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Have you ever stood next to a fire and felt the heat of it on your skin? Stared into the flames and thought how amazing it would be to be that free? It changes direction with the wind, destroying everything in its wake. That's what she felt like. Alexa was a wildfire that torched everything she touched, and I couldn't wait to be consumed by her.

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Francis Ackerman jr. ist in den Fängen eines der gefährlichsten Verbrecher der Welt: des Hüters. An einem Ort weit entfernt von jeder Zivilisation, in einem der kältesten Dörfer der Erde ist Ackerman seiner Nemesis gnadenlos ausgeliefert. In Washington, D.C. jagt Ackermans ehemalige Partnerin Nadia Shirazi vom FBI derweil einen gnadenlosen Serienkiller. Aber selbst wenn Nadia Ackerman findet, würde sie ihm überhaupt noch helfen können?

When a young woman's body is discovered on a popular jogging trail in Birmingham, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts and his team are plunged into a disturbing murder investigation. Not only has the woman been violently stabbed - her head is missing. When a close examination of the crime scene results in a shocking discovery linking the present murder to a past crime, criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police. Aware of Traynor's troubled past, Watts is sceptical that he will bring anything useful to the investigation. He's about to be proved very wrong.

Cross laat de FBI achter zich om zijn eigen praktijk te openen. Maar er volgen al snel ontwikkelingen die alles in de war schoppen. Ditmaal is het detective John Sampson met een nieuwtje: er is een spoor gevonden dat mogelijk naar The Butcher leidt, een verkrachter die misschien iets te maken heeft met de moord op Cross’ vrouw Maria. De jacht is open, maar aan het einde wacht een waarheid die zowel schokkend als onverwacht is. Zal Cross de feiten onder ogen kunnen zien en doorgaan?

Een vroegere vriend van Alex Cross, die zich heeft ontpopt tot seriemoordenaar, ontsnapt uit de gevangenis. Cross is namelijk net hard aan het werk, op zoek naar een scherpschutter die het op politici gemunt heeft. Hoe kan Alex de liefde van zijn leven beschermen, als hij niet weet hoe groot het gevaar is, of uit welke hoek het komt?

Wanneer het huis van zijn oudste vriendin, Ellie Cox, verandert in de ergste moordscène die Alex ooit heeft gezien, gelooft hij dat hij de gevaarlijkste moordenaar tot nu toe achtervolgt. Zijn onderzoek leidt Alex naar het Nigeriaanse criminele milieu van Washington D.C. Daar doet hij een verbluffende ontdekking: verantwoordelijk voor de moorden is een bende tieners, die wordt geleid door de machtige Afrikaanse maffiabaas Tijger. Net als Alex en zijn team denken dat ze de ongrijpbare moordenaar op het spoor zijn, verdwijnt Tijger in het niets.

Francis Ackerman jr. ist in den Fängen eines der gefährlichsten Verbrecher der Welt: des Hüters. An einem Ort weit entfernt von jeder Zivilisation, in einem der kältesten Dörfer der Erde ist Ackerman seiner Nemesis gnadenlos ausgeliefert. In Washington, D.C. jagt Ackermans ehemalige Partnerin Nadia Shirazi vom FBI derweil einen gnadenlosen Serienkiller. Aber selbst wenn Nadia Ackerman findet, würde sie ihm überhaupt noch helfen können?

Als Alex Cross krijgt te horen dat zijn nichtje op brute wijze is vermoord, begint hij aan een meedogenloze zoektocht naar de moordenaar. Hij zweert dat hij gerechtigheid voor haar zal vinden, ongeacht de gevolgen. Al gauw leidt zijn zoektocht hem naar een van de meest beruchte clubs van Washington. Als je geld hebt, is daar alles mogelijk... En zo komt hij oog in oog te staan met zeer machtige en gevaarlijke mensen, die lid zijn van de club en er alles aan zullen doen om hun geheimen te bewaren.

