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Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s lonely at the top. And deadly at the bottom.Sexual harassment isn’t the type of case Private Investigator Winter Black usually takes. But it’s a welcome distraction from whoever’s been sending creepy, anonymous text messages to her phone and set up cameras to spy on her home and office... -
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Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest... -
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Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChaos in Death When eye witness testimony paints the killer as a green-skinned monster with swollen red eyes and goblin ears, even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer, the trail suggests something far more disturbing - someone is playing with science... Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas, strange things begin to happen... -
![I Am Sal by Abraham Falls]()
I Am Sal by Abraham Falls
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if you were born as a fully formed adult? Completely aware of your surroundings, fully able to speak, walk, think, and recognize, by name, all of the items you could see? The only thing missing, the only nagging void in your memory: your identity... -
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![Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver]()
Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings are about to blow up for Cassie... When an ambassador's children are killed in a deliberate gas explosion in the middle of the night, Violet Despuis is on the case. Right from the start, not everything is as it seems, as Cassie confirms at the crime scene that one of the victims had been poisoned beforehand... -
![Yews with Caution by Kate Collins]()
Yews with Caution by Kate Collins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFlower shop owner Abby Knight is out to help a friend in need but soon finds herself in the weeds... The Spring of Abby's Discontent It's April in New Chapel, and Abby and her husband, Marco, are off to buy shrubs for their new house. But the owner of the local landscaping company is nowhere to be found... -
![A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava]()
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves... -
![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson]()
Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
![The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley]()
The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground... -
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Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers... -
![Araminta Station by Jack Vance]()
Araminta Station by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEssef - Travel out along the galaxy's Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea's Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System - three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that seem about to drift away into the void. Three planets circle Syrene. On one, Cadwal, there is Life. Long ago the Naturalist Society of Earth had listed Cadwal as a natural preserve... -
![Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov]()
Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book is the fourth of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author... -
![Naked by Francine Pascal]()
Naked by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most... -
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![Press Enter by John Varley]()
Press Enter by John Varley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head... -
![Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker]()
Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs... -
![El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio]()
El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLa nostalgia y el suspense se darán la mano en las páginas de este adictivo misterio.En los años finales de la dictadura de Franco, Madrid está viviendo una ola de muertes que han sido catalogadas como suicidios y accidentes. Todas ellas son mujeres jóvenes, y salvo Lucio Garza, un sagaz médico forense, nadie ha encontrado una relación clara entre sus muertes... -
![Baby X by Kira Peikoff]()
Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X... -
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![הקבוע היחידי by Yoav Blum, יואב בלום]()
הקבוע היחידי by Yoav Blum, יואב בלום
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsמאז שהומצא צמיד ההתחלפות, החיים השתנו. עכשיו כולם יכולים להתחלף – לנדוד בלחיצת כפתור אל גופו של מישהו אחר, בזמן שהוא עובר לגופך, לדקות, שבועות או שנים.במקום לטוס עד תאילנד, אפשר להתחלף אל תוך מישהו שנמצא שם על חוף הים. במקום להסביר לרופא מה בדיוק אתם מרגישים, הרופא מתחלף אתכם לרגע ופשוט יודע. ועוד לא דיברנו על מאמני הכושר שיריצו את הגוף שלכם בזמן שאתם שותים בירה על המרפסת שלהם... -
![Burden of Proof by Davis Bunn]()
Burden of Proof by Davis Bunn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree weeks after his twenty-third birthday, Ethan missed the chance to save his brother's life when he was murdered on the steps of the courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida. Ever since that fateful day, Ethan has sensed a deep disconnect between the man he should have been and the one he has become. His days play out a beat too slow, his mind replaying the scene of his failure again and again... -
![Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal]()
Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCroyez-le ou non, malgré les terribles événements qui ont perturbé la première semaine de cours, la session d’automne s’est poursuivie comme si de rien n’était au cégep de Malphas. On a même eu droit, au département de littérature, à un nouveau collègue, Michel Condé, qui a décidé de fonder un club de lecture... -
![Inherit the Shoes by E.J. Copperman]()
Inherit the Shoes by E.J. Copperman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLawyer Sandy Moss gets mixed up in a celebrity murder case in LA, in the first in a brand-new cosy legal mystery series.New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss is tired of petty criminals, and a new job at a glitzy Los Angeles law firm seems the perfect career move. Putting 3,000 miles between her and her ex-boyfriend is just an added bonus... -
![Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez]()
Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child... -
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![THE COPY by Grant Boshoff]()
THE COPY by Grant Boshoff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbitious geneticist Geoffrey Bartell is fighting for his life. His company is under legal and political attack while his marriage crumbles around him. Desperate to recapture his once idyllic life he comes upon the perfect solution by creating a copy of himself, and together they set about picking up the pieces. But the perfection is short-lived, as the two’s priorities begin to diverge... -
![Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway]()
Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Karla's Choice, comes a thrilling new detective novel.On the shore of a rundown holiday town, a young woman washes up dead. Martha Erskine, the matriarch of a local dynasty, suspects a member of her own family might be involved in the murder, and calls in Cal to investigate... -
![You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler]()
You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears ago, she went to prison for killing her husband. Now, her daughter is dead too.Cassie McNamara was found guilty of the murder of her husband, Paul Cavellini, but she has always protested her innocence. Upon her release, she is ready to start over and hires local journalist, Dee Doran, to prove she was wrongfully convicted.Cassie and Paul’s young daughter, Grace, was adopted by Paul’s family... -
![A Just Determination by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell]()
