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Classic Mysteries... on the rocks or with a twist
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From the glitzy, flamboyant Dubai, to the frankincense fields of Oman and scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, PI Russell Quant is on a magical carpet ride that skids to a deadly halt on the frozen surface of a Saskatchewan pond. As Russell's spicy foreign adventure heats up, he learns valuable lessons about love, life, and learning to seize the moment.
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Author: Anthony Bidulka
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Title: Date With a Sheesha: A Russell Quant Mystery
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Publisher: Insomniac Press
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ISBN: 978-1-897178-90-4
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Date of publication: March 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $19.95
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The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when a self-made beauty goes missing on her wedding day...and turns up dead. Winner of the 2008 St. Martin's Award for best first novel.
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Author: Elizabeth Duncan
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Title: The Cold Light of Mourning, a Penny Brannigan mystery
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Publisher: Minotaur Books, St. Martin's Press
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ISBN: 13:9780312533458
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Date of Publication: June, 2010
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Format: Mass market paperback
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Price: $9.99
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They made a movie about hotshot lawyer Beau Delaney. Now he's charged with the murder of his wife - mother of their ten children. A tough case for Monty Collins and Father Burke, and for Monty's daughter Normie. We hear the story from two points of view, innocence and experience, Normie and Monty. Who'll be first to uncover the truth?
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Author: Anne Emery
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Title: Children in the Morning, a Collins-Burke mystery
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Publisher: ECW Press
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ISBN: 9781550229271
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Release Date: May 2010
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Format: Hardcover
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Price: $26.95 CDN, $24.95 US
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When out-of-work television star Lulu Malone finds her union representative stabbed to death, her first instinct is to run. But the exit is crowded with friends and suspects, and Lulu finds herself in the middle of the mystery. Deadly Dues is the start of a gutsy new detective series that presents meditations on the life of the artist, in between muggings, murders and mayhem.
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Author: Linda Kupecek
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Title: Deadly Dues, a Lulu Malone Mystery
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Publisher: TouchWood Editions
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ISBN: 978-1-894898-98-0
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Date of Publication: February 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $12.95
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When Jennifer Towers, a young professional with a promising career in dentistry, is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the tag in order to find its artist -- and the victim's killer. Smoked is Calgary author Garry Ryan's fourth and darkest mystery novel to date.
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At the Bath and Tennis Club, a woman is murdered and a second woman decides to commit suicide by being the next victim. Bartender, Sherri Travis pours the drinks, listens to the stories, and tries to make sense of it all. But her biggest challenge is to escape Cypress Island, alone and on foot, before Hurricane Myrna hits or the murderer can strike again.
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Author: Phyllis Smallman
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Title: Sex in a Sidecar, a Sherri Travis Mystery
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Publisher: McArthur and Company
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ISBN: 978 155 278 8318
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Release Date: February 2010.
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Format: Mass market paperback
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Price: $10.99
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Secrets have a way of unravelling and sometimes the past doesn't stay dead. Ray John Leenders, the brutal man who tried to rape Sherri Travis when she was thirteen, returns to Jacaranda, living with the single mother of a teenage daughter. And Sherri's father, Tully Jenkins, resurfaces. Memories bring murder and mayhem to paradise.
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Author: Phyllis Smallman
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Title: A Brewski for the Old Man, a Sherri Travis Mystery
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Publisher: McArthur and Company
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ISBN: 978 155 278 8363
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Release Date: March 2010.
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $24.95
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When Margaret Spencer trips over a frozen body while on a ski date, the Vancouver detective embarks on her toughest case yet. Maggie and partner Nat Southby are on an energetic hunt through Vancouver's East End, to stables in Ladner, to the Sunshine Coast. Their path will awaken stories from the Second World War and expose secrets decades old.
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Author: Gwendolyn Southin
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Title: Death As A Last Resort
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Publisher: TouchWood Editions
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ISBN: 978-1-926741-02-4
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Release Date: February 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $12.95
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Cozy... Cuddle up with murder
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Kill for an Orchid brings Mara Dunn and Julian Wood back in a tale spanning two hemispheres and three centuries. Greed, obsession and deadly commercial interests drive this story, and murder stalks the peaceful French countryside and the wild mountains of China.
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Author: Michelle Wan
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Title: Kill for an Orchid, a Novel of Death in the Dordogne
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Publisher: Doubleday Canada
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ISBN: 978-0-385-66486-8
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Date
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Format: Hardcover
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Price: $29.95 CD
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Historical... vintage, antique and ancient crime.
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The Klondike Gold Rush: Fiona MacGillivray and the Savoy Dance Hall are busier than ever. There's something familiar about an arrival's accent, and Fiona needs to keep the woman away from her son Angus, but Angus has a better idea. When a dancer is murdered after an altercation with Fiona, the Mounties are determined to get their man ? or woman.
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Police Procedurals... by the book or throwing it.
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Homicide Detective Chris Crane is back in action and he is busier than ever. This time around his cases bring him from the doors of some of the most powerful people in Calgary to the city's seedy underbelly.
John Ballem, respected author, lawyer and legal scholar, passed away suddenly while editing proof of this, his last novel. ❦
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Author: John Ballem 1925-2010
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Title: Murder on the Bow
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Publisher: Recliner Books
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ISBN: 978-0-9813640-2-5
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Release Date: April 2010
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Format: Mass market paperback
Price: $14.99
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When, based on new evidence, DCI Paget and his team reopen the investigation into a series of robberies that ended with the brutal killing of two people thirteen years ago, they little know how many more lives may be in jeopardy . . .
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Thriller: "Where there's smoke...
