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Henry Bins is only awake one hour a day. Can you imagine only being awake for one hour each day? Can you imagine having to cram your entire existence into sixty measly minutes? Two minutes to shower. Three minutes to eat. Five minutes to watch TV. And in that 3600 seconds you have awake, imagine that you have to figure out...Who murdered the woman across the street?

When Anita Hunzeker, chair of the library board of trustees, is run off the road and killed, no one seems all that sorry. Anita was widely disliked, and the townsfolk would just as soon be rid of her. But when a local professor turns up dead as well, his connection to Anita and to other local residents leaves the suspect pool covering the entire county. Greer starts poking around, and the more she digs, the more it seems like everyone she knows is trying to hide something.

Henry Bins has Henry Bins: a sleeping disorder, named after him. He is awake for one hour a day. He wakes up at 3 a.m. then falls asleep at 4 a.m. Life is simple. Until he hears the woman scream. And sees the man leave the house across the street. But not just any man. The president of the United States.

Two weeks after Henry's abduction, he's still burning with questions: Had his mother really tortured him with a synthetic nightmare? Was he really one of the CIA Sleep Control Program's first experiments? What was on the flash drive the President had supposedly given him? Most importantly, if his mother had caused his condition, could she reverse it? Henry soon begins the hunt for his mother, but to find her, he'll need to delve into her past, a world where nothing is as it seems, where the Cold War still exists, where secrets are the only currency, and where torture is an art form.

Saturday, February 27, 2016. 3:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m. It's the wedding that everyone has been waiting for....What could possibly go wrong? (And introducing Archie the Kitten!)

When Detective Inspector Bridget Hart returns to her old Oxford college for a reunion dinner, she's hoping for a fun weekend catching up with old friends. But the reunion takes a macabre turn when body parts are served up at the college feast, and one of her friends is found murdered. With Bridget's arch rival Inspector Baxter leading the murder inquiry, and herself a potential suspect, Bridget is forbidden from taking part in the investigation. But that doesn't stop her from carrying out her own private inquiries. Bridget soon realizes that the murderer is someone known to her.

Convinta che qualcuno stia cercando di ucciderla, la ricca Jane Wetherby chiede a Hamish Macbeth di trascorrere il Natale con lei e con un gruppo di amici presso la sua clinica termale, che sorge sull'isola di Eileencraig. Tormentato da un brutto raffreddore e senza progetti per il periodo natalizio, Hamish accetta, anche se pensa che Jane sia soltanto una donna po' strampalata. Sull'isola, però, l'atmosfera è assai cupa: gli abitanti sono scontrosi e quasi aggressivi e gli altri ospiti sono assai gelidi nei suoi confronti.

Caroline Crow ist spurlos verschwunden. Als der Chirurg Simon Banks und Carolines Ehemann Adrian jeweils eine abgetrennte, verbrannte Hand erhalten, wächst bei allen Beteiligten die Sorge, dass hinter Carolines Verschwinden viel mehr, viel Bedrohlicheres steckt. Der Kriminelle Gabriel Howard ist kürzlich aus dem Gefängnis entlassen worden und sinnt auf Rache. Detective Sheridan Hollers kriminalistischer Instinkt sagt ihr, dass diese Fälle zusammenhängen.

The Dark Yorkshire Series - fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin. The first three full-length books in this best-selling series are brought together for the first time in this great value set.

Get three absolutely gripping crime thrillers set on the UK's atmospheric north Norfolk coast from number one best-selling British author J M Dalgliesh in this great value collection.

Maggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve the mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present. Together with a fellow genealogist, Zelah, Maggie unearths more and more details about the drowning of a small girl and the unsolved disappearance of Maggie's ancestor.

Tristan Smith-Chamberlain. King of the gods of Hatherley Hall. Captain of the lacrosse team. The golden boy, loved by everyone…except me. Once, he was my best friend, my shelter from the storm. Now, he's everything I despise. That's what I tell myself, anyway.

This collection includes What Vengeance Comes, Cold Sanctuary, and Crimson Deep.

Jotkut ihmiset ansaitsevat rangaistuksen, toiset ansaitsevat kuolla. M-ryhmä suuntaa Katrineholmiin selvittämään oikeuslääkäri Nils Sachsin raakaa murhaa. Tehtävä herättää voimakkaita tunteita Nora Fellerissä, sillä juuri Nils on yksi niistä, jotka saivat hänet jättämään aikaisemman tehtävänsä Katrineholmin poliisissa. Kaikki jäljet osoittavat yhteen ja samaan suuntaan, mutta Noralla on pahaenteinen tunne, ettei kaikki mene aivan niin kuin pitäisi. M-ryhmän kollegoiden väliset kahnaukset käyvät vain ikävämmiksi, eikä Nora pysty enää luottamaan keneenkään.

A brilliant new whodunnit, perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman! A night of tricks, treats, and murder… When an old school acquaintance calls on auctioneer Felicia Grant for help, she finds herself at a glittering bash at the exclusive yet mysterious Aquitaine club. What starts as...

Nogle fortjener at blive straffet, andre fortjener at dø. Sektion M tager til Katrineholm for at undersøge det brutale drab på retsmedicineren Nils Sachs. Sagen vækker stærke følelser hos efterforskeren Nora Feller. Nils var en af dem, der fik hende til at forlade sin tidligere stilling. Alle beviser peger i samme retning, men Nora fornemmer, at noget ikke passer. Sammenstødene med kollegerne i Sektion M bliver stadigt mere ubehagelige, og Nora kan ikke stole på nogen. Det begynder så småt at gå op for hende, at hun er en brik i et spil, der har forbindelse til samfundets øverste lag.

Athena College's new writer in residence is a famous native son, playwright Connor Lawton, known for his sharp writing-and sharper tongue. After an unpleasant encounter, librarian Charlie Harris heads home to a nice surprise: his daughter, Laura, is visiting and will be subbing for another professor this fall semester. It's great news until he hears who got her the job: her old flame, Connor Lawton . . .

The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake, Ohio. Her latest order, a plate of motivational desserts for an artists' retreat, is just what she needs to keep her mind off her own relationship woes. But Winnie's problems seem like trifles when she discovers the body of retreat owner Sally Dearfield mere inches away from five oh-so-eccentric and viable suspects. Now, this baking detective must uncover the inspiration behind Sally's murder.

Somebody in Washington is updating Shakespeare. The first thing he wants to do is kill all the lobbyists. Knocking off three of them in consecutive weeks, he's off to a fast start. On the lapel of each victim, the killer leaves a pin that, arguably, resembles Porky Pig. The Metro police are on the case when Putnam Shady steps forward and identifies the third victim as a friend. Authority-averse, Putnam gives the cops only bare-bones information - but he tells Margaret "Sweetie" Sweeney that he thinks he will be the next victim.

It's Christmas in Sweet River, Texas, and the whole town is feeling festive apart from Ainsley McGregor. Ainsley has never enjoyed the holidays and would rather ignore them, but with her shop Bless Your Art busier than ever and filled with happy shoppers, even she's feeling some Christmas spirit. That is, until her Great Dane, George Clooney, sniffs out a dead body in the Santa House at the Christmas Festival.