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By blood, bone and history, Austin Bullock is now chief of his nation, responsible for maintaining the welfare of his people and the land. By choice, he left the reservation years ago to teach high-school history, to coach basketball in the white man's school, and to seek an identity apart from his Native American heritage. Now the waters of Lost Man Marsh and the song of the Tie-snake call Austin to return. Someone outside the Nation has sinister plans for the people who live there.

A serial killer is terrorising London, removing a body part from each victim and leaving in its place a single pink rose. Dr Vernon Sange, a multiple murderer awaiting extradition, seems to know the culprit’s identity - but he’ll only talk to profiler Ziba MacKenzie, the woman responsible for putting him away. Though there’s something he wants in return from her. And time is running out. With one killer whispering in her ear and another running rings around the police, Ziba must play a game in which only her opponent knows the rules, and the forfeit is death.

This adventure transports Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson to Amarna, the rustic desert site where the two archaeologists first met, beginning the 13-year association that would take them from mayhem to murder in the Egyptian outback.

A body lies amongst the undergrowth in Mildenheath Woods. His hands are bound behind his back, and he's been killed execution-style. But the victim isn't a gangland kingpin: he's a well-liked young man, never in any trouble, who had his whole life ahead of him. But as Jack Culverhouse and Wendy Knight begin to dig deeper into what happened, a shocking new truth comes to light. Was the victim quite as innocent as he seemed?

Skye Denison and the rest of Scumble River is celebrating its bicentennial in style - with reenactments, a bingo tent, and a coal-tossing contest. Best of all, the guest of honor is the town founder's great-great-grandnephew, Gabriel Scumble. But his visit turns out to be short-lived when he is found dead. The murder weapon: a pickax. Meanwhile, Skye's ex-fiancée is back in town. But is he here simply to create turmoil in her love life...or does he have a connection to Gabriel's death?

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he's torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas's pal, G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else's business, but at G. I.'s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime...

Mitten im Herzen Deutschlands, auf dem Alexanderplatz in Berlin, sprengen sich zwei Selbstmordattentäter in die Luft und reißen zahlreiche Menschen mit in den Tod. Hunderte werden verletzt, darunter auch eine israelische Reisegruppe. Gleich danach reklamiert die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat den Anschlag für sich. Die deutschen Politiker und Behörden verschweigen, dass die beiden syrischen Terroristen, die als psychisch kranke Einzeltäter dargestellt werden, bereits 2015 mit dem Flüchtlingsstrom nach Deutschland kamen.

Dies ist das erste Buch in der Serie SNAKE Seit Jahren überziehen die islamistischen al-Shabaab-Milizen Ostafrika mit blutigem Terror. Am Horn von Afrika will der al-Quaida-Ableger einen Gottesstaat errichten. Sein Kampf gilt aber nicht nur der schwachen somalischen Übergangsregierung und den afrikanischen Friedenstruppen, sondern vor allem den westlichen Ungläubigen.

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

Bostonian Kathryn Stinson is on a deeply personal quest to solve a family mystery: the identity of a nameless beauty in an old photograph from over a century ago. But, as Kathryn quickly discovers when she shows up in the sleepy hill-town of New Nottingham, the Berkshires possess a host of dark secrets - both ancient and new. Her suspicious neighbors on Rattlesnake Hill become openly hostile when Kathryn starts seeking answers to a more recent mystery: the murder of Diana Farley, who once occupied the house Kathryn is now renting.

Alice, al morir su tía asesinada, se ha convertido en propietaria por herencia de la mitad de un local llamado Half Moon. El local es un tugurio de los bajos fondos frecuentado por prostitutas y borrachos. Pero además algo nuevo está sucediendo en el Half Moon: alguien está provocando allí la muerte: parece que hay alguna razón obsesiva que a alguien le impide dejar de matar...