Detective and mystery fiction
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Un cosy crime à l'humour belge délectable. Emma Toussaint est la meilleure juge d'instruction de Bruxelles. D'une intelligence et d'une efficacité à en oublier parfois son savoir-vivre, elle forme un parfait duo avec son greffier, Fabrice Colet, aussi organisé et méthodique que sensible et dévoué. Ce matin, Toussaint vient de se voir confier le dossier le plus épineux du moment. Un avocat célèbre, soupçonné d'appartenir à un réseau d'évasion fiscale et de blanchiment d'argent, a été assassiné.
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A New York Times Bestseller * A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024. "A world-class whodunit." — Stephen King. "An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills." — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author. "Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty..." — Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author. What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too?
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Celadon Books, a division of MacMillan Publishers
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller! In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone.
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June—AKA the Calendar Crew—are celebrating the opening of their latest joint business venture, a new laundromat, to much fanfare (and controversy).
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review. When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why and find the voles.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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"I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor, and satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!" —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow. For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl.
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Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer New York Times Notable Book NPR's Best Books of 2021 Washington Post's Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Nominee Book of the Month's Book of the Year Finalist "Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too." — Washington Post "Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times." —Michael Connelly "A
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A medical student with Asperger’s is drawn into a deadly mystery in this unique crime thriller from the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author. Winner of the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Rubbernecker is a gripping thriller about a medical student who begins to suspect that something strange is going on in the cadaver lab. “The dead can’t speak to us,” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things.
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Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea—from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me . When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction.
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[Place of publication not identified]
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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From the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house. "Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying. When true-crime obsessed Paige, along with her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history—a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s.
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Random House Children's Books