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When the Box appeared in his front hallway one day, Ciáran MacCool had no idea where it came from or why it was there. It started by showing him ways that it could help him out. Then it started giving him assignments to perform. At first, they were minor… yet still clearly beneficial. Sometimes they were serious. Sometimes they were very dangerous. At least one almost got him killed. That hadn't been part of the plan, but fortune is a fickle bitch.

Sam Blackman is an angry man. A chief warrant officer in the criminal investigation detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq and has been outspoken in his criticism of his medical treatment. Then, ex-marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson walks into his hospital room, hinting that she has an opportunity for Sam to use his investigative skills. But before she can return, Tikima is murdered.

On the hunt for two missing persons, Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond find they have another complex and dangerous case on their hands as they go undercover at a holiday camp near Orford in Suffolk. Using illicit searches, they uncover incriminating evidence about several members of staff. Then two people are brutally murdered and their missing persons case takes an even darker turn.

Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get over the murder of her sister. But it seems she cannot escape from death. When the headmaster's wife is murdered, the detective in charge, idiosyncratic DI Frank Diamond, soon has a list of suspects. He is no stranger to Laurel, but despite their troubled past, together they start to unravel the truth. Then the murderer strikes again and Laurel must fight, not just for justice, but for her life.

In 1964, a group of scientists called the Los Alamos Five came close to finishing a nuclear energy project for the United States government when they were abruptly disbanded. Now the granddaughter of one of those five scientists, aerospace engineer Elinor Mitchell, discovers that she has highly sensitive information on the project in her possession--and a target on her back.

IAD agent Mikayla "Lynx" Lincoln is in desperate need of a vacation after taking a bullet during her last mission. On orders to relax and recover, she is sent to a cabin in the secluded woods of Colorado for some peace and quiet. But her plans for a restful recovery are shot to hell the moment she crosses paths with a former movie star who tempts her more than any man has before. Gage Stark is a man with a troubled past. After a brutal betrayal ended his promising acting career, he returned home to heal and start a new life. The moment Gage meets Mikayla, their chemistry's very strong.

When the fingers of dead women start showing up in the Supreme Court’s mail, ex-FBI Agent Jeremy Winter is brought back to the Bureau to aid in the investigation. Agent Maggie Keeley, his girlfriend and now boss, leads the search for the serial killer. Together, Jeremy and Maggie learn the five remaining cities on the murderer’s list, but they have no idea when the killer will strike or whom he will target. When they stumble upon a clue at the scene of a young woman’s death, the case focuses on an abandoned ramshackle home in sparsely populated west Texas.

Still recovering from the case of a serial-killer spirit in Lyme-Regis, Dr. Ribero’s agency is soon confronted with an even greater threat: a reckless cult conspiring with an ancient and powerful Daemon to open a permanent spirit door so that spirits will have unfettered access to the human realm. Having just witnessed the lethal consequences uncontrolled spirits can have on the unsuspecting, the agency joins forces with several others to prevent the cult from unleashing chaos and ending the world’s fragile protection from dangerous spirits.

Life Through a Mirror: When Murder Calls is book three in - and the conclusion to - the Life Through a Mirror romantic murder mystery trilogy. It revolves around suspense, murder, romance, and family. In this series, Allie and David lose a close friend. They become trapped in another web of suspense and murder, as they work with the FBI to find the killers. In this exciting conclusion, they try to save themselves and their family in a world that seems to be constantly trying to shatter their lives.

"Milano. Una piccola città, tutto sommato, con dentro il male. Un male pulsante, crudele, così viscerale che l'ha perfino costretta a mutare colore. Il nero del carbone, il grigio dei palazzi ormai è diventato rosso. Di luci, di fari nella notte, di lampeggianti d'autoambulanze, di bandiere nelle piazze, di sangue sui marciapiedi. Città rossa." Anche Milano ha avuto i suoi eroi criminali. Erano gli anni del boom economico, dell'uomo sulla Luna, delle grandi passioni politiche e loro rapinavano le banche.

1978: a Roma le Brigate Rosse hanno rapito Aldo Moro, in Sicilia boss mafiosi come Gaetano Badalamenti soffocano ogni tentativo di resistenza civile, all'ombra della Madonnina le bande di Vallanzasca e Turatello fanno salire la tensione in una città già segnata dagli scontri sociali. Ma anche in questo clima la dolcevita del capoluogo lombardo, che si prepara a diventare la "Milano da bere" degli anni Ottanta, non conosce soste.

On the heels of Once a Spy, which PW hailed as a “wildly original debut [with] an action-packed story line,” Keith Thomson returns with a breakneck thriller that’s twice as explosive as the original. In the tradition of Robert Ludlum, with a witty twist, Thomson’s second novel featuring...

Un giallo ad alta tensione erotica, scritto da una giovane autrice di cui segnarsi il nome. Da tempo Mimma è l'amante di Fernando. Una storia classica, grande passione quando si incontrano, ma lui non ne vuole sapere di lasciare sua moglie, la dolce e fragile Sara. Finché Mimma non si mette in testa di conoscerla e, con una scusa, attacca bottone al supermercato. Tra le due, unite dall'amore per lo stesso uomo, nasce spontanea l'amicizia. Ma presto il loro rapporto si carica di pericolose ambiguità, e l'innocenza dei primi giorni viene perduta, per sempre.

In una fredda sera di febbraio, al venticinquesimo piano della nuova Diamond Tower, la multinazionale Randal Chemical celebra la commessa milionaria appena vinta per le pulizie all'Expo di Milano. Fra gli uomini in abito da sera e le donne in lungo c'è una sola nota stonata: Enrico Radeschi, inviato dal giornale a seguire l'evento e intento ad abbuffarsi per vincere la noia.