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  • A Murmuring of Bees
    Atlin Merrick
    Think of Sherlock Holmes and you think of mysteries, John Watson…and bees. While Arthur Conan Doyle sent the great detective to tend hives in retirement, here bees are front and centre in stories of love and romance, war and hope, of honey on the tongue and a sting in the tail. In tales of rare nectars, secret diaries, and the private language of lovers, bees may be the buzzing...
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    15,82 €

  • Lucky the Hard Way
    Deborah Coonts
    “Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)Murder Takes a HolidayFor Lucky O’Toole, living with murder is, well…murder. As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description, but murder? Not so much…until recently…LUCKY THE HARD WAYFacing a murder indictment, Lucky’s first love,...
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    15,64 €

  • Exactors
    J.P. Strohm / Jay Erickson
    Exactor- noun, \ig- zak-ter\ Mercenaries. Contractors hired by the Jasian Enclave, but hold no such religious or political affiliations to it. Wetwork, theft, espionage, and sabotage. You use an Exactor. Political extractions, humanitarian missions, exorcisms... You use an Exactor. They are a collection of eclectic personalities with such diversley unique skill sets that the C...
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    24,18 €

  • Southern Discomfort
    Margaret Maron
    Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomenAid, is at th...
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    36,60 €

  • Are You There?
    Vic Rizzo
    Geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor, Mitzi Weaver finds her world turned upside down when three exceptional teens in her care abruptly vanish. She waits in the Bath County Sheriff's Office for Lieutenant Phil Jenkins, a hard-nosed veteran cop at the Virginia Bureau of Criminal Investigation and up-and-coming FBI Special Agent Clifton Cox. During intense questioning, they...
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    15,45 €

  • The Annam Jewel
    Patricia Wentworth
    “Thou hast betrayed, and thou hast slain…” What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every owner of it has suffered an unhappy fate. When Peter Waring, nephew of the original thief, inherited the jewel, it would mean great power and wealth—or so he imagined. His rude awakening leads to a maze of deceit and treachery, a bogu...
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    11,49 €

  • Red Stefan
    Patricia Wentworth
    Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this…Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is about to throw herself into a river in despair. The Communists have been persecuting her in order to obtain the vital formula her husband devised just before his...
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    12,50 €

  • Nothing Venture
    Patricia Wentworth
    “I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders.” The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely business arrangement – to Jervis. But for Nan there is true romance behind it – a romance which began for her in childhood days – and she is content to be considere...
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    11,41 €

  • Tommy Red
    Charlie Stella
    TOMMY RED   Tommy Dalton’s ex-wife is on an honesty kick with their daughter, Alysha. She tells her that her dad kills people. Which, of course, he does. But that’s not the kind of information he wants shared with his kids. Particularly now that he’s working on a new job. Dominick Farase, ready to testify against the Cirelli family, needs silencing. An ex-cop spots him and le...
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    11,68 €

  • Eyeless in Cooley
    David M. Kiely
    In 2000 an octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from the Irish Republic. Is it a paramilitary killing? Or something infinitely more sinister?  Blade Macken, detective superintendent with Dublin's elite Special Branch, is assigned to the case. But forces higher than the law are a...
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    10,54 €

  • Room At The Inn
    L.L. Bartlett / L.LBartlett
    Jeff Resnick is definitely out of his element when he and Maggie take a working vacation at a quaint Vermont inn. For most people, the chance to spend time with a beautiful woman in a romantic, isolated setting would be a plus, but the moment Jeff crosses the Sugar Maple Inn’s threshold, his sixth sense warns him that someone is about to meet a violent death.His anxiety intensi...
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    13,06 €

  • The Shadow Syndicate
    S.D. Skye
    2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner -- Multicultural Fiction  REVENGE IS A DANGEROUS GAME WHEN IT PITS THE ITALIAN MAFIA AGAINST DEADLY RUSSIAN SPIES  The FBI and Italian Mafia make strange bedfellows when a vicious Russian Organized crime figure, operating at the behest of Russian Intelligence, lands in The Big Apple. The henchman, infamously known as Mashkov, aveng...
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    10,36 €

  • The Lafayette Campaign
    Andrew Updegrove
    America is rushing headlong into another election year, but something is wrong - the polls don't match reality. It's up to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the Black Hats who are trying to hack the presidential election, and stop them before they do. The action begins when a nameless government agency recruits Adversego to find out who's manipulati...
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    13,49 €

  • Silent Night Violent Night
    CJ Verburg
    Cory Goodwin and Lilah Darnell were rebels and comrades-in-arts at Mount Holyoke College. Now Cory’s a Boston journalist and a discreet private sleuth, and Lilah’s the trophy wife of wealthy science publisher Bruce Easton. The mystery is why Lilah, a talented sculptor leading a charmed life, is desperate for Cory to visit her waterfront Connecticut home. At the Eastons’ posh Ch...
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    16,40 €

  • Ties That Bind
    Carolyn Arnold
    Grab a badge and a gun and strap in for an absolutely gripping ride that’s 'full of suspense from the beginning to the end...' (Readers Abode) She could feel him watching her... Though every time she turned to look, there was no one there. The rest of the world thought she was going crazy-until it was too late. When Laura Saunders is found strangled in her home with a man’s nec...
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    19,04 €

  • Witch and Famous
    Colleen Cross
    Lights, camera, assassin… A Hollywood movie shoot comes to town and journalist Cendrine West is eager for a scoop. Her witchy family also wants in on the action, but shenanigans with the stars soon turn to Tinseltown tragedy.Bodies are piling up faster than a coven’s worth of curses, and everything points back to Cen’s starstruck family. They will stop at nothing in their quest...
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    17,82 €

