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Uno spogliarello di troppo
by Agnès RuizDopo cinque anni, Vanessa ha deciso di lasciare il club dove ha lavorato come spogliarellista. Tolti gli abiti di scena, una nuova vita l'aspetta. Il giorno dopo il suo ultimo striptease, il detective Rachel Toury deve indagare sull'omicidio di una giovane donna. Il cadavere indossa un tailleur griffato e delle scarpe rosse dal tacco vertiginoso. Agnès Ruiz è autrice di numerosi bestseller venduti in oltre 370.000 copie. Ha ottenuto un enorme successo con il suo primo romanzo "Ma vie assassinée". Scrive sia per adulti che per ragazzi. I suoi racconti sulle indagini della Detective Rachel Toury riscuotono molto successo sia in Europa che oltreoceano. Molti titoli sono stati tradotti in varie lingue. Originaria della Normandia (Francia), ha vissuto quasi 20 anni in Canada. È sposata e ha tre figli.
Unorthodox Methods
by Deborah Valentine'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday TelegraphSculptress Katharine Craig doesn't often get to Lake Tahoe, where she stays with her cousin, Jon Craig. This time, though, Katharine arrives just in time to be swept into a whirl of parties, mystery... and murder. A series of art thefts has the townsfolk doing plenty of speculating and Cousin Jon is right at the centre of the mystery. But when a local art collector is found gruesomely impaled on the piece of sculpture he recently had shown to Katharine, idle speculation turns to serious investigation. It seems Katharine was the last person to see the victim alive, and Kevin Bryce of the Tahoe Police has a more than passing interest in getting to know her better...
Unorthodox Methods (Murder Room #812)
by Deborah Valentine'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday TelegraphSculptress Katharine Craig doesn't often get to Lake Tahoe, where she stays with her cousin, Jon Craig. This time, though, Katharine arrives just in time to be swept into a whirl of parties, mystery... and murder. A series of art thefts has the townsfolk doing plenty of speculating and Cousin Jon is right at the centre of the mystery. But when a local art collector is found gruesomely impaled on the piece of sculpture he recently had shown to Katharine, idle speculation turns to serious investigation. It seems Katharine was the last person to see the victim alive, and Kevin Bryce of the Tahoe Police has a more than passing interest in getting to know her better...
Unorthodox Practices
by Marissa PiesmanThink the real-estate market is a current craze? Welcome to New York in the 1980s, where the best thing about being obsessed with real estate is that, as a conversational topic, you can count on it to just naturally arise about every ten minutes. Nina Fischman mostly opts out of those conversations: She's too busy running down to Housing Court on behalf of her poverty law clients, and tracking down sales on sweaters that camouflage the hips. But Nina's mother, Ida, has a nose for the market, and that nose gets twitchy when old ladies in her neighborhood start dying, leaving apartments that have miraculously escaped what New Yorkers delicately call ?the cockroach problem. Over a nice snack of low-fat cottage cheese, she nags Nina into snooping around. And Nina is soon forced, reluctantly, to agree with her mother: Somebody's making a killing in real estate.
Unorthodox: A Kendra Spark Novel (A Kendra Spark Novel #1)
by S. Peters DavisKendra Spark, suspense-mystery romance author and communicator with the dead, Jenna Powers. FBI criminal analyst and estranged best friend of Kendra, gets ghosticized in a fatal accident before relaying all the details of the FBI killer case, and Derek Knight, a dedicated FBI Special Task Force agent, all come together on this horrifying case. The investigation into the FBI agent killings continues as Kendra, Jenna (yes, even after death), and Derek work together on the case before Director of the Special Task Force Jackson Powers’ number is up. He’s Jenna’s father and the end-game of the killer’s target list. Somehow the elusive killer remains undetected, until Kendra’s unique ability produces results and a final possibility at stopping his killing spree before it’s too late.
