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Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishment. He’s saved a number of death row inmates, but none of his cases has been as tough as the one he now faces: Henry Combs, a vicious serial killer, has only hours to live when Douglas is summoned for a Hail Mary attempt to have the man’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As Douglas races to pursue whatever strategies he can think of, he finds his passion for justice giving way to something altogether different. An obsession.

Hannah has done everything to make sure her life is safe and secure. A long way from her unstable childhood growing up in foster care, she’s content with her sweet, little, messy apartment and her satisfying job as a social worker. She quietly worries that, aged 36, she might never fall in love. But otherwise her life is where she wants it to be. Until, encouraged by her best friend to join a dating app, she meets Alex. He’s irresistibly handsome. He loves the same music as her. The same food as well.

Él es un gruñón empedernido. Ella, el optimismo personificado. Hace ocho años tuvieron una aventura secreta, y ahora el destino los reúne de nuevo. Ella quiere encontrar al hombre de su vida y le pide a él que sea su instructor de citas. Pero, ¿podrá él resistir la tentación de convertirse en su candidato ideal? Una historia divertida y sexy sobre segundas oportunidades, miedos superados y el poder del amor verdadero. ¿Se atreverán a arriesgarlo todo por una nueva oportunidad juntos?"

A truly unforgettable story about friendship, motherhood and how far we'll go to protect the ones we love. Filled with tension and mind-blowing twists, fans of Claire Douglas, Gillian McAllister and CL Taylor will love The Due Date. You shared everything for nine months. But you don't know her...

After the death of her husband four years ago, Hartley Watson is finally ready to meet someone - and maybe even have a second chance at love. But then, just as her dating life seems to be getting started, Hartley is struck with a horrifying realization: Someone is watching her. Entering her home. Even knows the intimate details of her life. How else to explain the strange deliveries, or the sudden appearance of mementos from her dead spouse - ones that she had kept for so long in storage?

Bea's favourite customer, Julie, hasn't been seen for weeks. Her abusive husband, Dave, claims she's left him, but Bea can't shake the feeling something worse has happened. When a body is found, it seems to confirm her fears - until it comes out that the corpse is 15 years old. Where is Julie? Who is the dead girl? And what was her connection to Bea's late father? Ant and Bea are back with their most personal case yet.

Returning early from a disastrous date night with my husband, I know something is wrong the moment the wheels crunch the gravel drive of our home. Inside, the TV is on and a half-eaten meal waits on the table. My heart stops when I find our little girl is alone in the house and our babysitter, Sasha, is missing....

Nine hours and eleven minutes... That's how long it's been since Ella Hope was left for dead. She lies, unable to move and praying for somebody to find her, as she counts down the minutes and wonders who could have hated her so much to have hurt her so badly. Was it the man she went on a date with the previous evening, the man linked to the deaths of two other women? Or somebody else, somebody who wants her out of the picture so much they're willing to kill? Whoever it is, they will pay.

In Kassel, Göttingen und Fulda werden die bestialisch zugerichteten Leichen junger Frauen gefunden. Die Art ihrer Verletzungen lässt keinen Zweifel aufkommen, dass es sich bei dem Täter um einen Serienmörder handelt. Mühsam müssen sich die verschiedenen Ermittlungsgruppen austauschen, um letztendlich zu erkennen was die Opfer miteinander verbindet. Alle getöteten Frauen waren bei der gleichen Singlebörse angemeldet.

Der neue Spannungsroman von Joy Fielding: Vier Frauen und ein Serienmörder. Er nennt sich Mr Right Now - und das Profil auf seiner Datingseite ist äußerst attraktiv. Nichts weist darauf hin, dass der sympathische Mann mit dem gewinnenden Lächeln eine ganz besondere Neigung hat. Und dass er eine tödliche Überraschung bereithält, wenn der romantische Abend beendet ist. Zur gleichen Zeit suchen vier Frauen auf unterschiedliche Weise ihr Glück im Internet: die junge Paige, ihre beste Freundin Chloe, ihre Mutter Joan und ihre Cousine Heather.

