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Landed Gently (The Inspector George Gently Case Files #4)
by Alan HunterHaving been invited to spend Christmas in the country, fishing for pike, Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall, a nearby stately home, is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning. At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident, but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions and is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder. Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads that Gently must unravel in his investigation are more complex than any weaver's design, with everyone from the lord of the manor to his most lowly servant falling under suspicion. Praise for Alan Hunter's Gently books:'It is always a pleasure to look forward to another Gently book by Alan Hunter ' Police Review
Landen
by LAIA FABREGASUna historia sobre coincidencias y accidentes, sobre la adaptación a un país nuevo y sobre la nostalgia, la soledad y el amor incondicional. La palabra holandesa landen tiene dos significados a la vez: «países» y «aterrizar». «Murió durante el aterrizaje», dice Ella al principio de esta misteriosa novela. En un vuelo de Barcelona a Ámsterdam una joven holandesa y un abuelo extremeño se sientan en la misma fila y entablan conversación. Tras la repentina muerte del hombre, Ella, siguiendo un impulso, esconde la enigmática caja que Él iba a entregarle a su hijo y se marcha. Él emigró a Holanda en los años sesenta para trabajar, se casó con una artista holandesa y tuvieron tres hijos. Después de quince años, la familia se traslada a Figueres. Ella trabaja en la hacienda holandesa. Durante el fin de semana busca a las personas que aparecen en una lista de cien nombres, con la esperanza de que una de ellas pueda proporcionarle la información que necesita. La intrigante y obsesiva búsqueda que lleva a cabo la protagonista sumerge al lector en esas casualidades que marcan de forma irreversible nuestras vidas. La crítica ha dicho...«Después de su prometedor debut con La niña de los nueve dedos, Laia Fàbregas escribe de nuevo una novela bien construida y fascinante.»Daniëlle Serdijn, De Volkskrant «Una historia fascinante... Fàbregas no lo desvela todo y es justo ahí donde se esconde su fuerza, porque la sutil tensión del relato y la información bien dosificada hacen de Landen una novela que cautiva de principio a fin.»Marieke Dijkman, Nu.nl «Trauma e historia, magia y azar, concepto y relato. Las novelas de Laia Fàbregas se sitúan en un territorio ambiguo, de disolución de la identidad, de pérdida de la relación tradicional con el territorio, las creencias y las formas de vida de los padres.»Juliá Guillamon, La Vanguardia «Fàbregas sabe mantener las tensiones, dejarse llevar, confiar en los paralelismos, buscar nuevas maneras de plantear los significados que vamos dando a todo lo que nos pasa. El resultado es muy notable, conceptualmente relevante.»Melcior Comes, Avui
Landfall
by James BradleyA gripping near-future thriller exploring the detrimental effects of climate change on ordinary lives.
Landfall (The Fall Trilogy #3)
by Kate PavelleSequel to SwordfallThe Fall Trilogy: Book ThreeWhen Sean wins a powerboat in a mail-order sweepstakes, he and Asbjorn fly to the Bahamas to pick it up. They've been married for two years, slaving to finish school and to make ends meet. Instead of intimate quality time, they've been passing each other like two ships in the night. How far Sean and Asbjorn drifted apart becomes painfully clear as they're stuck on the boat together. Don and Adrian sail down to meet them for a relaxing get-together. Sean's mind drifts to an old invitation to swing with their best friends, while Asbjorn takes ill-advised risks on the sea. Nature intervenes. Marooned on a deserted island where cell service winks in and out, they have no way of knowing when help will arrive. Survival's at stake, and they have only each other to lean upon. The solitude and struggle against the elements forces these two stubborn, loving men to finally talk. And then a body washes up on the shore.