Unos asesinatos muy reales: Serie Aurora Roe Teagarden 1 (Serie Aurora Roe Teagarden #Volumen 1)
by Charlaine HarrisEl "Asesinato del Mes" de repente adquirió una dimensión muy violenta y... real Cada mes, Real Murders, una asociación de aficionados al crimen de Lawrenceton, Georgia, se reúne para discutir sobre un asesinato famoso. Sus miembros son de lo más excéntrico: Gifford Doakes, el especialista en masacres; Jane Engle, amante de las historias de terror victorianas; Perry Allison, fan de Ted Bundy... Durante la noche de la última reunión, la bibliotecaria local, Aurora «Roe» Teagarden, descubrió el cuerpo mutilado de Mamie Wright en la cocina de la sede del club. Está segura de que el asesino pertenece a la asociación, ya que el crimen guarda un parecido escalofriante con el Asesinato del Mes. Y como quiera que después tuvieron lugar otros asesinatos de imitación, el único móvil parece un aterrador y extraño sentido de la diversión... Reseñas: «Una escritora de talento excepcional». Publishers Weekly «Los lectores se enfrentarán cara a cara con el mal y es una cara que tardarán mucho en olvidar. La historia de Harris por un lado cautiva y por otro estremece, una combinación difícil que la autora maneja con aplomo y brillantez». Carolyn G. Hart «Unos asesinatos muy reales posee una de las premisas más originales con las que me he encontrado en una novela de misterio, y todo el libro es extremadamente divertido. Me encantó cada giro de esta maravillosa e ingeniosa historia». Barbara Paul, autora de He Huffed and He Puffed «Con su habitual ingenio e inteligencia sureños, Charlaine Harris regresa con Unos asesinatos muy reales, que cuenta con una heroína inteligente, divertida y atractiva y una trama escalofriante, amena y absorbente». Dean James, director de Murder by the Book
Unpaid Dues: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel (The Munch Mancini Novels #6)
by Barbara SeranellaA gritty tale of suspense starring “one of the most engaging, complex characters in mystery fiction today” (Harlan Coben). Miranda “Munch” Mancini has worked hard to overcome her past life as a hard-living street junkie, including cutting ties with the people she used to run with. She’s got a daughter now, as well as respectable work as an auto mechanic to her wealthy California clients. But she’s caught by surprise when an old friend turns up dead—and Munch’s photo appears in the woman’s criminal file, connecting her to a crime she’s struggled to put behind her. With the police investigation of the murder pointing to a terrifying figure in Munch’s history, she doesn’t know what to fear more: the dangerous killer, or the truth about her past finally being revealed . . . “There’s no more interesting protagonist in crime fiction. . . . Don’t miss this series.” —Chicago Tribune
Unperfekt Kriminell
by Mary FrameAls sich Freya Morgan an ihrem schrecklichen Ex-Freund rächen wollte, hielt sie es für eine grandiose Idee, den Bad Boy des Campus‘ anzuheuern, damit er ihm eine Heidenangst einjagt. Und das war sie auch…anfangs. Danach begannen jedoch auf dem gesamten Campus erzürnte Freundinnen besagten Bad Boy anzuheuern, damit er Rache an ihren Ex-Freunden verübte. Aber jetzt werden plötzlich ein paar dieser Ex-Freunde tot aufgefunden und er ist die einzige Verbindung. Dean Collins steckt in Schwierigkeiten und das ist allein Freyas Schuld. Sie ist diejenige, durch die er überhaupt erst in das Rache-Geschäft gerutscht ist. Deswegen soll sie ihm auch aus diesem Schlamassel helfen. Als Freya zustimmt, Dean dabei zu helfen, den echten Mörder zu finden, bemerkt sie, dass dieser Bad Boy doch nicht so schlimm ist. Und sich auf ihn einzulassen, bedeutet mehr als nur einen Mordfall zu lösen, es bedeutet, dass sie möglicherweise ihr Leben…und ihr Herz verliert.
