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When poor little New Hampshire rich girl Mindy Hollis gets lost in Los Angeles, her big sister hires private detective Ed Traynor to find her. Traynor and Hollis's security chief, Jack McMahon, take off for Tinseltown to track down the aspiring actress - but they discover the only part she ever got was the one that killed her. Their hunt for her killers takes them from the bowels of Mexico City to the glitz of Los Angeles, north to the set of The Black Orchid in Vancouver, and then back again to Hollywood, where the angels are dying.

Darlington is a small Northern town where everyone knows everyone. And Detectives Tanzy and Byrd know there’s a twisted serial killer in their midst... They find Julia Porter’s body tied to a chair in her quiet family home in the outskirts of Darlington. She’s covered in blood, and someone has cut out her eyes. Next to her is a message written in red crayon: She didn’t see it coming. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd have never seen the like of this in their town before. Then a few days later a woman is handed a package on the high street. It contains Julia Porter’s eyes ... It’s a warning.

Late one night Danny Walters tucks his young son back into bed. He realizes the carpet is soaking wet just as he sees a man standing at the bottom of the stairs. The man lights a match. The house goes up in flames. The next day, Detectives Tanzy and Byrd witness a horrific video posted online. Someone stood in the back garden filming as Danny and his whole family burned alive. Across town, four women wake up in a dark, cold room. Every time they fall asleep, one of them is taken. People on the internet are paying good money to watch what happens to them.

Summer, 2005: Five students attend an end of year party. As dawn breaks the next day, four of the friends are preparing to leave when they realise one of the girls is missing. That's when the screaming starts. 2025: Amy is at home when there's a knock at her door. The woman on her doorstep introduces herself as Hannah Hastings, a well-known true crime podcaster. She's investigating the drowning of a young woman at a party twenty years earlier.

Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), The Stranger Times is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor...well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester. Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok. Somebody needs to sort this out fast before all hell really breaks loose - step forward the staff of The Stranger Times.

Three weeks on from that night and ChameleoMan & friends are riding high after their first vigilante victory... but Dan & his cats are about to face something far deadlier. Stopping a mugging was almost too easy, but when a body turns up in the industrial estate, Dan begins to wonder if the superhero life is really for him. Catman is missing, the police are asking questions, and shadowy figures stalk the street at night. With time running out, Dan, Andrew, and the Flash must race to uncover the truth—before the law starts pointing fingers at them. But something darker lurks in the shadows.

A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives. Retired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there's nowhere left for William and Annie to hide…and no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins.

All it took was a devastatingly gorgeous man twice my age to break all my rules. To teach me how to let go. How to surrender. How to submit. But then I learn Jacob isn't who I think he is. And it turns out our meeting wasn't an accident. The sweeter the forbidden fruit, the more venomous the snake. Jacob wants revenge, and he's going to use me to get it.

Es gibt ungewöhnliche Fälle – und dann gibt es Fälle, die man nie wieder vergisst … Die Geschichte, die Privatdetektivin und Ex-Polizistin Kinsey Millhone von ihrem neuesten Klienten aufgetischt wird, klingt so abenteuerlich wie abwegig: Ein mörderischer Angriff auf einer einsamen Landstraße, ein Aufprall am Fuß einer 100 Meter tiefen Schlucht, zwei Wochen Koma und das Gedächtnis voller Lücken; der angehende Arzt Bobby Callahan ist überzeugt, dass er nur mit knapper Not einen Mordanschlag überlebt hat.

Criminals have to answer to Agent Jade Monroe, and they aren't liking it. On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business.

Dan's cats are acting weird. One has grown into a strength powerhouse, the other wants to communicate... verbally. And now other kitties have begun to go missing from his quiet suburban street. Could the man in the parka that haunts a nearby industrial estate have answers? Or perhaps it's something to do with the strange disappearing woman in the woods? Can our hero figure out the conspiracy before it turns into a catastrophe?

Decades after a brutal attack that shattered the lives of two teenagers, answers are being sought out and ghostwriter Allie Sawyer has to face her own suppressed secrets.

Als bei einem Terroranschlag während eines internationalen Fußballspiels Dutzende Menschen sterben, ahnt Jacob Detlev, dass es sich nicht um eine isolierte Tat handelt. Gemeinsam mit dänischen und internationalen Ermittlern stößt er auf Spuren, die Jahrzehnte zurückreichen – zu ungeklärten Gewaltverbrechen in Irland und zu einem alten Feind, der längst vergessen schien.

On a critical mission to Afghanistan to investigate the opium trade, Rex Dalton stumbles across spine-chilling deceit and corruption that snakes through the highest echelons of power in Afghanistan, America, and Europe. When urgent requests to his superiors to eradicate the drug empire fall on deaf ears, Dalton, with his military dog, Digger, at his side, takes matters into his own hands, stirring up a hornet's nest so deadly that even he, one of the world’s most lethal assassins, might not survive.

Freya Lockwood e Arthur Crockleford non si parlano da una vita. Una mattina di maggio, Freya riceve da sua zia Carole una telefonata: Arthur è morto, caduto dalle scale del suo negozio. Così Freya, tornata nel Suffolk dopo più di vent'anni, decide di indagare con l'aiuto di zia Carole.

Una ragazza viene ritrovata morta per un’overdose nell’ospedale psichiatrico abbandonato di Aguscello, nella bassa ferrarese. Non si riesce a capire chi sia. Ma nelle quarantott’ore che passano fra il ritrovamento del corpo e l’inizio degli esami autoptici, la ragazza sparisce. Qualcuno l’ha vista allontanarsi sulle sue gambe: un raro caso di morte apparente.

Dopo la felice soluzione del caso del bambino scomparso, il commissario Buonvino si gode la quiete ritrovata del parco di Villa Borghese e le gioie dell'amore. Ma è una tregua di breve durata. Il ritrovamento di un cadavere nel rettilario del Bioparco, il giardino zoologico della capitale ospitato all'interno della Villa, rappresenta una brutta gatta da pelare per Buonvino, che si dà il caso sia erpetofobico, provando un terrore atavico per qualsiasi tipo di rettile.

Amy Mackenzie is on the up. Her florist business is thriving, with a roll call of wealthy clients. And none are more glamorous than architect James Elliott and his beautiful wife, Eleanor. But try as she might to become part of their world, Amy is always on the outside looking in. Hired by the couple to provide the flowers for a lavish party, Amy sees an opportunity to have the kind of lifestyle she's always dreamed of. But when a guest suffers a violent and shocking death, the finger of blame is soon pointing at Amy.