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Brought to you by Penguin. A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. THE SCORCHING SUNDAY TIMES no.1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Penguin presents the audio edition of A Slow Fire Burning, read by Rosamund Pike. 'What is wrong with you?' Laura has spent most of her life being...

Ein Mordfall öffnet unerwartet die Tür zur Vergangenheit - und auch ins Jenseits? Die erste Staffel des Audible-Original-Dramas Die Stimme der Toten verbindet einen spannenden Krimi-Plot mit dem persönlichen Drama einer Rechtsmedizinerin. Hat Toni Anderson paranormale Fähigkeiten - oder ist die Rechtsmedizinerin wahnsinnig? Die Frage treibt nicht nur die 43-Jährige selbst um, sondern auch ihr Umfeld. Als eine alte Dame tot aufgefunden wird, rollt Anderson zusammen mit Kriminalkommissar Grasser einen längst abgeschlossenen Fall neu auf.

Verstorben, aber nicht verstummt: Toni Anderson kann mit den Toten kommunizieren und bringt sich dabei selbst in Gefahr. Staffel 2 der vielschichtigen Krimiserie schickt die ehemalige Rechtsmedizinerin von Brandenburg bis ins tiefste Südamerika – und an ihre eigenen Grenzen. Den Fall gelöst, den Job und Geliebten verloren und jetzt auch noch schwanger. Gut zwei Monate nach dem Tod von Kommissar Grasser steckt Toni Anderson in einer Sinnkrise. Was bleibt, ist ihr Talent, mit den Toten zu kommunizieren.

Véronique Chevalier parece una hermosa y elegante mujer de éxito que conduce un coche de lujo y regenta uno de los clubs más exclusivos de la ciudad de Detroit, pero, en realidad, es mucho más que eso, ya que oculta un increíble secreto:

Tout débute par la mystérieuse disparition d'une lycéenne, dans une sinistre bourgade située en bordure d'une forêt aussi impressionnante qu'inquiétante L'inspectrice Paula Beyer, est envoyée au cœur de la petite ville allemande de Freidorf pour élucider cette alarmante disparition.

When semi-retired Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy meets Avtar Mehta round the back of his historic Delhi hotel, they form an instant bond over a sneaky smoke and good gossip. Then a street robbery outside the hotel, a dead body inside it, and the disappearance of a pilgrim guest bring the local police to the hotel, determined to close their cases quickly, and with them the Delhi Haveli Hotel.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Island by Ragnar Jónasson, read by Amanda Redman. Four friends visit the island. But only three return . . . Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to the isolated island of Elliðaey to investigate and soon finds haunting similarities...

The handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting PIs like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Laura Lippman, and many more. 

Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need to be TV ready. Lathram appears to have it all, but something isn’t right....

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. With no trace of Ali after she is abducted, a cloud of suspicion hangs over him, though he is never charged. Trying to put his past behind him, Ryan changes his name and enters law school. It’s on a summer trip to Italy that he gets the call: his missing car has finally been found, in a lake in his hometown. But inside the car are two dead men. The only trace of Ali is a cryptic note, the envelope in her handwriting: If something happens to me…Reeling from the news, Ryan sees the man who has haunted his nightmares.

Born mute, twenty-two year-old Alice has never known a normal life. Kept from the outside world by her cruel mother and overbearing father, her only friend is her neighbor Hailey with whom she communicates through sign language. When Alice's father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Alice must attend and care for him, all the while listening to his feverish drug-induced ramblings. That is until, in his final days, he reveals something Alice never expected. He confesses to murdering several women.

Private investigator Olivia Knightley has finally pressed pause on her busy schedule and regained some work-life balance - for the next three weeks. The ink on her divorce papers is barely dry, so she promises to take her sixteen-year-old daughter Amy travelling across the US. But no sooner than they arrive at a campground populated with other 'van lifers' and nomads, they discover a violent murder scene that shakes the community.

The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his next unforgettable crime thriller. Fans of MJ Arlidge and Stuart MacBride won’t be able to put this down. John Sagan is a forgettable man. You could pass him in the street and not realise he’s there. But then, that’s why he’s so dangerous. A...

An exceptionally talented undercover policewoman, Grace Flint nearly dies in a botched sting operation. Months later, physically healed but psychologically scarred, she gets an unexpected clue about her attacker, and disappears on a mission of revenge - unaware that she is about to pull the first string that will unravel a vastly complex web of international treachery, extortion, and murder.

After their last deployment, when she got shot, her fiancé, Martinez, got killed, and his bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis, got depressed, soldier Mercy Carr and Elvis were both sent home, her late lover’s last words ringing in her ears: “Take care of my partner.” On the Fourth of July weekend, when all of Northshire celebrates with fun and frolic and fireworks, the dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned near a shallow grave filled with what appear to be human bones. 

Wenn die Sterne verlöschen... Anna Hart weiß selbst, dass sie vor ihrem Unglück davonläuft. Eigentlich ist sie Ermittlerin, Expertin darin, verschwundene Kinder zu finden. Doch nun ist ihrem eigenen Kind etwas passiert, und sie zieht sich an den Ort zurück, in dem sie aufgewachsen ist und glücklich war - zumindest für einige Zeit, als ihr Adoptivvater sich fürsorglich um sie kümmerte. Doch kaum ist sie angekommen, erfährt sie, dass ein junges Mädchen vermisst wird. Und sie weiß sofort, dass sie helfen - und sich den Gespenstern ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit stellen muss.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘The UK’s answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing.’ Claire McGowan Innocent? When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it when they arrested her, when they put her in front of a jury, and when they sent her to prison...

When her late grandfather’s dying deputy calls Mercy to his side, she and Elvis inherit the cold case that haunted him - and may have killed him. But finding Beth Kilgore 20 years after she disappeared is more than a lost cause. It’s a Pandora’s box releasing a rain of evil on the very people Mercy and Elvis hold most dear. With her grandmother Patience gone missing and Elvis’s future uncertain, Mercy faces the prospect of losing her most treasured allies, the only ones she believes truly love and understand her.

How do you find the missing when there’s no trail to follow? DC Lucy Clayburn is having a tough time of it. Not only is her estranged father one of the North West’s toughest gangsters, but she is in the midst of one of the biggest police operations of her life.

Zoey Rivers has an unusual job. She's the Chief of Staff at a retirement home, which doesn't sound odd on its own, but when you consider it's a retirement home for witches and other paranormals, the strange factor ratchets up. And, with a facility full of partly senile but still powerful witches, things go hilariously awry fast.