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Sleep with the Devil, first published in 1954, is a hard-boiled noir crime novel by prolific author Day Keene (pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt, 1904-1969). The novel follows Les Ferron, a borderline sociopath who commits a series of crimes, has two girlfriends - one "good," and one "bad - and a large amount of cash. The plot has twists along the way to keep readers engaged to the very end in this taut thriller.
62) False Start
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Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!
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The fire is out but the neighbors family cat somehow ended up near the back door of their restaurant. Raph and Mac think it was no accident. Then when it is also revealed that the daughter is thought to be missing they are sure. When they find her in an unlikely place they wonder if she unknowingly joined a cult. Will they be able to get her back?
64) Second Chance
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Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson's mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten-emotionally disturbed and missing. But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife's suicide and his second wife's bedroom eyes that were already chasing the winter cold from Stoner's blood. That's why Stoner suspected the search for Kirsten could take a kinky turn. He'd seen teens driven...
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One man's search for his missing wife in a dystopian futuristic Helsinki that is struggling with ruthless climate change
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets; the authorities have issued warnings about malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, and the plague. People are fleeing to the far north of Finland and Norway where conditions...
66) The grifters
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To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.
Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years,...
67) World of Hurt
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For the sake of a peculiar corpse, Harvey ventures into suburbia During a long-overdue phone call with his beloved older brother, Norm, Harvey Blissberg learns of a mysterious homicide in a Chicago suburb. A friend of Norm's was found shot in the face, but with no sign of struggle and no clues left behind. The local police are dumbfounded, so as a favor to his brother, Blissberg tries to untangle a bitter tale of real estate, bad taste, and sexual...
69) Murder for Lunch
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When Reuben Frost's old firm is faced with murder, the Wall Street legend comes out of retirement to find the killer No one on Park Avenue can hail a taxi quite like Graham Donovan. He stands outside his apartment building, arm outstretched like a true master of the universe. Today, he rides downtown with the Wall StreetJournal on his lap, his mind preoccupied by rumors that his venerable Wall Street law firm, Chase & Ward, is about to be accused...
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THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.Ed Rogan, tough as nails and twice as sharp, is a private investigator of malfeasance in the corporate world. The enigmatic case he's working on in A MURDER TOO PERSONAL takes on a very personal aspect when he searches for the murderer of his ex-wife. Someone has put a bullet in the back of her head and Rogan is driven by the twin demons of guilt and revenge to find her killer. His quest leads him through the netherworld of...
71) Gumshoe Rock
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Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden-disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office-vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull-stripped clean and white-is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs to Lucy Landry, PI Mortimer Angel's gorgeous young assistant now working with him on a seemingly unrelated embezzlement...
72) Shame Me Twice
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The young women on a college campus should be safe, they are not. The young men should be gentlemen, they are not. The authorities are suppose to be watchful and understanding, they are not. Jessica is asked to show them the error of their ways.
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 124 Taschenbuchseiten.
Nachdem Mark Mossman zehn Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht hat, will er Rache. Der Wissenschaftler hatte seine Forschungen in Bezug auf Anthrax an Terroristen verkaufen wollen, war aber durch eine Zeugenaussage aufgeflogen. Nun hat er den FBI-Agent Milo Tucker in seine Gewalt gebracht und bedroht darüber hinaus ganz New York, wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden....
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Set in glitzy Las Vegas, this mystery novel unravels two grotesque crimes. Relive the heady days of the U.S. real estate bubble when corrupt lenders – and many other players -- dealt painful fraud that led to the country's financial bust of 2008. Look inside the mind of a Vegas con man and watch him first gain, then exploit, the trust of an investor group, one nest egg at a time. As the con artist's deception unfolds, you'll see how the greed-fueled...
75) Balthasar's Gift
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Maybe it was an error for crime reporter Maggie Cloete to ignore the call from the AIDS worker, before someone put four bullets in his chest. It is post-apartheid South Africa, at the turn of the century. But there is a threat to the country's new democracy: HIV/AIDS, which is met with fear and superstition. Now that fear has reached Pietermaritzburg and an AIDS activist is dead. Maggie's instincts are on red alert. Despite threats from politicians...
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Long before he went into private practice as a P.I., Stern Talbot was a detective for the LAPD. Some cases are better than others, not so rattling. Not so sleep-depriving. Not so insane.
But the evidence in a brand new missing persons case echoes the evidence in a three year old cold case that ended with a missing body. Now it's time to figure things out and close them both. How could Stern know what was waiting at the end of the line? The twists...
77) Loose Ends
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What deep personal fantasy can sustain an unrequited love for forty years? How can a jilted lover watch and learn and plot and plan, yet miss the most valuable lesson of all?
Come along on this tension-filled journey of intrigue, suspense and atonement with city police detective Del Samuels and PI Stern Talbot. Help unravel the truth and discover the one glaring, major lesson buried deep within.
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 104 Taschenbuchseiten.
Fünf tote Männer rufen die FBI-Agenten Trevellian und Tucker auf den Plan. Alle waren von ähnlichem Aussehen, und allen wurde das Geschlechtsteil abgeschnitten. Handelt es sich um Rache für eine Vergewaltigung, oder steckt ein anderer Grund dahinter? Die beiden Special Agents werden mit purem Hass konfrontiert, aber der Täter agiert aus dem Dunkel heraus.
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A missing politician sucks Drum into the three-ring circus of Cold War Germany On the eve of becoming a vice-presidential candidate, Fred Severing vanishes in Germany, where he made his name twelve years earlier during the madness that followed World War II. To find the American, his party hires globe-trotting private detective Chester Drum, and it isn't long before Drum's investigation lands him in the Rhine River along with an elderly war criminal....
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After the Storm, nothing is Forsaken. The saga of New York City Detective Jake Castillo comes to a head in the final installment of the Blood Ties trilogy, The Forsaken. In an effort to leave his painful memories behind, Jake relocates to the Midtown South Police Precinct, where his reputation has quickly preceded him. The detective soon finds himself investigating the murder of a high class escort, which quickly leads him to the heart of Manhattans...