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Earning My Spurs: A Life in Football from Nice to LA and Beyond - Hugo Lloris - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Earning My Spurs: A Life in Football from Nice to LA and Beyond - Hugo Lloris - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Known for his ''lightning reflexes'' and unique playing style, Hugo Lloris has always set himself apart from other goalkeepers. He played for the French national team for fourteen years, as captain for twelve, and won the World Cup in 2018. He spent eleven years with Tottenham Hotspur and as long-time club captain, there are few who know the club better. In Earning My Spurs , Hugo takes us through the glory days and scandals of his career for both clubs and country.Lloris has always been an immensely popular player, commanding respect for his actions and achievements on the pitch. Behind his clean-cut image lies a tumultuous reality of personal highs and lows, revealed here for the first time. In this riveting autobiography from one of the greatest goalkeepers of the modern game, Hugo Lloris shows what made him a unique player, and why he never hired an agent but decided to make his own way in a world of sharks.

DKK 211.00
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Earning My Spurs: A Life in Football from Nice to LA and Beyond - Hugo Lloris - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Earning My Spurs: A Life in Football from Nice to LA and Beyond - Hugo Lloris - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Known for his ''lightning reflexes'' and unique playing style, Hugo Lloris has always set himself apart from other goalkeepers. He played for the French national team for fourteen years, as captain for twelve, and won the World Cup in 2018. He spent eleven years with Tottenham Hotspur and as long-time club captain, there are few who know the club better. In Earning My Spurs , Hugo takes us through the glory days and scandals of his career for both clubs and country.Lloris has always been an immensely popular player, commanding respect for his actions and achievements on the pitch. Behind his clean-cut image lies a tumultuous reality of personal highs and lows, revealed here for the first time. In this riveting autobiography from one of the greatest goalkeepers of the modern game, Hugo Lloris shows what made him a unique player, and why he never hired an agent but decided to make his own way in a world of sharks.

DKK 161.00
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This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El Mohtar - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El Mohtar - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF Hugo Award for Best Novella Nebula Award for Best Novella Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Ray Bradbury Prize Kitschies Red Tentacle Award Kitschies Inky Tentacle Brave New Words Award Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There''s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That''s how war works. Right? ''A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers'' Madeline Miller, author of Circe ''An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and history'' John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man''s War ''Lyrical and vivid and bittersweet'' Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice ''Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of time and the multiverse'' Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries

DKK 141.00
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Don't Tell the Boss - Anna Bell - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Don't Tell the Boss - Anna Bell - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

When newlywed Penny turns her hand to some casual wedding planning she only wants to help other women afford the big day of their dreams. But taming bridezillas turns out to be a full-time occupation, and what began as a hobby becomes a personal and professional nightmare. Soon Penny is struggling to keep her day job and prevent her own marriage from collapsing under the strain: tired, stressed and knee-deep in ivory satin, is Penny''s life and livelihood hanging by a thread?

DKK 120.00
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Older - Pamela Redmond Satran - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Older - Pamela Redmond Satran - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

'' I loved every bit of this novel, and finished it with a giant smile on my face'' - Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways . Liza never dreamed that anyone would be interested in her life, let alone buy a book about it. But when she publishes a thinly veiled novel about a woman posing as a millennial, called Younger , not only is the book a hit, but her old friend Kelsey wants to turn into a TV show.Flying off to Los Angeles to help write the pilot, Liza leaves behind her on-again off-again boyfriend Josh, her pregnant daughter, and her best friend Maggie. But as Liza is swept up in the heady world of Hollywood, she finds herself thinking less and less of her life back home in New York. And when she meets Hugo Fielding - the devastatingly handsome and incredibly flirtatious Brit playing her boss on the show - she toes the line between having a crush and falling in love.Torn between New York and Los Angeles, a familiar love and a risky one, an established career and a shot at stardom, Liza must decide if it''s too late to go to the ball . . . and if she even wants to. The hotly anticipated sequel to the beloved Younger - now a hit TV series from the creator of Sex and the City , Darren Star, starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff.