Landon
by Delores FossenThe Rylands of Silver Creek are back and hungry for justice in USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen's latest heart-stopping suspense! After returning home to investigate a brutal murder, Detective Landon Ryland is shocked to learn the body was discovered in the home of Tessa Sinclair, a woman he once knew intimately. Seeing Tessa again is like a jolt to his heart. Too bad the beautiful brunette has no idea who she is-or why she's cradling a newborn. With evidence pointing toward Tessa and the baby being next on the killer's hit list, Landon refuses to leave their safety in anyone else's hands. Or admit that losing them would permanently destroy the future he secretly envisioned. The Lawmen of Silver Creek Ranch
Landscape of Lies: An Art-World Mystery
by Peter WatsonA mysterious painting holds the clues to a cache of priceless relics in this treasure hunt of &“deepening suspense&” à la The Da Vinci Code (Library Journal). In financial trouble, Isobel Sadler considers selling a painting that&’s been in her family for generations. She can&’t imagine it&’s worth much . . . until someone tries to steal it. Mystified, Isobel turns to art dealer Michael Whiting for advice. He identifies the painting as a sixteenth-century treasure map pointing the way to a series of lost religious artifacts hidden by monks when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. If he and Isobel can decipher the clues in the painting, Michael reasons, her money troubles will disappear. But if they can&’t decode the painting quickly, Michael and Isobel could be history themselves. As they struggle to translate the arcane instructions—laced with references to everything from the Bible to Botticelli—they are stalked by a rival who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the treasure. Peter Watson&’s stylish art-world thriller seamlessly mixes action with &“sustained literariness, refinement, and polish&” (Library Journal).
Landscape of Shadows
by Kevin DohertyThe Choice: One Killer? Or Ten Innocents?France, 1941. The small town of Dinon is under German occupation. Max Duval, its mayor, appears to have accepted the German presence and encourages his citizens to do the same. He owns the Hotel Picardie, whose most important resident is Major Egon Wolff— German commandant.Then, a Resistance team kills two German troopers, and the uneasy calm of Dinon is shattered. One of the assassins, the headstrong and beautiful Sophie Carriere, takes refuge in the Hotel Picardie. Despite his disapproval of the assassinations, Max keeps her safe. Sophie accuses Max of conspiring the attacks, but Max is no collaborator— he has his own secret methods of resistance, which Sophie has now jeopardized.Danger escalates when Sophie discovers the truth about Max' s resistance work, and she and Max are drawn to one another. Egon Wolff decrees that ten citizens will be executed unless the missing assassin is surrendered. Max faces a terrible choice: sacrifice Sophie and betray the cause of freedom for which they are both working— or let innocent citizens go to their deaths.Perfect for fans of Leon Uris and Alan Furst
Landslide (A Mason Hackett Espionage Thriller #1)
by Adam SikesInternational Arms—Private Military Companies—Corruption at Every Turn U.S. Marine veteran Mason Hackett moved to London to start his life over, and he's done his best to convince himself that what happened fifteen years ago doesn't matter—the people he killed, the men he lost, the lives he ruined. But when Mason sees the face of a dead friend flash on a television screen and then receives a mysterious email referencing a CIA operation gone bad, he can no longer ignore his inner demons. Driven by loyalty and a need to uncover the truth, Mason launches on a perilous journey from the Czech Republic to Romania toward the war-torn separatist region in eastern Ukraine to honor a fifteen-year-old promise. The answers he seeks—the fate of a friend and his connection to the underworld of international arms dealers and defense corporations—throw Mason into the cauldron of a covert war where no one can be trusted.Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Brad Thor
Lanny: A Novel
by Max PorterFrom the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force.There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a fabled figure local schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. With Lanny, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will enrapture readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter's reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation.
Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits
by Michael D. BeilLantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives onboard the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn't have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can't find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam's enlisted to help. A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam's sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspicious? Veteran middle-grade mystery author Michael D. Beil has crafted a hilarious and appealing adventure set in the 1930s that's chock-full of quirky characters, red herrings, and all with an irresistible cat at its center.
Lantern for the Dark
by Jessica StirlingA Dickensian novel of life in eighteenth-century Scotland chronicles the ordeal of a young mother on trial for murdering her own son. Claire, an orphan with an uncertain future working as a servant for wealthy, distant relatives, is unlucky in trusting a charming but deceitful ne'er do well. Loaded with historic details and complex characters, this suspenseful novel is a combination of historical fiction, romance and legal thriller. It's unsettling ending leaves the reader anxious to dive into the next installment, Shadows on the Shore.
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life
by Dave SternThe official novelization to the Paramount Pictures film. Within a long-lost temple Lara Croft discovers the key to the deadliest artifact of all time--the legendary Pandora's Box, which contains a lethal plague.
