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He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him. What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will - one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future...

Aba Abate è una donna normale. Suo marito Paolo, pubblicitario aspirante scrittore, è un uomo colto ma con scarso senso pratico. I suoi figli, Francesco e Cristina, sono adolescenti e, come tutti i ragazzi a quell'età, problematici e conflittuali. La sua unica vera amica sin dai tempi della scuola, Tiziana, ha una libreria e da single continua a cercare il grande amore. Aba si rivolge a lei in cerca di un aiuto per le aspirazioni di romanziere del marito. Aba fa di tutto per tenere unita la sua famiglia e i suoi affetti, ma non è sempre facile per via del suo vero lavoro.

"En realidad no sé cuál es el motivo de escribir este libro. Ni siquiera tengo la certeza de que llegue a manos de alguien. Lo único que tengo claro es que necesito contar esta historia. Me van a matar. Si os dijese que no tengo miedo os mentiría. Mi único consuelo es que sé que valdrá...

Amber Pierce thought she'd planned the perfect family vacation. Seeking to mend the rift with her daughter, she books a camping retreat in the breathtaking Cascades . . . a trip that includes her ex-husband and his new wife. But hours into their first hike, the group takes a wrong turn. Days later, they're lost, hungry, dehydrated, and hope is fading.

Stan Turner is asked by the CIA to defend a woman accused of killing her alien husband and three children. What the CIA doesn't tell Stan is that the woman's husband isn't from Mexico but from another planet.

"Ho pensato ad Amina, la mia più cara amica. Durante tutti gli anni della nostra amicizia non ci era mai capitato di essere interessate allo stesso ragazzo. Però avevamo previsto che potesse succedere e ci eravamo promesse che nessuno ci avrebbe mai diviso. Ma stavolta era diverso, inaspettatamente strano. Era stata lei a vederlo per prima. Forse avrei dovuto farmi da parte, ma non ne ero capace. Non sapevo che le nostre vite sarebbero cambiate per sempre."

Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest - and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away. After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father.

WAS IST SCHON NORMAL? Patrizia Fischers bipolare Welt gerät erneut aus den Fugen, als ihre Mutter ausgerechnet den Mann heiraten will, der sie jahrelang missbrauchte. Wieder setzt sie ihre Medikamente ab, steigt in die Achterbahn der Gefühle und ist PSYCHO-PAT, die Rachegöttin. Mit ihrem Bruder Alex crasht sie die Hochzeitsparty im ehrenwerten Haus der Familie Fischer und trifft Patrick. Mit ihm begann alles. Mit ihm wird es enden. Findet Pat den ersehnten Frieden oder stürzt sie für immer in die dunklen Abgründe ihrer zerrissenen Seele?

Diese stimmungsvoll-launige Kurzgeschichte führt den Hörer in Weihnachtstage von Simon Becketts Forensiker David Hunter, einige Jahre vor den Ereignissen von "Die Chemie des Todes". Natürlich gibt es auch einen Kriminalfall zu lösen, doch der ist - dem Fest angemessen - weniger blutig als sonst. Im Vordergrund steht aber David Hunter, seine Weihnachtsparty und eine Begegnung, die sein Leben verändern wird... Ein absolutes Muss für alle Hunter-Fans.