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In Berlin werden in einem alten Bunker aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Leichen einer Familie gefunden. Parallel dazu werden in Norddeutschland Menschen brutal in ihrem Zuhause ermordet, gefesselt an einen Sessel und einer blutenden toten Taube auf dem Schoß.

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.

Henri Koskinen firmly believes in the power of common sense and order. That is until he moves in with Laura Helanto and her daughter. As Henri realises he has inadvertently become part of a group of local dads, a competing adventure park is seeking to expand their operations, not always sticking to the law in the process. Is it possible to combine the increasingly dangerous world of the adventure-park business with the unpredictability of life in a blended family? At first glance, the two appear to have only one thing in common: neither deals particularly well with a mounting body count.

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.

When a long-serving Master at one of England's most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide. It soon becomes clear that senior members of staff are not all that they seem. As the school closes ranks, Skelgill realizes he is pitted against a sinister power struggle for control of its highly lucrative operation.

No one gave much credence to the man when he was alive. In fact, most people never knew who he was, although those who had lived in the area for many years recognized the tired-looking and shabbily dressed man as he shuffled along, regular as clockwork on Thursdays at seven in the evening to the local off-license. Apart from the three-story mansion where he lived, no one would have regarded him as any other than homeless and destitute. Just a harmless eccentric, until the morning when he was found dead in his front garden.

When a wealthy local landowner contacts her about a case so sensitive he can’t even discuss it over the phone, Grace is instantly intrigued. Russian collector Sacha Komorov lives out of the public eye, despite his immense wealth and marriage to a famous ex-prima ballerina. As Grace gazes at the ominous silhouette of his Scottish estate, Castle Traprain, with its high walls and thrusting turrets, a shiver runs down her spine. Komorov himself is just as forbidding as he discloses the disappearance of a priceless rose-diamond Fabergé egg from his collection.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

When eight-year-old Cait Yorke goes missing on a remote island off the coast of the wild Scottish Highlands, PC Fiona MacLeish is quickly sent to investigate. But a gale is gathering force, and Fiona becomes increasingly concerned for a little girl braving the strong winds alone. As Fiona questions the locals, she soon realizes that they are hiding many secrets. What is this island, and who really lives here? Then a boat violently crashes off the coast of the island. On board, Fiona discovers the body of a man who has clearly been murdered.

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.

When Neil Fitzpatrick, a rogue Green Beret soldier, is recruited by the Irish Republican Army to help prepare a terrorist attack, Paul Stavros, his former teammate, is sent to stop him and bring him home. Fitzpatrick, the American son of an Irish rebel who was forced to flee his birthplace, is a Special Forces demolitions expert. Fitzpatrick knows his trade and has a personal agenda with the IRA. Alarm bells erupt when the US government learns that Fitzpatrick has gone over to the IRA.

The second thrilling audiobook in Tony J. Forder's Royston Chase Crime Series.

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.

Der Bundesermittler Aaron Falk ist auf dem Weg ins südaustralische Weinland, um bei einer Taufe dabei zu sein. Genau vor einem Jahr ist dort eine Frau verschwunden: Kim Gillespie hat offenbar ihr schlafendes Kind auf einer Kirmes zurückgelassen. Danach hat sie niemand mehr gesehen. Das Rätsel ihres Verschwindens ist immer noch nicht gelöst, und eine neue Suche beginnt. Falk versucht, die letzten Schritte von Kim zu rekonstruieren. Er begreift, dass die Ermittler vermutlich einen Fehler begangen haben: Sie haben das gesehen, was sie sehen wollten – und sind auf eine große Täuschung hereingefallen.

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.

Five days before her wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, Kate Hamilton finds her friend Sheila in need of her help. Sheila, a soon-to-be bride herself, needs Kate’s help to get Carl Curtis, her fiancé, out of Venezuela. His passport was taken from him by the authorities, and they say he owes them money. Carl says it’s a bribe, but he’s unable to leave unless it’s paid. Sheila decides to sell her grandfather’s coin collection, including a valuable gold coin presented by Queen Victoria to her great-grandmother. Among her grandfather’s stored possessions is a letter from the Queen.