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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Der friedliche Sternenhimmel über Irland täuscht. Schon in seiner ersten Nacht wird der deutsche Hobbyastronom Peter Kaufmann rüde gestört. Verwahrlost und völlig verängstigt präsentiert sich die neue Obermieterin Aoife und jagt sogar der sonst so gelassenen B&B-Besitzerin Emily Byrne Angst ein. Als Peter ein Foto der verwirrten Alten in einer Vermisstendatenbank entdeckt, eilt Betreiberin Sophie Whelan sofort zur Stelle. Doch auch die 29-Jährige hat etwas zu verbergen! Als Aoife erneut untertaucht, ist mit ihr nicht nur die Lösung eines jahrzehntealten Familiengeheimnisses verschwunden – sondern auch Emily.

The race is on to claim the area between the Ohio River and Tennessee. What's left of the resistance is hiding out in the tangle of Central Kentucky hills - leaving the powerful, well-organized Kurian vampires the opportunity to fill the void. Major David Valentine knows a small group of fierce, freedom-loving allies who would be glad to settle the rich lands. But they're more than 300 miles away, with hostile aliens and vicious human slavers standing between. But even if by some miracle they make it, the Kurian Order isn't about to easily yield the blood-soaked Kentucky soil....