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In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done. Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale. Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson believes the killings are the work of a copycat killer who's even more terrifying.

Sie wollten ihre Ehe in Ordnung bringen. Aber dann trafen sie... das Paar in Hütte 14. Was passiert, wenn ein Kurzurlaub zum Höllen-Trip wird? Dean und Amber machen Urlaub in einem abgelegenen Resort, in der Hoffnung, die Risse in ihrer Ehe zu kitten. Ihre einzigen Nachbarn sind das Paar von nebenan: Sophie, eine schöne Rothaarige, und der geheimnisvolle Marc, der etwas zu verbergen scheint. Schon bald hat Amber den Verdacht, dass die beiden nicht das sind, was sie vorgeben zu sein. Besessen davon, die Wahrheit herauszufinden, stellt sie Untersuchungen über die Vergangenheit des Paares an.

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which...

Sie waren das vierblättrige Kleeblatt: Bella, Jana, Funny und Alessa. Bis die vierzehnjährige Bella eines Tages von einem gemeinsamen Badeausflug nicht zurückkehrte. Zwanzig Jahre später: Alessa hat als Richterin den Vorsitz bei einem Prozess gegen einen Starfotografen. Der Prozess führt sie in die Welt junger Mädchen, die von einer Modelkarriere träumen. Aber nicht nur die Zeuginnen in Alessas Gerichtssaal waren bereit, dafür alles zu geben. Bei der Beweisaufnahme fallen Alessa immer mehr Ereignisse ihrer eigenen Jugend ein.

Fredagen den 14:e borde inte betyda något speciellt. Men just den här dagen har Gert Holmqvist bestämt sig för att utkräva hämnd på sin gamle kompanjon och rival, Joel Börjesson. Han har planerat länge och väl men kan inte ana vad som ska hända efteråt... Snart står kriminalkommissarie O.P. Nilsson inför ett av de svåraste fallen i hans karriär.

¿Qué harías si solo te quedaran 14 días de vida? ¿Cómo vivirías tus últimas dos semanas? Toda la ciudad de Pamplona sabe que van a asesinar a Xabier, menos él y su madre, María. Xabier está luchando contra una severa enfermedad pero no imagina que le acecha un peligro todavía mayor. 14 días... 14 capítulos trepidantes repletos de suspense y emoción.

Alexandra wasn't delicate and petite like all the other girls. She did not want to wear dresses or play with dolls. In school, she was mocked, and people thought something was wrong with her. They all thought they were doing what was best for her. The pastor, the therapist, the doctors, and especially her parents thought they were only helping Alexandra when forcing her to wear dresses, act like a girl, and play with dolls instead of cars. Twenty years later, a string of strange deaths occurs in Rebekka Franck's hometown.

Lewis Ingraham is cold. He’s lost his wife to cancer, his executive career, his once sure grip on the world around him. All that he can hold on to is his beautiful daughter Jay, a brilliant student who has become a struggling single mother. But he sees that even Jay is starting to slip away from him, in favor of Stephen, her self-important boyfriend. This time Lewis is going to fight back. But when Lewis takes out his fury on Stephen, he ignites a chain reaction of violence. Now winter is bearing down on Minnesota.

Stay-at-home mom Sarah Johnson has the perfect family - a handsome, hardworking husband and two healthy and beautiful children. At least, that's what she's been telling herself for years. After the tragedies in her youth, Sarah deemed living a lie easier than dwelling on the past and facing her everyday failures. But Sarah's world is about to crumble around her when she receives a phone call from a man with a heavy foreign accent telling her that her perfect husband has put a price on her head. She is offered two weeks to come up with a counteroffer or die.

I en sen nattetime i New York kimer en mobiltelefon på et natbord. Freelance computerekspert Anders Kloder, med danske rødder, tilbydes en yderst lyssky opgave – mod en fyrstelig betaling. Men Anders Kloder er ikke den eneste, der har modtaget dette mystiske opkald. Tre andre computereksperter har fået samme tilbud og sammen rejser de fire om på den anden side af kloden til et afsides område, der gemmer på en velbevaret hemmelighed. Dybt nede i Marianer-graven.

Persuaded by Polly Duncan, his beloved companion, to join her in a group tour of Scotland, Qwill expects to revel in his Scottish heritage while keeping Polly safe from the Pickax Prowler. Instead, his trip is cut short when a thief swipes a suitcase, the bus driver disappears, and a fellow tourist is found dead—all in the same day. Although the town of Pickax is in a tizzy over the recent events, Qwill has other, more puzzling worries on his mind: Who is the fellow still following Polly? Why is Koko licking Qwill's photographs of Scotland and tackling him on the apple barn stairs?

"Quand la vie des hommes est incroyable et dépasse l'imagination, on rêve de pouvoir la fixer pour l'observer et la méditer à sa guise. Pour cela, les photographes ont le 1/1000 de seconde, les cinéastes disposent du ralenti, les conteurs ont la mémoire du temps qui passe et les écrivains le livre."

It sends a shiver down Detective Superintendent Alan Markby's spine when he hears that a rambler has stumbled across human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswolds. Twenty-two years earlier, as a fresh-faced young inspector, he had a rare failure, in the hunt for a brutal serial rapist preying on local women. After the third rape, the attacker went to ground, never to be heard of again.

Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin.

The perfect companion to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Rebel Allies is the fourth collection of action-packed novellas from Pittacus Lore. Initially published separately as digital originals, these three stories are now together in one...

Hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave and his fellow special-ops veteran, Boxers, are hunting in Montana when shots ring out, and they realize they've become the prey for assassins. In the crosshairs of unseen shooters, cut off from all communication, with the wind at a blood-freezing chill, the nightmare is just beginning. Because Jonathan and Boxers aren't the only ones under fire.

Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart, will. Only it's not McGee's heart that's in danger. Because a syndicate killer has put a contract on McGee.

Erin Pulaski had uncovered a bombshell in her investigation: The Culovort shortage is set to bring in a windfall profit in excess of two billion dollars. Upon learning of the murder, Erin is certain it has something to do with her findings, but she risks exposing herself by coming forward. As the feds move in, the case becomes even more complicated for Erin, since the murder of a foreign national on federal land can mean only that the pharmaceutical house has a secret of epic proportions.