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Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

Hidup Laikha sangat bahagia. Punya ibu bapa yang sangat penyayang membuatkan dia tak pernah kurang kasih sayang. Namun semua itu hilang sekelip mata hanya kerana sebuah kejadian dan sebaris kata. Tragedi kebakaran rumah keluarganya membuatkan Laikha mula mempersoalkan kasih sayang ibu dan bapanya selama ini. Mengapa setenang itu bapanya menerima 'kematiannya'? Mengapa tiada air mata yang mengiringi 'pemergiannya'?

Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot’s headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city’s most mesmerizing mysteries.

Ida is a self-confessed serial killer of predatory men. She feels no remorse for her victims but has decided she needs psychiatric help...if only to lay the groundwork for an insanity plea if she gets caught. Clarissa is a celebrity psychotherapist, the best in her field, a familiar face on television and in glossy magazines. For her, every patient is special—someone only she can save. When Ida walks into Clarissa's consulting room one day, the therapist doesn't know that they share a dark secret, buried in both their pasts.

Die junge Jennifer Bixby muss mit einem harten Schicksal kämpfen: Ihre drei jungen Kinder starben. unter mysteriösen Umständen. Doch sie selbst bewahrt ein dunkles Geheimnis. Dann lernt sie Frank kennen, der auch etwas zu verbergen scheint. Inspiriert von einem wahren Verbrechen. Eine Thriller Novelle.

When a woman is found murdered at a rest area in Kronviken, Detective Inspector Maria Wern becomes involved in the investigation. The woman's body is severely burned, her clothes are in shreds and the blue synthetic cap has melted over her face. Who is she? And is there a connection with the...

Ace Criminal Attorney Cash McCahill makes two potentially fatal mistakes. First, he agrees to represent a cartel kingpin, who lays down an ultimatum of win or else. Not even an acquittal will save Cash if his second mistake surfaces. His affair with the client's wife turns him into the perfect pawn to take a fall for the cartel. Falsely convicted of jury tampering, he must survive a prison teeming with enemies and navigate the more dangerous world on the outside in order to clear his name, regain his law license, and return to his only real home - the courtroom.

The year 1942 is a bad time to stage Madame Butterfly. Although Puccini's masterpiece is a perennial favorite of the San Francisco opera crowd, its sympathetic depiction of a Japanese girl causes tension in the dark months following Pearl Harbor. Newspaper editorialists rage against the production, opera buffs picket the theater, and a note appears nailed to the house door, threatening violence against the cast and crew. When the first workman dies, the maestro calls Toby Peters, a Los Angeles detective who works discreetly for Hollywood's rich and famous.

Me llamo Darío Pertegaz, soy agente de la Policía Nacional y si están leyendo estas líneas, eso querrá decir que ya estaré muerto. Voy a suicidarme. Así comienza esta novela donde se narra lo que le sucedió a un policía corrupto y a su estricta compañera en el transcurso de una compleja investigación destinada a atrapar a un despiadado asesino en serie cuyo particular código moral le impide matar a personas inocentes. Permítanme contarles esta historia. Hónrenme con su lectura.