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7541) Stealing Souls & Symbols
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So what if grad school instead of pass/fail was live/die?Stephanie Blackraven considered herself a normal grad student: BS electrical engineering, MS in systems engineering, MA in archeology, and working towards a doctorate in energy physics, and mystology. So, maybe not normal, normal, but not weird.She discovered that some symbols, when created properly, contained energy. Just a little bit of energy. Working with another grad student, Bruce Richardson,...
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Quel est ce mystérieux saboteur de bateaux qui sévit dans un petit port de Bretagne ?
Dans un petit port du nord Finistère, depuis plus de quinze ans, un mystérieux malfaiteur sabote les bateaux mouillés sur l'estran. Amarres coupées, trous percés dans les coques, orins engagés dans les hélices, tous les coups sont utilisés pour détruire les bateaux. La rumeur a désigné le coupable de ces exactions : Fanch Brendaouez dit "le Renard".
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Une succession de disparitions tragiques intriguent l'enquêtrice Mary Lester...
Avec la fin de la saison touristique, Roscoff, cet ancien havre de corsaires, retrouve sa quiétude. Cependant, pas de trêve pour les agissements malveillants d'une poignée de malfaisants, au grand dam de Monsieur le maire qui prépare les prochaines élections municipales. Or, voilà qu'en plus, les eaux du port du Bloscon deviennent le théâtre de noyades répétées......
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Une double intrigue o se mêlent fiction et réalité.
Une enquête qui revient sur les origines et l'histoire de la Bibliothèque de Limoges. Cette sombre histoire ne serait vraisemblablement pas remontée en surface si la revue Architextures n'avait pas confié à Cosima Young l'écriture d'un article consacré à l'ancien hôpital général de Limoges. Et sans la revue, Cosima n'aurait jamais rencontré Franz Carole, ex-vagabond reconverti...
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La traque du saboteur de bateaux se poursuit pour Mary Lester !
Après la destruction d'un nouveau bateau, à l'explosif cette fois, Mary est de plus en plus convaincue que l'ex-maître principal Charraz tire les ficelles de cette rocambolesque histoire.
Au grand dam des gendarmes pour lesquels Charraz est un exemple et un héros, elle concentre ses recherches sur l'entourage de l'ex-sous-officier. Mais Charraz n'est pas né de la dernière pluie....
7546) Troubled Waters
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A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny island in the River Forth being used as part of the foundations for the new Queensferry bridge. No sooner has Det. Inspector Alice Rice managed to discover the identity of that body than another one is washed...
7547) Fatal Remains
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 11
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When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, the pair has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hundreds of years. The skeleton turns out to be quite a mystery in itself, leading Native American groups and historians specializing in the Underground Railroad to flock to the site.
Unfortunately, for all...
7548) Sand Digger's Skull
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An agnostic Catholic priest and an old woman believed to be a witch become key to FBI Agent Sara Carter and her Timorese police colleague, Vincintino Cordero, unraveling the truth behind an historic mass killing, a more recent murder, and the death of a traditional village leader who used superstition to mask his greed
7549) A Pointy Way To Go
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A Needle Covered Body. A Twisted Cold Case. One Team To Solve It.
Kendra and Jeff, two recently retired London Detectives, volunteer their time solving cold cases.
20 years ago, an officer finds a well-liked schoolteacher covered completely in needles. Kendra and Jeff decide to take one more look at the impossible case. Just one more.
Can Kendra bring the killer to justice?
If you love dark twisted unputdownable detective mysteries, you need to read...
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En général, trouver un message dans une bouteille jetée à la mer constitue le début d'une belle histoire.
Pas pour Laure Saint-Donge : cette découverte va l'entraîner dans une série d'aventures à haut risque !
Avec ses proches, de Perros-Guirec à Tréguier, en passant par Plougrescant, Port-Blanc et Plouguiel, elle va mener une course effrénée contre la montre, et contre la mort, car des tueurs sans le moindre scrupule la poursuivent....
7551) The Hochmann Miniatures
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To repay a wartime debt, a master smuggler ventures out into the open. The customs agent's eyes go wide when he reads the passport. It is Kek Huuygens, the notorious smuggler who has grown rich making border guards look like fools. Today he is returning from Switzerland, a box of chocolates packed in his briefcase. The guard confiscates the chocolates, which he is certain must contain diamonds, but he lets Huuygens keep the wrapper as proof of his...
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One of the defining novels of the entire crime genre, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room has inspired readers and writers including Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and is now republished in hardback in the Detective Club series with a brand new introduction.
Breaking down her door in response to the sounds of a violent attack and a gunshot, Mademoiselle Stangerson's rescuers are appalled to find her dying on the floor, clubbed down...
7553) Bridge to Nowhere
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A single act of violence changes Charlie Aldaine's life forever, plunging him into a dark world of crime and despair. Widowed by a serial killer and desperate for answers, Charlie sets out on a quest to uncover the murderer's identity and bring them to justice. As he delves deeper into the depths of the underworld, he uncovers secrets and horrors that he never expected to find. Will Charlie be able to bring the killer to justice, or will he remain...
7554) Sacrifice
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DS Heckenburg novels volume 2
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Innocent people are dying. Who will be next? Find out in the second Detective Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg from #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch. A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine's Day - each with an arrow through the heart - something more...
7555) Butcher's Wood
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Brighton novels volume 8
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A bloody death of an actress during a theatre show has DI Gilchrist and DS Heap investigate . . . but was it a bizarre accident or a deliberate attack?
During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor into falling to his death from the stage. The source of the blood: Elvira Wright, the lead actress, has been bludgeoned by a lead weight used for...
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Dans une ambiance de carnaval, Mary Lester mène l'enquête!
Quand, en hiver, on découvre dans une mansarde une personne âgée morte de froid, personne ne s'en étonne. Mais quand ladite mansarde contient quatre cadavres de vieillards victimes des basses températures, on peut s'interroger sur les véritables raisons de ces décès.
Or, quand la police est aux prises avec l'insolite dans un coin de Bretagne, on ne tarde pas à voir paraitre...
7557) Last One Alive
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Louisa's eyes narrowed, trying to get a clearer look at the person standing before her. Their expression was cold. Mercilessly cold. Louisa crawled back against the wall and screamed... When Detective Kjeld Nygaard is called to the discovery of a body in the burnt-out shell of a house, his heart sinks. He never wanted to see this house again. The house of a notorious serial killer. The house where he rescued Louisa Karlsson from being murdered. But...
7558) The Woman Most Wanted
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Did Tom Riley arrest the wrong woman? For six years, the Sarasota Falls police chief has been hunting the cunning beauty involved in his partner's death. Now here she is, back in his New Mexico town, her face a match to the one on the wanted posters. But the woman Tom Riley knows as Rachel Ramsey insists her name is Heather Graves. Is Heather really as innocent as she claims? And what is he supposed to do about their undeniable mutual attraction?...
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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.
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7560) Défi au Solitaire
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Un tueur en série rde à Cherbourg. Des femmes meurent les unes après les autres. Le commissaire Gardin est dessaisi de l'enquête. Jefferson Floyd est sur l'affaire ! Mais un Corbeau le menace et il semble dépassé par les événements. Pourra-t-il compter sur ses amis ou va-t-il fermer SOS Action ? Le défi est lancé !
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À la suite de Jefferson Floyd le solitaire, Ludovic Daragon revient avec le deuxième volet de la...
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