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581) The vanishing season
Author
Series
Collector ; 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A recent abduction becomes an unexpected link to a decades-long spree of unspeakable crimes. Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison's own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl's resemblance to Eliza - so uncanny they could be mother and daughter. With...
582) Tokyo redux
Author
Series
Tokyo trilogy ; 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the highly acclaimed Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City--an elecrifying, mesmerizing new novel about a high-profile crime that occurrs in Tokyo during the occupation and goes cold, haunting the lives of both American and Japanese investigators for the next forty years. Tokyo, July 1949: the president of the Japanese National Railways goes missing just a day after announcing 30,000 layoffs. In the midst of the U.S. occupation, against...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Lisbeth Salander está cumpliendo condena en la cárcel de Flodberga, en la que intenta a toda costa evitar cualquier tipo de conflicto con el resto de las presas. Cuando Lisbeth se convierte en la protectora de la joven de Bangladesh que ocupa la celda vecina, la peligrosa líder de las internas la coloca en su punto de mira. Holger Palmgren visita a Lisbeth y le explica que ha recibido una serie de documentos que contienen información sobre los...
584) Joyland
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl...
Author
Publisher
SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An Orange County housewife tells the story of her four-year investigation to solve the case of her mother's violent death in Mexico that law enforcement officials declared unsolvable. Her discovery of the truth, with the help of a famous female FBI profiler, forces her to redefine her relationship with her mother and her own sense of self"--
587) Picture you dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 18
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true - until the day it did...They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment. His eldest son, Robert Crane, was called to the crime scene. In this poignant memoir, Robert Crane discusses that terrible day and how he has lived with the unsolved murder of his father. But this storyline is just one thread in his tale of growing up in Los Angeles, his struggles to reconcile the good...
589) Unsolved case files: Vol. 2,Jailbreak at Alcatraz :Frank Morris & the Anglin Brothers' great escape
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CASE NO. 002: THE ROCK. June 12, 1962. SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA. 7:18 A.M. A corrections officer at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary tries to awaken inmate AZ-1441, Frank Morris. But when he shakes the unresponsive man, his head rolls off the pillow and crashes to the floor! Soon the guards realize that Morris and two other inmates, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, had done the seemingly impossible: escaped from the notorious island prison. This...
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games. This latest guide from One Shot creator and RPG expert James D'Amato helps you build out an existing character or create a new one, with these activities that provide plenty of RPG fun before you even hit the gaming table. With activities to help you flesh out characters...
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