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For 18 years Jack has been a “transplant tourism director,” sending wealthy Americans and Europeans in need of kidneys and other organs to third-world countries where they would buy them from transplant centers on the take. The death of a client and a newfound relationship lead to a crisis of conscience as he is forced to choose between a $2 million commission - and participating in a murder.

John Quarry is on vacation with his small son, Nate, when a tragedy occurs: During an overnight stop in the Fraser Canyon, the child disappears and is presumed lost to the river. The coroner's verdict is death by drowning, although the body is never recovered. While the authorities consider the matter closed, a provocative dream convinces John that his son is not dead, but stolen. With little hope and only a single clue, John sets out on a desperate search.

"A shocking collision made all the more satisfying by Murphy’s brilliant twists...Clear your schedule—you won’t be putting this down until that last, mesmerizing page.” —Carter Wilson, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did One quiet neighborhood...

Eleven days in the life of a mother as she tries to navigate herself and her family through the aftershocks of a scandal. Six years ago, aged 15, Rosalind's daughter, Stephanie, ran away with teacher Nathan Temperley, triggering a media frenzy and resulting in Temperley's arrest and imprisonment. Although the family - Rosalind; her husband, Dan; Stephanie; and son Freddy - don't talk about what happened, their lives have been shaped by it and everything that came after.

Meghan Smith has always been a protective mother. Her baby son, Harry, has a life-threatening condition and is never far from her sight. But on the evening of her wedding anniversary, as she and her husband celebrate in the garden with friends, Harry disappears from his cot without a trace. In an instant, the perfect life she always longed for is in tatters, her family exposed to interrogation and accusation in the glare of media attention.

Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison is the writer Isaac Babel. The great author of Red Cavalry is spending his last days forbidden to write, his final works consigned to the archivist, Pavel Dubrov - who will ultimately be charged with destroying them.

As she prepares for her wedding to Dominic, Catherine has never been happier or more excited about her future. But when she receives an anonymous package - a familiar snow globe with a very grisly addition - that happiness is abruptly threatened by secrets from her past. Her older sister, Rachel, died on a skiing holiday as a child. But Rachel was no angel: she was vicious and highly disturbed, and she made Catherine's life a misery. Catherine has spent years trying to forget her dead sister's cruel tricks.

Seine Puppen wirken lebensecht. Die Frauen, die er getötet hat, standen ihm Modell. Doch das genügt nicht. Der neue Thriller von Bestsellerautor Andrew Holland. Washington D.C. wird von einer brutalen Mordserie erschüttert. Drei unschuldige Frauen hat der kaltblütige Serienmörder bereits bestialisch ermordet. Man nennt ihn den "Doll-Killer", da er die Leichen wie Puppen herrichtet, um sie anschließend der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. Rothaarig und jung müssen sie sein. Die Brustimplantate aus Silikon entfernt er sorgfältig.

Jaiden Cranstons persönlicher Horrortrip beginnt an dem Tag, an dem sie ihren sechsjährigen Sohn Dave als vermisst gemeldet hat. Was er tut, ist nicht unrecht. Aber wie es im Leben so ist, wird man von der Vergangenheit immer eingeholt. Egal wie sehr man sich dagegen wehrt. Er hat sich gewehrt. Einen neuen Weg eingeschlagen, sich behauptet in der unwirklichen Welt, die täglich kälter zu werden scheint. Alles hat sich geändert, als das Unglück vor fünfzehn Jahren passiert ist. An das er so lange nicht mehr gedacht, das er verdrängt hat, weil es ja nicht seine Schuld war.

Scarred by fire from infancy, with a persistent stammer, Charlotte has always been in the shadow of her glamorous theatrical parents. So it's a shock when her mother commits suicide. Left to care for her sick father in the dark maze of her childhood home, Charlotte begins to unravel. First, there's the mysterious arrival of a box of dead bees. Then buzzing noises in the attic. People are watching her. Listening to her. Everyone thinks she's losing her mind. But an old photo suggests another, more sinister possibility....