Unplanned
by Jerri DrennenSometimes, it's the unplanned events that change your life the most. Dana never planned on getting pregnant from her one night stand. Galen never planned on being arrested for murder. They certainly never planned on meeting again during a jailbreak in Ecuador! Passion abounds in the steamy Amazon jungle as Dana and Galen search for a murderer and find a love that is unplanned!Galen Hall wakes in a Ecuadorian jail with a murderous headache, a murder charge, and a memory gap where his alibi should be. How does the jungle guide prove his innocence? His best friend comes to help, only to bring with him the woman whose unplanned love sent him fleeing the Amazon to begin with.One night of steamy jungle passion has botanist Dana Rutherford carrying a stranger's baby. While coming to terms with raising a child on her own, she learns of the father's captivity. In a town where corruption reigns, she unknowingly initiates a jailbreak, and finds herself again face-to-face with the hunky, green-eyed devil who has changed her life forever.
Unplugged
by Lois GreimanChristina McMullen, psychologist extraordinaire, has problems–not least of which are her needy clients, a schizophrenic septic system, and her sizzling-then-fizzling romance with Lieutenant Jack Rivera. But Chrissy has yet another problem she’d like to ignore: finding her secretary’s missing boyfriend. Okay, so she secretly hopes the vertically challenged computer geek has harmlessly departed from Elaine’s life–after all, there’s no evidence to suggest foul play. But when her razor-sharp instincts, honed by years as a cocktail waitress, start screaming, she’ll have to use all her skills to protect Laney and herself from a fate far worse than heartbreak…and a little more like murder.
Unpopular Science (Destroyer #136)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirREPULSIVE FORCE. A rash of perfectly executed thefts from military research facilities puts CURE in the hot seat. Bad enough someone is stealing top secret technology that can seriously disable the superiority of the U.S. military. Worse, whoever is masterminding the conspiracy knows about the existence of CURE and is cleverly engineering its self-destruction. The trap has been set for Remo and Chiun to flip the off switch of the technogenius behind an army of remote-controlled killer machines. But the tenacious enemy has found the weak link in the Sinanju armor. Nastier than a scourge of deadly titanium termites, more dangerous than the resurrection of a machine oil/microchip battle-bot called Ironhand, is the juice used to power them all up: an electromagnetic pulse that can unplug Remo and Chiun long enough to short-circuit CURE beyond repair.
Unpopular Science: Number 136 in Series (The Destroyer #136)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirAwry and technological adventure in which a tenacious enemy is using an ingenious battle-bot named Ironhand to steal top-secret information and use it to destroy CURE. Remo and Chiun must outwit this machine that is nastier and more dangerous than any other - and one capable of short-circuiting CURE beyond repair.Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Unpretty
by Sharon C RogersThe city of Lehigh, West Virginia, faces the insidious threat of a sadistic cult bent on eliminating all "unpretty" things in the world. A bomb goes off at the Conklin Art Gallery, killing eight people associated with a unique Michelangelo exhibit being shown there. The only person who may have seen the bomber is Hummingbird Collins, an aspiring artist who works down the street from the gallery. But she soon starts receiving ominous cassette recordings of a rambling madman who reveals his plan to rid the world of "unpretty" things. This madman -- known only as Number 26 -- leads a cult known as the Michelangelus Movement, which has kidnapped and tortured people for use in their bizarre artistic experiments over the past dozen years. When Hummingbird breaks her frightened silence, she enlists the help of Detective Buck Barnes, her brother, and an old family friend, Ready Robinson, a former pro-football player who entered the priesthood after ending his NFL career. But when Hummingbird is abducted by the cult, her friends must discover where she's been taken before she becomes another addition to the leader's horrific replication of Michelangelo's masterpiece -- Last Judgment.
Unpunished
by Charlotte Perkins GilmanGilman's first and only detective novel recounts the murder of a pernicious attorney who has been shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, strangled and poisoned.
Unpunished (A Gardiner and Renner Novel #2)
by Lisa BlackMaggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders in this powerful new thriller by the bestselling author of That Darkness. It begins with the kind of bizarre death that makes headlines--literally. A copy editor at the Cleveland Herald is found hanging above the grinding wheels of the newspaper assembly line, a wide strap wrapped around his throat. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has her suspicions about this apparent suicide inside the tsunami of tensions that is the news industry today--and when the evidence suggests murder, Maggie has no choice but to place her trust in the one person she doesn't trust at all . . .Jack Renner is a killer with a conscience, a vigilante with his own code of honor. In the past, Jack has used his skills and connections as a homicide detective to take the law into his own hands, all in the name of justice. He has only one problem: Maggie knows his secret. She insists he enforce the law, not subvert it. But when more newspaper employees are slain, Jack may be the only person who can help Maggie unmask the killer-- even if Jack is still checking names off his own private murder list.
