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2023.
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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"Read this man's book." -James Ellroy
A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels-the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the...
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Locard Institute volume 2
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A riveting thriller that puts the New York Times bestselling author squarely in the same league as Patricia Cornwell and Jefferson Bass, the Locard Institute Thriller series draws on Lisa Black's real-life scientific expertise and her skill in crafting complex and dynamic female characters, as two female forensic experts team up to solve the deadliest and most devious crimes.
The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic...
The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic...
4) Shadow Dance
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Shadow riders novels volume 8
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Tensions and passions rise in the city that never sleeps in this propulsive novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Shadow Riders series.
As the head of the New York City Shadow Riders and his branch of the Ferraro family, Geno bears the weight of dual responsibilities on his broad shoulders. There’s nothing more important to Geno than protecting his territory and his famiglia. So...
As the head of the New York City Shadow Riders and his branch of the Ferraro family, Geno bears the weight of dual responsibilities on his broad shoulders. There’s nothing more important to Geno than protecting his territory and his famiglia. So...
5) You Can Die
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Laurel Snow novels volume 3
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Luther meets Justified combined with Profiler in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti's exciting Laurel Snow Romantic Thriller series, set in the Pacific Northwest, featuring FBI Special Agent and rising star profiler Laurel Snow. For readers who love their thrillers centered around dysfunctional families, and their protagonists threatened by a serial killer.
Men are...
Men are...
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"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's...
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2023
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With cutting-edge forensic technology, a stunning setting, and a deepening relationship between Alexa and D.I. Bruce Horn, The Bone Riddle will delight science geeks, armchair travelers, and procedural buffs who like a little romance with their body count.
Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: On a cliff overlooking the ocean and one of the largest gannet bird colonies in the world, American CEO Harlan Quinn has built his "Plan B"—a
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Max Wolfe novels volume 3
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A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug addict who put a pensioner in a coma and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. But do these rogue hangmen crave true justice-or just blood?
As...
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2023
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A tense novel from a fast-rising star, Sam Holland, The Twenty fuses a chilling race-against-time with blood-curdling crime fiction. For fans of Harlan Coben and Thomas Harris, Sam Holland offers readers a page-turning serial killer thriller with “echoes of Lisa Gardner” (AJ Finn, #1 NYT bestselling author, on The Echo Man).
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of...
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of...
10) Operation George
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Meet the real Line of Duty ™ undercover team in this previously untold and gripping story of how a Northern Irish terrorist and murderer and one of his followers, were caught in an audacious and brilliantly executed undercover sting on the English mainland, codenamed, Operation George.
In 2006 at Belfast Crown Court, William James Fulton, a principal in the outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force, was jailed for life and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years...
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Ergebnislose Meetings, falsche Entscheidungen, überbordende Bürokratie, Karrieregeilheit der einen, Unfähigkeit der anderen – und alle halten die Klappe, weil der Unsinn von oben kommt. Die Folgen sind endlose Mehrarbeit und unnötige Konflikte, die anschließend unter großem Aufwand entschärft werden müssen. Kurz: Das Management agiert nicht nach den Leadership-Prinzipien, die es selbst propagiert. Unter zu hohem Druck wird getäuscht, getrickst...
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'You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.'
It's easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you'd be wrong.
Born out of the ANC Women's League 20 years ago, Bosasa has come to be described as the ANC's 'Heart of Darkness'. At its helm today is Gavin Watson, a struggle-rugby-player-turned-tenderpreneur who made it his business to splash out on gifts and cash to get up close and personal with...
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Vom Kreml bis Peking, von Harare bis Riad und von Paris bis zum Weißen Haus - in Kleptopia folgt der preisgekrönte Enthüllungsjournalist Tom Burgis dem schmutzigen Geld, das die Weltwirtschaft überflutet, Diktatoren ermutigt und Demokratien schwächt. Burgis folgt in seinem Buch vier Spuren, die ein globales Netz der Korruption aufdecken: den Unruhestifter aus England, der über die Geheimnisse einer Schweizer Bank stolpert, den ehemaligen sowjetischen...
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2023.
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"In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard, was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Guy was only a child, asleep upstairs at the time of the murder. His mother and two half sisters were also in the house that night -- but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged, and Guy's family has been haunted ever since....
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An einem ganz normalen Morgen macht eine alte Dame in Derendorf einen Spaziergang. Sie entdeckt ein Feuer, nähert sich dem Brandherdund macht eine grauenhafte Entdeckung. in dem Feuer liegt ein Stück Haut, die Haut eines Menschen.Nur schleppend kommen die Ermittlungen voran und das rheinische Duo forscht zunächst in einer falschen Richtung. Da wird ein weiteres Leichenteil gefunden, dieses Mal im Stadtteil Friedrichstadt. Einem Zufall ist es zu...
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Rheinblut: Band 1 der Düssel-Krimis Im Park des Schlosses Mickeln in Düsseldorf Himmelgeist wird die Leiche eines Mannes gefunden. Der grauenhaft zugerichtete Mann trägt Frauenkleidung. Der seit Jahren in Düsseldorf lebende Michael Oberle und der aus Köln strafversetzte Josef Jupp Schmidtz bilden das Ermittlerteam der KK 11. Die Beiden stehen vor einer besonders kniffligen Aufgabe: die Umstände des Todes sind äusserst pikant und es handelt...
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Garreth Vane, amerikanische Craftbier-Ikone, eröffnet in München seine erste Brauerei. Den konventionellen Bierherstellern sowie dem Reinheitsgebot sagt er den Kampf an. Bald darauf werden der Besitzer der größten Craftbier-Brauerei Münchens tot in der Isar aufgefunden, sein Konkurrent erschlagen auf dem Brauereihof entdeckt und im Münchner Bier unerlaubte Zutaten nachgewiesen. Steckt Vane hinter den Taten? Kommissar Bichlmaier bittet Alfred...
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Ende September. Das weltberühmte Oktoberfest ist in vollem Gange, die Stimmung im Bierzelt kocht. Exkommissar Max Raintaler und sein alter Freund Franz Wurmdobler bekommen jeweils 100 Euro von einem ihnen fremden Immobilienwirt aus Grünwald geschenkt. Einzige Bedingung: Sie müssen das Geld noch am selben Abend vertrinken. Keine zwei Stunden später ist der edle Spender tot. Er wurde mit einem Maßkrug erschlagen. Max und Franz machen sich gemeinsam...
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Grausiger Fund im Hotel Alpenblick: Im Magen eines Hechtes entdeckt der Koch den Finger eines kleinen Jungen. Scheint zunächst noch ein Unfall denkbar, erkennt Bartholomäus Kammerlander nach dem Fund der Kinderleiche, was wirklich passiert ist: Die Wahrheit ist viel schrecklicher, sie ist nahezu unvorstellbar. Und der kleine Junge ist nicht das einzige Kind, das in letzter Zeit verschwunden ist. Doch als Bartholomäus Kammerlander die Zusammenhänge...
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A brand-new series perfect for Richard Osman readers and all fans of a page-turning whodunnit.
It was meant to be the start of quiet season in the sleepy Cornish village of Seal Bay, but not for sexagenarian librarian and wild swimming enthusiast Morwenna Mutton. Because when a local businessman is found on the beach with a bread knife is his back, bungling police officer DI Rick Tremayne is soon out of his depth. Morwenna knows it's going to be...
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