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Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young cousin comes to stay, life in the house becomes uncharacteristically lively. First, cousin Judy burns a hole in Miss Bell's desk. Next, they spy a burglar on the staircase—a shadowy figure who vanishes without a trace. And finally, Sarah, the nurse, takes the dogs for a walk and never returns. She is found savagely murdered, and she will not be the last to die.

Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery. Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four women who vanished during a music festival. The event’s promoter was eventually convicted of their murders, and Sheriff CJ Taggart closed the case. But for Sloane, it’s still open. Because the bodies were never found. With Taggart now long dead, Sloane must make do with questioning the victims’ families and the few remaining witnesses once again. If they’re still willing to dredge up memories of a crime that made their town notorious.

Unabridged readings of four spine-tingling stories. This suspenseful anthology collects together four gripping tales of gruesome scientific experiments and chilling supernatural events - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors. With over 18 hours of electrifying listening, tracked by chapter, these classic tales will have you on the edge of your seat.

Vanessa March's husband, Lewis, is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries...and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School. The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black.

The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling “absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G” (@hollylovesbooks1519) and “impossible to put down” (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse… A terrible...

Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James River. No arrests were made. Fourteen years later, Marisa’s friends and dedicated career as a photographer help her to cope with the open wound of the past. But Marisa still feels the hurt—and the unsolved murder isn’t the only thing haunting her. A recent car crash has erased ten days of Marisa’s memories—a black hole leading up to the accident that’s left her disoriented.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and bring her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore...

Manchmal ist das Ende ein Anfang. Dreizehn Jahre lang wurde FBI-Agentin Winter Black von einem Mann heimgesucht, der abscheuliche Verbrechen begangen hat. Er ermordete ihre Eltern. Entführte ihren kleinen Bruder. Ließ sie im Koma zurück, wodurch ihr Leben sich unwiderruflich veränderte. Dreizehn Jahre lang musste sie seelisch und körperlich leiden. Zweifelte an ihrem Verstand und ihrer Fähigkeit, diesen brutalen Mann unschädlich zu machen. Dreizehn Jahre voller Trauer, Hoffnung, Angst und Hass. Jetzt aber hat sich der Junge, den sie vermisst, in einen Mann verwandelt, den sie fürchtet.

In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand-new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery - available together for the first time - Laurie R. King blends her long-running brand of crime fiction with historical treats and narrative sleight of hand.

Alors qu'elle tente de jongler entre sa vie de mère célibataire et celle d'infirmière en soins intensifs, Meghan Michaels voit sa vie basculer lorsque Caitlin, victime d'un traumatisme crânien, arrive aux urgences. L'arrivée d'un témoin bouleverse tout : l'accident n'était peut-être pas un suicide. Meghan s'efforce de ne jamais s'attacher à ses patients. Pourtant, elle baisse sa garde face à l'histoire de Caitlin et se retrouve immergée dans les mystères qui l'entourent.

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.

Als die Überlebenden des Massakers in der Riverside Mall viele Monate später einer nach dem anderen ermordet werden, vermutet die Polizei einen Serienmörder und übergibt den Fall an das FBI. Winter Black ermittelt und setzt sich auf die Spur des unsichtbaren dritten Täters des Blutbades, das sich in derselben Nacht ereignet hatte, in der sie den Preacher – den Mörder ihrer Eltern – zur Strecke brachte. Die Liste der Opfer ist lang, die der Verdächtigen kurz, und als der vermeintliche Täter stirbt, schrumpft sie zu nichts zusammen.

Menschengemachte Netze sind die gefährlichsten … Als Ryan O'Connelly – der unfreiwillige Komplize einer Bankräuberin, die zur Serienmörderin wurde – dem FBI durch die Maschen schlüpfte, rechnete niemand damit, je wieder von ihm zu hören, geschweige denn damit, dass er sich stellen würde. Doch fast ein Jahr nach seiner erfolgreichen Flucht taucht er beim FBI auf und hat Informationen, die Special Agent Winter auf die Spur eines brutalen Serienkillers führen.

Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark - with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others.

In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline’s electrifying, Edgar nominated, first novel in her Rosato & Associates series, a young lawyer at an all-female law firm must stay one step ahead of a stalker who has a deadly agenda. “A page turner that whips through legal labyrinths and...

In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline’s electrifying, Edgar nominated, first novel in her Rosato & Associates series, a young lawyer at an all-female law firm must stay one step ahead of a stalker who has a deadly agenda. “A page turner that whips through legal labyrinths and...

While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek. Nicola cannot abandon them and so sets off on a perilous search for their lost companion - all the while being pursued by someone who wants to make sure none of them leave the island....

Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid. However, her vacation is cut short when a seventeen-year-old goes missing with no leads or clues. When the girl’s body is found in a nearby marsh with strangulation marks around her neck, Rebecca can’t say no when the overworked sheriff asks her to help investigate.

Über ein Dutzend Jahre glaubte Special Agent Winter Black, ihr kleiner Bruder Justin sei tot – entführt und ermordet durch einen Wahnsinnigen, den Preacher, der auch ihre Eltern auf dem Gewissen hat. Eine neue Spur zu Justin bringt sie dazu, ihre Auszeit zu beenden und die Verfolgung aufzunehmen. Doch auch andere Fälle benötigen ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Als ein Zweihundertliterfass mit einer Leiche ausgegraben wird, ist beim FBI die Anspannung hoch. Schon bald wird dem Team klar, dass sie keinen typischen Serienmörder jagen, sondern eine meisterhafte Chirurgin.