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Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 4
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"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...
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A missing teenage girl leads LA corporate HR exec-turned-private eye Chuck Restic to a high profile fight over a new art museum and a forty-year-old murder that won't stay in the past. Anyone could be behind the teenager's disappearance: her fitness-obsessed mom, switchblade-toting chauffeur, personal life coach, or even the girl herself--
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The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman--the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker--ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again. Ten years later, Julia is the perfect spouse and mother. Slender,...
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Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, over-stimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop -- in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his...
68) Zabić Jane
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Jane Killian, potracona przez motorówke, cudem uniknela smierci. Po serii operacji plastycznych wreszcie moze cieszyc sie pelnia zycia. Z mezem, doktorem Ianem Westbrookiem, oczekuja narodzin pierwszego dziecka. Szczescie pryska, gdy Ian staje sie glównym podejrzanym w sprawie o brutalne morderstwo. Jane wierzy w niewinnosc meza, lecz w trakcie sledztwa narastaja w niej watpliwosci. Zaczyna otrzymywac anonimowe listy. Wie, ze pochodza od czlowieka,...
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 2
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"In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because Costa knows what the two officers don't: that in the morgue at Rome's police headquarters, a forensic pathologist is examining the strange, mummified corpse of another girl, whose disappearance and death...
73) Deadly dance
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The discovery of the partially-clothed body of a teenage girl in the heart of Bristol's red light district indicates a tragic yet familiar scenario. But this marks the start of a baffling murder investigation where nothing is as it first appears... Fourteen-year-old Melanie Cooke told her mother she was visiting a school friend. Who was she really going to meet? Detective Inspector David Vogel is led towards three very different principal protagonists,...
74) Blood orange
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"The sunniest places can harbor the darkest of secrets... Santa Barbara private investigator Jaymie Zarlin has built her fledgling agency on finding missing people. Still struggling with the death of her troubled brother, who died in police custody, Jaymie is determined to help others in similar situations find their way home. Homicides are not in her repertoire. But when Lili Molina, a local teenager chosen for the coveted role of Daphne in the annual...
76) Obiecaj mi
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar, determined to keep his friends' children safe in their last pressure-cooker months of high school, makes two neighborhood girls promise that if they are ever in a bind and afraid to call their parents, they will call him. A few nights later, one of the girls does call, and he takes her to where she says her friend lives. When the girl is reported missing the next day, and her parents learn that Myron was the last...
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"El pequeño pueblo costero de Roquesas de Mar se ve conmocionado por la desaparición de una de sus vecinas: la joven Sandra López, de dieciséis años de edad. Cuando hallan el cadáver de la muchacha, horriblemente mutilado, todos sospechan de Álvaro Alsina como el autor del crimen. La biempensante sociedad local comienza una caza de brujas culpando del crimen a Álvaro, al mismo tiempo que se va tejiendo una tupida red de engaños en torno a...