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Two childhood friends.... Best friends Tommy Boyle and Scratch always had each other's backs. Dragged up in care and cruelly betrayed by everyone they trusted, they made a pact to fight their way out of the gutter together. Two sides of the law.... Old loyalties die hard on the streets of London. Tommy throws his lot in with the notorious Darling family even if it means leaving Scratch to the wolves. She's destined for a different path, reinventing herself as copper Kim Regan. One deadly showdown.... Now they're on opposite sides of the law.

Lauren Miller has served six years behind bars for a crime she did not commit. Now, with her life in tatters, she is determined to bring those who framed her to justice. Journalist Nate Black is intrigued by Lauren’s story. Is she the innocent victim she claims to be, or is there more to her past? Eager to learn more, he offers to help Lauren clear her name and bring the real villains to justice. But with millions of pounds still missing, Lauren remains the prime suspect...and the main target in an increasingly deadly game.

When retired former spy Felicity Jardine's mission to drown herself is interrupted by a baby drifting down river, her training kicks in at once. She saves the baby, and conceals herself from the shady-looking man who is searching for it. Then an elderly neighbour to whom she bears a resemblance is found dead, and Felicity knows she's been rumbled. She has to dust off the highly trained and resourceful secret service officer she used to be, ensure the safety of the baby, and re-enter the fray.

Brought to you by Penguin. Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall . . . Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and King's favourite, doctor's daughter Hester was cast aside to raise her illegitimate son, Rafe, alone and in secret. She hopes never to see his father...

Forensic entomologist Dr Vanessa Marwood is settling into her new role in Manhattan when she's faced with a chilling case: an Oscar-winning actress has been found dead, poisoned by a glittering hair clip adorned with a live beetle. As a second high-profile death emerges - a fashion designer poisoned by an insect-encrusted watch - shockwaves run through New York's elite.

Ace Criminal Attorney Cash McCahill makes two potentially fatal mistakes. First, he agrees to represent a cartel kingpin, who lays down an ultimatum of win or else. Not even an acquittal will save Cash if his second mistake surfaces. His affair with the client's wife turns him into the perfect pawn to take a fall for the cartel. Falsely convicted of jury tampering, he must survive a prison teeming with enemies and navigate the more dangerous world on the outside in order to clear his name, regain his law license, and return to his only real home - the courtroom.

Will Power has returned from the Northern Territory shaken, stirred and generally discombobulated. It is late 1942, and, demeaningly enough, he finds himself playing a pantomime dame. If only this was his only worry.... As his great hero, Shakespeare, once noted, 'When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions'. Can Will finally overcome his tendency to be the living embodiment of Murphy's law?

Candace Starr likes to think of herself as retired since she got out of prison. That's until society maven Kristina Corrigan tries to hire her to permanently remove her daughter's barnacle of a boyfriend, Tyler Brent, from their lives. The only catch? Tyler is 17 years old. Even Candace usually draws the line at taking out a target who doesn't shave yet. But when Tyler turns up dead at a river gorge with a broken neck, people start asking questions. Detective Chien-Shiung Malone, the ambitious cop assigned to the case, has more than a few of her own.

Neues vom Bestsellerautor Kai Magnus Sting ("Tod unter Gurken" und "Tod unter Lametta"). Haben Sie heute schon an Mord gedacht? Ein Ehepaar macht genau das. Und mordet sich durchs Alphabet. Und so entsteht es, Mord für Mord: das ultimative akustische Nachschlagewerk, wenn es ums stilvolle Abmurksen, Meucheln und Um-die-Ecke-bringen geht. Ein unverzichtbares, mörderisch komisches Hörerlebnis. Von A wie Ameisenhaufen über K wie Katzenstreu bis Z wie Zuckerbäckerei.

Deena Garvey disappeared in 2004. She left behind a daughter and a sister. Deena's daughter grows up in the country. She learns how to hunt, when to seed the garden, how to avoid making her father angry. Never to ask about her absent mother. Deena's sister stays stuck in the city, getting desperate. She knows the man responsible for her sister's disappearance, but she can't prove it. Not yet. Over fourteen years, four hundred miles apart, these two women slowly begin to unearth the secrets and lies at the heart of their family.

Warten aufs Christkind mal ganz anders - ein Mordsspaß in 24 Geschichten. Killende Weihnachtsmänner bringen in der Adventszeit 24 Leute um die Ecke: Tote werden mit Lichterketten erdrosselt, Leichen in Schneemännern versteckt, Glühwein, Gans und Knödel vergiftet. Und mittendrin Hobbydetektiv Alfons Friedrichsberg - hochintelligent, trinkt gern, isst noch lieber und hat immer das letzte Wort-, der dem mörderischen weihnachtlichen Treiben auf die Spur kommen will. Es hilft alles nichts: Um diesen Fall zu lösen, muss er ins Weihnachtskostüm springen.

Vier rabenschwarze Krimis mit wunderbar hanebüchenen Storys, makabren und mörderischen Abenteuern, Gag-Gemetzeln und ziemlich verrückten Typen mit Hang zum Mord. Amateurkriminologe Alfons Friedrichsberg ist immer zur Stelle, um auch den seltsamsten Dingen mit Bravour auf den Grund zu gehen.

Alfons Friedrichsberg ist verschwunden. Und bleibt es auch. Deshalb müssen Jupp Straaten und Willi Dahl ran. Sie werden in ein Kloster gerufen, wo ein unheimlicher Mönchkiller herumschleicht und den Orden dezimiert. Oder liegt es doch an dem neuen Küchenmeister in der Klosterküche? Wer schleicht nachts im Eulengewand durch den Klostergarten? Wo liegt die unsichtbare Bibliothek? Wer steckt hinter den vergifteten Kleiderbügeln? Wieso führt eine blutige Spur in die chemische Änderungsschneiderei Koggelmeier? Und was hat es mit der Prager Blau auf sich? Urplötzlich taucht Friedrichsberg doch noch auf.

"Eine ertrunkene, kopflose Leiche nackt in der Spitze einer Tanne? Sowas löse ich zwischen Kakao mit Schuss und Zigarette in der Badewanne." So Brahms, Kriminalhauptkommissar, der mit großem Vergnügen vertrackte Mordfälle, seltsame Diebstähle und haarsträubende Vermisstenfälle aufklärt. Er leitet innerhalb der Mordkommission die Abteilung ABS (Abseitiges, Böses, Skurriles), die dazu verdonnert ist, sich um Angelegenheiten zu kümmern, mit denen niemand etwas zu tun haben will.