Death Sentences: Short Stories to Die For – serie
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Book of Virtue
Av Ken Bruen
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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With his hated father dead, a man''s life takes a dangerous turn. He doesn''t cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank''s final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, …
Book of Ghosts
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past. Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was tortured to death when the guards caught him writing …
Scroll
Av Anne Perry
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of …
Death Leaves A Bookmark
Av William Link
E-bok, 2014
35 kr
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Attempting the perfect murder, a killer encounters the perfect cop. After years of get-rich-quick schemes, Troy Pellingham''s bank account is empty and his options are down to one: take a job in his uncle''s rare book shop, and spend his days working for an unpleasant man whose only redeeming …
Acceptable Sacrifice
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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They call him ''Cuchillo'' – the Knife. Not because he kills with a blade – he has plenty of men to do that kind of work for him – but because his mind is so sharp. As Mexico''s government wages war on the drug cartels, it takes brains to survive, and Cuchillo has not just survived – he has …
Pronghorns of the Third Reich
Av C.J. Box
E-bok, 2014
35 kr
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Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer''s house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker''s day has started badly and is going to get much worse. …
Long Sonata of the Dead
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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Once visited by the likes of Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and George Eliot, the London Library is a maze of books – a jumble of first editions and forgotten texts. For Tony, it is a refuge from the failure his life has become – and it is about to be invaded by a destructive old friend. Adam …
Final Testament
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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As World War II draws near, a dying genius fights against hate to preserve his legacy. Cancer has ravaged Sigmund Freud. It is 1938, and the great doctor has fled Vienna for London, where he races to finish his final, most dangerous work: a radical reimagining of the origins of Judaism, which …
Book Club
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime. Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store''s eerie corridors are the province of Avery Sharecross, an ex-cop who has made the transition from chasing killers to tracking rare books. One …
It's In The Book
Av Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
E-bok, 2014
34 kr
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A new Mike Hammer story from the archives of Mickey Spillane. On the death of crime boss Don Giraldi, a rumour begins to spread about the existence of a very dangerous book. A ledger that lists every deal made during his career. The rumored is that the book is in the possession of person he trusted …
Rides A Stranger
Av David Bell
E-bok, 2014
34 kr
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After the death of his father, a literature professor is drawn into the murder investigation of a bookstore owner... Though Don and his father both love books, their tastes couldn''t be more different. Don is a scholar, and his father reads nothing but schlock. His house is full of dime paperbacks, …
What's In A Name
E-bok, 2014
35 kr
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A rare book collector finds a manuscript that might have changed the course of WWI. On the evening of November 11th, 1968, antiquarian book collector Francis Altman is giving a talk in honor of the anniversary of the Armistice Treaty. But his lecture takes a dark turn upon the haunting arrival of a …
Book Thing
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children''s Bookstore. It''s new, bright, friendly and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But the owner''s attitude stops her in her tracks. What kind of children''s bookseller hates children? But Octavia, the …
Remaindered
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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It''s no mystery who killed Robert Ripple, owner of Precious Finds Bookstore in Pokesville, Pennsylvania. It was Agatha Christie – or rather, a large carton of valuable Christie hardcovers that the not-so-young Ripple was attempting to lift when his heart gave out. The real question is why the …
Mystery, Inc
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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Charles Brockden finds a bookshop that instantly piques his desire. He must call it his own; he must add it to his already-extensive collection of bookstores. But surely the owner of such a fine shop wouldn''t easily part with it? Brockden forms a plan to acquire the shop in such a way that no one …
Compendium of Srem
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throughout the land, with Prior Tomás de Torquemada serving as the ultimate judge of who will live and who will be consigned to the purifying flames. Never has Torquemada questioned his own faith or his sacred duty to rid the world of …
Gospel of Sheba
