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Sherlock Holmes said that Mary Morstan might have been most useful in detective work if she had only remained single. She had a decided genius. So, bored with staying at home while her husband is away helping Holmes catch criminals, Dr. Watson's wife decides to have a go at the game herself. In this she is ably assisted by her friend Emily Fanshaw, who likes to play a transvestite role occasionally.

What if The Gladiator smashed into The Highlander, and then careened into Jason Bourne? You would get The Last Roman: Exile. Some debts you cannot repay, even if you live forever. Seasoned imperial officer Marcus Sempronius Gracchus leads the 9th Roman Legion into a bloody battle against a fierce barbarian tribe. It's a battle he won't survive. When he awakens three days later, clawing his way from a shallow grave, Marcus must face the reality of his new existence. He will never see the afterlife...but that won't stop him from dying time and again over the next 2,000 years.

The third set of five Malice Masterpieces audiobooks in the series, all herein contained in one delicious and enthralling audiobook collection! The collection includes: Minor Malice (Book 11), Morally Malice (Book 12), Morose Malice (Book 13), Melancholy Malice (Book 14), and Mad Malice (Book 15).

In Angel the Assassin, Larry's father is a former military sniper who takes Larry at age 12 to be trained by ex-military snipers in the hills around Los Angeles, California. A vulnerable trans child, Larry/Lisa is supported by her mother. Lisa becomes a strong, successful, courageous, loving, and dangerous woman. When drug runners kill her father, Lisa vows revenge. After her first hit, she is recruited by the CIA to assassinate drug lords traveling to many countries around the world.

This fast-paced story from E. W. Hornung has something for every reader: a juicy murder mystery, a tender romance, charming local color, a critique of Victorian social mores, around-the-world adventures, and much more. The plot twists come at a breakneck pace, so don't blink or you might miss a crucial clue!

Top Texas Ranger investigator Jake Morgan heads home to wait out an administrative leave of absence from the Rangers, but Jake’s return to his Midwest town turns perilous when he asks probing questions about the bizarre death of his best friend, Gage Burnell. Morgan’s return home fans the embers of his first love, Pam Mitchell, whose family members are the most likely suspects in the murder of Burnell.

Maggie Spritzer’s nose for a story doesn’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed.

Angus Russell, un poderoso hombre millonario aparece muerto en su mansión de Harrow Hill con la garganta cortada de lado a lado. Las huellas dactilares y el ADN encontrado en la escena del crimen señalan como culpable a Billy Tate, un bicho raro del pueblo relacionado con temas de brujería y con un conocido rencor contra la víctima. Pero hay un problema. Tras caer desde un tejado, Tate fue declarado muerto el día anterior al asesinato de Russell.

Filho de um pai alcoólatra e violento, Huck Finn logo se encontra sozinho. Quando foi acolhido por uma senhora idosa, Huck se torna gradualmente mais civilizado. Mas no dia em que seu pai reaparece e o tranca em uma cabana, Huck foge com Jim, um escravo. A viagem deles pelo Mississippi retrata a sociedade americana da época e rende muitas aventuras! Considerado um clássico da literatura americana, essa história foi fonte de inspiração para o filme "As aventuras de Huck Finn" produzido pela Disney em 1993.

For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a “sensitive and compassionate” (The New York Times Book Review) feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving industry in 19th-century Western Australia, about a young English woman who...

In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts. When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he’s happily welcomed by his father and older...

No está siendo una buena época para Myron Bolitar: su padre ha sufrido un infarto y su agencia deportiva, MB SportsReps, no está atravesando su mejor momento. Por si eso no bastara, ha recibido la visita imprevista de Emily Downing, una antigua novia, que acude a él desesperada. Su hijo Jeremy, de trece años, se está muriendo y necesita urgentemente un transplante de médula ósea. El único donante compatible ha desaparecido sin dejar ningún rastro.

Monaco was a nice vacation - until Steve Dane and Nina Talikova witness a secret agent’s murder. Now loose ends in a Russian conspiracy to steal a direct-energy weapon from the U.S., the assassins pursuing them have made a grave miscalculation. Dane and Nina are former spies who know all the tricks. Their trail of vengeance leads from Monaco to Texas, to a showdown in the Gulf of Mexico, where Dane is taken prisoner by an opponent who intends to settle old hatreds long thought buried. Outgunned and alone, Steve Dane negotiates the only terms the enemy understands: certain death.

Having fallen on hard times, disgraced soldier turned private investigator John "Slim" Hardy is hired by a rich and enigmatic land owner, Oliver Ozgood, to uncover the identity of a mysterious blackmailer. The blackmailer, demanding a fortune in exchange for his silence, claims to be Dennis Sharp, a former employee of Ozgood, and threatens to reveal secrets that will soil Ozgood’s family name and send the patriarch to prison. There’s only one problem: Dennis Sharp is dead, killed by Ozgood himself. Listen to Slim's quest for answers in his most challenging case yet!

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A luxury superyacht. And a killer picking you off, one by one... A twist-filled summer thriller, perfect for fans of T.M. Logan's The Holiday and Lucy Clarke's The Castaways When ex-marine Sarah French joins a luxury superyacht as...

Skyrocketing boat sales have made the waters of South Florida increasingly dangerous by turning quiet backwater coves into venues for huge sandbar parties - and not everyone is there for a good time. Along with the fun-seeking crowds come the worst elements of Miami society. When a boat is found adrift in the national park with the body of a DEA agent aboard, Special Agent Kurt Hunter is caught in the crossfire between the city’s seedy underbelly and the natural habitat he’s sworn to protect.

Disappearances, deaths, threats.... The local police are beginning to suspect all these crimes are linked. They're being committed by the sinister and mysterious Volkov family. There's just one problem: They can't prove it. In order to take down the Volkovs and put a stop to these crimes, they call in a young, ambitious policeman, Antonin Jelennski. Antonin travels hundreds of miles, leaving his fiancee behind, to go undercover and infiltrate the Volkovs' organization. He pins down incriminating evidence, but he finds far more than they ever expected.

Cuarto volumen de la serie crímenes y jazz, en la que Andreu Martín nos acerca a la historia de Óscar Bruch, saxofonista de un grupo de jazz, que por algún motivo siempre termina mezclado en asuntos turbios. En esta ocasión, Óscar y su grupo se trasladan a Madrid para dar un concierto. Sin embargo, un asesinato en el local hará que la policía precinte toda la escena con el público dentro, culpable incluido. Famosos, miembros de la mafia, escritores de novela negra y muchos sospechosos se mezclarán en un escenario cerrado donde cualquiera podría ser el asesino.

The detective business is going swell for Tedrick "Stumpy" Gritswell. With more cases than he can shake a keel-stick at, he and his assist-kicks Bill and Reginald are up to their noggins in work. That changes when he is hired by Barnes to investigate the bizarre death of a powerful and influential figure.

In the era of “fake news”, when facts are suspect and reporters are targets, popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly during an interview with White House Correspondent Lark Chadwick. Still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy while covering a grieving president trying to defuse a looming nuclear war.