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Henry Bins is only awake one hour a day. Can you imagine only being awake for one hour each day? Can you imagine having to cram your entire existence into sixty measly minutes? Two minutes to shower. Three minutes to eat. Five minutes to watch TV. And in that 3600 seconds you have awake, imagine that you have to figure out...Who murdered the woman across the street?

The National Book Award–winning author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen is a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Killing Mister Watson is his bestselling, fact-based novel that pieces together the life and death of Edgar J. Watson. At the beginning of the 20th century...

The best historical thriller I’ve read since The Da Vinci Code' AMISH TRIPATHI A LEGENDARY PORT AD 72: Jayesh, a trader from the fabled city of Muziris, carefully conceals a relic that caused widespread devastation upon its arrival in India. He prays that it will never be found again. A...

The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career – became a blockbuster film – and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The...

As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards - but Grace Morland knows the strong emotions that lurk beneath the placid social surface. She's painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford, but Pendock's smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. She exclaims, "I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch in a thing like that!" She will soon be proven wrong. Grace is found dead with the hat on her head.

Il commissario Angelo Della Morte è un personaggio scomodo per i suoi superiori, politicamente scorretto e refrattario all'autorità, intende la giustizia a modo suo, ama ripetere che lui è al servizio della giustizia e non della legge e che la legge molte volte è ingiusta, mentre la giustizia è sempre giusta. Opera in una città immaginaria dell'Italia centrale e vive in un casotto di pescatori ristrutturato, la cittadina si chiama Porto Romano e di solito è tranquilla e non succede mai molto.

Maisie Jacobs kriminalistischer Spürsinn ist erneut gefragt: Im dritten Teil der exklusiven Cosy-Crime-Reihe Maisie, Mord und Meer von Fiona Wilder geht ihr ein dicker Fang ins Netz - im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Eine Story über den cornischen Sardinen-Fischfang - so etwas kann auch nur Flachpfeife Tom einfallen. Vom neusten Auftrag ihres Chefs ist die Journalistin Maisie gar nicht begeistert. Zumal es nur noch einen einzigen hauptberuflichen Fischer in Littleport gibt: Liam. Notgedrungen geht Maisie an Bord seines übelriechenden Kutters.

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. However, paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: The slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question leaving her old life behind. But when a client is found dead in the jacuzzi of Casa Mango - a property Plum manages - she knows she's really in a jam.

Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won’t be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town’s storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, GA. However, Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all available books on getting away with murder. He’s no Georgia peach, and Cleo wonders if she should be worried. She knows she should when she finds him murdered - and evidence points to her best friend.

Augsburg, 1478. Ein skrupelloser Mörder versetzt die Stadt in Angst und Schrecken. Oder ist es gar kein Mensch, der die Opfer auf dem Gewissen hat? Als Peter Bernward in seine ehemalige Heimatstadt zurückkehrt, fordern ihn dort weit mächtigere Gegner heraus, als nur die Gespenster der Vergangenheit.

Venedig 1478: Aus den trüben Wassern der Lagune wird vor den Augen des deutschen Händlers Peter Bernward die Leiche eines Kindes geborgen. Bald darauf kommen zwei weitere Kinder ums Leben - Gassenjungen, die als Zeugen gesucht wurden. Wussten sie zu viel? Bernward beschließt, den wenigen Hinweisen nachzugehen. Dabei dringt er tief in das Räderwerk der Macht vor, mit der Venedig seit 400 Jahren den Handel in Europa kontrolliert - und gerät in ein Netz aus Verbrechen und Intrigen, das die dunkle Seite der Stadt offenbart.

Italien im Jahre 1478: Während der Ostermesse im Dom zu Florenz wird bei einem Attentat auf die Medici der jüngere Bruder Giuliano getötet. Sein Bruder Lorenzo, der seit einiger Zeit mit dem Papst um die Vorherrschaft um einige italienische Republiken streitet, überlebt - und eröffnet eine gnadenlose Jagd auf die vermutlich Schuldigen: die rivalisierende Sippe der Pazzi, ebenfalls ein altes florentinisches Geschlecht.

Noviembre de 1942, el mundo arde en llamas y España, aún arrasada y en plena represión, es un nido de espías. Carlos Lombardi, de nuevo en Madrid, sobrevive como puede con su precaria agencia de detectives. No puede permitirse el lujo de rechazar ningún trabajo por lo que tiene que...

Krakau im Jahre 1486: Peter Bernward hat sich mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Jana Dlugosz in deren Heimatstadt niedergelassen und dort ein ruhiges Familienleben gefunden. Doch die Ruhe währt nicht lange: Als Peter versucht, einem befreundeten jüdischen Bankier zu helfen, sticht er in ein Wespennest. Die antijüdische Stimmung in Krakau beginnt sich aufzuheizen und es kommt zu Ausschreitungen.

Brought to you by Penguin. Unbearably tense and unmissably twisty, this is the outstanding debut suspense novel from the most exciting new voice in thriller writing, Leodora Darlington Natalie chose James carefully, because he's different from all the men she'd loved before. Calm. Competent...

The Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box delivers a thriller in Back of Beyond about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone. Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and...

Ex-Police Scotland detective Bob Hoon has made himself some powerful enemies. Following his brutal search for the missing daughter of an old army colleague, Hoon is being hunted by the Loop, a secretive criminal cabal with members in very high places and a tendency to eliminate all those who stand against it. Unfortunately for them, Hoon has never been one to back down from a fight, and he isn’t about to start now. Instead, he’s going to burn their whole damn organization to the ground. But first, he’s going to have to get inside.

Sex crimes Detective Aiden Carlisle is slowly getting used to being in a committed relationship with Dawn Kinsley - a relationship that isn't always easy since Dawn is not only a psychologist but also a former victim in one of Aiden's cases. Aiden's private and professional lives collide when Dawn's newest patient gets in trouble with the law. Will she be able to stay objective enough to solve the case without pushing Dawn away? The same case also throws Deputy District Attorney Kade Matheson's well-ordered life into chaos.

El absorbente nuevo thriller de un narrador magistral. ¿CÓMO SE PROTEGE A LA MUJER MÁS FAMOSA DEL MUNDO? 48 horas para localizar a un asesino... pero menos para salvar a la Corona. La misión más difícil del detective William Warwick hasta la fecha... Londres, 1988. La fiebre monárquica...

皇居周辺で二人の男が射殺された。世間が〈大手町のテロリスト〉と騒ぐ中、警視庁一の検挙率を誇る毒島は殺人犯を嘲笑。犯罪者を毒舌で追い詰めることが生きがいの彼は「チンケな犯人」と挑発し、頭脳戦を仕掛ける――。