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Die Sonne scheint und Emilys kleines Catering-Business läuft endlich richtig gut. Louise hat ihren Verlobten, einen wohlhabenden neapolitanischen Geschäftsmann, über eine Dating-App kennengelernt und schwebt auf Wolke 7. Doch bald braut sich über dem jungen Glück ein Gewitter zusammen und wieder einmal ist Emilys Ermittlungstalent gefragt ...

Ein grausames Lied, dichter Nordseenebel und eine Tote ohne Spuren. Kommissar Friedhelm Stark und Kollegin Brigitte Heiden jagen eine Mörderin, die singt, bevor sie tötet. Doch der Fall reicht tiefer, als beide ahnen – und die nächste Strophe ist bereits angestimmt.

The Dinka tribe fights a desperate battle against marauding Arab militias in the war-torn landscape of South Sudan. They are determined to protect their oil-rich lands and secure a brighter future. But the odds are stacked against them. Enter PRIMAL, a renegade agency that steps in where governments fear to tread. Joining forces with Jonjo, a fierce teenage warrior, and Garang, a battle-hardened veteran, they embark on a global mission to protect the oppressed.

In this thrilling sequel to Caught Stealing, Henry “Hank” Thompson must outwit the Russian mafia to save his family—and himself. “Six Bad Things rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cold, slit-eyed mother of a book.”—Peter Straub Henry “call me Hank” Thompson is...

‘HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine. Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to share...

As the ruler of the Volkov empire, Demetri has made many sacrifices for the sake of the family. Those sacrifices meant nothing after uncovering his father's dark secrets and his ex-wife's lies, and betrayal. Looking to rebuild what was taken from him, Demetri sets his sights on Montana, where his path collides with a feisty, headstrong woman who unintentionally ignites a spark he thought had been extinguished forever.

I was happy being single. No relationship drama. No woman putting demands on my time. I had my family and my club. I didn't need anyone else. But when a mysterious brunette walked into our clubhouse, something inside me shifted. She wasn't like anyone I'd ever met. Everything I prided myself on, being unattached, emotionally unavailable, in it for nothing but sex . . . it all shattered.

After being away from his home in the Florida Keys for nine months, Jesse McDermitt has returned to find his tiny island compound just north of Big Pine Key in disarray. Being away for so long has taken its toll. Not just on Jesse and his family, but also their island.

Ist mein Vater ein Mörder? Die Antwort darauf hat Ninas Mutter mit ins Grab genommen, doch Nina kann mit dieser Ungewissheit nicht leben. Bei ihren Nachforschungen stößt sie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens und findet sich plötzlich in einem Albtraum wieder, aus dem es kein Entkommen gibt. Zur gleichen Zeit macht Simon Jagd auf einen grausamen Mörder, auf dessen Liste er selbst ganz oben steht. Er glaubt, ihn zu kennen - ein Irrtum, für den er teuer bezahlen muss.

Una muerte en plena partida. Un equipo a contrarreloj. Un misterio que pondrá a todos en jaque. Durante la final del campeonato femenino de ajedrez en Hondarribia, la joven ucraniana Oksana Adrianova cae fulminada sobre el tablero. La escena, tan impactante como inexplicable, despierta todas las alarmas. En plena guerra del Donbás, Oksana había sido acogida por una familia local para escapar del conflicto, pero su muerte revela una verdad más oscura.

My husband is planning to leave me soon, and he thinks that I don't know. Can you believe that after fourteen years of marriage and three kids, he simply wants to discard me like I am trash? Not going to happen. Throughout our entire marriage, he lied and I ignored it, he cheated and I still stood by his side. But now, he has double-crossed me, and dragging him through a messy divorce simply won't cut deep enough. No. I want my pound of flesh. Not literally, of course, because I'm no killer, but then again, thanks to my husband, I've developed a knack for lying.

Ein alter Leuchtturm. Ein Toter. Ein tief verborgenes Geheimnis. Auf dem Leuchtturm Falshöft an der Flensburger Förde wird die Leiche des Standesbeamten Ole Hansen gefunden. Auch sonst steht die Polizei vor einem großen Rätsel, denn Feinde scheint Ole Hansen keine gehabt zu haben. Dafür aber großes Interesse an dem geschichtsträchtigen Gebäude, in dem er hinterrücks erschossen wurde. Die Kriminalhauptkommissare Birte Lohse und Rainer Speckmann übernehmen die Ermittlungen.

Ein Roman, so schnell erzählt wie "Kill Bill" von Tarantino! Ein spektakulärer Kunstraub. Verschollene Gemälde. Eine kurdische Hochzeit. Ein Scharfschütze, der einen Schuss abfeuert. Eine Familie zwischen den Niederlanden und Kurdistan, für die nichts mehr ist, wie es war. Im Stil eines Actionfilms mit schnellen Cuts erzählt Cemile Sahin die Geschichte eines Verrats, von Liebe, Freundschaft und Leben im Exil, so auf der Höhe der Zeit, wie nur sie es kann.

Andreja Panasenko thought she knew her mother. But then, death changes everything. To avoid losing her inheritance, Andreja must reconnect with her estranged sister. One problem, her sister went missing as a child, nearly fifty years ago. Leo and Allissa travel to Riga to help, but they're barely off the plane before Andreja's nowhere to be seen. Taken or fled, they don't know, but to find her, they must follow clues dating back to a time when powerful men ruled supreme.

Jake Adams is living the good life on the Italian coast, when he is summoned by an old friend to help with an international crisis. A group of terrorists has kidnapped a number of Christian relief workers, and they have disappeared somewhere off the coast of Morocco. Reluctantly, Jake takes on the case. So now Jake must assemble a team of people he can trust from his past to find and free these captured medical professionals.

Gone Wild brings back Thorn, the haunting, quixotic hero last seen in the best-seller Mean High Tide. And in a novel filled with the author's signatures exotic locales, vise-tightening suspense, steamy sexuality, hypnotic prose, Hall introduces a bold new element: one of the toughest, most complex female characters in modern fiction. Allison Farleigh's desperate struggle to save the endangered orangutans from poachers—and to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder—give the novel its passion and its fire.

If you love corruption, conspiracy, mystery, and a whole hell of a lot of action, then Lacklan Walker and the OMEGA series is for you!

An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Michael Pope knows that this is only the beginning. Pope, head of top-secret Group Fifteen, is tasked with finding the perpetrators of this atrocity and bringing them to justice, any way he can. He knows that the answers to many of his questions will lie at the end of the money trail, but he also knows that whoever funded and organised the attack will kill again for their freedom.

Bryce Fenston ist ein skrupelloser Finanzmakler. Seine Leidenschaft sind wertvolle Gemälde – für einen echten van Gogh geht er über Leichen. Das Objekt seiner Begierde: das berühmte »Selbstporträt mit abgeschnittenem Ohr«. Es befindet sich im Privatbesitz einer britischen Lady. Die junge Kunstexpertin Anna, die für Fenston arbeitet, schwebt in Gefahr, weil sie zu viel über dessen Machenschaften weiß. Und sie ahnt nicht, dass sie noch dazu von FBI Special Agent Jack Delaney beschattet wird.

There are a lot of things you really don’t want to find when you’re a homicide detective in the Bronx. High on the list is a new serial killer. Serial killers are real bad news because they kill without motive, so they are hard to trace and they can take years to catch. But even worse than a new serial killer, is a new kind of serial killer: one who murders with a motive, but a motive so unfathomable nobody can understand it; a motive that makes his choice of victims incomprehensible and unpredictable, a motive that leads to each victim being killed in a particularly cruel and unusual way.