DKK 126.00
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Dreamsnake - Vonda N. Mcintyre - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Dreamsnake - Vonda N. Mcintyre - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A haunting story of an extraordinary woman on a dangerous quest in a far-future post-apocalyptic world. Snake travels the land with her serpents, the rattlesnake Sand, the cobra Mist and the rare alien dreamsnake called Grass, whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death. But the blasted landscape of a far-future post-holocaust Earth is a dangerous place, even for such a highly regarded elite healer . . . especially when an unexpected death sends her on a desperate quest to reclaim her healing powers. Dreamsnake , winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards, is back in print at last.

DKK 127.00
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Vernon Subutex Two - Virginie Despentes - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Vernon Subutex Two - Virginie Despentes - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

** Sunday Times Best Books of 2018** "Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like Mine Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It''s a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chaumont.Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever Céleste thinks of her plan.Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex''s gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss'' assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him.Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT. THE SEQUEL TO VERNON SUBUTEX 1 , SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

DKK 120.00
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Boys and Girls - Joseph Connolly - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Boys and Girls - Joseph Connolly - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Susan wants another husband. Which comes as a shock to the current one. ''But not instead of you, Alan, my sugar - as well as. You see?'' Yet once Susan has brazenly commandeered her boss''s rich, elderly hand, Alan finds himself curiously cherishing the company - sharing wife, whisky and other, odder peccadilloes. Indeed Susan is forced to root out alternative amusements - and with their teenage daughter copying her disintegrating moral code, the complex machinery of their lives soon begins to break down. Joseph Connolly plunges the reader into a tumultuous medley of inner monologues with keen, unabashed relish; exposing marital bedroom and male bonding in this biting, excruciatingly funny observation of men, women and adolescent girls.

DKK 120.00
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The Defections - Hannah Michell - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Defections - Hannah Michell - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Stunning'' The Times ''Excellent'' Independent on Sunday ''Compelling, haunting and thrilling'' David Peace Seoul, South Korea Mia is an outsider. Half-English, half-Korean, a translator at the British Embassy; she treads a boundary between her roots and the acceptance she desires from the English - especially her boss, Thomas: a married diplomat.Thomas''s career is jeopardized by an outrageous indiscretion until Mia comes to his rescue. At first grateful, his feelings are soon complicated by a commission to investigate the background of the woman who has captivated him.Hyun-min is a defector from North Korea, taken in by Mia''s family. But he has a secret. One that could shatter Mia''s family, her life and the fragile borders around them all.

DKK 113.00
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The River Has Roots - Amal El Mohtar - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The River Has Roots - Amal El Mohtar - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. ''Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.''In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family.There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family''s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees.But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters'' bond but also their lives will be at risk... The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Features beautiful interior illustrations.

DKK 155.00
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Thirty-Three Teeth - Colin Cotterill - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Thirty-Three Teeth - Colin Cotterill - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Against all his expectations, Dr Siri Paiboun has rather enjoyed his first five months in office. Now, as hot-season nights close in, Siri is spirited away from Laos'' steamy capital on a Matter of National Security. Arriving in Luang Prabang, he''s a busy man, examining carbonized corpses, dining with the deposed king, attending a shamans'' conference and being rescued by the ghost of an elephant. Not that Siri''s complaining ... Luang Prabang is in mountains and a good fifteen degrees cooler.Meanwhile, back at Vientiane headquarters, it''s hot. Bloody hot - savaged bodies are piling up in Siri''s absence. Is it the missing black bear from the circus, or could it be a weretiger? Siri''s trusty assistant Nurse Dtui goes snooping but, unlike her boss, the spirits aren''t looking out for her... And just what creature, if any, has thirty-three teeth?

