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**Preorder the new novel from Howard Linskey now!** Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Search by Howard Linskey, read by Kieran Bew. Someone knows where the bodies are buried... Little Susan Verity went missing during the heatwave of 1976. An unprecedented...

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.

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.

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!

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.

Bestselling author Cara Putman returns with a romantic legal thriller that will challenge the assumptions of truth tellers everywhere. Savannah Daniels has worked hard to build her law practice, to surround herself with good friends, and to be the loyal aunt her troubled niece can always count...

Katherine came home to forget her past. The last thing she expected was to find her future. Young widow Katherine Osborne returns to her family’s rustic camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. She’s determined to live a quiet life, but her socialite mother is equally determined to...

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...

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.

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 is back doing what she does best - working undercover. This time she has to infiltrate the inner circle of a notorious underworld family. Posing as a fellow villain, she is on a one-woman mission to bring the family to their knees. But things are never that simple. Bailey finds that she is forced to confront shadowy wraiths from her past and will come face-to-face with a set of devastating revelations that will shatter her world and threaten her very existence.

Called to investigate the bloodstained aftermath of an eventful Christmas party, detectives Anderson & Costello discover that the holiday season can be anything but merry. A family man is stabbed to death at a crowded Christmas Ice Show. Murder in plain sight. No clues, no witnesses, no known motive.

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.

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.

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.