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Meet Harry, aspiring tech entrepreneur. He’s a would-be Steve Jobs trapped in a cubicle gig at an angel investor firm, so close and yet so far from his dreams. His marriage is foundering, his career is stalled out, and all he wants is to create an app like Uber, or Tinder, something to make real change in the world, and change his own life forever. Now meet Peter, a deeply troubled computer genius who lives in a basement apartment, chugging red wine, nursing old grudges and writing code. When Harry meets Peter, it’s both of their lives that will change, when they invent an app for murder.

Bailey Collins believed she had outrun what Eli Murphy did to her in high school. Ten years and thousands of miles away from the scene of the crime, Bailey is laser-focused on her career. She's a rising star at her TV network, newly promoted as senior producer for the reality show, The Cruise. Things are on the up. And then Eli Murphy applies to be a contestant on The Cruise. It’s taken a lot for Bailey to make something of her life and to heal from her adolescent trauma.

Commissioned by Audible and written especially for audio format this collection brings together six crime stories through the themes of discovery, destination and arrival. Top narrators bring these gripping tales to life acknowledging the Scandinavian tradition of oral storytelling.

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in...

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again – and runs straight into trouble. Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine. But like most posh ladies of Ben’s acquaintance, this...

Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out. Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something ‘orrible’ was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of itchy thumbs, the hapless Ben is implicated in...

With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure. Returning home to his Cockney roots after a trip to Spain, Ben meets a mysterious stranger on a cross-Channel steamer and is promised a job. On arrival at...

Der pensionierte Rauschgiftfahnder Gerd Sehling hilft im Café seiner Nichte in der Hamburger Hafencity als Kellner aus. Doch als ihm dort ein aus früheren Zeiten bekannter Drogendealer bei einem ominösen Treffen auffällt, ist sein Ermittlerinstinkt geweckt. Gemeinsam mit seinem ehemaligen Kollegen Tim Dombrowski begibt er sich auf Spurensuche - und gerät mitten in die mörderischen Machenschaften eines internationalen Kokainkartells. In Der Bulle in der Hafencity entführt Autor Ben Westphal die Leser in die Unterwelt Hamburgs.

Han vacklar och faller, som ett träd faller han nästan raklång bakåt och ett krasande ljud hörs när han nacken slår i sargen. Sedan ligger han helt stilla, själva stillheten är för ett ögonblick bedövande ... Allt är färdigt inför det medelålders paret Måna och Dannes årliga seglarsemester. Men detta året förvandlas deras ledighet från en till synes idyllisk schablon till en mardröm i en handvändning när de plötsligt har en död man i båten. Nu står de inför ett fruktansvärt dilemma och konsekvenserna blir katastrofala.

Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific. Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific. Tired of being homeless and down on his luck, the incorrigible...

The daughter of a murdered businessman joins forces with a New York City cop in a perilous hunt for history's most coveted treasure. Claire Andrews loved her father dearly, but now he's dead, brutally slain after attempting to sell an irreplaceable, possibly priceless saltcellar encrusted with rare gems. Leaving the Midwest for New York City, she seeks the help of Detective Artie Modelstein of the NYPD's Frauds/Jewels Squad, hoping to recover the lost treasure and clear her father's sullied name.

When Alexandra May, the secretary to the British ambassador, vanishes in Berlin, Sam Taylor is sent to find her. But this isn’t just a missing person case—Alexandra’s disappearance threatens a critical deal. Soon, Sam becomes a target of Russian agents and uncovers the embassy’s betrayal runs deeper than anyone imagined. Forced to team up with the mysterious Caretaker, a deadly operative from a covert unit, Sam must navigate corrupt diplomats and brutal assassins to expose the real traitors.

Die abgründige Seite Berlins... Der ehemalige Kommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck soll als verdeckter Ermittler in die Drogenszene von Berlin eintauchen. Zur gleichen Zeit geschehen bizarre Morde: Die Opfer werden gefoltert, verstümmelt und erst nach langem Leiden getötet. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass ein Bandenkrieg zwischen verfeindeten Drogenbossen eskaliert ist. Doch Johnny findet Hinweise darauf, dass die Drahtzieher möglicherweise ganz andere sind - und weitaus abscheulicher als der Sumpf des organisierten Verbrechens.

The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing artist Matt Caldwell.

Das Schweigen der Schuld... Ein Serienmörder hat es auf die Mitglieder einer Reisegruppe abgesehen, die vor Jahren in Irland war. Er klebt seinen Opfern Augen, Nase und Mund zu und lässt sie jämmerlich ersticken. Neben den Leichen hinterlässt er Zeilen eines irischen Kinderreims. Für die junge Berliner LKA-Beamtin Henni Herzog ist der Fall persönlich: Ihre Schwester hat damals auch an der Reise teilgenommen. Henni zieht den ehemaligen Kommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck zu Rate. Johnny stellt schnell fest, dass sich die Betroffenen in Schweigen hüllen.

Marshall Grade, ex agente del dipartimento di polizia di New York, è costretto a vivere sotto protezione a Santa Fe, in New Mexico, dopo un'operazione sotto copertura conclusasi tragicamente. Per un cane sciolto come lui, attenersi alle direttive dei federali non è semplice: ossessionato da un feroce passato, Grade è perennemente in cerca di una possibilità di redenzione. Eppure sa di dover mantenere un profilo basso, perché parecchia gente lo vorrebbe morto e sulle sue tracce c'è uno dei sicari più letali sulla piazza, l'Uomo di Dallas.

Would you break the law to see justice done? In Sheffield, a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: A desperate man resorting to desperate measures. In Middlesbrough, a woman named Angel is heading south. She is a woman alone. A prostitute. Now a murderer. And she has only one thing on her mind: Revenge. Two crimes, a hundred miles apart, but a terrible secret connects them.

February 14, 1993: Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a famous victory against Manchester United. The date is lodged in Anna Young's brain for a different reason. That was the day her sister, Jessica, was abducted. Fast forward 20 years. The case has long since gone cold. But Anna made a promise to look after her little sister. And it's a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes....

Hauling cow carcasses through a freezing warehouse isn't Kevin Davenport's idea of summer fun. But it's not his first crappy job. And with tuition due and his widowed mom strapped for cash, he's in no position to turn down good pay. But there's more than meatpacking happening at Kosher World Meat Factory. And the truth isn't quite so – well - kosher. Turns out the business is a front for a criminal syndicate. While working at the corrupt meat factory, Kevin discovers who killed his father, and now all bets are off.

Ex-Kommissar Johnny Thiebeck ermittelt mit Herz und Faust in den Straßen von Berlin - harte Fälle, Nervenkitzel garantiert! Alle drei Hochspannungs-Thriller jetzt endlich als Sammelband. "Blutschach": Seit Hauptkommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck vom Dienst suspendiert ist, widmet er sich mit Leidenschaft dem Schachboxen. Als in seinem Auto eine Leiche auftaucht, wird Johnny in eine Mordserie verstrickt. Der Täter hat es auf Johnnys Freunde und Verwandte abgesehen.