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Mitch Matthews is writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife's brother offers them a first-class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to New York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality daddy-daughter time with his five-year-old Lilly. At check-in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian. A mysterious redhead is guarding a package in the business lounge. But everything is fine...right up until the event. Within hours of Allied Airlines 695 disappearing, a massive international search is launched.

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When two killings take place thousands of miles apart in Canada and Alaska, Detective Bernadette Callahan's instincts tell her there's a link. But her superiors disagree, and they move to silence her. Undeterred, Callahan delves deeper and finds an ally deep in rural Alaska. A fellow detective, also under pressure to close his inquiries. The pair are forced into the shadows to work, where they uncover unlikely suspects and a conspiracy linked to Alaska's billion-dollar oil supply.

Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this action-packed follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines, “a true stunner of a thriller debut” (James Rollins) and “a great read” (Nevada Barr). Fresh off her...

Polar Shift is the sixth NUMA Files novel by the inimitable Clive Cussler. Giant freak waves send an unsinkable cargo ship to the bottom of the Atlantic and a herd of killer whales attack a party of kayakers in the Pacific - random events, or evidence of polar shift? For Kurt Austin of NUMA...

Dans le Bayou Tèche, les marais forment un enchevêtrement où il est facile de disparaître. Elise, une Française, s'y est réfugiée pour fuir quelque chose de sombre, d'indicible, qu'elle a laissé en France. Ce roman croise les histoires respectives du laissé-pour-compte en Dordogne, et de la fugitive en Louisiane.

When a polar bear is sighted in a sleepy Icelandic fishing village, then shot dead by local policeman Constable Halldór, it triggers a debate in the local community. Was Halldór a hero for killing the bear, or should the animal have been protected? Animal rights activists in the area see the constable as a villain, and when, days later, the dead body of Halldór is discovered at a remote beauty spot, the activists are immediately under suspicion.

The elf had been murdered, that much was evident... Christmas is only days away, and Santa is facing the greatest crisis of his career. Pinkie Merryvale, head of the elves' union, has been brutally murdered, the most obvious suspect none other than Santa himself - for years he and Merryvale had clashed over the working conditions of the North Pole's workforce. The elves, worked to exhaustion, issue an ultimatum in response. If Santa can't find the killer and prove his innocence before Christmas Eve, they STRIKE, and Christmas worldwide will be ruined.

Un'imperitura notte macabra che sfila fra le mentali traiettorie impervie d'un investigatore privato forse immaginario o soltanto immaginifico di nome Sam, cioè un granitico, spettrale man e un indomito, coriaceo samurai senza padrone, lui stesso detentore e redentore delle sue personali indagini marmoreamente scolpite nei dedalici anfratti perfino delle sue cinematografiche memorie.

As Frank Amodeo met with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss NATO operations in Afghanistan, no one knew that he’d already embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government - money he intended to use to bankroll his plan to take over the world. The most disturbing part of it all is, had the US government not thwarted his plans, Amodeo might have just pulled it off.

In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko goes up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for. Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town...

Adrian Cross was never supposed to walk back into my life—especially not looking like that. Towering. Tattooed. With eyes that burn hotter than his tattoo gun. He's my brother's best friend. A polar bear shifter. My lifelong crush. And the new artist filling in at our shop while Magnus is out. He says I'm his fated mate. That he's known since we were kids. He says that he's waited long enough and he's done pretending.

Saint-Étienne, mai 1944. Dans une ville qui étouffe sous la botte allemande, Lucien Bornier, dit « l'Embaumé », mène la belle vie. Alors que le bombardement allié du 26 mai réduit le quartier de Tardy en cendres, Lucien commet l'irréparable. Des décennies plus tard, l'ombre du passé ressurgit dans le quotidien d'Ernest Cafuron. Ernest est un habitué du Café de la Paix. Ce Stéphanois pur jus va se retrouver mêlé à une histoire qui le dépasse.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton and his team suppress a mass shooting attempt in the tiny coastal town he calls home, the realization of how deadly his life has become sends him on a journey to separate himself from that violence and save his relationship with the woman he loves. The laidback holiday promises to rekindle the relationship and heal old wounds, until a brutal attack leaves a beloved friend fighting for her life. Chase has no choice but to put his experience, training, and lethal skill set back into action to find and eliminate the threat.

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Agnès a essayé d'oublier une enfance douloureuse qu'elle a enfouie au plus profond d'elle-même. Un désir de vengeance va alors la submerger jusqu'au point de rupture. Deux policiers vont tenter de découvrir qui se cache derrière les effroyables meurtres qui s'accumulent. C'est une histoire de survie et de rédemption. C'est aussi l'histoire d'un groupe soudé par une histoire commune, déterminé à éradiquer les prédateurs qui s'en prennent aux enfants.

Lena Mohlin är datachef i Svenska Säkerhetstjänsten, kodknäckare och ute på hemligt uppdrag för att infiltrera den politiska, populistiska rörelsen "Den Nya Världs-ordningen". Hon har hackat deras databas, blivit upptäckt och tillfångatagen. Nu måste hon ta sig loss för att stoppa de maktgalna kuppmännen. För att köpa sig tid säger hon att hon är Lena Mörk - en journalist ute på resa för att skriva om kvinnors arbete på Nordkalotten.

Ever since I was little, unusual things have happened around me. But nothing quite as strange as a wild polar bear coming to my rescue and telling me I'm a witch. Even though I grew up a California girl, the unexplored tundra of the Great North has called to me since childhood. On her visits, my grandmother would tell me stories of magical creatures and great battles fought in the vast cold. A place that is all white on the surface, but underneath is as awash with secrets as colorful as the night sky.

After spending the night in the village with Frankie's cousin Kaia, Nina comes home to find one of her ex-boyfriends dead in her bed. When Nina enlists Frankie's help to find the real killer, they run into a dead end. And since the sheriff and Frankie's relationship is on ice, he remains tight-lipped about the crime. Leaving Frankie and Nina no choice but to rely on the help of Frankie's wacky roommate and a pair of polar bears to track down the murderer. But the killer went to a lot of trouble to frame Nina and the guilty party isn't going down without a fight.