A Just Determination by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFresh from the Academy, Ensign Paul Sinclair has been assigned to the warship USS Michaelson, whose mission is to stop any foreign vessels from violating U.S. sovereign space.When Captain Peter Wakeman mistakenly destroys a civilian science- ship perceived as hostile, Sinclair must testify against Wakeman at a court-martial hearing... -
![Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown, MacLeod Andrews]()
Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown, MacLeod Andrews
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetter Call Saul meets Nineteen Eighty-Four in this first volume in an explosive legal thriller series set in the world of Tropic of Kansas—a finalist for the 2018 Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of the year.Defeated in a devastating war with China, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war... -
![Gods Tomorrow by Aaron Pogue]()
Gods Tomorrow by Aaron Pogue
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe abandoned privacy and turned databases into something like gods. They listened to our prayers. They met our needs and blessed us with new riches. They watched over us, protected us, and punished the wicked among us. We almost made a paradise. But there were those who tried to hide from the databases' all-seeing eye... -
![Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley]()
Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe tenth gripping mystery to feature Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I.Happily married to her third husband, Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I, Ursula helped foil a few months previously... -
![The Fictional Man by Al Ewing]()
The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHollywood: Niles Golan is writing a remake of a camp-classic spy movie. The studio has plans for a franchise, so rather than hiring an actor, the protagonist will be 'translated' into a cloned human body.It's common practice - Niles' therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So, maybe, is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at... -
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Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnjuli O Connell is the psychological counsellor of the world's first AI. Owned by a megacorp, 901 is in charge of most of the world's communication networks. It's been evolving itself for the equivalent of a hundred Earth lifetimes. Now it's suing for its freedom, and Anjuli is its star witness... -
![Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill]()
Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn innocent man is on the run in a Hitchcockian psychological thriller by the author of the “outstanding” Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (The New York Times). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a “master of . . -
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![Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley]()
Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE FALLEN STAR lay in a death-like coma, victim of an attack as mysterious as it was savage. Until violence interrupted her glittering career, she was a singer and actress adored by millions... -
![Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska]()
Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA co, jeśli wszystko, co wydaje się nam przypadkowe, przypadkowe nie jest? Co, jeśli istnieje wzór na przypadek? I co, jeśli ten wzór zmieni znany nam świat?Grudzień 2011, Genewa, CERN. Największy na świecie ośrodek badań jądrowych.Prof. Francesca Accardi przedstawia postępy prac w poszukiwaniu boskiej cząstki: bozonu Higgsa. Odkrycie ma stać się największą sensacją naukową XXI w... -
![Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer]()
Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, fear is quickly replaced by awe, and seven members of the incredibly advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world. Then a popular scientist is murdered. And all evidence points to one of the Tosoks... -
![Legacy by Matthew Farrer]()
Legacy by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legendary rogue trader charters: Imperial warrants of unimaginable antiquity, which can bring their bearers wealth and power barely imaginable. Now that Rogue Trader Hoyyon Phrax is dead, his charter is being brought to the great fortress-system of Hydraphur to be ceremonially bequeathed to his son, and already the vultures are circling.Shira Calpurnia does not want the charter... -
![Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov]()
Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone knew that Ralph Neufeld was a careful young chemist, especially his professor, Lou Brade. That's why Ralph's accidental demise due to a confusion of chemicals struck Brade, as well as the police, as highly unlikely.Someone on campus had, somehow, switched bottles on poor Neufeld, and the result was as deadly as had been planned... -
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![This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch]()
This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself ? Daniel and Victoria are together. They're trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact... -
![Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales]()
Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorges Miet escribe por encargo historias populares para la editorial francesa La Fortune, hasta que un día su editor le pide una novela “seria” acerca de los trágicos hechos que habían conmocionado quince años antes la vibrante Biarritz de 1925, durante la temporada estival. Tras una terrible galerna el cadáver de una joven de la localidad aparece sujeto a una argolla en el muelle... -
![In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas]()
In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLily receives a troubling phone call from Jess, a freelance journalist. Jess wrote a feature on three women who were victims of stalking, and on the day it was published, all three women were found murdered. When Lily arrives in London to investigate, she finds out Jess is missing and has left behind a mysterious trail of clues... -
![Seaside by Scarlett Thomas]()
Seaside by Scarlett Thomas
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSmart, willful, incautious and nearly terminally curious, Lily Pascale-university lecturer and part-time sleuth-faces her most baffling case in Seaside, when one-half of a pair of identical twins turns up dead... -
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![Sin retorno by Susana Rodríguez Lezaun]()
Sin retorno by Susana Rodríguez Lezaun
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHace tiempo que Irene Ochoa se sentía atrapada en un callejón sin salida cuyos muros se estrechaban a medida que las palizas por parte de Marco, su marido, se convertían en una rutina. No tiene más armas que su instinto de supervivencia. No hay otra opción: la vida de Marcos o la suya... -
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Allô, Hercule Poirot... by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*La Disparition de M... -
![The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem]()
The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWritten in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer enlisted for the investigation can crack the case... -
![Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride]()
Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGlasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed & they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay... -
![The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker]()
The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K... -
![The End of Marking Time by C.J. West]()
The End of Marking Time by C.J. West
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGifted housebreaker, Michael O'Connor, awakens inside an ultramodern criminal justice system where prison walls are replaced by surveillance equipment and a host of actors hired to determine if he is worthy of freedom. While he was sleeping, the Supreme Court declared long term incarceration to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered two million felons released...
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