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"Wenn man den Pfad der Vergeltung beschreitet, soll man zwei Gräber ausheben."(Konfuzius) Jules Lefèvre ist Lehrer an der Public École im normannischen Lion-sur-Mer. Jules und seine Frau Malin genießen das Familienglück mit der kleinen Tochter Lilou. Doch dann zwingt ein Burn-out Jules, sich zu Hause einzuigeln. Die Genesung verläuft schwierig, denn seine Wahrnehmung ist getrübt. Er ist psychisch instabil und paranoid.Auch als ihm Paul Moreau, der Rektor seiner Schule, einen Besuch abstattet, misstraut Jules dessen Freundlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft.

When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

Recherchen für einen Bericht über das "Teufelsohr der Herzöge von Exmoor" führen den Journalisten Francis Finn nach Devonshire, wo zufällig gerade auch Pater Brown zu tun hat. Kurz nach Finns Ankunft wird der Verwalter des Herzogs tot aufgefunden. War es ein Unfall oder hat man ihn ermordet? Eine Frage, die den jungen Journalisten ebenso interessiert wie Pater Brown.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

DC Sam Shephard is stationed in Dunedin CIB, a newbie at the bottom of the pecking order. When a young university student is found battered to death and floating in the Leith, she is pushed to one side by her boss and only given grunt work. Despite this, it is Sam who discovers that there has been a string of unsolved murders on the South Island, and that each has occurred while a travelling circus was in town - the same circus that is presently in Dunedin.

After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly established government privatizes its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, giving them the chance to be shareholders in the country's burgeoning businesses. For those living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little more than pieces of paper. But for Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, the chits suggest a lucrative potential. They travel to the furthest, coldest reaches of the country, roving from town to town with suitcases full of cash.

A Purple Place for Dying finds Travis McGee witness to a murder he can't prove and a kidnapping nobody wants to believe. McGee becomes a pawn between a wealthy Southwestern patriarch, the law, and a mysterious gang bent on insurance fraud. Just the kind of thing McGee revels in!

Southern Sweden: Beautiful countryside, endless forests, coastal walks, dark days - and even darker nights. But beneath the beauty lies a dark heart . . . Skåne, 1986: On the night of Walpurgis, the eve of May Day, where bonfires are lit to ward off evil spirits and preparations are made to...

Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury hotels. Now she has finally come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. Maggie is no sweet old lady. She has a nasty, nosy little habit: she spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to 'liberate' them from what she sees as unhappy relationships.

Als die zwei verirrten Wandersleute Hermine und Wilhelm endlich in einer Sturmnacht ein Obdach in einer abgelegenen Hütte im Hexenmoos finden, bekommen sie dort vom alten Wolfs-Martin einen unglaublichen Bericht über längst vergangene Geschehnisse zu hören, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart zu werfen scheinen... Welche Bewandtnis hat es mit dem Auftauchen des tiefschwarzen Hirschs im Moos? Und was geschah tatsächlich bei dem verfallenen Gedenkkreuz am Wegesrand, an dem die Wanderer noch kurz zuvor vorübergekommen waren?

A young Irish gangster is caught in a brutal dance between desire and loyalty Tony Ward is back in Dublin. After five years in England, where he fled after murdering a rival gang member, he returns to find that his mentor is dead and his best friend has gone straight. Keen to reestablish himself...

Polizeihauptmann Felix Bojko wird zu einem Tatort in die ukrainische Geisterstadt Pripyat gerufen und mit einer grausam verstümmelten Leiche konfrontiert. Da Kanyukov den ukrainischen Ermittlungsbehörden misstraut, schickt er den russischen Polizisten Alexej Markow in die Ukraine, um den Täter ausfindig zu machen. Hauptmann Bojko wird von Mo Celta begleitet, die an einem Austauschprogramm der EU-Ermittlungsbehörden in Kiew teilnimmt und in der Ukraine ihre Schwester sucht.

“While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story,” writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those small, exacting moments that shock, spook, delight, and change a story entirely. A disgraced ex-cop approaches a crossroads...

Ascolta la raccolta completa delle indagini dell'ex-ispettore Teresa Maritano e del vicequestore Marco Ardini, sullo sfondo di una Genova dalle forti tinte noir. Una serie bestseller da togliere il fiato tutta da riscoprire, nata da una delle penne al femminile più celebri nel panorama del giallo italiano: Maria Masella. Teresa Maritano, dopo aver lasciato la polizia, ha aperto un bar in una piazzetta poco lontana dal Ponte di Sant’Agata sperando in giorni tranquilli e anonimi.

C'è più ombra che luce a Milano nel mese di novembre. Non sono giorni facili per le donne e gli uomini della UACV, l'Unità di Analisi del Crimine Violento, che saranno travolti da otto incredibili giornate intrise di sangue e crudeltà. Cosa lega i cadaveri, orribilmente seviziati, di due noti collezionisti d'arte, alla sparizione di un libro esoterico che custodisce un antico segreto?

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is...

Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.

Ten years ago, I adopted Blue after I broke up with my boyfriend one hot, early summer night with the windows open and the neighborhood listening. The next morning, I went straight to the pound in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Articles on buying your first dog tell you to never buy a dog on impulse. Going to the pound because you need something in your life that's worth holding onto is rarely, if ever, mentioned. I asked the man at the pound to show me the biggest dogs they had. He showed me some Rottweiler-German Shepherd puppies that he said would grow to be quite large.

When Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He hastoo much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, andc onsidering he has his former partner, her newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn't like the situation one bit.

Lies Lies Lies, sometimes they come back to hurt you… 'Gripping, moving and elegantly written' Marian Keyes ‘Brilliantly twisty… also so insightful. A triumph’ Lucy Foley ***** Daisy and Simon’s marriage is great, isn’t it? After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter...