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A dog's journey
Bailey, de hond van Ethan, wordt verschillende keren opnieuw geboren om te zorgen voor zijn kleindochter CJ terwijl ze opgroeit tot volwassen vrouw.
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Alex Michaelides The silent patient
Een psychotherapeut bijt zich vast in het achterhalen van de reden waarom een vrouw die haar man vermoordde sindsdien geen woord meer heeft gezegd.
Fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Orion, London | 2019
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Lee Child Past tense
Wanneer Jack Reacher door New Hampshire trekt, ziet hij de plaatsnaam Laconia, de geboorteplaats van zijn vader; hij besluit er navraag te doen om meer over zijn familie te weten te komen.
Fictie
Engels | 403 pagina's | Bantam Press, London | 2018
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln The Red Seal
Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound and will keep you guessing all the way through the final chapter! Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881-1935) was an American novelist. A prolific writer, she is best known for her mystery and crime novels, such as "The Red Seal" (1920), "The Moving Finger (1918), and "The Cat’s Paw" (1922). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 5 uur 28 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Wallace The Secret House
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor" whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police,...
Engels | 5 uur 44 minuten (258 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery
When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in the village. When Sir Henry Baskerville arrives from Canada for the legacy of the Baskerville manor in England, the skeptical Sherlock Holmes is called to help with the case. Was the death of Sir Charles Baskerville really a heart attack or maybe an animal lurking in deserted moors? Will Baskerville's new owner become the...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (305 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, `The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‘ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock‘s talent for solving cases based on things only he notices never disappoints, and everyone‘s curiosity is sure to be sustained till the end of each story. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes has been adapted more than a hundred times for various media. 2009-2011 saw Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as Sherlock and Watson, and even Will Ferrell...
Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (880 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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A dog's purpose
Een hond wordt verschillende keren opnieuw geboren en vervult steeds een belangrijke rol voor zijn baasje.
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Rachel Wells Alfie & George
Alfie, de Londense kater, moet voor de ondeugende kitten George zorgen en samen een mysterie oplossen.
Fictie
Engels | 344 pagina's | Avon, London | 2016
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The Durrells
In 1935 verhuist weduwe Louise Durrell met haar vier kinderen naar Korfoe om een nieuw leven op te bouwen.
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Mark B. Mills Waiting for Doggo
Als zijn vriendin plotsklaps verdwijnt blijft een reclameman achter met een lelijk mormel van een hond.
Fictie
Engels | 213 pagina's | Headline Review, London | 2015
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Peter Werner A dog named Christmas
Een 20-jarige jongen met lichte verstandelijke beperking mag van zijn vader meedoen met een actie van het asiel: adopteer een hond voor kerstmis. Maar als hij de hond na kerst terug moet brengen, blijkt deze een eigen wil te hebben.
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Baantjer DeKok and the mask of death
Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act. Eerily, the people closest to these vanishing women all comment on a change in their faces: they have become listless, fatigued, and seemingly wear a ‘mask of death’. All indications point to foul play, but the bodies have yet to turn up. DeKok is stumped as to how these women are...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the dead lovers
Inspector DeKok and his partner Vledder are ordered to protect the eccentric Manfred Nettelhorst’s art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. But before the exhibition has come to a close, the two detectives are called away to a nearby apartment building to investigate the murder of a man handcuffed to a radiator, shot execution style. That same night, an exquisite silver ewer is stolen from the exhibition. Following the trail, DeKok stumbles across an invisible line between...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and murder by installment
Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest crime soon evolves into a series of sinister murders, which seem almost impossible to solve. Never before have inspectors DeKok and Vledder been so involved in a case where murder, drug smuggling, and child prostitution are almost daily occurrences. Blackmail enters the picture, and meanwhile bodies continue to be found. In the past even a single murder used to dominate the front pages of the newspapers for weeks, but...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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.. Baantjer DeKok and murder on Blood Mountain
At the request of the Belgian police, Inspectors DeKok and Vledder attend the funeral of a murder victim. The body was fished out of Antwerp’s Scheldt River, but brought back to Amsterdam to be laid to rest there. During the service DeKok spies the face of a man long known to be dead. Further bodies are discovered, apparently they too were poisoned and dumped in the river. DeKok is forced to venture from his beloved Amsterdam and travel to Bloedberg (“Blood Mountain”), a notorious neighborhood in...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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