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Bandits
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Elmore Leonard |
Working at his brother-in-law’s New Orleans funeral home isn’t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney’s idea of excitement—until he’s dispatched to a leper’s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to… |
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A Pin to See the Peep Show
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F. Tennyson Jesse,Elaine Morgan |
This famous novel, first published in 1934, is based on the sensational Thompson-Bywaters murder case of 1923, which ended with the conviction and execution of Mrs Thompson and her lover for the murd… |
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Il cimitero di Praga
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Umberto Eco |
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In… |
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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John le Carré |
Spy Novel |
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Brooke
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V. C. Andrews |
All she wanted was a mother's warm embrace... Brooke was an orphan, abandoned long ago by a mother she barely knew. And though her new family seemed to offer the promise of a new beginning, a dark vo… |
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Deadlines (Larkin Family Chronicles)
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Greg Bear |
With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals, award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he v… |
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The case of the vanishing fishhook
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John R. Erickson |
Hank the Cowdog is supervising Little Alfred's fishing trip, but what started as a routine expedition turns into a crisis when a fishhook finds its way into Hank's stomach. |
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The Modigliani Scandal
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Ken Follett |
Todas las intrigas y corrupciones del mundo del arte, con sus notables implicaciones económicas, desfilan por estas páginas escritas con la habitual maestría de Ken Follett. |
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Night without end
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Alistair MacLean |
Word count 26,670 Bestseller. |
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Uncle Silas
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliff… |
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Ride a Pale Horse
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Helen MacInnes |
When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of… |
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The summer of the Danes
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Edith Pargeter |
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England--almost a peace. For several months there has been little actual fighting between the forces of King Stephen and those of Empress Maud, … |
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The heretic’s apprentice
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Edith Pargeter |
This book examines what true piety is. The main character is the apprentice of a man, now dead, who is suddenly accused of having been a heretic.
In this book, Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), th… |
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The Reaper
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Peter Lovesey |
"Otis Joy is the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Foxford, Wiltshire, England. Soon after a pastoral visit to him by the bishop, the bishop's body is found lying at th… |
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The Secret Adversary
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Agatha Christie |
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excit… |
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The Wailing Wind CD
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Tony Hillerman |
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nat… |
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The Blood Doctor
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Ruth Rendell |
The current Lord Nanther (Martin) is going to write a biography of his ancestor, the first Lord Nanther (Henry). This first Lord Nanther was a physician of Queen Victoria, and was specialized in bloo… |
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When We Were Orphans
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cas… |
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Black Amber
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Phyllis A. Whitney |
**From the jacket**
In an ancient land of Mosques and Minarets, the secret behind her sister's death is hidden. When Anabel Radburn placed a desperate overseas phonecall to her sister Tracy saying… |
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