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An elite scientific military force must combat a plague beyond any cure—a scourge that turns all of nature against mankind in this nail-biting new thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series. From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific...

Violent burglars have been terrorising residents across the English countryside. But when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves. As Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes - and hits countless dead ends. With few leads and the violent attacks escalating, he will have to act as audaciously as the criminals if he hopes to stop them.

Despite his betrayal of Jesus, Judas wants a second chance. When a new prophet is found, he sees the opportunity for redemption. A marketing guru, Judas has never understood why God didn't use his powers to market Jesus to the masses, gaining more followers and saving the world. Intent on showing off his marketing prowess, Judas convinces God to let him return to earth.

For generations, bitter old Andy Mattson terrified the children of Hillside and puzzled his adult neighbors. How did the scowling old codger, who seemed to spend his life stroking his cat on the front porch, support himself? How did he pass the days? And why did he die such a gruesome death? The police find Andy dead on his sofa, covered in blood, eyes wide with fear. The most likely suspect is the dead man’s cat, a howling beast that resembles a trapped badger.

Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic event takes Rebecca out of his life. In the wake of this dramatic misfortune, Richard re-encounters an heirloom, an astonishing mirror.

Renace un personaje que se convertirá en un mito del thriller psicológico: prepárate para sumergirte en la mente de Jabo. A través de la mira telescópica de un rifle de precisión, Jabo Ciendones, un hombre de aspecto normal, común, incluso agradable, pero que esconde un espíritu oscuro y de una lógica apabullante y brutal, acecha la intimidad de los vecinos de Torres Blancas ―una urbanización de lujo situada frente al mar― desde el desván de una de las villas.

From hard-hitting New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi comes Book of Judas, a riveting religious thriller featuring beloved protagonist Alessandra Russo. When her infant son is placed in mortal danger, New York reporter Alessandra Russo is forced to save him by tracking down the missing pages of the Gospel of Judas, a heretical manuscript that was unearthed in Egypt in the 1970s. Do the lost pages contain a secret that will challenge Christianity's core beliefs about the creation of life, or that might hold the power to unleash Armageddon?

In dem abgeschiedenen Dorf Grein am Gebirge, eingeschlossen zwischen den Bergen und einem Fluss, wird eine verstümmelte Mädchenleiche entdeckt, der mehrere Rückenwirbel fehlen. Als Kommissar Alex Körner und sein Team mehrere Exhumierungen anordnen, nehmen die Ermittlungen eine ungeahnte Wendung. Zudem spitzt sich die Lage zu, als der vom Dauerregen stark angeschwollene Fluss über die Ufer tritt. Vom Hochwasser eingeschlossen und von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten, kommt eine schreckliche Wahrheit ans Licht und die grausamen Morde gehen weiter.

Maverick FBI Agent Ana Grey is back in a suspense-charged new novel, going undercover into the volatile core of a terrorist cell. Emotionally vulnerable after a shooting incident, Ana has just returned to the job when she learns that a fellow agent has been murdered by a group of hard-core...

It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother’s bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras and questions don’t usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty…and thorough.

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