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På en bjergtop i byen Redemption, Arizona, er indbyggerne forsamlet på en gammel kirkegård for at begrave en lokal beboer, men den alvorsfulde begivenhed bliver pludselig afbrudt af en eksplosion et sted ude i ørkenen. Et fly er styrtet ned, og snart er en løbsk brand på vej mod byen. Da byens politichef haster hen til nedstyrtningsstedet, er han nær ved at køre en høj, bleg mand over, som kommer løbende væk fra ilden, barfodet og uden erindring om, hvem han er, eller hvordan han er kommet dertil.

Siete víctimas, tres asesinos y el secreto que los une. Tres meses después de encontrar los restos de sietes mujeres en una granja remota en lo que los medios han bautizado como el Campo de Huesos, las víctimas siguen sin ser identificadas. Un testigo que puede ser clave ha desaparecido. El agente Ray Mason y la detective privada Tina Boyd deben encontrarlo antes de que lo hagan los asesinos. En una carrera a contrarreloj repleta de cadáveres y traiciones a cada paso, Ray está dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo para dar caza a los culpables. Pero a veces el precio a pagar es demasiado alto…

Somebody’s gunning for Josh Michaels. They must be. There’s no other reason why a stranger would run him off the road, taunt him with a “thumbs-down”, and leave him to die. Josh may have made some messy mistakes in the past, but who’s suddenly decided that he’s worth more dead than alive? As more and more near-fatal accidents befall him, there can be no denying it: he’s got a bull’s-eye on his back. But why? Is it revenge? Mistaken identity? Or is it something far more insidious?

A gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben. "Pace, pace pace is what Kernick does best" - DAILY MIRROR "Delights, excites and stimulates, and the only reason you consume it so quickly is...

Algunos crímenes pueden tardar años en clamar venganza... En 1990, una joven desaparece sin dejar rastro mientras viaja de mochilera por Tailandia. Veintiséis años después sus huesos son encontrados en un campo en Inglaterra, a diez mil kilómetros de donde desapareció. A las pocas horas, el novio que denunció su desaparición hace décadas es asesinado cuando estaba a punto de revelar algo crucial para el caso.

Hvor langt ville du gå for at redde en, du elsker? De har kidnappet din forlovede. De har fået det til at se ud, som om du har begået et mord. Du får én chance for at redde hende. For at rense dit navn. Du skal dræbe nogen for dem. De giver dig tid og sted. Våbnet. Offeret. Du har mindre end 24 timer. Det eneste, du ved, er, at du ikke kan stole på nogen ... og at intet er, hvad det ser ud til at være.

Truslen

Kl. 8 om morgenen: En eksplosion

brager gennem en café i det centrale London.

Ultimatummet

Få minutter senere: Et opkald fra en

ukendt terrorgruppe advarer om, at et langt større

angreb vil finde sted om cirka 12 timer.

Has visto demasiado. Ahora, ningún lugar es seguro. Cuando Jane Kinnear presencia el asesinato de su amante, su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados y se convierte en el próximo objetivo. La policía la traslada a una casa segura, donde no tarda en descubrir que su amante era un informante de los servicios secretos con datos cruciales sobre un inminente ataque terrorista. El inspector Ray Mason, del Comando Antiterrorismo, es un hombre con un pasado polémico, pero su eficacia en obtener resultados ha hecho que le asignen la responsabilidad de prevenir el ataque.

Du har set for meget. Nu er der ikke sikkert nogen steder.

Ved et tilfælde ser Jane Kinnear sin elsker, Anil, blive myrdet, og pludselig er hun i morderens søgelys. Politiet skynder sig at få hende bragt til et sikkert hus, og det går snart op for hende, at den mand, hun troede, hun kendte, faktisk var kilde hos MI5 og lå inde med vigtige oplysninger om et overhængende terrorangreb.

The name's John Taylor. I'm a PI, though what I really do is find things that are lost. I work the Nightside, the city within the city of London, where the sun never rises and where the human and inhuman go to get their kicks, provided they're willing to pay the price in whatever currency the seller demands. In the wake of the war that almost brought the Nightside to total ruin, there's a power vacuum—and some think I should take charge. I don't agree. Neither does the immortal known as the Griffin. Still, when his granddaughter is kidnapped, he calls on me to find her.

When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading lady's costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises, no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York.

In The Valley of Fear, the great detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful friend Dr. Watson arrive to find they are too late---Douglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling card left by his side. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes, detecting the diabolical workings of his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, has some ideas of his own.

Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, we meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart...and Norman Conquest, the fast talking, hard hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble and a hell-rake disregard for danger, who keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies...and not forgetting Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’.

In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our blind hero, who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart, discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name. As the First World War rapidly approaches, we arrive in a sleepy south coast town where Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective, is soon investigating the sudden death of the local museum curator. All is not as it seems, as our blind hero finds himself on the cliff top in a duel to the death.

Meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our hero discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name.

Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective is lured to Stratford-upon-Avon following an explosion by a band of determined suffragettes. Faced with the ingenious mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome, Max and his trusty servant Parkinson must solve the riddle of the missing body of William Shakespeare.