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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang and John Carroll Lynch A propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows—her father Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is...

Detective Inspector Macleod returns to his island home 20 years after the painful loss of his wife. With a disposition forged in strong religious conservatism, he must bond with his new partner, the free spirited and upcoming female star of the force, to seek the killer of a young woman and shine a light on the evil beneath the surface.

Afghanistan, 2008. A Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. Knowing this man holds information vital to the ongoing conflict, the CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd team to find and rescue their lost operative.

David Juárez aterriza, procedente desde Alicante, en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria para incorporarse en su nuevo puesto como subinspector de policía. Nada más llegar, antes incluso de tomar posesión de manera oficial de su cargo, sus compañeros ya le involucran en la investigación de un extraño crimen: un joven pintor aparece brutalmente asesinado en su apartamento poco después de inaugurar con éxito su última exposición.

Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a British soldier, he now works for the CIA, leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission - to free a prisoner, code-named Maras, and bring her back onto US soil within 48 hours - is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before. Hunted by his former comrades, Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows.

Former soldier and elite CIA operative Ryan Drake is heading out for dinner when he witnesses a sniper attack on a crowded freeway. A motorcade full of Russian Federal Security Force members has been ambushed. Many have been killed and, worst of all, Drake discovers that the leader of the strike team was Anya - the dangerous and enigmatic woman he once risked everything to protect. Drake cannot believe her capable of such an atrocity, but with the Russians baying for blood and tensions rising, Drake and his depleted team head for Siberia to discover the truth.

Jonathan is a private investigator in a decaying Eastern European city, consumed by his work and his failing marriage. Approached one day by an elderly couple, he is presented with a faded photograph of their daughter, missing for nearly two decades. Troubled by the image of the little girl, who was the same age when she vanished as his own daughter is now - he is compelled to find her.

In 1920's Kansas, the mangled body of champion buggy racer Tommy Donnan has been discovered beneath his carriage, dragged to his death by his own horse. His twelve-year-old sister, Millie, does not believe his death was an accident. She wants to know the truth behind the night Tommy died. But with her mother given over to grief, her father to fate, and her only surviving brother, Junior, a shell of himself since returning from The Great War, Millie will have to seek this truth alone.

Die dreizehnte Tür des Sherlock Holmes-Adventkalenders: Holmes und Watson verschlägt es unfreiwillig und unter Lebensgefahr ins Jordantal. Sie müssen zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass die Untergrundorganisation sie bereits im Visier hat.

Ein Wahnsinniger hat es offensichtlich auf Psychologen abgesehen, die er auf bestialische Weise misshandelt und anschließend nackt und gefesselt ertränkt. Der Killer wurde offenbar selbst in seiner Kindheit vom eigenen Großvater grauenvoll gequält und gedemütigt. Als Tony Hill der schrecklichen Vergangenheit illegaler Nazi-Experimente an Kindern auf die Spur kommt, ist es bereits zu spät. Er schwebt als Psychologe selbst in höchster Lebensgefahr.

Le adolescenti di una piccola cittadina stanno scomparendo una dopo l'altra, senza lasciare tracce. Le autorità sono convinte che siano fuggite, forse attratte dalla città, ma chi ha indagato i meccanismi del crimine sa che si tratta di una spiegazione troppo debole. Tocca allo psicologo Tony Hill trovare il filo rosso che lega le sparizioni.

Auf dem Gelände eines ehemaligen katholischen Waisenhauses für Mädchen wird ein grausiger Fund gemacht: Bauarbeiten fördern insgesamt vierzig Skelette von Mädchen zutage, alle vor mindestens zwanzig Jahren unter dem Rasen und im Nutzgarten vergraben - und an einer abgelegenen Stelle zehn männliche Skelette deutlich jüngeren Datums. Was ist in dem Waisenhaus geschehen, in dem Nonnen über Jahrzehnte hinweg ihr unerbittliches Regime ausgeübt haben?

It’s been twenty years since Mori, Avery, Remi and Calista last saw each other. As they reconnect on Cape Cod to celebrate Calista’s 40th birthday, each one hides a painful and devastating secret. Former introvert, Mori is now a bestselling erotica author. She’s more successful than she ever dreamed, and yet shamefully on the cusp of divorce #3. Remi’s a yoga instructor, blissfully married to her high school sweetheart. On this trip, she’s concealing her pregnancy—and the baby’s paternity.

Long ago, Andrew made a childhood wish and kept it in a silver box. When it finally comes true, he wishes he hadn’t.... Long ago, Ben made a promise, and he had a dream: to travel to Africa to volunteer at a lion reserve. When he finally makes it, it isn’t for the reasons he imagined.... Ben and Andrew keep meeting in unexpected places, and the intense relationship that develops seems to be guided by fate. Or is it? What if the very thing that draws them together is tainted by past secrets that threaten everything?

Cooper, Nebraska, is forgettable and forgotten, a town you’d only stumble into if you’d taken a seriously wrong turn. Like Detective Thomas Levine’s career has. But when a young woman is found lying in the snow, choked to death, her eyes gouged out, the disgraced detective is Cooper’s only hope for restoring peace and justice.

Superstar Maria Gibson wird beschuldigt, ihren Ex-Mann, den erfolgreichen Musikproduzenten Neil Gibson, ermordet zu haben. Doch die Sängerin beteuert ihre Unschuld und wendet sich hilfesuchend an Sherlock & Watson. Die tauchen ein in das lukrative Geschäft der Musikindustrie, in der viele bereit sind, für Ruhm und Reichtum ihre Prinzipien über Bord zu werfen. Hat Maria ihren ehemaligen Manager und Ehemann wirklich aus Habgier umgebracht? Oder führen die wahren Gründe tiefer in die Vergangenheit? Als eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, ist klar: Sherlocks & Watson stehen vor einer großen Herausforderung.