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Silvia è morta. A Giulia, sua sorella, come ricordo è rimasta soltanto una lunga lettera spiegazzata, che le viene recapitata poco dopo il funerale. Una lettera che la costringe a tornare a un passato doloroso di cui aveva cercato di cancellare la memoria. E che le fa dubitare che Silvia si sia suicidata, come sostiene la polizia. Per questo decide di trasferirsi e accettare un lavoro a Bologna, la città in cui la sorella viveva, con l'obiettivo di scoprire cosa le sia accaduto davvero.

Desperate to complete the last chapter of his law thesis on workplace dynamics for women to secure his tenure, Professor Stanley Hopkins stumbles on an old close college friend, Donald Johansson, who has plenty of female employees. The problem is that Donald is a porn video king. Taking his wife to California’s seedy city of Burbank to help with taping interviews, Stanley realizes he is in way over his head the moment a leading porn star is brutally killed in Donald’s office during a party.

Alois Jäger hat alles erreicht, was man im Leben erreichen kann: Dank modernster Medizin hat der Multimilliardär bereits seinen hundertfünfzigsten Geburtstag hinter sich und lebt luxuriös in einem eigenen Schloss im Weltall. Als er James auf einen Technologiedieb ansetzt, könnte dies für den Cyberdetective der lukrativste Auftrag seiner Laufbahn werden. Doch ein paar Klauseln im Vertrag seines Klienten lassen James stutzen und schon bald bekommt er es mit einer ganzen Armee kybernetischer Killer zu tun.

"He might be a nobody, but he was their nobody and their first case." The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop...

A mysterious beachcomber appears one day on the coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville, a place whose best days are long behind it. Who is he, and why has he returned after nearly 40 years? Carverville's prodigal son, James, serendipitously finds work at a gentrified motel, but his homecoming soon takes a sinister turn when he and a local teenager make a gruesome discovery on the beach. It forces him to reckon with the ghosts of his past‚ and the dangers of the present.

‘A compulsive, didn’t-see-it-coming thriller’ ABIGAIL DEAN, international bestselling author of Girl A One twin vanished. One twin reappeared. *A Reader's Digest most anticipated book of the year* ‘A fantastic debut – unpredictable, tense and absorbing’ ROSE CARLYLE, #1 international...

Ireland. AD 672. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden, with its prosperous farms and close-knit, friendly community. But when Sister Fidelma and Eadulf arrive, a new priest has ordered the villagers to lynch a man accused of murdering a local farmer, his wife and two sons. The only evidence they hold against him is the fact that he is a stranger to their land. Saving the man's life, Fidelma is determined that the villagers must give the newcomer a fair trial.

Paul Becker (le héros de "Monster") est au fond du gouffre. Obèse, divorcé, dépressif, ruiné... Il échappe miraculeusement à une tentative de meurtre alors qu'il s'est réfugié dans le parc de Yellowstone pour tenter de se refaire une santé. Mais il laisse croire à sa mort et se lance dans une enquête méticuleuse qui l'oblige à exhumer ses souvenirs d'enfances et les énigmes de son passé en Floride dans les années 70 pour découvrir qui a commandité son meurtre et pourquoi.

In this highly anticipated conclusion, Madison is hired by a famous magician to find a rare 16th-century book on angel magic and the former assistant who stole it 35 years ago. Madison's quest leads him from the great mosques and churches of Istanbul to the ruins of Pergamon and the temples of the ancient Near East, where he discovers the true location of the Garden of Eden, the nature of angels, and the dark story of his birth.

Aufgrund einer Begegnung von Dr. Watson gelingt es, ein Phantombild eines Täters anzufertigen. Mit der Veröffentlichung des Steckbriefes in den Tageszeitungen sollen sachdienliche Hinweise auf die Identität des Gesuchten eingeholt werden.

‘They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a rundown cottage outside of Belfast. Outside the cottage, five old dolls are hanging from a tree. Inside the cottage, the words 'Who took Eden Mulligan?' are graffitied on the wall, connecting the murder scene with the famous cold case of Eden Mulligan, a mother of five who went missing during The Troubles. But this case is different. Right from the start. 

A brand new "DCI Jude Satterthwaite" crime mystery from the bestselling Jo Allen. When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden's End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District's Eden Valley it's tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in her lifeless eyes... that of pure terror. DCI Jude Satterthwaite heads up the investigation, but as the deaths start to mount up it's clear that he, and DS Ashleigh O'Halloran need to uncover a long-buried secret before the killer strikes again.

The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. 

Bologna, maggio 1938. Ottavia De Angelis, cantante e diva del palcoscenico, è bella, generosa e innamorata, eppure c’è chi la odia. Tocca al maresciallo Vittorio Righi cercare di far luce sulla sua sorte. Nei giorni della visita di Hitler in Italia comincia l’indagine più difficile che abbia mai affrontato, condotta negli ambienti dell’alta società bolognese resi intoccabili dalla protezione delle autorità. Vittorio si aggira tra palazzi, teatri, grandi alberghi, locali eleganti, sedi del Fascio e quartieri popolari dove le informazioni gli arrivano contraddittorie e centellinate.

Vera Sorokina loves reading the penny dreadfuls and immersing herself in tales of adventure, mystery, and romance. Her own days are filled with the often mundane work of running the book and print shop she owns with her father. The shop offers her the freedom and income to employ and protect the poverty-stricken Londoners she’s come to care about, and it gives her father something to do other than long for their hometown of St. Petersburg. She is grateful for the stability in their lives, but she often feels lonely.

They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first met. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface. Once they’re in each other’s arms, though, they swear that nothing short of death will part them.

Murdering his way through a string of women in the swamps of Baton Rouge, Jon Walker made a notorious name for himself as the Bayou Butcher. But his reign of terror ended when US Marshal Anthony Ross and District Attorney Lauren Chandler put the crazed killer away for multiple lifetimes…and discovered they shared a passion for more than just justice. Five years later, after duty has driven Lauren and Anthony apart, the Butcher breaks out of prison, ready to get back to his deadly business—beginning with Lauren.

Returning from their honeymoon, newly-weds Adam and Eve Bailey are immediately plunged into another investigation - one that poses their biggest challenge yet. After a local art dealer is found stabbed to death behind the local cricket pavilion, another killing swiftly follows. Meanwhile, Reverend Michael Phillips, vicar of the local church, is beset with problems. Since the disappearance of a rare painting that hung there, his parishioners believe the church's Lady Chapel to be haunted.

Christmas 1979. Former TV reporter Adam Bailey is invited by his old flame, Harriet, and her husband, Sir Anthony, to Mulgrave Castle for the festivities. He reluctantly accepts, intrigued by their request for him to investigate the family curse. But within hours of arriving, a blizzard rolls in that leaves the castle and its guests stranded. And when one of the visitors is murdered, Adam and Harriet's sister, Eve, set out to solve the crime. But with danger stalking their every move, they must work fast to uncover the mystery before more lives are lost.

Relato de misterio y ciencia ficción. Bajo el agua, donde el todo nació y dio sus primeros pasos, se oculta algo extraño. Un suceso agitará el mundo. Los hombres guardarán silencio y los sentimientos aflorarán. Recordarán el porqué de las cosas y se cuestionarán el todo. Y desearán olvidar el recuerdo de un Edén muerto.