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A teenage boy's body is found on a lonely country road at dawn. By the time police arrive, it has vanished without trace. The blanket that covered him remains. The witness is adamant the boy was dead. But when Detective Bob Foreman reaches the scene, there is nothing. No body. No blood. No explanation. With no forensic evidence and conflicting accounts, Foreman is running out of leads. He's already looking for a second missing boy. Last spotted on a moonlit towpath, and never seen again. At the same time, two children are displaying abilities that defy explanation.

Pas encore! Avant de rendre leur amour officiel, Joséphine et Jérôme doivent obtenir l'accord des parents de ce dernier. Et ce n'est pas gagné... Car eux ont décidé qu'il s'unirait à une autre: Blanche d'Ambert, fille aînée d'un duc. Furieux, Jérôme jure qu'il ne l'épousera pas. Jamais! Hélas, le ciel semble l'entendre, car la pauvre Blanche est retrouvée morte peu de temps après, le crâne fracassé. Et vers qui les indices pointent-ils tous?

Bien décidée à oublier Jérôme de Faulcon de Montessand, Joséphine noie sa frustration dans le travail. La voici plus active que jamais, aidant au soin des malades de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, en compagnie de Francine. Bien sûr, le sort en décide autrement. Voilà que le chirurgien de l'hôpital est découvert étranglé dans son bureau ! De son côté, Jérôme trouve une occupation inattendue quand le corps d'un homme est repêché dans la Seine. Ni une, ni deux : le mousquetaire entraîne son ami, Geoffrey de Sept-Vans, sur la trace de l'assassin.

Meg Sanders enjoyed her wild night with a prince and his bodyguard—but now she’s moving on. She has enough problems without borrowing the kind of trouble that Theo brings just by being who he is. But no matter how determined she is to leave that night as a fond memory, she hasn’t seen the last of Theo and Galen.

Que fait une fille de médecin quand le père de son ami est gravement malade? Elle met son propre père – et elle-même – dans un carrosse, à destination de la Normandie, pour leur venir en aide, bien sûr! C'est ainsi que Joséphine se met en route pour Arranges, fief de la famille de Jérôme, sans se douter que ce voyage ne va pas du tout tourner comme elle l'imaginait. Car le château des Faulcon de Montessand compte un locataire inattendu: un fantôme, que l'on accuse bientôt de meurtre! Pour la demoiselle et le mousquetaire, à l'esprit rationnel, c'en est trop.

Callum Griffin is the heir to the Irish mafia. He’s ruthless, arrogant, and he wants to kill me. We got off on the wrong foot when I set a (very small) fire in his house. Our families believe a marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare. I think I might need to murder him while he sleeps. This would all be a lot easier if Callum wasn’t so damned good-looking.

Le printemps arrive, et avec lui, la saison des mondanités. Louise Galtier compte bien trouver un fiancé cette année. Pour ce faire, elle entraîne sa sœur Joséphine à la recherche de nouvelles tenues. Las ! Le tailleur est découvert assassiné dans son atelier, une paire de ciseaux plantée dans le dos… Ravie de cette distraction, Joséphine entreprend d'identifier le coupable. Et quel illustre gentilhomme retrouve-t-on parmi les nombreux clients du défunt ? Nul autre qu'un certain comte, qui voit d'un très mauvais œil que la jeune fille se mêle encore d'une affaire qui ne la concerne pas.

Sophie: The Final Verdict tells a remarkable story that could not until now be revealed. Senan Molony was the first national crime correspondent at the scene. From his growing unease at his helper Ian Bailey's conduct, to the astonishing moment when Bailey was arrested for a murder the suspect himself had been covering, it is an insider's account of those infamous early days of a doomed investigation, and the astonishing years to follow - as Bailey, a violent misogynist and pathological liar, escaped trial in his adopted country despite compelling evidence.

I couldn’t kill Mara… But that doesn’t mean Shaw won’t. She’s living in my house, always with me, always under my control. The more I push her, the more she pushes back. She’s peeling away my secrets, one by one. And I’m tempting her to do things she never thought she’d do…. Shaw won’t stop hunting her.

Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar 18-year career on the Memphis police force. She may be a pro at finding clues, but she tends to ignore the obvious in her personal life. Her husband, Kurt, is weighed down by her unrelenting anger as he struggles to let God redeem the stupidest mistake he ever made.

"Terre spettrali: Omicidio e colazione" è il romanzo di debutto della nuova affascinante serie di gialli dell'autrice bestseller Sophie Love, scrittrice della serie "La locanda di Sunset Harbor", un bestseller numero uno con oltre 200 recensioni a cinque stelle. Marie Fortune, 39 anni, una toelettatrice per cani di grande successo a Boston, ne ha avuto abbastanza di prestare servizio ai ricconi e ai loro cani. Rendendosi conto che è ora di dare una svolta alla propria vita, lascia tutto e si reca in una piccola cittadina sulla costa del Maine.

Locked in with the town bad boy . . . Most women would be scared, but Gabriella’s only worried about resisting Cruz Walsh, who’s even hotter than he was back in high school. Cruz was wrongly accused of the high-profile crime for which he was imprisoned; Gabriella’s desperate for the scoop...

Dans "Le loup-garou et le chaperon" de Sophie Gamache, une transformation inattendue bouleverse la vie d'une jeune femme au cœur de la forêt. En découvrant une force et une acuité visuelle nouvelles, elle se laisse emporter par des instincts primaires qui la poussent à chasser et à dévorer les créatures qui l'entourent. Mais jusqu'où ira-t-elle dans cette quête de puissance et de liberté sauvage ? Entre fascination et terreur, ce récit explore les frontières entre humanité et bestialité, plongeant l'auditeur dans une aventure captivante et troublante.

Brought to you by Penguin. Sloane Caraway is a liar. They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting. So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she can't help herself – she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and...

Dalya Vekaría pensava di conoscere il buio. Poi durante una notte a L'Avana finisce dove non avrebbe mai dovuto mettere piede, e da quel momento la sua vita diventa una trattativa al ribasso, dove l'unica moneta è la sopravvivenza. Quando le viene offerta un'alternativa che non è davvero tale, Dalya capisce che per uscire da certi giochi deve entrarci fino in fondo e accettare regole che non prevedono scappatoie.

In Paris, murder is a dish best served with chocolate eclairs. 'A delectably fun murder mystery set against the sumptuous backdrop of Paris' Nita Prose, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for American...

I only meant to steal a car. I didn't know I was stealing a girl, too. Until the most gorgeous face I'd ever seen popped up in the rear-view mirror. I fell hard, fast, and forever.... But she tore out my heart - left me alone and bleeding. How can I forget her, when I have to see that damned perfect face on billboards and magazines? It's torture. Nine long years. I thought I moved on. Then I saw her in the flesh....

Hallie works as a skip tracer—hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town. When a childhood friend calls her in a panic, Hallie goes to help and gets a lot more than she bargained for. One of the elite has been murdered and the special investigators are looking for someone to blame.

Hanna verschwand vor zehn Monaten spurlos, nachdem sie ein gewaltiges Vermögen geerbt hatte. Während ihre Freunde und Ex-Freund Thorben noch heute der Meinung sind, sie genieße ein Leben in Saus und Braus und sie wolle nicht gefunden werden, ist ihre beste Freundin Marie sich sicher: Hanna ist ermordet worden. Doch nicht einmal die Polizei schenkt ihr Glauben. Gerade als Marie hofft, endlich mit der Sache abschließen zu können, traut sie ihren Augen kaum. In einer Zeitung entdeckt sie ein Bild von Hanna in Gesellschaft eines fremden Mannes in einem Café auf Sylt.

“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me the reason your husband had to die.” Anna Greenan finds the cryptic lyric shoved against her front door. Each day of Christmas brings Anna a new stanza with a new clue. Will this mysterious Christmas carol lead Anna to uncover her husband’s murderer or will these notes lead to her demise?