Gillian Flynn
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English
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"Fresh off a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying...
2) Dark places
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English
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For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
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English
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Marriage can be a real killer. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's...
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Crown
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King
This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl. In Sharp Objects, Flynn’s debut novel, a young journalist returns home to cover a dark assignment—and to face her own damaged...
This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl. In Sharp Objects, Flynn’s debut novel, a young journalist returns home to cover a dark assignment—and to face her own damaged...
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Crown
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King
This exclusive ebook collection brings together the three novels from bestselling author Gillian Flynn. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Gone Girl is an unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that Flynn’s work...
This exclusive ebook collection brings together the three novels from bestselling author Gillian Flynn. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Gone Girl is an unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that Flynn’s work...
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Deutsch
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"Babydoll" steht auf ihrem Bein. "Petticoat" auf ihrer linken Hüfte.
"Böse" findet sich ganz in der Nähe. "Girl" prangt über ihrem Herzen, "schädlich" ist in ihr Handgelenk geritzt. Camille Preakers Körper ist übersät mit Wörtern. Wörtern, die sie sich in die Haut geritzt hat. Das letzte Wort, das sie sich einritzte, hieß "verschwinden". Danach stellte sie sich. Den Therapeuten, aber auch ihrer Vergangenheit. In ihrer alten Heimatstadt...
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Deutsch
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Die junge Nerdy bestreitet ihren Lebensunterhalt mit Wahrsagerei und sexuellen Dienstleistungen. Sie verdient nicht schlecht - meistens erzählt sie den Leuten genau das, was sie hören wollen. Bis Susan Burke sie um Hilfe bittet. Susan ist
völlig verängstigt, denn sie ist davon überzeugt, dass ein böser Geist von ihrem Haus und ihrem Stiefsohn Besitz ergriffen hat. Nerdy wittert das Geschäft ihres Lebens, aber als sie das Haus zum ersten Mal...
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Deutsch
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Was denkst du gerade, Amy?9 Das habe ich sie oft gefragt. Was denkst du? Wie geht es dir? Wer bist du? Wie gut kennt man eigentlich den Menschen, den man liebt?" Genau das fragt sich Nick Dunne an diesem sonnigen Morgen seines fünften Hochzeitstages, als seine Frau spurlos verschwindet. Die Polizei verdächtigt sofort Nick. Amys Freunde berichten, dass sie Angst vor ihm hatte. Die Polizei findet immer mehr Indizien, die Nick belasten. Was geschah...
9) The grownup
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English
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"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the 'psychic' visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of...
10) Perdida
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Español
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"En un caluroso día de verano, Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su quinto aniversario de bodas en North Carthage, a orillas del río Mississippi. Pero Amy desaparece esa misma mañana sin dejar rastro. A medida que la investigación policial avanza, las sospechas recaen sobre Nick. Sin embargo, Nick insiste en su inocencia. Es cierto que se muestra extrañamente evasivo y frío, pero ¿es un asesino?"--Book cover.
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Dedham's Halfway to Halloween
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then in 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored...
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English
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"They were a perfect family, golden and carefree--until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and...
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Azbuka
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
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After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
15) Gone girl
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20th Century Fox Film Corporation
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[2015]
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English
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On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
16) Ostrye predmety
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Series
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Azbuka
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Russian
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Kamilla Parker, ne osobo udachlivyĭ reporter odnoĭ iz ne osobo uspeshnykh gazet Chikago, mechtaet o blesti︠a︡shcheĭ karʹery. I vot devushke vypadaet shchastlivyĭ shans, sposobnyĭ rezko povysit ee zhurnalistskiĭ status, -- Kamillu posylai︠u︡t korrespondentom v malenkiĭ gorodok, gde zhertvoĭ manʹi︠a︡ka stali neskolko maloletnikh devochek. Eë zadacha vydatʹ chitateli︠a︡m sensat︠s︡ionnoe soobshchenie s mesta sobytiĭ. Delo...
17) Garota exemplar
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Intrínseca
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Portuguese
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
18) Lugares oscuros
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Series
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron victimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvo la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crimenes célebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...
19) Heridas abiertas
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Español
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"Recién salida de una breve estancia en un hospital psiquiátrico, Camille Preaker se dirige a su ciudad natal para cubrir una serie de asesinatos para el periódico donde trabaja. Por primera vez en once años, la reportera de sucesos regresa a la inmensa mansión en la que creció, donde se tendrá que enfrentar a los recuerdos de su hermana, que murió en plena adolescencia; pero lo que más perturba a Camille es la presencia de su madre, una...