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1) The hunter
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 6
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"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 4
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"In one of the half-built, half-abandoned ''luxury'' developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news sends his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting...
5) In the woods
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
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Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
6) The searcher
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Framingham - I Don't Remember the Title but the Cover was Green
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"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal discovers that even in the most idyllic small town, dangerous secrets lie hidden, and trouble can come...
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 5
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"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
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"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...
9) The likeness
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Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...
10) Faithful Place
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 3
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El detective Frank Mackey se encuentra de vuelta en la oscura maraña de relaciones que dejó atrás hace veintidós años cuando la maleta que pertenece a su primer amor, Rosie Daly, aparece detrás de una chimenea en una casa abandonada en Faithful Place. La acalorada tercera novela del escuadrón de asesinatos de Dublín.
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Was geschah im Garten des Efeuhauses?
Toby Hennessy, 28, hat immer gedacht, dass das Schicksal es gut mit ihm meint. Er führt ein unbeschwertes, erfolgreiches Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts von Einbrechern in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp; er ist körperlich und seelisch versehrt, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Es erscheint ihm wie eine Zuflucht, in das alte, von Efeu umrankte...
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Aislinn Murray ist jung, hübsch und liegt tot in ihrem Haus, der Tisch ist für ein romantisches Abendessen gedeckt. Wieder so eine klare Beziehungstat, denkt die Polizei. Doch bald stoßen die Detectives Antoinette Conway und Stephen Moran auf Ungereimtheiten. Und es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass jemand in der Mordkommission ihre Arbeit behindert. Weil sich Antoinette mit ihrer toughen Art Feinde gemacht hat? In einem nervenaufreibenden Ermittlungskreisel...
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Ein Fremder, ein Dorf, ein Kind. Und eine Suche, die niemanden verschont.
Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen Irlands geflüchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder sucht ein Kind seine Nähe. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Stück für Stück gerät Cal in eine Suche, die ihn tief in die...
15) Totengleich
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten
In einem verfallenen Cottage außerhalb von Dublin wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Die Polizistin Cassie Maddox kann kaum fassen, was sie zu sehen bekommt: Die Tote gleicht ihr bis aufs Haar. Wer ist diese Frau? Wer hat sie niedergestochen? Und hätte eigentlich Cassie selbst sterben sollen? Keinerlei Spuren oder Hinweise sind zu finden, und noch unter Schock wird Cassie...
16) Grabesgrün
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Wer bringt ein kleines Mädchen um und bahrt es auf dem Opferaltar einer Ausgrabungsstätte auf? Jede Spur, die die beiden jungen Dubliner Ermittler Rob und Cassie verfolgen, führt sie nur tiefer in ein Dickicht, in dem sich alle Gewissheiten in ihr Gegenteil verkehren. Und keiner darf erfahren, dass Rob vor vielen Jahren selbst etwas Furchtbares erlebt hat - im Wald bei ebenjener Ausgrabungsstätte ...
17) Geheimer Ort
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Anmutig, behütet und golden, so scheint die abgeschirmte Welt des traditionsreichen Mädcheninternats St. Kilda. Doch vor einem Jahr ist dort im Park ein Junge erschlagen worden. Nun hängt sein Bild am Schwarzen Brett - mit der Überschrift: ICH WEISS, WER IHN GETÖTET HAT. Nur eines von acht Mädchen kann die Karte aufgehängt haben. In zwei Cliquen stehen sie sich gegenüber - unverbrüchliche Freundinnen, erbarmungslose Feindinnen.
Der junge...
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"Fantom Press"
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[2018]
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Russian
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Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.