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“Moody and riveting.” —New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice In this eerily riveting thriller—the follow-up to the international bestseller Dark August—Gus Monet becomes dangerously entangled with a powerful family whose wealth and success are built on dark and deadly secrets...

You’ll judge me. Hate me, and tell me I’m wrong. Refuse to see how my darkness is what she needs. While I don’t particularly care about your feelings in the matter, and while I pursue her - despite the wedding bells that rang for another - only I can see how she is drowning beneath mediocrity. He had his chance to make her happy. He failed. He didn't see how she was dying inside, because he couldn't know her. Not like I know her. I am her stalker. Her protector. And the only man that can bring her back to life.

Lors dÕun de ses jours de congŽ, elle lit un article dans le Ç Sunday Times È sur les rŽseaux organisŽs de pŽdophiles ˆ Londres qui impliquent le gouvernement du pays lui-m me. Cette situation rend Lily absolument furieuse. Elle peut soit lÕignorer ou soit sÕimpliquer. Sa premi re rŽaction est dÕŽviter le dŽmon qui lÕavait possŽdŽe ˆ Bangkok seulement quelques annŽes plus t™t. Toutefois, lorsquÕelle rencontre dÕautres jeunes victimes dÕabus sexuels, le dŽ semble jetŽ.

Travel writer Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with him. At Machu Picchu, they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient stone staircase. Just before the woman dies, she tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. When the local police investigate, the forensic evidence they find doesn't match what Lily knows.

‘The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake’William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in four original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years...

Londres-Boston, vol de nuit. Ted Severson rencontre la superbe et mystérieuse Lily Kintner. Ils bavardent, boivent des cocktails, et voilà que peu à peu se déclenche un jeu de la vérité au cours duquel, un détail après l'autre, Ted se dévoile à l'oreille bienveillante de Lily. Il lui avoue l'échec de son couple : sa femme, Miranda, le trompe. Il en vient même à confier qu'il la tuerait bien. Et que ce ne serait finalement que justice. Or Lily déclare le plus sérieusement du monde qu'elle est prête à l'aider. Après tout, des tas de gens méritent de mourir, pour toutes sortes de raisons.

“Don’t Breathe a Word is a haunting page-turner that kept me up, spine shivering and enthralled, way past my bedtime.” —Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints “Jennifer McMahon never flinches and never fails to surprise…as [she] weaves a young couple into a...

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

So this girl walks into a bar…and when she walks out there’s a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She’s been doing this for a while, and she’s good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her.

På Hemmet bredvid ån bor det en hel hög med människor. Översten, överstinnan som inte är hans, prostparet, fröken Johansson, docenten - ja, listan kan göras lång. Och ingen av dem har egentligen valt att bo med sina korridorsgrannar. Vad för livshistorier är det som gömmer sig bakom dörrarna? Rykten sprider sig så lätt. Frågan är bara vad som är sant. Föreståndarinnan Syster Sofia får knappt en lugn stund. Det börjar med att fröken Johansson får ett nervöst sammanbrott och inbillar sig att Herren själv besökt hennes rum.

De kunde knappast vara mer olika – den djärva amerikanska äventyraren Beryl Helliwell och den stillsamma, korrekta engelskan Edwina Davenport. Men trots sina olikheter delar de en oväntad talang: att lösa mord.

Die Gemeinde der Stadt Hadleyburg erhebt den Anspruch, als makellose Oase des Anstandes, der Ehre, der Wahrheit und des rechten Glaubens zu gelten. Ihre Bürger werden von klein auf durch das religiöse Wort der Wahrheit erzogen und sehen sich selbst als höchst anständige und moralische Menschen an. Ein ehemaliger Durchreisender stellt die selbsternannten Gutmenschen durch einen raffiniert ausgeklügelten Plan auf die Probe und siehe da - Gelegenheit macht nicht nur Diebe, sondern lässt die selbstgefälligen bürgerlichen Moralapostel im Handumdrehen zu skrupellosen, gewissenlosen, asozialen Bestien mutieren.