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Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in Northern Minnesota. Shortly after moving in, Lucien sets out to find a woman with whom he had an affair, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness, where a cabal of outcasts await the end of the world at a place they call The Land.

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.

First came the whispers. Then the screams. Then the world learned a terrifying truth: the human body can ignite from within. They called it SHC—Spontaneous Human Combustion. No warning. No logic. No mercy. One morning, people simply started burning. And it's consuming humanity, one spark at a time. Where every heartbeat could be your last, and the most dangerous thing to burn for... is hope.

Es gibt keine Wölfe im Spandauer Forst. Oder? "Wolfs Land" ist ein fesselnder Thriller um eine junge Ermittlerin mit Tourette-Syndrom und den Wolf im Menschen. Im Spandauer Forst in Berlin wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. DNA-Spuren belegen, dass sie Wölfen zum Opfer gefallen ist. Ein schrecklicher Unglücksfall, den Charlotte Schönfeldt, die Neue in der Berliner Mordkommission, rasch zu den Akten legen soll. Lotte ist das gerade recht.

Stephan Wellington, ein erfolgreicher Anwalt, wird von seiner eigenen Vergangenheit eingeholt, als er auf seinen einstigen Jugendfreund Georg Sonthofen trifft. Doch dieses Treffen ist kein Zufall. Georg gesteht Stephan, dass er hinter den schrecklichen Ereignissen steckt, die Stephans Leben in Gefahr gebracht haben. Von dem Sturz von einem Scheunenboden bis hin zu einem vergifteten Getränk – Georg offenbart seine dunklen Taten. Doch warum hat Georg all das getan? Welches Motiv treibt ihn dazu, Stephan zu schaden?