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  Amiable Charlatan An - The most...

  E. Phillips Oppenheim

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  From the sophisticated drawing rooms of pre-war London to the clandestine gambling dens of Paris, comes a new twist on the art of the steal. Master-storyteller E. Phillips Oppenheim presents An Amiable Charlatan, a captivating mystery where elegance and crime are inseparable. 
  Follow the young, aristocratic Mr. Paul Walmsley, who finds his charmed life turned upside down when he crosses paths with the enigmatic and irresistible Mr. Joseph H. Parker. Parker is a master of deception—a charming 'charlatan' whose polite exterior masks a daring criminality. He claims to expose frauds, but Walmsley soon discovers Parker may be the most successful fraud of all. 
  When Walmsley falls hopelessly in love with Parker's beautiful daughter, he is drawn relentlessly into their world of elaborate schemes, daring escapes, and the highest high-society scandals. With every perfect crime Parker commits, the stakes rise, and Walmsley must decide if he is a victim, an accomplice, or the key to exposing the charlatan before they all fall together. 
  Heard only on Inaudio, and narrated with witty, masterful tension by the legendary Richard A Molina, An Amiable Charlatan is a Molina Classics Publishing release.

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  Killing Season Part 3

  Faye Kellerman

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  New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man’s obsessive investigation into his sister’s death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer. 
  Ben is now certain his sister was the victim of a sadistic serial killer, and refuses to let any distractions get in his way of bringing this monster to justice: not his rocky relationship with Ro, his rekindled friendship with J.D. or Detective Sam Shanks's constant warnings to butt out and let the police handle the investigation. But the ominous winds of Santa Fe are kicking up and there’s nowhere left to hide. Find out what happens as Ben, Ro, and Detective Sam Shanks come head to head with the killer in the conclusion of Killing Season.

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  A Thousand Cuts - A Max Starkey...

  Gregory Poirier

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  Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia.Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen goods for villains who don’t ask questions. But when he’s lured to Bangkok under false pretenses, his past catches up with him.The setup: an old flame, Kelly Riggs, now married to his CIA rival.The job: steal $130 million in dictator-owned gold before a coup ignites.The problem: everyone plans a double-cross—and Max is the mark. Then there’s Giuliana Abara, Max’s sharp-tongued “companion,” an undercover FBI agent with secrets of her own, who further proves that trust kills and redemption demands blood in this high-octane debut thriller—spanning the streets of Bangkok to the Laotian rainforest— by screenwriter Gregory Poirier.

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  Wishmen - A Future Noir Thriller...

  Sky Daltrey

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  Wishes come true. Freedom disappears. 
  Nico Gracie, a gifted game developer, longs to create something real in a world that rewards distraction over meaning. Felicia, an artist haunted by visions of disaster, is desperate to save her sister from a system that turns human hope into experimentation. When their paths cross, they uncover a shared past — and a future neither of them can outrun. 
  The island of Anglesden hums with electric nostalgia: retro cars, neon saloons, and immersive games that promise fulfillment. It is governed by MANA, a wish-granting system twisted by the authoritarian Founder into an instrument of quiet control. 
  As desire becomes currency and happiness is carefully engineered, Nico and Felicia confront a final question: in a noir future where technology controls destiny, can the human heart still prevail?

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  A Fashionable Fatality

  Alyssa Maxwell

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  Amid the aftermath of the Great War and its hardships, it's no wonder that many wish to rediscover life's pleasures—parties, fashion, dancing. Still, Lady Phoebe and Eva are disconcerted when a small gathering at the home of Phoebe's sister, Julia, becomes a far larger and more glamorous affair . . . 
   
   
    
  Julia has invited her favorite French fashion designer, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, and Coco's current beau, the Earl of Chesterhaven. Coco has brought an entourage of her own, including two models, and intends to use the gardens as a photographic setting for her latest creations. 
   
   
    
  Madame Chanel is as outspoken as she is talented, offering a scathing critique of Phoebe's fashion sense. There is tense competition between the models as well. When one of the guests is found dead of smoke inhalation, it appears to be a tragic accident. But was a footman really to blame for mistakenly closing the fireplace flue, or is there a more sinister explanation? 
   
   
     
  Phoebe is determined to find out, despite the protestations of her sweetheart, Owen Seabright.  Both above and below stairs, Phoebe and Eva uncover myriad motives—career ambition, romantic rivalries, and even deeper betrayals.

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  The Power-House

  John Buchan

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  The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen, who features in a number of Buchan's novels. The urban setting contrasts with that of its sequel, John Macnab, which is set in the Scottish Highlands.The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a burly Labour MP."The dominant theme of Buchan's fiction is the fragility of civilisation," it has been said in the context of a discussion of The Power-House.[1] What the critic Christopher Harvie calls "perhaps the most famous line in all Buchan"[2] occurs during the first meeting between Leithen and Lumley, when the latter tells the former, "You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass" (Chapter 3). Harvie cites a comparable passage from the second volume of The Golden Bough, where Frazer speaks of "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society," which, "unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture," is "a standing menace to civilisation. We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath."  - Summary by Wikipedia

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