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Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. A relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.
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"In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China's Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country's distant past and her own recent history. The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends suddenly in bloodshed, and leads to...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 2
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Bantam Books
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2005.
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English
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Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 1
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"Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling into la dolce vita when a school friend, who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role--posing as an art buyer from New Mexico, interested in black market Etruscan burial urns. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee plunges to his death from a high cliff. The local commissario...
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 2
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Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A fading papyrus, nearly 4000 years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time - a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa.
6) Inca gold
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
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G.K. Hall
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[1994]
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English
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Nearly five centuries ago a fleet of boats landed mysteriously on an island in an inland sea. There, an ancient Andean people hid a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh, then they and their treasure vanished into history -- until now. DIRK PITT dives into an ancient sacrificial pool, saving two American archaeologists from certain drowning. But his death-defying rescue is only the beginning, as it draws the intrepid Pitt into a vortex of...
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Bantam Books
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[2013]
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English
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Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is offered a job no one else wants -- to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so,...
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