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English
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Literary critic Shearman Waxx can kill a good book with just a few acidly worded bon mots. And as one unlucky author is about to discover, that’s not all he’s prepared to kill. . . .
From #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz comes a mesmerizing thriller about the battle of wills that ensues when a successful author and likable family man confronts a reclusive sociopath who wields an all-too-deadly poison
2) The portrait
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Language
English
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A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man,...
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man,...
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Series
Duke undone volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this enthralling Victorian historical romance. Nina Finch isn't suited for a life of crime. Raised by her art-forger brother, she can paint like Boticelli. But she'd so much rather be baking gooseberry tarts. She finally has the money she needs to open her own bakery. Unfortunately, her brother's carelessness lands her-and their forgeries-directly under the nose of London's most discerning...
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English
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At the news of her father's death, Flora quits her big-city magazine job and returns to Darwin, the quaint New England town where she grew up, to retreat into the house he has left her, filled as it is with reminders of him. Even weightier is her appointment as her father's literary executor. It seems he was secretly writing poems at the end of his life--love poems to a girlfriend Flora didn't know he had.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to capture a flasher who has been targeting wealthy women in the Dorset Historic District, police officer Desiree Mitry becomes convinced about the culprit's identity and is wrongly accused of murder when her suspect turns up dead after a heated public confrontation.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
9) Homeport
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
1́998
Language
English
Description
Dr. Miranda Jones is attacked outside her Maine home as she returns from a busy lecture tour. Determined to put the assault out of her mind, she welcomes the distraction offered by a summons to Italy to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as the Dark Lady. However, it nearly destroys her reputation when it is declared a hoax.
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Publisher
Océano
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"After ten years of living together, Mar̕a and Emiliano realized they were no longer happy, and that they needed to separate. But, what were their hobbies before they met each other? What were their pet peeves? Mar̕a talks about her pain with friends and family and things that she continues to link with the love of her life. This novel deals with intimate and frank grief that exists after a breakup, and how to rebuild yourself." --
Después de...
11) Here in the dark
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife. Angling...
12) Antkind: a novel
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English
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"B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety...
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