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After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself - entering a host’s body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military’s breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing forces trying to steal it. What’s more, a single man has somehow harnessed the new power and has become something more than human - godlike.

The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. 'A shot of serotonin in book form'...

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

Vuelve Karin Smirnoff con una nueva entrega de la serie Millennium. Una serie de culto con más de 105 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Lisbeth Salander y su sobrina Svala parecen tener un imán para los problemas: ahora Svala forma parte de un grupo de activistas que se opone a la reapertura de una mina. El conflicto está en punto muerto hasta que una periodista que investigaba el tema es asesinada. Salander y Svala deberán recurrir a Mikael Blomkvist y al hacker Plague para enfrentarse a un grupo que está dispuesto a recurrir a medidas extremas para defender sus intereses.

In "one of the best" political thrillers from two Washington insiders (Nelson DeMille, NYT bestselling author), America's leaders must hunt down a master terrorist in hiding and neutralize the threat of political betrayal. The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be an extremist in...

In this fast-paced political thriller, Major Brooke Grant joins the president's top-secret CIA team and races around the globe in pursuit of a terrorist known only as the Falcon. On the day of Major Brooke Grant's wedding, an explosive-packed rental truck detonates a deadly bomb, killing...

When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn't until young police officer Sigurdís finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging. As Óttar's shady business dealings become clear, a second unexpected line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdís finds a US phone number in the safe, along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account.

När Adam Vikman tackar ja till det attraktiva jobberbjudandet anar han inte vilken ödesdiger händelsekedja han och hans familj dras in i, händelser som leder till katastrof för familjen. Mäktiga spelare i svenskt näringsliv skyr inga medel för att nå sina mål och vanliga människor blir bara brickor i spelet. Sakta men säkert leder ett girigt och hänsynslöst manipulerande av naiva svenska politiker landet närmare och närmare ett inrikespolitiskt kaos. Men vad de inte räknat med är en journalists envisa efterforskningar och en ensam människas fixering vid hämnd och hur det kommer att påverka deras planer.

“Alltså när jag säger att det inte ska vara musik som visas på MTV eller ZTV, så menar jag att det inte ska vara modern musik. Förstår ni? Eller det kan vara modernt. Dragan, du till exempel. Vad lyssnar du på hemma?” “De e blandat, asså så.” “Ja, det förstår jag, men du lyssnar på nått från Jugoslavien kanske?” vädjade Carina.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government.

All his life, Viggo Larssen has been haunted by the same troubling dream, which he calls the Omen - a vision of a woman beckoning to him from the surface of a churning sea. Now, as he broods over his shipwrecked existence in a remote lighthouse off the outermost coast of Denmark, he is about to be borne backward by the current to a past he thought he had escaped forever.