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Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange. This message was deleted. Leona answers the door, and insists everything's fine. She doesn't know anything about the message. Six hours later, Saffy gets a knock on the door. It's the police. They’ve found a body. And Saffy was the last one to see them alive.

I'm finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me. What happened to my good friend Lucas' sister after she disappeared then years ago? And if my father was murdered when I was young, why do I keep seeing him? When I find the long-buried remains of Lucas' sister, her murdered body only opens more questions.

I find the murdered woman crumpled under a tree. Blood stains her back and her hands are bound. If I touch her, my psychic abilities will show me what happened to her. But I've lived through murders before, and the visions leave scars. Fighting my fear, I touch her—and only see four names—Addlynn Jeanette Claire Margaret.

I am not a freak, although many people call me that. The night my father was murdered and I was left for dead, I awoke with the ability to "sense" things. Touching things can give me visions, sometimes horrifying, murderous ones. The bones of a murdered woman are unearthed and our safe small town is shaken to its core. Her killer was good at hiding the truth and after decades in the ground, any clues are gone—her murder a complete mystery. The only clues are the ones I can see.

Dive into the thrilling world of Nick Carter, a legendary fictional detective who has captivated readers since his first appearance in dime store novels back in 1886. Authored by a string of writers all under the pseudonym Nicholas Carter, Nick Carter is often hailed as Americas greatest detective. In this intriguing tale, Nick finds himself overhearing a conversation between two strangers in the booth next to his. One of the men, a telegraph office worker, mentions an odd wire he received, instantly piquing Nicks curiosity and setting in motion an adventure you wont want to miss.

Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a café in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust …

Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust - and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen by outsiders.

Six months ago, Mia Rhodes was a Seattle office manager, toiling away from nine to five and spending her weekends managing her online political competition, Ameritocracy. Now, that competition is spreading across the American political landscape, making Mia a celebrity and giving Ameritocracy a real shot at upending the two-party system in the 2020 election. But as the final voting draws near, Mia is betrayed by one of the people she trusts most, throwing Ameritocracy into disarray, and possibly ending her dream of changing American politics forever.

January, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack knows he's not going to have a good day when he wakes with a sore head next to a dead body in a tavern's yard. But when he discovers what's in the dead man's purse, his day is set to get much worse. The purse explains why the mysterious man with the broad-brimmed hat wants to catch him. But so does the Lord Chancellor, as does the enigmatic Henry. In fact almost everyone seems to be after Jack Blackjack.

A routine missing person enquiry takes a grisly turn when a young couple drag a box containing human remains out of a Somerset river. The victim was a surveillance expert investigating an exaggerated injury claim—a murder with an obvious motive, until a police officer is implicated and suspended. Still brooding after his recent brush with police Professional Standards, Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon is on extended leave, helping his pregnant fiancée, Detective Sergeant Jane Winter, fight for her place on the major investigation team.

A middle-of-the night phone call summons NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli and her partner, Detective P. J. Parker, to a politically sensitive murder scene. The victims - a US Senator, the pastor of a mega church, and a self-made music industry billionaire - appear to have been killed during a sex orgy.

In December 2014, Katja Faber received the news every parent fears most. Her son Alex, 23, had been killed. Chilling details emerged in the months that followed: her son’s killer had been his university friend Bennet – the son of an ultra-rich art dealer – who had brutally beaten Alex before murdering him. The killing took place on Zurich’s Gold Coast – a place of extraordinary privilege, just like the killer’s upbringing. But even more extraordinary are some of the revelations that have since surfaced about Bennet, his history, and the cat-and-mouse game he continues to play with...

Octubre de 1987: la mañana después de la Gran Tormenta de Londres. Tania Mills, de quince años, sale por la puerta de su casa y desaparece. Más de veinte años después, su madre todavía reza por su regreso. La detective Sarah Collins del Comando de Homicidios de la policía de Londres está decidida a averiguar qué sucedió, pero la interrumpe otro caso terrible que la obliga a volver a trabajar con una joven y problemática oficial de policía de su pasado, Lizzie Griffiths.

Just nachdem sich der Capitano der sizilianischen Carabinieri auf unbestimmte Zeit beurlauben lassen hat, sorgt ein mysteriöser Mord im Rotlichtmilieu für Aufruhr in Villabosco. Wieder mal steht Maresciallo Saverio Bonanno mit den Ermittlungen allein da. Trotzdem gelingt es Bonanno, die Nerven zu bewahren und einer skrupellosen Organisation auf die Spur zu kommen, die ihre dunklen Botschaften übers Internet verbreitet. Aber als Bonanno herausfindet, wer hinter der Organisation steckt und dass ihre Opfer noch Kinder sind, ringt er nicht nur einmal um Fassung ...

Pablo es un pequeño delincuente, un traficante con ciertas inquietudes científicas y poéticas. Una mañana de septiembre recibe un e-mail enviado por su compinche y amigo Ángel Bru - con quien había planeado un atraco, finalmente abortado, a un prostíbulo de carretera - , citándolo en una nave abandonada de un polígono industrial. Al llegar allí descubre el cadáver de Ángel con un disparo en la frente.

When extreme religious fundamentalists known as the Phineas Priesthood led by Ezekiel Yates and his three cousins, target Xantara Pembroke because they believe she is a witch, they launch a major conflict between unworldly disciples of good and evil. This action-packed thriller shows the twists and turns of both sides as they try to destroy or save the souls of Earth. Imogene is the daughter of Xantara, a Guardian of Avebury Circle, an ancient monument near Stonehenge.

There aren’t many people who can say that they’ve had a Banksy statue in their back garden, but Andy Link is one of them. In 2004, he kidnapped one of Banksy’s pieces of art in broad daylight from the middle of central London, and held it to ransom. The fact that someone would kidnap a Banksy statue is pretty absurd already, but the story of why it happened, how the statue vanished again after it was kidnapped, and how it was mysteriously put up for auction over 10 years later is even wilder. It all comes down to 1 man, and a 2 decade long vendetta. The story will take us on a journey ...

Auf den ersten Blick ist Nicolai Vaughn der Typ Mann, von dem ich mich lieber fernhalten sollte: groß, muskulös, furchteinflößend. Allerdings hat der ausgebildete Kampfsportler, der im Personenschutz arbeitet, eine völlig gegenteilige Wirkung auf mich. Bei ihm fühle ich mich sicher. Trotzdem halte ich ihn besser auf Abstand. Zu viele schlimme Erfahrungen haben mich geprägt, weshalb ich keinen Mann mehr an mich heranlassen kann. Avery Reynolds ist genau die Art Frau, die ich will: sympathisch, sexy, ganz und gar nicht oberflächlich.