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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
2) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
¿Es oportuno confesar mi interés por los relatos de...
4) Swarm
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading."-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast The town of Drachton is crumbling, with crime and violence perpetuating around the clock. Prisons are at bursting point, and morale is at an all time low. The government's answer is Swarm-a revolutionary new prison.Swarm is a correctional facility like no other, harnessing the power of the inmates' subconscious minds for the benefit of...
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Book 2-4 of the Blackmoor Heirs Revenge Set. Book 2 I thought I'd forgotten who I was. But now I remember-and there's going to be hell to pay.Gabriel kept everything from me. My past, my history, my family-or the memory of them, anyway. But the memories are coming back, along with the identity of the three men who did this to me, and the woman who pulls their strings. Dean Blackmoor, Cayde St. Vincent, Jaxon King-and Athena Saint. They stole everything...
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Short stories about the path that life can lead us, the harm it can do and the justice in our minds and souls. How often are we dismissed and used for someone else's wants and needs. Life is hard, cold, demeaning and gives no thought to our feelings hopes, or dreams. There are those very few who receive help from some unseen force that gives them back hope, but many many more who receive only the terrible destructive and painful memories of life....
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With the launch of the surveillance probe behind him, Paul Tringley is free to focus on profitable business ventures once again. He still doesn't know who blackmailed him, but his hired henchmen are on the job, searching for the culprit. Meanwhile, Professor David Kingston is finding it hard to walk away from his recent experiences. A certain name continues to haunt him-Dolph Veale. In the third and final book of the Exodus of Evil Trilogy, join David...
8) Above Clouds
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From soil to cloud, from valley to peak,From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world,What one could take as life,What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was abandoned by his mother and abused by his stepmother when he was a child, and after he grew up, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for injuring a person by mistake, and after his release from prison,...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-162
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Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
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2024.
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First Hard Case Crime edition.
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Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author's 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning "The Home Front," about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist "Nobody Wins," about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year's-best selections such as "A Bar Called Charley's," about a traveling salesman's most grueling night on the road.
10) Noir
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Léonard et Franck, deux types dont les destins se sont percutés. Quatre ans plus tard, ils se retrouvent. L'un sort de taule. L'autre y croupit encore. L'un tente de passer à autre chose mais l'autre n'a rien oublié. Ensemble, ils vont vivre la plus longue des nuits sans lune. Noir, un duel implacable. Un blues à deux voix sur fond d'anticipation.
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The First book in the Created Angel Chronicles(2nd Edition: March 5, 2024)Leighla hasn't had the best luck with her life on Earth...Being the first International Preternatural Marshal hasn't made it any easier.When the Archangel Michael assigns her to an active case with a body count, the past comes back to haunt her:Old unrequited love, betrayal, and metaphysical wounds that she thought close reopen.Leighla must decide whether to confront those who...
12) Angel's Promise
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Everett Ramses came into my life like a hurricane on a dark New Orleans night. With a deep voice and penetrating gaze, his mere presence tingled my nerves and twisted my insides much like the city's legendary stories of spirits and ghosts. As the ruler of New Orleans, Everett Ramses lives life hard and takes what he wants without apology. He wants me to be his queen. I am not an unwilling capture or a damsel in distress. No, I, Emma North, willingly...
13) Mortem
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Love shouldn't hurt. Love shouldn't come at night with a knife.Two years after she was almost killed by her abusive boyfriend, Bree Elliott still struggles to move on, alcohol and sleeping pills her only support. She meets her soulmate, in a most unexpected way, when she's taken hostage by Roarke in a bank robbery that goes to hell.Ruthless hitman Roarke Brennan thought he had everything under control, but when a mysterious girl catches his attention,...
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« Tom et Judy ne sentirent pas les créatures arracher leurs membres un à un. Ils n'entendirent pas leurs os craquer, leurs cartilages se rompre, leurs articulations se déchirer, leur chair croustiller sous les dents de leurs assaillants. Ils ne hurlèrent pas de terreur lorsque leur coeur, leurs poumons, leurs reins, leurs intestins servirent de festin à une meute de zombies dénués de toute conscience. »
D'après le film de George A. Romero,...
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El objetivo de la obra es lanzar a unos personajes sobre una vasta superficie para que, a través de sus vivencias, quede urdido un tapiz representativo del mundo actual, ése que ha producido la crisis financiera y social que aún perdura. Para ello se inspira, cambiando cuanto haya que ser cambiado en materia de nombres propios, o simplemente elidiéndolos, en los casos llamados "Malaya" (que ahora se está juzgando) y "Ballena blanca", posiblemente...
16) The Listener
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The New York Times–bestselling author "masterfully combines historical thriller and supernatural horror . . . [for] fans of occult thrillers like those by Dean Koontz" (Booklist, starred review).
Economic collapse. Crushing unemployment and breadlines crowding city streets as crime spirals out of control. The Great Depression has enough misery for all, and some to spare. But for angel-faced grifter John Partlow, the American South in 1934...
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Uncensored, blue version, Split, divided Edition: The thrilling, tormenting conclusion to SARDOODLEDOM: The Broken Rule. This is the second split half of Darkened Promise, Eternal Finale Volume Three; It was almost eight months later, after the harrowing, deadly, shocking incident that changed all of their lives in an instant; Resilient and brilliant, the young beauty Eir stumbles upon a fated cryptic message from the missing, abducted, enigmatic...
19) The Yellow Pinto
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The Yellow Pinto straddles the line between memoir/narrative and transgressive fiction by combining themes of identity, addiction, and complicated familial relationships.
Written in a unique, unconventional, pulse raising style, B.WalterWill uses essay and storytelling in an inventive fashion. He intertwines stories within stories to detail his personal struggle with gambling addiction - a hidden addiction not well understood. B.WalterWill explores...
20) RE - UP
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Can a Young single mother assasin change her life for her young childs life. Follow the adventers of Simone a young single mother assasin as she tries to change her life.Simone does not want to kill for money anymore but she has to now that she owes some of the biggest gangsters in her city for killing one of the hardcore money collectors that collect big money debts for them..Now Simone owes all this money and has to change to save her child's life....
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