  • Thrill Girl
    Jack Curran
    June, 1951...It’s a tense summer in the City of Angels. A killer is on the loose. She’s blonde, she’s beautiful, and she murders bad guys.  On three different occasions, she thwarted a mugging in progress, saving the innocent, dispatching the guilty, and fading away like a whisper in the rain. She never waits around for thanks.  Apparently she doesn’t want any.Who is this woman...
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    10,21 €

  • Mark of the Devil
    Tana Collins
    A murder in a remote town puts a Scottish detective on the trail of a deadly international conspiracy in this tense crime thriller.   While Det. Chief Inspector Jim Carruthers and his team are busy investigating a series of art thefts, they receive an anonymous tip about the body of a young woman on a deserted beach. The bizarre clues to the woman’s murder include a strange tat...
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    11,62 €

  • Murder Picks the Jury
    Harrison Hunt
    There were three witnesses to swear that only Gregory Drake could have been in the back room with Maysie Grey when she was strangled to death. Even Randolph Lee, Drake’s defense counsel, thought that his client was guilty. It took two more murders to wake Lee up, to show him that the only way he himself could survive was to track down the killer, before the killer found him...F...
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    20,30 €

  • The Darlington Substitution
    Hugh Ashton
    The deed box of Dr. John Watson, entrusted by him over a century ago to Cox & Co. of Charing Cross, and which made its way to Hugh Ashton in Kamakura, Japan, continues to yield treasure.The box proved to have a false bottom, under which lay the manuscript of a full-length adventure of Sherlock Holmes, in which the great detective needs all his cunning and detective powers to un...
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    7,58 €

  • Dan Arrow and the New World Order
    Edward S. Baker
    Dan Arrow is a private detective who’s catapulted into a world he never imagined when a guy named Billy Powers dies the night before their first meeting. In the mail the next morning, Dan receives Powers’s notebook, which is full of handwritten comments and clipped articles about seemingly unrelated events. Initially dismissing the notebook’s contents as the work of a crackpot,...
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    10,19 €

  • Heed the Apocalypse
    Waights Taylor Jr.
    Heed the Apocalypse pushes the boundaries of reality to tell a gripping story of murder, committed and thwarted, as it marches with Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, toward a startling conclusion. What if the events at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early morning hours of September 15, 1963, had turned out...
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    12,74 €

  • Above and Beyond
    Don Lomax
    Beginning in May of 2007, noted comic writer and illustrator Don Lomax (MARVEL's The Punisher, CALIBER COMIC's Vietnam Journal) teamed up with Police and Security News magazine to produce the series "Above and Beyond" - real life depictions of heroic acts by law enforcement professionals.   Just as our soldiers here and abroad deserve recognition for their unwavering se...
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    10,24 €

  • FUTURE RICHES and THE FELT TIP MURDERS
    B.L. Faulkner / B.LFaulkner
    THE PALMER  CASES        Justin Palmer started off on the beat as a London policeman in 1964 and is now Detective Chief Superintendent Palmer running the Serial Murder Squad from New Scotland Yard.Not one to pull punches or give a hoot for political correctness if it hinders his inquiries Palmer has gone as far as he will go in the Met. and he knows it. Master of the one line p...
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    11,81 €

  • Murder at Fantasia Fair
    Jeannette de Beauvoir
    Wedding coordinator Sydney Riley never thought she’d get caught up in a murder investigation, but she became an amateur sleuth when her boss was killed during Bear Week. Now she’s back, this time as the Race Point Inn hosts Provincetown’s venerable transgender event, Fantasia Fair… and murder is once again an uninvited guest! It’s all hands on deck at the inn as visitors arrive...
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    9,89 €

  • The Romanov Dynasty ... What If
    Diana E. Linn / Diana ELinn
    What if ... The Romanov Dynasty is a novel written around Nicholas II and his family. It begins with the love story of Jacob Abram, who leaves Germany for Russia, running to escape the imminent death threats that he and many Jewish people experienced. He falls hopelessly in love. Little does he know that he will become indentured to Nicholas II to aid in the possible escape of ...
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    20,61 €

  • Cruising to Death
    Maryellen Winkler
    Intrepid amateur sleuth, Emily Menotti, is having fun on her first Caribbean cruise along with new friends from the Wayward Sisters book club. But, as they head out of New York City for warmer climes, a recently married friendgoes missing and another becomes ill.With the help of her clairsentient pal, Melinda, Emily starts investigating. Yet even a séance, guided by Melinda, re...
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    12,77 €

  • Fall Guys
    Ian Andrew / TBD
    Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army’s Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and both were lucky to make it home. Now they are private investigators in the service of an off-the-books agency.When reports of British weapons in the hands of ISIS are ignored by those in government, Kara is...
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    15,89 €

  • Gales of November
    Aaron Stander
    It has taken more than two decades, but the members of the Leiston School Winter Adventure Group of 1990 are finally reunited near their old school.  The intimate gathering opens with the renewal of old friendships at a private Lake Michigan estate near their old school. But the alcohol-fueled camaraderie soon melts away as old rivalries begin to surface, as do old secrets — o...
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    13,02 €

  • Headless
    Tristram Lowe
    'A captivating mystery with just the right touch of paranormal . . . a great read for those who enjoy a bit of gore, historical fiction, and mythology in their mysteries.' - Portland Book Review'engrossed with the mystery, loving the combination of supernatural and historical details. ... Though the book had undeniably dark and creepy moments, the humor helped balance it out.' ...
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    16,06 €