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Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison. When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart and a sabotaged security system. Neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted. The only person Matilda believes is innocent is facing prison for the rest of his life. With time running out, she must solve the unsolvable to save a young man from his fate, and find a murderer in a house full of killers....

Every family has a story. But some families have a body count. ‘Clever, compelling, and absolutely delicious’ – Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True The internationally bestselling author of His & Hers, Alice Feeney, returns with an all-consuming tale of psychological suspense...

The rules of Society X are simple...break them and you're out. The Dark Room is the only place you can live out your fantasies and no one will ever know it's you. For Parker, what started out as a business transaction has turned into an addiction. For Mia, it's been a chance to discover who she truly is. What happens in the dark will have you begging for more...

Du bist ein Mafiaerbe, der sich gern in der Dunkelheit verirrt, der gern die Kontrolle besitzt. Du spielst mit deinen Marionetten, ohne dass sie deine Fäden spüren. Du fütterst sie mit deiner Schwärze. Doch was, wenn einer von ihnen das Licht ist und dich durchschaut? Was, wenn einer von ihnen der Erbe eines anderen Mafiaclans ist? Was, wenn du das erste Mal bei deinem eigenen Spiel verlierst?

My name’s Kimberley. I’m twenty-five. I have epilepsy, a seizure alert dog named Muffin, and a job I love as a senior housekeeper in one of London’s top hotels. I’m used to being invisible. Overlooked. Safe. But that was before Jennifer Clifton checked in. She’s rich, powerful, terrifyingly calm — and she asks for me by name. She offers me my dream job, working in her exclusive hotel in the Scottish Highlands. It’s more money than I ever imagined.

Ex-crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers’ forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever expect, or want, to see captured on film—the murder of a young woman. But that’s impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened five years earlier.

Jane “Jinx” Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiancé, who has since disappeared—together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris . . . But when Jinx wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. With the help of Dr Alan Protheroe of the Nightingale Clinic, she slowly begins to piece together the fragments of the last few weeks. Then the memories begin to surface . . . memories of utter desperation and absolute terror.

Der Dark Room ist verrucht. Männer bezahlen viel Geld, um eine Nacht lang mit ihren Gespielinnen tun zu können, was immer sie wollen. Die Frauen sind ihnen völlig ausgeliefert. Von alldem ahnt Allison nichts, als ihre Mitbewohnerin einen Weg vorschlägt, wie sie ihre Geldsorgen mit einem Schlag loswerden kann. Gerade ihre sanfte Unschuld ist genau das, was einer der Kunden des Dark Rooms dringend benötigt.

The newspaper reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. Leo has disappeared - together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris. But when she wakes from her coma, Jinx can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. Nevertheless, Jinx is convinced that she would never try to kill herself over Leo. Surely it was she who wanted to break the engagement.

Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she now resides in a luxurious care home; her mind and memory fading fast. Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death...

Andrew Wellington ist ein rücksichtsloses Arschloch. Zumindest behaupten das die Menschen, die ihm schon einmal einen Wunsch ausgeschlagen haben. Der angesagteste Makler New Yorks ist es nämlich gewohnt, zu bekommen, was auch immer er will. Mit seinem besten Freund Jackson führt er das gemeinsame Immobilienbüro mit harter Hand, wobei Andrew auch in einem anderen Business stets das Sagen hat: dem Room Service. Eine Agentur, die ihren Kunden genau das bietet, was diese wollen: nette Stunden mit heißen Frauen in einer schicken Hotelsuite.

Im Labyrinth der Lust: Tagsüber lebt Fiona in einem tristen Reihenhaus. Nachts begibt sie sich als "Eule" auf die extravaganten Partys des Swinger-Netzwerks "Das Labyrinth" - eine eigene Welt hemmungslos ausgelebter Sexualität. Eines Abends aber geschieht etwas Schreckliches. Evi, eine Jugendfreundin von Fiona, und deren Vater werden in ihrem Haus brutal ermordet. Für Fiona bricht eine Welt zusammen, denn sie hat sich an besagtem Abend am Tatort aufgehalten.

The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved...

A major film starring Brie Larson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators. Scared is what you're feeling...

It's after midnight, and SFPD homicide inspector Gavin Cain is standing by a grave in the El Carmelo Cemetery when he gets the call. Cain knows there's something bad in the coffin they're about to exhume. He just doesn't know what. Only that it made a dying man certain he was going to hell. But now a chopper is on its way to take Cain to city hall on the mayor's orders, and after 30 years in the ground, the mystery of Christopher Hanley's coffin will have to wait a little longer. In its place, Mayor Castelli lays out the pieces of a different but equally disturbing puzzle.

Hare's Landing, West Cork. A house full of mystery.... Rachel Lambert leaves London afraid for her personal safety and determined to uncover the truth behind the sudden death of a homeless man with links to a country house hotel called Hare's Landing. New York-based crime reporter Caroline Kelly's career is threatened by a lawsuit, and she needs some thinking space away from her job. But almost as soon as she arrives, Hare's Landing begins to reveal its own stories - a 30-year-old missing-person's case and the mysterious death of the hotel's former owner.

On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried in the wine cellar of a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville. James Carroll, shot and stabbed the year before, has lain for seven months in a plastic storage bin - his temporary coffin. Homeowner Jeffrey Mundt and his boyfriend, Joseph Banis, point the finger at each other in what locals dub The Pink Triangle Murder.

The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Sometimes crime strikes too close to home . . . DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her neighbours keep her well-supplied in...

On Christmas Eve seventeen years ago, Morgan Winter found her parents' brutally murdered bodies in a Brooklyn basement. The trauma never left her, though seeing the killer sent to prison gave her a modicum of closure. But now shocking new evidence has overturned the killer's conviction, and Morgan must face the horrifying realization that the real killer is still out there.

Als Gabby sich nach einer weiteren frustrierenden Arbeitswoche für eine Nacht im Dark Room anmeldet, will sie nur eins: Dampf ablassen. Die Vorstellung, ihren Stress in Lust zu verwandeln, ist viel zu reizvoll. Auf keinen Fall rechnet sie damit, dass ihr Partner für die Nacht niemand anderes ist als ihr Boss. Der Mann, der sie überhaupt erst dorthin getrieben hat. Was als schlechte Idee beginnt, wird schon sehr bald heiß. Und der Machtkampf verlagert sich auf eine andere Ebene.