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Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in the early '90s in New York City, a place brimming with both prosperity and desperation.

Eve Harding's world implodes one Sunday morning when she is violently assaulted and raped walking to a South London train station. As her attacker evades the police and is left to roam the streets to stalk his next victim, Eve is forced to seek out her assailant before he strikes again. With vengeance in mind, Eve is determined to find him in time and deliver justice on her own terms. In a game of cat and mouse, who is stalking who?

Special low price for a limited period to discover Paul Finch’s debut crime novel. Time’s up. You’re Next. "All he had to do was name the woman he wanted. It was that easy. They would do all the hard work." Detective Sergeant Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg is investigating the disappearance of 38...

When Detective Superintendent William Lorimer's wife, Maggie, publishes her first book, he is thrilled for her. But joy soon turns to fear when a mysterious stranger starts following Maggie on her publicity tour. Meanwhile Lorimer and the MIT are on the search for the murderer of two young women, but can Lorimer catch the killer and track down Maggie's stalker at the same time...? If you like Cara Hunter, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney, Lisa Jewell or Joy Ellis, you will be utterly gripped by this twisty, heart-stopping crime novel.

Someone is always watching… Derek Flint is a loner. He lives with his mother and spends his evenings watching his clients on the CCTV cameras he has installed inside their homes. He likes their companionship – even if it’s through a screen. When a series of crimes hits Derek’s...

In the small town of Rainfall, a devoted husband sets out to find the depraved savage who raped and murdered his beloved wife. He believes the culprit is the same mysterious man who stalked her when she was still alive. Fueled by rage and driven by vengeance—he'll navigate through dark secrets and lies while crossing suspects off his list one by one. He won't stop until he exacts revenge on the cruel, merciless man who destroyed the one person he loved most. He owes it to his late wife.

Dein großer Durchbruch als Schauspieler steht kurz bevor. Alles läuft perfekt. Bis er sich in dein Leben drängt. Und nur eines will: es zerstören ... Der neue Psycho-Thriller von Nr.1-Bestseller-Autor Arno Strobel. Eric Sanders spürt, dass diese Rolle seine große Chance ist. Und er soll recht behalten: Die Resonanz auf seine schauspielerische Leistung im Münchner Tatort ist rundum positiv, seine Bekanntheit wächst, seine Followerzahlen auf Social Media steigen.

Lexi Mazur is a depressed, alcoholic pill-popper whose only joy has become her reality TV shows, often fantasizing that the people on TV are a part of her world. After her boyfriend, Steve, leaves her, she fixates on the show Socialites and its star, Magnolia Artois, following every facet of the girl’s life on social media in the hopes of befriending and becoming more like her.

Dead Woman's Ditch. The site of a grisly 200-year-old murder - and a recent hit-and-run. When a young woman's body is found at the macabre landmark in Somerset's Quantock Hills, DI Mike Lockyer and Sergeant Jane Bennett are called in to investigate. They find a community gripped by fear and superstition. The locals won't venture out at night, believing there's a man stalking the hills - a phantom cloaked in folklore and legend, keeping the sinister legacy of Dead Woman's Ditch alive.

Seit sich die allein erziehende Martina von ihrem Freund getrennt hat, wird sie von ihm massiv belästigt. Als das Stalking für die junge Mutter und ihr Kind zu einer Bedrohung wird, macht sich auch Martinas Vater, der Moselaner Franz, Sorgen. Durch Zufall trifft er auf Lena, eine taffe ältere Dame aus der Eifel, die ihm dabei hilft, den Stalker im Auge zu behalten. Trotzdem ist Martina eines Tages verschwunden.

Ex-Scharfschützin Sara will eine entführte Schwangere retten und riskiert dafür nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben. Morgenübelkeit statt Bundeswehr: Sara gewöhnt sich nur langsam an das Leben als Zivilistin. Doch dann sind ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten wieder gefragt. Der Mann ihrer neuen Freundin Finya wird getötet und deren Liebhaber gerät ins Visier der Polizei. Als Finya dann auch noch entführt wird, muss Sara sich entscheiden: Wird sie weiter auf Recht und Gesetz vertrauen oder die Sache selbst in die Hand nehmen und damit nicht nur sich, sondern auch ihr ungeborenes Kind gefährden?

Welcome back to your darkest nightmare. I am Death, and they've stripped away my mask of mercy. My little lamb, I will paint the streets red until you're safe in my arms again.

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But as the number of victims increases, the connection between them wears thin. Is it really a broken heart holding the crossbow? And if it's not some crazed Cupid, who has their finger on the trigger? Plucky Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy doesn't think they are looking in the right places. Yet without evidence, her theory won't hold water.

London wird von einer Hitzewelle lahmgelegt, als Detective Erika Foster in einer drückenden Sommernacht an einen Tatort gerufen wird. Ein angesehener Arzt wurde in seinem eigenen Bett gefesselt und erstickt. Was ihre Kollegen zunächst für ein missglücktes Liebesspiel halten, enttarnt Erika schnell als kaltblütigen Mord. Wenige Tage später wird ein weiteres Opfer gefunden, dann ein drittes. Nur eines haben alle drei gemeinsam: Sie alle waren Männer, sie alle lebten allein. Davon abgesehen, führten sie gänzlich unterschiedliche und völlig unauffällige Leben.

In the dead of a swelteringly hot summer's night, Detective Erika Foster is called to a murder scene. The victim, a doctor, is found suffocated in bed. His wrists are bound and his eyes bulging through a clear plastic bag tied tight over his head. A few days later, another victim is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. As Erika and her team start digging deeper, they discover a calculated serial killer - stalking their victims before choosing the right moment to strike.

The day Louisa and James bring their newborn son home from the hospital marks a new beginning for all of them. To hold their child in their arms makes all the stress and trauma of fertility treatment worth it. Little Cory is theirs and theirs alone. Or so they think.... After her mother’s suicide when she was a child, Louisa’s life took an even darker turn. But meeting James changed everything. She can trust him to protect her and to never leave her. Even if deep down she worries that she has never told him the full truth about her past - or the truth about their baby.

En el ocaso de una sofocante noche de calor, la detective Erika Foster recibe una llamada para asistir a la escena de un crimen. La víctima, un doctor, es hallado ahorcado en su cama. Sus muñecas están atadas y se perciben sus abultados ojos a través de una bolsa de plástico atada por encima de su cabeza.

I know everything about you. I know your name, your birthday, your kids’ names, where you live, where you work. I know when you get that big promotion or when you argue with your spouse. You tell me all this because I’m your bartender. But someone knows everything about me too. Someone knows all my secrets, and they’re using them against me. They’re setting me up. The police think I murdered Emily Parker. To prove my innocence I need to find the real killer. I need to beat him at his own game.

"Чайка"—детектив про полицейские будни польского города: секс, насилие и тайны международного уровня. Выясняется, что перед смертью девушка пыталась связаться с редакцией местной газеты. Хотела ли она заручиться поддержкой прессы или обладала какой-то опасной информацией? На ее банковский счет поступали большие суммы денег, а среди подозреваемых оказался влюбленный в нее влиятельный бизнесмен.