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Best-selling authors Jeffery Deaver and Anne Perry join rising stars like Dana Chamblee Carpenter and Paul Gail Benson in a collection that proves Music City is a deadly place to be when your song gets called. Featuring stories by Donald Bain, Robert Dugoni, Jefferson Bass, Mary Burton, Jonathan Stone, Steven James, Maggie Toussaint, Clay Stafford, Heywood Gould, Jaden Terrell, and more....

A collection of killer stories from some of today's hottest crime fiction writers, edited by grandmaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. Killer Year is a group of thirteen authors whose first novels were published in the year 2007. Now, each member of this widely-praised organization has written a story with his or her own unique twist on the world of crime.

Murder is that most heinous of crimes. But some murderers simply can’t get enough of it. Beneath the well-known monsters such as Lecter there lurk those other evil-doers who are the vivid confessions of our classic authors.

Joey Morales ist noch ein Teenager, als sie das Orphan-Programm verlässt. Aber sie ist nicht alleine: An ihrer Seite ist Evan Smoak, auch bekannt als Orphan X, für den Joey zu der Familie geworden ist, die er nie hatte. Sie schickt Evan auf seine bisher ungewöhnlichste Mission, für die er einige tödliche Individuen rekrutieren muss: Candy McClure (Orphan V), Tommy Stojack (Schwarzmarkt-Waffenschmied) und Arragón Urea (ehemaliger Drogenboss). Ihre Hilfe gibt es nicht umsonst. Aber Evan wird jeden Preis bezahlen, um Joey zu helfen.

Fifteen crime stories set on or nearby the beautiful Lake Maggiore and Lake d'Orta. The backdrop for these stories are Stresa, Levo, Belgirate, Santa Caterina del Sasso, Luino, Maccagno, Sesto Calende, Brissago, Mergozzo, Orta and Pettenasco. Fifteen authors with different styles and united by a love of the lakes and a passion for writing.

Undercover Assignment From USA Today best-selling author Dana Mentink, this K-9 will stop at nothing to keep a child safe. When a little boy is threatened, Officer Daniella Vargas and K-9 partner Zara are assigned to pose as his nanny to uncover the culprit’s identity. Suspecting one of the...

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by best-selling, award-winning female crime writers. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as 20 deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places....

Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London's East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace - leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before - a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

Cold-blooded predators lurk in the Everglades and not all of them are gators When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner...

Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation’s capital. Kyle’s about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It’s a fact that hits home when he’s the one accused...of murder. Kyle’s come to the city to give a report to his senator on the misdeeds of Nevada’s filthy rich copper kings. But before he has a chance, he’s knocked unconscious, later coming to alongside his senator - now dead, with Kyle’s knife embedded in the corpse.

A collection of suspenseful standalone radio thrillers by Edward Boyd Scottish writer Edward Boyd was well known for his TV and radio plays, including The Corridor People and The View from Daniel Pike, and he also penned several episodes of Z-Cars. He specialised in the thriller genre, and this...

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits...

Neunzehn kriminelle Geschichten zwischen hochspannend und lustig; von ermordeten Mördern, betrogenen Betrügern, falschen Opfern und überraschend lebendigen Leichen.

Kurt Reid may be innocent of the murder he's charged with (and of grand larceny, for that matter), but he's got no time to be thrown in jail and defend himself. Instead, Reid flees to pre-Communist China and Shanghai, the exotic city of mystery and death. Reid takes refuge in a tea house where he meets a Russian woman, Varinka Savischna, whom he manages to rescue from certain death. As beautiful as she is smart, she recruits him in her crusade against Chinese intelligence services.

The Japanese military has turned the once-thriving Chinese city of Nencheng into a reeking pile of blood and ash. And now the Japanese Rising Sun threatens to scorch the ancient - and oil-rich - Kingdom of the Silver Lake. Can the Chinese survive the onslaught? Do they have a prayer? The answer is about to fall out of the sky. He is The Falcon Killer.

Ein Selbstmord auf dem Universitätscampus schockiert Joey Morales zutiefst. Sie entdeckt den Grund für Becca Morgans Verzweiflungstat – ein Dokument namens »The List«, das Frauen auf dem Campus nach ihrer sexuellen Attraktivität und Leistung einstuft und bewertet. Entschlossen die Verantwortlichen hinter dieser Liste zu finden, nimmt Joey die Hilfe ihres Mentors Orphan X an. Sie muss sich selbst in Gefahr bringen, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form. The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley’s schismatic Trent’s Last Case in 1913...

After a long run as a respected journalist, Edward “Fitz” Fitzhugh is on his way out when he stumbles across the story of a lifetime. The Gravedigger is a serial kidnapper who taunts the police with riddles. The other puzzle is his motive, which Fitz is determined to piece together. When an eyewitness to the latest abduction leads Fitz closer to the facts, he realizes that the last great story of his career is not at all what it appears to be.

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in...

Gut geplant sind in diesen 18 Geschichten die Morde, Einbrüche und Überfälle. Auch die eine oder andere raffinierte Betrügerei ist dabei. Doch irgendwas geht meistens schief. Und es sind nicht immer die cleveren Ermittler, die dafür sorgen, dass auch den ganz gewieften Gaunern das Handwerk gelegt wird.