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In the tranquil setting of the South Downs a killer is at large as a young girl suffers a cruel death, the second such death in the area. Law enforcement officers are under extreme pressure to apprehend the culprit and suspicion falls on a mild-mannered music teacher who is wholly innocent of the crime. Lies are told in open court that ensures his conviction and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Young Detective Sergeant Josie Prentiss is deeply...
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New York City. 1974. Captain Don Gregory, a World War II veteran, hires Lee to investigatethe murder of his son, Sean, an ex-hippie who became a successfulentrepreneur.Meanwhile, Lee's sister, Ann, is recovering from a savage attack on her life.During Lee's investigation, he discovers a connection between the two incidents.
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An ex-con risks his freedom and his life to rekindle an old love affair They call him Bad Dan, the Man Who Can. A talented photographer who makes his living smuggling premium Thai marijuana into the States, he meets Shel at a Las Vegas blackjack table, and falls instantly in love. After two years of whirlwind passion, they are living in California and plotting a final score. But in his haste to escape the con life, Dan makes a fatal mistake. The score...
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Inspector Lech Investigates.
Most people see Canberra as Australia's National Capital and the headquarters of its Federal Parliament and boring politics. Of course it's much more than that. A city of over 400,000 people, of monuments and important institutions and sporting organisations. It's not the perfectly planned city envisioned by its creators however, human nature sees to that. So we have crime – and murder.
6) Sin aditivos
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A finales del mes de julio, al borde de las vacaciones y con el calor acechando cuerpos y mentes, el único objetivo del abogado protagonista de esta novela, con tanta habilidad para sacar adelante sus casos como pocos escrúpulos para complacer a sus clientes, es poder disfrutar de unos días de tranquilidad junto a su pareja y su hija.
Pero ni la isla ni su trabajo le darán tregua. La isla, porque algunos de los cadáveres que con frecuencia recibe...
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Una anciana millonaria aparece brutalmente asesinada en Biarritz, en un apartamento decadente que ella misma había alquilado. ¿Qué razones la llevaron allí y qué vínculo la unía con su asesino? Esos interrogantes serán el punto de partida de una investigación que poco a poco irá revelando otros enigmas y que estará teñida por el contraste entre un mundo de luces -riqueza, poder, arte en los barrios elegantes de París- y otro de sombras.
Aunque...
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Marc Olván es un abogado de oficio en horas bajas, enamoradizo y alcohólico, que no pasa precisamente por un gran momento. Lidia Pedralba es una madre desesperada porque su hijo está en prisión preventiva, a la espera de juicio, acusado de violar a un niño de cuatro años. Pedralba necesita un abogado para actuar contra Daniel Trujillo, el juez qua ha enviado a la cárcel a su hijo sin ni siquiera escucharlo, a la vez que ha dejado en libertad...
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Valverde del Camino, 2019. A serial killer leaves a third corpse with the same note in Huelva. It's the police's only lead. Three weeks and nothing.Ángela Ramírez left Valverde after her mother's death, and now, convinced by her partner and her best friend from her youth, she will have to return to face her most difficult case, and not only that, but also her past. A past she thought she had left behind.With the help of the Guardia Civil, Angela...
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The media has glamorized gangs and have drawn people to the lifestyle. Movies, music and video games have pushed an agenda of idiotic behavior and confusion yet the gang members mindset as well as culture of the gang goes deeper than man could believe. In this review we examine this culture to get a better understanding.
11) Fatal Twist
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The Park Rapist has murdered his first victim-and FBI profiler Karen Vail is on the case. As Vail races through the streets of Washington, DC, to chase down a promising lead that may help her catch the killer, a military-trained sniper takes aim at his target, a wealthy businessman's son. But what brings these two unrelated offenders together is something the nation's capital has never before experienced. Alan Jacobson received several years of personalized...
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I do not know what second it will be, what minute it will be, what hour, or even day. But it will come. You may see it coming. You may not. Regardless, I can guarantee you; there will be a moment like no other when you will draw your last breath. Like it or lump it. And at that moment you will see your final view of the world. However, what I do not know, is whether your last glimpse will be the sympathetic countenance of a loved one or the grotesque,...
13) Dead or Alive
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Introducing Detective Inspector Sep Black in the first of a brand-new series of hard-hitting police procedurals, set in Leeds. Two children have been abducted on their way home from school. After several weeks, they are still missing-and no one knows whether they are alive or dead. The police are certain that ruthless local gangster Vince Formosa is behind the kidnapping, but without proof their hands are tied. Forced to resign following an accidental...
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Silence can be deadly... What's the best way to frighten a Deaf person? Turn off the light. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it isn't funny at all. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, finds herself at the heart of a set of brutal murders. Teaming up with the lead Detective, the pair attempt to understand the psychology driving the killer. Having a voice, and being able to read not only lips, but body language, Annie realises that the killer...
15) ShadowShow
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The horrifying tales at the ShadowShow Theater are unique. Under new ownership, the theater delivers terrifying scenes of violent sex and gore that pack the theater in the small town of Gaither, Georgia each night. New owner Athanial Badon never tells the people who push into these midnight movies that it will be themselves acting out these horrors on the screen. But when the lights come on, the nightmare continues.
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Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.
On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied, her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby...
17) Don't Tell
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Some secrets are too big to keep... How well do you really know your husband? Carrie and Steve Atwell have been happily married for fifteen years and live an idyllic life. But Carrie has no idea her world is about to be turned upside down when she finds a single earring in her husband Steve's car. At first, she suspects the man she loves is having an affair, but the truth may be far more sinister... For the past few months, the young female victims...
18) City of the Dead
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Winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière: As chief medical examiner of New York City, Paul Konig has one of the world's most difficult jobs-and when his daughter goes missing, he must take on his most wrenching case yet New York City in the 1970s is a dark, dangerous, and threatening place. One of the bright spots in this decaying metropolis is Paul Konig. As the city's chief medical examiner, he has developed an impressive reputation for...
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The man was 100 yards from his moment of destiny. He was oblivious to it, of course. Murderers don't necessarily realise they are killers until a few seconds before it happens. Murderers are sometimes just like you and me. He would never have dreamed that such a thing might happen. Ridiculous. If anyone had told him that today was the day he would turn into a killer, he would have looked at them quizzically; questioning their sanity, instead of his...
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