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Tony Colletti, a good suburban cop and father of a child with autism, finds himself drawn into the controversy over the apparent but rarely acknowledged connection between childhood vaccines and autism. His quest to uncover the truth forces him to risk all he holds dear while confronting corrupt government officials, the powerful pharmaceutical industry, and disturbing elements of his own past. Even while holding down his job and dealing with family crises, Colletti spearheads the drive to contend with industrial espionage, Russian gangsters, and sexual predators.

World War II is raging overseas, but life remains painfully quiet on the rugged New England fishing island of Fourth Cliff. With most of its able-bodied male inhabitants away in the service, the island is now home only to aged fishermen, concerned women and children, and second-rate soldiers guarding a low-priority military emplacement and camp for Italian POWs.

Peter Maxwell is delighted when an old college friend asks him to be the historical adviser on a film being made on the coast near Leighford. Dreams of becoming the next Spielberg soon founder when he discovers that the world of film is pretty much the same as the world of education - full of incompetents and backstabbers. Unfortunately, shooting becomes all too literal when the director takes a musket ball to the head. With one of his students implicated, another off on a jealous rant, and almost everyone out to get everyone else, Maxwell finds telling the truth from fiction to be more difficult than even he could have imagined.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission, But can the SAS prevent Britain descending into war-torn anarchy? Great Britain, 1995: With terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are stretched beyond their limit. And...

Mord ist schlecht fürs Geschäft! Das Paradies war früher schöner ist der erste Band einer humorvoll-skurrilen Krimi-Reihe aus Österreich, in der der herrlich verschrobene Oberst Benedikt Kordesch ermittelt, der zwar das Autofahren ebenso scheut wie den Alkohol, aber das Herz am rechten Fleck hat. Ausgerechnet zu Beginn der Sommer-Saison wird im Hotel Paradies am Millstätter See in Kärnten ein prominenter Gast ermordet: Der Starkoch aus München liegt an einem makellosen Julimorgen erstochen in seinem Bett.

The last thing Inspector Sam Blackstone wants to do is investigate the murder of a young lieutenant on the Western Front, but he owes a debt to General Fortesque - the soldier’s grandfather. Once he arrives at the front line, it does not take him long to realise that he is completely out of his depth. The officers resent his presence, and the enlisted men refuse - or do not dare - to talk to him. As thousands are slaughtered around him, Blackstone struggles to solve one of the most difficult cases of his career.

Ein junger Mann liegt erschossen im Winterwald von Greenbury, New York. Es sieht nach Selbstmord aus, aber Detective Peter Decker zweifelt daran. Der Tote ist Elijah Wolf, ein brillantes Mathegenie und Student des nahen Colleges. Hinter den ehrwürdigen Mauern der Elite-Uni beginnt Decker nach Antworten zu suchen und stößt dabei auf ein akademisches Schlangennest in dessen Mitte er Missgunst und Mord findet.

Gerlachs Leben ist in Gefahr!Nach einem Date erwacht Kripochef Gerlach verwirrt und mit Erinnerungslücken im Hotel. Seine Begleitung Nora Vestergaard ist offenbar abgereist und reagiert nicht auf seine Anrufe. Irritiert von Blutspuren im Bad, wäscht Gerlach diese fort. Zu spät fragt er sich, ob sie von Nora stammen. Ist ihr etwas zugestoßen? Kurz darauf hat Gerlach einen schweren Autounfall, der sich schon bald als Mordversuch entpuppt. Wegen seiner Verletzungen dienstunfähig, macht er sich im Alleingang auf die Suche nach der verschwundenen Nora.

Ein Autounfall auf einsamer nächtlicher Straße im Tegeler Forst. Der Fahrer wird tot geborgen. Sein 21-jähriger Sohn ist spurlos verschwunden. Kurz darauf wird die Ehefrau des toten Fahrers ermordet in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden. Der Berliner Kommissar Joris Eichendorf steht vor einem Rätsel. Was ist mit dieser bis dahin unauffälligen Familie passiert? Privat hat Eichendorf ebenfalls einige Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, denn seine 12-jährige Tochter Stella steht überraschend bei ihm vor der Tür.

The serene beauty of West Texas's Big Bend National Park is shattered when four hikers are brutally ambushed by a sniper. Only one survives to report the murders. When investigators come up with nothing, they're left wondering if this is a single incident - or the beginning of a rampage. One week later, Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke drives his 3500 Dodge Dually into the park, determined to unearth the truth. Before he knows it, he's in the same sniper's crosshairs. A drug and human smuggling cartel has lured him to remote backcountry, looking for payback for an old grudge.

Folge 3: Im Karlsruher Zoo liegt ein Tierpfleger leblos im Eisbärengehege. Kommissar Schiemann weiß sofort: Hier braucht er die Hilfe von Tierflüsterin Kira Mauerfuchs. Die kriegt einen Riesenschreck - handelt es sich bei dem Toten etwa um Sebastian, ihren Freund mit ungeklärtem Beziehungsstatus? Denn der war am Vorabend noch bei ihr und behauptete, er sei in Gefahr und einem Riesenskandal im Zoo auf der Spur... und sie hat ihn weggeschickt! Die Ermittlungen in Kiras persönlichstem Fall werden bald auch für den Kommissar tierisch brenzlig.

Schwedische Krimispannung im Paket. Sebastian Bergman ist als Kriminalpsychologe ein Ass, aber menschlich ein Kotzbrocken. Kein Wunder also, dass sich die Kollegen der Reichsmordkommission nicht um eine Zusammenarbeit mit ihm reißen. Aber sie haben keine Wahl, denn immer wieder gibt es Fälle, die das Genie des Außenseiters auf den Plan rufen.

AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'Brilliant and intriguing' - Colm Tóibín 'An accomplished and atmospheric debut' - Irish Examiner 'Outstanding' - Irish Times 'Perhaps the strongest Irish debut novel of the year' - RTÉ Book of the Week 'An amazing novel' - Oliver Callan "The lad is a bit like a...

In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and South America. He failed, thanks in large part to the efforts of an intrepid band of Green Berets. Licking his wounds, he retreated to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too. In fact, he died there, and thus, despite his incompetence, became a glorious martyr to the cause. But who was trying to kill him, really - and who was trying to keep him alive?

Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career—a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow. Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge’s, is sent to Avebury, a...

A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books 'A notably original protagonist . . . swept up in a high-level conspiracy reaching from Whitehall's corridors of power to Berlin and Rudolf Hess's doomed flight to Scotland . . . enthralling' Financial Times 'Great...

A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a routine unexplained death and a simple referral to the coroner, until a neighbour reports an unscheduled visit from an occupational therapist an hour before the body was discovered. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon is convinced the elderly woman has been strangled—a cause of death confirmed by the pathologist—and a murder investigation is launched.

It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door—wedding night or not. It is the third such killing in as many weeks, but the first two victims were drug dealers, with no apparent connection to the dead officer other than the murder weapon itself.

The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means. Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer...

**WINNER of the 2014-2015 Waverton Good Read Award** The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of If I Should Die, the astounding debut from British author Matthew Frank. Read by the actor Will Rycroft. ------- It begins with vicious, apparently motiveless attacks on down and outs in South...