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Twyla Ridley, resourceful, optimistic, has just had her first child. It's what she and her husband, Dylan, have always wished for. However, Charlie is blind. For the first time in her adult life, Twyla feels truly tested. She cherishes her son, showering him with love and boundless affection, but there's a part of her that aches for him to see. So Twyla throws herself into motherhood with a very private agenda, because maybe, if she strives hard enough, she'll be able to find a way to fix him. But is it a risk worth taking?

For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost Imagine a place populated by criminals—people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by...

A razor-sharp debut that reveals how one woman can go so far off the deep end, she might never make it back up. Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can't save...

The bestselling novel featuring the “wonderfully epic hero” (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Across the country women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an...

The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. The desolate terrain is obstacle enough. But when Stewart realises he has been double-crossed and that the opposition is gaining ground, his simple mission seems impossible....

A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award A Penguin Classic Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an...

Attorney Nate Shepherd doesn’t want to take on an attempted murder case. But when people he trusts ask him to get involved, Nate agrees to represent the hard-working farmer who’s been accused of trying to kill his brother’s fiancée. By the time Nate steps in, law enforcement has already gathered a mass of evidence to bury his client. With the help of a diligent associate, a dogged investigator, and a dangerous bail bondsman, Nate unearths a web of money and motives that only raises more questions.

Nathaniel hört einen Schrei, dann bricht die Verbindung ab. Gerade noch telefonierte er mit einer fremden Frau. Eine anonyme App verband die beiden, die Frau half Nathaniel dabei, das farblich passende Hemd zu seiner Hose zu wählen. Denn Nathaniel ist blind. Aber der Schrei klang eindeutig. Was, wenn der Frau etwas angetan wurde? Er ist sich sicher: ein Verbrechen ist geschehen. Doch keiner glaubt ihm, es gibt keine Beweise, keine Spur. Gemeinsam mit einer Freundin, der Journalistin Milla, macht sich Nathaniel selbst auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Nathaniel hört einen Schrei, dann bricht die Verbindung ab. Gerade noch telefonierte er mit einer fremden Frau. Eine anonyme App verband die beiden, die Frau half Nathaniel dabei, das farblich passende Hemd zu seiner Hose zu wählen. Denn Nathaniel ist blind. Aber der Schrei klang eindeutig. Was, wenn der Frau etwas angetan wurde? Er ist sich sicher: ein Verbrechen ist geschehen. Doch keiner glaubt ihm, es gibt keine Beweise, keine Spur. Gemeinsam mit einer Freundin, der Journalistin Milla, macht sich Nathaniel selbst auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A...

London, 1927. Frederick Rowlands, a First World War veteran who was blinded at Ypres, is working as a switchboard operator in the City when an over-heard telephone conversation draws him into a murder case. From then on, his safe and conventional life, painstakingly reconstructed after the horrors he experienced in the trenches, is shaken to its very foundation. As Fred is drawn deeper into a web of lies and half-truths, he must rely on his remaining senses, as well as his remarkable memory, to uncover the shocking truth about the murder which threatens to undermine everything he holds dear.

A body is found in the ruined Constantinople hippodrome: a woman, clutching a piece of red stone. She's recently given birth, but there's no sign of the baby. Inspector Cetin Ikmen discovers she was a Byzantine specialist on a crusade to protect the historic but now squalid areas of Istanbul that her enemy, property developer Ahmet Oden, seeks to destroy and rebuild. As Ikmen searches for the lost child and the truth behind her death, the people of Istanbul rise up in protest against their government....

In the detective business, the ordinary can quickly become deadly. When private investigator Yoshi Yakamota and the Blind Eye Detective Agency are hired to find a woman’s missing sister, the assignment seems fairly mundane. Then two teens fall to their death from a rocky oceanside cliff in what appears to be a tragic accident. Although the events seem unrelated, they have one thing in common: the controversial Pioneer Institute, a residential ex-gay youth program. Will sending a Blind Eye team member undercover reveal what's behind the school's terrible safety record?

The murdered body of lesbian publisher Rosemary Finney is found on a remote hiking path south of San Francisco. Local police of the wealthy Woodside enclave quickly focus on a prime suspect: Investigative Reporter Velvet Erickson. Velvet appeals to her friend and former lover - private eye Yoshi Yakamota, whose detective skills more than make up for her failing eyesight - for help. Yoshi dedicates the resources of her firm, Blind Eye Detective Agency, to proving her friend's innocence.

The camera doesn't lie; but is the film worth killing for? When journalist Velvet Erickson's oldest friend, movie director Jeff Conant, takes a header off the Golden Gate Bridge, she refuses to believe his death was a suicide. Private investigator Yoshi Yakamota isn’t so sure. Still she agrees to investigate his death with her Blind Eye Detective Agency. The team members soon find themselves embroiled in everything from burglary and kidnapping to drug culture and backstabbing betrayals.

Successful, sexy attorney Nicole Charbonneau feels content with her life and career as a star at a powerful law firm in Washington, DC. She is blind, however, to circumstances that will put her at the center of a web of deceit, murder, power plays, and conspiracies. Across the ocean, British MI6 agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin known as the Serpent, who's been hired to kill President Andrews. The Serpent cares only for the millions he'll get, not why a powerful group of men wants Andrews killed.

Some call it love. Some call it faith. But the line between devotion and destruction has never been so dangerously thin. Leah Mitchell’s life isn’t what she imagined at forty-three: a dead-end job, a painful divorce, and weekend visits with her teenage son. Then charismatic Pastor Isaac Pope walks into her bar one night, and suddenly, she feels seen for the first time in years. What begins as an intoxicating whirlwind romance quickly spirals into something darker when Leah discovers Isaac has a wife—a revelation that should end everything.

Chur zu Beginn der 1950er-Jahre. Die ganze Gegend ist in heller Aufruhr, nachdem der rotbärtige Zoltan aus der Nervenheilanstalt, dem Trakt für »geisteskranke Triebtäter«, ausgebrochen ist. Keine zwei Tage später, im Morgengrauen eines Maitages, müssen Landjäger Caminada und sein Freund Leutnant Marugg ausrücken: Ein unbekannter Anrufer hat mit verstellter Stimme dem Polizeiposten gemeldet, dass auf der Schafsweide am Rande von Chur ein grausames Verbrechen geschehen sei. Die beiden Schäferinnen, es sind Schwestern, lägen tot im kniehohen Gras – aber da sei noch mehr...

Built upon factual events, spiced with satire, and peppered throughout with engaging loonies, Blind Switch is a noteworthy first novel with a hero forced to ask in its ultimate line, "Where have I gone right?"

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