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Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is at crossroads. Unsure of what to do next, she takes her good friend A. J. Nolan up on his standing offer: To take her on as a private investigator. Her first job seems simple enough. All she had to do is find Annie Archer’s stepfather. While she’s happy to close her first case, she finds it hard to reconcile the difference between PI work - finding what people pay you to find - and uncovering the truth, the whole truth, especially when clues in this seemingly simple case point to more threatening family secrets.

Seventeen stories from the gritty crime series created by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Hugo Speer as Manchester detective John Stone. This collection brings together Series 1 to 4 of this intelligent detective drama, tackling morally ambiguous, complex and challenging subjects. DCI Stone and his...

Audible prastut karta hai Crime Stories by Delhi Press ka sankalan. Akhbaar ki surkhiyon mein kayi apraadh ke qisse dil dehla dete hain. Aakhir sach kya hai, koi hadsa kaise hua, uske peechhe kiska haath tha, apraadhi bach kar kaise nikla? Ek ghatna ke peechhe kayi raaz hote hain, chhupi huyi kahaniyan hoti hain aur gupt kadiyan hoti hain. Har kirdaar ki alag maansikta hoti hai, jise samajhne ke liye unki duniya mein jaana padta hai.

China has a plan for the next hundred years, and they're making moves around the world for complete domination politically and economically. When this situation suddenly becomes clear to Jake Adams in a very personal way, he and Sirena are forced to depart their sedate life on Pico Island in the Azores. Jake quickly discovers that his life could change forever, or suddenly end, if he allows the Chinese to seek total hegemony. He must gather his strength for a life or death battle to counter evil forces. But China will not go quietly without a fight.

The first book featuring Ben, the lovable, humorous ex-sailor and down-at-heels rascal who can’t help running into trouble. Ben is back home from the Merchant Navy, penniless as usual and looking for digs in fog-bound London. Taking shelter in an abandoned old house, he stumbles across a dead...

Niemand kennt meinen Namen. Ich bin Seventeen. Und weit mehr als eine Zahl. Hinter Ereignissen, die du kennst, stehen Killer, die du nicht kennst. Wenn die Diplomatie versagt, kommen wir zum Zug. Offiziell gibt es uns nicht, aber jede Regierung der Erde nimmt unsere Dienste in Anspruch. Wir retten die Welt, deinen Arsch. Seit hundert Jahren. Sechzehn Leute haben diesen Job vor mir gemacht. Ich bin 17. Der gefürchtetste Auftragskiller der Welt. Aber um der Beste zu sein, muss man die Besten schlagen. Mein nächstes Ziel ist 16, so wie mich eines Tages 18 töten wird.

Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als Michaela und ihre Tochter Sarah den Amerikaner Matthew und seine Tochter Leah in Paris kennenlernen. Der verwitwete Professor und die geschiedene Unternehmerin scheinen das perfekte Paar, und auch die beiden Mädchen verstehen sich auf Anhieb. Drei Jahre nach ihrer Heirat erhält Michaela eine schier unglaubliche Information. Die sich zu bewahrheiten scheint, da Leah noch in derselben Nacht spurlos verschwindet. Und das ist erst der Anfang eines Albtraums, aus dem es für Michaela kein Entkommen gibt.

In der Kuppel des Berliner Doms hängt eine grausam zugerichtete Tote mit schwarzen Flügeln: Es ist die prominente Dompfarrerin Dr. Brigitte Riss. Um den Hals trägt sie einen Schlüssel. In den Griff ist die Zahl 17 geritzt. Tom Babylon vom LKA will diesen Fall um jeden Preis. Denn mit diesem Schlüssel verschwand vor vielen Jahren seine kleine Schwester Viola. Doch Tom bekommt eine unliebsame Partnerin für die Ermittlungen.

