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Bailey Collins believed she had outrun what Eli Murphy did to her in high school. Ten years and thousands of miles away from the scene of the crime, Bailey is laser-focused on her career. She's a rising star at her TV network, newly promoted as senior producer for the reality show, The Cruise. Things are on the up. And then Eli Murphy applies to be a contestant on The Cruise. It’s taken a lot for Bailey to make something of her life and to heal from her adolescent trauma.

Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, where the past refuses to stay buried. A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the attempted bombing of St. Paul’s...

#1 New York Times bestselling Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present. Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger. When she was twelve years old, Kirra...

Detective Charlie Cooper is struggling just to keep awake after some upheaval on the home front. But life is busy for everyone, and Cooper is intrigued from the start with this baffling case. Jimmy Dallas was a rising star with everything to live for – would he really have stuck a needle in his arm the week before the biggest match of his career? Joel Maguire for one does not believe his best mate would have knowingly injected himself with anything. Reeling from the shock loss, and dealing with some issues of his own, the Rangers' star player struggles to put one foot in front of...

When young shipping company heir Jill Fisher is found dead in her apartment, Detective Charlie Cooper and his partner Joe Quinn don't believe she was killed by a random intruder. Corporate lawyer Beth Fisher struggles to cope with the grief following her sister's murder, but she decides there's one last thing she can do for Jill – finish the ancestry research she was so passionate about. Cooper and Quinn's investigation and Beth's research uncover truths about the Fisher family and their business dealings that raise more questions than answers. Cooper must act fast before more lives are lost.

Wenn du sein Zeichen erkennst, ist es zu spät! Mitten im Winter wird auf einem Friedhof eine tote Frau gefunden – nur mit einem Nachthemd bekleidet. Unter dem Leichnam entdeckt Rechtsmedizinerin Julia Schwarz das Foto einer anderen Frau mit weit aufgerissenem Auge. Darunter steht ein Datum in drei Tagen ... Bei der Obduktion stößt Julia auf ein verstörendes Detail: drei parallele Kratzer über dem Hüftknochen. Das Markenzeichen eines Serienkillers, der seit Jahren hinter Gittern sitzt. Während Kriminalkommissar Florian Kessler fieberhaft ermittelt, sucht er Antworten beim inhaftierten Mörder.

Jackie Rose is a mother on a mission. Determined to prove her eldest son did not commit suicide, she enlists the help of her best friend's husband, Homicide Detective Charlie Cooper. Reluctant to reopen another team's case, but even more reluctant to upset his wife, Cooper and his partner Joe Quinn investigate. They soon discover Jackie Rose is right – someone's killing kids. The deeper Cooper and Quinn dig, the more they realise everyone has a secret to hide. Can they find the killer before more young lives are lost?

I was sold to my enemies. The Butchers of the London mob, who run an empire built on sin and greed. The stories I’ve heard about the way they rule their underworld are enough to make my heart race. But those rumors have nothing on the truth. Danny, Church, Frank. The three men who own me now. They made a peace deal with my family, which came at a cost—me. A mafia princess gifted to them as a bride. So here I am in my white dress with a gun to my head and a knife in my garter. The war between our families might have ended with this union, but I’m starting a battle of my own.

Wenn die Tür sich öffnet, bist du verloren. Ein grausamer Fund erschüttert Berlin: Ein 16-jähriger Schüler wurde brutal ermordet. Die Beweislage scheint eindeutig – ein Mitschüler des Opfers wird verdächtigt. Doch Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern hat Zweifel. Als ein weiteres Opfer entdeckt wird, führen erneut alle Spuren zu demselben Jugendlichen. Aber der kann sich angeblich an nichts erinnern. Ist ein einzelner Teenager tatsächlich zu solcher Grausamkeit fähig?

There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top. The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer. It had begun with an advertisement in the paper requesting descendants of the late innkeeper, Jeremiah Taverner, to stay for a weekend at the inn. They had arrived, a mixed assortment, to the family reunion eager to discover the secrets of their ancestry. But one of them had been hideously murdered, bringing the inn's stormy past into frightening focus.

When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. But when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind. Are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide? Something they would kill for?

Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching, the weary detective's only regret is the decade-long serial killer case he couldn't crack. But when he's called to one last murder scene, Cooper can't believe the victim is the perp he's been chasing for years. Certain the sociopath's latest abductee still lives, the desperate cop races to find her before the clock runs out.

After decades of dereliction and inner-city neglect, Barrack Street, Cork is finally being excavated. The work uncovers the skeletal remains of six men, scattered around the site, their hands and feet all bound, all clearly killed violently, but many decades, even centuries, ago. When a seventh body is found, Detective Garda Alice McCann knows immediately this one is different. It's female, for a start, and considerably more recent. Who was she? And who killed her?

A lawyer attempts to solve a murder and prove her own innocence in this pacy, atmospheric tale She said yes to a dinner invitation, and now she's a murder suspect . . . When an old university friend invites Finn Fitzpatrick to speak at a conference at her alma mater, Finn reluctantly agrees. Now...

Finn Fitzpatrick barely knows Mandy Breslin from the law firm where they both work. Mandy moves in the privileged world of the senior partners. Finn keeps to herself. But Mandy has secrets, and as Finn gets drawn deeper and deeper into her dead colleague's life, she finds out that Mandy isn't such a stranger after all. And that Mandy's not the only one at the firm with something to hide.

During a New Year’s Eve party on a large, luxurious cruise ship in the Caribbean, the ship’s dancer, Lola, goes missing. Two weeks later, the ship is out of service, laid up far from land with no more than a skeleton crew on board. And then more people start disappearing....

Secluded. Luxurious. Deadly. A gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet and The Cruise Still waters hide dark secrets … A remote Scottish lake The guests arriving at Creaglie Castle are expecting discreet luxury, panoramic views, and perhaps a glimpse of...

Wer die Wahrheit sucht, findet den Tod! Gegenwart: Eine junge Historikerin wird tot im Keller des Stadtarchivs entdeckt. Zunächst sieht alles nach einem tragischen Unfall aus, aber Kriminalkommissar Oliver Bergmann hat Zweifel. Noch bevor die Obduktion seinen Verdacht bestätigt, stirbt ein weiteres Opfer auf mysteriöse Weise durch einen Stromschlag. In dessen Wohnung stößt Oliver auf ein rätselhaftes Buch mit einer unheilvollen Nachricht des Täters. Die Warnung ist klar: Jeder, der es aufschlägt, muss sterben.

When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn't realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using "John Doe" to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses him, he ups the stakes and targets another to take his experiments to the next level. It's a race against time literally as Savich and Sherlock rush to stop him and save both present and future victims of his experiments. In the meantime, Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot must track a violent criminal through the Daniel Boone National Forest.