Lara: Venderle el alma al diablo no es tan simple como parece
by Héctor ToledanoLara es una novela que vuelve escalofriante conforme avanza su lectura y nos vemos obligados a reconocer en ella el lodazal inclemente en el que se ha convertido nuestro México de hoy. Héctor Toledano despliega con maestría el abanico de sus recursos literarios para darle cuerpo a lo que sólo puede revelarnos la profundidad del arte: los abismos escabrosos de la condición humana. Lara es una de las figuras centrales de la televisora más importante de México. Un intelectual refinado que abandonó sus aspiraciones literarias por el resplandor del periodismo televisivo cuando Rábago, la cabeza pensante detrás del poderoso Arámbula, vio en él el potencial para servir al consorcio. Justo cuando se siente a punto de alcanzar la cúspide, Lara cae en la cuenta de que sus actos han dejado de pertenecerle. El éxito se le revela como una nueva variante de la derrota y el impacto lo precipitahacia el interior de sí mismo, donde se pudren los residuos de un pasado inconfesable, de los que ha tratado de escapar su vida entera. La tormenta resultante pondrá todo su mundo de cabeza y lo obligará a concentrarse en un único objetivo primordial: sobrevivir en una realidad dominada por la violencia, la corrupción, la impunidad y la mentira, una realidad degradada y siniestra que refleja y alimenta los impulsos más oscuros de su propio ser.
Larceny and Lace (Vintage Magic #2)
by Annette BlairMadeira Cutler is busy opening her new vintage clothing store in what was once the town's morgue when she discovers an intruder snooping around a bunch of bones in a body drawer. Now, she'll have to dig up more than the past to solve a crime.
Larceny and Old Lace
by Tamar MyersFor Whom The Bell Pulls Tolls As owner of the Den of Antiquity, recently divorced(but never bitter!) Abigail Timberlake is accustomed to delving into the past, searching for losttreasures, and navigating the cutthroat world of rival dealers at flea marketsand auctions. Still, she never thought she'd be putting her expertise in mayhemand detection to other use -- until crotchety "junque" dealer, Abby's aunt Eulonia Wiggins, was found murdered! Although Abigail is puzzled by the instrument of death -- an exquisite antiquebell pull that Aunt Eulonia never would have had the taste to aquire -- she's willing to let the authorities find the culprit. But now, Auntie's priceless lace is missing,and somebody's threatened Abby's most priceless possession: her son, Charlie.It's up to Abby to put the murderer "on the block."
Larger Than Death
by Lynne MurrayMeet Josephine Fuller, a queen-sized amateur sleuth out to tip the scales of justice. Introducing "Jo" Fuller, a woman who's full-figured, full of attitude and always ready to use her sizable sluething skills. Jo's just landed a new job as a philanthropic investigator, checking out potential charities for an eccentric socialite. But just as she gets her feet wet, Joe walks in on a terrible scene. Her best friend Nina - a clothing designer for large ladies - is lying dead in her own apartment. Could Nina be the latest victim of a killer targeting voluptuous women? Or is the murder personal? When Jo moves into Nina's apartment to settle her affairs and take care of Nina's cat, she encounters a bizarre host of neighbors and an unexpected romance. As fingers point in every direction, Jo races to stop a ruthless murderer from closing in on the big kill.
Lark
by Richard ForrestA corrupt cop must investigate a series of bizarre murders in order to save his city from itself in this grim hard-boiled thriller. Middleburg, Connecticut, is a dying river town, and Tommy Lark will be its undertaker. A hardened veteran of the local police force, Lark has worked in Middleburg for twenty-two years—each one worse than the year before. When he was an idealistic young rookie, his partner killed a suspect by accident, and Lark planted a knife on the body to keep him from getting kicked off the force. Since then, he&’s never bothered to play fair. He&’ll beat a suspect, even throw him down a flight of stairs—anything to get another piece of garbage off the streets of his city. But something&’s coming to Middleburg that will shock the callous cop to his very core. When a string of kinky killings baffles the local police department, Lark is drawn into the darkest part of the city&’s underworld—where love means nothing, and a woman&’s life isn&’t worth the clothes on her back. And to save his city, Lark must risk the last good thing in his life: his daughter&’s love. In the tradition of Dirty Harry and Death Wish, Lark is an unflinching look at a vicious corrupt cop and the city that made him. Fans of truly hard-boiled thrillers will find Lark is one of the toughest cops mystery fiction has ever produced.
Lark Goes the Distance (Orca Echoes)
by Natasha DeenKey Selling Points Eight-year-old twins turned private investigators are the main characters in this original and amusing series. The main character struggles with dyslexia but demonstrates various tricks throughout the story that she uses to work with her learning disability. The latest in the Lark Ba detective series, Lark Goes the Distance showcases teamwork and strategy, telling the truth, forgiveness and empathy. Books that include incidental neurodiversity and racial diversity (their family is Korean and Kenyan) continue to be in high demand, and the fact that Lark is not only dyslexic but that each book contains new vocab words she's learning is a real draw for teachers and young readers. Using a dyslexia-friendly font, the book introduces readers to idioms and advanced vocabulary via Lark’s point of view and includes a section at the end that explains the words and figures of speech used. Fast-paced plots, child-friendly intrigue, accessible language and short chapters featuring black-and-white illustrations make this series perfect for emergent readers.