In den Tiefen der Elbe... Der packende Hamburger Kriminalroman »Die Tote von Pier 17« ist der erste Tei Ole Hansens neuer Krimi-Serie. Claasen war der beste BND-Agent des Landes, Hendriksen führt die erfolgreichste Privatdetektei Hamburgs. Jetzt gehen sie den Verbrechen der Hansestadt gemeinsam auf den Grund. Und ihr erster Auftrag bleibt nicht lange aus: Die junge Irakerin Zureina Azis bittet die beiden, in einem Mordfall zu ermitteln, der bereits abgeschlossen zu sein scheint. Einige Wochen zuvor, wurde die Ex-Freundin ihres Stiefbruders ertränkt am Pier 17 aufgefunden.

Jones finally has his number called. Someone from his past is gunning for him. What's really worrisome is that whoever it is, might have skills that even surpass Jones'. After finding out that their secret office isn't as secretive as they thought, the team has to assume that they're being watched, and listened to, at all times. Recker will have to call on old friends, and some new ones, in order to help find the identity of the person who's after his friend and partner. Can he accomplish that before Jones is eliminated?

"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."

Four years after Lucas Soul is reunited with the last of his remarkable kin, the man who was once the most hunted individual in the Immortal societies is finally at peace with his life and his fate. But when a shocking confrontation robs him of the people he cares most for in this world, the Immortal who survived his seventeenth death must take up arms once more and return to the deadly life he thought he had left behind. Except, this time, he is not alone.

In a time when sickness covers the world in shadows, Romerus, descendant of the first man and woman to walk the Earth, ventures into the desert to find a cure for his dying sons. The gifts he receives from the mysterious stranger he meets on his crusade turn his children into beings who can defeat death itself, carving a destiny that makes them Immortal kings of an empire spanning hundreds of years and thousands of leagues.

The Hunter who should have been king. The Elemental who fears love. The Seer who is yet to embrace her powers. Three immortals whose fates are entwined with that of the oldest and most formidable enemy the world has ever faced.

It is AD 55. As trouble brews on the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire, Tribune Cato and Centurion Macro must prepare for war.... The wily Parthian Empire has invaded Armenia, a frontier territory claimed by Rome, ousting King Rhadamistus. The king is ambitious and ruthless, but he is vital to Rome's strategic interests. General Corbulo must restore him to power while also readying the troops for war with the powerful Parthian Empire. Corbulo orders new arrivals Cato and Macro, and their elite cohort of Praetorian Guards, to carry out the task.

When his old friend and former colleague is shot dead at his home, Detective Superintendent William Lorimer is devastated. And his problems are only just beginning. It's not long before two further deaths are reported: both victims ex-policemen. It's clear this is a targeted campaign against their own, yet with no other link between the victims to identify the killer, Lorimer's police team are starting to panic. Who will be next? Lorimer knows he must keep his cool if he is to solve the case.

Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there. The crime was never solved. Now...historian Scarlet Barlow is working at a small museum attached to a B and B, the same building where that murder occurred. When Scarlet unwittingly takes pictures of people who've been murdered - just like the Kendalls a hundred and fifty years before - the police look at her with suspicion.

When Karl and Christen Redfern were brutally murdered in their apartment in the Bronx, a lot of things were never explained. But the biggest mystery of all was where Karl and Christen’s daughter, Amy, had disappeared with her boyfriend, Charlie, on the very night of her parents’ murder.

Een oude verkrachtingszaak herleeft in deel 17 van de populaire politieserie met Anne Kramer. Een jonge studente is slachtoffer van een groepsverkrachting. De daders worden niet gepakt. Twintig jaar later krijgt de zaak een staartje. De politie heropent het onderzoek onder de codenaam Magnolia. Anne Kramer, chef recherche, heeft haar eigen sores; zij wordt gestalkt en bij haar vriend Thomas doemt een spook uit het verleden op. Toch raakt Anne Kramer op verschillende manieren bij de zaak betrokken.

Widow walks the side of the road at night when a pair of headlights is headed his way. It’s the first car in hours. With a thumb out, he hopes to get a ride. But when the car drives erratically at high speeds, Widow dodges, nearly being rammed to death. The driver barrels the car into a tree. It turns out the driver had a heart attack. Waiting for help to arrive, the driver enlists Widow’s help. The driver is a US Marshal. He was on his way to stop an attack on one of his witnesses. She’s been in the witness relocation program, hiding, living a new life.