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Ashton is a typical small town where everyone knows everyone else and the pace of life is predictable. No one would suspect that Ashton has drawn powerful demonic beings to it. Planning to gain control of the town - and eventually the world - these evil forces are looking for allies. When Pastor Young and the town's newspaper reporter begin to discover this dark plan, they turn to God for guidance, but others have already succumbed to temptation.

The Fiores have made their move. In a last-ditch effort to save their crumbling empire, they've managed to take back their heir, landing a blow to the Rossettis—in particular, Dom. But failure is not an option for Dom, and soon he finds himself at a crossroads: Follow his father's orders and leave Luca to the wolves, or defy the boss and get back what he lost. The question is, will Luca choose to trust Dom to keep him safe even after all he's put him through, or will he put his future in the hands of his long-lost family instead?

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

Vienna, 1902: A beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside, and a cryptic note suggests a malevolent supernatural power is at work. Using the new science of psychoanalysis, Liebermann probes the minds of the suspects in an attempt to unravel this bewildering crime.

Seine geschriebenen Sätze bringen den Tod ... Der erfolglose Autor Max Delius erhält den Auftrag, einen Thriller zu verfassen. Noch während er schreibt, sterben die Mordopfer, nicht nur auf dem Papier. Max weigert sich, weiterzuschreiben. Als seine Tochter entführt wird, muss er das Werk vollenden, sonst stirbt sie. Doch der Horror endet nicht mit dem letzten Satz ... Ein Thriller über einen Autor, der zum Spielball eines geheimen CIA-Programms wird.

John Barrett, anchorman for News Six at Five, has a problem. He's caught his producer skewing a story to suit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks. The "accidental" death of John's father is also now in question, after the father's controversial testimony. And a young girl has been murdered, and John is the only one who can prove it.

On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.

Natalie Olsen und ihre beste Freundin Cara feiern ausgelassen in einem Club. Dann verschwindet Cara mit einem gutaussehenden Mann. Am nächsten Morgen liegt sie im Koma. Die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln, aber Natalie ist entschlossen, den Mann zu finden, der ihrer Freundin das angetan hat. Als sie den Unbekannten auf dem Cover eines Magazins entdeckt, ist klar: Es handelt sich um den erfolgreichen Unternehmer Geoffrey Rosenberg. Natalie nimmt einen Job in der Villa des charismatischen Millionärs an. Aber kaum betritt sie sein Haus, beschleicht sie ein grauenvoller Verdacht.

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

Während die Menschenmassen andächtig dem Prolog des Christkinds lauschen, stürzt ein dicker Mann von der Fleischbrücke und ertrinkt in der Pegnitz. Der erste einer Serie mysteriöser Unfälle, die sich im vorweihnachtlichen Nürnberg ereignen und alle eines gemeinsam haben: Die Opfer haben vor ihrem Tod ein ungewöhnlich ausgeprägtes Interesse an dem großen Sohn der Stadt gezeigt - Albrecht Dürer. Spätestens als auch noch in seine Wohnung eingebrochen wird, mag Fotograf Paul Flemming nicht mehr an Unfälle glauben und bekommt es mit der Angst zu tun.

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

Queensland in 1976 churns with corruption. When Detective Ray Windsor defies it, he is exiled deep into the state's west. Royalton is a town on its knees and plagued by crimes left largely un-investigated by the local police chief, Kennedy, and his elusive boss. Mutual dislike between Kennedy and Ray gradually turns ugly as Ray and his new partner, Arshag, uncover a pattern of crimes that no one seems concerned about solving. But when two girls from local immigrant families are found dead and another disappears, Ray and Arshag are forced to take the law into their own hands.

Colonia, 1260. Gerhard Morart sa bene che non potrà mai completare la costruzione della «sua» cattedrale prima di morire. Quello che non sa, purtroppo, è che la morte non tarderà ad arrivare: qualcuno infatti gli tende un agguato e lo fa precipitare da un’impalcatura dell’edificio. Un delitto pianificato sin nei minimi dettagli, che tuttavia ha un singolare testimone: Jacop, un ladruncolo che si trova su un melo lì accanto, intento a rubare i frutti succosi per placare la sua eterna fame.

“[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the farthest reaches of the imagination.” —Washington Post From The Books of Blood to Hellraiser to Imajica, Abarat, and Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker’s extraordinary vision knows no bounds. With Coldheart Canyon, the New York Times...

Newly elected, Jack Ryan has found that being President is not easy: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to assassinate the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a...

Nada interesante había ocurrido hasta ahora en el pequeño pueblo agrícola de Antioch, al este del estado de Washington. Antioch se volvió de repente un portal a lo sobrenatural, donde hay desde apariciones de ángeles e imágenes mesiánicas que se materializan en el cielo hasta un crucifijo que llora con poder para sanar. Sin embargo, estos milagros son solo el principio de algo mucho más grande: el regreso del Mesías como fue profetizado en la Biblia. Luego un profeta que se proclama como tal aparece misteriosamente en un rancho local con un mensaje, pero… ¿es de Dios?

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

In the small town of Bacon's Corner, powerful demons are working to ensnare the souls of the townspeople. A woman has been murdered, the Christian school is under attack, and the town is divided by a legal struggle. As heavenly beings rally to aid the faithful, gigantic evil ones are on the alert, looking for any sign of weakness. Each fast-paced chapter of this novel is filled with vivid descriptions of angels and demons. And the trials of the believers are no less absorbing. Richard Ferrone's dramatic narration highlights each test of faith and truth.

Der inzwischen erfolgreiche Detektiv und Ex-Polizist Lukas Sontheim sieht sich mit einem heiklen Fall von möglichen Versicherungsbetrug in Millionenhöhe konfrontiert. Unerwartet wird er vom Ex-Kollegen Hauptkommissar Jürgen Brenner zu einem Tatort gerufen. Bald darauf wird eine weitere Leiche entdeckt, diesmal eine Frau, die ebenfalls an ein Kreuz gefesselt wurde. Es wird offensichtlich, dass das Ermittlerteam es mit einem religiösen Fanatiker zu tun hat, der sich als „göttlichen Boten" betrachtet und glaubt, dass er der Menschheit durch seine abscheulichen Taten einen Dienst erweist.