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Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

Another psychological thriller from the pen of Ibne Safi. A peek inside a human mind and what it possesses. A lesson to last a lifetime.

CIA agent Micah Dalton is a "cleaner." He takes care of other agents' mistakes. When a friend and mentor commits a grotesque suicide, Dalton's investigation leads him into the snare of a madman, into the arms of a beautiful, mysterious stranger-and into a conspiracy within his own agency. Dalton...

Ausgerechnet im Finale der deutschen Meisterschaft verliert Robert Stein seinen ersten Box-Kampf. Dabei zieht er sich eine schwere Kopfverletzung zu, die das Aus seiner Karriere bedeutet. Durch Zufall erfährt er von einem Auswanderer, der in Nordamerika Schaukämpfe veranstaltet und damit jede Menge Geld verdient. Stein nimmt den Namen Rob Stone an und geht den Deal seines Lebens ein, der sein Leben für immer verändert.

Following an allegation that he was behind a prisoner's murder in HMP Manchester, DS Kevin Coupland enlists the help of the one man everyone is certain has set him up - Kieran Tunney, a notorious crime boss already under investigation. When Coupland reviews several cases, he suspects they are linked in a way he cannot believe is possible. If his suspicions are correct, then he must act fast to stop the unthinkable from happening - even if that means putting himself in the firing line.

There’s bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does - Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of ’em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of ’em, using his bag o’ wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didn’t exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock had mental wossnames, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him.

Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke - they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago. When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke’s past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps, dodging Nazi soldiers.

The gripping first novel in the exciting new Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author Mari Hannah. Alex should never have agreed to the spur-of-the-moment holiday with her sister. Seven days felt like a year without Daniel, her 10-year-old son. This was the first time they had been apart since he was born, and her husband had convinced her it was a good idea. It was a bad idea. Daniel has gone missing.

El don de hablar con los muertos…. puede costarte la vida. Una noche, mientras el último tañido de las campanas de la iglesia resuena en el aire, el cuerpo frío y sin vida de Sandra Deakin es hallado con múltiples heridas de arma blanca en el cementerio. La detective Kim Stone llega rápidamente al lugar, y la violencia que presenta el cuerpo la convence de que el ataque fue personal. ¿Qué podría haber causado tanto odio? Mientras el equipo empieza a investigar la vida de la víctima, descubren que Sandra creía tener la capacidad de comunicarse con los muertos.

Hun ødelagde deres liv. Nu vil de knuse hendes. “En eller anden genskaber hver eneste traumatiske hændelse i dit liv. De gør det for at få dig til at lide, for at påføre dig smerte, og det eneste mulige slutresultat er døden. Din død.” På fjerde sal i Chaucer House bliver to teenagere fundet lænket til en radiator. Drengen er død, men pigen er stadig i live. For kriminalkommissær Kim Stone er hver eneste detalje på gerningsstedet en spejling af hendes egen forfærdelige oplevelse med broren Mikey, dengang de boede i det samme lejlighedskompleks for 30 år siden.

Crissa Stone is a career criminal who has pulled a number of impressive heists by knowing how to keep her mouth shut and her temper in check. Still, as good as she is, she wants to get out of the life. All she needs is one last big score, enough to bribe her lover's way out on parole, setup a safe and stable new life, and get her daughter back. But things keep going wrong, like when her last two partners lost their cool and fought over the take instead of walking away $150,000 richer. The mess they made of the job and each other has put her on the run again.

It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy - and low on funds - she agrees to act as a thief for hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're repatriated to their native country. But what's supposed to be a "give-up" robbery with few complications quickly turns deadly.

Mordet på en ung prostitueret og fundet af et efterladt spædbarn på den samme vinteraften indleder en urovækkende efterforskning for kommissær Kim Stone. En, der stiller hende ansigt til ansigt med en person fra hendes egen forfærdelige barndom.

Da endnu tre sexarbejdere i Black Country bliver myrdet hurtigt efter hinanden, på stadig mere bestialske måder, forstår Kim og hendes hold, at det første drab ikke var noget enkeltstående overfald udført i raseri. I stedet går en forskruet seriemorder målrettet efter de svageste.

Det forældrepar, der tilbyder den største løsesum, kommer til at se deres datter igen. Det par, der taber, gør ikke. Tag ikke fejl. Et barn kommer til at dø. Da bedsteveninderne på ni år, Charlie og Amy, forsvinder, bliver to familier kastet ud i et mareridt. En sms bekræfter det utænkelige: at pigerne er blevet ofre for en frygtelig kidnapning. Da endnu en sms spiller familierne ud mod hinanden for at redde deres børn, begynder uret at tikke for kommissær Kim Stone og hendes team.

DØDE PIGER SLADRER IKKE ... KUN NÅR MAN LYTTER. Forskningsanlægget Westerley er ikke for sarte sjæle. Det er en ”kadaverfarm”, hvor man studerer menneskekroppens nedbrydning, og stedets beboere er lig i forskellige faser af opløsning. Men da vicekriminalkommissær Kim Stone og hendes hold finder det helt friske lig af en ung kvinde, lader det til, at en morder har opdaget det perfekte sted at skille sig af med sit offer. Da endnu en pige samme sted bliver fundet i kritisk tilstand efter et brutalt overfald, er det tydeligt for Stone og hendes folk, at en seriemorder er på spil.

A Nor’easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past—in the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in...