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An action-packed thriller about a sports agent who rescues a missing teen golfer during a major golf tournament and uncovers a web of lies and secrets.

A detective in semiretirement finds herself assigned to lead the Literary Detectives, only to be replaced by a new chief librarian, leaving her to deal with the consequences of her past actions.

A romantic comedy about a renowned columnist tasked with safeguarding a women's last-virgin status in Chicago, only to find himself entangled in unexpected love and marriage.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

Fred Fitch's inheritance leads him into a web of scams and intrigue.

Three elderly men gunned down at a diner, a prosecutor's daughter joins her mother in investigating a pattern of violence.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Analyse : Roman policier (suspense).

In the small Colorado town of Holt, a single high school teacher raises two boys while a teenage mother struggles alone; two brothers tend a homestead, and together their lives weave a story of resilience, community, and the quiet rhythms of the High Plains.

A bumbling thief, Dortmunder, returns from the wild, sparking a police chase and a series of crimes across the city.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Reid Bennett, a former cop, moves to a quiet Canadian town to solve a murder case but quickly realizes he must adapt to local customs to protect the killer.

A television producer and her lawyer host investigate the mysterious killing of UCLA student Susan Dempsey in the first episode of their cold‑case series, "Under Suspicion," uncovering secrets among Hollywood elites and tech billionaires.

A cold case in France sets off a clash of wine and the criminal underworld.

A town clerk's investigation of a murder that could clear a political scandal.

This is the funniest of the Dortmunder series

An ex-cop, John Dortmunder, reluctantly joins the criminal underworld to recover a stolen treasure, facing impossible odds and a mysterious past.

A Biblical scholar uncovers a mysterious letter from Jesus, leading him on a thrilling hunt to find the lost scroll that could change the world.