Sheena Kamal
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.(--Cover)
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Nora Watts volume 3
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"From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back." --Publisher's description.
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The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts—introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones—finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit.
Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent—her father. When he killed
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De pequeña, Nora Watts solo conoció a uno de sus progenitores, a su padre Sam. Cuando este se suicidó, ella se negó a sentir dolor y continuó con su vida. Pero un encuentro fortuito con un veterano de guerra que lo conoció le hace enfrentarse a preguntas y emociones oscuras que no puede ignorar. Si quiere hacer las paces con el pasado, debe plantarle cara.
Para descubrir la verdad sobre la vida de su padre y sobre su muerte, Nora viaja de Vancouver...
5) Los perdidos
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Pensaba que su pasado había quedado olvidado. Se equivocaba...
La llamada se produce poco después de las cinco de la mañana...
Nunca antes había oído el nombre de Everett Walsh, pero, según dice, yo podría saber algo sobre una chica que ha desaparecido. Sin embargo no me dice de qué se trata. Me planteo no quedar con él, pero parece desesperado y, si hay algo que me atrae más que la perseverancia, es la desesperación. Pese a que me gano...
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On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI-in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly.
Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery,...
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2022.
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English
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"Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to Toronto's east-end townhouse Trisha and...
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[2018]
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English
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"Vancouver Noir is an excellent anthology that would appeal to short-story fans of all types--even those who dont read the genre on a regular basis...Like the earlier volumes Toronto Noir and Montreal Noir, the new anthology serves as a fantastic introduction for those unfamiliar with the genre and a reminder that Canada, bursting with amazing writers, is one of the strongest countries for crime writing in the world."
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This anthology of noir fiction set in Canada's City of Glass features all-new stories by Linda L. Richards, Sam Wiebe, Yasuko Thanh and more.
For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you'll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there's a crime. Hidden beneath Vancouver's gleaming glass skyscrapers are shadowy streets where poverty, drugs,...
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