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She's hot, well read, and absolutely mad-and she won't let him go Bank robber Cooper picks her up at the supermarket, where he spies her shoplifting and warns her that the store detective is watching her. She puts the stolen food back, and he buys her lunch. It's the worst mistake he's ever made. What this pretty young American girl is doing in South London is a mystery to him. Her name is Cassie, and she acts sane until they get home. She's normal...
2) Green Ice
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In this Golden Age noir classic, a falsely convicted man is released from prison only to find he's being framed for multiple murders In the 1930s, when pulp magazines like Black Mask reigned and noir fiction was in its heyday, mystery author Raoul Whitfield ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the genre's heavy hitters. Widely acknowledged by those in the know as a pioneer of hard-boiled detective fiction, Whitfield wrote...
3) Cry at Dusk
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A college football star's dark past catches up with him when his uncle is murdered. Johnny Marks knows all about running, and not just because he's a standout on the football field. Ever since he was twelve, he's been raised by his shady Uncle Walter, moving from town to town and using a different name each time, until forged transcripts land him a place at a top-tier college. Johnny, now going by the name Oliver Stringer, doesn't know why he and...
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»Totschlag" ist eines der raren Werke des Hardboiled-Poeten Paul Cain, der Ende der zwanziger einen kurzen kometenhaften Aufstieg als Pulp-Autor erlebte, bevor er in den Regalen der Antiquariate verschwand. Seine Stories und Romane erschienen in dem legendären Pulp-Magazin Black Mask, in dem auch Dashiell Hammett und Raymond Chandler ihre Karrieren begannen. Cains Figuren sind Betrüger, heruntergekommene Privatdetektive, Bodyguards, versoffene...
5) Wild Turkey
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Phil Landsdale has problems. He's out of a job, his son's a pyromaniac, and his wife is running out of excuses as to why she comes home from work every night six hours late.
In his newly appointed house-husband position, Phil decides he has plenty of time to figure things out. And, he learns when you have a lot of time on your hands, you begin to notice your neighbors, intricate nuances, and the upset balance if someone doesn't follow the same routine...Like...
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Drum guards a killer against an assassin with diplomatic immunity Everybody knows George Brandvik killed Jorgen Kolding. As soon as the jury acquits him, Brandvik sells his story to View magazine, confessing to the crime in exchange for a payday. Once the magazine hits newsstands, the death threats start rolling in-semi-literate garbage which nevertheless must be taken seriously. A reporter from View hires private detective Chester Drum to protect...
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Die Twice--two gripping Dennis Milne mysteries in one from Simon Kernick.
The Murder Exchange
When ex-mercenary Max Iversson agreed to provide security for nightclub owner Roy Fowler, he never expected a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson was guarding is empty...and now he wants to know why. So begins a dangerous hunt for answers that will take him into direct conflict with Detective Sergeant John Gallan, who is investigating...
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A drive-by killing puts Drum on the scent of a Washington sex scandal When Chester Drum first took a crack at detective work, PI Gil Sprayregan offered to split a case with him, giving the rookie half the fee and more credit than he deserved. Years later, Drum is established and Gil is at the tail end of a long, slow fall, drinking heavily and considering blackmail to make ends meet. When he gets in over his head, Sprayregan's wife begs Drum to help....
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The reporter suspects a missing senator was cremated in the colossal oil shale smelter, and the murderer is the operator of the plant. The reporter vanishes, captured by one-world zoning advocates. The chief zoner is the son of the missing senator, on the scene to get at the truth.
10) Glass House
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A novel inspired by the true story of a lone policeman who was killed at the edge of one of the most dangerous housing projects in New Orleans. Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest. Burgess Monroe...
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Nadie la oyó gritar…
El cadáver decapitado y mutilado de una mujer es encontrado en el barrio de Chinatown en Boston.
Las únicas pistas que tienen la detective de homicidios Jane Rizzoli y su compañera, la médico forense Maura Isles, son dos hebras de pelo gris plateado -no humano- que se han adherido al cuerpo. Pero pronto descubrirán que esa muerte violenta ha tenido una escalofriante precuela.
Diecinueve años antes un brutal asesinato,...
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When his source is murdered, Harker knows he's on the right track. Finally, Harker has a break in the nuclear story. There is a vast conspiracy inside the government to keep the dangers of nuclear energy from the public, and now he has a source on the inside. Anna Alexander, an employee at a nuclear firm, has documents that will blow the industry wide open, if she can make it to her rendezvous with Harker alive. Her employers are poisoning her with...
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Mein Name ist Uwe Jörgensen. Ich bin Kriminalhauptkommissar in Hamburg und gehöre einer Spezialabteilung des BKA an, die sich vor allem um das organisierte Verbrechen kümmert. Zusammen mit meinem Kollegen Roy Müller bin ich in dieser Hinsicht seit Jahren aktiv. Viel Freizeit bleibt da nicht. Das ist einfach so.
Kommissar Jörgensen und der Hacker
Er ist einer der berüchtigten Hacker aller Zeiten. Und er versucht den Coup seines Lebens zu machen,...
14) Ring Game
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To save a friend's daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos Poker-playing ex-cop Joe Crow has been dealt some rotten hands in his life, but he's survived them all. When Axel Speeter starts begging for help, Crow suspects his luck is about to run out. A taco-dealing former poker pro, Speeter's worried about his girlfriend's daughter Carmen. She's the sexiest trouble magnet the state of Omaha has ever seen,...
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To save his old firm, Reuben Frost must find a killer in the heart of Hell's Kitchen It's the last business day of the year and Tom Henderson is alone in the library of prominent Wall Street law firm Chase & Ward. He'll be out the door as soon as he grabs one last volume of case law from the sleek compact shelving system recently installed in the firm's new Clinton Plaza building. But when the shelves slide open, they reveal the mangled body of...
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Three women were murdered and later found tattooed. But, these murders were never solved. Years later, a woman's body is, found again with the same tattoo. Has the killer struck again? But, why this long pause? The two investigators Harry Kubinke and Rudi Meier ask themselves, who wants to solve these murders and convict the murderer.
17) Dead Ball
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Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who's on the verge of making history Fifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls "sad man-ism" when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team's star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio's "unbreakable" fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving...
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Three attacks on police headquarters. All of them have died. The suspicion is that a sect called the "Kingdom of the Last Days" is responsible for these attacks. But, what connection is there with the attack on the transporter that transported confiscated contraband goods from Rostock to Potsdam?
Investigators Harry Kubinke and Rudi Meier feel as if they are, hanging in a spider's web, because the case is, delicate and the enemy dangerous.
19) Rilke on Black
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A poorly planned kidnapping turns bloody Lisa is too good-looking not to be trouble. Nick falls for her as soon as he meets the lithe young black woman, and though their drug-fueled relationship quickly turns toxic, he can't stop wanting her. In a flash, she's burnt through his savings and cost him his job, so she proposes a kidnapping scheme to reinvigorate their bank accounts. Nick is too smart to think it's a good idea, but too stupid to say no....
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Ein Krimi aus Brandenburg
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von Peter Wilkening
Ein Mord am Lehnitzsee in der kleinen Kreisstadt Oranienburg schreckt die Bevölkerung auf. Als dann noch der zweite und dritte Mord passieren, greift Panik um sich! Gelingt es den Protagonisten Kriminalhauptkommissar Werner Winter, Kriminalkommissarin Martha Hoffmann und dem Schriftsteller Friedrich Wilhelming, die Situation in den Griff zu bekommen und den Mörder zu überführen?
Peter Wilkening...
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