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It's every bride's worst nightmare, to be left standing at the altar. But that's what happens to Gemma on her wedding day. Her fiancé, Finn, isn't there when she arrives at the church. Everyone thinks Gemma has been jilted. Snippets of gossip circulate among their guests. They'd seemed like the perfect couple. They were so ideally matched. It just shows, you never can tell, can you? But Gemma is certain Finn would never have done this to her. So where is he?

Fifty-six days ago. Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. Thirty-five days ago. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is. Today. Detectives arrive at Oliver's apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.

When Blake Barton opens the door to a stranger one morning, he comes face to face with an unimaginable evil. Because this stranger claims to be the devil, and he promises to kill Blake—not now, but in six days, six hours, and six minutes exactly. Plunged into a nightmare race to save his wife and young son, Blake finds himself fighting not only the stranger but an army of young men who call themselves the devil's disciples—men who will do anything to please their master. As time runs out, Blake realizes that in order to fight evil, he must find the devil inside himself.

Sometimes disaster is simply a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Take Addison Roberts, for example: it is a deadly coincidence that in a crowded parking lot one day, she catches the eye of a dangerous criminal on the run. In his desperation to evade the police, what he needs is a way out - and Addison and her car are his ticket to escape. Lieutenant Chase Roberts, on leave from his military assignment, is anxious to be reunited with his wife. Yet as night falls and Addison fails to appear, Chase feels a rising sense of foreboding.

When CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues butchered in a blood-spattered office, he realizes that only an oversight by the assassins has saved his life. He contacts CIA headquarters for help, but when an attempted rendezvous goes wrong, it quickly becomes clear that no one can be trusted.

A remarkable man makes the journey from England to Berlin. He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies. He has witnessed firsthand the rise of the Nazis, experienced family tragedy, fought in the German army, been interred in a POW camp and faced persecution in peacetime Britain. He has survived at the limits of human endurance. His secret is someone else's salvation.

Brought to you by Penguin. A ghostwriter is locked in an interview room with a man who might be a murderer, in this gripping new mystery thriller from the #1 bestselling author of 56 Days and The Trap. The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their...

Дженни Шульц просыпается в темном подвале, не помня, как она там оказалась. Без связи с внешним миром женщина начинает размышлять о своем прошлом, отчаянно пытаясь понять, кто из обиженных ею достаточно зол и порочен, чтобы такое сотворить. После обнаружения оставшихся от предыдущего пленника вещей—тарелки, зуба и кости—Дженни предстоит победить в схватке с собственными демонами, а затем вынести пытку временем. Нацарапанные на каменных стенах отметины заставляют ее задуматься о том, что произойдет дальше. Что случится через шесть дней

Russia has supplied Islamic fundamentalists with a weapon of mass destruction. The Taskforce–a highly clandestine Special Forces unit–must neutralise it. Otherwise millions of unsuspecting innocents will be wiped out. Yet the Taskforce has problems of its own. Someone has been stalking them. And Pike Logan needs to find out who it is and why. Solving the mystery means the difference between life and death, both for the Taskforce and a foreign nation that has no idea of the threat. Perfect for fans of Lee Child, James Deegan and David Baldacci.

Chicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching - and all of Chicagoland on edge. Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments’ South Side properties dies alone in his apartment, Smokey agrees to investigate. He finds old human bones in the basement, along with hints of more. Smokey and his girlfriend, Sturdy’s CEO Laura Hathaway, worry that Laura’s father knew who used that basement and why.

Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but things have changed a lot since the '80s and he's institutionalised. He quite likes his bookish, monklike life inside and the anger he was boiling over with when he went to prison is down to a manageable simmer.

A fire erupts in the Chapel, which the Friars are able to extinguish. However, the Confessionals can still take place. Meanwhile Holmes has contact with an important witness.

A fire erupts in the Chapel, which the Friars are able to extinguish. However, the Confessionals can still take place. Meanwhile Holmes has contact with an important witness.

Get ready to continue the real-life drama from behind the walls of one of the country’s worst maximum-security facilities. Experience horrific assaults, blood-thirsty murders, and the kind of drama that needs to be heard to be believed. Simon King shares a raw and uncensored look beyond the razor wire, giving you the opportunity to see how life really runs inside a place filled with those whom society would rather forget.

Get ready to experience the real-life drama from behind the walls of one of the country’s worst maximum-security facilities. Experience horrific assaults, bloodthirsty murders, and the kind of drama that needs to be heard to be believed. Simon King shares a raw and uncensored look beyond the razor wire, giving you the opportunity to see how life really runs inside a place filled with those the society would rather forget.

After attending a family wedding in Chicago, young widow Bella Jordan is returning to the guesthouse she runs in Lily Dale—the quirky upstate New York lakeside village famous for its spiritual mediums—when she catches a glimpse of the impossible at the airport: her late husband Sam. A former science teacher, Bella is grounded in facts and logic. She doesn't believe in ghosts. But even when she's back home with the competing distractions of her quirky guests, small son Max, resident pet cats and a very unexpected litter of puppies, Bella can't find a good explanation for what she's seen.

When Detective Kate Rosetti is startled awake in the middle of the night by a phone call from her mother, she knows it’s not good news. It turns out Kate’s father, the notorious Angelo Rosetti, is missing. There are no witnesses and no leads, and with only a week to go before Christmas, Kate hopes to find her father before the New Year. As Kate begins the hunt for her father, she gets another case added to her plate at the precinct.

The incredible story of how a handful of men at arms and less than 5,000 archers defeated more than 20,000 men at arms and 20,000 other warriors. The story of how a king won a crown! The last time an English king had come to France, it had been led by the Black Prince. Now a new king, a throwback to those days, contemplated retaking what he believed to be his birthright!

Man nennt ihn den König der Todeszellen. Randal Korn hat mehr Menschen auf den elektrischen Stuhl geschickt als jeder andere Staatsanwalt in Amerika. Und er genießt es, bei Hinrichtungen zuzusehen. Sein nächstes Opfer: Andy Dubois, ein junger Afroamerikaner, der wegen des Mordes an einem weißen Mädchen zum Tode verurteilt werden soll. Korn hat bereits alles für einen möglichst kurzen Prozess vorbereitet. Doch er hat nicht mit Eddie Flynn gerechnet. Dem New Yorker Anwalt bleiben sieben Tage, um Andy vor einer korrupten Justiz zu retten und den wahren Täter zu finden.

Man nennt ihn den König der Todeszellen. Randal Korn hat mehr Menschen auf den elektrischen Stuhl geschickt als jeder andere Staatsanwalt in Amerika. Und er genießt es, bei Hinrichtungen zuzusehen. Sein nächstes Opfer: Andy Dubois, ein junger Afroamerikaner, der wegen des Mordes an einem weißen Mädchen zum Tode verurteilt werden soll. Korn hat bereits alles für einen möglichst kurzen Prozess vorbereitet. Doch er hat nicht mit Eddie Flynn gerechnet. Dem New Yorker Anwalt bleiben sieben Tage, um Andy vor einer korrupten Justiz zu retten und den wahren Täter zu finden.