Peter Blauner
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New York Times Bestseller: A lawyer is tormented by a destitute, emotionally unstable man—until one shocking moment changes everything: “A great plot.” —Los Angeles Times
Jacob Schiff has a good career, a beautiful home in New York City, and a loving family. John Gates has none of those things. A psychiatric patient with a traumatic past, John received professional treatment from Jacob’s...
Jacob Schiff has a good career, a beautiful home in New York City, and a loving family. John Gates has none of those things. A psychiatric patient with a traumatic past, John received professional treatment from Jacob’s...
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"In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible...
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""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...
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When a twenty-year-old murder case comes back to life, a detective must race against his failing sight to unravel the mystery When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer-Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl. Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six. Twenty years later, Julian...
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When a decapitated corpse washes up on the banks of the Hudson River, a New York suburb is sent into an uproar. Commuters waiting for the morning train into Manhattan in the small Hudson River town of Riverside are the first to see the body. She drifts out of the river, naked and headless, shocking the onlookers before they board their train to work. Riverside Police Chief Harold Baltimore can't get away from her so easily. A black chief in a white...
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"Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of rebellion, Natty joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, coming back with a chest full of commendations and a head full of disturbing memories. But when his father is found murdered near the peaceful confines of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Natty is forced to deal with the troubled legacy of...
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After a teacher saves his students from a terrorist attack, he finds himself at the center of the investigation. Coney Island is a weird place, packed with people from every walk of life, and David Fitzgerald fits in well. An English professor at a tough public school, he works hard to connect with students with whom he has little in common. Sometimes he succeeds; sometimes he fails. But one of his failures is about to become a catastrophe. A former...
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A gangster son's failed attempt to break free of his family's criminal past. He is Anthony Russo who was adopted by a mobster and his ambition is to live honestly, but a large debt forces him to follow in his father's footsteps. By the author of Slow Motion Riot.
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Gripping crime thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Intruder and Proving Ground. Praised by everyone from Stephen King and James Patterson to Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author Peter Blauner has proven himself a master of the crime thriller. In the three novels collected here-including Blauner's Edgar Award–winning debut-the former journalist delivers breathtaking suspense alongside provocative...
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As World War II draws near, a dying genius fights against hate to preserve his legacy Cancer has ravaged Sigmund Freud. It is 1938, and the great doctor has fled Vienna for London, where he races to finish his final, most dangerous work: a radical reimagining of the origins of Judaism, which posits that Moses was murdered by his followers. Though his colleagues say that such a controversial text could only give grist to those who would do the Jews...
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HarperCollins
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2024
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Français
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New York, 2014. Alex a tout quitté pour faire le djihad. Ce départ brutal, son grand-père Ali ne l'accepte pas. Alors, pour le ramener à lui, il est prêt à lui livrer son histoire – et son plus terrible secret.
Le Caire, 1954. Engagé sur le tournage du film Les Dix Commandements du légendaire Cecil B. DeMille, le jeune Ali s'imagine déjà un avenir radieux à Hollywood. Mais, lorsqu'il renverse contre son gré un cheikh très respecté,...
Le Caire, 1954. Engagé sur le tournage du film Les Dix Commandements du légendaire Cecil B. DeMille, le jeune Ali s'imagine déjà un avenir radieux à Hollywood. Mais, lorsqu'il renverse contre son gré un cheikh très respecté,...
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Five novellas about deadly books-and even more dangerous people-from five acclaimed mystery authors.
Book Club: Ex-cop Avery Sharecross now spends his days tracking rare books in Good Advice, New Mexico. But his old career collides with his new one when the local sheriff asks him for help on a case of a dead book collector.
Seven Years: New York Times–bestselling author Peter Robinson tells of a retired professor who discovers a threatening inscription...
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Macmillan Audio
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2017
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From New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Peter Blauner comes a gritty new audiobook.
"Ari Fliakos gives a splendid performance. His versatile voice and energy enliven the many characters in this thriller." — Library Journal
"Ari Fliakos enhances an exciting story with his expert narration. He gives everyone a unique identity, differentiating them through varying tones, voices, and accents." —
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KCRW
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[2006]
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English
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The writers whose stories are dramatized in KCRW's "More Mean Streets USA" range from a semi-legendary figure from the Jazz Age, to some of the most skillful storytellers of the post-World War II years, to the fastest-rising genre-stars of today and tomorrow. This all new, thrilling and engrossing 8-hour production from KCRW own studios features newly recorded detective stories by contemporary and classic hard-boiled mystery writers. Stories by Walter...