Er kommt auf sie zu, lächelt dieses nette, freundliche Lächeln, das sich so vertrauenswürdig angefühlt hat, und hebt das Messer, mit dem er die Kehlen ihrer Jungs und ihres Mannes aufgeschlitzt hatte. Blutig hinterlässt er seine Tatorte. Erbarmungslos löscht er ganze Familien aus. Nur jeweils einer überlebt und wird für ein grausames Spiel gefangen gehalten. Vincent Callum kommt mit seinem Team an seine Grenzen und kämpft mit seinen eigenen Dämonen, während er diesmal einen besonders kaltblütigen Killer aufhalten muss.

Ein eiskalter Rachethriller! Eine einsame Hütte. Ein perfider Racheplan. Unschuldige müssen sterben. Frank Hauser ist eine deutsche Fernsehgröße. Man kennt den zynischen Moderator aus zahlreichen Shows, aber auch in den sozialen Medien ist der charismatische Hauser nicht unbekannt. Um sich eine Auszeit zu gönnen, fährt er mit seiner Freundin in die Alpen zum Skifahren. Dort treffen sie auf einer Hütte ein sympathisches Paar und verabreden sich für den folgenden Tag zum gemeinsamen Skifahren. Doch dann gerät alles außer Kontrolle und Frank findet heraus, dass ihn seine Vergangenheit eingeholt hat.

""Politically savvy, cleverly plotted...the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive.""--New York Times Book Review For fans of Jane Harper’s The Dry or Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in the Australian...

Er kennt keine Gnade. Er hat einen teuflischen Plan. Und er lebt mitten unter ihnen... Aus einer bewachten Wohnanlage in einem friedlichen Vorort von Washington D.C. verschwindet spurlos ein achtjähriger Junge. Nur wenige Stunden vorher findet die Mutter eine geköpfte Krähe. Im Gefieder des toten Vogels steckt ein Zettel mit einer Botschaft an sie: Mami, ich habe etwas Böses gemacht! Was ist passiert? Wurde das Kind Opfer eines entsetzlichen Verbrechens? Detective Vincent Callum übernimmt mit seinem Team den Fall.

Midnight Rider Productions is a dark-web nightmare machine, headed by the one man who years ago drove Darby to hide in the seamy environs of Old Town and make his life there. But Darby left his own mark back in the day, and the shadowy head of production has a grudge to settle. Rider has found him at long last and plans to make an example of him.

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young cousin comes to stay, life in the house becomes uncharacteristically lively. First, cousin Judy burns a hole in Miss Bell's desk. Next, they spy a burglar on the staircase—a shadowy figure who vanishes without a trace. And finally, Sarah, the nurse, takes the dogs for a walk and never returns. She is found savagely murdered, and she will not be the last to die.

'The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather's latest edge-of-your-seat thriller. ***** A standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather that takes us into the world of the London Fire...

Cynthia and Alex have always been like sisters. Living and working for years on Cynthia's mother's sprawling farm, they've raised their families together. It was the perfect life until the fateful night that Alex finds Hannah, one of Cynthia's eighteen-year-old twins, inexplicably murdered in her own home. Soon Alex's life is spiralling out of control as she questions everything she knows and everyone she trusted. And when local detective, Stefani Warner starts investigating Hannah's murder, one prime suspect quickly rises to the fore: Daniel, Alex's nineteen-year-old son.

In a crumbling old mansion in the English countryside, 11 people gather, each one famous in their field. They have been invited for a three-day house party, to celebrate the launch of a groundbreaking virtual reality game that promises to unite the worlds of technology, politics and the environment. DCI Marten Jansen has been summoned to join the house party. His instructions are to offer police protection in case of an outside attack. Instead, he finds simmering tensions, long-buried secrets - and a murderer in their midst.

Harry Rose, last of the great American spymasters, has stepped to the helm of the Berlin station in the wake of the Second World War. From deep within a pulverized Germany, he launches his own renegade operation to avert World War III. But there are some within his camp who claim that Harry has finally gone too far, playing the game of nations from the bottom of the deck. Here is an inside story of the nuclear arms race - the politics, the passion, and the sheer lust for power.