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"It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the...
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For Rachel, every day is the same - work, anxiety, nightmares, repeat. She hides behind a new look and a stolen identity, all in an effort to stay alive, but the threatening emails are a constant reminder that she can never let her guard down.
Then Rachel meets Julie, a flirtatious bartender with her own complicated past and one rule . . . don't lie. Against her better judgment, Rachel begins to open up about the family trauma that left her feeling...
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On an otherwise normal morning at a private school for girls, a 15-year-old student is picked up by soldiers and sent to a military camp, becoming one of the thousands of political prisoners arrested under Ferdinand Marcos' repressive regime in the 1970s. A year earlier, Marcos had declared martial law and a military government effectively took over the Philippines. After her release, author Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein was required to report to camp, her...
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Simon is a controversial photographer who wants to get the "perfect shot". He wants to capture that moment right before dying, that moment he calls "the little death." Mimi is a model that wants immortality. Becoming obsessed with Simon's work, she offers herself to be the model for his next project. She soon realizes, however, that while she is obsessed with his art, he is obsessed with death...and wants to make one last piece of art before he succumbs...
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Jake Falconer is a hard-living, alcoholic private detective. When an homme fatale comes to him with the case of a missing twin, he is intrigued - and also, in desperate need of cash. It doesn't take long before the case turns deadly, and Jake has to rely on his questionable wits, and a little help from his squeaky clean ex, Kyle. Because if he doesn't figure this mystery out soon, he's bound to pay for it with his life.
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Take a peek behind the curtain and see what really goes on in other people's bedrooms, in this shockingly and surprisingly romantic look at five suburban couples as they explore a range of sexual proclivities. Some fetishes are run-of-the-mill, while others are hilariously obscure in this big-hearted comedy about expressing desires, and facing the repercussions once shared.
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Dreama Black is almost famous. The daughter (and granddaughter) of groupies who captivated L.A.'s biggest rock stars, and muse to her own Grammy-winning ex-boyfriend Luke Cutt, Dreama seems doomed to remain on the periphery of stardom. All that changes when Dreama is hired by record producer Miles McCoy to arrange an epic wedding celebration for his beautiful fiancée, Maya Duran. The theme of the party? A noir-style tour through L.A.'s most infamous...
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The Daughter of Death has her college experience cut out for her. In addition to a new roommate and some serious test anxiety, demons, angels, and horsemen become part of Sammy Zadkeil's everyday life. Through the chaos Sammy must discover her place in the on coming apocalypse. The world is ending and it's up to Sammy and the other Children of the Apocalypse to save humanity.
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The blues were born out of pride, anger, and need. Murder comes from those same dark places.
One of Memphis' most seductive and notorious socialites has disappeared. She's either off on another of her drunken escapades or the disappearance is something much more frightening. What begins as an ordinary day's work for Detective Billy Able of the Memphis P.D. quickly grows into a high-level spider's web of tragedy, mystery, suspicion, passion, and sordid...
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"Death arrives in this darkly humorous and brilliantly illustrated tale created by Nicholas Gurewitch, author of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack!
Death becomes a patient of a recently-bereaved psychoanalyst. The topic of discussion? His frolicsome child, who has no apparent interest in grim-reaping! Featuring an unfathomable number of lines which have been hand-chiseled into inked clay, this labor of love by Nicholas Gurewitch invokes the morbid...
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Winner of the 2011 Audie® Award for Best Original Work Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as “minor,” and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. Marty's lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to the P.I. for help when the Mob fingers her for the next kill. Seems the new kingpin, Carmen Rich—with whom Hammer...
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Dark Horse
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2020
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Death arrives in this darkly humorous and brilliantly illustrated tale created by Nicholas Gurewitch, author of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack!
Death becomes a patient of a recently-bereaved psychoanalyst. The topic of discussion? His frolicsome child, who has no apparent interest in grim-reaping! Featuring an unfathomable number of lines which have been hand-chiseled into inked clay, this labor of love by Nicholas Gurewitch invokes the morbid...
17) The little death
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Louis Kincaid mysteries volume 10
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Pocket Books
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2010
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18) A little death
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Dr Kate Hanson cold case volume 3
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Severn House
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2017.
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"When, a year after she went missing, the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered in a field near her college, Dr Kate Hanson and her colleagues are faced with a seemingly impossible challenge. The badly decomposed remains are offering up few clues, and witnesses are proving either unreliable or reluctant to talk at all. With little in the way of forensic evidence, Kate realizes that if she is to have any chance of discovering...