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  • Homicide Chart
    V. S. Kemanis / VSKemanis
    "Excellent... A law buff's delight..." — Mystery Scene MagazineIt’s 1994. The murder rate in New York City is sky high, and Dana Hargrove’s caseload is soaring. As a top prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office, Dana belongs to an elite cadre on the “homicide chart,” a 24/7 rotation of on-call responders to murder scenes.Dana is also a young mother, juggling the competi...
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    12,20 €

  • Forsaken Oath
    V. S. Kemanis / VSKemanis
    “Informed, thrilling action in and out of the courtroom, and few can portray it better than V.S. Kemanis” — San Francisco Review of BooksClimbing the career ladder, prosecutor Dana Hargrove is the new chief of a major trial bureau in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Years in the courtroom have earned Dana the respect and admiration of her juniors and peers. A few tough...
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    12,19 €

  • Deep Zero
    V. S. Kemanis / VSKemanis
    "Riveting reading..." — Foreword ReviewsIt’s one a.m. Do you know where your teenagers are? Prosecutor Dana Hargrove makes it a point to know. But one night, in the dead of winter, she should have known more.In February 2009, Dana is the newly-elected district attorney of a suburban county north of Manhattan, where she lives with her husband, attorney Evan Goodhue, and their tw...
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    12,19 €

  • Unfinished Business
    Jerry Bradley
    A dramatic novel from Jerry Bradley. If you had the chance to live again, what would you do?New Year's Eve and the countdown has started. ‘Unfinished Business’ tells the story of a 15-year-old boy, Thomas Drake, who has been given a second chance to live.He unravels the plot that points him towards the job he has been sent back to do. A chance to save a life and put things ...
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    10,76 €

  • Seven Shadows
    TBD / VSKemanis
    A criminal prosecutor is bound to make a few enemies over a decades-long career, and Dana Hargrove is no exception. Who has it in for her?In 2015, the former prosecutor is in her second year as a trial judge in Manhattan. It’s a new world. Dana cut her baby teeth in the DA’s office during the crack epidemic, the ’80s and early ’90s. Now, the murder rate is a fraction of what it...
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    13,00 €

  • Radioland
    m. e. Elzey
    At its core, Radioland is a contemporary political novel. It is the story of an old man's pursuit for justice after the murder of his son and his son's wife by a white nationalist. Harry Chalberg blamed the Cal Brown Radio Show for inciting vulnerable people to commit violence against others. After a long successful career as a prosecuting attorney for the State of Mary...
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    14,06 €

  • Radioland
    m. e. Elzey
    At its core, Radioland is a contemporary political novel. It is the story of an old man's pursuit for justice after the murder of his son and his son's wife by a white nationalist. Harry Chalberg blamed the Cal Brown Radio Show for inciting vulnerable people to commit violence against others. After a long successful career as a prosecuting attorney for the State of Mary...
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    23,63 €

  • Standing Our Ground
    Bill Percy
    Book Excellence Awards 2020 Finalist - Political Thriller"Percy juggles both plotlines effectively while addressing important social issues." –Publisher's WeeklyA cold-blooded murder. The victim: a fourteen-year-old boy. The shooter waits patiently for the cops and calmly explains his right to kill the boy. “I was defending my property.” Can Deputy Andi Pelton find the evid...
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    17,78 €

  • American Mutt
    Scott Falcon
    It's the CRIME OF THE CENTURY.Unprecedented chaos in America, on the brink of a second civil war.Maverick investigative journalist Jackson Rand runs the controversial website PublicFigure.com. It’s the home of the Sunlight List—news exclusives exposing political corruption.Five public figures on The List disappear on the same night three weeks before the presidential electi...
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    20,87 €

  • The Ancient Craft
    A.T. Cullen
    An intriguing courtroom drama – murder, poison, drugs and conspiracy.Matthew Jameson, a young suburban lawyer, is engaged by a beautiful socialite, Jessica Vandermeer, to defend her on a charge of murdering her high society plastic surgeon husband. The police claim that he was poisoned, but then admit that no poison was discovered at autopsy.Jameson is confused by his selection...
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    21,59 €

  • IMPACT
    Paul Levine
    A Jetliner Crashes in the Everglades.A Billion-Dollar Lawsuit: Negligence or Terrorism?The Defense: Kill Anyone, Even a Supreme Court Justice, to Win the Case.Supreme Court Justice Sam Truitt takes the bench with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage. Lisa Fremont, his stunning and brilliant law clerk, has a dark secret in her past. If Lisa doesn't get Tru...
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    13,55 €

  • SAFE STATES
    Don W Trumbull
    With an EMP attack looming, a divided America struggles with the catastrophic truth about North Korea and Iran. Our civilian infrastructures become sitting ducks, and because hardening failed, an emergency defense is proposed by our new President. Twenty-three states defend their communities, but the other states refuse. America is in limbo, and then we get attacked. No food, n...
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    15,37 €

  • 2047 The Unifier
    Rashmi Trivedi
    "A GAME PLAN THAT WILL CREATE HISTORY!They say that love has the power to move mountains, but does it have the power to unite two warring nations?In 1947, the British put a knife through India’s heart when they created two nations, India and Pakistan; two nations that now have a history of war, mistrust and hatred. Can love put a balm on the bleeding hearts of the two nations a...
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    11,74 €

  • Tokyo Mayday
    Maison Urwin
    This is Maison Urwin's debut novel, which follows the ordeal of a family's economic migration from the Federal Republic of England & Wales to Tokyo. The power is in the East. The Federal Republic of England & Wales is in crisis. Western economic collapse has led to mass economic migration to China, Korea and especially Japan. Jordan May is offered a transfer with Mat...
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    9,83 €

  • American Mutt
    Scott Falcon
    The CRIME OF THE CENTURY.Unprecedented chaos in America, on the brink of a second civil war. Maverick investigative journalist Jackson Rand runs the controversial website PublicFigure.com. It’s the home of the Sunlight List—news exclusives exposing political corruption.Five public figures on The List disappear on the same night three weeks before the presidential election, incl...
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    11,32 €

  • 9/11 TWO
    COLIN HESTON
    Iranian terrorist Shalah Muhammad, long time manager of suicide bombers, and his neurotic Russian American apprentice, Sarah Kohmsky, hire a Russian mafia boss, Uncle Sergey, and his evil nuclear scientist, Turgo, to hit Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11. Hearing of the plan from the CIA, but estranged from her policing commissioner, New York Mayor Ruth Newberg asks Profes...
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    8,56 €

  • La capital del olvido
    Horacio Vázquez Rial
    Fiel a un estilo que otorga gran importancia a la expresividad verbal y a la construcción del relato, en La capital del olvido novela ganadora en 2004 del V Premio Fernando Quiñones Horacio Vázquez-Rial nos envuelve en una trama que, por un lado nos transporta al pasado, a la época de la dictadura militar en Argentina, de las desapariciones y de la venta de niños secuestrados. ...
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    19,00 €

  • The Idealist
    Terry Conrad
    America is more divided than ever before, and political corruption is at an all-time high. Fraud, bribery, and scandals are all just part of another average day in Washington. Bought by corporations, lobbyists, and foreign governments, those that were meant to represent the people instead represent the interests of those with the most money. Instead of creating laws for the ben...
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    18,40 €

  • Shadow Laws
    R.J. Jagger
    In this pulse-pounding thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, a beautiful young lawyer is hired by a colleague to find out if one of his clients is trying to kill him.For over a decade, R.J. Jagger’s thrillers have been widely acclaimed by the most established and reputable book review organizations in the publishing industry, including Library JournaL, Kirkus Reviews, Boo...
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    11,24 €

  • Mary Full of Grace
    C. L. Avery / CLAvery
    Sending Mary to death row was easy for a corrupt DA . . . but can he keep his dark secrets until she is executed?A miscarriage of justice lands Mary on death row in Texas. But even as she awaits her turn with the executioner, her indomitable spirit profoundly changes the lives of those around her.Her valiant attorney spares no effort to save her. Along the way, he unearths the ...
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    18,81 €

