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Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and
Agatha Christie, comes A Gambling Man, from one of the world’s
bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.
California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with
a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops
off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty
Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and
surprises – because Archer isn’t the only one with a secretive past.
Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding
out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a
top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a
burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to
reveal the connection between the victims.
As the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his
skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she’s
a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight?
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D. Lambert
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Judas Burning
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Carolyn Haines; Cover design or artwork by Nikkita Bhakta
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Go with Me
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Castle Freeman
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A young woman recently relocated to a tiny Vermont logging
town, Lillian is menaced by a mysterious stalker named Blackway.
This one man--who kills her cat, forces her boyfriend to flee the
state in terror, and silently threatens her very existence--is a
force little understood by the local figures to whom she turns for
help. Yet, in this spare and powerful tale, Lillian enlists the
powerful brute Nate and the curmudgeonly Lester to take the fight
to her tormenter as a raggedy quartet of town elders ponders her
likely fate. With simple strength and extraordinary force, Go with
Me is a riveting modern fable of good provoked to resist evil.
A serial killer who will stop at nothing…
The Killer
His most valuable possession has been stolen.
Now he must retrieve it, at any cost.
The Girl
Angela Wood wanted to teach the man a lesson. It was a bag, just like
any other.
But when she opens it, the worst nightmare of her life begins.
The Detective
A journal ends up on Robert Hunter’s desk. It soon becomes clear that
there is a serial killer on the loose.
And if Hunter can’t stop him in time, more people will die.
Starting with Angela.
If you have read it
You must die
'A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a
twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' ANN CLEEVES There is
more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief
Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. The discovery of a
dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief
Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du
Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot
understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved
artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines -
a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police
force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the
white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three
Pines will start to give up its dark secrets... Ten million
readers. Three pines One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache 'One of
the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' THE TIMES
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Kelly Simmons
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A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage
mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier
looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing
without a trace.
So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful "Three Stations," a
suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator
Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the
trailblazing "Gorky Park," Renko (and Smith) have captivated
readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic,
brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes
when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have
occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not
only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well.
In "Three Stations," Renko's skills are put to their most severe
test. Though he has been technically suspended from the
prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he
strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman
whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of
Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to
everyone--except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene
turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to
Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair.
Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of
Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash
in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed
him in power.
Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that
threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children
he is desperate to protect. In "Three Stations," Smith produces a
complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia's secret
underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still
paralyzed by power and fear.
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A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift
Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language
school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a
secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of
'great works of literature,' but instead mostly spends her days
subtitling Bollywood movies, living off her parents' generous
allowance, and discussing the 'underside of life' with her best
friend, Naima. Anisa's mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, only adds to
her growing sense of inadequacy with his savant-level aptitude for
languages, successfully leveraging his expansive knowledge into an
enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu with native
fluency practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his
secret. Adam begrudgingly tells Anisa about The Centre, an elite,
invite-only program that guarantees near-instant fluency in any
language. Skeptical but intrigued, Anisa enrolls-stripped of her
belongings, contact with the outside world, and bodily autonomy-and
emerges ten days later fluent in German. As Anisa enmeshes herself
further within The Centre, seduced by all that it's made possible,
she soon realizes the true cost of its services. By turns dark,
funny, and surreal, and with twists page-turning and shocking, The
Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London, and
New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language,
translation, and appropriation with biting specificity, and
ultimately asking: what is success really worth?
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