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Moondog Over The Mekong: Short Stories by Court Merrigan
ISBN: 9780615737669 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MOONDOVER OVER THE MEKONG: stories of guns, gambling, girls and general mayhem that redraw the borders of crime. This globe-spanning collection rockets you from dirt-road trailer parks to the slums of Bangkok, the gangster underbelly of Tokyo to a postapocalyptic Old West. There's girls on the run from Russian mobsters in the sex capital of Asia while a retiring crank cooker's ill-gotten fortune goes up for grabs on a Wyoming backroad. And a whole lot of territory in between. These ain't your typical crime stories. PRAISE: "Spanning the slums from Thailand to Wyoming,... MOONDOVER OVER THE MEKONG: stories of guns, gambling, girls and general mayhem that redraw the borders of crime. This globe-spanning collection ro... |
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Thirteen Confessions: Stories
ISBN: 9781504035958 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disaster
Marybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won her heart with bad jokes and cynical Irish charm. Two years later, she loves him more than ever, but she can see that he's bracing for a fall. When everything collapses, when Jamie's job disappears and the house is foreclosed on and Marybeth feels death creeping into her bones, it's up to her to save them both--even if it means doing... Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disaster
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73,17 |
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Tale of the Murderous Southern Belle
ISBN: 9780692654019 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step into the fictional town of Bucksdale Mississippi, where you'll meet the riveting and mysterious character of ELLANECE MOSLEY, a woman who fronts as a home and property flipping realtor, but in reality, is a under-medicated psychopath, who stalks and seduces men, with the occasional one winding up dead at her home.
Step into the fictional town of Bucksdale Mississippi, where you'll meet the riveting and mysterious character of ELLANECE MOSLEY, a woman who fronts ...
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52,56 |
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When The Saint Comes Marching Home
ISBN: 9781494730987 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third and final instalment of the best selling Poisoned Saints trilogy: Billy finds himself thrown straight back in at the underworld deep end, working directly for the ruthless Mr Granger, with The Dunn's soon becoming a distant and painful memory. Finding himself, then, as Stambro's Top Boy he's forced to do and sell things that do not sit well, testing his twisted, black morals like never before. A chance meeting with Hayley leads to an unlikely, but passionate, romance. The pair soon realise they both want the same thing; to escape Stambro for a new and honest life in the Far East....
The third and final instalment of the best selling Poisoned Saints trilogy: Billy finds himself thrown straight back in at the underworld deep end, wo...
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44,47 |
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Glory Boys
ISBN: 9781910720479 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern world, 1979. As the first waves of punk splinter into scores of new directions, a Mod renewal is bursting onto the streets of London and Chris Davis and his mates are at its epicentre.
The modern world, 1979. As the first waves of punk splinter into scores of new directions, a Mod renewal is bursting onto the streets of London and Ch...
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35,19 |
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The Abandoned Room
ISBN: 9781530750160 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,19 |
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
ISBN: 9781530747658 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille is sent to investigate a criminal case at the Chateau du Glandier and takes along his friend the lawyer Sainclair, who narrates. Mathilde Stangerson, the 30-something daughter of the castle's owner, Professor Joseph Stangerson, was found near-critically battered in a room adjacent to his laboratory on the castle grounds, with the door still locked from the inside. She recovers slowly but can make no useful testimony. Rouletabille meets and interrogates several characters: the castle's concierges Mr & Mrs Bernier, the old servant Jacques, an...
Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille is sent to investigate a criminal case at the Chateau du Glandier and takes along his friend the lawye...
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44,91 |
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Wise Guys Confidential: A Mafia Story of Industrial Espionage
ISBN: 9780692583661 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,59 |
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The Hired Gun
ISBN: 9780991685875 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1959, western Canada was only half a century removed from the old west already being commemorated in books and in the movies and television series. Cowboys and oilmen dominated the popular imagination in a rural economy of small towns surrounded by small family farms. The culture was in gradual transition, with an eye to the future but with one foot planted firmly in the previous century. The new mythology of the old west fueled the imagination of every child bored by an uneventful hot and dry Alberta summer. It's 1959. Three 12 year old boys. Two 12 year old girls. Summer is boring in a...
In 1959, western Canada was only half a century removed from the old west already being commemorated in books and in the movies and television series....
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60,69 |
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The House of Eyes: Book 20 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series
ISBN: 9780349403090 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Darren Hatman reports his daughter missing, DI Wesley Peterson isn't too concerned. Leanne Hatman is an aspiring model, keen to abandon her native Devon for the bright lights of London. However, Darren's claim that a photographer has been stalking Leanne soon changes Wesley's opinion. Leanne works at Eyecliffe Castle, once home to the wealthy D'Arles family and now converted into a luxury hotel. When Darren himself is found brutally murdered in the castle grounds, the police fear is that Leanne has met a similar fate. But, if so, where is her body? Meanwhile, Wesley's friend,...
When Darren Hatman reports his daughter missing, DI Wesley Peterson isn't too concerned. Leanne Hatman is an aspiring model, keen to abandon her nativ...
