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Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
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"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...
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"Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in the Pocono mountains as seldom as possible. Now she has been summoned home to see her terminally ill sister one last time--only for Celeste to make a shocking deathbed confession. Is it really true that the wrong man has spent fifteen years in jail for a crime he didn't commit? Having promised her dying sister that she would do her...
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"Grace Burrowes introduces us to the unconventional Wentworth family in this charming Regency romance with a Cinderella twist. A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows... One minute, London banker Quinn Wentworth is facing execution. The next, he's declared the long-lost heir to a dukedom. Quinn has fought his way up from the vilest slums, and now he's ready to use every dirty trick he knows to find the enemy who schemed against him. There...
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When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
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Allie is thrilled when she inherits a Victorian mansion from her estranged aunt. It is one of Stony Point, Missouri's famous Painted Ladies-- but the inheritance comes with strings attached. Allie is challenged to find the truth and clear the name of her aunt's husband, who died in prison.
68) Volver a vivir
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La incomparable Danielle Steel nos brinda una historia inspiradora sobre una mujer que pierde a su amor, su casa y su libertad y tiene que aprender a vivir de nuevo. Sydney disfruta de una vida idílica con su marido Andrew en una casa maravillosa, rodeados de familia y buenos amigos. Sin embargo, su felicidad se esfuma de repente cuando él muere en un accidente y ella,con cuarenta y nueve años y tras una década sin trabajar, se ve de pronto viuda,...
70) Black ransom
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"When they put Ehron Lee Burrows away for a crime he didn't commit, they had no idea what the hellish desert prison would do to the once decent man. Escaping with the help of a murderous convict, Ehron Lee sets his mind to getting revenge on the two men he holds responsible for his imprisonment. Kidnapping their loved ones, he sets a ransom that can't be paid in cash...but in lives. But there is an even more dangerous threat to the huddled group of...
71) Los guardianes
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"En la pequeña ciudad de Seabrook, Florida, un prometedor abogado llamado Keith Russo fue asesinado a tiros una noche mientras trabajaba hasta tarde en su despacho. El culpable no dejó pistas. No hubo testigos, nadie tenía un motivo. Pero la policía pronto sospechó de Quincy Miller, un joven negro que había sido cliente de Russo. Miller fue juzgado y condenado a cadena perpetua. Durante veintidós años languideció en prisión, manteniendo...
72) Watch me go
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Douglas "Deesh" Sharp has managed to stay out of trouble living in the Bronx, paying his rent by hauling junk for cash. But on the morning Deesh and two pals head upstate to dispose of a sealed oil drum whose contents smell and weigh enough to contain a human corpse, he becomes mixed up in a serious crime. When his plans for escape spiral terribly out of control, Deesh quickly finds himself a victim of betrayal -- and the prime suspect in the murders...
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In Dee Henderson's "Betrayed," Janelle Roberts is free after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. But a murderer is still at large. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped by a storm surge on the isolated island of her childhood, and is shocked when the idyllic community becomes the hunting ground of a murderer. In Lynette Easons's "Code of Ethics," Detective Isaac Martinez survives a gunshot...
76) Oskarżenie
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serial z Joanną Chyłką volume 6
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"Od serii brutalnych mordestw pod Warszawą minęły cztery lata. Sprawcę ujęto, skazano, a potem osadzono w więzieniu. Dowody wskazujące na dawną legendę "Solidorności" były nie do podważenia. Mimo to pewnego dnia mecenas Joanna Chyłka otrzymuje list od żony skazańca, w ktȯrym kobieta twierdzi, że odkryła nowe dowody na niewinność męża. Prawniczka przypuszcza, że to jedna z wielu spraw, którym nie warto poswięcać uwagi... Przynajmniej...
78) The syn
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This novel is set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction...
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Even though sixteen-year-old Erin Blake and her best friends Spam and Lysa are ordered not to become involved in any investigations, they look into Spam's boyfriend's past and conduct research to help Erin's uncle Victor and her boyfriend Journey re-examine evidence from the murder trial that sent Journey's father to prison.
With Uncle Victor at the helm, Erin and her best friends, Spam and Lysa, are prepping a new classroom for CSI summer camp,...
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