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Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that's eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants - a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs - he embarks on a quest to find the truth about love, death, family, and how, ultimately, you make your numbers happy.

Discover the runaway #1 international bestseller that has captured readers the world over―and reminds us all why we remember the name Julius Caesar. “Posteguillo shows just how thrilling a historical novel can be.”―El País Every legend has a beginning . . . Rome, 77 B.C. The corrupt...

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five witnesses and Arla herself as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was a diminished as her legal team made out.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

Wer in diese Hörwelt eintaucht, wird fröhliche Stunden erleben. Exzellente Sprecher interpretieren Humorvolles aus der Feder hochberühmter Autoren. So löst Katharina Thalbach z. B. ein "Kreuzworträtsel mit Gewalt": "Berggipfel in den Seealpen. Nun bitte ich Sie in aller Welt! Seealpen - wissen Sie, wo die Seealpen liegen? Ich weiß das nicht. "KIKAM" setzte ich. Berggipfel in den Seealpen: 'KIKAM'. Ich fand das sehr schön. Und dies ergötzte mich so, dass ich an einem Nachmittag zweiundzwanzig Kreuzworträtsel löste. Mit Gewalt. Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen. Ich habe wundervolle Resultate erzielt..."