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Paradijsvogels is het beste boek van Nathalie Pagie tot nu toe! De eigenzinnige journaliste Tara Linders vertrekt naar Aruba voor een commerciële reportage over jonge succesvolle carrièrejagers. Maar als ze een Vlaams meisje ontmoet dat in nood verkeert, stuit ze op een compleet ander verhaal. Met hulp van haar collega Diego Martinez gaat Tara op onderzoek uit en ontdekt ze dat het eiland ook duistere kanten heeft. Samen trekken ze een grotere beerput open dan ze ooit voor mogelijk hadden gehouden: het luxe eilandleven blijkt niet meer dan een zeepbel.

¿Serás capaz de descubrir quién es el asesino antes de acabar el libro, o te convertirás en una víctima más? Fobia: Temor angustioso e incontrolable ante ciertos actos, ideas, objetos o situaciones, que se sabe absurdo y se aproxima a la obsesión. Tener una fobia es complicado. Tener una fobia extrema, es jodido. Pero si tienes una fobia y tus seres queridos convierten en un infierno, tu vida es insoportable.

Il commissario Maugeri, sfidando depistaggi e contraffazione di prove, indaga su due omicidi avvenuti all’interno di un CRAL (Circolo Ricreativo Aziendale Lavoratori). Quello che scoprirà, legato a filo doppio a vecchie storie di guerra, avrà dell’incredibile... Milano, 1949. Una nuova indagine per il commissario Maugeri, che, stavolta, ha a che fare con l’assassinio di un barista all’interno di un circolo ricreativo. Perplesso dalla ricostruzione ufficiale dei fatti, il detective troverà in un secondo omicidio il pretesto giusto per andare più a fondo nell’inchiesta.

Uma chamada na emergência, sons durante a ligação. Um trem Decorado no estilo dos anos 1920, com vagões mobiliados com madeira polida e bronze, trazendo glamour e beleza ao viajante. Pessoas completamente desconexas se reúnem em torno de um crime que gera a pergunta que não quer calar: " Quem matou a testemunha?"

Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, and a couple of spoiled teenagers, is about to become Detroit's worst nightmare. The motley gang boards a river cruise boat armed with M16s and enough explosives to burn the city down. They have eight hundred hostages, and if they don't get what they want, Siegfried will kill every soul aboard.

Sengende Sonne am See. Schüsse. Ein Körper klatscht ins Wasser. Mit der Ruhe ist es vorbei. Matthias Holzinger, Bürgermeister einer Chiemsee-Gemeinde, wird am Ufer des Gardasees jäh aus dem Leben gerissen. Die Kommissare aus Verona und Traunstein stoßen auf ein Netz aus Korruption, Immobilienschwindel und Rivalität bei den Opernfestspielen der Arena di Verona. Als die Ermittlungen diesseits und jenseits der Alpen vorankommen, fallen wieder Schüsse.

John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother. But he's lured back by the CIA for one final mission. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel's grisly past and the KGB's Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena.

Laura tritt endlich ihren neuen Job als Hoteldetektivin in der Vila Calma an! Um Laura mit ihrer neuen Heimat Portugal vertraut zu machen, schleppt Yogalehrerin Mariella sie auf eine Wanderung durch den wunderschönen Pinienwald von Colares. Doch auf dem Rückweg machen die beiden Frauen eine schreckliche Entdeckung: Der alte Simao sitzt tot auf einem Sessel mitten im Pinienwald! Neben dem Toten trauert dessen Hund Momo. Laura ist sich sicher, dass der bei allen Dorfbewohnern so beliebte Landstreicher ermordet wurde. Und tatsächlich führt Momo sie auf eine erste heiße Spur.

Kendal Guthrie could start an argument in an empty room, but who killed him, and why? The Crime Review Team was formed in Wiltshire, England, to investigate old cold cases. Headed by Gus Freeman, the team has successfully solved several cases, using old witness statements plus fresh clues. Kendal Guthrie argued with five people in a remote country pub on the night he died. How could the killer have reached Guthrie’s farm ahead of him that night? It seemed impossible. Gus Freeman believes that distance, time, and locations are the key to solving the mystery.

