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Justice Parish takes down bad guys. Rescued from the streets by the world renowned Parish family, she joined their covert sisterhood of vigilante assassins. Her next target: a sex-trafficking ring in the war-torn Middle East. She just needs to get close enough to take them down. Sandesh Ross left Special Forces to found a humanitarian group to aid war-torn countries. But saving the world isn't cheap. Enter Parish Industries and limitless funding, with one catch - their hot, prickly "PR specialist", Justice Parish.

Spannend und verstörend: Der neue Thriller von Bestsellerautorin Loreth Anne White Ist sie eine heimtückische Mörderin, ein Opfer – oder beides? Immobilienmogul Martin Cresswell-Smith ist das Beste, was Ellie je passiert ist. Ihr Leben mit ihm in einem australischen Küstenstädtchen scheint wie ein Märchen. Doch hinter verschlossenen Türen spielt sich eine ganz andere Geschichte ab, die mit dem brutalen Mord an Martin endet. Ellie ist die Hauptverdächtige. Aber Senior Constable Lozza Bianchi hat Zweifel.

Until now, Odessa Jones's inherited ability to read emotions and foretell danger has protected her. But second sight didn't warn her she would soon be a widow - and about to lose her home and the catering business she's worked so hard to build. The only things keeping Dessa going are her love for baking and her sometimes-mellow cat, Juniper. Unfortunately, putting her life back together means taking a gig at an all-kinds-of-shady real estate firm run by volatile owner Charlie Risko. Until Charlie is brutally killed - and Dessa's bullied coworker is arrested for murder.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass Megs Schwester brutal ermordet und sie selbst schwer verletzt wurde. Meg ist inzwischen eine gefragte Krimi-Autorin und hat gelernt, mit dem schrecklichen Verlust zu leben, aber es nie gewagt, die Geschichte ihrer eigenen Familie in einem Buch zu verarbeiten. Um sich endlich dem Geschehen von damals zu stellen, fährt sie eines Tages zurück in ihren Heimatort Shelter Bay an der Küste Oregons – und findet einen düsteren Fischerort, in dem das schreckliche Verbrechen an ihrer Schwester noch immer allgegenwärtig ist.

An der Küste von Vancouver Island wird ein Kinderfuß angeschwemmt, der in einem lila Turnschuh steckt. Der grausige Fund ist ein Fall für James Maddocks und Angie Pallorino von der Mordkommission. Doch bevor sie die Ermittlungen aufnehmen können, wird die taffe Angie wegen ihrer wiederholten Alleingänge an den Schreibtisch verbannt.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die Studentin Daisy Harrington an einem kalten Novemberabend ihre WG in Exeter verließ. Nun bekommen ihre fünf ehemaligen Mitbewohner eine makabere Einladung: Die Betreiber des True-Crime-Podcasts »The Killer Question« wollen, dass sie Daisys vierzigsten Geburtstag feiern. Denn der Mann, der für Daisys Mord verurteilt wurde, war unschuldig. Und so beginnt ein Wochenende zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge, zwischen Liebe und Hass, zwischen Leben und Tod.

Si Elena Peralta viaja a México es porque nada la ata ya a su país natal, España. Va en busca de la madre que jamás conoció, en busca de la hacienda que aparece en velados recuerdos de infancia, en busca del árbol familiar que ha regado con la esperanza. Sin embargo, la primera noticia...

Su uno scoglio del lungomare di Napoli viene ritrovato il corpo nudo e mutilato di una giovane donna. Un macabro rituale che ha già fatto più di una vittima. Una squadra di profiler, guidata dallo psichiatra Tito Jacopo Durso, sta indagando sul caso ed è alla disperata ricerca di qualche indizio sull'assassino, ribattezzato dalla stampa come l'Anatomista. Alla sua équipe la polizia ha deciso di affiancare una psicologa, Artemisia Gentile, esperta nella cura di vittime di abusi e maltrattamenti.

Jade’s new life in Spain is quickly unravelling. Homeless, broke, and out of options, she’s struggling to make it as a real estate agent. But Jade isn’t just hiding from the truth of her situation. She’s hiding from her past. And maybe, from a particular person. Someone who knows exactly what she did that fateful day at Casa De Astrid. When journalist Hayley stumbles across a story that could make or break her career – a suspicious death, a murderous widow and a personal invite to the scene of the crime – she jumps on the first plane to Marbella.

