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Nine Tenths
by Jeff MacfeeAugment phase technology was rare. The last appearance of anything resembling phase technology was fifteen years ago. I knew the date…It was the date of the Doctor Dimension repo.In a world full of “Augments”—humans who use technology to imbue themselves with superpowers of every sort—being an average man would seem a good way to keep out of trouble. Not so for repo man Gayle Hardwood. It’s his job to seize enhancements from Augments who fall behind on the payments for their high-tech advantages. And they rarely part with them easily.Now an infamous job Gayle was a part of long ago has come back to haunt him. An incredibly powerful piece of tech that was supposed to have been turned over to the government is being used again. People are dying, and those in power are convinced Gayle knows something about it.Unfortunately, they’re right.And unless Gayle can uncover the sinister secrets of the past and find whoever has hijacked the lost tech and stop them, no superpower in the world is going to be enough to save him…
Nine Times Nine
by Anthony Boucher'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenThe man in the yellow robe had put the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine on Wolfe Harrigan. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study.When Matt got there, all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. But when the door was broken down, there was no man in a yellow robe in the room, and Wolfe Harrigan lay murdered on the floor. But at the time of the murder the man in the yellow robe was nowhere near the room.Who better to explain this miracle than Sister Ursula, a nun, whose childhood ambition was to become a policewoman?
Nine Times Nine
by Anthony BoucherSister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this “delightful . . . original” mystery classic (The New York Times Book Review). Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O’Breen, amateur sleuth Sister Ursula, and alcoholic ex-cop Nick Noble. The guilty better say their prayers when Sister Ursula is on the case—in this acclaimed mystery novel, which remains “as expert as a fencer’s skill and as fresh as a daisy” (The New York Times Book Review). The head of the Children of Light, cloaked in his yellow robe, has placed the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine upon Wolfe Harrigan, the famed author and debunker of cults, who naturally scoffs. The next day, Wolfe’s assistant, Matt Duncan, sees something in the window of Wolfe’s study that throws him into a panic: a man in a yellow robe. When Wolfe is found alone and dead inside the study, the police are stumped. All the windows were locked, and Wolfe’s sister, who was sitting right outside the door, claims she saw no one come out. The baffling case doesn’t add up for family friend Sister Ursula. But she’ll need a miracle if she hopes to divine the truth before the killer strikes again . . .
Nine Times Nine (Murder Room #400)
by Anthony Boucher'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenThe man in the yellow robe had put the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine on Wolfe Harrigan. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study.When Matt got there, all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. But when the door was broken down, there was no man in a yellow robe in the room, and Wolfe Harrigan lay murdered on the floor. But at the time of the murder the man in the yellow robe was nowhere near the room.Who better to explain this miracle than Sister Ursula, a nun, whose childhood ambition was to become a policewoman?
Nine for the Devil: A John The Lord Chamberlain Mystery (John, the Lord Chamberlain Mysteries #9)
by Mary Reed Eric Mayer"[A] spot-on recreation of the political and bureaucratic climate of the times." —Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewThe year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead. Emperor Justinian suspects murder and orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her killer or suffer the consequences. Many aristocrats at the imperial court had reason to want Theodora dead. General Artabanes, Justinian's cousin Germanus, and Antonina and her husband General Belisarius have suffered at Theodora's hands. Might Gaius, palace physician, have tampered with Theodora's medication? Even Pope Vigilius, detained in the capital by a religious controversy, is not above suspicion.Meanwhile, John must also grapple with domestic upheavals. His daughter is about to give birth and his aging servant Peter is dying. Will John be able to serve justice, his loved ones, and the emperor?
Nine-Month Protector (The Precinct: Vice Squad #2)
by Julie MillerMorning sickness used to be Sarah Cartwright's biggestproblem-until she became the only witness to a murder. Now, newly pregnant, she had a killer on her trail-andCooper Bellamy, KCPD's finest, by her side. Her brother'sbest friend and her sworn protector, it was impossible tokeep Coop at arm's length. Yet the mother-to-be discoveredthe safest place to hide was in his strong arms. They foundout soon enough they each needed the other-but would itbe too late before a cold-blooded hit man made them takevows of permanent silence?
