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Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. Like the changing social and racial tides in California - and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.

Die Buchhalterin Lura will Schauspielerin werden und überredet Sherlock Holmes, ihren Agenten zu mimen sowie Dr. Watson ihren Anwalt. Filmmogul Grapschinger ist davon wenig begeistert, denn es gab einen Todesfall während der Dreharbeiten, wo ihm ein Anwalt bereits lästig fiel. Holmes ahnt, dass sein Spürsinn gefragt ist.

‘HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine. Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to share...

London är i skräck. Scotland Yard jagar ledaren för den kriminell organisationen Grodorna, en person som ingen någonsin sett men som går under namnet Grodan med masken. En person lyckas hitta ledaren, men priset han får betala blir högt.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - out now! 'A delicious read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses...

Die Buchhalterin Lura will Schauspielerin werden und überredet Sherlock Holmes, ihren Agenten zu mimen sowie Dr. Watson ihren Anwalt. Filmmogul Grapschinger ist davon wenig begeistert, denn es gab einen Todesfall während der Dreharbeiten, wo ihm ein Anwalt bereits lästig fiel. Holmes ahnt, dass sein Spürsinn gefragt ist.

The crew from the wildly popular, fan favorite Fatal Impressions takes over Jules Keene's glamping resort, and they bring a lot of offscreen drama and baggage to the bucolic resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Added security, hundreds of calls from hopeful extras, and some demanding divas keep Jules's team hopping. When the show's prickly head writer ends up dead under the L. Frank Baum tiny house in what looks like a staged murder scene with a kitschy homage to the Wizard of Oz, Jules has to figure out who would want the writer dead.

Die Buchhalterin Lura will Schauspielerin werden und überredet Sherlock Holmes, ihren Agenten zu mimen sowie Dr. Watson ihren Anwalt. Filmmogul Grapschinger ist davon wenig begeistert, denn es gab einen Todesfall während der Dreharbeiten, wo ihm ein Anwalt bereits lästig fiel. Holmes ahnt, dass sein Spürsinn gefragt ist.

Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout—her most widely read novel in years—with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today’s most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy...

All they want for Christmas is you . . . 'This should be on every crime reader’s Christmas wish list’ CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of We Begin at the End *THIS WINTER'S MOST CHILLING KINDLE TOP 20 AND AUDIBLE TOP 10 BESTSELLER* * In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom...

Ingrid will never forget what John did. The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him. Now he’s back. He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her. Would you trust him? The clock is ticking for Ingrid to decide. Because the killer is ready to strike again.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROS. STARRING BRUCE WILLIS, EDWARD NORTON, AND WILLEM DAFOE From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan...

A los trece años, la niñez de Charlie Quinn llegó a un brusco y desolador final. Dos hombres, con asuntos pendientes con su padre, que era abogado, irrumpieron en su casa y después de esa terrible noche el mundo de Charlie no volvió a ser el mismo. Ahora que ella también era abogada, se...

When Mia Sinclair-Kroner wakes from a coma, all she can remember are the movies she’s known and loved. Her college friends quickly assemble for a weekend party, in an effort to help her remember. But with old friends come old wounds, and it soon becomes clear that Mia’s accident might not have been an accident at all.

Book editor Agnes Nielsen never anticipated the viral celebrity that would come after solving the attempted murder of her best friend. Suddenly swept up in a world of luxury, she finds herself mingling with New York’s movers, shakers, and moneymakers—among them the enigmatic heiress Charlotte Bond, who takes Agnes under her wing. But those wings, it turns out, aren’t enough to save Charlotte from a fatal fall.

Der gemütliche Dorfpastor Klaas Heiland wagt einen Neuanfang im bayrischen Touristenidyll Sonntal am See. Dabei muss er nicht nur mit seiner resoluten Haushälterin, dem überambitionierten Bürgermeister und den eigenwilligen Traditionen der Sonntaler zurechtkommen: Nein, hier in der Provinz geben sich die Mörder die Klinke in die Hand! Und im Gegensatz zum sympathischen Dorfpolizisten Tobias Kern hat der friedliebende Heiland ein Talent zur Lösung von Kriminalfällen. Herr Heiland schaut genauer hin: Ganz Sonntal ist aus dem Häuschen, denn das Fernsehen ist da.

The most chilling read of the Christmas season. As the snow begins to fall, the body count begins to climb… DI James Walker is ready for a quiet family Christmas in the sleepy village of Kirkby Abbey. But when he opens an early Christmas present left on his doorstep, he soon realises it is no...

Ein Transporter ist in der Südtiroler Kurstadt Meran in ein belebtes Straßencafé gerast. Es gibt Verletzte, der Fahrer flieht: ein Anschlag! Capo Commissario Sonja Schwarz steht vor einigen Rätseln: Wer ist der Mann? Auf wen hatte er es abgesehen? Wo versteckt er sich nun? Gleichzeitig nimmt ein undurchsichtiger Gast Sonjas Weingut allzu genau unter die Lupe – ist sie selbst in Gefahr? Der aktuelle Kriminalroman zur erfolgreichen TV-Reihe mit über 7 Millionen Zuschauer:innen pro Folge.

The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes...

In 1941, the FBI asked citizen Matt Cvetic to join the Communist Party and report back on their activities. After emerging in 1950 to testify before congress about his experience, his exploits were chronicled in magazines, on the silver screen, and in a taut and entertaining radio series suggested by his real life adventures: I Was a Communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews as Cvetic, this exciting radio series conveys the machinations of the Communists in the U.S. during the period.