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55681) Potions and Notions
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Colleen's mother and the tea party ladies at Seaview Manor in Gasper's Cove have secrets to keep. When the ladies start talking witches, right before Halloween, Colleen begins to worry. Unsettled by an explosive death in the community, and the reappearance of a black cat called Maybelline, Colleen knows she has no choice but to use the tea party's potions and notions to restore order. How else will she ensure that justice is served and still get her...
55682) Hope of Heaven
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Hope of Heaven, first published in 1938, is a fast-paced novel by John O'Hara in the "doomed romance" genre. The novel centers on a world-weary Hollywood screenwriter of only limited success in his mid-thirties who is in love with an idealistic young woman in her twenties who is only mildly interested in him. When her father, a private detective, comes to Los Angeles on a case in which the screenwriter has a part, tragedy ensues. John O'Hara (1905-1970)...
55683) Pekingese Premonition
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When reluctant pet psychic Frankie Chandler receives images of an elderly neighbor's unnatural demise via that woman's pet Pekingese, she wonders who could possibly want a harmless old woman dead. Even more curious, how is the dog able to send her details on a death that hasn't yet happened? And can she stop the murder in time? Novella.
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Paradise can't contain a woman out for justice.Sophie has escaped a dark past to right wrongs as a crime fighter, and she won't let anything stand in her way. Grab this second box set in an award-winning series, and dive into paradise with Sophie as she navigates thrillers with "more twists than a bag of eels!" WIRED SECRET:Palm trees, volcanoes, and black sand beaches are the backdrop for murder when security specialist Sophie and her dog Ginger...
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Lorsque des émeutes historiques éclatent dans la ville de Gleen Park, le gouvernement décide de mettre en place un décret d'un nouveau genre: le Liberatio. Depuis son instauration, le crime et la délinquance sont devenus inexistants au sein de la cité. Thémis Farron, brigadier-chef de la police, se voit muter dans ce nouveau «paradis de l'ordre». Elle va alors découvrir les dessous de cette nouvelle forme de justice.
55686) A Midsummer Fright's Scream
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When a swindling playboy crashes his car into the side of Magic Cakes Café, Evelyn wants to know who killed him. And why was it done with a stake through the man's heart?
Was Giovanni Conti a vampire? And why was he clutching a silver bullet in his fist? Are werewolves involved? This sounds like a matter for the Beings of Magic Committee – what could possibly go wrong?
To find out who killed Giovanni, Evelyn must keep her witchy wits about her...
55687) South Village
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Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I. emphasis on 'amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a commune in the Georgia woods, binge-drinking cheap whiskey and waiting for his passport to flee the country and nightmares that have followed him. Then a man is found dead. Known only as 'Crusty Pete', the commune dweller is sprawled...
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Plongez dans l'univers trouble des trafiquants de bijoux...
Francesca, une étudiante de Locarno, tombe par hasard sur un collier de diamants, dissimulé dans les affaires de sa mère défunte. Intriguée par cette découverte insolite, elle décide alors d'en identifier la provenance. Entre bijoutiers cupides, trafiquants de moissanite et mystérieux usuriers, la vie bien rangée de la jeune femme va soudain être bouleversée. Ces pierres ont-elles...
55689) Host of Angels
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Getting her brother out of prison was just the beginning of Eliza Kingston's battle.
After twenty years, Michael Kingston has been released from prison. Eliza wants to be happy about that, but she can't stop worrying about why he was released.
As she continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding his arrest, a ghost from the past returns. Everyone in Eliza's life could be in danger and it is a race against time to find the evidence that...
55690) Lou Boldt
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The New York Times–bestselling author's "engaging cop hero" finds himself on the other side of the interview room in this revealing short story (Publishers Weekly).
After twenty-seven years on the force, Lt. Lou Boldt is suddenly seated at a table being grilled as part of an internal investigation. They want him to talk about what happened with ten grand in cash in the evidence room. As the pressure mounts and Boldt leads his interrogators...