DKK 119.00
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Carnal Acts - Sam Alexander - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Carnal Acts - Sam Alexander - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

DI Joni Pax, a London homicide detective wounded in a disastrous raid, has been transferrred to the newly formed Police Force of North East England. Her boss, DCI Hector Rutherford is recently back at work after cancer treatment. Between them they are responsible for major crime in rural Northumberland and County Durham. Joni, the daughter of a black American and a white hippy, is a loner struggling to regain her self confidence. Heck is happily married, but his illness has left him fearful. Based in Corham, a town with Roman, medieval and industrial heritage, Paz and Rutherford investigate a murder at a brothel run by the Albanian mafia. In a series of breathtaking plot twists, the author demonstrates the corruption that underpins the beautiful northern English countryside as well as hinting at a mysterious world beyond the horizon. Carnal Acts explores abuse of many kinds sexual, psychological, economic taking the police procedural to places it has never been before.

DKK 134.00
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Playing Grace - Hazel Osmond - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Playing Grace - Hazel Osmond - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A romantic comedy about love and learning to let go. Perfect for fans of Sarra Manning, Ellie Adams and Rosie Blake. Grace Surtees has everything carefully under control - her work life, her home life and her love life - especially her love life. But then her boss hires Tate Saunders, a brash American, to spice up the gallery tours his company provides. Messy and fond of breaking rules, Tate explodes into her tidy existence like a paintball, and Grace hates everything about him... doesn''t she? Because, for Grace, the alternative would be simply too terrifying to contemplate: to love Tate rather than hate him would mean leaping out of her comfort zone, and Grace''s devotion to order hides some long-kept secrets... secrets she''s sure someone like Tate Saunders could never accept or understand. Discover Hazel Osmond''s other novels, Who''s Afraid of Mr Wolfe? , The Mysterious Miss Mayhew and The First Time I Saw Your Face .

DKK 120.00
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Village of the Lost Girls - Agustin Martinez - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Village of the Lost Girls - Agustin Martinez - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"GRIPPING AND ATMOSPHERIC" -- Sunday Times A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees. Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded but alive. The case reopens and a race against time begins to discover who was behind the girls'' kidnapping and most importantly: Where is Lucia and is she still alive? Inspector Sara Campos and her boss Santiago Bain, from Madrid''s head office are forced to work with the local police. Five years ago fatal mistakes were made in the investigation conducted after the girls first vanished, and this must not happen again. But Monteperdido has rules of its own "Addictive, atmospheric and haunting, one of the best books you''ll read this year" --Jo Spain, internationally bestselling author of The Confession

DKK 142.00
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The Darkest Place - Jo Spain - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Darkest Place - Jo Spain - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''A deeply satisfying read'' Sunday Times Christmas Day , and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oileán na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina''s. The hospital has been closed for decades and onsite graves were tragically common. Reynolds thinks his adversarial boss is handing him a cold case to sideline him. But then it transpires another body has been discovered amongst the dead - one of the doctors who went missing from the hospital in mysterious circumstances forty years ago. He appears to have been brutally murdered.As events take a sudden turn, nothing can prepare Reynolds and his team for what they are about to discover once they arrive on the island . . . PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN''S TOM REYNOLDS SERIES ''A stunning read'' Woman''s Way ''Refreshing and full of twists'' Express ''Clever, pacey, compulsive'' Sunday Mirror ''Expertly crafted, deeply immersive and timely'' Irish Independent

DKK 120.00
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The Gardener - Prue Leith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Gardener - Prue Leith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Under the bracken, under the soil, under the forest, under the water, the garden''s history is there. It needs an ardent lover to find it.'' Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in garden history, and uprooted her three children to take a job as head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan at Maddon Park in Oxfordshire. Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. They have little in common except a passion for Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional roller coaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but - still raw from divorce, anxious about the children and frightened of entanglement - she is less sure of what is right for her.

DKK 119.00
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The Narrowboat Girls - Rosie Archer - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Narrowboat Girls - Rosie Archer - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''One of the nation''s favourite wartime saga writers ... warm and engrossing'' Lancashire Evening Post Spring 1944, and the war shows no sign of stopping. In Hampshire, Elsie is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy , herself planning an escape from her abusive boyfriend, tells her about the wartime jobs going for women on the canal boats, she jumps at the chance.Their new boss, Dorothy , is kind and fair, but it''s clear she has a secret of her own. Their crew is completed by Tolly , searching for a new vocation now that her dream job has been snatched away. The work is hard, but together they pitch in, and through shared ups and downs they forge close friendships that will see them through the darkest times.What none of them could have predicted is just how much working on the canals will change their lives. Could it really be that what started as a means of escape will end up giving each of them everything they ever wanted?