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Love You to Death: “….a gripping whodunit by Canada’s top mystery writer. Charlie D, host of a successful late-night-radio-call-in show that offers advice to troubled listeners, must discover who is killing some of the most vulnerable members of his audience.”
Author: Gail Bowen
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Damageddebuts struggling thirty-something lawyer Kate Lange whose career-making case becomes deadly as she uncovers a scam that rocks the foundations of biomedical research -- and puts her in the path of a demented killer. Indefensibleis the next Kate Lange thriller.
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Author: Pamela Callow
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Title: Damaged, Book One of the Kate Lange series
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Publisher: MIRA Books
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ISBN: 978-0-7783-2750-9
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Release Date: June 2010
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Format: Mass market paperback
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Price: $9.99 CDN, $7.99 US
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When zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan accepts an invitation to be a lecturer on an Arctic cruise, she has no idea that she'll become entangled in a series of murders. Being marooned on pack ice, a harrowing trip in an airplane and a hot air balloon, and a mysterious fire all add to the menace that threatens Cordi as she attempts to nail down a killer.
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Author: Suzanne F. Kingsmill
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Title: Innocent Murderer: A Cordi O'Callaghan Mystery
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Publisher: Dundurn Press
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ISBN: 9781554884261
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Release Date: January 2010
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Format: Mass market paperback
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Price: $11.99 (?6.99)
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Messenger of Deathtakes the reader into the frightening and fascinating world of biker turf wars and encounters with the law. The drama unfolding in the novel conveys the tragedy of love and death of those who live in the underworld and presents a gruesome commentary on the state of North American society where hard drugs have become a lucrative market.
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Author: Alex Markham
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Title: Messenger of Death
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Publisher: Asteroid Publisher, Inc.
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ISBN: 978-0-9811637-9-6
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Publication date: May 2010
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Format: Hard Cover, Dust Jacket
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Price: $23.95
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New York Times bestselling author Lee Child teams up with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a showcase of bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre. Included in this exciting collection is an original short story by Canada's Grant McKenzie. McKenzie's debut thriller, Switch is being published by Penguin.
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When a terrorist infiltrates the Yukon Arctic Ultra ? the world's toughest human-powered race ? it's up to Auxiliary RCMP Markus Fanger and a young offender to track the menace through the frozen Northland and keep him from his target, Ground-based Missile Defence.
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Detective Rick Montoya returns to the city to try to clear his name. He discovers someone is living in his apartment. Before he can find out who, the apartment house goes up in flames. Rick watches as the police remove two bodies. Was the firebombing meant for him? Who was killed in the fire? And why? The questions mount up, along with the suspects.
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Juvenile Crime: "Suitable for family viewing."
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While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the poachers. The stakes are high and the suspects many, as the kids head into their most dangerous adventure yet.
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Author: Michele Martin Bossley
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Title: Bear Market(Orca Currents)
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Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
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ISBN: 978-1-55469-220-0 (Pb)
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ISBN: 978-1-55469-221-7 (Library Edition)
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Release Date: March 2010
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Price: $9.95(Pb)/$16.95 (Library Edition)
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Ryan spends all his time at the ski hill, volunteering with the Junior Safety Patrol to cover the cost of his lift pass. When his board is stolen, he discovers that his cousin knows more than he should about recent thefts at the resort. Ryan has to choose between career and family, and hope that, for him, doing the right thing will pay off.
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Crime Non-Fiction: "Just the facts, ma'am."
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Despite advances in DNA testing and police investigative skills, hundreds of Canadian crimes remain unsolved. Trails grow cold, and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward. Taking the reader on an odyssey through all aspects of the crimes, Hoshowsky examines 12 open murders and disappearances from 1967 to the present that continue to haunt us still.
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Author: Robert J. Hoshowsky
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Title: Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases
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Publisher: The Dundurn Group
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ISBN: 978-1-55488-739-2
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Release Date: May 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $24.99
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365 days of impossible occurrences, fantastic treasures, and incredible true tales will amaze, confound, and remind us just how mysterious this world really is. A magical daily read.
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Author: Juanita Rose Violini
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Title: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored
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Publisher: Weiser Books
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ISBN: 978-1-57863-447-7
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Release Date: October 2009
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: $24.95
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en francais: la passion pour le crime
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Pour le digne directeur de l'h?ergement, Trevor Lambert, la vie ?olue autour de l'h?el Univers. Lorsqu'il croise le corps inanim? de son g?ant ador? son petit monde parfait implose. Dans le conflit qui s'ensuit, opposant des clients g??, des employ? harcel? et des protestataires activistes, Trevor tente de d?asquer le meurtrier et de pr?erver la dignit?de l'Univers.
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Author: Daniel Edward Craig
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Title: Meurtre À l'Univers: Un roman policier cinq éoiles
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Publisher: Editions ADA Inc.
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ISBN: 978-2-89667-057-4
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Release Date: Janvier 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: 24,95 $
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Lorsque la vedette la plus sexy de Tinseltown fasse un plongeon fatal depuis le balcon de sa suite royale, l'h?el Cin?a devient le cadre d'un roman policier comique. L'h?elier consciencieux Trevor Lambert est forc?d'entrer dans la lumi?e pour prot?er ses pr?ieux employ? et pour d?ouvrir le v?itable assassin.
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Author: Daniel Edward Craig
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Title: Meurtre l'hotel Cinima: Un roman policier cinq étoiles
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Publisher: Editions ADA Inc.
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ISBN: 978-2-89667-035-2
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Release Date: Avril 2010
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Format: Trade paperback
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Price: 24,95 $
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