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ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO? Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime documentary, it has the reader puzzling away...

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

Cari Mora uprchla před válkou v rodné Kolumbii do USA a pod dohledem imigračního úřadu žije na dočasné povolení pobytu v Miami. Aby se uživila, stará se o luxusní sídlo přímo na pláži Miami Beach. Nemá ale tušení, že pod domem je ukryto půl tuny ryzího zlata a jistý Hans-Peter Schneider po něm už celé roky slídí. Krásná Cari, která pro zvrhlého Schneidera představuje potenciálně zajímavou kořist sama o sobě, je teď zdá se, jedinou překážkou. Jejich nevyhnutelný střet však možná nebude mít tak jasného vítěze, jak se na první pohled zdá.

Venticinque milioni di dollari in lingotti d'oro appartenuti a Pablo Escobar sono sepolti in una grande e misteriosa villa nella baia di Miami Beach. Il bottino fa gola a molti, gente senza scrupoli che tiene d'occhio la casa. Primo tra tutti Hans-Peter Schneider, un uomo perverso e pericoloso che vive delle fantasie malate di altri uomini ricchi. Cari Mora è una ragazza colombiana di venticinque anni con un passato drammatico, scampata alla violenza del suo paese. È l'unica persona ad aver accettato di fare la custode di quella villa.

Mikael Blomkvist, un jurnalist căzut în dizgrație, este angajat să investigheze un caz neobișnuit. Însă când acesta face legătura între dispariția Harrietei și un lanț de crime terifiante, săvârșite cu 40 de ani în urmă, misiunea lui devine imposibil de finalizat fără ajutorul unui asistent. Lisbeth Salander, o tânără de 24 de ani, cu o înfățisare de hacker și o inteligență de geniu, pare a fi candidatul perfect pentru această poziție.

Când prietenul lui îl sună din spital rugându-l să aibă grijă de anticariatul pe care-l deține și să onoreze comenzile clienților, Andrei acceptă cu inima strânsă. Și, cum nicio faptă bună nu rămâne nepedepsită, se pomenește în mijlocul unui complot îndreptat împotriva Președintelui și atras într-o anchetă despre destinul frânt al mai multor tinere.

Thomas Harris, the creator of Hannibal Lecter, author of The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, returns after 13 years with a new book. Cari Mora is an absorbing story about evil, greed, and a dark obsession - it's Harris at his finest!

A man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve, a ball of cloth rammed in his throat. When a second body is found, Carruthers is convinced that the reason for the deaths lies in the past. But how is the historical disappearance of a boy, the murder of a former journalist and a bitter dispute about a nature reserve connected? Are they hunting for one killer...or more?

Cecil Younger never thought it would come to this: providing surveillance for a chicken coop being raided by a fowl thief. But things have not exactly been breaking right lately for the Alaskan P.I. The logical thing to do? Take a vacation, of course. Well, it's not exactly a vacation. Younger has been paid to investigate a doctor aboard a luxurious first-class cruise ship up the Alaskan coast. Except passengers are dying. Now Younger finds himself trapped on a ship of fools with a murderer who is leaving a trail of well-to-do passengers in his wake...and leaving evidence pointing an accusing finger at Cecil!

Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her rental car, Winnie realizes too late that she's been kidnapped. What follows is a riveting psychological game of cat and mouse set in the kidnapper's tropically heated house - kept that way for Cookie, a menacing seven-foot long Iguana headquartered in the kitchen.

Elvie McCulloch's sister, Sophie, has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Several young women in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie's family fears the worst. Teaming up with retired detective Billy Hopkirk, Elvie determines to find out the truth. But as the pair alternately collaborate with and infuriate investigating police detectives Anderson and Costello, they find themselves up against a terrifying enemy. Someone they call The Night Hunter.

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton’s promotion to chief inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life. She’s inherited the pressurized case of the high-profile death of media star and wealthy philanthropist Greta Denby, who had been undergoing a controversial experimental treatment for her cancer. Carol is now also taking on the case of the investigating officer Inspector Ian Rooke, who has himself just died under baffling circumstances.

Detective Constable Bailey Morgan has been out of the undercover game since the last job went horribly wrong, leaving her with scars both inside and out. When her best friend Alice is murdered while working undercover in a women’s prison, Bailey steps up to replace her. Working alone, Bailey embarks on a dangerous quest through the murky underbelly of the prison, where she soon discovers that Alice’s death was part of a spate of brutal murders. Surrounded on all sides by criminals and lowlifes, God help her if any of them find out she’s a copper....

Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.

Tom Bishop is the Secret Service agent assigned to protect her. After losing his wife on 9/11, he is not prepared to find himself attracted to the sexy, smart protectee. The ethics questions alone are explosive and despite the red-hot tension between them, he will not risk his career or Fallon's reputation on a tryst that he is sure they will both regret.

A few days before the summer solstice, a 92-year-old woman is found burned to death in her home. On the same day, a man's mutilated corpse is discovered, his arms ripped from their sockets, with a tarot card depicting the Fool inserted in his mouth. When the victim is identified as someone for whom the police have been looking for almost a year, detectives Anderson and Costello find themselves caught up in a case where nothing is as it seems.

Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no good-byes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his cast-iron alibi, Costello has gone solo, determined to expose a ruthless killer without being hampered by police protocol. But is she right about Haggerty's guilt? And where has she disappeared to? DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder the loss of his partner of 20 years. With a badly beaten body found on a remote mountain pass, a woman with a serious head wound who won't communicate in any way and a substantial pool of blood discovered at the edge of Loch Lomond, Police Scotland have their hands full.

When a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside a village shop, Detective Inspector Costello quickly surmises there's more to this case than meets the eye. As she questions those involved, she uncovers evidence that this was no impulsive act as the police initially assumed, but something cold, logical, meticulously planned. Who has taken Baby Sholto, and why? Colin Anderson meanwhile is on the Cold Case Unit, reviewing the unsolved rape of a young mother back in 1996. Convinced this wasn't the first - or last - time the attacker struck, Anderson looks for a pattern. But when he does find a connection, it reaches back into his own past....

November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris' preeminent medical school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that overlooks the Seine with her father, who runs the family detective agency. But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimee's life as she knows it. First, someone has sabotaged her lab work, putting her at risk of failing out of the program. Then, she finds out her aristo boyfriend is planning to get engaged to another woman.