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Grace Ward's sterile existence is thrown into chaos when a baby is abandoned in her ER. From the instant a strange woman thrusts the infant into her arms and disappears, Grace's life is transformed. She names the baby Johnny. His identity is shrouded in secrecy, and even with a trained staff treating him, his life hangs in the balance. As Grace grows more devoted to him, major events threaten their bond and his life.

Dans cet ultime tome de Capitale du Nord, Amalia est confrontée à un ultime dilemme qui décidera de son sort et de celui des deux cités. Claire Duvivier met un glorieux point final à une saga épique, flamboyante et ciselée.

Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances.

Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove missing since the end of the war, one that Gordon has always claimed is full of "secrets you can't find anywhere else...Live ammunition."

When a dip-net fisherman hauls in a severed human foot, Lieutenant Jim Wekle is thrown into another whodunit on his remote island. Alaskan mayhem ensues with a rogue gang of elderly women on ATVs, a Planet Patrol environmental boat with an oil leak, and an influx of tourists, each clutching a fresh copy of a book titled, Muskeg Mama. Kram is in rare form as he decides to enter the local work force by applying his unique perspective to a series of part-time jobs.

Whilst en route to investigate an assassination threat, Drake and Mai Kitano are blown out of the skies and cast adrift in a storm-tossed ocean before being marooned on a deserted island. Back home, the clock is ticking, but the deadly jigsaw puzzle of events refuses to fit together. Assassins stalk the streets of Washington DC. Civilians are being murdered by ordinary-seeming Americans turned expert killers, for no apparent reason.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die talentierte Jungschauspielerin Susan Dempsey abends zum Vorsprechen aufbrach - aber nie ankam. Am nächsten Tag wird sie ermordet im Park gefunden, mit nur noch einem Schuh an den Füßen. Zu den Verdächtigen gehören einflussreiche Hollywoodgrößen, aber der Mordfall wird nie aufgeklärt. Bis Laurie Moran, die als TV-Journalistin auf Cold Cases spezialisiert ist, sich des Falls annimmt - und sie sich zur Zielscheibe des Täters macht.

A beautiful con artist insinuates herself into a wealthy socialite’s life . . . with deadly consequences, in this serpentine thriller about identity and obsession, from—and narrated by—actress, director and bestselling author Krysten Ritter. Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease...