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All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of LightOn their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz...Categorized as:
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![True to the Game II by Teri Woods]()
True to the Game II by Teri Woods
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena... -
![Aue by Becky Manawatu]()
Aue by Becky Manawatu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELauē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.Taukiri was born into sorrow... -
![White Lines by Tracy Brown]()
White Lines by Tracy Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother's boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn't save her from a crack addiction... -
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![True to the Game III by Teri Woods]()
True to the Game III by Teri Woods
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly... -
![Todesurteil by Andreas Gruber]()
Todesurteil by Andreas Gruber
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Wien verschwindet die zehnjährige Clara. Ein Jahr später taucht sie völlig verstört am nahen Waldrand wieder auf. Ihr gesamter Rücken ist mit Motiven aus Dantes "Inferno" tätowiert – und sie spricht kein Wort. Indessen nimmt der niederländische Profiler Maarten S. Sneijder an der Akademie des BKA für hochbegabten Nachwuchs mit seinen Studenten ungelöste Mordfälle durch... -
![Trainspotting: The Screenplay by John Hodge]()
Trainspotting: The Screenplay by John Hodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the underbelly of Edinburgh, Trainspotting is a story inhabited by a galaxy of immensely colorful characters -- liars, thieves, junkies -- people whose habits, emotions, and stories will leave an indelible imprint on the reader's mind... -
![The 39 Cupcakes by Zara Keane]()
The 39 Cupcakes by Zara Keane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn Irish cozy mystery. Ex-cop-turned-P.I. Maggie Doyle is stuck chaperoning a group of bratty summer camp kids to an archaeological dig on Whisper Island. After a day of fart jokes, fidget spinners, and fist fights, Maggie's regretting volunteering—and then one of her feral charges discovers a skeleton... -
![The Waiting by Michael Connelly, Christine Lakin]()
The Waiting by Michael Connelly, Christine Lakin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago... -
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Wreckless Love by Nina.
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRushon “Wreck” Porter, the second oldest of the Porters has found love in all the wrong places until he meets Gia. One night of partying turned into a two-year love affair that had just as many ups as downs. Wreck didn’t think this sweet college girl would even know pain until he got to know her... -
![State Of The Union by Brad Thor, George Guidall]()
State Of The Union by Brad Thor, George Guidall
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“The perfect all-American hero” (Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Scot Harvath is on the hunt for a dangerous killer bent on world domination in this white-knuckled thrill ride from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.America’s worst nightmare has just become a brutal reality. The most unlikely terrorist enemy of all now holds a knife against the country’s throat...Categorized as:
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![Sweet Reward by Christy Reece]()
Sweet Reward by Christy Reece
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWHEN RISK IS THE REWARD—LET THE DANGER BEGIN Adrenaline junkie Jared Livingston has found the perfect blend of exhilaration and danger in his new job at Last Chance Rescue. Raised to depend only on himself, Jared tried marriage, but the end of the relationship renewed his belief that he was meant to be a loner... -
![How to Murder a Millionaire by Zara Keane]()
How to Murder a Millionaire by Zara Keane
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN B072KFXK7R can be found here An Irish cozy mystery featuring murder, millionaires, and mankinis! Armed with her newly issued private investigator's license, Maggie Doyle is on the case…of a sheep that went missing twenty-two years ago... -
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The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier.Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life... -
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![Guilt by Ferdinand von Schirach]()
Guilt by Ferdinand von Schirach
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth... -
![The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker]()
The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St Denis. Bruno, chief of police, faces a dark reckoning with France's past in this page-turning mystery. A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle... -
![Under the Surface by Diana Urban]()
Under the Surface by Diana Urban
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost.Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart... -
![White Lines II: Sunny by Tracy Brown]()
White Lines II: Sunny by Tracy Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn her most stunning, riveting, unstoppable novel yet, bestselling and critically acclaimed author, Tracy Brown delivers the not-to-be-missed sequel to WHITE LINESOn the surface, it appears that Sunny has got it all-looks, money, a beautiful home, a healthy daughter, and friends who love her. But Sunny has a secret--something she hasn't even told her best friend. The truth is Sunny is unhappy... -
![Return to Me by Christy Reece]()
Return to Me by Christy Reece
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDESIRED TO DEATH Posing as an underage teenager, Samara Lyons is out to trap an online predator. Smart, fiery, and fresh off a broken engagement, Samara is up for the challenge. But this challenge might not be so easy... -
![A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow... -