55691) Tell Me a Story
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George Washington Township, New Jersey has seen its fair share of crime and tragedy. Most recently, a young boy is missing from his home and the tenacious Detective Claire Goodnite is eager to find him.But the case is stirring up old memories best left forgotten. When a blast from her own past, FBI Special Agent Wesley O'Connell, turns up, Claire finds it hard to keep old ghosts at rest. And even harder to keep the sexy SAIC out of her case and her...
55692) The Terror
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The sensational novel, which launched Collins' Detective Story Club in 1929, was by Edgar Wallace, who wrote more crime stories in the 1920s, and more films, than any other author. This new edition of The Terror, with its original jacket artwork, also includes another classic Wallace text, White Face.
A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot. Finally...
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Loudun, une petite ville de province perdue aux confins du Poitou. En ce début des années soixante, le procès de «l'empoisonneuse», Marie Besnard vient de se clore à son avantage. Au XVII e siècle l'affaire des «possédées de Loudun» s'est beaucoup moins bien terminée pour Urbain Grandier, le principal accusé, brûlé en place publique, sur l'un des derniers bûchers de France. C'est par le vol des cendres du supplicié au musée de Loudun...
55694) Village of Ghosts
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In the village of Little Wyvern, located in legend-haunted Hammershire County, many residents do not have a pulse. The dear departed far outnumber the living, but that is the way it has always been in England's most haunted village. Will-o'-the-whisps, glowing shapes in the graveyard of St Barnabus and rattling chains at midnight are common. No one fears the dead. Things change, however, when a campaign is started by FOG (the Friends of Ghosts) to...
55695) The Groote Park Murder
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From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.
When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn't satisfied that Albert Smith's death was accidental,...
55696) Rendez-vous raté à Quimperlé
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Tout commence par une étrange disparition...
Un samedi soir de mai, une jeune Quimpéroise quitte en voiture le domicile familial pour se rendre à Quimperlé, chez des amis qui l'ont invitée. Elle n'arrive pas à destination...
D'habitude ponctuelle, son retard finit par inquiéter ses htes qui ne parviennent pas à la joindre sur son portable, pas plus que ses parents, eux aussi de sortie.
Quand cette disparition s'avère alarmante, l'enquête...
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Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences...
Il y a Luciano et Joseph, Timothée et Jean-Maurice. Et aussi Charlie, dit "Le Poussin". Rosalie mène sa petite troupe avec autorité et élégance : main de fer dans un gant de velours.
Ils sont tous serviables, amicaux, ingénieux et pleins d'entrain.
Pourtant, ne vous y trompez pas, ces gens-là sont tout sauf des enfants de chœur. Leurs activités sont lucratives, discrètes et tout à fait immorales.
Mais...
55698) Number Thirteen, Manor Close
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** Please note - this is a novella length piece of fiction, about 20,000 words** It is 2014. Beatrice and Mike Dunhill are finally moving into a house of their own, Number Thirteen, Manor Close. Part of the brand new Asharton Estate, Number Thirteen is built on the remains of the original Asharton Manor which was destroyed in a fire in 1973. Still struggling a little from the recent death of her mother, Beatrice is happy to have finally have a home...
55699) Ice Valley
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Pip Mason is neurodiverse and unwillingly psychic. Staying in Ruth's Cottage, a series of unsettling premonitions send her home.Soon her life spirals terrifyingly out of control.When she meets detective Bill Browne, her world unexpectedly changes forever.
55700) One of Ours
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Death hits close to home in One of Ours when Chicago detective Joe Erickson is called to the scene of a fatal shooting. The victim, a police captain Joe knows well, had been working on his own time to solve a cold case before he retired. Determining he was silenced for getting too close to the truth, Joe picks up the trail and finds it teeming with corruption, executions, and a conspiracy involving a powerful city official. Can Joe crack the cold...
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