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55,31 |
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Fool Errant: A Benbow Smith Mystery
ISBN: 9781911095453 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "You mustn't go to Meade House. I've heard..." Ambrose Minstrel, the inventor, is undoubtedly eccentric. But even his oddities cannot account for the strange events at Meade House. Young Hugo Ross, Minstrel's new secretary, feels that all the dark happenings centre somehow on himself - cryptic remarks and veiled glances between Minstrel and his assistant, stealthy footsteps in the dead of night, the offer of a small fortune for the worthless field glasses. And then there is the unknown girl who had called from the dark, the rest of her statement swallowed by the night? But... "You mustn't go to Meade House. I've heard..." Ambrose Minstrel, the inventor, is undoubtedly eccentric. But even his oddities cann... |
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A Bloom of Bones
ISBN: 9781632460455 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eli Singer, a rancher and poet in remote Eastern Montana, sees his life upended when a long-buried corpsewhich turns out to be a murder victim from Eli's childhooderodes out of a hillside on his property. This discovery forces Eli to turn inward to revisit the tragic events in his past that led to a life-changing moment of violence, while at the same time he must reach outside himself toward Chloe, a literary agent from New York whom he is falling in love with. In the tradition of such classic western writers as Thomas McGuane, James Lee Burke, Ivan Doig and Jim Harrison, A Bloom of... Eli Singer, a rancher and poet in remote Eastern Montana, sees his life upended when a long-buried corpsewhich turns out to be a murder victim from... |
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76,88 |
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Canto for a Gypsy
ISBN: 9781476795904 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith's most beloved novels--the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy. The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey, a heist is impossible. But everybody wants the legendary Crown of Saint Stephen. The Hungarian government wants it as a symbol of national greatness. Exiled rebels want it simply to rob the Communists of their pleasure. And an ex-Nazi art plunderer wants it to settle a very...
Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith's most beloved novels--the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy...
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65,51 |
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The Red Bullet
ISBN: 9781517221669 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After eight years in prison, ex-special ops sniper, Leon Westford is released from Leavenworth with one intention in mind-to get even. Once lauded as the top sniper special forces has had in the last forty years, he feels betrayed by those who should have respected him. With his career over and his reputation destroyed he sets his plan in motion. Stealth, guile and the aid of inside help, has placed all the advantages in his favor. His mission is a 'Go' and failure is not an option. Two hundred miles away, Detective Emily L. Cooper is set to return to active duty. Overcoming the effects of...
After eight years in prison, ex-special ops sniper, Leon Westford is released from Leavenworth with one intention in mind-to get even. Once lauded as ...
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61,87 |
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The Lizard Song
ISBN: 9781519660381 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lizard Song was the author's attempt in his early twenties to write New Zealand's darkest and most intensely bizarre piece of crime fiction. He may just have succeeded. He describes this novella as Kiwi Gothic and says the most surprising thing about it is that it was written before he'd discovered the diabolical delights of Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford.
The Lizard Song was the author's attempt in his early twenties to write New Zealand's darkest and most intensely bizarre piece of crime fiction. He ma...
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28,12 |
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Cage Life
ISBN: 9781522858584 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the punch you don't see coming that drops you. Any fighter can tell you that. And Mickey Watts isn't just any fighter; he's one of the best in mixed martial arts, a top contender who seems to have it all: looks, brains and rich girlfriend who's crazy about him. The fact his family is mobbed-up to its Irish-Italian eyebrows has never been a problem...until Mick throws one punch too many and finds that some debts can only be paid in blood.
It's the punch you don't see coming that drops you. Any fighter can tell you that. And Mickey Watts isn't just any fighter; he's one of the best in mi...
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A River Flows
ISBN: 9781523832330 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A River Flows is a psychological crime thriller set in contemporary Europe. Ernst Reuter, a Ph.D student leading a quiet steady life, suddenly finds himself entangled in a mysterious abduction case that soon develops into a murder investigation. The victim is no other than a close friend, a political activist under police observation. Matters get dangerously complicated, when Ernst, not trusting the local police, decides to seek outside assistance to help him investigate the murder case. An old friend leads him to a European detective bureau that helps him investigate what gradually turns out...
A River Flows is a psychological crime thriller set in contemporary Europe. Ernst Reuter, a Ph.D student leading a quiet steady life, suddenly finds h...
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Every Man for Himself
ISBN: 9781627200943 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pat Brogan is a Gambling Squad detective in 1950s Buffalo, NY. Beneath the gritty smokestacks are thousands of bright, clanging pinball machines-banned from New York City but still legal here-tempting the well-heeled as well as factory hands in bars, stores and clubs. When a single machine could take in $100 a week in nickels and factory workers made far less, there were fortunes to be made on the dark side of the law. Dealing with grasping pinball vendors, a manipulative politician, a ruthless mobster, a vengeful judge, and corruption within the department as well as bitter wartime...
Pat Brogan is a Gambling Squad detective in 1950s Buffalo, NY. Beneath the gritty smokestacks are thousands of bright, clanging pinball machines-banne...
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80,88 |
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Circle of Terror
ISBN: 9781630479763 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Milwaukee Police Detective, Declan Tomczyk, a former Marine Corps officer, is dispatched to investigate the defacing and desecration of headstones at a local cemetery. The incident, initially chalked up as the handiwork of Halloween pranksters, turns out to be anything but. When domestic terrorists spring a trap at the cemetery, critically injuring Tomczyk's good friend and former squad partner, Tomczyk is determined to hunt down the criminals, leading him further into danger. The bombing in the cemetery is only the beginning of a series of violent crime sprees that are eerily familiar to the...
Milwaukee Police Detective, Declan Tomczyk, a former Marine Corps officer, is dispatched to investigate the defacing and desecration of headstones at ...
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69,17 |
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The Next Twelve Hours
ISBN: 9781530255702 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,61 |
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