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The most brutal don in the city has a weakness: me. I never wanted the life my parents tried to force on me, so I vowed I’d never marry a mobster. Yet here I am, walking down the aisle toward mobster of the century, all to save my sister. Rafaele Messero. Cold, ruthless, and irritatingly handsome. Not that I’ve noticed. After all, this marriage is the end of all my hopes and dreams. And for him, it’s nothing more than a calculated business move. At least that’s what I think, until he snaps at the priest to hurry up so that he can kiss me.

Martina De Rossi is off-limits, and not just because her brother is about to become the Don. When I agree to protect her while he’s out waging a brutal war, it isn’t only out of loyalty. It’s because Martina is the perfect pawn in my game of revenge.

Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking. Joining forces with Waleed, an Egyptian intelligence chief, Sam pursues the mastermind, Habid, who has been sending Gaddafi loyalists to their deaths. As innocent lives hang in the balance, Sam navigates treacherous waters to stop Habid and confront the evil lurking beneath the surface.

Sie dachte, sie könnte vor ihm fliehen. Sie lag falsch. Um ein traumatisches Erlebnis zu verarbeiten, reisen Nicci und ihr Mann in ein romantisches Resort in der Karibik. Türkisblauer Ozean, schneeweiße Sandstrände und goldene Sonnenuntergänge – das muss das Paradies sein. Doch es gibt mehr als eine Person auf dieser Insel mit einem dunklen Geheimnis. Und mindestens eine wird dafür sorgen, dass es begraben bleibt.

When the CEO of the world’s leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective. Valerie has a gift for reading people, a gift that has never failed her before. But that gift is put to the test when her instincts point her to an impossible suspect—an AI born from a secret venture with the Pentagon known as Project Nomad. To learn the truth, Valerie must team up with two men she doesn’t trust.

Nach dem Verschwinden ihrer Mutter wendet sich Nieke Dornieden an Hauptkommissar John Benthien. Obwohl ihm die junge Frau merkwürdig vorkommt, nimmt er sich der Sache an. Wenig später wird Niekes Mutter tot aufgefunden, und Benthien beginnt auf Föhr zu ermitteln. Auf der Insel hatten nicht wenige Grund, der alten Dame nach dem Leben zu trachten, unter anderem Nieke selbst. Auch die Vergangenheit der Toten gibt Rätsel auf: Ihr Mann und ihre Tochter aus erster Ehe werden seit Jahren vermisst; niemand weiß, was mit ihnen geschehen ist.

The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill. A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length and breadth of the country.

Almost one year has passed since the earth shook up Matt Horning and his coastal village. Now, the world’s foremost scientists have flocked to the remote town to study the aftereffects on the sea and land. Turns out, one of them isn’t a nice man. Famous geologist British Lord Phineas Stuart goes missing. As the investigation into Stuart’s disappearance gets underway, Matt and his colleagues quickly realize they’re not hurting for suspects who wish the geologist harm. Has Stuart just taken off somewhere, or is a jealous competitor responsible for the missing scientist?

Nach dem Verschwinden ihrer Mutter wendet sich Nieke Dornieden an Hauptkommissar John Benthien. Obwohl ihm die junge Frau merkwürdig vorkommt, nimmt er sich der Sache an. Wenig später wird Niekes Mutter tot aufgefunden, und Benthien beginnt auf Föhr zu ermitteln. Auf der Insel hatten nicht wenige Grund, der alten Dame nach dem Leben zu trachten, unter anderem Nieke selbst. Auch die Vergangenheit der Toten gibt Rätsel auf: Ihr Mann und ihre Tochter aus erster Ehe werden seit Jahren vermisst; niemand weiß, was mit ihnen geschehen ist.

Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City. There are fresh dead to sort through - two bodies burned beyond recognition in the trunk of a sedan - and there’s reason to believe there are missing girls waiting to be saved. Rumors swirl that a legendary killer is responsible for these crimes: an escaped prisoner with a personal grudge against Darger. One who disappeared for 20 years. If Darger finds the killer in time, the girls will live. If not...

When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep end when she arrives. Her new colleague picks her up at the airport in the island's only ambulance, which is called to the discovery of a body floating off the beach at the exclusive Club Louisa. Before she can even unpack her bags or enjoy the view from her ocean-side apartment, Ashley is unwittingly dragged into a murder investigation.

Den berømte digter Manash Ishmail er under sin flugt fra Iran til Danmark blevet adskilt fra sin kone Amina, der nu er som sunket i jorden, og han beder Globalts London-korrespondent Nora Sand om hjaelp. Jagten på Amina sender Nora til skjulte steder, hvor illegale flygtninge gemmer sig i evig frygt for myndighederne. Nora bliver til fare for sig selv, kastet ind i en verden, hvor nogle menneskeliv er meget mindre vaerd end andre.

Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.

Kaum hat Peter Clifton geheiratet, schon steht er unter doppeltem Verdacht: Ist er der "Gerissene", der weltweit gesuchte Geldfälscher? Und ist er womöglich sogar ein geisteskranker Mörder? Seine junge Frau Jane weiß nichts über ihn. Aber je schuldiger er zu sein scheint, umso mehr steht sie an seiner Seite.