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It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place - dead as the proverbial herring.

Perched on the soft tar of a New York City rooftop, a mysterious sniper fires a single round from a .50 caliber rifle. Five stories below, his target collapses on the marble steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dead. Crime reporter Jane Cole needs this story badly. Suspended NYPD cop Robert Warren is desperate to clear his name. They don't trust each other, but they make the perfect team. And as Cole and Warren track the killer, they uncover a plot so ruthless it shocks the conscience, a crime so expansive it will rock the world.

Gracias a un indulto presidencial, Joel Backman es liberado tras seis años de confinamiento por uso indebido de una información altamente confidencial. Backman había obtenido un programa capaz de poner en peligro el sistema de vigilancia por vía satélite mas sofisticado del mundo, cuando dirigía un poderoso bufete de abogados, y era conocido como "El Intermediario".

One dark secret. One act of revenge. When Emma Joseph met her husband, David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her car veered off the road. Just as tragically, their six-year-old daughter mysteriously vanished from the scene of the accident. Now, six years later, Emma believes the painful years are behind them. She and David have built a new life together and have a beautiful baby son, Ollie.

Wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett has killed himself. There's a typewritten suicide note and three guns lying near his body. But for Perry Mason, that's evidence overkill. He knows there has been trouble in Bassett's life. His wife wants out, his stepson hates him, an embezzler can't pay him back - and there's the man with a glass eye who hired Perry Mason even before his glass eye went missing and was found in the hands of the deceased.

Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he’s getting closer to his ultimate target. But for Tom, who’s dying of cancer, the role of savior and protector is a struggle that is becoming more desperate by the hour.

Vuelve Steve Cavanagh. Vuelve Eddie Flynn. Dos hermanas a juicio por asesinato. Se acusan mutuamente. ¿A quién crees? "911 ¿cuál es su emergencia?" "Mi papá está muerto. Mi hermana Sofía lo mató. Ella todavía está en la casa. Por favor envíe ayuda." "Mi papá está muerto. Mi hermana Alexandra lo mató. Ella todavía está en la casa. Por favor envíe ayuda. Una de ellas es una mentirosa y una asesina. ¿Pero cuál? Steve Cavanagh nació y creció en Belfast. Con dieciocho años se fue a Dublín para estudiar Derecho y durante veinte años practicó derecho civil.

She's reached the top. And the drop is deadly . . . Ruby Byrne took Hackney's underworld by the throat. But everything changed the day she became a mother. Now, with a four-year-old child to protect and a growing empire, she must play a new kind of game—one with higher stakes and fewer rules...

A Dark Past. A Deadly Cult. A Prosecutor's Pursuit of Justice. Years ago, a manipulative cult leader slipped through the cracks of prosecutor Jessie Black's murder case, leaving her shaken by the failure. Those demons still haunt her. Now, the ritualistic scene of a new murder points to the same...

Returning to her hometown after years of practicing law in Chicago, Maggie Gallagher is determined to put her family first—no more cases that could put her or her loved ones in danger. But when her childhood friend is arrested for the murder of a high school football coach, Maggie has to take the case. She knows Troy better than anyone, and she’s certain he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Jon Tremaine has lived in hiding for years--will coming out of the shadows to help a friend be too great a risk? Perfect for fans of John Grisham and Charles Martin, Witness Protection is a legal drama with a deep undercurrent of faith. All is finally good. Jon Tremaine has created a new life in...

A dead man in the kitchen, gas fumes permeate the house, a duck seems to be drowning in the fishbowl, but it didn't die. Maybe that fact has something to do with murder? John L. Witherspoon, a wealthy patrician, is loath to let his daughter marry Marvin Adams, the son of a convicted murderer, something Marvin's mother managed to keep a secret - until now. To set the love-struck lass straight, Witherspoon engages Perry Mason to weigh the 20-year-old evidence that sent Marvin's father to the gallows, and prove that the young man is kin to the murdering kind.

From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife, Victor Methos’s acclaimed Desert Plains series continues with the saga of two brilliant defense attorneys and a client whose confession may not be what it seems.

Din klient är oskyldig. Din fru är skyldig. Vem skulle du kämpa för? När David Child, en viktig klient till en korrumperad advokatbyrå i New York, grips för mord vänder sig FBI till Eddie Flynn, en advokat med en bakgrund som fifflare, och ber honom övertala Child att vittna mot advokatbyrån. Eddie är inte den som låter sig tvingas till något, men när FBI avslöjar att de har komprometterande uppgifter om hans fru inser han att han inte har något val.

Diplomatic immunity, n: freedom from arrest ... and submission to police regulations usually accorded by international law to diplomatic agents -- Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language From the most exciting writer of international thrillers since Robert...

The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister's ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who's got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his veins. When Rita's beau gallantly steps in to warn Rosalind about her heinous husband's designs, Prescott hatches a plan to prey on them all...by suing for big profit.

From the bestselling author of The Life We Bury comes a "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery in which a woman finds herself in a race not only for justice—but for her life (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife). Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her...

Al poderoso fiscal del distrito Randal Korn se le conoce como el Rey del Corredor de la Muerte porque es el fiscal que más personas ha condenado a la pena capital en toda la historia de los Estados Unidos de América. Cuando Skylar Edwards aparece muerta en Buckstone, Alabama, la policía arresta a la última persona que la vio con vida, Andy Dubois, el joven universitario con el que Skylar trabajaba en un bar. La ciudad hierve de rabia, parece que a nadie le importa que Andy sea inocente y hay pocas esperanzas de que pueda tener un juicio justo.

Brought to you by Penguin. **THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL** When the UK's favourite breakfast TV presenter dies live on air in front of millions of viewers, the nation is left devastated. More devastated still when it becomes clear that...

The audiobook is narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Olivia Vinall and Helen Keeley and also features Olivia Dowd, Paul Panting, Joe Gaminara and Heather Long. 'Araminta is one of the most daring and intriguing writers working today. This is a resonant, razor-laced and dangerously glittering novel'...