washington, seen from an insider perspective on the challenging and dangerous world of zoo keeping. Iris Oakley, a young zookeeper, hopes to reconcile with her husband after he promises to quit drinking. But he's soon found dead drunk and just plain dead in the lion exhibit. A paralyzing mix of grief and anger at his betrayal keep Iris from questioning the assumptions around...
38748) The Alchemist of Lost Souls
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A dangerous element discovered by Bianca Goddard's father falls into the wrong hands... leading to a chain of multiple murders.
Spring 1544: Now that she is with child, Bianca is more determined than ever to distance herself from her unstable father. Desperate to win back the favor of King Henry VIII, disgraced alchemist Albern Goddard plans to reveal a powerful new element he's discovered-one with deadly potential. But when the substance is stolen,...
38749) Shadow Merchant
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Dr. Jack Merchant is a radiologist in a busy private practice and now finds himself mourning his wife on the one year anniversary of her death. He returns to the site of her death one year later only to find he is now accused of the murder! His job is now in jeopardy and his life is almost taken in a botched medical procedure in his own radiology department. He joins forces with the local medical examiner in trying to find out why someone would kill...
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Chuck and Andy are back for the third installment of the Super Quick Mysteries series! From the sandwich shop to the news stand, Lesser Redmond is stuffed full of new mysteries to solve. Chuck battles his new arch-nemesis, Damon Nagel, while dashing stranger Russell Siebert tries to steal Sarah away. Will Chuck save his business and keep the love of his life? Meanwhile, notorious con man Ernest Dunn starts a newspaper to compete with the Redmond Herald....
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Brooke Adams has had a troubled past but is now a confident young woman with a close-knit group of friends who have become her family. When a weekend getaway ends with a bloody, savage attack that leaves her near death on the beach, she is determined not to let the traumatic experience define her.
Recovering in hospital she is approached by retired cop turned PI Rod Morgan and Brooke is shocked to learn a striking similarity between her attack and...
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Extrait : "Nointel était un garçon méthodique. La vie militaire l'avait accoutumé à faire chaque chose à son heure, et à ne rien enchevêtrer. Au régiment, après le pansage et la manœuvre, le capitaine redevenait homme du monde et même homme à succès, car dans plus d'une ville de garnison il avait laissé d'impérissables souvenirs, et on y parlait encore de ses bonnes fortunes. Depuis sa sortie du service, il avait continué à pratiquer...
38753) The Mysterious Lodger
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Take my word for it, there is no such thing as an ancient village, especially if it has seen better days, unillustrated by its legends of terror. You might as well expect to find a decayed cheese without mites, or an old house without rats, as an antique and dilapidated town without an authentic population of goblins.
38754) The Last Friend
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A routine fraud investigation into a small town mortgage company leads private investigator David Squire from rural Arkansas to Washington D.C. Soon after arriving, he learns that a powerful United States Senator is deeply involved in a bribery scheme along with the President of the Arkansas mortgage company he's investigating.
David quickly realizes he has a decision to make and he understands that the consequences of the wrong choice would be devastating...
38755) The Word Thief: A Novel
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Lizbeth Newman is a freelance writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose father's passing changes her life in more ways than one. Anthony Fox Newman was a best-selling author whose novels, set in the badlands of Indian country in New Mexico, generally hit the New York Times bestseller list within a week of their release. Prior to his untimely death, he negotiated a lucrative contract with his publisher and a sizeable six-figure advance. Lizbeth soon learns...
38756) Asylum City: A Novel
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In this edgy thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Lineup, which was described by New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder as "a marvel of tight plotting, spare prose, and relentless pacing," a young police officer's investigation of a murder plunges her into the dark underworld of Tel Aviv.
When young social activist Michal Poleg is found dead in her Tel Aviv apartment, her body showing signs of severe violence, officer...
38757) The Turnaround
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Disliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet.
When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and two young children, the trail's been cold for over a year; the original police investigators had found nothing - no clues, no witnesses, no motive. There isn't much to go on. Besides, Sharman has other things to occupy him - his relationship...
38758) None So Blind
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Did Inspector Green put the wrong man behind bars? Twenty years ago, a raw and impressionable Detective Michael Green helped convict a young professor for the murder of an attractive co-ed. From behind bars, the man continued to hound Green with letters protesting his innocence. Shortly after being paroled, he is found dead. Is it suicide? Revenge? Or had Green made the biggest mistake of his career - a mistake which cost an innocent man his liberty...
38759) Pedigrees and Poison
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Murder at the cat show? Cupcake baker Lauren Crenshaw, her cousin Zoe, and Annie, a gorgeous Norwegian Forest Cat, run a cat café in Gold Leaf Valley, a small town in Northern California. Annie competes in a local cat show, to help raise funds to improve the local park. Her friend AJ, a Maine Coon, enters too. A grumpy Persian called Mrs. Snuggle Face Furry Frost is also a competitor. Her owner, Kathleen, seems to like winning at all costs. But when...
38760) Gown with the Wind
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Professional wedding planner Mallory Shepard knows her job is challenging under any circumstances. But when the groom is your ex and someone invites murder, there may never be another tomorrow...
Mallory's fine-really-handling the wedding arrangements for her ex, Keith. But his fiancée, Becca, has at the last minute decided to switch from a Japanese-cherry-blossom theme to a Gone with the Wind theme. She wants to honor her ailing grandmother, who...
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