Nine: A Novel
by Andrzej StasiukPawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe. He turns to two friends for help: Bolek, a former coal miner, now a drug dealer who lives in tasteless luxury; and Jacek, an addict, who is himself on the run through Warsaw, a washed-out city, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, railroad stations, wild gardens, factories, and suburban wastelands. In this novel Andrzej Stasiuk portrays a generation of Poles, freed from outdated ideologies but left feeling adrift and disconnected from family, neighbors, and friends. At once existential crime fiction and a work of art, Nine establishes Stasiuk as a major voice in European literature.
Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet #3)
by David PeaceThird in a series of unique but connected thrillers set against an evolving backdrop of immense social change. The noir nightmare continues during the harsh winter of 1980. The Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of corruption and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife's life is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter's quest becomes personal as he is left with nothing more to lose. Nineteen Eighty is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. The latest dark Yorkshire journey confirms Peace's reputation as one of the most talented contemporary crime writers.
Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding Quartet #4)
by David PeaceDavid Peace concludes his Red Riding Quartet and once again the Ripper is the backdrop for a roller-coaster of fear and corruption. Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concludes an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi PicoultTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Incredibly thought-provoking SunAfter years of cruel bullying from his classmates, Peter Houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of Sterling are dead. When the case goes to trial, the reeling town is determined to seek justice for the innocents Peter killed. But as the trial unfolds, Peter's testimony casts light on the terrible role the residents of Sterling have played in turning a sweet, loving boy into a killer, and it isn't long before Sterling's illusions of innocence find themselves shattered forever. . .THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS, Jodi's stunning new novel about life, death and missed opportunities is available to pre-order now.
Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One (Vintage Crime/black Lizard Ser. #Vol. 1)
by David PeaceJeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lucky on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford's got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched into her back. In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed.
Nineteen Seventy-Seven (Red Riding Quartet #2)
by David PeaceLeeds. Sunday 29 May 1977. It's happening again . . . Three years after the Strafford Shootings and little has changed in the dark world of west Yorkshire. Prostitutes are being murdered with grim regularity. Bob Fraser is a half-way decent copper in a police force as corrupt as it is brutal. Jack Whitehead is a burned out hack in perpetual self-torment after the Exorcist killings. Both men are struggling to control their desperate infatuations with Chapeltown whores. When the two sevens clash . . . As the burning summer gives way to the bonfires of Jubilee Night, Fraser begins to suspect that the Yorkshire Ripper isn't the only killer in town. Whitehead is the only other man who even cares.
Ninguna Buena Acción
by M. P. Mcdonald Ramón SomozaMark Taylor sabe que sus acciones gritan culpable --pero sólo estaba intentando parar el horrible ataque terrorista. En cambio, el gobierno le etiqueta como un combatiente enemigo y le echa en un calabozo sin derechos, sin juicio, y ninguna manera de probar su inocencia. Mark es sólo un tipo normal --un fotógrafo-- que se encuentra en una situación extraordinaria cuando una antigua cámara que ha comprado en un polvoriento bazar de Afganistán produce fotografías de futuras tragedias. Cuando descubre que puede evitar que ocurran los sucesos de las fotos, no puede vivir con la culpabilidad si no intenta parar las tragedias. Cuando ve el 11 de Septiembre, sus esfuerzos fracasan cuando nadie escucha sus frenéticos avisos. Y entonces aprende que siendo un 'combatiente enemigo' el Gobierno puede hacer lo que quiera con él. Absolutamente todo lo que quiera.
Ninguna de nosotras tendrá compasión
by Paz Castelló¿ALGUNA VEZ HAS PENSADO EN MATAR A ALGUIEN? «Paz Castelló demuestra con esta novela que es una de las mejores escritoras del género negro en nuestro país.» BLAS RUIZ GRAU Camila y Nora son dos mujeres muy diferentes, pero tienen algo en común: a las dos las utilizaron los hombres de su pasado y ahora no tienen miedo a enfrentarse a ellos. Camila es ese tipo de mujer que no sabe lo fuerte que es hasta que tiene que ponerse a prueba a sí misma. Sin embargo, todo cambia el día que decide separarse de su marido y llega a sus manos el acuerdo de divorcio sospechosamente ventajoso para ella. Mientras investiga sobre las intenciones ocultas de su expareja, conoce a Nora, una joven estudiante que lleva años guardando un secreto y llega a Alicante en busca venganza. Mucho más allá del domestic noir, Paz Castelló firma esta sensual novela cuyas protagonistas se verán envueltas en una red de mentiras, estafas y amenazas que les demostrará su fortaleza. Ha llegado su momento: esta vez no perdonarán.
