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When Aurora Bennett witnesses a murder by a ruthless Los Angeles crime boss, she ends up stuck in her apartment like she’s the one who committed the crime. Then a sexy new neighbor moves in, and he’s just the sort of bossy, broad-shouldered male that makes her crazy—in more ways than one. Devon Whitestone can’t tell his neighbor Aurora the truth—that he’s actually a personal bodyguard hired by her brother, the owner of Bennett Security. Rule number one: don’t touch.

My husband sold me. Not only did he sell me, but he told me he loved me while doing the deal. What lies he tells. Only fools believe him. Unfortunately, one of those fools was me.

With plague and violence stalking the streets and a new Cold War brewing in the East, America has never been more unprepared to face her enemies. There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling. When CIA assassin Jason Trapp is called to the Middle East to identify a man suspected to be feared ISIS terrorist Khaled al-Shakiri, he expects to be in and out in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas. After surviving the most violent prison break the region has ever seen, Trapp is left chasing shadows.

Cass Neary made her name in the 70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

When a seemingly simple case turns complicated, respected attorney Barbara Holloway must rethink her game plan. Gregarious Las Vegas entertainer and ex-con Wally Lederer claims he's turned his life around. But when Jay Wilkins, a childhood friend, accuses Wally of stealing a valuable artifact, it's up to Barbara to ferret out the truth. Wally swears he's innocent. But when a murder takes place and the police name Wally as their prime suspect, Barbara knows he is in serious trouble.

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal...

DON CAVELLI UND DER TOTE KARDINAL: Obwohl er kein Mann der Kirche ist, hat Geschichtsprofessor Don Cavelli im Vatikan lebenslanges Wohnrecht und genießt zahlreiche Privilegien. Vertraute hat er wenige, umso schockierender ist die Nachricht vom Tod seines Freundes Eduardo Fontana: Was trieb den Kardinal dazu, in der israelischen Wüste den Tod zu suchen? Cavelli beginnt nachzuforschen – und kommt einer Verschwörung auf die Spur, die die ganze Welt erschüttern könnte...

Lei ha fatto un grosso errore. Non si ricatta un Tacone. Presentarsi da me e minacciarmi? È inaccettabile. Se ha bisogno di denaro, deve chiedermelo con gentilezza. Ma sappiamo entrambi come funzionano queste cose. Una volta che le concederò il prestito, lei apparterrà a me. Faccio del mio meglio per trattenermi. Per rispettarla. E ora che è sotto il mio controllo… non ho intenzione di lasciarla andare.

Jan Hendricks grew up as a farm girl in rural Montana. She leaves the farm to start college in the Big City of Billings during the Jazz Club Era of the late 1940's. At a party, she meets Lavio Rossano, a dashing, handsome, charming young man who sweeps her off her feet. After a whirlwind romance, they settle down and start a family as Jan starts to learn that there is something unusual about Lavio's profession. He is connected with a crime family, looking to set up a satellite operation at a busy shipping hub in the West.

Three seemingly unrelated events are part of a mosaic created by Satan’s warriors to lure Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin, to a place where his maddening interference will be destroyed once and for all. But Brady is anointed by God for such a time as this. With his brothers and an ancient line of Hebrew warriors at his side, he again charges boldly into battle, facing Satan’s foulest in Rome, Paris, and a place of unspeakable horror in Calcutta, India, as he comes to the aid of an Albanian nun.

Scott Manson and London City are in Athens battling for the UEFA Champion's League title. The situation in Athens is tense, and some of City's players are so unpopular in Greece they've been assigned bodyguards. Karaiskakis Stadium is packed to the rafters when tragedy strikes: Christoph Bundchen collapses and dies midmatch. Is it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?

A hard-boiled newsman and a sharp-witted sheriff team up to solve a murder mystery in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s suspenseful and disturbing story of death and violence in a small coal-mining town.

When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Jerry is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs Unger, but the circumstances surrounding the scandal cause him to doubt the exact nature of her philanthropy.

In this remarkable new novel, Belva Plain creates a brilliant portrayal of a man's descent from idealistic beginnings into a world of dishonesty and greed--and of the two women who love him. Robb MacDaniel, a schoolteacher with noble intentions, comes into a little money, enabling him to go to...

Othello Maloik. The name should strike fear in your heart if you know who I am—a man of violent extremes. I got the taste for the finer things in life. Fine wine. Five-star food. And of course, beautiful women. But something is missing. More than money and fancy cars, I want a woman. Not one of the floozies that go in and out of my life. But a woman who will truly accept me for the violent man that I am. Who will revel in my kill count.

Aus Sorge um ihre Sicherheit engagiert er Milosh Petrov: diszipliniert, entschlossen und absolut unbestechlich. Für Milosh ist der Auftrag reine Routine. Doch schnell wird klar: Daphne ist alles andere als eine gewöhnliche Klientin. Er würde alles tun, um sie vor Gefahren zu beschützen und lässt sich dabei sogar eines Tages darauf ein, sich als ihr Freund auszugeben.

Trügerische Erinnerung, tödliche Familienbande. Kalifornien, Sommer 1975: Die Kleinstadt Ojai wird von einem grausamen Doppelmord erschüttert: Die 14-jährige Poppy und der 17-jährige Danny werden erstochen in ihrem Elternhaus aufgefunden. Ein ungeheuerlicher Verdacht macht die Runde: Wurden die beiden von ihrem eigenen Bruder getötet? Kalifornien, 2024: Ghostwriterin Olivia Dumont erhält einen Auftrag, den sie am liebsten ablehnen würde. Sie soll ein Buch für ihren Vater schreiben, den gefeierten Schriftsteller Vincent Taylor.

Trügerische Erinnerung, tödliche Familienbande. Kalifornien, Sommer 1975: Die Kleinstadt Ojai wird von einem grausamen Doppelmord erschüttert: Die 14-jährige Poppy und der 17-jährige Danny werden erstochen in ihrem Elternhaus aufgefunden. Ein ungeheuerlicher Verdacht macht die Runde: Wurden die beiden von ihrem eigenen Bruder getötet? Kalifornien, 2024: Ghostwriterin Olivia Dumont erhält einen Auftrag, den sie am liebsten ablehnen würde. Sie soll ein Buch für ihren Vater schreiben, den gefeierten Schriftsteller Vincent Taylor.

The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr. Cartell, who had ended up in the ditch - forever. Then there was the case of Mr. Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn.

Private investigator Dana Cutler must take down a cunning psychopath before he can pull off the perfect crime, in Sleight of Hand, a novel of suspense from Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Capitol Murder and Supreme Justice. Charles Benedict – charismatic criminal defense...