Der neue Spannungsroman von Joy Fielding: Vier Frauen und ein Serienmörder. Er nennt sich Mr Right Now - und das Profil auf seiner Datingseite ist äußerst attraktiv. Nichts weist darauf hin, dass der sympathische Mann mit dem gewinnenden Lächeln eine ganz besondere Neigung hat. Und dass er eine tödliche Überraschung bereithält, wenn der romantische Abend beendet ist. Zur gleichen Zeit suchen vier Frauen auf unterschiedliche Weise ihr Glück im Internet: die junge Paige, ihre beste Freundin Chloe, ihre Mutter Joan und ihre Cousine Heather.

When investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, falls victim to cutbacks, she and Cosmo, her anti-social feral cat, head for beautiful Hopgood Hall, where they plan to lick their wounds in the boutique hotel run by her old friends, Cheryl and Drew Hopgood. But when she arrives Alexi discovers Cheryl and Drew both distraught. Their close friend, Natalie Parker, who recently settled in the area, has gone missing. Alexi’s sure the woman has just taken a trip somewhere, but she still has a nose for a story and agrees to look into it.

The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away the key. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is. What Kobe doesn’t know is that the man who hired him is up to no good, and she has no other choice but to run without looking back.

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.

A family day out turns sour for DI McKay when he stumbles across an unidentified corpse. The day becomes darker still when his brother-in-law goes missing and is eventually found dead, the result of a seemingly accidental fall. Meanwhile, DCI Helena Grant has a disastrous on-line date with a pompous senior manager of a local hotel chain. Her initial amusement turns to unease at his disturbing behaviour. And, as she arrives home, she receives a threatening text from someone who has been watching her.

Die Journalistin Tone Tarud findet bei einem Spaziergang im Wald die Leiche einer Frau. Bei den folgenden Ermittlungen stellt sich heraus, dass sie und die Tote, Sofie Lyse, etwas gemeinsam hatten: Beide suchten über das Internet nach dem Partner fürs Leben und hatten auch Kontakt zu den gleichen Männern. Schnell zeigt sich zudem, dass Sofie Lyst sich offenbar mit ihrem Mörder über das Internet zu einem Blind Date verabredet hatte. Tone Tarud lernt wenig später Atle Kristensen kennen, der vor einigen Jahren für den Mord an seiner Ehefrau Lotte zu einer Haftstrafe verurteilt wurde.

Responsable d'une petite boutique de bougies parfumées, Abby Williams, 26 ans, mène une vie plutôt simple, mais toujours organisée. Son plus gros défaut ? Le célibat. Elle qui rêve d'un quotidien plus que parfait pour peaufiner cette image de la fille exemplaire qu'elle dégage, rien n'y fait, aucun prince charmant ne débarque à sa porte. Lassée par cette solitude, et bien consciente qu'une histoire d'amour lui est maintenant devenue inaccessible, un soir, elle décide de s'inscrire sur un site de rencontre, dans le but de passer du bon temps.

Having to attend my sister's wedding with a pretend boyfriend was bad enough, but when that fake date left me stranded an hour before the ceremony, I thought my life was over. No one wore disappointment as poorly as my mother, and I'd already given her a thousand reasons to wish I'd never been born. Which was why, when a random stranger sat beside me at the bus stop, wearing a crisp suit and a winning smile as though God himself had heard my woeful prayers, I wasted no time in making a rushed deal with the devil: A night of his time in exchange for money I didn't have.

Ein entspannendes Schaumbad, eine gute Flasche Wein - auf dieses Höchstmaß an Romantik freut sich die alleinerziehende Jenny an ihrem kinderfreien Wochenende. Und Abenteuer? Braucht sie nicht! Sie findet viel zu gefährlich, dass ihre Schwester May bei der privaten Sicherheitsfirma Bourbon Street Boys angeheuert hat und mit deren Boss liiert ist. Jenny würde dort nie arbeiten... Oder doch? Das Team benötigt dringend eine versierte Computerfrau. Mays Hilferuf und ein lukratives Angebot lassen die Expertin widerstrebend zusagen.

August Cruz is the only man I've ever loved. He's the one who got away. He's the one I totally screwed over. Now he's standing on my doorstep, nine years later, but he's not the only thing that turns up. My mother's lost diary is in my hands, and it might lead me to my father. A possibility I wished for one year ago, at my last birthday. I have 36 hours to fulfill that wish. I have 36 hours to drag August on a wild scavenger hunt. I have 36 hours to protect my heart before I lose him again . . . because there's something he's not telling me.