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Ex-Staatsanwalt Andreas Starck versucht noch immer, seine Unschuld zu beweisen, nachdem er vor fünf Jahren einem Komplott zum Opfer fiel und ins Gefängnis musste. Mithilfe des Investigativ-Journalisten Tom Finder, der schon seit längerer Zeit versucht die versteckten Konten der Reichen und Mächtigen aufzudecken, erkennt er die Verbindungen bis in die höchsten Stellen der Justiz. Um seinen Namen reinzuwaschen, muss Starck die wahre Identität Onkel Pablos aufdecken, einem der mächtigen Mafiabosse Europas. Hilfe erhält er unverhofft von der Diebin Vanessa Conrad.

On her lunch break in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home 28 years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl. At first she brushes it off but soon finds herself questioning her family history and begins to unravel an unexpectedly dark past.

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world. Jodie has been trying to forget a troubling time in her life, pouring her trauma into her work and out of her mind. Until one night her daughter is kidnapped and Jodie is dragged back into the violence. As Em and Jodie race into the darkness, the agony of the past rushes up to meet them. It will take all their devotion and courage to escape this night alive.

Rätselhafte Morde und berühmte bretonische Chocolatiers. Noch nie war Kommissar Dupin so froh, einen neuen Fall zu haben, wie an diesem herrlichen Frühsommertag. Mit einem Bein steht er bereits auf dem – bedrohlich schwankenden – Boot im Hafenbecken von Concarneau, um unter der Anleitung eines Coaches seine Thalassophobie zu überwinden, als ihn der Anruf erreicht: Eine Frau ist ertrunken. Allerdings nicht im Meer, sondern in einem Bottich aus Schokolade. Was kurios anmutet, entpuppt sich als kaltblütiger Mord an der Inhaberin einer alteingesessenen Schokoladen-Confiserie in der Ville Close.

“Gross is a top-notch thriller writer.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Andrew Gross knows how to make your skin crawl. Eyes Wide Open should be read with the door shut and the lights on; a truly terrifying descent into evil.” —Nelson DeMille New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross...

“A total white knuckle, stay-up-all-night thrill ride. Enjoyed the heck out of it!” —Harlan Coben “A top-notch thriller writer.” —Chicago Sun Times “A master of no-nonsense, good, old-fashioned suspense.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key A...

From New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock comes Twisted Innocence, a thrilling conclusion to the Moonlighters series, where danger, deception, and redemption collide. Holly Cramer has always lived life on the edge, but now, with a baby to protect, she's determined to turn things...

The phenomenal New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word.It is the opportunity of a lifetime for Kate Chandler, the chance to...

Ein rothaariges Mädchen wird tot im Watt von Norderney gefunden. Es ist Merle Onken, die seit zwei Tagen vermisst wird. Wie sich herausstellt, haben Mitschüler sie in einem verlassenen Bunker eingesperrt, um sie in einem bizarren Ritual auf eine Hexenprobe zu stellen. Alle glauben, Merle habe sich danach selbst das Leben genommen, nur ihre Mutter Gesa ist sich sicher, dass jemand ihr Kind getötet hat. Sie bittet den Bremer Kripo-Kommissar Carsten Kummer um Hilfe.

While investigating Blackston’s recent activities, FBI Agent Jeremy Winter stumbles upon a string of missing persons within state parks. Unable to convince his boss that Blackston’s disappearance is anything other than a lost hiker, Winter joins forces with a local police officer to continue the search. As the clues mount, a dark figure from Jeremy’s past emerges with an ultimatum - one that could force him out of the bureau. Afraid that his girlfriend, fellow agent Maggie Keeley, will be dragged into a high-stakes political game, he delays his decision.

WAS BIST DU BEREIT FÜR DEINE TOCHTER ZU TUN? Eine verschwundene Tochter. Eine geheime Organisation. Ein rätselhaftes Konto. Ein Ex-Staatsanwalt zwischen Auftragsmördern. Alles war ihm genommen worden. Seine Frau. Seine Tochter. Sein Ruf und die Karriere. Als Andreas Starck aus dem Gefängnis freikommt, möchte er nur eines: endlich seine Tochter Greta wieder in die Arme schließen, die er jahrelang nicht gesehen hat. Doch das Recht dazu wird ihm verweigert. Starck hat genug.

