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Ein leerstehendes Inselhotel. Ein dubioser Eventveranstalter. Ein Spektakel mit tödlichem Ausgang. Helgoland: Ein verlassenes Hotel auf Deutschlands einziger Hochseeinsel. In diesem Hotel erwacht Stephen Kings The Shining zum Leben. Schnell geschehen mysteriöse Dinge rund um das Live Adventure und „Horror auf Helgoland" wird zum viralen Hit. Als die Ereignisse rund um das Hotel immer beängstigender werden, müssen die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen zusammenarbeiten. Und sehen sich mit einem Mord konfrontiert, bei dem das Event endgültig zur Realität wird.

In a family built on lies, what happens when the truth comes out? ‘A glamorous, dramatic portrait of the lives, desires, and tensions of Nigeria’s upper class.' Oyinkan Braithwaite Bukola Obanile’s 60th birthday party is the hottest ticket in town. But champagne isn’t all that is being...

After inheriting her mother’s printing and party-planning business, Lacey Langdon moves back to her sleepy hometown of Willow Bluffs, perched on New Jersey’s Palisades. When her great-aunt, Tessa Langdon Vander Horn, a well-known and beloved soap opera star, sells her nineteenth-century estate and donates ten acres to the development of a community park, Lacey’s new venture is put at the helm of the opening ceremony.

From the outside, the Davenports look like any other family living a completely ordinary life - until that devastating day when five-year-old Jonah is killed, and the family is torn apart. As the fury of guilt engulfs them, the Davenports slowly start to unravel, one by one. Losing her son forces Rachel to withdraw into a frayed, fuzzy reality. Her husband, Sam, tries to remain stoic, but he's consumed by regret with the choices he's made. Eden mourns her brother, while desperately fighting to regain a sense of normalcy.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. The Great Detective recounts the tale of an old case to Inspector Cockrill, which, solved too late, failed to bring about a conviction. But Cockrill draws his own conclusions on the case.