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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

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.

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.

L'été suédois 196… promet d'être beau et chaud. Dans un cadre idyllique - une bicoque familiale au bord d’un lac, à l'orée d'une forêt - Erik, quatorze ans, entame ses vacances avec son ami Edmund et son grand frère Henry. Pour les deux adolescents, qui goûtent pour la première fois à l'ivresse de la liberté, ce sera l'été de toutes les découvertes. Ce sera aussi l'été de tous les fantasmes. Un soir, Henry revient accompagné d'une femme, qui n’est autre que leur professeur, la sublime Eva Kaludis.

Kim Slade is at work when there's a knock at her office door. Someone is waiting for her in reception. A woman claiming to be her mother. The mother who abandoned her thirty years ago. Monica Slade has been working as a live-in housekeeper for a judge and his wife, she says. But now Judge Hawkes is dead. The last thing Monica says before the police take her in for questioning is: "There are things you should know. About the past."

Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron. Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra. ¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas? Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qué fue lo que pasó ese día, hace justo un año, cuando el trágico incendio de aquella cápsula hiperbárica cambió la vida de todos para siempre. ¿Es posible que sea verdad que Elizabeth provocó el incendio en el que murió su pequeño hijo con autismo? ¿Será condenada a muerte por ello?

Het tot pulp geslagen gezicht van het meisje kijkt nietsziend omhoog. Aarde valt uit haar mond. Honderden vliegen verzamelen zich boven het bloederige tafereel. Werken bij Westerley vereist een sterke maag: op deze 'body farm' wordt menselijke ontbinding onderzocht. Maar als inspecteur Kim Stone en haar team een vers lijk aantreffen, realiseren ze zich dat er een moordenaar is die de perfecte verstopplek heeft gevonden.

Twee meisjes verdwijnen, maar slechts een van hen zal overleven. Kim Stone is een briljante rechercheur met een prachtige carrière, al zorgt haar eigengereide werkwijze geregeld voor problemen met haar superieuren. Ook haar moeilijke verleden maakt haar soms kwetsbaar, maar ze laat zich door niets of niemand tegenhouden – Kim geeft het woord 'koppig' een geheel nieuwe betekenis. Twee negenjarige meisjes, Charlie en Amy, verdwijnen. Hun families belanden in een nachtmerrie. Een bericht bevestigt hun ergste vermoedens: de twee zijn ontvoerd.

Meg wants a normal life. Her new artistic style, born in the depression of her mother's death, is poised to take the art world by storm, if she could just overcome the debilitating anxiety caused by the car accident that scarred her boyfriend, Austin. Encouraged by her therapist, Meg pushes outside her comfort zone to befriend Haley, a guest instructor at the university. Haley is everything Meg wants to be: charismatic, confident, and perfect, but when Austin expresses his worry that Haley is changing Meg too fast, Meg kicks him out of her life. Or at least, she tries.

Was für Tina und Scott Gibson als normale Firmenfeier begann, endete in einem Albtraum. Nach einem Filmriss erwacht Scott in einer alten Lagerhalle, gefesselt und geknebelt. Er muss feststellen, dass er das Opfer in einem perfiden Spiel ist und dass eine unbekannte Person ihn zwingt, selbstzerstörende und gewalttätige Prüfungen zu bestehen. Nur so kann er das Leben seiner Familienmitglieder retten.

When the body of social worker Dermot Carine is discovered in a hotel room, the ripples of suspicion start to spread in many directions. Dermot’s sister has come to town searching for answers. But before the killer is identified, long-held secrets will threaten to break apart families, ruin marriages, and leave more than one person dead.

When Mary's husband Brent returns from a month-long wellness retreat, he seems like a totally different person. Before he went away, Brent was anxious, depressed, and in danger of losing his job. Now, he’s decisive, optimistic, and full of energy. He also has big plans to start his own business… big plans which require a lot of capital.

In an isolated cottage on the banks of a Scottish loch, a reclusive couple take on a new live-in carer. As Lucy gets to know her employers, she realizes the house and the people in it aren't what they seem. Is the house haunted or is something far more sinister living within the walls? As secrets and lies begin to unravel, Lucy starts to question what is real. But one thing seems certain, if scars cannot heal, people will never forgive . . .

The Ashleys are determined to build a future detached from the issues of their pasts, and it seems to be working: they’re happily married, in love, established in their dream careers, and closer than ever to being debt-free. But when a mysterious opportunity arrives with an offer they can’t refuse, everything changes. Soon, they meet her: she’s rich, powerful, single-minded in her goals, and not used to being told no. Worst of all, she knows about the dirty deeds they’ve done in the dark… If they don’t do exactly what she wants, the ramifications of their secrets being exposed are endless.

Jim Cutter får sit livs chok, da han hører, at nabofamilien er blevet fundet brutalt myrdet, og hvad værre er, så ved hans egen teenagesøn Derek tilsyneladende noget, som han ikke vil ud med. Men Derek er ikke den eneste i familien, der har hemmeligheder, og måske er det ligefrem sådan, at gerningsmanden er gået galt af de to huse. Spørgsmålet er nu, hvor lang tid der går, inden morderen opdager det.