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his uncle and has served a year of his sentence already. Or has he? The evidence against Geoffrey Grey is convincing but his wife believes in his innocence. And so does her young cousin, Hilary, who decides to solve the mystery herself. But when Hilary herself is nearly murdered she turns in desperation to her ex-fiancé for help. He calls upon the services of Miss Silver to help solve another mystery, which she does in her own original style.

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.

When soap opera star Abby Langford leaves Los Angeles for her Minnesota hometown, she’s hoping to give her nine-year-old daughter the peaceful childhood she never knew. But instead of tranquility, Abby finds an old knife hidden between the walls of her new Victorian house. Then the nightmares start: a blood-soaked victim and a killer’s arm slicing through the air, again and again. Police Chief Josh Kincaid assumes Abby is just scheming to get back into the tabloid headlines. But she’s turning out to be nothing like the spoiled diva he imagined.

Nel bosco di Capodimonte, a Napoli, circondato dall'ombra di alberi secolari, sorge il Condominio Badenmajer, un palazzo dalla fama sinistra popolato da centinaia di inquilini. L'architetto austriaco che lo progettò morì suicida e i suoi sotterranei, luoghi bui e spettrali, ospitavano un tempo un manicomio femminile. Ad accrescere l'inquietudine del luogo la scomparsa di alcune donne: persone sole, senza legami, o di passaggio in città e la cui assenza non è stata notata.

Stepping her perfect Jimmy Choos into place beside Ben Gallagher’s faded Nikes, straitlaced Philadelphia lawyer Catherine Barrington is surprisingly unable to resist the disarming small-town mechanic’s charm. He’s one of the heirs to the vast fortune left by his eccentric grandfather Max, a bestselling horror writer, and she’s there to carry out Max’s last wishes.

Though they share a manor house, the Paradines are not close, and their patriarch does nothing to discourage the petty jealousies that divide wealthy families. A cold figure, James Paradine prefers work to his relations, but on New Year's Eve he convenes the household. Valuable plans have been stolen from his office, and only one person could be to blame. He knows the culprit's name and gives the thief until midnight to come forward.

The brightest mind meets the darkest killer...1887. When James Murray, a young Scottish doctor fascinated by the workings of the criminal mind, travels to the vibrant city of Turin, it is to study with Cesare Lombroso, the world-renowned criminologist. But just hours after his introduction to Lombroso, the discovery of a horrifically mutilated body in the nearby Piazza Statuto, and a note that appears to implicate the celebrated criminologist himself, changes everything.

An Liebe denkt Sophie nicht, als sie einen Job als Dozentin an der Universität in Sizilien annimmt. Bis sie dem charismatischen Professor Emilio Ferrante begegnet. Nie hätte sie gedacht, dass sie sich nach ihrer Vergangenheit noch einmal auf jemanden einlassen könnte. In seiner Nähe scheint sie endlich ihr Glück gefunden zu haben. Doch je tiefer sie sich in die Beziehung mit Emilio begibt, desto mehr spürt sie, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Als sie erfährt, dass er verheiratet und seine Frau seit Monaten spurlos verschwunden ist, beginnt ein gefährliches Spiel aus Wahrheit und Täuschung.

Every morning, I sit at the same table of my favourite café, sip my cappuccino, and watch them. The woman has no idea I’m watching, day after day, unravelling the secrets of her life. I see the way she smiles when he arrives, how she glances over her shoulder… like someone who is hiding something. She thinks she’s in control, but has no idea I’m on to them… I know a lot more about the man. For a start, he’s not who he pretends to be – his lies are as plain as the nose on your face. There’s more to this story than meets the eye, a lot more than I’ll ever let on.

I have no idea why they think I had anything to do with Danielle’s accident. My only crime was being there when she fell down the stairs. My therapist, Justine, thinks I'm hiding something. She's quite the character, but I know what she wants to hear. She's the least of my problems. Because, yes. Maybe I am hiding something. But it's not what she thinks. And if people found out, it wouldn't be just my own life in danger...

The citizens of Melling are perfectly ordinary—exactly the sort one finds in just about every cozy English village—and to a certain person they might even appear boring. But to Miss Silver, people are always interesting. It has been some years since she gave up work as a governess to become a detective, and her interest in people has served her well. She comes to Melling on vacation—a long postponed visit to an old school chum—but Miss Silver’s business is murder, and her vacations never last long.