DKK 113.00
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Dead Line - Quercus - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Dead Line - Quercus - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service''s Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland and several heads of state will attend. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are mounting an operation to disrupt the peace conference in a way designed to be spectacular, laying the blame at Syria''s door. The source claims that Syrian Intelligence will act against the pair, presumably by killing them. No one knows who they are or what they are planning to do. Are they working together? Who is controlling them? Or is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation? It is Liz''s job to find out. But, as she discovers, the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the conference deadline is drawing ever closer.

DKK 120.00
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User Experience Design - Mark Wells - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

User Experience Design - Mark Wells - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''A great introduction to the subject and a fascinating read.'' - James Friedlander-Boss, Brand Experience Manager, vvast ''An accessible but comprehensive introduction to UX Design.'' - Dave Watson, Norwich University of the Arts We all engage with digital user experience design and user interfaces every day - if you are reading this on an e-commerce platform then you are doing it right now. This is an invaluable introduction for designers and creatives on how to create successful digital environments for users. The discipline of design is increasingly carried out in the virtual sphere, with a greater emphasis on user interaction and user experience than ever before. This book takes students through the crucial stages and skills that are needed for creating successful interactive digital environments, including:- Data collection- User analysis - Testing- Creating valid content- Design for different devices and platforms- Prototyping and visualizationVisual examples range from screen shots to diagrams and physical prototypes, while case studies featuring digital agencies and creatives from around the world show how they approach each project.

DKK 244.00
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Fight Back - Anna Smith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Fight Back - Anna Smith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''MARTINA COLE FANS WILL LOVE THIS FAST-PACED THRILLER'' SUNDAY MIRROR Gangster Kerry Casey has fought her way to the top of the Glasgow crime scene. But can she stay there? Kerry Casey is now a fully-fledged gangland boss. With her business partner Sharon and her wily lawyer Marty at her side, she is busy ridding her organisation of the drug-dealing, people-trafficking scum her dead brother Mickey got them involved with. But her great dream is still to take the Caseys straight.Her plan to turn her organisation around hinges on building a property empire in Spain. But Kerry has some deadly rivals - in Glasgow, on the Costa del Sol, and even further afield. They will never believe she has what it takes to defend her turf, and they won''t rest until the Caseys are destroyed.When her enemies strike at the heart of the Casey family, Kerry must prepare for the fight of her life - for her business, her friends and her own survival. ''Gritty and hard-edged, it''s not for the faint-hearted'' SUNDAY MIRROR

DKK 127.00
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Better Things - Daniel Liden - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Better Things - Daniel Liden - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

' Better Things is an indispensable source for any CMF designer. Its clear structure, insightful guidance around material choices, and beautiful visual design make it an essential resource for incorporating sustainable materials into stunning design solutions. Highly recommended!' - Sylvia Feichtinger, Design Director, Material Innovation, Lego ' Better Things is a brilliant, timely resource for designers and a design sector facing a period of vital transition from 20th to 21st century design practice.' - Hugo Jamson, Business Innovation, Design Council How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from 'recycled material', 'bioplastic' or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental benefits is happening in product design, through emerging legislation and standards, and consumer demand for more sustainable products and unambiguous marketing. In Better Things: Materials for Sustainable Product Design , Daniel Liden seeks to tackle the lazy 'greenwashing' terminology we see every day, providing a guide for product designers, manufacturers and consumers wishing to make better and more informed decisions about materials. The book comprises six chapters devoted to material categories - plastics, textiles, metals, ceramics and glass, wood and paper - and a seventh chapter covering emerging sustainable technologies. Each chapter includes interviews with industry experts, as well as photos, diagrams, environmental impact data, general material properties and more.