Ninguém Escapa ao seu Destino
by Nuria Pariente NoguerasEu vivia na minha bolha particular de paz, harmonia e discrição, na qual passei despercebida ... até apenas cinco dias atrás, que não deixaram espaço para o tédio! Eu me vi passando da limpeza para a equipe de marketing quase da noite para o dia. Eu conheci alguém por quem me apaixonei. Homens com ataque cardíaco, com notável potencial sensual, fizeram todo tipo de proposta, decente e indecente. Para finalizar, meus amigos acabaram não sendo tão ... "amigos". Eu levantei a aspereza estranha, não apenas com alguns deles, mas também com colegas de trabalho e ex-namoradas do homem que roubou meu coração. Eu resumiria dizendo que houve muitos conflitos nos quais não participei. Quando tudo dá errado ... você acha que não poderia ser pior? Acabaram de me prender. Estou nessa delegacia fria da cidade de Nova York há mais de uma hora dando uma declaração, porque me consideram ... o principal suspeito de um assassinato.
Ningú sabrà qui ets (Detectiu Albert Martínez #Volumen 3)
by Jordi Basté Marc ArtigauEl nou cas del detectiu Albert Martínez: una novel·la trepidant en la qual ningú és qui sembla El Rafa és un professor d'història d'institut que es mou des de fa temps per les zones més fosques d'internet, intentant engegar una revolució. Convençut que la societat està podrida i que només una bona sacsejada pot fer reaccionar la gent, aconsegueix reunir un grup de nois disposats a arribar fins a les darreres conseqüències. «Ens heu ensenyat que ser pacífics no serveix de res», proclama una pintada mentre els aldarulls a Barcelona van cada vegada a més. El primer objectiu del grup el tenen clar: atemptar contra el director del Banc de Catalunya. Mentrestant, el detectiu Albert Martínez ha viatjat a Londres per refer la seva vida. A punt de fer cinquanta anys, pateix una crisi d'identitat. La seva feina ha deixat d'interessar-li i veu l'edat li passa factura, però una trucada del comissari Pérez Navarro, inquiet per les estranyes circumstàncies del segrest d'un polític d'extrema dreta, l'obligarà a investigar de nou. Aquestes dues històries, que aparentment no tenen res a veure, s'aniran teixint de mica en mica en una novel·la trepidant en la qual ningú és qui sembla.
Ninja Assault
by Don PendletonLethal bargain A ninja attack in a Vegas casino leaves two billionaires dead, and all signs point to the Yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate bent on infiltrating America's legalized gambling industry. To cut the problem out at the root, Mack Bolan targets the gang's Stateside web of legitimate businesses and vicious warriors, closing in fast on the Yakuza's most ruthless clan. But when the battle takes Bolan to Japan and he faces a quartet of elite killers, he realizes Vegas was just the tip of the iceberg. A cult-enthralled clan member has partnered with a corrupt Chinese general to bring about massive spiritual "cleansing"-in the form of a deadly toxic weapon. With millions of lives on the line, the Executioner isn't playing the odds. He's betting everything on his special brand of hellfire.
Ninja Soccer Moms
by Jennifer ApodacaSamantha Shaw, owner of the Heart Males dating service, hates soccer. But she doesn't have a problem with settling scores--especially when deceitful ex-husbands are involved. So when Janie Tuggle, the former wife of town hero and championship-winning soccer coach Chad, asks her to investigate her embezzling ex, Sam dives right in. Turns out, the weasel is not only pocketing $16,000, but has been cheating on Janie at every opportunity. Exposing him will be a pleasure. But before Sam can make a call. Chad is found dead in his office--and Sam and Janie are both suspects. Detective Logan Vance is breathing down Sam's neck, her boyfriend and sleuthing partner Gabe Pulizzi is working the case for Chad's sexy former lover, Dara Reed, and unwelcome discoveries are springing up all over town. Netting the killer feels like a long shot, but as another cheating husband's crimes threaten Sam's business, her brand-new relationship, and even her life, the penalty for slipping up could be fatal.
