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Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and stepfather disappeared when she was still a child. The day a voice in the back of her mind started whispering, You did this.

Dopo una delusione d'amore e una brillante carriera da chirurgo andata in fumo, Fionn Kane si è rifugiato in una piccola città del Nebraska, lontano dal "circo" di Boston. Rose Evans si esibisce sulla sua motocicletta con il Silveria Circus. Un lavoro che le consente, tra l'altro, di dedicarsi a tempo perso a qualche omicidio. Quando rimane accidentalmente ferita, si ritrova bloccata in Nebraska, nella casa di un adorabile dottorino. Solo che non tutti i cuori spezzati si possono ricucire. E più stai ferma in un posto, più i fantasmi del passato si fanno vivi.

13 Relats desconcertants és una col·lecció de contes breus que conbinen el terror psicològic, l'humor macabre i la crítica subtil al món que ens envolta.

Un pene aparece cercenado en un apartamento turístico del Casco Viejo de Bilbao. ¿A quién pertenece? ¿Qué ha podido ocurrir allí? La Ertzaintza y la jueza Anne Campuzano deben investigar el caso y, para ello, esta contará con la valiosa ayuda de su amigo, el profesor Loizaga, que no solo debe hacerse pasar por su pareja sentimental sino, también, vencer la atracción sexual no resuelta que innegablemente existe entre ambos.

Трэш-фантасмагория «Красный Бубен» охватывает пространство едва ли не всей планеты и даже космоса. Почему космоса? Потому что звезда Рэдмах, великая матерь звезд и пространств, источник всего сущего во Вселенной, вот-вот начнет излучать энергию, и фокус ее излучения придется на нашу Землю. Эпицентром вселенского действа станет обыкновенная русская деревушка на Тамбовщине под названием Красный Бубен. Здесь гонят самогон, соседи бьют друг другу морды, из Москвы приезжают дачники. Но в ней-то и суждено разразиться последней битве Добра со Злом.

Dein Chef nervt, die Waschmaschine spinnt und das Chaos nimmt kein Ende? Zeit für deine Dosis Humor! Worum geht's? Wenn das Leben liefert ist Alltagssatire in Bestform: bissig, ehrlich, treffsicher. Tim schreibt, was alle denken – nur schneller, witziger und mit einem Timing, bei dem selbst Doc Brown 'Great Scott!' murmelt. Warum du es lieben wirst: Wiedererkennung pur - Du liest, nickst, lachst – und denkst: "Ja, genau so!" Knackige Storys - Satirische Kurzgeschichten, perfekt für zwischendurch. Humor mit Haltung - Intelligenter Wortwitz statt platter Gags.

Im idyllischen oberbayerischen Fackenreuth könnte das Leben nicht ruhiger sein. Doch alles ändert sich, als Jesus im Wald auftaucht – zumindest glaubt das die tiefgläubige Monika. Während einige Fackenreuther die Wiederkehr des Heilands feiern, vermuten andere einen Schwindel. Ein Mord geschieht, und noch während Xaver im Dunkeln tappt, wird auch Monika ermordet – ans große Kreuz in der Kirche genagelt. Damit nimmt das Chaos seinen Lauf. Satanisten, fanatische Christen und sogar eine päpstliche Kommission ziehen ins Dorf und die Lösung der Morde ist schwieriger als gedacht.

Das Ehepaar Lys und Patrick Francis wollten eine kostengünstige Reise machen, doch statt Entspannung warten auf sie eine ganze Menge skurriler Persönlichkeiten. Ob eine nervtötende Influencerin, unangenehme Dorfbewohner, ein wortkarger Busfahrer, ein schießwütiger Polizist oder ein unheimliches Schloss inklusive bedrohlicher Bewohner, unsere beiden haben einiges zu tun, um hoffentlich mit heiler Haut davonzukommen. Sie hätten nie gedacht, dass aus ihrem harmlosen Trip eine Horror-Tour wird, denn es wartet ... Das Grauen auf Schloss Moosdran.

Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything.

Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny, his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted – choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks – he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life, to socialise with some of his friends (the discreet ones). Things are a little awkward to begin with, but everything seems to be going well. Then some uninvited and rather forceful guests arrive, and it doesn’t look like Edward is going to make it home on time…

Meet The Nearly Dearly Departed Club. Four random strangers thrown together with only one thing in common. They’re all dead. Or maybe not....

Remi Finch has spent the better part of her adult life avoiding family—especially her sisters. They just don’t click. Besides, her unconventional upbringing and major anxiety have convinced Remi that she can’t build a relationship with anyone. Period. When her parents plan a family reunion camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, Remi’s willing to reconnect, if only because she doesn’t have a choice. But then a dead body turns up at their campsite, and their sisterly bonding kicks into high gear.

Jonathan e Barbara Rose hanno all'apparenza un matrimonio perfetto: una villa di lusso piena di oggetti di antiquariato, due carriere invidiabili, figli deliziosi e una Ferrari fiammante in garage. Una vita da sogno, insomma, finché Jonathan non viene colpito da un improvviso malore e la facciata sfavillante del loro rapporto comincia a sgretolarsi. Dopo diciotto anni insieme, Barbara capisce di non amare più suo marito e decide di chiedere il divorzio. Jonathan non si oppone, ma nessuno dei due è disposto a lasciare la casa, simbolo del loro successo e, adesso, della loro rovina.

Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it’s now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp. Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break in the fabric of reality? Yes, the police take the “crime” seriously. But what happens next lies outside their expertise. Strange sounds in the night. A half-bathroom toilet with a mind of its own. Odd, fleeting glimpses of something (or someone) in mirrors.

Stéphane Garnier a mené une enquête au rayon " faits divers " pour en extraire le meilleur ou plutôt le pire. Des vies interrompues par la malchance parfois, mais aussi par la bêtise humaine ! Une chose est sûre : nous devons tous y passer un jour, mais autant ne pas passer pour un con à la dernière minute de sa vie !

Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions – more or less – while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William's past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.

Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack three hundred safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain. In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king—mostly of bad decisions. Between his family’s crumbling legacy, a wife who just joined the city council, and life-threatening gambling debts, Jack’s looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below.

The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely. “The Detective Story Club”...

Oma Käthe, 81, die lustige und robuste Schwiegermutter des bekannten Dorfpolizisten Jupp Backes aus der Bestseller-Reihe »Familie Jupp Backes ermittelt« bekommt ihren 2. Mordfall zum Lösen. Ohne Vorkenntnisse lesbar. Für alle, die es gerne lustig und spannend mögen. Klappentext: Mord in der Sylter-High-Society! Oma Käthe hat neuerdings ein Helfer-und-Putz-Syndrom: Sie übernimmt für eine erkrankte Bekannte deren Job als Haushälterin in der Villa der Unternehmerfamilie Lindholm. Dort rasselt sie sofort mit der jungen und bildhübschen Millionärsgattin Fernanda aneinander.

An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily's friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and, slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned: quiet, pleasant Edward.