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The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian, who looks for the good in people. Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. She is addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays. When a...
2) Elena knows
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SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The murders are eerily similar to ones that rattled the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier. But back then,...
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2013.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
5) Heretics
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"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
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"El ladrón más astuto, refinado y hábil de la literatura policíaca regresa para enfrentarse al más célebre detective inglés en un enfrentamiento mítico de inteligencia y determinación.
Esta historia representa una combinación extraordinaria de intriga y misterio, no es solo un duelo de dos titanes del ingenio y la deducción, sino también la lucha entre dos formas de enfrentar la vida.
Un maestro del engaño contra uno de la observación...
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Una antología policial única. Alrededor de tres de los más grandes y famosos detectives de la novela policial se ha hecho esta antología que presenta historias protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, un genio de la deducción y precursor de la narración policial moderna; por Hércules Poirot, la satírica creación de Agatha Christie y el Padre Brown, el curita que aplica los dogmas religiosos a la solución de crímenes. Todas estas son grandes...
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Terra Alta novels volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a policeman. Now he has...
9) Marina
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
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Distributued by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Patrick Jane is a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis to help the California Bureau of Investigation. These talents make him appear psychically gifted and help him bring killers to justice. At crime scenes across California, Patrick now helps...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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As the third season begins, Mulder is missing and assumed dead. Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as the partners are reunited, each must deal with additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. They soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived notions are shattered.
13) Havana fever
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 6
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English
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
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2020.
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Español
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El mal puede tener muchas caras...
Incluso podría tener la tuya.
Tras el espectacular éxito de la «Trilogía Bill Hodges» (Mr. Mercedes, Quien pierde paga y Fin de guardia) King nos sorprende con un thriller tan escalofriante como original.
Ganador en la categoría Misterio / Thriller en los Premios Goodreads 2018 y uno de los mejores thrillers
...15) Red queen
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English
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"Introducing Antonia Scott-the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander-in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott-the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother-has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her...
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Blacksad volume 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Feline private eye John Blacksad goes up against Lewis Solomon, a construction magnate with dreams of power and plans to pave over large swaths of 1950s New York"--
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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San Francisco veteran homicide detective Mike Stone is paired with Inspector Steve Keller-- a young, idealistic partner who has a lot to learn about being a cop. A ruthless newspaper columnist, a retired hit man, and a newly released psychopath are just some of the characters Stone and Keller encounter in this season.
19) Abduction
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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A young man sets out to discover the truth about his life after discovering his baby picture on a missing persons web site.
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