![The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOnce more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith . . .Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her son has been exposed to the worst evils of cartoons, movies and Irn Bru, and her wrath falls upon her unfortunate husband, Stuart... -
![The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest adventures from Bertie and his family and friends in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series. An Anchor Original.Changes are coming to 44 Scotland Street, what with Bertie and his friends getting older, and the neighbors gossiping about Irene's latest drama... -
![Sixth Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko]()
Sixth Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final chapter in Sergei Lukyanenko’s internationally bestselling Night Watch series—a revelatory urban fantasy set in contemporary Moscow.They live among us. They fight among us. They’re the Others, a supernatural race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and healers. Divided into the Light and the Dark, these rival factions have spent a millennium under a reluctant truce... -
![The Scent of Death by Simon Beckett]()
The Scent of Death by Simon Beckett
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt has been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well and he's in demand again as a police consultant. His life seems to be on an even keel.But not for long. The call comes from an old associate: a body has been found, and she’d like Hunter to take a look . . .St Jude’s Hospital now stands empty... -
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![Lazarus by Lars Kepler]()
Lazarus by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSometimes the past won't stay buried.All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it becomes clear that there's a single killer at work... -
![The Fall by Albert Camus]()
The Fall by Albert Camus
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsElegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality... -
![Model Undercover: London by Carina Axelsson]()
Model Undercover: London by Carina Axelsson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPosing as a model gets Axelle the kinds of connections that make her the fashion elite's go-to detective. Her newest case? The attack on famous fashion photographer Gavin Tempest that's left him in the hospital. The police may have ruled it a mugging, but Gavin's sister has special intel for Axelle that points to something more sinister.. -
![Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor]()
Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final instalment in the bestselling Starlight Trilogy... A young singer and a dangerous mentor 'X Factor meets Fifty Shades - I can't get enough of this series!' Total Book Blog The last book in the Starlight Trilogy sees Summer and Adam explore the dangerous depths of their relationship. But when Adam opens his heart, a deadly threat could tear them both apart... -
![Make Me Desperate by Beth Kery]()
Make Me Desperate by Beth Kery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJacob and Harper push the boundaries of danger and desire in the next installment of the alluring serial novel from New York Times bestselling author Beth Kery... Jacob’s addiction to Harper is putting his life’s work at risk, but he can’t deny himself the pleasure he feels when he’s with her... -
![Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross by J.B. Sanders]()
Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross by J.B. Sanders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGlen and Tyler are young, in love, and the wealthiest human beings on the planet. But when Glen's brother calls from a jail in Paris, they're off to France to tangle with spies, neo-Nazis, evil world-spanning conspiracies and French gangsters. Plus they have a romantic dinner, and find long-lost treasure. Really, it’s a fun-filled non-stop romp... -
![Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless by Kiki Swinson, Noire]()
Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless by Kiki Swinson, Noire
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNational bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Noire double down in these sizzling novellas about sex, money, andtoo much of a good thing…Shamelessly RichKIKI SWINSONExclusive parties, high-end rides, designer everything—for Virginia Beach heiress Megan Rich, it’s just an ordinary day. And one taste of Eric Chambers’ thug loving has her spending like crazyto keep him primed, hot,’n ready... -
![American Devil by Oliver Stark]()
American Devil by Oliver Stark
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA violent killer is stalking New York's streets, and the trophies he will take from his victims are essential if he is to complete his masterpiece. That he also likes playing games with the police and his pray is a bonus. He can outwit everyone he comes up against... -
![The Missing Masterpiece by Jeanne M. Dams]()
The Missing Masterpiece by Jeanne M. Dams
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Dorothy goes to France, she is embroiled in mysteries: a woman drowning in quicksand; a man suffering a near-fatal fall; and a missing archaeologist - all connected to a monk named Abelard, who has been dead for almost nine hundred years. When another body is found, Dorothy's ability to 'think outside the box' unravels a despicable scheme... -
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Dead Run by Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe boys are back in town -- and Paris is burning!For Special Agents of the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt, the strain of a long distance relationship is beginning to tell after eleven months of separation... -
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![My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder]()
