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From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers...

Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts, talks to the dead. He's turned it into a lucrative career, putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee, of course. When he left LA 15 years ago, he thought he'd never go back. Too many bad memories. Too many people trying to kill him.

A missed train. A late-night walk. And an umbrella where no umbrella should be. The narrator only wanted to do the decent thing — put it back where he found it. He had no idea what else was lying on the line. Five minutes. That's all it takes. Five minutes, a railway crossing, and a debt twenty years in the making.

Trudi hatte schon mal eine bessere Woche. Erst rutscht ihr Mann Floyd in der Dusche aus und bricht sich das Genick. Dann erfährt sie, dass sein Tod kein Unfall war, und wird kurz darauf mit seinen Gläubigern konfrontiert. Floyd hatte nicht nur Schulden. Er war ein Diplomlügner und stadtbekannter Gauner. Weder Detective Lawson, der in dem Fall ermittelt, noch Wyatt Slater, der Boss der Unterwelt, glauben, dass Trudi keine Ahnung von Floyds illegalen Aktivitäten hatte.

Wer gesagt hat, die Liebe wäre ein Kinderspiel, ist ein verdammter Lügner! Die Zeiten, in denen Trudi langweilig ist, sind eindeutig vorbei. Ihre Freundin Lynn will sich das Fluchen abgewöhnen, Lieutenant Hotshot beißt sich an seinem aktuellen Fall die Zähne aus, ihre Schüler suchen einen Sponsor - und Trudi hat eine Schreibblockade. Sie braucht Inspiration. Da passt es gut, dass Wyatt einen Mafiakrimi in Hollywood produziert und sie zu den Aufnahmen einlädt. Auf dem Set läuft sie allerdings waschechten Gaunern in die Arme, die sich unter die Statisten gemischt haben.

Als auf der Thanksgiving-Party des L.A. Police Departements eine Leiche auftaucht, wird schnell klar, dass Trudi sich ganz oben auf einer kurzen Verdächtigenliste befindet. Jetzt hat sie nicht nur eine Untersuchung am Bein, sondern auch einen ziemlich angepissten Detective, der die Ermittlungen in diesem Fall leitet. Dabei hilft es nicht wirklich, dass die heißen Tipps von Wyatt kommen, der sich mehr und mehr als Trudis stärkster Verbündeter entpuppt.

Der junge Angus Weaver macht sich nach dem Tod seines Vaters auf die Suche nach seinem verschollenen Bruder Alistair. Angusʼ Bruder ist anders. Kleinwüchsig mit nur einem Arm, fristet er sein Dasein als Ulkfigur in einem Zirkus. Ein uraltes, mysteriöses Wesen gehört zu den Schaustellern und es tötet grausam.

On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist and a mystery novelist. The unlucky 13th is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate - but John is nursing a secret of his own. Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed and a man strangled.

"The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house." On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea - but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer: Pendergast’s own ancestor … and Constance’s greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken … Constance...

A dying convict's last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a 50-year-old case of child murder - a wound his town still isn't ready to scrape open. Under the heaviest deadline of his life, and amid threats from unexpected foes, Morgan must struggle with his own conscience to tell a story no matter the consequences, dig deep into the town's past, and unveil a killer who's managed to remain hidden in plain sight for almost 50 years.

A curiously dated child’s suitcase arrives, unannounced and unexplained, in a modern-day Washington suburb. A week later, American genealogist Jefferson Tayte is sitting in an English hotel room, staring at the wrong end of a loaded gun. In his latest journey into the past, Tayte lands in wartime Leicestershire, England. The genealogist had hoped simply to reunite his client with the birth mother she had never met, having no idea she had been adopted.

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, Georgia. A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected...

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they cross paths with New York’s deadliest serial killer ...Pendergast’s own ancestor ... and now his greatest foe. AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Astoundingly, Constance has found a...

FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time to New York City in the late 1800s to embark on a dangerous quest: to stop the era's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng from bringing his plans to fruition. If she does, she can finally prevent the events that led to the shocking deaths of her sister and brother. Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Agent Pendergast is desperate to reunite with Constance before she gets stuck in the past forever..

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold.Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly...

A gripping high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. "A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." — Gregg Hurwitz "[Narrator John Pirhalla's] deliberately stoic narration is neither flashy nor...

Amateur thief Ted Lyte has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners takes Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay and investigate.

When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place - the Old West's most mysterious and legendary female outlaw - he's not expecting to find a man's headless corpse in her crypt. The grisly discovery plunges him and Jefferson Morgan - the editor of the weekly Winchester Bullet - into a shadowy and deadly world of satellite-savvy highway pirates, rural meth labs, computer hackers, and old-fashioned corruption.

When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is hired to prove the identity of a black sheep in his client’s family tree, he unwillingly finds himself drawn into a murder investigation with nothing more to go on than a 150-year-old letter and a connection to a legendary ruby that has been missing for generations. As more letters are mysteriously left for him, Tayte becomes immersed in a centuries-old tale of greed, murder and forbidden love that takes his research from the wilds of the Scottish Highlands to the colour and heat of colonial India. A dark secret is buried in Jaipur. But why is it having such deadly repercussions in the present?