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421) The 12th commandment
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Dönme sect--a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots--lives in an isolated community on rural land outside of smalltown Mt. Izmir, Ohio. Self-sustaining, deeply-religious, and heavily-armed, they have followed their self-proclaimed prophet, Natan of Flatbush, from Brooklyn to this new land. But the brutal murder of Natan's teenage son throws their tight community into turmoil. When Zeke Leger, a thirty-year-old writer at a national...
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...
423) From darkest skies
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose -- to discover the truth behind her own death -- but Keon's relationship...
424) A murderous mind
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The murder of a student re-opens a series of cold cases in this intriguing mystery. A young student is found brutally murdered in her room, killed while her flatmates slept nearby. The police soon recognize that this is frighteningly similar to a crime committed fifteen years before. A crime investigated by the now discredited Detective Inspector Joe Jackson, but never solved. Other deaths, linked to the same modus operandi and stretching back more...
425) When I was ten
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were murdered in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Ten-year-old Sara Carter -- nicknamed the Angel of Death -- spent eight years in a children's secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own. Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister Shannon Carter, compelling her to break...
426) Cuando me haya ido
Author
Publisher
B, Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1959, cuando Felix Brewer conoce a Bernadette Bambi Gottschalk en un baile de San Valentín, ella aún no ha cumplido los veinte. Felix la seduce con promesas, de las que sólo cumplirá algunas. Se casan y, gracias a los lucrativos negocios de él--no del todo legales en ocasiones--Bambi y sus tres pequeñas hijas viven en medio del lujo. Pero el 4 de julio de 1976 ese mundo confortable se derrumba cuando Felix, amenazado con ir a la cárcel,...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Nathan Dylan Goodwin]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Detective Clayton Tyler is tasked with reviewing the formidable archives of unsolved homicides in his police department's vaults, he settles on one particular cold case from the 1980s: The Chester Creek Murders. Three young women were brutally murdered--their bodies dumped in Chester Creek, Delaware County--by a serial killer who has confounded a slew of detectives and evaded capture for over thirty-eight years. With no new leads or information...
428) Bring them home
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert--and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a previous disappearance are anything but coincidental. DS Hart is still reeling from a case she tried and failed to solve eighteen months ago, when a young woman vanished without a trace. She's no nearer to the truth of what happened to Amy...
429) 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...
430) Last one alive
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn't know the details of the event but remembers it as one of the few cases her deceased father never solved. On her thirtieth birthday, Solange opens a long-forgotten safe-deposit...
Author
Series
Lotte Meerman ; 4
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdam-based detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podcast as they dissect one of her old cases is made even more harrowing as every episode makes fresh accusations of a bungled operation. As the podcast reveals hidden facts about the arrest of Ruud Klaver, the one thing Lotte is still convinced of is that it was Ruud who was guilty of the murder of a student...
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...
433) The family bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Psychology student Olivia Eriksen's family is notorious among true-crime buffs. Faced with a legacy of psychopathy that spans generations, Olivia has spent much of her academic life trying to answer one chilling question: Nature or nurture? Although she's kept a safe distance from her blood relatives for years, Olivia agrees to attend a weekend reunion. After all, her fiancé is eager to meet his future in-laws, and the gathering may give her a chance...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Estaré muerto en tres meses. Vengo a contar mi historia. Esta es la escalofriante invitación de Sebastian Trapp, reconocido novelista de misterio, a Nicky Hunter, la profesora y crítica experta en su obra con la que mantiene una relación epistolar. Desde la mansión del autor en San Francisco, Nicky comienza a desentrañar la historia de la vida de Trapp bajo las atentas miradas de su enigmática esposa y de su hija mayor. Pero Sebastian Trapp...
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