Unquiet Ghosts: A Novel
by Glenn Meade“Powerful, moving...unforgettable.” —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Glenn Meade doesn’t miss a beat…A high-octane game-changer.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The 14th Colony Eight years ago, her husband and children were killed in a plane crash. Now, new evidence reveals that they didn’t die—her husband deliberately vanished—and that he knows a secret the powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep hidden.Kathy Kelly’s world was shattered when a plane carrying her husband—an Iraq War veteran and devoted father—and her two children vanished from the sky one night. No trace of the plane was ever found. Eight years later, Kathy has struggled to rebuild her life, but then wreckage of his plane is found in the wilderness of Great Smoky Mountain National Park—hundreds of miles from where her husband’s plane should have been. The pilot perished in the crash, but there is no sign of Jack or the children. Could they have made it out alive after all? But if so, where have they been all this time? Where are they now? As Kathy searches for any clue about what happened to her family, the investigation uncovers some unsettling clues—including a briefcase containing millions of dollars in cash, a priceless mask stolen from an Iraqi museum, and a clue that links Jack’s disappearance with the suspicious death of Kathy’s mother years ago. But she soon learns that others have been looking for the wreckage and its occupants for a long time. Others who are determined to make sure she never finds her family and that they remain dead. Shadowy, powerful people who will kill for what was on board—a secret her husband was the keeper of. A secret so powerful it will open a Pandora’s box of bloody revenge—one that reaches back into the past and into the highest echelons of wealth and power, all the way to the White House. This breathless, pulse-pounding thriller examines the very real billions in cash and priceless artifacts that vanished into the pockets of powerful American men during the Iraq war, and examines the extreme lengths some people will go to protect the secrets of what really happened to all that money.
Unquiet Land
by Sharon ShinnLeah Frothen has returned home. But she can scarcely catch her breath before she is summoned by regent Darien Serlast, the man who made her a spy. Leah is reluctant to take on a new assignment, but Darien has dangled the perfect lure to draw her in...Leah finds she enjoys the challenges of opening a shop catering to foreign visitors, especially since it affords her the opportunity to get to know Mally, the child she abandoned five years ago.But when the regent asks her to spy on ambassadors from a visiting nation, Leah soon learns that everyone-her regent, her lover, and even her daughter-have secrets that could save the nation, but might very well break her heart.
Unquiet Spirit
by Derek WilsonA haunting in St. Thomas's College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit is invited to carry out an experiment to settle the unrest. But when the main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, insists on being present for the nocturnal investigation and suddenly drops dead that very night the press has a field day and the college needs answersSir Joseph Zuylestein, the College Master, asks Dr. Nathaniel Gye if he can make some discreet enquiries with a view to closing the whole sorry business. But when they receive some disturbing anonymous letters that seem to prove the undergraduate, whose unquiet spirit supposedly haunts St.Thomas's, did not commit suicide ten years earlier, but was murdered, the case suddenly becomes altogether more serious...
Unquiet Spirit
by Mr Derek WilsonA haunting in St. Thomas's College, Cambridge bitterly divides the college, and the Cambridge branch of the Psychic Investigation Unit is invited to carry out an experiment to settle the unrest. But when the main opponent of the plan, Professor Hawkridge, insists on being present for the nocturnal investigation and suddenly drops dead that very night the press has a field day and the college needs answersSir Joseph Zuylestein, the College Master, asks Dr. Nathaniel Gye if he can make some discreet enquiries with a view to closing the whole sorry business. But when they receive some disturbing anonymous letters that seem to prove the undergraduate, whose unquiet spirit supposedly haunts St.Thomas's, did not commit suicide ten years earlier, but was murdered, the case suddenly becomes altogether more serious...
