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A society matron's life is threatened after she engineers the theft of her own priceless jewelry to pay off a gambling debt. Only a debonair connoisseur of crime can save her and recover her gems. For a price.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection. 

A drowned child. Estranged sisters. A home steeped in sorrow. Rachel thought she could outrun her past. But when her sister Imogen returns home after years abroad, the walls Rachel built around her begin to crumble. Imogen wants what she believes is hersno matter the cost. Twenty years after the...

Ever since being adopted as babies, twins Sinead and Orla have been the only family they've ever known. Orla’s got the big house in Glasgow, the supportive husband and teenage daughter, Molly Rose, while Sinead's struggles have taken her to some very dark places. But all of that changes when Sinead receives a call. Their mother, Janey, is back in their lives. But she's far from what they expected and when the siblings discover their mum is the head of a dangerous gangland firm, their lives are turned upside down.

Don't miss this dark, pulse-pounding and unsettling psychological thriller 👀 If you like Lucy Foley and Freida McFadden, you'll love Amanda Brittany!'Amanda Brittany's thrillers keep me gripped!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Valerie Keogh A remote lakeside house. Six strangers with...

Un omicidio brutale in un appartamento alla periferia di Roma. La figlia dell’ambasciatore americano che sparisce nel nulla. Un killer innocente costretto a indagare per salvarsi dalla galera. Un noir ambizioso e mesmerico, che trascina il lettore all’interno della multiforme umanità degli sconfitti, là dove il giusto e l’iniquo confondono i loro confini.«La scrittura visionaria, smisurata, traboccante di Emiliano Ereddia trascina il lettore nel vortice di una storia bella, inebriante, unica»

Als die zwei verirrten Wandersleute Hermine und Wilhelm endlich in einer Sturmnacht ein Obdach in einer abgelegenen Hütte im Hexenmoos finden, bekommen sie dort vom alten Wolfs-Martin einen unglaublichen Bericht über längst vergangene Geschehnisse zu hören, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart zu werfen scheinen... Welche Bewandtnis hat es mit dem Auftauchen des tiefschwarzen Hirschs im Moos? Und was geschah tatsächlich bei dem verfallenen Gedenkkreuz am Wegesrand, an dem die Wanderer noch kurz zuvor vorübergekommen waren?

La primera novela de Manuel Marlasca. El mayor referente de la crónica negra arranca con la serie «Grupo X». El día que el grupo X de la Brigada de Policía Judicial de Madrid empieza su semana de guardia aparece en una fábrica abandonada una maleta con el torso de una mujer. Jimmy Valle...

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around.

'Heather is a bright star in the world of gangland writing...Read it, you won't be disappointed' Jacqui Rose Control of Glasgow’s infamous Haghill estate has been fought over for decades. But thanks to an uneasy truce between notorious local families - the Alexanders, the Tallans, and the...

Janey Hallahan was born into the criminal life. After the death of her father, she became head of the family business - every day making dark decisions that make her family firm richer, no matter how dangerous. While Janey rules gangland with an iron fist, she always sticks to her own code of honour, and the innocent never get hurt. One of her workers, Danny McInroy runs an exclusive club in Glasgow - the kind of place where the ultra-wealthy can fulfil their darkest desires, for a hefty cost.

Inspector Kenneth Stafford wird zu einem Tatort gerufen, der in ihm seltsame Erinnerungen weckt. An exakt derselben Stelle, in derselben Straße, wurde bereits vor 20 Jahren eine Tote gefunden. Sein Vater, Chief-Inspector Anthony Stafford, hat den Fall damals bearbeitet, konnte ihn aber nicht aufklären. Dennoch lässt Kenneth der Gedanke nicht los, dass der Fall von damals etwas mit dem Fall von heute zu tun haben muss. Akribisch versucht er die Ermittlungen seines Vaters von damals aufzurollen und den Faden an der entscheidenden Stelle wiederaufzunehmen.

Willkommen bei Schwedens Dezernat für die wirklich hoffnungslosen Fälle! Eigentlich steht Kriminalinspektorin Leonore Asker – Tochter eines durchgeknallten Preppers und einer Überflieger-Rechtsanwältin – kurz vor der Beförderung: Die Leitung der Abteilung für Schwerverbrechen in Malmö ist ihr so gut wie sicher. Stattdessen wird sie noch während der Ermittlungen in einem spektakulären Entführungsfall in ein Dezernat versetzt, von dem sie noch nie gehört hat: Ihre neuen Kollegen, allesamt Außenseiter und Nerds, nennen es nur "Dezernat für hoffnungslose Fälle", denn hier landet, was bei der Polizei als unlösbar gilt.

Bloomsbury presents Best Friends Forever by Dawn Goodwin, read by Matt Lowe. Have you ever wanted to kill your best friend? Anna was the perfect wife. Perfect mother. Perfect woman. And now she's dead. Leaving behind her husband, David, and two young children their lives will never be the same...

On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions...a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family - a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'... With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson.

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

Verena Zornickel foi treinada para servir a um único homem, seu futuro marido. Aos treze anos descobre que foi prometida ao Don da Cosa Nostra. Tommaso Vacchiano é um dos Dons mais temidos. Chefe sarcástico, sem meias palavras, ninguém consegue parar o homem. Ele deseja firmar uma aliança com a In Ergänzung e obtém isso através de um jogo sujo. Aproveitando-se de um momento de fragilidade do Don da máfia Suíça, Heinz, o convence a selar o casamento da sua irmã, Verena, com ele.

A million-pound heist. A man on the run. A gang hellbent on seeking revenge. When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to locate her fiancé—who's disappeared along with some valuable pieces of art—he's reluctant to help. He's left the...

Alicia Bjelke has always been the "other sister," the foil to her beautiful sister Stella—people turn their backs when they see Alicia's disfigured face. So she created a life in the background, becoming a coding genius and founding a groundbreaking dating app company. With Stella as the face of the company, Alicia has found success. Until one day, when Stella is found dead and Alicia’s life takes the wrong turn. Soon, she realizes that she is the next target.

When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer. As more victims are uncovered, Jack finds himself tracking a murderer afflicted by a unique psychosis - one that leaves him free to maim and kill without a shred of remorse. Facing a new type of killer in an unfamiliar city, DCI Jack Logan is about to be pushed to his limits, before being forced to realize just how little he truly knows.