When Daisy Kennedy risked everything to rescue her twin sister, Lily, from the clutches of a ruthless gang, she thought it would finally mend the cracks in their fractured relationship. But Lily sees it differently. She’s convinced Daisy’s reckless choices are what put her in harm’s way to begin with, and forgiveness feels as far away as ever. Then Daisy is kidnapped by another notorious gangland boss. His demand? Repay their father’s crippling debt by working as a prostitute in his seedy club. Trapped, terrified, and with no one to trust, Daisy clings to the hope that Lily will come for her.

Forensic psychologist Kate Hanson re-examines a brutal ten-year-old murder case in this deliciously twisty crime mystery. Then. Famous novelist David Lockman is convicted of murdering Della Harrington. He’s sentenced to life in prison. Now. Lockman walks free after ten years in jail. A miscarriage of justice. But if he didn’t kill Della, who did? Kate is determined to get justice for Della. But her search for the truth will lead her down a dark path and jeopardize everything she’s ever worked for.

It’s 1:23 in the morning when Kate gets the call. News at this time is never good, but this call is one of the worst. A body has been found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Birmingham. It’s badly decomposed, but forensic psychologist Kate Hanson is sure she knows who it is. Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Williams disappeared a year ago. She was a good student who simply vanished off the face of the earth.

Peter Robinson, the acclaimed author of the bestselling series Stephen King calls “the best now on the market,” returns with a gripping, emotionally charged mystery in which the revered detective Alan Banks must find the truth about a murder with possible racial overtones—and save a friend...

Two teenage boys make a gruesome discovery. A body locked inside a church crypt. The victim’s throat viciously ripped out. The dead man is quickly identified as twenty-year-old Matthew Flynn, son of a wealthy businessman. He was reported missing a year ago. Nothing about the crime scene makes sense to forensic psychologist Kate Hanson. The evidence reveals careful planning — but also a frenzied loss of control. Kate and her team disagree about the killer’s motive — is it drugs? Money? Sex?

New Year’s Day. A dog walker is enjoying the early morning calm in Birmingham’s Woodgate Country Park. At first he thinks it’s some old rubbish. His dogs are always digging up trouble. But it’s a mummified body. The victim is Nathan Troy, an art student who disappeared twenty years ago. Days later, a second body is found. This time it’s a fresh kill. And the ligature marks on the victim’s neck are identical. It’s been twenty years, but after all this time, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson knows that Nathan’s killer is back.

For five years, the remains of a young woman lie undisturbed in dark woodland on the outskirts of Birmingham. The gold necklace round her neck reads ‘Molly’. Now, watching the post-mortem, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson knows in a heartbeat that she’s looking at Molly Elizabeth James. She was only eighteen when she disappeared from a shopping centre in Solihull. DCI Bernie Watts’ team unearths more long-buried bodies in the area. Kate realises they’re dealing with a serial killer. One who abducted young women, torturing them for days before finally killing them.

Nurse Meredith Griffin runs St. Jude Hospital’s emergency ward, the largest on the Pacific Northwest coast. A psychiatric nursing specialist, she’s good at managing other people’s problems but is less adept with her own. When a 22-year-old woman is admitted to Emergency with severe lacerations that prove fatal, her death is labelled a suicide, but Meredith isn’t convinced. Soon after, her boyfriend, Detective Leo Donnelly, attends the scene of a young woman with the same mysterious fatal injuries, and Meredith knows something is terribly wrong.

In one hand small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone else's money--$350,000 of it. In the other hand, Stokes has a cell phone, which he found with the money. On the line a little girl he doesn't know asks, "Daddy? Are you coming to get me? They say if you give them the money, they'll let you take me home."

It’s been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price. The impossibly lucrative positions handed out to them by the mysterious Global Securities company have turned out to be golden handcuffs - scattering them around the world, cutting off communication, and leaving them in miserable isolation. But a happy homecoming at the old Virginia farmhouse is marred by the hijacking of Nikki and Kathryn’s private jet.

FBI Agent Laurel Evertson's investigation into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to Morton Wilmington, a felon she arrested five years ago on her first undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Wilmington - and what she sacrificed to put him away - he is now her best lead.