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Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college - each different from the other yet inseparable - until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate. The friends vowed never to...

Nordic Noir aus Dänemark: Die Stimme aus der Erde ist ein nervenaufreibender Nordic-Noir-Thriller rund um die Entführung eines Mädchens. Das Hörbuch schickt den amerikanischen Expat Detective Mason Teilmann, der die dänische Polizei unterstützt, in einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Sprache und Plot des vertrackten Psychokrimis greifen das Tempo geschickt auf - und lassen das Ticken der Zeit förmlich spüren.

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late.

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games: DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. When a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself. Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the books, putting her skills to the test. The two headstrong women join forces to stop the killer.

Spannungsvoll, atmosphärisch und bewegend. Der belgische Ermittler Piet Donker wird von Brüssel in eine Kleinstadt in Ostbelgien versetzt. Dort soll er einen fünfzehn Jahre alten Cold Case wieder aufnehmen, bei dem es neue Erkenntnisse gibt. Ein Jugendlicher verschwand damals spurlos, die Polizei ging davon aus, es mit einem Ausreißer zu tun zu haben. Doch nach und nach häufen sich die Hinweise, dass der Junge Opfer eines Serienmörders wurde - und dass das Morden noch lange nicht beendet ist.

For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Simeon Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window. Toby Vane is the golden boy of prime-time television, whose gee-whiz smile and chiseled features mask a dark secret that would take the shine off for his millions of adoring female fans: every now and then he beats up a woman, and almost any woman will do.

Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn venture, which someone keeps sabotaging.

A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico - an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence. But when Alyssa makes a breakthrough that just might reveal the killer, she unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a brutal maniac - one with an old score to settle.

Matthew Scudder, his wife, Elaine, Mick Ballou, and Mick's new wife sit around a table in Mick's Hell's Kitchen saloon for one last night of stories before the building is transferred to its new owners.

È domenica 22 marzo 1981 e al bar Marco tra i tavoli da carte e il rumore dei flipper riecheggiano le partite di calcio. Tutti seguono la radiocronaca e controllano la schedina, in attesa del tredici che potrebbe cambiare per sempre la vita di uno di loro. Quando la voce dello speaker annuncia la combinazione vincente, un’esplosione di gioia travolge il bar: proprio lì, tra i i giornali e il profumo di caffè, c’è una schedina milionaria. La felicità sembra contagiosa, fino a quando il sogno si infrange di colpo: la schedina sparisce misteriosamente.

Another day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying. Waking up in someone else’s body isn’t pleasant, especially when it's inside a coffin with tons of dirt pressing down on it. Once he’s out, he learns his soul has 13 hours to find the borrowed body’s killer. With the help of a brilliant FBI agent, Vincent’s quest for clues leads to a looming supernatural presence. And escaping the dark threat may be impossible with his ever-ticking clock… Can Vincent close the case in time?

När en gängledare skjuts i sin bil utanför McDonalds i Barkarby får den rutinerade utredaren Jill Eriksson fallet på sitt bord. Polisassistent Kristian Arve har inte tid att hjälpa en utredare från polisens högkvarter. Hans familj har på kort tid utsatts för ett antal skrämmande och alltmer hotfulla händelser. För att skydda dem tvingas Kristian in i en ljusskygg verksamhet som opererar i blåljusets periferi. Snart är Kristian indragen i ett brinnande gängkrig om kokainhandeln i Stockholms förorter.

Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with electronic appliances. He fixes situations for people, often putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Gia's daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?

When private investigator Cole Harper is approached by Maria Moretti, a woman he barely remembers from 1943, she's holding two things he can't ignore—one of his old business cards and a postcard pulled from her mailbox. The message on the postcard is written in code...but the handwriting is unmistakable. It belongs to her son, Navy Yeoman Third Class Frank Moretti, who the Navy says vanished four years earlier and was officially declared "missing at sea."

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When defense attorney Jackson Taylor takes on the case of a lifetime, he's prepared to fight for justice. His childhood friend—the son of a powerful senator—has been accused of a brutal murder. Jackson is certain the man he grew up with couldn't be a killer. But when shocking evidence links his own father, a former small-town sheriff, to the crime, Jackson's unshakable trust in the truth is pushed to the breaking point. Jackson remains steadfast in his quest for justice.

The Dark Yorkshire Series - fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin. The first three full-length books in this best-selling series are brought together for the first time in this great value set.

The stockbroker and psychopath Christopher Silfverbielke has no scruples, he is cunning, manipulative and takes what he wants, be it money, drugs or life. Hans Ecker is Christopher's best - and perhaps only - friend. On the verge of a serious relationship with Veronica, but not ready to let go...

When a human skeleton, with an animal skull instead of a head, turns up in Copenhagen, investigator Christian Porsing is immediately drawn into the case, but there are no clues to go on. By chance, Sigga Freitag, the former star profiler of the German police, is in Copenhagen and he impulsively...