My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of the Charmed Life and It's Raining Cupcakes series comes a novel of family, friends, and a Paris adventure that readers will never forget! Nora has always wanted to see Paris, thanks to her Grandma Sylvia's stories. But when Sylvia suddenly passes away just months before their planned trip, Nora thinks she's lost everything... -
![Ghost Town by Kevin Chen]()
Ghost Town by Kevin Chen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDKeith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man... -
![A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski]()
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly... -
![A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends. The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux... -
![The Book Supremacy by Kate Carlisle]()
The Book Supremacy by Kate Carlisle
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNewlyweds Brooklyn and Derek are enjoying the final days of their honeymoon in Paris. As they're browsing the book stalls along the Seine, Brooklyn finds the perfect gift for Derek, a first edition James Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me. When they bump into Ned, an old friend from Derek's spy days, Brooklyn shows him her latest treasure... -
![Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell]()
Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe latest in an evocatively written series featuring free-spirited NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory has this odd, intriguing cop taking her act on the road to the rural Louisiana town where she was born... -
![Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson]()
Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks' life is shaken to the core when he is unexpectedly pulled into the investigation of a young girl's disappearance in this shattering suspense novel from the hand of a modern master.“Full of twists and surprises... Robinson shows he has only begun to dig into the personality of his tenacious, thoughtful inspector... -
![Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie]()
Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsScotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing—and deadly—complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series.On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she’s sleeping... -
![What Hell Is Not by Alessandro D'Avenia]()
What Hell Is Not by Alessandro D'Avenia
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTake away love and you will have hell, ' you told me, Father Pino. 'Give love and you will have what hell is not.' Federico is a privileged teenager from Palermo. He is preparing to spend a summer learning English in Oxford when his teacher, Father Pino, asks him to help out at a youth centre in an area of Palermo dominated by mafia and misery... -
![The Shooting at Chateau Rock by Martin Walker]()
The Shooting at Chateau Rock by Martin Walker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFollowing the funeral of a local farmer, Bruno gets a phone call from his son. He tells Bruno that before his father's sudden death, he had signed over his property to an insurance company in return for a subscription to a luxury retirement home... -
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![The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell]()
The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe internationally bestselling courtroom drama centering on a young German lawyer and a case involving war crimes A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release—with rights sold in seventeen countries—The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European history in a legal thriller worthy of John Grisham and Scott Turow. Fabrizio Collini is recently retired... -
![The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek]()
The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsInternational number one bestseller Sebastian Fitzek plunges readers into the depths of their own souls in a new high-concept thriller.The Soul Breaker destroys his victims.He doesn't kill them, or mutilate them. But he leaves them completely dead inside, paralysed and catatonic. His only trace a note left in their hands.There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop... -
![The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac]()
The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMaybe the worst indignity for a Paris cop is to be shot dead by an old granny he is trying to help cross the street in Paris on a frosty morning. An old lady needs protection with so many druggies around these days. Dressed as an elderly Vietnamese woman, Inspector Van Thian goes to investigate... -
![Marco by Olivia Deici]()
Marco by Olivia Deici
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarco Obsessed with finding and killing the criminal organization responsible for destroying my family, I didn’t want love. I didn’t deserve love. My childhood sweetheart was viciously butchered because of me . And then I met her .The one who befriended me one sleepless night.The one who made my daughter’s eyes light up, and whose touch calmed the feral animal I was... -
![Pigen fra Brooklyn by Guillaume Musso, Morten Rønnelund]()
Pigen fra Brooklyn by Guillaume Musso, Morten Rønnelund
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRaphaels forlovede Anna flygter ud af døren, efter at have afsløret noget om hendes dystre fortid...Categorized as:
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![Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the phenomenon Alexander McCall Smith comes the third book in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to research the domestic economy of contemporary pirate households. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, painter Angus Lordie’s dog, Cyril, has been dog-napped, and Pat gets herself caught up in a potential love triangle...
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