Peter Swanson
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English
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"Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. None of the nine people seem to be connected--until very, very bad things begin happening to them. First, an old man is drowned in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his neighborhood in Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but why are these nine people on the list, and who sent it? FBI agent Jessica Winslow, who...
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Portuguese
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Uma história sombria, em uma atmosfera romântica e um quê de Hitchcock, sobre um homem que fora arrastado para uma trama irresistível de paixão e assassinato quando um antigo amor reaparece cheio de mentiras.
Em uma noite de sexta-feira, a rotina confortável e previsível de George Foss é quebrada quando, em um bar, uma bela mulher senta-se ao seu lado. A mesma mulher que desaparecera sem deixar vestígios vinte anos atrás. Agora, depois de...
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A pulp novel has a book critic wondering if his new wife is out to kill him in this thrilling story by the New York Times–bestselling author of Nine Lives.
When Henry arrives with his wife, Alice, for their honeymoon at a New England lake house, he encounters a strange sense of déjà vu. Plenty of vacation homes have shelves full of books, but this one has midcentury-American crime novels by the likes of John D. MacDonald, Ed McBain, Rex Stout,...
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Français
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Libraire spécialisé en littérature policière, Malcolm reçoit la visite surprise du FBI. L'agent Gwen Mulvey sollicite son avis sur deux affaires étranges : une série de meurtres tout droit sortie d'un roman d'Agatha Christie et un "accident" rappelant un livre de James M. Cain. Or Malcolm, quinze ans plus tt, a publié sur son blog une liste intitulée "Huit crimes parfaits", o figuraient ces deux intrigues. Serait-il possible qu'un tueur s'en...
6) Neuf Vies
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Français
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Neuf personnes, sans aucun lien apparent entre elles, reçoivent simultanément une liste
de neuf noms, dont le leur. Une simple liste, sans la moindre explication. Certains y voient
une mauvaise blague, d'autre une erreur, en tout cas rien de vraiment digne d'intérêt. Mais
lorsque deux d'entre eux sont retrouvés mort, un terrifiant compte à rebours s'enclenche.
De nouveaux meurtres s'enchaînent mais aucun rapport entre ces neuf individus...
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Français
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Londres-Boston, vol de nuit. Ted Severson rencontre la superbe et mystérieuse Lily Kintner. Ils bavardent, boivent des cocktails, et voilà que peu à peu se déclenche un jeu de la vérité au cours duquel, un détail après l'autre, Ted se dévoile à l'oreille bienveillante de Lily. Il lui avoue l'échec de son couple : sa femme, Miranda, le trompe. Il en vient même à confier qu'il la tuerait bien. Et que ce ne serait finalement que justice....
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English
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On a late flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Over one too many martinis, the two strangers play a game, one in which they begin revealing more and more intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his wife, Miranda -- how his marriage has gone stale, how a week ago he caught her in a serious betrayal. Maybe they were a mismatch from the start, he the rich businessman, she the beautiful...
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Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner volume 3
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English
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Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as an archival librarian, constantly surrounded by thought-provoking ideas and the books she loved. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured divorcee with a job that took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like...
10) Her every fear
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English
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"Hoping that time away will help her overcome recent traumas, Kate agrees to swap apartments with her cousin Corbin. But when she arrives in Boston, Kate discovers that a neighbor has been murdered--and the police suspect her cousin. Corbin calms her nerves, and she believes him until she comes across disturbing objects in his apartment. Jet-lagged and emotionally fragile, Kate can barely trust herself, let alone strangers she's just met. Yet the...
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When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from...
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English
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Henrietta and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen is an illustrator, works nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. When they meet the neighbors next door, she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband's office shelf: a sports trophy exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen has long had been obsessed with...
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English
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"Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double...
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Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner volume 2
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English
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"When a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him--in this spectacularly devious new novel by Peter Swanson featuring characters from his acclaimed novel The Kind Worth Killing"--
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband,...
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English
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When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
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English
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"From one of the new masters of psychological suspense comes another twisty tale of blind passion, mistaken identities, and murder"--
Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years. Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it's suicide. Returning home to Maine, Harry...
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Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2021.
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Russian
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A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction's most ingenious murders.
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Global Visions & Associates
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"The film follows Rowan LeCompte and Dieter Goldkuhle as they make their last great window for the Washington National Cathedral. These two aging grand masters of stained glass labor to create a masterpiece in a race against time. A major conflict erupts between the artist and the cathedral administration. Another master of glass, Mary Clerkin Higgins, attempts to resolve the issues. There is literally an earth-shattering conclusion. Told with stunningly...