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A deadly game. An unstoppable killer. The perfect alibi. Lucy Anderson is late collecting her daughter from nursery. A mistake that could prove fatal. Her daughter is gone, and there is only one way Lucy can get her back. The ransom is simple: she has to kill someone.... And this is just the beginning. A deadly game with a domino effect has started as the real killer forces others to do his bidding. Can detective inspector Hannah Robbins find the killer’s next puppet before they’re forced to strike, or will this be the case where her opponent has found the perfect way to kill?

The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner, Velda, has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered - a cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal, Captain Pat Chambers, has discovered that Velda is in Florida, now the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.

Er war die Liebe meines Lebens. Bis ich ihn verlassen musste. Jetzt ist er der Mann, der mich gefangen hält. Rylee hätte nie erwartet, als Hauptverdächtige im Keller des Weißen Hauses verhört zu werden, nachdem der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten entführt wurde. Dumm nur, dass alle Indizien gegen sie sprechen. Immerhin war sie die Einzige, die sich im Raum mit ihm aufhielt, als dieser verschwand. Und das Blut an ihrem Körper entlastet sie auch nicht unbedingt. Doch das ist nicht Rylees einziges Problem. Jetzt soll sie dem Secret Service den Aufenthaltsort des Präsidenten nennen, obwohl sie sich an rein gar nichts erinnern kann.

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people.

JJ has a good life. One where he lives with the people he loves, gets to work in Saintly Sweets with his delicious boyfriend, and takes things a day at a time. Of course, that is until he comes across a broken boy so lost in a nightmare that he vows to do everything he can to help him wake from it. There's nothing Shepard Saint won't do for his JJ. Even help him figure out how to save someone who may be lost to the darkness. He knows this won't be easy, and the deeper they go, the harder it becomes to climb out.

Sie sind Schwestern, und sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Denn beide wollen sich das Imperium ihres verstorbenen Vaters sichern, eines Drogenbosses in Guatemala City. Der blutige Streit dauert bereits Jahre, und die amerikanische Drug Enforcement Administration versucht von heimischem Territorium aus vergebens, den Drogenkrieg zu beenden. Die Fehde fordert immer neue Todesopfer, zudem hat sich nun eine der Schwestern eine ganz besondere Waffe in diesem Kampf gesichert: Victor.

Mirabelle’s past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents’ tragic deaths to her guardians’ half-truths about why she can’t return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have...

Book editor Agnes Nielsen never anticipated the viral celebrity that would come after solving the attempted murder of her best friend. Suddenly swept up in a world of luxury, she finds herself mingling with New York’s movers, shakers, and moneymakers—among them the enigmatic heiress Charlotte Bond, who takes Agnes under her wing. But those wings, it turns out, aren’t enough to save Charlotte from a fatal fall.

A beautiful model's death uncovers an ugly conspiracy stretching all the way to Westminster in Rosie Gilmour's darkest case to date. When rags-to-riches Scots supermodel Bella Mason plunges to her death from the roof of a glitzy Madrid hotel, everyone assumes it was suicide. Except that one person saw exactly what happened to Bella that night, and she definitely didn't jump. But Millie Chambers has no one she can tell - alcoholic, depressed herself and now sectioned by her bullying politician husband, who would believe her?

When your life is a lie, who can you trust? When Maggie Taylor accepts a new job in Manchester, she is sure it is the right move for her family. The children have settled well, although her husband, Duncan, doesn’t appear to be so convinced. But nothing prepares her for the shock of coming home from work one night to find that Duncan has disappeared, leaving their young children alone. His phone is dead, and she has no idea where he has gone or why.

My father has chosen me to succeed him in the family business. But if I want the job, it comes with stipulations. And one of those stipulations is to never mix business with pleasure. AKA, don't sleep with anyone on the job. My father leads by example, and not once have I ever seen him get involved with anyone, not even his beautiful assistant. That was an easy rule to follow...until Axel.

Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but—thanks to the success of their new business venture, the D&T Cattle Company—they’re riding high in the saddle. And raking in the cash. What’s their secret? They rob banks. Disguised as even older men than they are, Doolin and Tubbs have managed to pull off a string of bank jobs without a hitch, making just a few withdrawals to help fund their ranch.

Drake: Sie befand sich in Lebensgefahr, und sie zu retten war eher ein natürlicher Reflex als Absicht. Leider brach ich eine mir selbst auferlegte Regel, als ich den Kerl ausschaltete, der sie in der Mangel hatte, denn zum ersten Mal hatte ich Zeugen. Doch es wurde noch schlimmer, als sich herausstellte, dass sie die Tochter des Mannes ist, den ich als Nächstes töten werde. Nun weiß sie davon und es gibt im Grunde nur noch eine Möglichkeit. Sie wird sich noch wünschen, nie gerettet worden zu sein.

Mike Hammer is on the case, this time hunting the murderer of his old friend and bootlegger-turned-legit-businessman Packy Paragon. Already torn up by the disappearance of Velda, his beloved secretary, Mike Hammer carves a brutal path for vengeance. Drinking heavily, his relationships fraying, his behavior self-destructive, Hammer has to track down Paragon’s black book, with the names of every corrupt official in town. With deception everywhere, and a whole host of reasons to want the ledger, Hammer has to pull himself together and solve the case before all hell breaks loose.

From the best-selling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a mind-bending thriller that's soaked with raw sensuality, as an investigator’s search takes a wicked turn when he meets a beautiful and provocative woman.

Samantha Leiffer is trying to get a grip on reality. Her live-in boyfriend, detective John Krull, isn't deeply troubled, he's just quiet. Her ex isn't a stalker, he's just trying to be friendly. And the nerdy stranger who gives Sam a note warning her of danger unless she calls him, is just hitting on her-until one by one, people vaguely connected to her start getting killed. Now Sam knows she's not imagining the murderer - and that he's closer than she thinks.

To the world, Linda DeSilva's marriage to Robert Edelman was perfect. He was her college boyfriend turned wealthy and successful husband, and the father of her children. But what friends and family didn't know was that the Texas real estate tycoon who set her up with a luxurious life in Dallas was also her abuser. When she asked him for a divorce, the violence against her only escalated, until the shocking moment she learned her husband had hired an assassin to take her life.

What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power - our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks”, and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires.

Damiano is a young man and lives his everyday life being carried along by events, until suddenly life takes him to Mozambique. It's a place he gets to know through the eyes of an inexperienced traveller. He searches for the girl he has fallen madly in love with, who seems to have disappeared. Following her trail, Damiano crosses a country that surprises him with its dynamism, its contrasts, the presence of international interests, and its environmental and social challenges. But also with its music, art, activism, superstition—his own and others'. "Kill Me Now" is a podcast that aims to ...

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