Av Lyndsay Faye
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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When A. Davenport Lomax''s young daughter asks him whether spirits and faeries are real, the Edwardian librarian just pats the little darling on the head. But when a desperate man emerges from the winding passages of the library muttering about demonology, he gets Lomax''s attention. Theodore …
Sequel
Av R.L. Stine
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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Every writer knows what it''s like to be plagued by a bad case of writer''s block. But what happens when writer''s block shows up in person and starts terrorizing a best-selling author? Zachary Gold, struggling to write his second novel after becoming an instant success with his first, is suddenly …
From the Queen
Av Carolyn Hart
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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All book lovers dream of stumbling upon a long-lost treasure in the attic or inheriting a fortune from a distant relative. For Ellen Gallagher, the impoverished owner of a thrift store in South Carolina, the dream comes true when she finds in her possession a first edition of Agatha Christie''s …
Book of the Lion
Av Thomas Perry
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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When Professor Dominic Hallkyn receives an anonymous phone call late one night from a voice claiming to possess a priceless Chaucerian manuscript presumed lost forever, he doesn''t know how to react. Such a find could irrevocably alter the history of literature, as well as his career, and yet, he …
Little Men
Av Megan Abbott
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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In 1953 Hollywood, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe actress past her prime. She has settled into a quieter lifestyle, and when she comes across a low-rent bungalow in Canyon Arms, it''s a dream come true. Penny takes to the place instantly. But the dream bungalow with its French doors and …
Nature of My Inheritance
E-bok, 2015
35 kr
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When Liam Everett''s reverend father passes away in the prime of his life, Liam knows something foul is afoot. Everyone insists that the reverend''s slip down the basement staircase of the church was simply an accident, a misstep. But the reverend knew those steps better than the back of his hand …
Citadel
E-bok, 2015
34 kr
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Basil St. Florian is a captain in the British Army, an agent tasked with a dangerous mission in the midst of World War II. He has been sent across the channel into occupied France to find and photograph a manuscript that does not officially exist, one that may hold the key to a code that, if …
Every Seven Years
Av Denise Mina
E-bok, 2015
34 kr
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It''s been seven years since Else visited her tiny hometown on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. She fled the island after years of bullying at the hands of the few other residents, but now that her mother has passed away, Else has no choice but to return. And when her old tormentor, …
Travelling Companion
For as Long as it Takes to Get There
Av Ian Rankin
E-bok, 2016
35 kr
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For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop offers the perfect occupation during a summer abroad in Paris. Working part-time in exchange for room and board leaves plenty of freedom to explore the city once visited by his literary hero, Robert …
Condor in the Stacks
Av James Grady
E-bok, 2017
35 kr
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Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and is back to work. The only problem is that his work now entails the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the high-adrenaline rush of being a covert spy for the …
Haze
E-bok, 2017
35 kr
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Back in the day, Little Mo Connor was a hired gun for Slick Dickey Scalini, taking down opponents without discretion, always with the same signature kill: three shots to the head, one shot to the heart. Now he''s living out his last days hidden away in an anonymous facility, surrounded by other …
Pretty Little Box
Av Charles Todd
E-bok, 2018
35 kr
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At first glance, the miniature book of hours with gilt-edged pages and the beautiful box that contains it look too small to be of any real consequence – which is exactly why the woman, hardly a thief in her day-to-day life, doesn''t think twice about pocketing the package when it catches her eye at …
Seven Years
E-bok, 2018
35 kr
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These days, retired professor Donald Aitcheson spends his time doing whatever he pleases – driving through the English countryside, exploring small villages and dipping into whatever used bookstores he can find. On one such outing, he chances upon a collection of Robert Browning''s poetry with an …
Reconciliation Day
E-bok, 2018
35 kr
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Carter, one of the world''s leading experts on Dracula , owns many editions of Bram Stoker''s novel, maybe even as many as his well-heeled rival, Mikaela Klove. But one thing has always eluded him: the chance to examine the possibly apocryphal blue edition of Stoker''s seminal vampire tale. If it …
