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When the dead body of a Latino woman is found in a reservoir about 50 miles north of Manhattan, with a photo of a baby in her purse nearby, the police try to determine who the child is and if it is still alive. Along with the photo, they also find a disturbing note in the purse: "Go back to your country. You don't belong here."

At a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, 84 of the most dangerous psycopaths alive have vanished from their cells without a trace. Leading their ranks: the Candy Man - the most ruthlessly brilliant serial killer ever in captivity. The only way to catch a crazed killer is to think like one. Rogue agent Jared Kimberlain - the most dangerous man who ever worked for the forces of good - is the only man driven enough to do the job. Or die trying.

It spite of the tightest high-tech security ever conceived, billionaire Jordan Lime is savagely killed by a weapon that tears him apart limb by limb with grim, laserlike efficiency. An army unlike any other has fired its first shot. In its ranks are the world's most vicious killers, fortified by a super-advanced arsenal against which there is no defense. It is a madman's plan to conquer the earth by destroying it. He will unleash the devastating powers of the atom and let the cataclysmic wrath of nature do the rest.

Four old women return from a Bahamas vacation with four more suitcases than they had when they left. They leave them behind at baggage claim, and a stranger picks them up - disappearing with the extra suitcases and the hundreds of pounds of cocaine they hold. The grandmothers are smugglers, supplementing their social security with criminal income, but one of them is tired of the deception. She goes to the DEA to inform on her employer, a vicious drug lord named Trelana, and when he learns she has snitched her age does not buy mercy.

They say your memory can't be trusted. They say your story doesn't check out. They say you were never blindfolded...starved...or imprisoned in a filthy shed like an animal. But you know it happened. And you know it can happen again. This masterful novel of brilliantly drawn characters and harrowing suspense will shock you at every turn and force you to walk the fine line between madness and fear. Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 'Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ' LEE CHILD 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby...

Der brutale Frauenmörder Bruno Shallock scheint in einem kleinen Ort wieder aufgetaucht zu sein. Das Reporter-Team Matt Rivers und Catherine Baker werden von ihrem Chef beauftragt, dem neuen Mordfall nachzugehen. Rivers gerät in die Fänge des Bösen, er erfährt von teuflischen Experimenten und wo der Killer ist ... Der Killer in dir.

'Craig anatomises the state of the nation with wit and empathy' JONATHAN COE 'The most mischievous take imaginable on the way we live now' FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'Terrific' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Sharp and funny, clear-eyed and unsentimental' CLARE CHAMBERS 'She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly...

DIE STILLE VOR DEM SCHUSS. Bei einem morgendlichen Ausflug in die texanische Wüste findet Hobbyjäger Llewellyn Moss eine gespenstische Szenerie vor: mehrere Leichen, eine Pick-up-Ladefläche voller Heroin und am Ende einer Blutspur einen Koffer mit 2,4 Millionen Dollar. Er behält das Geld – sein erster Fehler. Der zweite: In der Nacht kehrt er zum Tatort zurück, um seine Spuren zu verwischen. So gerät er ins Visier des eiskalten Killers Chigurh. Und genau wie der alte Sheriff Bell ist Moss dieser Form von Grauen und Gewalt nicht gewachsen.

After a dog walker discovers human remains in a badger sett in the idyllic Salisbury countryside, DI Ford is called in to lead the ensuing murder investigation. When a second victim turns up in a nearby pond, Ford is determined to find the connection. Both victims met their fate near the sprawling Alverchalke Estate, ancestral home of a decorated war hero and his family. One was a dogged eco-activist and vocal critic of Lord Baverstock. The other was a petty criminal and poacher, youngest brother of a notorious local crime family.

Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath. Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely figure of Charles Pettigrew, a failing London publisher who lives alone on the edge of the Heath. Pettigrew's lawyer calls on recently retired David Brock for advice, and soon, unable to resist the pull of investigation, the old colleagues, Brock and Kolla, are at loggerheads.

Ricky Savage is Sharon McCone's brother-in-law, and the hottest country singer in the business. He's on top professionally, but hitting rock bottom in his personal life. His longtime marriage to Sharon's sister, Charlene, is breaking up, forcing him to question if it was all worth it: the struggle, hard times, and hopes of stardom that finally came true. Even worse, Ricky has been getting anonymous letters threatening not only himself, but also his children.

The darkest secrets are the hardest to uncover.... When private investigator Beverley Saunders is tasked with going undercover, she relishes the chance to disguise herself as a cleaner in order to get close to Anthony, renowned drug lord of Manchester. Anthony's neighbours are sick of his behaviour, and Bev's just the woman they need to find out what's going on behind closed doors. As Bev begins to infiltrate Anthony's world, she soon realises she's in danger - and this time, she might be too far in to get out. 

Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by thePlague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have...

Eine mysteriöse Mordserie stellt den jungen Sheriff einer Kleinstadt im Süden der USA vor ein schier unlösbares Rätsel. Nicht die geringsten Spuren von dem oder den Tätern sind zu finden und obwohl alle Opfer erschossen wurden, findet man nicht ein einziges Projektil in den Körpern der Toten. Harry Walsh, ein befreundeter Polizist des Sheriffs, empfiehlt einen auf mysteriöse Fälle spezialisierten Ex-FBI-Mann zu den Ermittlungen heranzuziehen. Bis ein weiterer Mord geschieht. Und plötzlich wird der Sheriff mit einer unfassbaren Wahrheit konfrontiert.

Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself.

Der packende Bestseller aus der "Wuthenow-Thriller"-Serie von Kindle#1-Autorin Roxann Hill. Vergiss nie: Ich töte dich. Der renommierte Profiler Dr. Carl von Wuthenow wird von der Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft um Unterstützung bei den Ermittlungen in einem politisch besonders brisanten Mordfall gebeten: Ein minderjähriger Stricher wurde bestialisch getötet, seine Leiche auf einem Bauplatz entsorgt. Der junge Mann stammte aus dem arabischen Raum, und die Spuren des Täters weisen in die rechte Szene. Carl von Wuthenow willigt ein.

After the crowning achievement of his career - an undercover operation that took down the New York Mob - Donnie Brasco thought he had left the FBI for good. But when two agents corner him at the funeral of his mentor, Paul Weinman, Donnie finds himself inexorably drawn back into the game. Weinman had been running a case so secret and fraught with danger that all Donnie can uncover are a few cryptic clues - just enough to send him down a trail that imperils him as well as his family.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land, read by Hannah Murray. 'NEW NAME . NEW FAMILY. SHINY. NEW. ME.' Annie's mother is a serial killer. The only way she can make it stop is to hand her in to the police. But out of sight is not out of mind...

Kommissarin Wencke Dierksen will mit der Polizeiarbeit nichts mehr zu tun haben, so viel ist sicher. Sie ist ins beschauliche Sorum nahe Hamburg zurückgezogen und wohnt auf dem Bauernhof, den ihr Onkel ihr vererbt hat – zusammen mit Alpaka Christopher, der eine echte Persönlichkeit ist. Hier will sie bleiben, bereit für einen neuen Lebensabschnitt. Bis ihr ehemaliger Kollege Theo Kleist sie um Hilfe bittet: Es hat ein Verbrechen gegeben, versehentlich gefilmt von Dackel Bootsmann, der mal wieder mit dem Handy seines Besitzers auf Wanderschaft war.