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Everything is strange about the haveli of Nawwab Rashid-uz-Zaman. His brother behaves like a toddler. Servants have to carry him everywhere. Strange voices of wild animals emit from within the haveli. And on top of it, Tariq, a dear friend of Nawwab has strange ways and an even stranger pet.

Lucas Davenport returns in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author...

The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family—one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema—achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young...

Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding "The Trial of the Century," Another City, Not My Own illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence, of justice served and justice denied, and of the price of celebrity in today's America.

Someone is brutally killing the women in Stone Barrington's life -- his date, his secretary and his neighbor are murdered within 24 hours of each other. Stone, the New York lawyer-turned-investigator and his best friend, Dino, being their dangerous search for the killer. Stone falls suspect to...

Julian Rhind-Tutt is Magnus Pym in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of John le Carré’s superb spy novel Winner of AudioFile Earphones...

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch - strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn't enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn't suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone's a fool.

Sydney Shaw hatte immer Pech mit ihren Dates. Bis sie Tom traf. Tom scheint perfekt: Er ist charmant, attraktiv und arbeitet als Arzt in einem Krankenhaus. Dann erschüttert der brutale Mord an einer Frau die Stadt. Die Polizei vermutet einen Serientäter dahinter, der sich mit seinen Opfern zu einem Date verabredet, bevor er zuschlägt. Sydney sollte sich sicher fühlen. Schließlich hat sie Tom. Aber sie wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmt. Jemand beobachtet sie auf Schritt und Tritt. Wenn sie der Wahrheit nicht schnell auf die Spur kommt, könnte sie das nächste Opfer sein.

Sadisten, Psychopathen, Serienmörder - die forensische Psychologin Anna Salomon weiß um die dunklen Abgründe der menschlichen Natur. Sie gilt als Ausnahmetalent in der Behandlung von Straftätern und ist bekannt dafür, die undurchdringlichsten Fassaden zu durchschauen. Doch niemand ahnt, was sich hinter ihrer eigenen verbirgt. Denn ausgerechnet in den Mauern eines Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses jagt Anna ihrer ganz persönlichen Heilung hinterher. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit ist sie bereit, alles zu riskieren. Nur: Sie ist nicht die Einzige, die ein gefährliches Spiel spielt.

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her...

Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern—and the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara...

In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenport, because one of Davenport's own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a...

As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, saddled with a green new partner younger than pieces of Sam's wardrobe.

A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse...

Sie ist die perfekte Freundin. Sie würde alles für dich tun... Du kannst ihr nicht entkommen. Juliette Price weiß genau, was sie will und wen sie will. Um ihrem Freund Nate nahe zu sein, wird sie Flugbegleiterin bei der Airline, für die er als Pilot arbeitet. Sie sind füreinander bestimmt, da ist Juliette sich absolut sicher. Dass Nate vor ein paar Monaten mit ihr Schluss gemacht hat, bedeutet nichts. Denn Juliette hat einen Plan, wie sie ihn zurückgewinnen wird. Sie ist die perfekte Freundin, und sie wird ihm zeigen, wie sehr er sie in seinem tiefsten Inneren noch liebt.

Anthony Head, famed for his TV roles in Buffy and Little Britain, reads these stories inspired by one of the most successful BBC TV serials of the 1960s. In The World of Tim Frazer, the engineer-turned-spy's friend and ex-business partner Harry Denston has gone missing. That's not all: he owes money, and there are several people desperate to track him down. Frazer must put the pieces together.

Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives - and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects.

A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today. A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a...

A serial killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover the killer has blood ties to an infamous and now long-dead monster. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on. At the same time, Agent Lucy Carlyle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn’t simply walk away from his family 22 years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy’s grandmother.