Capelli sale e pepe e una lingua affilata, il talento autodistruttivo di un ex poliziotto cacciato per corruzione, un terrore ancestrale per i legami. È ancora lui, Contrera. Ed è in gran forma. Nonostante l'ex moglie, rimasta incinta dopo un'ultima notte di passione. Nonostante la nuova travolgente compagna, che è ancora all'oscuro di tutto. Nonostante la figlia adolescente che galoppa su una strada non proprio raccomandabile - d'altronde, chi è lui per giudicare?

Die Hitzewelle hat Zehntausende von Touristen nach Norderney gelockt, die sich auf der Insel Abkühlung erhoffen. Aber ein Doppelmord zerreißt die Urlaubsidylle, als am Haus des prominenten Fußballspielers Elias Denga die Leichen seiner Frau und ihres Liebhabers gefunden werden. Während die Fahndung nach dem spurlos verschwundenen Sportler auf Hochtouren läuft, geht ein weiterer Notruf ein: Stadtrat Eller ist tot in einer Hotelbadewanne gefunden worden.

For alcoholic former actress Leigh Baker, the moment will always be suspended in time: Seeing her daughter plunge to her death from the terrace of a sixth-floor apartment. Months later, the man responsible is convicted by a jury of his peers. Four years after that, he is out on parole. And one by one, those whose testimony helped put James Delancey away meet violent ends. Manhattan doyenne Oona Aldridge is the first. She is found in the dressing room of a trendy Manhattan boutique, her throat slashed.

The first body is found in a hamper in the woods. Her feet were tied with a leather belt. There are traces of incense on her dismembered body, candle wax on her skin, and strange crumbs on her lips. As more butchered adolescent corpses turn up - the victims of a serial killer whose signature is the communion wafer left in each one's mouth - the evidence leads NYPD lieutenant Vince Cardozo into the sacred and moneyed world of Manhattan's exclusive parishes.

In a private suite at a New York hospital, Beatrice “Babe” Vanderwalk Devens awakens from a seven-year coma. The socialite and fashion designer is stunned to learn that her husband, Scottie, was brought to trial twice - and acquitted - for her attempted murder. Across town, the naked, mutilated body of a young man wearing a black leather bondage mask is found in an empty apartment in the Beaux Arts Tower, high atop the Museum of Modern Art.

Vier Freunde im Senseland, die seit langer Zeit miteinander in Zwist liegen, wollen endlich wieder Frieden schliessen. An einem feuchtfröhlichen Abend begraben sie das Kriegsbeil, aber danach verschwinden drei von ihnen spurlos. Schnell gerät Pinggùs Töönù in Verdacht, der vierte im Bunde. Seine Tochter und sein Schwiegersohn versuchen zu seiner Entlastung das Verschwinden aufzuklären. Doch kaum halten die Quartembertage Einzug, ereignen sich weitere mysteriöse Geschehnisse.

Evil in My Town is a dark and tension-filled installment to the Serenity's Plain Secrets' mystery/crime thriller series. After a tragic mass shooting in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams is shocked to discover ties to the local Amish settlement, and her teenage niece, who barely survived the carnage. The investigation takes her from the terror of a massacre to an equally horrific crime relating to a missing woman in the community.

En las entrañas de una vieja estructura descubren una bolsa con unas terribles herramientas y las caras desolladas y varios huesos metacarpianos de tres personas desaparecidas hace años. El inspector Cantos, un policía muy particular, se reencontrará con su turbulento pasado al investigar el caso que apunta a un famoso asesino en serie con más de 40 homicidios perpetrados y que está ingresado en régimen abierto en un sanatorio mental. Pero no todo es lo que parece…

Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star Cavanaugh's father tried to solve the case, he too was killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources of her own, Star is determined to get to the bottom of both crimes. But to do so, she’ll have to face an entire town locked in corruption, racism, silence, and fear—and the same dangerous killer who took two other lives.