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"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...

"Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice “Beans” Bennett’s life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans’s mother is still alive—and in danger—Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the...

"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...

When her best friend’s death is ruled a suicide, 17-year-old Cia must expose an underground society preying on those they think no one will miss, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer who is closer to home than she ever imagined.

Plongez dans l'univers intense de "Toile d'Araignée", un thriller psychologique tissé avec maîtrise où chaque choix résonne comme un fil fragile sur le point de se rompre. Alors que les personnages se débattent dans un labyrinthe d'intrigues, les lecteurs seront captivés par les secrets enfouis et les décisions inévitables qui donnent vie à cette histoire complexe.

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Tras la desaparición de su padre en circunstancias poco claras, la señorita Mary Morstan empieza a recibir perlas de alguien cuya identidad desconoce y que le ha citado para reunirse con ella. Mary recurre a Sherlock Holmes, quien acepta desentrañar el caso y, junto con Watson, acudir como acompañante de la muchacha a la cita. El encuentro les conduce a Thaddeus Sholto y su hermano, hijos de un amigo del padre de la señorita Morton, quienes les...

En el pintoresco pueblo de Ravinesdale en 1865, un crimen brutal sacude a la pacífica comunidad. El renombrado hotel local se convierte en el escenario de un misterioso asesinato, que hunde a la ciudad en un torbellino de miedo y desconfianza. Mientras los investigadores luchan por desentrañar el caso, se desvela una intrincada red de secretos, traiciones y ambiciones ocultas, creando una atmósfera de suspenso e intriga.

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"Teenage Lauren must confront her dark past when she gets pulled into a murder investigation involving her new fling and his brother."--

Kate Parker knows what she’s getting into when she marries billionaire businessman Hank Tudor—she’s his sixth wife, after all, and was by his side (as his assistant) when his fifth marriage to actress Caitlyn Howard fell apart. But honeymoon plans go awry when a headless body is discovered near Hank’s summer home, forcing Kate to contend with two more of his exes: Catherine Alvarez—the first—who lives as a shut-in with her computers, carefully...

Philippe, jeune neurologue, consacre sa carrière à la maladie d'Alzheimer. Sa seule motivation: prouver l'innocence de son père, atteint d'Alzheimer, d'allégations de complot terroriste, qui a coûté la vie à sa mère. Son acharnement l'amène à transgresser certaines limites au grand désespoir de sa sœur aînée, qui cache aussi un important secret. Les avancées lentes et difficiles du chercheur prennent une tournure inédite à la...