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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... -
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
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... -
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... -
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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... -
The Gangster by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE GANGSTER is the sixth book in the Galactic Football League series.The ongoing mental battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and the promise of ultraviolence hangs on their every word... -
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
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
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... -
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
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
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
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... -
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... -
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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
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
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
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... -
Runner 13: A Thriller by Amy McCulloch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**Pre-order the gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Breathless, based on her own extraordinary ultra-running experience**It’s the ultimate test of two-hundred-and-fifty miles in the brutal heat of the Sahara, with only the supplies you can carry on your back.Adri is ready... -
Puzzles of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fifth of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, most reprinted from mystery magazines and a few previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia... -
Tears by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI am fearless. I am not afraid of pain…But I can still feel it... -
Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOut Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion... -
Happy Are the Peace Makers by Andrew M. Greeley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRich, beautiful, seductive … and suspected of murder. Nora MacDonaugh had bad luck with husbands: they both died under mysterious circumstances. Her latest, an Irish millionaire, had changed his will in her favor a week before the bomb went off in his study... -
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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... -
Doctor Who: Sisters of the Flame by Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey... -
Bad by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI FINALLY HAVE SAM. I FINALLY HAVE A FAMILY. I FINALLY HAVE A WAY OUT... -
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... -
Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA VILLAIN’S REQUESTIn 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth. A GRIM RESISTANCEFlora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold... -
Checked Out by Elaine Viets
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPI Helen Hawthorne goes undercover at a local library to find a painting and solve a murder in the national bestselling mystery series.Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father... -
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... -
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 . . -
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
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... -
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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... -
كليمنجارو by أحمد خالد توفيق
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsهناك سر ما ينتظرنا فى الحبل .. بالتحديد عند القمة الغربية التى يسمونها ( كيبو ) أو ( نجاجى نجاى ) .. سنذهب معًا لنعرف هذا السر ، والكن دون ذلك رحلة مفعمة بالأهوال والصعلب .. يجب أن نعرف من هذا الرجل .. ماذا يفعله بالضيط . -
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
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... -
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse.Then his childhood best friend-Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz-is murdered at home plate... -
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
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... -
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
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... -
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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... -
Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDale Kinmont is a college student in post-catastrophe America. He's lucky; he lives in one of the walled cities for the nation's elite, and life is pleasant. He expects to graduate and find employment in his uncle's company.Everything changes when he's framed for murder. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor in the prison colony on Mercury... -
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret... -
The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case... -
拉普拉斯的魔女 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings在這個世界上,沒有一個個體能夠獨自存在,而不具備任何意義──因傷退休的前警官武尾,受託擔任年輕少女羽原圓華的保鏢,隨行期間,少女不時展露出能夠預測未來等不可思議的神奇能力。某日,在報上出現一則發生於溫泉區的硫化氫中毒致死的意外事件後,少女就此消失蹤影。該起中毒致死意外,在地球化學教授青江判定不可能是人為事件的情況下,以意外落幕。然而重重的疑點、現場出現的神祕少女,不斷牽引出更多的謎題……此時,相隔甚遠的另一個溫泉區,相同的中毒致死事件竟然再度上演,為了追查真相而前往第二起意外現場的青江,再度遇見同一名少女──羽原圓華……【拉普拉斯之魔】Démon de... -
Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOutrageous, irrepressible and endlessly entertaining, the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes tale of women's professional tennis that dramtically intertwines the heart-stopping excitement of competition and the lingering heartache of intimate human bonds. Carmen Semanan loves three things tennis, money and professor Harriet Rawls...
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