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Eine wirtschaftlich geplagte Kleinstadt im Mittleren Westen der USA. In den frühen Morgenstunden haben sich auf dem Parkplatz vor der Stadthalle Hunderte verzweifelte Arbeitsuchende eingefunden. Jeder will der Erste sein, wenn die Jobbörse ihre Tore öffnet. Im Morgendunst blendet ein Autofahrer auf. Ohne Vorwarnung pflügt er mit einem gestohlenen Mercedes durch die wartende Menge, setzt zurück und nimmt erneut Anlauf...

Zwischen Intrigen, Gewalt und begrabenen Emotionen müssen sie sich entscheiden, ob sie bereit sind, über ihre Grenzen zu gehen und alles zu verlieren, oder ihr Leben hinter selbst geschaffenen Mauern zu verbringen. Ava, die als Assistentin für Reese` Psychologin arbeitet, findet sich bald in einem Netz aus Intrigen und dunklen Machenschaften wieder.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today...

The playground is the last place I thought I’d see you. It was my Billy’s first day at school. It was supposed to be a happy one. But then you turned up. I remembered you instantly from the hospital wing. Our babies born on the same day. Both premature. Both needing intensive care. While Billy grew stronger day by day, your baby sadly slipped away. But now you’re back with one devastating accusation…. Billy isn’t my son at all, he’s yours. And you’ve come to take him away.

Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism. Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home.

Every day, in her basement flat in a quiet street, Rene arranges her collection of objects just so. She takes her pills, looks at her photographs and remembers her free-spirited sister, Lauren, before she vanished. But lately the memories are shifting. When a letter arrives out of the blue, the opening words send ice through her veins. Lauren is alive. She’s waiting. And she needs Rene to find her before it’s too late.

Holly Mayhew has the perfect family. But when she notices her seven-year-old daughter, Marley, becoming withdrawn and secretive, she sets up a solution. Holly creates a “worry box”, where Marley can post her innermost thoughts. But as the worry box fills up, Marley’s notes threaten everything Holly thought she knew about her daughter. What is Marley not telling her, and why is she so scared?

Abi Campbell’s brother Jack has everything to look forward to: just 18 and finishing his A-levels, he’s a star student with a prestigious university scholarship awaiting him. The youngest of five, Jack has largely been raised by Abi after their mother died, and she adores him. The Campbells’ world is turned on its head when, one summer morning, the police arrive to arrest Jack. His childhood friend Katie has accused him of a terrible crime. The worst one.

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé ce qui se passait après minuit ? Tout bascule. Le temps se courbe, s'étire, se replie ou se brise en emportant parfois un morceau de réel. Et qu'arrive-t-il à celui qui regarde, les yeux écarquillés, la vitre entre réel et irréel juste avant qu'elle explose et que des aiguilles de verre se mettent à voler en tous sens ?

Les journalistes le savent : si ça saigne, l'info se vend. Et l'explosion d'une bombe au collège Albert Macready est du pain bénit dans le monde des news en continu. Holly Gibney, de l'agence de détectives Finders Keepers, travaille sur sa dernière enquête lorsqu'elle apprend l'effroyable nouvelle en allumant la télévision. Elle ne sait pas pourquoi, mais le journaliste qui couvre les événements attire son attention.

After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh's most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. When a child's bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy.

King ou l'art d'enraciner dans les petits faits les plus insignifiants de la vie quotidienne le suspense et l'épouvante. Bazaar est au cœur de Castle Rock, cette petite ville américaine où l'auteur a situé nombre de ses thrillers tels Cujo, La Part des ténèbres ou Les Tommyknockers... Une poudrière où s'accumulent et se déchaînent toute la violence et la démence que recèle l'âme de chacun. Jusqu'à l'implosion. King ou l'art de rayer une ville de la carte par la seule force de la haine. De ces haines qui vous font mourir ou tuer.

Par curiosité, par amusement, par amour peut-être, Jessie s'est longtemps prêtée aux bizarreries sexuelles de Gerald, son mari. Puis un jour, elle s'est rebellée. Débattue. Avec une violence qu'elle ne soupçonnait pas. Et à présent la voilà nue, enchaînée à un lit, dans une maison perdue, loin de tout. Un cadavre à ses pieds... Un mauvais rêve ? Non. L'horreur ne fait que commencer. Et jamais le maître de l'épouvante ne nous a encore emmenés aussi loin dans la terrifiante exploration de nos phobies et de nos cauchemars.

Besessen bis zum Mord. Der neue große Stephen King. John Rothstein hat in den Sechzigern drei berühmte Romane veröffentlicht, seither aber nichts mehr. Morris Bellamy, ein psychopathischer Verehrer, ermordet den Autor aus Wut über dessen "Verrat". Seine Beute besteht aus einer großen Menge Geld und einer wahren Fundgrube an Notizbüchern. Bellamy vergräbt vorerst alles - und wandert dummerweise für ein völlig anderes Verbrechen in den Knast.

When a body turns up at a Texas Uni Campus, police initially believe it’s the result of an initiation gone wrong, the victim covered in graffiti while suspended above a fire pit. As more bodies are found, each the result of a sadistic game played by a vicious killer, it soon becomes clear that a new evil has risen. With the death toll mounting and the police left clueless, Sam is quickly dispatched to help locate the monster. But things take a turn when a student makes a confession so shocking, it leaves many questioning the very force meant to protect them.

When multiple inmates start turning up dead at a Californian Correctional Facility, John Milton steps in and Sam and Tim are assigned to find the culprit. With the team split on either side of the fence, both race against time to discover the true identity of the killer. As Sam dons an officer’s uniform and Tim joins the general population, the pair will have to work quickly to save the lives of more innocent victims. With the body count rising and a system struggling to stop the violence, will Sam end another killer, or will he add her partner to his growing list of victims?

A female killer calling herself “Black Death” is murdering men around Chicago’s less-than-respectable establishments. Each body is found with a black rose, together with the same cryptic calling card, leaving authorities baffled as to her identity. When the latest victim turns out to be a well-respected police officer, the city’s mayor reaches out for help.

It seemed like a dream come true when we first moved in. A chance to leave my stressful job behind and fix things with James. But something gnaws at me each morning as I wave my husband off to work from our gated community, accept a coffee from Lin, our housekeeper, and watch my kids play in these eerily perfect, car-free streets. When a neighbor’s body is found floating in a pool during a party, the other wives say it was a tragic accident. But there are also whispers about the family who lived in our villa before us—just vanished one day, they say.

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George is bitter. As he should be. Once a household name, George is dying to make a comeback, and death may be the only option left to get the public's attention. Ask anyone, his life is unraveling at the seams. Meanwhile, his new apprentice is everything he is not. The enigmatic man his publisher sends to help is young and ambitious, with looks that could kill and possibly do.