Ninja Soccer Moms
by Jennifer ApodacaSamantha Shaw, owner of the Heart Males dating service, hates soccer. But she doesn't have a problem with settling scores--especially when deceitful ex-husbands are involved. So when Janie Tuggle, the former wife of town hero and championship-winning soccer coach Chad, asks her to investigate her embezzling ex, Sam dives right in. Turns out, the weasel is not only pocketing $16,000, but has been cheating on Janie at every opportunity. Exposing him will be a pleasure. But before Sam can make a call. Chad is found dead in his office--and Sam and Janie are both suspects. Detective Logan Vance is breathing down Sam's neck, her boyfriend and sleuthing partner Gabe Pulizzi is working the case for Chad's sexy former lover, Dara Reed, and unwelcome discoveries are springing up all over town. Netting the killer feels like a long shot, but as another cheating husband's crimes threaten Sam's business, her brand-new relationship, and even her life, the penalty for slipping up could be fatal.
Ninja Timmy
by Henrik TammFor fans of the film series Shrek and the Chronicles of Narnia and of Frozen, as well as classic books such as Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Cricket in Times Square, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle, this imaginative and engaging debut middle-grade novel by author/illustrator/animator Henrik Tamm includes plucky animal characters, action-packed adventure, and lush full-color illustrations throughout. Timmy the cat, his pal Simon the mink, and the pig brothers Jasper and Casper are inventors, and they're hoping to sell their fabulous new contraption to a local merchant. With high hopes, they haul their machine through the crowded streets of Elyzandrium--and are promptly robbed by a gang of bullies. With the help of two new friends, Alfred, a kindly old toymaker, and Flores, a skilled cat pilot, Timmy and his pals set out to get back what is rightfully theirs. As it turns out, they're not the only victims of these dastardly criminals. But what can this band of misfits do? In this action-packed adventure, the intrepid Timmy and his wily friends transform themselves into crime-fighting ninjas--and quite possibly heroes!From the Hardcover edition.
Ninth House (Ninth House Series #1)
by Leigh Bardugo"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen KingThe smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.Goodreads Choice Award WinnerLocus FinalistGalaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.Don't miss the highly-anticipated sequel, Hell Bent.
Ninth Life
by Elizabeth FerrarsWhen Caroline leaves hospital her sister Fenella insists that she must convalesce in her house in the West Country. But, in the event, Caroline's visit is far from restful.Fenella's husband is moody, excitable, reckless and inexplicably affluent, and soon the brooding atmosphere explodes into violence and murder . . .'Her great virtue, exceeding even her meatily logical plotting and gift of hitting often on really intriguing situations, is her portrayal of people'The Times
Ninth Life (Murder Room #401)
by Elizabeth FerrarsWhen Caroline leaves hospital her sister Fenella insists that she must convalesce in her house in the West Country. But, in the event, Caroline's visit is far from restful.Fenella's husband is moody, excitable, reckless and inexplicably affluent, and soon the brooding atmosphere explodes into violence and murder . . .'Her great virtue, exceeding even her meatily logical plotting and gift of hitting often on really intriguing situations, is her portrayal of people' The Times
Nip, Tuck, Dead
by Lori AvocatoEx-nurse-turned-insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol's willing to risk anything to put a bad doc out of business-even her best friend Goldie's near-perfect proboscis! Her cross-dressing compadre has agreed to get his shnozz bobbed so Pauline can pose as his private nurse and gain entry into Highcliff Manor-a posh plastic surgery "spa" making an illegal killing with their repeat clientele. But when a super-rich "frequent flier" is unexpectedly widowed-and a receptionist who knows too much is given the boot . . . off a nearby cliff!-Pauline realizes she's stuck her own nose into something really nasty. Despite the pleasant distraction of the hunky Dr. Neal-and the unexpected appearance of her sexy cohort, Jagger-Pauline can't shake the feeling she's being closely watched. And if she's not careful, she'll be the next one who goes under the knife!