DKK 244.00
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Name of the Dog: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 3) - Elmer Mendoza - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Name of the Dog: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 3) - Elmer Mendoza - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Perfect for fans of Mick Herron and John Le Carré "The most important thing that''s happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph. It''s Christmas in Culiacán and Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta can''t believe his luck. An old flame has returned with a teenage son he knew nothing about. Happiness seems to finally beckon for our careworn hero. The only snag is that Jason Mendieta wants to follow in his father''s footsteps-even as Mexico''s drug war descends a slippery slope toward chaos.While Lefty pursues a lunatic who has taken to bumping off dentists with a heavy-calibre pistol, a secret agent infiltrates a meeting of the drug lords and hears Pacific Cartel boss Samantha Valdés implore her underlings to stay out of the war. But an audacious murder provokes Samantha to change her mind and launch a wave of grisly killings across the country.Samantha then persuades Lefty to help her find the killer that pushed her over the edge. The truth he discovers will underline an old adage: revenge is a dish best served cold. No quiet family Christmas for our detective.

DKK 113.00
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Trapped - Anna Smith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Trapped - Anna Smith - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A gripping gangland thriller that sees heroine crime boss Kerry Casey in jail - for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Martina Cole and Jessie Keane ''MARTINA COLE FANS WILL LOVE THIS'' DAILY MIRROR Kerry Casey is still reeling from the bombshell that her lover, undercover cop Vinny Burns, has gone missing in Spain. She''s pregnant with his baby and will do anything to find him.One night, driving along a country road, Kerry and her Uncle Danny are ambushed by gunmen. In the confusion that follows, shots are fired and two men are murdered. Kerry and Danny can only look on as the bodies are dragged from their assailant''s car and placed in their own.The police arrive in minutes. With cocaine, dead bodies and guns in the car, it looks like an open-and-shut case.Kerry''s been framed. She is forced to wait out her fate inside a women''s prison, still not knowing what has happened to Vinnie. On the outside the Casey gang are hunting down the men who did this to her and they will stop at nothing to find them.

DKK 127.00
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The Coldest Case - Martin Walker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Coldest Case - Martin Walker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Murder mystery starring Bruno, France''s favourite policeman, plus food and wine, great characters and sunshine and everything that''s wonderful about the Dordogne. ''RICH ON LOCAL COLOUR'' THE TIMES For thirty years, Bruno''s boss, Chief of Detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him ''Oscar''. Visiting the famous pre-history museum in nearby Les Eyzies, Bruno sees some amazingly life-like heads expertly reconstructed from ancient skulls. He suggests performing a similar reconstruction on Oscar as a first step towards at last identifying him. An expert is hired to start the reconstruction and the search for Oscar''s killer begins again in earnest.''DOLLOPS OF THE GOOD LIFE IN RURAL FRANCE SPICED UP WITH INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE'' IRISH INDEPENDENT ''UNRIVALED AT INTERWEAVING THE PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE PURSUITS OF A THOROUGH LIKABLE COP'' DAILY MAIL

DKK 182.00
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Priest of Gallows - Peter Mclean - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Priest of Gallows - Peter Mclean - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Gangster, soldier, priest. Queen''s Man. Governor. ''If you haven''t yet picked up this riveting and unique series, I highly recommend you do'' Fantasy Book Critic Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he''s a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he''s no longer a gang lord, head of the Pious Men, but one of the Queen''s Men, invisible and officially non-existent, working in secret to protect his country.The queen''s sudden death sees him summoned him back to the capital - where he discovers his boss, Dieter Vogel, Provost Marshal of the Queen''s Men, is busy tightening his stranglehold on the country.Just as he once fought for his Pious Men, Tomas must now bend all his wit and hard-won wisdom to protect his queen - even when he can''t always tell if he''s on the right side.Tomas has started to ask himself, what is the price of power? And more importantly, is it one he is willing to pay? ''If you like your fantasy with a side of dark and gritty , you won''t want to miss this'' CHRISTINA HENRY , bestselling author of The Girl in Red on Priest of Lies

DKK 141.00
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