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I knew him only as Van Gogh. A tortured artist who owned the night as he moved through the shadows, cloaked in hate and madness. He was a vicious vigilante—a serial arsonist who thrived on the fear he triggered with a single match between his tattooed knuckles. We were told to lock our doors and stay inside. I wanted to. I really did. But then I saw his eyes, burning like embers as he watched me through the smoke. And like the flames at his feet, I delighted in his attention. I became his muse. His passion. His obsession. His perfectly flawed flower. But that was years ago.

Art restorer, assassin, spy—Gabriel Allon returns in The Fallen Angel, another blockbuster espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The acclaimed author of Portrait of a Spy, Silva (“a world class practitioner of spy fiction” —Washington Post) is an...

From bastions of freedom... to fallen saints. DSV, the elite secret service tasked with fighting Daedalus, the descendants of the Nazis, are winning. They have captured more of their agents and assets in the past six months than in the previous twenty years, and the plans for a Fourth Reich appear to be crumbling. But all is not as it seems. A whistleblower has identified a mole high up in the DSV hierarchy. But more worrying still is the identity of that informant... ruthless Daedalus commander Hans Bauer. Why would he give up such a valued operative?

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her...

Marta Hendriks is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband's death in a house fire. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, and Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she's hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance.When Marta is caught in a sudden downpour, she dashes for the shelter of a subway station and spots someone doing the same. It is her husband.

Jake Russo thought he could leave it all behind. Being a soldier. And his life as a Dom. A brush with death will do that to a man. Make him believe that abandoning the past would be his only future. But he had one cross to bear. Watching over Kathryn Chase . . . in secret. Keeping an eye on this woman. Her unangelic guardian paying back a debt.

Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter. But between the nearby town with the strange, disconcerting feel, the deputy sheriff who is equal parts intriguing and suspicious, and the discovery that their new home holds a dark and violent past, Scarlett soon begins to question her rash decision.

Amid a sultry Atlanta summer, someone is targeting police. The investigation becomes personal for APD Detective Ryan Winter when a colleague and friend is shot dead - the second victim in weeks. But even as he finds himself being drawn into the tense hunt for a serial cop killer, he is forced to reexamine his own shattering personal tragedy. An ER physician at Atlanta's busy Mercy Hospital, Dr. Lydia Costa is no stranger to suffering.

Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an Army Ranger. In fact it reminded him so much of the techniques in the Ranger Handbook that he couldn't help wondering if the outlaws were former Rangers themselves. And that was definitely going to be a problem.

When P.I. Jade de Jong invites Superintendent David Patel on a scuba diving holiday in St. Lucia, she hopes the time away will rebuild their conflicted relationship. Jade's dreams are soon shattered when David calls off their affair, forcing her into the arms of environmentalist Craig Niewoudt. But the next morning, romantic issues are put aside when a scuba diving instructor, Amanda Bolton, is found brutally stabbed to death.

It’s the most shocking scandal ever to reach the inner sanctum of power in the Holy See. The Vatican’s treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, was ordered to face trial in his native Australia after being charged with multiple counts of child sexual abuse. Investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr, who was the first reporter in the world to reveal the allegations against the cleric, attended each day of the subsequent legal case. She lifts the lid on the proceedings, which for so long were in lock down due to a controversial media black-out.

Vier Elitesoldaten der Union melden per Notruf einen Crash auf Seltus-3. Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begleiten den Ersten Offizier Tornot, um nach Überlebenden zu suchen. Diese zeigen Verhaltensänderungen, welche Holmes auf den Kontakt mit einem fremden Metall zurückführt. Bald werden sie bösartig.

When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally?

Die galaktischen Fälle des Sherlock Holmes (Band 10): Der großartige Sherlock Holmes braucht nicht auf die Wiederauferstehung des Fleisches zu warten! Über 200 Jahre nach seinem Ableben benötigt die Crew des Raumschiffes Ultimo-1 dringend einen cleveren Detektiv und reist in die Vergangenheit, um ihn abzuholen. Leicht irritiert vom technischen Fortschritt und teils lockeren Sitten, kann Holmes dennoch seine Logik zielgerichtet einsetzen und knifflige Fälle lösen, denn das Böse lauert immer und überall...

Üble Sachen: In diesen drei Fällen hat es Philip Maloney mit fragwürdigen Damen und dreisten Gesellen zu tun – wobei Bomben eine besondere Rolle spielen: Zur Verunsicherung, Bedrohung bis hin zur Erpressung, aber auch bei einem Unfall, der vielleicht kein Unfall war. Zwielichtige Akteure sind Protagonisten, welche das nicht unberechtigte Gefühl haben, schlauer als die Polizei zu sein – aber den genialen und noch schlaueren Privatdetektiv nicht auf dem Radar hatten.

Tobias Hale is surrounded by rumors, most of which are true. Underneath that three-piece suit is a cold, callous man who rules the courtroom with an iron tongue. Judges hate him with the same passion he hates me. He hasn't always been that way, though. We were once star-crossed lovers who sat by the water's edge, me wearing his jacket and him dreaming about a future far away from my family—a place where I wasn't American royalty, only his queen. I never thought I would see him again. Years later, a chance encounter brings us face to face.

Ein genialer Physiker ist spurlos verschwunden. Die Union vermutet, er habe seine Geisteskraft in den Dienst von Feinden gestellt. An Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson liegt es nun, dem Gerücht nachzugehen und ihn ehestmöglich aufzufinden.

Der Familien- und Fortpflanzungsminister der Union beauftragt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson mit Ermittlungen in einem diffizilen Scheidungsfall. Ein Ex-Raumfahrer wähnt seine Gattin von bösen Einflüssen aus dem All besessen. Die schöne Frau hat es besonders Dr. Watson angetan.

Auf einer Raumstation wurde ein Gewerkschaftsvertreter ermordet. Die beiden tödlichen Messerstiche liegen zeitlich zwei Stunden auseinander. Das gibt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson Rätsel auf. Allerdings nicht lange.

Unverhofft wurde Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson die Ehre zuteil, auf einem Vergnügungs-Raumschiff einchecken zu dürfen. Trotz herzlicher Begrüßung durch den eitlen Kapitän, ahnt Holmes schon bevorstehende Detektivarbeit. Tatsächlich ereigneten sich an Bord Fälle vorübergehenden Wahnsinns.