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Das erste Abenteuer der beliebten Krimi-Heldin:. Frech, furchtlos und noch ziemlich grün hinter den Ohren: Penny Küfer, Privatdetektivin. Also eigentlich: angehende Privatdetektivin. Streng genommen hat Penny gerade einmal die erste Ausbildungswoche an der Detektiv-Akademie hinter sich, wurde soeben von ihrer Mutter enterbt und von ihrem Verlobten verlassen. Da bleibt nur noch ein Trost: die lang erträumte Reise im Okzident Express, dem luxuriösesten Zug, der je über Europas Schienen rollte.

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Statt an der Detektivakademie für ihren Abschluss zu pauken, verschlägt es die ambitionierte Jungschnüfflerin diesmal an einen Lost Place, in ein ehemaliges Grandhotel nahe dem Zauberberg Semmering. In den alten Mauern wohnt seit vielen Jahren nur noch die Erinnerung – und neuerdings ein besonders hinterhältiger Mörder. Und dann ist da noch dieses seltsame Gerücht über ein Geheimversteck voller Diamanten ...

One wild night in the 1930s, midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. However, Patty spent her entire childhood in an institution, except for the frequent occasions when she ran away, and cannot bear to hand the baby over.

Frank, an Army Special Forces veteran, screwed up, went to prison, and is now out, living in small-town Wyoming and trying to go straight. But then some old "friends" from the big house come to collect on a favor, and everything goes totally nuts, forcing Frank to go outside the law to save the one thing he cherishes most.

Nothing good comes after the third date. Date three is the crucial point when things get real, which is exactly why I bounce out the door, twiddling my fingers at whatever poor boy I've left behind. Because, if I stick around, one of three things will happen: he'll profess his undying love, he'll get weird and stalky, or I'll go crazy. Like, Sid and Nancy crazy. Like, chase-him-through-the-streets-begging-him-to-love-me crazy. Seriously, it's better for everyone this way.

When Jared Johnson first meets Clarice Connaught he saves her from the hands of her father, who is brutally beating her in the street. Never one to walk past someone in distress, Jared doesn’t hesitate to help. But who is this girl and what is her story? Jared Johnson started with nothing. At just twelve-years-old he was orphaned and homeless, but eight years later, Jared is a success. Running McGuire’s Rag & Bone Yard and surrounded by friends, all Jared needs now is to find the perfect girl to settle down with.

Liebe ist schmerzhaft, Liebe ist blind, Liebe ist nicht für jeden bestimmt... Tillie wusste von Anfang an, dass sie sich von Nate Riverside und seinem berühmt-berüchtigten Elite Kings Club hätte fernhalten sollen. Sie wusste, dass ihre Gefühle für Nate gefährlich sind. Dennoch war sie nicht auf den Abgrund vorbereitet, in den seine Liebe sie gestürzt hat.

The continued adventures and misadventures of Montana of Coggeshall.

Have one too many friendship break-ups and people start questioning what's wrong with you. But what if you aren't the problem? What if the problem is how we think about friendship break-ups? Introducing Bad Friend, a ground-breaking masterclass in friendship that makes space for every conversation you have never been allowed to have. Bad Friend will make you question everything you've been taught about friendships, and removes the stigma from friendship break-ups. This is for you if you've ever been hurt by a friend and, most importantly, reassures you that you're not a bad friend.

Reddit horror sensation Dathan Auerbach delivers a devilishly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him. Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother...

Ghost hunter and online sensation Meredith Brady takes you on a wild ride all across America as she investigates the good, the bad, and the ghoulish. Fresh from her last case exposing a fake haunting and dodging plastic pink flamingos, Meredith and her band of paranormal investigators travel to the tiny town of Oak Cliff, Georgia, in search of a ghost. However, this investigation might be more than they can handle when they discover that this sleepy town hides more than its fair share of ghosts.

The notorious rock ’n’ roll star from Misbehaving might just make some beautiful music with his sweet new downstairs neighbor in this sultry installment in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Sea Breeze series from Abbi Glines. Addiction is part of Krit Corbin’s nature, and women...

Aspiring supervillains (and super nerds) Jonathan and Andrew attempt to hold their own in a town full of monsters, while eleven-hundred-year-old vengeance demon Anya is just looking for something to give her life purpose again, spending her days working at an evil juice bar. But soon word gets out that there's a new Big Bad on the scene, one more powerful and more destructive than anyone who has come before. She, of course, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And she's hell-bent on rooting out all of this reality's evil by any means necessary.

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about grief, but...

A simple case - or it should be. But all clues point to the Toot Hansell Women’s Institute, and Detective Inspector Adams is about to discover there’s much more to the W.I. than just bake sales and jam-making. Alice Martin knows the ladies of the W.I. are not guilty. But she has a bigger problem. Toot Hansell has a large and dragonish secret, and she needs to keep the police well away from it. Beaufort Scales, High Lord of the Cloverly dragons, knows even better than Alice that the modern dragon only survives as long as no one knows they exist.

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The world’s last day has arrived. Hell itself has come to Earth. Streets of fire, rivers of blood, and the trains aren’t running on time. But Morag Murray isn’t going down without a fight. And as the mother to the anti-Christ, she feels a wee bit responsible.

When a mysterious entity grants a man who died a chance to be a hero in another life in a fantasy world, he cannot believe his luck. The one condition: he must fight the demon king if he shows up during his new iteration. He accepts and…Wakes in the body of a young female wolf beastkin named Lucia haunted by the memory of orcs ravaging her town. Not the rebirth he was hoping for.

Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history -- until now. Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The...