Unravel: A Novel (Fairfax #1)
by Calia ReadCalia Read breaks the mold in this explosive novel that grabs hold and doesn't let go until the shocking truth is revealed.Six months ago, I was happy. I was simply Naomi Carradine. One month ago, I was admitted into a psych ward. Yesterday, Lachlan visited me. Kissed me. And told me that I'm starting to lose my mind. Hours later, Max haunted my thoughts, reminding me I'm not crazy and that he needs my help. A few minutes ago, I drifted further from reality, trying to unravel the past. And now . . . everyone thinks I'm insane. But I know he's real, and I know he needs me. Do you believe me? Unravel is intended for mature audiences.
Unraveled
by Maggie SeftonSpring is in the air of Fort Connor, Colorado--and it's a time of new beginnings for the House of Lambspun knitters. But for Kelly Flynn, a March chill lingers as she tries to mend her broken heart...and solve a cold-blooded crime. Kelly's longtime romance has come apart at the seams. To distract herself, she burrows into her demanding consulting business, hangs out with her knitting pals, and takes on the challenge of knitting a scarf from gorgeous unraveled silken sari yarn. When Kelly accompanies her friend Jennifer to meet with Jen's new real estate client, the two women discover him shot in his own home. The client, Fred Turner, had a reputation for being difficult at best, unscrupulous at worst, and had a long list of enemies--from his estranged wife to bitter business associates. Unraveling the tangle of clues may prove to be Kelly's greatest challenge yet. But it's the only way to catch a killer who's anything but sorry...
Unraveled
by Maggie SeftonThe newest yarn from the national bestselling author of Skein of the Crime. Spring is in the air of Fort Connor, Colorado-a time of new beginnings for the House of Lambspun knitters. But for fellow knitter Jennifer's new real estate client, it is his end. He's been murdered and Kelly Flynn is left unraveling a tangle of clues. This may prove to be her most challenging project yet.
Unraveled (Texas Red River Mysteries #6)
by Reavis Z. Wortham"Not only does Wortham write exceptionally well, but he somehow manages to infuse Unraveled with a Southern gothic feel that would make even William Faulkner proud… A hidden gem of a book that reads like Craig Johnson's Longmire mysteries on steroids." —The Providence JournalBlending the racial topicality of the Sixties crime classic In the Heat of the Night with the coming-of-age poignancy of To Kill a Mockingbird, Unraveled presents a gripping investigation into the extremes of human nature—both at its most repulsive and at its redemptive best.It's 1968; a time of race riots across America, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, and polarizing demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the rural Northeast Texas community of Center Springs, a car lunges through the guard rails on Highway 271's tightest curve and flings its two occupants down the new Lake Lamar Dam. What stuns the town's residents isn't the tragic accident but the identities of the two victims: Mayor Frank Clay, a white man, and Maggie Mayfield, a black woman who worked in his office. Each of them married to other people. What were they doing in Frank's car together?Living with his grandparents, Ned and Miss Becky, in a little farmhouse near the Red River, fourteen-year-old Top Parker finds himself caught up in another adult situation. The war escalating between the Clays and the Mayfields is frightening in its intensity. More horrifying is a man calling himself the Wraith, who moves through the region at will, invading homes and watching the Parkers. The Wraith has his own deadly agenda. And it soon becomes clear to Top that, for some reason, he is part of it.
Unraveled Sleeve (A Needlecraft Mystery #4)
by Monica FerrisThe art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting...and a hidden talent for unraveling crime.<P><P> Betsy Devonshire has settled into her new home in Excelsior, Minnesota, as owner of the town's needlecraft shop. So why is she suffering from terrifying nightmares? She hasn't a clue--but she thinks maybe it would help to get away for a while. With her friend Jill in tow, she heads north for a "stitch-in" at a remote, rustic lodge. But her nightmares only get worse--especially after she finds a dead woman no one else had seen. Then the body disappears--and she knows she won't get any rest until she untangles the mysterious threads of the crime....