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Lorelei never believed she would have a place to call home. She’d grown accustomed to hiding, to putting up walls and avoiding interaction with the world around her. Until Fairhaven. Lorelei has grown to love the small town with its multirealm crossroads and the residents who welcomed her with open arms, as well as those who were slow to warm up. She’s fallen in love with a demon prince, and befriended ghosts, a cursed vampire, the werewolf pack, and the Assassins Guild.

Man ist, wer man ist. Nach der hastigen Flucht aus LA hat es Winter Green ein Jahr lang geschafft, unbehelligt in der tausende Meilen von ihrer Vergangenheit entfernten Stadt unterzutauchen. Gerade als sie zu glauben beginnt, ein neues Leben - ohne ständig über die Schulter zu schauen - wäre möglich, wird sie eines Besseren belehrt. Eine junge Frau, die jemand anderes sein will und scheitert. Zwei Clan-Chefs, deren Waffenstillstand ins Wanken gerät und die Entscheidungen treffen müssen, die keiner von ihnen vorausgesehen hat. Eine neue Macht, die von außen kommt und jeden überrascht.

A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious – but can the detective who was first on scene puzzle out what's between the lines? An intelligence analyst has the chance to get out from behind the desk and do some real spy work. But as he enters the field, he begins to realise just how out of his depth he is. A brilliant sleuth, obsessed with Sherlock Holmes’s mysteries, turns his attention to a serial killer targeting women in New York's Central Park.

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine’s most astonishing “dead ends.” Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better.

The chances of a fairytale ending in a post-apocalyptic wasteland are slim to none. But so are the chances of surviving hordes of zombies while traveling across the country. So, for Jack Jupiter, the chances mean nothing. He hasn't stopped before and he doesn't plan on stopping now, either. With Project Reset canceled, Jack and the group head to San Francisco, where Darlene hopes to find her mother and sister...dead or alive; because all she wants is closure. While on their journey, they hear of a settlement located in Golden Gate Park called Haven.

Dies ist Buch 2 der Reihe und baut auf Teil 1 auf. Winter ist nun wieder Teil ihrer Familie und fällt langsam in alte Muster zurück. Was ihr zunehmend Probleme bereitet. Dass der Mann, den sie liebt und der, dem sie "gehört", Gegner sind, macht die Sache nicht einfacher. Detective Levi Hofmann versucht die Hintergründe des "Party Crashs" aufzuklären. Zu viele Unstimmigkeiten lassen das Ereignis in einem seltsamen Licht erscheinen. War es nur eine Show? Auch der Anführer des größten Clans der Stadt zweifelt, muss aber auf den Überfall reagieren, wenn er nicht das Gesicht verlieren will.

When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover 14 additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before - Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in prison for over 20 years...and is Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father. After several failed interview attempts to discover if Ed has been training someone to be a copycat killer, the police turn to Kaely in St. Louis.

Hot on the heels of catching the killer of a high profile local politician, Detective Inspector Claire Redding once again finds herself at the heart of a very challenging murder investigation. A missing boy and a mysterious death in the local theatre keep DI Redding guessing while Peter, her troubled husband, digs an even bigger hole for himself under the watchful eye of the Organised Crime Team in Glasgow.

Georgia is forced to balance her mother's first visit with a murder investigation when a body is discovered at the ruin of the island's old lighthouse. Things are not as they seem, her friend Olive Henry's nightmares seemingly tied to a mysterious magic she can't seem to uncover. But when the past comes back to haunt them all, Georgia is forced to admit certain truths while dealing with the real reason the victim fell prey to homicide—before the death is the end of everything.

Ewiges Leben in einer Maschine? In Team Defense ist Manuel unschlagbar. Doch was seine Mitspieler nicht wissen: Beinahe Manuels gesamter Körper ist gelähmt. Er steuert seinen Avatar nur mithilfe eines intelligenten Rollstuhls. Denn Manuel leidet an einer unheilbaren Nervenkrankheit und ihm bleiben nur noch wenige Monate zu leben. Als er von einem umstrittenen Experiment erfährt, schöpft er neue Hoffnung: Dabei kann eine Computersimulation seines Gehirns entwickelt werden. So soll sein Bewusstsein in einem Computer weiterleben.

Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for upcoming novels, Drive and Fireman.

When police in Florida's Volusia County were called to investigate the murder of Richard Mallory, whose gunshot-ridden body had been found in the woods just north of Daytona Beach in December 1989, their search led them to a string of dead ends before the trail went cold six months later. During the spring and summer of 1990, the bodies of six more middle-aged white men were discovered. The police soon discovered the killings were the work of a single culprit, Aileen Wuornos, one of the first women to ever fit the profile of a serial killer.

The clock is ticking. This is their last chance to escape the city. Who will make it out, and who will become just another corpse on the street? More importantly, what kind of a world will they find on the other side of those walls? Witness the conclusion of the series in this nerve-shredding finale of Infected City.

Duke Anson ist ein Mann ohne Sorgen. Er ist unterwegs mit einem gestohlenen Wagen, zwei Frauen und einem Koffer voll Geld. Die Probleme beginnen erst, als eine der beiden Frauen mit dem Wagen und dem Geld verschwindet. Gemeinsam mit der jungen Ashley macht sich Duke auf die Suche und findet in einem abgelegenen Motel tatsächlich Hinweise darauf, dass Eileen hier gewesen sein muss. Nur von ihr selbst fehlt jede Spur. Als Duke im See hinter dem Haus eine grausige Entdeckung macht, entgleisen die Dinge vollkommen. Duke wird zu einem Flüchtigen, der zum Freiwild erklärt wurde.

Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in the summer of 1999. That fateful night, he and his best friends ventured through a seemingly innocuous tunnel on their bikes — a journey from which not all of them returned. Now, as an adult, Maverick is haunted by a sinister force that compels him to return to his old neighborhood, a place shadowed by secrets, deceit, and an unsettling sense of death. Drawn back against his better judgment, he must face the dark forces that have lurked in waiting, eager for his return.

Ein fremdartiges Toxin verbreitet sich rasend schnell - Smash. Wer damit infiziert wird, verwandelt sich innerhalb von Sekunden in einen vor Wut rasenden Smasher, der seine Mitmenschen anfällt und zerfetzt, bevor er selbst stirbt. Niemand weiß, wer hinter der Verbreitung des Gifts steckt. Klar aber ist: In einer Gesellschaft am Rande des Zusammenbruchs sind Smasher nicht dein größer Feind.

Richard Parnell is one of the leading minds in gene therapy research, and he expects the job at Dubette, Inc., to be his first step to a Nobel Prize. But when he arrives at the American pharmaceutical giant, he finds himself shut out of the main avenues of research, isolated from the cutting edge in a way he has never been before.

Intrepid Mountie Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies a shadowy gang member known only as Cocktail as being responsible. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia. Their mission is to identify Cocktail and gain evidence to convict him of murder.

They found Henry Gibson shot dead in his abandoned car on a dirt road. Then George Horner and Noah Hamberger. Random murders or a sicko with an agenda? That was the problem facing homicide detective Al Maharos. He ran out of ideas until he teamed up Sheriff Karen Vandergrift. Attractive, brilliant Vandergrift. Together, they uncovered other bodies, and a pattern unique in the annals of crime. They knew their path would converge with that of the killer. They knew when. But where?