On the bed, the naked bodies of a man and a woman. "Bullet in the head's not the way to go," Larry Hill, Isaac Cook's detective inspector, said. "Do you recognize him?" Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook said. "James Holden, from what I can see." "Rent by the hour?" "Not according to her handbag. There's a business card. She worked for the man." "You know this will be all over the media within the hour," Isaac said. "James Holden, a proponent of the sanctity of the marital bed, man and wife. It's bound to be."

While visiting his old friend Flambeau, Father Brown attempts to explain to an inquisitive American the 'secret' of his detective method, by means of eight stories of crime, murder, and obsession, including: a poet accused of the murder of a magistrate; stolen jewels and stolen fish; a theatre manager dead in a locked room; a mourner shut away in a castle; and the case of the worst crime in the world.

Detective Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

Zurück in der Hölle: ein fesselnder Thriller von New-York-Times-Bestsellerautor Robert Dugoni. Schluss mit der CIA: Das hat Ex-Spion Charles Jenkins sich und seiner Familie versprochen. Bis der Geheimdienst erneut Kontakt mit ihm aufnimmt. Es gibt Hinweise, dass seine frühere Vertraute Paulina in einem berüchtigten russischen Gefängnis einsitzt. Sie hat Charles das Leben gerettet. Und nun muss er die Schuld begleichen. Charles fliegt nach Moskau, im Gepäck einen aberwitzigen Plan. Aber selbst wenn er Paulina wirklich findet und befreien kann, ist die Gefahr nicht vorbei.

Ein Amazon Charts-, Washington Post- und Wall Street Journal-Bestseller. Der rasante Auftakt zur neuen, atemberaubend spannenden Thriller-Serie von Bestsellerautor Robert Dugoni. Seine Zeit als CIA-Agent ist für Charles Jenkins Vergangenheit. Er fühlt sich zu alt für die "Firma". Aber weil ihm das Wasser bis zum Hals steht, lässt er sich auf einen letzten, lukrativen Auftrag ein: Undercover soll er in Moskau einen russischen Agenten aufhalten, der auf die Mitglieder der "Sieben Schwestern", einer elitären US-Spionagezelle, Jagd macht.

Former teenage runaway and new single mother Nadia Armstrong moves to Kingston to turn her life around. But six months after she rents a low-end apartment, her body is found at an isolated construction site. Major Crimes begins piecing together her last days, uncertain if it is a case of suicide or murder. To make matters more difficult, a member of the team is leaking information, putting Staff Sergeant Rouleau in a precarious position.

Convicted child molester Jane Thompson has made parole, but one month later the body of the student she was found guilty of abusing is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns Officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation, but things quickly get ugly, and not just with the case.

Escaping was the easy part. Other than the high body count, the massive explosions, and the fortune lost, it was a piece of cake. Chase and Wen face their biggest challenge yet as everything closes in on them. Can they unravel the mystery and stop a horrendous calamity before they die, a promised slow and painful death?

Nothing bad ever happens in the small seaside town of Castle Bay - until the body of missing tourist Bethany Haliwell is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. News crews and journalists from all over the country descend as old secrets are dragged up and gossip is taken as gospel. Among them is Miller Hatcher, a reporter battling her own demons, who arrives intent on gaining a promotion by covering the grisly murder. Following an anonymous tip, Miller begins to unravel the mystery. When another woman goes missing, she finds herself getting closer to the truth. But at what cost?

A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman. The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate. The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village?

Lavagna, estate 1998. Pietro Farné è un giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri, fresco di nomina, incaricato di una strana missione: sorvegliare un'anziana turista di origine tedesca, Frau Gertrud Stingel, e la sua accompagnatrice, Viviana Prestigiacomo. Un compito apparentemente noioso, ma al quale si interessano addirittura i servizi segreti. Mistral Garlet, invece, è una studentessa universitaria, che si è concessa qualche giorno di vacanza perché sente l'esigenza di riflettere sul proprio futuro.