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Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat. The city is unsettled. Winter won't leave. Soldiers are returning from the Front with broken bodies and troubled souls. And now a powerful board governor has been found dead in the Art Gallery - dumped beneath a scandalous nude painting that has attracted both pious outrage and record crowds.

Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia’s skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed “the Composer,” and in solving another case that’s been following him his whole life.

North Chazy, New York is the heart of the North Country, a frigid region nestled against the Canadian border, characterized by the beautiful landscapes of the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain—plus a steady stream of Quebecois drugs flowing south, spirited by snowmobile across the ice. Tom Kaiser, fresh off a dishonorable discharge from the Air Force, returns to North Chazy for his ailing father’s final days. It’s an uneasy homecoming—ever since his little sister was lost under the ice in mysterious circumstances when they were children, Kaiser has felt a terrible presence swimming in the deep.

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Niemals hat Paul den Tag vergessen, an dem er Charlie Crabtree in der Schule zum ersten Mal begegnete. Charlie mit seinem überlegenen Lächeln und den dunklen Fantasien, mit denen er Paul in seinen Bann zog. Sie waren Freunde. Bis zu dem Tag als Charlie den Mord beging und danach spurlos verschwand. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später kehrt Paul erstmals in seine Heimatstadt zurück. Seine Mutter liegt im Sterben, die Pflegerin hat ihn alarmiert. Gleich nach seiner Ankunft passieren seltsame Dinge.

Niemals hat Paul den Tag vergessen, an dem er Charlie Crabtree in der Schule zum ersten Mal begegnete. Charlie mit seinem überlegenen Lächeln und den dunklen Fantasien, mit denen er Paul in seinen Bann zog. Sie waren Freunde. Bis zu dem Tag als Charlie den Mord beging und danach spurlos verschwand. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später kehrt Paul erstmals in seine Heimatstadt zurück. Seine Mutter liegt im Sterben, die Pflegerin hat ihn alarmiert. Gleich nach seiner Ankunft passieren seltsame Dinge.

A missing girl returns unharmed, and a family torn apart by tragedy begins to heal. But strange things start to happen to the Wick family. The media are tipped off, throwing them into a spotlight they cannot hide from. DNA results go missing. Holes begin to appear in the girl’s story. Is the mysterious girl Abigail Wick? Who is the stranger on the boat who took Abigail? What happened 14 years ago? Only one person knows the truth.

A man jumps into your car and tells you to drive. He’ll kill you if you disobey. But you have somewhere to be. A secret to hide. All those years back, it nearly destroyed your family. You can’t let that happen. But no matter what you do, someone will die tonight. And then who will they believe?

A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today. A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a...

When a priest is found crucified in a derelict North London chapel, it makes a dramatic change for DI Charlie George and his squad at Essex Road. The brutal murder could not be further from their routine of domestic violence and stabbings on the estates. And that's only the beginning.... On Christmas Eve, a police officer goes missing and his colleagues can't help but anticipate the worst. It turns out they're right to when eventually the body is found and they discover he's been stoned to death.

Following back-to-back, long-term undercover assignments in Indianapolis and Dallas, the latter resulting in four dead, FBI Special Agent Jake Kruse returns to Los Angeles to take on another undercover operation. Posing as an office supply salesman, Jake befriends a Chinese American business owner believed to be working for an intelligence officer operating out of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles. Within weeks, the probe reveals a public corruption and human trafficking operation involving politicians and Hollywood executives.

Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her attorney, Christopher Paget, sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, it is...

Priscila, una joven criminóloga en paro, tiene una abuela muy especial. Librada, una mujer con una fuerte ideología de izquierdas está cansada de la hipocresía de su ciudad, Oviedo. Sin saberlo envolverá a su nieta en un caso que casi le cuesta la vida, pero que permitirá a Priscila cortar...

Brought to you by Penguin. Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in the wilds of Yorkshire seems like the perfect place. It's miles away from the closest town, and no one there knows her or her little boy, Joe. But when Lisa meets some of the locals, and hears some...