  • Mary Full of Grace
    C. L. Avery / CLAvery
    Sending Mary to death row was easy for a corrupt DA . . . but can he keep his dark secrets until she is executed?A miscarriage of justice lands Mary on death row in Texas. But even as she awaits her turn with the executioner, her indomitable spirit profoundly changes the lives of those around her.Her valiant attorney spares no effort to save her. Along the way, he unearths the ...
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    27,21 €

  • Wet Work
    Mark A. Hewitt / Mark AHewitt
    Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board.'An explosive assassination thriller that is timely, believable and hugely entertaining. A must-read.' -Best ThrillersLaw enforcement agencies have chosen to ignore rather than investigate dozens of political figures and defectors who have died under mysterious circumstances. When a Democratic National Committee staff member is murde...
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    25,05 €

  • Lawyer’s Run
    Jim Michael Hansen / R.J. Jagger
    Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in Denver's prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the dead...
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    11,21 €

  • The Loss of What We Never Had
    Carolyn Thorman
    New York Times Book Review says, “Ms. Thorman’s characters would be prickly…but she makes them intriguing and sympathetic.”Paige Glasgow, an American psychiatrist visiting Spain, discovers the decapitated head of a Muslim woman on the beach. Is the work of jihadists? the Sons of the Emir? Or a hate crime perpetrated by the Knights of Constancia, Catholic terrorists hell-bent on...
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    15,77 €

  • BUM DEAL
    Paul Levine
    AN IMPOSSIBLE CASE? CALL JAKE LASSITERNo witness? No evidence? No body?Big problem for new prosecutor Jake LassiterAppointed to prosecute a high-profile murder case, the linebacker-turned-lawyer vows to take down a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife. Problem is...there's not a scrap of forensic evidence, and the defense lawyers are the crafty team of Steve Solomo...
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    13,61 €

  • Trial by Blood
    William Bernhardt
    A billion-dollar inheritance. A relative’s suspicious reappearance. Can Dan dig up the secrets of the past before he’s buried six feet under?Attorney Daniel Pike’s flashy courtroom antics have earned him plenty of enemies--but also freed many innocent people. When he learns that the same crooked cop who got his father locked up for life is testifying in a contested-identity sui...
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    12,15 €

  • The Silent Siege of Mars
    Tom Chmielewski
    When tug pilot Ed Ferald returned from his latest trip to Saturn, he brought back a group of researchers and an old friend to a heroes’ welcome on Mars. Ed didn’t know he also brought back a hidden, deadly menace, an alien pathogen discovered from Saturn's moon Enceladus, and brought back to Mars by Earth-based terrorists. The pilot faced death before, but as the extent of ...
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    13,54 €

  • Money, Blood & Conscience
    David Steinman
    Inspired by true events and written by an adviser to the rebellion, MONEY, BLOOD AND CONSCIENCE tells the story of the brave Ethiopians who are standing up for freedom. Part investigative journalism and part parable, Money, Blood and Conscience depicts the cover-up of a holocaust and raises questions about the ends and means of Western policy in shadowy places. This highly accl...
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    11,58 €

  • China Girl
    Erec Stebbins
    “CHINA GIRL” SPINS TALE OF A FAR-RIGHT TRUMPLANDIAN DYSTOPIA“Raw and powerful writing...passionate and unafraid...edgy, powerful and filled with non-stop tension. A politically charged nightmare that explodes off the pages in a terrifying tale. This one deserves a spot on that must read shelf. Just save room for the entire series.” -Tome Tender'Erec Stebbins is back with easily...
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    20,02 €

  • The Yoke
    Darrell Dunham
    A life without God.     For Barnabas Mitchell, life had always been a struggle. From his father’s abandonment to his mother’s untimely death, Barnabas had lost his faith in God and in people. Determined to fulfill his potential, Barnabas continued on out of respect for his deceased mother, grinding through his days feeling unloved and unneeded.     Then Bill Cushman entered his...
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    18,34 €