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PLUM LOVIN’
Janet Evanovich
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PLUM LOVIN’

by Janet Evanovich · St. Martin’s Press

3 wks at #1 · 3 on list

Een Amerikaanse premiejaagster gaat op de vooravond van Valentijnsdag op zoek naar de eigenares van een relatiebemiddelingsbureau.

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FOR ONE MORE DAY
Mitch Albom
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FOR ONE MORE DAY

by Mitch Albom · Hyperion

18 wks on list

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he missed and always wished hed had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.

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CROSS
James Patterson
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CROSS

by James Patterson · Little, Brown

11 wks on list

When a beloved relative is murdered, Detective Alex Cross vows to hunt down the killer . . . and discovers a secret that could rock the entire world. Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved niece was brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington, D. C.'s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington's most infamous club-a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. The killer could be one of their patrons, one of Washington's elite who will do anything to keep their secrets buried. With astonishing plot twists and electrifying revelations that will keep readers on the edge of their seat, I, Alex Cross is the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.

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THE HUNTERS
W. E. B. Griffin
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THE HUNTERS

by W. E. B. Griffin · Putnam

4 wks on list

The new Presidential Agent novel-now in paperback. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Those responsible have left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent and follow it wherever it takes him-even if it's not exactly where he expected.

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EXILE
Richard North Patterson
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EXILE

by Richard North Patterson · Holt

3 wks on list

A successful attorney about to be married and preparing for a run for Congress, David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil when he is reunited with Hana Arif, a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair in law school.

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HANNIBAL RISING
Thomas Harris
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HANNIBAL RISING

by Thomas Harris · Delacorte Press

8 wks on list

Relates the early life of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Eastern Europe, from the ages of six to twenty, following the loss of his entire family during World War II.

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DUST
Martha Grimes
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DUST

by Martha Grimes · Viking Press

2 wks on list

A young friend pulls Scotland Yard’s Richard Jury into the life—and death—of a wealthy bachelor… The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel. Proving as inscrutable—and challenging—to Jury as the case is the beautiful chief inspecting officer... Before his death, Maples was a patron of London’s finest art galleries and caretaker of author Henry James’s house in Rye. It’s there where Jury installs Melrose Plant, who takes his job to heart, as Jury closes in on the dark secrets behind Maples’s friends and family…

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BAD BLOOD
Linda Fairstein
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BAD BLOOD

by Linda Fairstein · Scribner

2 wks on list

Krimi. Alexandra Cooper er anklager i en sag i New York om et lejemord. Midt under retssagen sker der en eksplosion i en af vandtunnelerne dybt under jorden, og tilsyneladende er der en sammenhæng. Det tvinger Alexandra til at gå i dybden på mere end én måde

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NEXT
Michael Crichton
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NEXT

by Michael Crichton · HarperCollins

9 wks on list

Amb la seva habitual habilitat per unir ciència i suspens, en la seva nova novel·la Michael Crichton apropa el lector al món de l'enginyeria genètica, un món vertiginós on res és el que sembla i on cada dia s'obren un munt de noves possibilitats. Però els descobriments científics també poden ser perillosos; barrejar gens de ximpanzé i ésser humà pot portar moltes conseqüències, com aviat descobrirà l'investigador Henry Kendall.Amb un ritme sostingut i una imaginació intel·ligent, aquest thriller científic retrata els fils opacs i multimilionaris que mouen els suposats descobriments genètics i ens planteja tot un seguit de qüestions ètiques, polítiques, científiques i filosòfiques, que ben segur definiran el futur del món.

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THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE
Philippa Gregory
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THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE

by Philippa Gregory · Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

8 wks on list

From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) the author of Boleyn Traitor comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family. After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king’s decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court. Anne of Cleves is to be married to Henry to form a political alliance, though the rocky relationship she has to the king does not bode well for her or for England. Katherine Howard is the young, beautiful woman who captures Henry’s eye, even though he is set to marry Anne. Her spirit runs free and her passions run hot—though her affections may not be returned upon the King. Jane Rochford was married to George Boleyn, and it was her testimony that sent her husband and infamous sister-in-law Anne to their deaths. Throughout the country, her name is known for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admirations, and power, as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.

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LORDS OF THE NORTH
Bernard Cornwell
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LORDS OF THE NORTH

by Bernard Cornwell · HarperCollins

From Bernard Cornwell, the undisputed master of historical fiction, hailed as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brien,"* comes the third volume in the exhilarating Saxon Tales: the story of the birth of England as the Saxons and Danes fight together as one. The year is 878, and the Saxons of Wessex, under King Alfred, have defeated the Danes to keep their kingdom free. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now, as Lords of the North begins, he is disgusted by Alfred's lack of generosity and goes north to search for his stepsister, who was taken prisoner by Kjartan the Cruel, a Danish lord who lurks in the formidable stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion, chaos, and fear. He needs other allies if he is to attack Dunholm, and chooses Guthred, a seemingly deluded slave who believes he is a king. Together they cross the Pennines to where a desperate alliance of fanatical Christians and beleaguered Danes form a new army to confront the terrible Viking lords who rule Northumbria. Love, betrayal, redemption—all follow, as Uhtred reluctantly creates a surprising partnership that determines the fate of England itself. * The Economist

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.