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Isolati in una località sperduta dalla Mesopotamia alcuni archeologi, uomini e donne, stanno lavorando per riportare alla luce le rovine di un'antica città. Sulla piccola comunità di europei aleggia però un'atmosfera di paura e di sospetto. Louise Leidner, la bellissima moglie del capo della missione archeologica, è ossessionata da oscure visioni. Quasi tutti i suoi compagni la considerano malata di nervi ma forse, nel passato della donna, si nasconde veramente qualcosa di terribile, qualcosa o qualcuno che vuole portare a termine una tremenda vendetta.

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.

In questa seconda indagine di Galeazzo Trebbi, Bologna torna a tingersi di quell'inquietudine che ha caratterizzato, nell'immaginario collettivo, gli Anni di Piombo. È a un banale distributore di caffè che l'investigatore privato incappa casualmente in un personaggio che condivide con lui frustrazione e rimpianti: si tratta dell'educatore Pietro Ricci, impegnato nell'assistenza ai pazienti psichiatrici e organizzatore di un seminario sulle Brigate Rosse. Incaricato, parallelamente, di vegliare su un giovane rampollo della Bologna bene.

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

Als die labile Schriftstellerin Carline McQuire an der irischen Westküste eine Morddrohung gegen ihren Mann Pat findet, gerät ihr wohlbehütetes Leben aus den Fugen. Carline ahnt nicht, in welchen Schwierigkeiten Pat tatsächlich steckt. Sie selbst leidet unter einer schrecklichen Schreibblockade. Doch plötzlich taucht eine neue Geschichte in ihrem Drucker auf. Zur gleichen Zeit reist Rachel Daugherty nach Irland auf der Suche nach ihrer Schwester – der berühmten Schriftstellerin.

Still haunted by the betrayal that forced her to leave a prestigious law firm, Caroline Auden struggles to keep her fledgling practice afloat - and her paranoia in check. When her grandmother dies, she mourns losing the only constant in her life. But grief soon turns to suspicion when she discovers her grandmother left her entire estate - including a valuable antique watch, the family's sole heirloom - to a charity called Oasis Care.

When Caroline Auden lands a job at a top Los Angeles law firm, she's excited for the challenge - and grateful for the chance to put her dark past as a computer hacker behind her. Right away, her new boss asks her to find out whether a popular GMO causes healthy people to fall ill. Caroline is only supposed to dig in the trenches and report up the ladder, but her tech background and intuition take her further than planned.

Abby Donovan’s decade-long dream of partnership at her prestigious Chicago law firm is just months from fruition. But it’s all about to change because of one misstep. One step onto a late-night train headed in the wrong direction. Headed into Chicago’s west side, where gangs and violence and drugs fill the streets. In this engaging debut, E.C. Diskin, a former Chicago attorney, takes us on a fast-paced thrill ride with a believable and flawed heroine. Listeners will relate to her, fear for her, and get a glimpse inside Chicago’s best and worst.

Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction.

On an icy winter's day in southwest Michigan, Grace Abbot wakes up as the survivor of a car crash. But she's left with a traumatic brain injury and a terrifying reality: she can't remember anything. Left in the care of her sister, Grace returns to the family's secluded old farmhouse to recover - but within an hour of her return, the police arrive. Grace's boyfriend has been murdered. Without any memory, Grace has no alibi.

When Shea Walker, a sunny, easygoing mom, is found dead in a bathtub with a stomach full of booze and pills, the shocking discovery shatters the complacency of her comfortable suburban community. Kat Burrows, Shea's longtime friend and former neighbor, is hit hardest. How could a woman she thought she knew so well come to such a sordid end? What could lead happy, well-adjusted, responsible Shea to accidentally overdose on alcohol and narcotics? Or, worse, drive her to suicide?

When a mission goes sideways—again—thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned to desk duty, and sure that there are answers that only she can get to, Alisha is left with an impossible choice. She can follow orders, or she can strike out on her own to uncover Brandon's intentions, Reichart's secrets, and the hidden mastermind behind the game she's been drawn into.

The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it—not until Alisha herself faces one of the AI's battle drones in combat. It's suddenly a race between the CIA, the Sicarii, and Alisha's mercenary ex, to see who can keep—or steal—the AI for themselves.

In Der Bericht des Squad Leaders Kingsley von Christoph Elias Wild tauchen wir ein in eine düstere und mysteriöse Welt. Als er und sein Team einen Einsatz durchführen, stoßen sie auf eine Reihe von unheimlichen und unerklärlichen Phänomenen, die sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns treiben. Diese Geschichte ist eine Mischung aus Spannung, Horror und psychologischem Drama, die den Leser bis zur letzten Seite fesselt.

Die überarbeitete Neuausgabe des ursprünglich 2017 erschienenen Krimis über die Schattenseiten von Social Media. Freiwillig geben viele Menschen jeden Tag ihre Daten den verschiedensten Apps gegenüber preis. Was passiert, wenn sie in die Hände einer wirklich kranken Person gelangen? Denn es gibt eine solche Person. Sie macht sich die Sorglosigkeit zunutze mit der diese Menschen ihre Smartphones mit Daten füttern, um ihre ganz persönlichen Ziele zu verfolgen.

Everyone has a calling. His is murder. When a woman staggers, naked, from a river, she has no idea that she’s been saved from a killer. Laura Fell is horrified when she discovers her friend Gina’s suicide. Everton Bowe, a cop whose career is as dead as his marriage, is handed the case. Was it really suicide? Meanwhile, DC Helen Lake insists there are similarities between the traumatised river woman and the cold case of three missing women: the victims, she fears, of a serial killer. Is there a serial killer on the loose? If so, what is his motive?

Brooklyn Anderson knows it looks bad. She was found wiping down a gun. His blood on her hands. Her father now dead. The incomprehensible nightmare has started. Seven days earlier, Brooklyn had returned to Eden to care for her beloved father, who lay helpless in a hospital bed. Her estranged sister, Ginny, said he fell. But as Brooklyn soon realizes, Ginny is prone to lying. Former Eden resident Darius Woods was in the hospital, too. The famous actor had written a screenplay that would lay bare all the secrets of the town, but within hours of his return, someone shot him.

Big Sam ist eine packende und berührende Geschichte. Sie handelt von dem deutschen Geschwisterpaar Lukas und Melanie Koch, die auf Reise in Minnesota sind. Die Biologin Melanie will die Natur fotografieren, der Autohändler und Hobbyjäger Lukas will eine Trophäe schießen. Doch was sie in den Wäldern Minnesotas erwartet, ist mehr als sie sich je vorgestellt haben. Sie begegnen einem riesigen Hirsch, der wie ein Gott über dem Wald thront. Lukas wird von einer Gier erfasst, die ihn zu einer schrecklichen Tat treibt. Damit zieht er den Zorn des Waldes auf sich, der sich in einer grausamen Jagd entlädt.

I knew the second I'd arrived back in Portland he'd know I was here within days, so it wasn't a shock to me that he came knocking on my door, literally. Kaden was my first love, but he isn't the same man anymore. These days he goes by another name, Kinetic, one he was given when he went overseas. Now he's in a biker club and living a totally different life. I came back here to take care of my elderly mother, but I didn't come alone.

When Selene left us in pursuit of her sister, she had no idea what she let loose. Now I hunt her day and night, collecting her secrets in plain sight. She doesn’t have long until her time runs out, it’s her fault the four of us have feelings we can’t ignore. If she finds out we’ve f--ked with her plans, we might just find ourselves dead with her scythe on our foreheads.