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The End of the Line by L.M. Krier
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHolidays are never guaranteed for Detective Chief Inspector Ted Darling. Crime has a way of intervening.He’s hoping for a relaxing time in Wales with his partner Trevor, who’s had a difficult week. Instead he finds himself confronted by a sudden death, possibly suspicious, which threatens to leave his mother, Annie, homeless.Ted’s determined to find out what really went on... -
![An Alex Cross Omnibus: Cat and Mouse & Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson]()
An Alex Cross Omnibus: Cat and Mouse & Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo classic Alex Cross novels in one fantastic package.In CAT AND MOUSE, Alex Cross is called to Union Station train terminal a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming crowds of travellers. Psychopath Gary Soneji seems determined to go down in a blaze of glory, and he wants Alex Cross to be there... -
![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΗ Αλίθια έβρεξε την πένα στο μελανοδοχείο και την άφησε να γλιστρήσει πάνω στο χαρτί, χαράζοντας μια γραμμή σε μπλε γυαλιστερό χρώμα. Έγραψε το όνομά της κι έμεινε να κοιτάζει το μελάνι που στέγνωνε σιγά σιγά. Η απόλαυση της λευκής σελίδας, που πάντα στην αρχή ανάδινε ένα άρωμα μυστηρίου γεμάτο υποσχέσεις, χάθηκε μεμιάς... -
![Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen]()
Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMcGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with Hollywood actress who leads him into a nasty nest of murderers involving a motorcycle gang, porn movies, and mad balloonists. And Mcgee relearns old lesson. Only close to the edge of death does he feel completely alive... -
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![Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards]()
Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
![Cold River Resurrection by Enes Smith]()
Cold River Resurrection by Enes Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Cold River series continues in this exciting saga set on the Cold River Indian Reservation in Oregon. City girl Jennifer Kruger got more than she bargained for when she trespassed on the Cold River Indian Reservation, searching for a legendary creature. She became lost, and stumbled upon grisly evidence of murder and mutilation... -
![The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter]()
The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDETECTIVE JOE HOGARTH IS CALLED TO A BRUTAL MURDER AT A TURKISH TAKEAWAY. THE TELL-TALE MARK OF A ONCE NOTORIOUS LONDON CRIME FAMILY IS FOUND ON THE VICTIM’S BODY. HOGARTH FEARS THE NEW CASE COULD OPEN A PANDORA'S BOX. BUT HE HAS NO CHOICE.HOGARTH MUST FIND THE KILLER AND TAKE ON THE DEADLIEST RISKSMurdered kebab shop owner Baba Sen was beloved by his clientele... -
![Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald]()
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have.It didn’t matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element... -
![Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado]()
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
![The Missing Wife by Roger Silverwood]()
The Missing Wife by Roger Silverwood
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA DETECTIVE WHO’S NO ANGEL DESPITE HIS NAME. Discover a gripping series of murder mysteries set in south Yorkshire. MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MICHAEL ANGEL. AN OLD-SCHOOL POLICEMAN WHO SOMETIMES RUBS HIS COLLEAGUES UP THE WRONG WAY. HE’S GOT HIS FLAWS, BUT HE NEVER GIVES UP ON A CASE. PLEASE NOTE THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AS “CHOKER... -
![A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker]()
A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal. Spenser and his friend, Hawk, go to find Susan. Soon they are in the world of the CIA, guns and murder... -
![Valediction by Robert B. Parker]()
Valediction by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name... -
![One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald, Darren McGavin]()
One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald, Darren McGavin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skillfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family... -
![Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald]()
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again... -
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![Pale Kings And Princes by Robert B. Parker]()
Pale Kings And Princes by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWheaton is a typical New England small-college town, not the sort of place for drugs and murder. But when a reporter gets too inquisitive, he finds both -- the latter on his own. Spenser's call comes when the local cops work a cover... -
![Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo]()
Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is 1977. A new force is terrorising Rome - a mob of reckless, ultraviolent youths known as La Banda della Magliana. As the gang ruthlessly take control of Rome's heroin trade, they begin an inexorable rise to power. Banda della Magliana intend to own the streets of Rome - unless their internal struggles tear them apart... -
![Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley]()
Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a high-velocity, larger-than-life thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge."I'm in trouble, Paris."Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S...Categorized as:
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![Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis]()
Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRob Chandler, regaining consciousness, realizes he's somehow been involved in a horrendous car accident. In pain and unable to move, he has no memory of his identity, or how the hell he'd gotten on that deserted desert road in the middle of nowhere. He has little time to contemplate his situation when he sees an 18-wheeler barreling down on him... -
![Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker]()
Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a teenage girl and her baby are gunned down by feuding street gangs, tenants of a Boston housing project hire Hawk and Spenser to protect them and bring the killers to justice. 150,000 first printing. $130,000 ad/promo. Mystery Guild Main. Doubleday & Lit Guild Alt... -
![Taming a Sea-Horse by Robert B. Parker]()
Taming a Sea-Horse by Robert B. Parker
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up dead... -
![Getaway by Nelson DeMille, Lisa Scottoline]()
Getaway by Nelson DeMille, Lisa Scottoline
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this short story from the International Thriller Writers’ anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Lisa Scottoline—along with their popular series characters John Corey and Bennie Rosato—team up for the first time ever... -
![King of Swords by Nick Stone]()
King of Swords by Nick Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
![FOX by Kelly Oliver]()
FOX by Kelly Oliver
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGENES TO DIE FOR—AND SOMEONE DOES… When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself... -
![Back Story by Robert B. Parker, Joe Mantegna]()
Back Story by Robert B. Parker, Joe Mantegna
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRenaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is shot and killed... -
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![Elite Squad: by Luiz Eduardo Soares, André Batista]()
Elite Squad: by Luiz Eduardo Soares, André Batista
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTranslated into English for the first time, Elite Squad (Elita da Tropa) was a smash best seller in Brazil and has since touched off a firestorm of controversy that has been heightened by the award-winning film it inspired...Categorized as:
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![The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö]()
The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalized being drunk, where newspapers are designed for reassurance, and where the city centers have been demolished to devote more space to gleaming new highways... -
![The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil]()
The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Complete Frank Miller Batman contains: Batman Year One, Wanted: Santa Claus Dead Or Alive and The Dark Knight Returns. With a new introduction by Richard Bruning, then DC design director. Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns are reprints of their trade paperbacks and not individual issues so they include the introductions to those volumes by Frank Miller and Alan Moore... -
![Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder]()
Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter having his face sliced off, The Joker makes his horrifying return to Gotham City; shaking Batman to his core! But even for a man who’s committed a lifetime of murder, he’s more dangerous than ever before... -
![Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb]()
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsTaking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month...Categorized as:
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![Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder]()
Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsAfter a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he’s sworn to protect...Categorized as:
crime law-enforcement noir super-powered 21st-century action-adventure comics contemporary
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