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Three weeks on from that night and ChameleoMan & friends are riding high after their first vigilante victory... but Dan & his cats are about to face something far deadlier. Stopping a mugging was almost too easy, but when a body turns up in the industrial estate, Dan begins to wonder if the superhero life is really for him. Catman is missing, the police are asking questions, and shadowy figures stalk the street at night. With time running out, Dan, Andrew, and the Flash must race to uncover the truth—before the law starts pointing fingers at them. But something darker lurks in the shadows.

This collection includes What Vengeance Comes, Cold Sanctuary, and Crimson Deep.

1959 brachen neun russische Studenten zu einer Ski-Expedition in den Ural auf. Wochen später fand man ihre Leichen, auf grausamste Art verstümmelt. Beinahe siebzig Jahre später dringt Nat McPherson, die Moderatorin eines beliebten Podcasts, zusammen mit ihrem Team ebenfalls in diese Berge vor; fest entschlossen, das Rätsel um den Zwischenfall am Djatlov Pass endlich zu lösen. Doch ihre Pläne werden bereits in der ersten Nacht vereitelt, als zwei Fährtenleser ihrer Gruppe bestialisch abgeschlachtet werden.

Girl in the Creek is a pulse-pounding story about the horrors growing all around us, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher. Buried secrets only spread. Erin's brother Bryan has been missing for five years. It was as if he simply walked into the forests of the Pacific Northwest...

Im O‘Brien‘s Pub in Ballydehag gibt es jeden Freitagabend den Klassiker Irish Stew–bis dieser irische Eintopf einigen Gästen schwer im Magen liegt und in den sozialen Medien fürchterlich negative Kritiken nach sich zieht. Der Koch und Kneipenwirt Sean O‘Grady ist fassungslos. Als einer seiner Gäste nach dem Verzehr von Irish Stew sogar stirbt, wird ihm klar, dass er jetzt größere Probleme hat als giftige Online-Kritiken. Hat außer Sean wirklich niemand Zutaten in den Kochtopf gerührt? Oder verspürt hier jemand Mordgelüste?

Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speeds toward their Florida hideout. As deaths mount, ex-sheriff John Decker is called from a much-needed vacation by a longtime friend, to help a baffled police department track an impossible enemy. Thrust into one of the most dangerous situations of his life, Decker must combat not only a ruthless killer but a cadre of criminals with nothing to lose.

A disgraced former detective walks into a bar and . . . gets funding for a private investigation agency? If it didn't happen to Jazz Callender, she wouldn't believe it either. All she has to do is partner up with a national security risk known as Lucia Garza, accept one-hundred thousand dollars, and take on assignments that seem to have no purpose. Easy-peasy.

The incredible new novel from C.S. Green – featuring Detective Rose Gifford Something terrible happened in that house… ‘An enthralling, multi-layered crime novel that fans of Peter James and Lisa Jewell will adore’ MARK EDWARDS ‘This dark and tightly plotted supernatural thriller was a...

When a terrified, bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam, police are called to the scene. What they find inside the derelict building sends the community into shock: four bodies, their throats savagely cut, arranged in a bizarre formation with objects surrounding them. The survivor, Mark Lingham, insists that the deaths are his fault and is immediately arrested for murder. But police specialist Dr Cora Lael - a woman with the ability to sense emotional echoes from objects - hears a different story...

When Paul Ondragon's mentor, Roderick DeForce, seeks his help on a seemingly routine missing-person case, the consummate troubleshooter finds himself vexed by a puzzle even he can't easily solve. The missing man is a tough-as-nails former Navy Seal working for a company that specializes in high-stakes deliveries to crisis areas. But who wanted him out of the way . . . and why?

They're out there...waiting...watching. Unseen by normal eyes, but all too visible to Slim MacKenzie, a young man blessed - or cursed - by Twilight Eyes.

Lisa Airey presents book two in the Juile Hastings series.

"Who am I? Why, I'm you. Or parts of you. The best parts. I'm the touch of Richard Speck, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Bin Laden in all of you. I am the thousand tiny angers and fleeting rages of your day - at the car that cuts you off on the freeway, at the kid who sneaks ahead of you in line at the movies, at the old fart with the full basket in the eight-items-only express checkout at the supermarket. I'm the nasty glee in the name-callers and the long-suffering pain, the self-loathing, the smoldering resentment, the suppressed rage, and the never-to-be-fulfilled promises of revenge in their targets.

When Detective Maria Miller walks up creaking stairs into the attic of the old brownstone she senses this isn’t an ordinary crime scene. The brutality of the murder is enough to shock even an experienced detective like Maria. But there’s something else. An unsettling presence seems to lurk in the shadows sending a chill through Maria’s bones, making her desperate to run back down the stairs and never return. The killing is identical to the murder of an actress sixty years before, a crime that tore a family apart and sent shockwaves through New York City.

The Preserve in Bath—the British Area 51—is the secret government dumping ground for all things supernatural and out of space. It is one of the most heavily-guarded places in the world. However, it's not what protects it that makes it so dangerous but the things that are inside...

When a bloody corpse is discovered in a North London park, Detective Inspector Daniel Graves is the man tasked with finding the killer. However, with no clues and no suspects, the case seems like a dead end. Then another body turns up—and this time, it looks like it could be Graves’s fault. Has his investigation caused the murderer to strike again? As the case gets ever more complicated, a report comes in of another suspicious death—but this is nothing like any other Graves has dealt with. All involved are convinced that something supernatural is to blame: a demon.

Gideon Sable—master thief, con artist and self-proclaimed vigilante—faces a challenge he can't refuse. His client, the former Head of the British Rocketry Group, Professor Neil Sharpe, wants him to break into the Preserve. Once inside, Gideon and his crew of supernatural misfits can get any mystical artefact they desire out of the Preserve's collection. The catch? To reach it, they must go through the treacherous Box Tunnel complex and not only face trained guards and booby traps but steal something that can't normally be stolen—a ghost!

In Shadow People, national best-selling author James Swain’s brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. He’s a psychic who peers into the future, using the information to alert the authorities to pending trouble. During a séance, Peter is confronted by a group of evil spirits called shadow people, beings who have the power to kidnap a person’s soul. Peter is taken to another plane, where he confronts a serial killer about to claim his next victim. It’s a harrowing encounter that Peter only barely manages to survive.

Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Charlie, on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle’s close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she had loved. Except that the loss is not total - Charlie is still around. Elle feels his presence, smells his aftershave, hears him accuse her of killing him. And even though she doesn’t believe in ghosts, she argues with him, asserting her innocence. Oddly, Elle has a gap in her memory; she can’t account for her activity during the time of his murder.

"L'osservatore oscuro" è l'alter ego negativo che ci portiamo dentro, quello che ci dice che non ce la faremo, quello che alimenta le nostre paranoie, gli incubi peggiori... Per Aurora Scalviati, giovane profiler della polizia di Sparvara, i colleghi Bruno Colasanti, Tom Carelli e Silvia Sassi sono diventati la famiglia che non ha mai avuto. Ma tutto è destinato a cambiare con il ritrovamento, alla Certosa di Bologna, del cadavere di un uomo senza nome né documenti di riconoscimento.