The Italian Girl

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Mali Laiyinhate zhu

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-by to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof.

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Terry Goodkind

When a murder investigation reveals family secrets and exposes her to a shadowy network of evil, Kate accepts a mysterious author's offer to find answers, but time is running short as a force of super-predator killers is hot on their trail. In the middle of a Chicago police investigation into a brutal murder, Kate Bishop discover she has the ability to identify killers just by looking into their eyes. Kate is tracked down by Jack Raines, a mysterious author with shadowy connections to those who share her ability. He tells Kate that her unique vision also makes her a target, and only he can help her. A force of super-predators will stop at nothing until Kate is dead. Is Jack really her salvation, or another killer coming to slaughter her?

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Thomas Glavinic

Jonas ist allein. Zuerst ist es nur eine kleine Irritation, als die Zeitung nicht vor der Tür liegt und Fernseher und Radio nur Rauschen von sich geben. Dann jedoch wird Jonas klar, dass seine Stadt, Wien, menschenleer ist. Ist er der einzige Überlebende einer Katastrophe? Sind die Menschen geflüchtet? Wenn ja, wovor? Jonas beginnt zu suchen. Er durchstreift die Stadt, die Läden, die Wohnungen und bricht schließlich mit einem Truck auf, um nach Spuren der Menschen suchen. Mit wachsender Spannung erzählt Thomas Glavinic davon, was Menschsein heißt, wenn es keine Menschen mehr gibt.

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Nicola Griffith

From cult phenomenon to award-winning literary sensation, "the sexiest action figure since James Bond" (Seattle Weekly) returns in an exhilarating new thriller. It doesn't matter how well trained you are, how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always. That's what Aud Torvingen teaches the students in her self-defense class. But the question is whether Aud really believes this lesson herself-and if not, what it will take for her to learn it. Aud has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her self-defense classes spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.