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Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th-century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the secret intelligence files on Edith Tudor-Hart, along with the private archive letters of Kim Philby, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel—by the granddaughter of Kim Philby—tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man.

“It isn’t easy to write a protagonist that blends the best qualities of Anita Blake and Stephanie Plum, but Kim Harrison carries it off with style. This is a fun book! Read it!” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the Hollows, the vampires come out to play… and...

Questo affascinante romanzo di Rudyard Kipling ci mostra un lato dell’India e della cultura buddhista incredibilmente uscito da una penna inglese, in cui tutta la spiritualità orientale, a partire dalla Ruota delle orti e rinascite viene tratteggiata su un o scenario di panorami, di razze e persone comuni, di agenti segreti. Kim, l’allievo del Lama, ci porta con sé, nel suo viaggio iniziatico, in una ridda di avventure . Cornice musicale: Danza macabra, di Saint Saens.

In 1972 on Mudas Summers's 17th birthday, her beloved mama Ella is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out for sure either way, especially once she finds strange papers hidden among her mama's possessions

Die stille Kunst des Tötens und ein Killer, der seine Würde entdeckt. Raeseng ist Killer von Beruf, seit ihn Old Raccoon als Kind bei sich aufnahm und ausbildete. Aufgewachsen an einem geheimen Rückzugsort in Seoul, einer Bibliothek voller alter Bücher, gehört er zur Killer-Elite Koreas. Denn Old Raccoon ist ein Plotter. Als Kopf der Organisation "Library of Dogs" hat er seit Jahrzehnten alle politisch gewollten Exekutionen in Korea geplant. Doch als die Macht der Diktatur schwindet, gerät auch der Einfluss der Plotter ins Wanken - und eine neue Generation beginnt, ihr eigenes tödliches Netzwerk aufzuziehen.

Eine magische Metropole verborgen in einer Pfälzer Kleinstadt. Eine Bäckerin, die zu jedem Mordfall gerufen wird. Aëlis hat sich mit ihrer magischen Eidechse Gurke und als Bäckerin im Werwolf-Gasthaus mittlerweile gut in Schrakenheim eingelebt. Wäre da nur nicht dieses Problem, denn immer noch hängt Teresa im Magierdolch fest. Doch noch bevor sie den Befreiungsversuch unternehmen können, bricht in Schrakenheim das reinste Hexenchaos los, das die Besenreiterinnen Aëlis schon vor die Füße fallen. Ein Hexentanz wurde anberaumt. Jedoch überlebt eine der Hexen das Ritual nicht!

Als het gruwelijk toegetakelde lichaam van een man wordt gevonden, komt rechercheur Kim Stone er met een schok achter dat ze het slachtoffer kent: het is dokter Cordell, de man die ook betrokken was bij een eerdere zaak rond de dood van een schoolmeisje. Maar hoewel zijn verleden misschien niet brandschoon is, lijkt er geen enkele reden om hem dood te wensen.

In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.

Cuidado con lo que deseas... El precio de la perfección podría ser tu condena. En una cocina ahora silenciosa, Sheryl Hawne yace en un charco de sangre. A su lado está su única hija, Katie, aún con el arma homicida en la mano y aparentemente incapaz de hablar. Para la detective Kim Stone, el caso parece claro y resuelto. Pero Katie no está en condiciones de ser interrogada, así que Kim y su equipo tendrán que profundizar para entender qué desencadenó ese acto tan brutal.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An epic journey into the heart of North Korea and the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. “Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The...

Twelve-year-old Lewis Stevens disappeared from a seafront arcade. Eleven-year-old Noah Reid vanished from the pier stretching out over the beach. Detective Kim Stone doesn’t play well with others… but as the investigation into the missing children stalls, she is sent halfway across the country to join the hunt. When she knocks on the door of Lewis’s house, she’s expecting to meet a desperate, hopeful mother, and to promise she’ll do everything in her power to bring Lewis home.

To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her. As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at...

It's a dark night in an alley when Seo Jin-tae marks me. A death sentence written across my skin that there's no escaping from. No matter how far I run, or how well I hide, he'll come for me. But when he returns to carry out his grim mission, something changes. Instead of ending my life, he claims it. I become his obsession—the one thing he can't bring himself to destroy. And as passion burns between us, I realize I don't stand a chance. I find myself drawn to the man who once sought to kill me.

My name is Raven Crowley-Lopez, and I plan to murder Mercedes Crowley, my mother-in-law. My family was forced to move into her estate after we lost our own home because of a severe personal crisis. Now, I'm facing a living nightmare because I'm convinced that my mother-in-law is plotting to get rid of me, and perhaps even plans to murder me. It happened once before, and it will happen again, even if no one believes me.

An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the black site where the insidious private...

“I spy … a brilliant thriller! Double or Nothing is a clever and utterly compelling addition to the Bond canon.” —Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double O agents with a license to kill, that blows the world of...

Året er 1946, og Rebecca Swift kan se sine drømme om både kærlighed og et liv som kunstner stille forsvinde. Og så forsvinder hun selv i bølgerne ud for Australiens vilde kyst. Fyrre år senere er Tess Millers drømme ligeledes ved at falde fra hinanden. Den succesfulde New York-redaktør har mistet sit vigtigste forfatterskab til forlagets nye talent, og hun sidder tilbage med Edward Russel, en afdanket, australsk digter, der er ved at skrive en roman om en ukendt kunstner ved navn Rebecca Swift.

Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence. Philby joined Britain's secret service MI6 during the war and went on to head the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies before becoming the service's chief liaison officer with the CIA. He betrayed hundreds of British and US agents to the Russians and compromised numerous operations inside the Soviet Union.

"Kim Novak badete nie im See von Genezareth" ist kein klassischer Krimi, handelt aber von einem Mord, den zwei Jugendliche in einer Sommernacht beobachten. Eine schöne Frau und ihr heimlicher Geliebter könnten Hinweise auf Motiv und Täter liefern, doch alle schweigen, und der Fall wird nie aufgeklärt.