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Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college - each different from the other yet inseparable - until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate. The friends vowed never to...

Felix "O" O'Connor is an ex-con from central Ohio who has spent the last seven years working on a ranch in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. Rarely does he venture out into the world and never does it come looking for him. Both of those things change when his twin sister, Alexa "Lex" Borden, calls from Columbus, Ohio, to ask for his help.

Henry Bins has traveled 3000 miles to see the sun. June 21st. Fairbanks, Alaska. Sunrise is 3:07 a.m. Fourteen minutes later, 800 people will be dead.

Das perfekte Motiv - Lucky und Cat sind seit ihrer Schulzeit ein glückliches Paar. Im Sommer 2021 unternehmen sie eine Reise mit Motorrad und Zelt quer durch Deutschland, weil Luckys Vater todkrank ist und sie in seiner Nähe bleiben wollen. Doch Cat kehrt ohne ihren Geliebten nach Berlin zurück. Kurz vor seinem Tod lässt Luckys Vater eine Vermisstenanzeige aufgeben. Allein zu Hause muss Cat lernen, dass sie den Mann, mit dem sie seit fünfzehn Jahren zusammen ist, nicht wirklich zu kennen scheint. Ihre Entdeckungen liefern ihr ein geradezu perfektes Mordmotiv.

Read by Daniel Weyman (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) and featuring an author's note read by Peter James 'What a fool I've been not to have read Peter James until The Hawk Is Dead! A great story' – James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross series Roy Grace never dreamed...

A storm is coming for Sean Dillon & company in the mesmerizing new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of...

Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door.

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But for the fact that Kate, too, is among the missing....

When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn't realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using "John Doe" to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses him, he ups the stakes and targets another to take his experiments to the next level. It's a race against time literally as Savich and Sherlock rush to stop him and save both present and future victims of his experiments. In the meantime, Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot must track a violent criminal through the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Like father like son....But heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father 10 years earlier. In each case, accusing fingers point towards Pal's stepmother, the beautiful, enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion: Mid-Yorkshire's own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel.

When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold. Then, when another body is found dead on a lonely stretch of road near Hadrian’s Wall and their only suspect has an airtight alibi, the team are faced with another crime without a perpetrator.

It started with the smuggling of Mexican "wetbacks" for slave labor in the U.S. They were brought to an island in Lake Texoma, north of Dallas, to work on a top-secret operation directed by H.H. Christiansen...and were forbidden to leave. But it wasn't until twenty-five Mexicans died in a mysterious tank truck fire that the Penetrator was called in. That's when this simple smuggling assignment turned into a national security threat.

In her new role as Emergency Operations Center director for Fairbanks, Alaska, Darcie Phillips prevents disasters. But none of her training can prepare her for the terror that’s coming. As a cybersecurity specialist, Jason Myers is determined to ferret out any threats to the town he now calls home—and that includes his reckless brother and his ecoterrorist friends. When an old woman’s wild prediction—widespread destruction as soon as the Fairbanks temperature falls to 26 below—hits national headlines, neither Darcie nor Jason sees a real risk to anything but tourism.

Als FBI-Agentin Olivia Parker ein mysteriöses Päckchen erhält, ist das nur der Auftakt zu einem makabren Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Der Absender gibt Olivia und ihren FBI-Kollegen 24 Stunden Zeit um das Leben seines nächsten Opfers zu retten. Dafür müssen sie sich auf sein Rätselspiel einlassen, wobei ihnen der psychopathische Mörder immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein scheint. Bei einem Päckchen bleibt es nicht und so kreuzen sich die Pfade von Olivia und Officer Decker, einem Bostoner Cop mit etwas eigenwilligen Methoden.