Lark Has the Shivers (Orca Echoes #5)
by Natasha DeenThe summer is for sleuthing, and Lark and Connor have been served a double helping! It's time for the annual pet fair and the twins have been hard at work teaching their dog, Max, some new tricks. But on their way to the fairgrounds, they're offered not one, but two intriguing cases. Pets from the pet show have gone missing and their guardians are blaming each other for the disappearances. Meanwhile, Lark and Connor's frenemy, Sophie, thinks her house might be haunted and refuses to go inside. The twins split up to solve the mysteries, but can they find the vanished pets and the source of the spooky noises before the show has to start? Lark Has the Shivers is the fifth title in the Lark Ba Detective series, following Lark and the Desert Disaster, Lark Takes a Bow, Lark and the Diamond Caper and Lark Holds the Key. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark Holds the Key (Orca Echoes #1)
by Natasha DeenThe first book in the Lark Ba Detective series! It’s the third day of summer vacation, and Lark’s halmoni—that’s Korean for grandmother—has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. Only trouble is, they arrive to discover that the town librarian is missing her key to the library. Lucky for her, Lark just happens to be a budding private eye. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve this mystery and recover the lost key? The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark Steals the Show (Orca Echoes #6)
by Natasha DeenIt's a good thing young sleuths Lark and Connor Ba are always prepared because mysteries find them wherever they go. Lark and Connor are excited to visit the local art gallery where some of their classmates have been invited to exhibit their paintings. But when their friend Franklin is accused of stealing Kyle's masterpiece, the twins are sure Franklin is being framed—especially because Kyle has been nothing but mean to Franklin. Now the detectives are in a race to prove their friend's innocence as they collect clues and sort through red herrings. Will this be Lark and Connor's first unsolved case and is their friend doomed to be painted with a guilty brush? Includes bonus material as Lark shares the meanings behind her favorite words and idioms from the story. This is the sixth title in the Lark Ba Detective series, following Lark Has the Shivers, Lark and the Dessert Disaster, Lark Takes a Bow, Lark and the Diamond Caper and Lark Holds the Key. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark Takes a Bow (Orca Echoes #3)
by Natasha DeenMysteries seem to follow Lark and Connor Ba wherever they go, and today is no exception! The part-time detectives head to their local community theater to rehearse the play they are in, only to discover that someone is playing pranks on the theater company. The twin sleuths need to work quickly to catch the culprit before one more prank closes down the play for good. It's showtime, Lark and Connor! Lark Takes a Bow is the third title in the Lark Ba Detective series. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark Wraps It Up (Orca Echoes)
by Natasha DeenLark and Connor are ready for a sunny day at the splash pad when their halmoni (grandmother) gets a call from her friend Miss June. Miss June's handmade quilt has been stolen right from her backyard—and on the day of the quilt show! Lark and Connor set aside their plans to help find the culprit. After scouring the crime scene, they gather their friends from the splash pad and head to the quilt show to interview suspects. Lark and Connor will have to follow the loose threads to discover who stole Miss June's quilt...and try to get it back before the show is over. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark and the Dessert Disaster (Orca Echoes #4)
by Natasha DeenLark and Connor are judges for the annual baking contest at the community center. When they arrive, they discover that someone has destroyed a contestant's entry. And not just any contestant’s entry—Sophie's! Sophie is Lark's best friend (she just doesn't know it yet). The twin sleuths can't simply roll with it. To save the contest they'll have to take a whisk risk and start investigating the other contestants. With the timer ticking, Lark and Connor have to find the culprit before someone actually takes the cake. Lark and the Dessert Disaster is the fourth title in the Lark Ba Detective series. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Lark and the Diamond Caper (Orca Echoes #2)
by Natasha DeenRookie detectives Lark and Connor Ba are back on the case! When a pair of diamond earrings goes missing from the neighborhood general store, Lark and Connor just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Carefully mining the adults for clues, the twin sleuths work together to solve the mystery. Lark and the Diamond Caper is the second title in the Lark Ba Detective series. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.