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As DCI Matilda Darke unravels a chilling cold case, she discovers some truths are deadly – and someone will stop at nothing to keep the past buried… ‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths RUNNING FROM HER PAST Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving...

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

San Francisco homicide detective Terry Eckhart has seen enough death to know when a crime scene is speaking directly to him. When a body is discovered along the coast at a forgotten military battery, the murder appears isolated—until Eckhart realizes it mirrors two brutal killings from his past: a suspicious house fire that claimed Mary Quinn, and the ritualized murder of Janice Collins, found in the Sutro Baths with Eckhart’s name written onto her skin.

Allie Lake is a scientist is on a held-up flight travelling home from a job when she is seated next to troubled movie star Milo Ford. She is in no mood to talk to him, whoever he might be. Her most recent project at a research station has just come to an end and she's about to move in with her sister and her love life is non-existent. As for Milo, he wants nothing more than to be at home hiding out with a little normality. Instead, he has to go and film a movie in the Romanian mountains... all the while, the press are getting closer, circling his most closely guarded secret.

Am Flughafen Düsseldorf wird der Bankkaufmann Gert Anderson Zeuge einer Schießerei. Es gelingt ihm, eine junge Frau aus der Gewalt zweier Männer zu befreien. Sie ist die Sekretärin eines Großindustriellen. Maria und ihr Retter kommen sich rasch näher, doch auch wenn er den ersten Mordversuch verhindern konnte, wird Maria am darauffolgenden Morgen tot im Treppenhaus gefunden. Die Polizei glaubt an einen Unfall, aber Anderson weiß es besser. Schon bald ist sein eigenes Leben in Gefahr.

Der erste Tote wird mit einem brennenden Reifen um den Hals gefunden, es gibt außerdem Anzeichen einer Strangulierung sowie diverse Stichwunden. Zur gleichen Zeit hinterlässt jemand kleine Knochenbündel vor Detective Inspector Logan McRaes Tür, die dieser jedoch ignoriert. Als eine weitere Leiche gefunden wird, zeigt sich eine Verbindung zwischen den Morden und der Handlung eines Bestsellers um Hexen und Hexenjäger, der gerade in Aberdeen verfilmt wird. Und plötzlich erweisen sich auch die Knochenbündel als weit weniger harmlos, als McRae dachte.

Ever since I met my handsome husband Dr Gabe Bonneville, I started playing the role of the perfect housewife. He works hard as a surgeon, so I look after our home, and throw elaborate dinner parties with champagne cocktails for his best friends Hugh and Anita. He’s my safe place and my chance to have the family I’ve always wanted. I’ve managed to hide the mornings when I wake up and see a face in the shadows. I haven’t told Gabe the truth about the woman who raised me, or told him about the therapy I’ve been getting so my secrets stay hidden in the dark.

Oslo, 1988. Der eiskalte Winter hat die Stadt fest im Griff, als der junge Kommissar Tommy Bergmann einen grausigen Fund macht: die brutal verstümmelte Leiche einer jungen Frau. Sie ist die Erste in einer langen Mordserie... Jahrzehnte später: Tommy Bergmann ist inzwischen bekannt dafür, selbst die schwierigsten Fälle zu lösen. Doch sein erster Mordfall bereitet ihm bis heute Alpträume, auch wenn er den Mörder verwahrt hinter Gittern weiß.

Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest...

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” –People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race...

Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of corruption that leads him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. There are twelve things to look for. No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever...

Athen in der Pandemie. Die Läden sind geschlossen, viele Menschen am Rande der Existenz. Da verwundert es nicht, dass sich auch alte Leute das Leben nehmen. Und doch horcht Kostas Charitos auf, als ein Neunzigjähriger in seinem Abschiedsbrief schreibt: Es lebe die Bewegung der Selbstmörder! Steckt hinter seinem Freitod mehr als die pure Verzweiflung? Charitos ermittelt – und lernt seine Stadt Athen und den Widerstandsgeist ihrer Bewohner neu kennen.

In a city cracking under pressure between humans and synthetics, Detective Nick Schneider doesn’t wear skin—or play by anyone’s rules. When a senator’s daughter turns up dead with black-market limbs, Schneider and his grudge-bearing partner must navigate a maze of corruption, tech, and identity politics. What they uncover could start a war—or get them both killed.

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of...

Il a suffi de quelques jours au charismatique révérend Charles Jacobs pour ensorceler les habitants de Harlow, dans le Maine. Et plus que tout autre, le petit Jamie. Car l'homme et l'enfant ont une passion commune : l'électricité. Trente ans plus tard, Jamie est un guitariste de rock rongé par l'alcool et la drogue. Il va croiser à nouveau le chemin de Jacobs, et découvrir que le mot « renaissance » peut avoir plus d'un sens. Addiction, fanatisme, expérimentations scientifiques… Un roman électrique sur ce qui se cache de l'autre côté du miroir.

Ein ungemein spannender Polizeikrimi. Die Jagd nach einem besonders perfiden Mörder beginnt – Warum nur schmückt er seine Tatorte mit grausigen Graffiti-Bildern und einer seltsamen Figur namens "Santa Claus"? Detective Sergeant Victor Lessard und sein Team tauchen ab in ein schwarzes Labyrinth voller Rätsel.In Abwesenheit seines für die Einheit Schwerverbrechen verantwortlichen Vorgesetzten muss Victor Lessard mit seinen Kollegen den Tod eines hochrangigen Polizeibeamten aus Montreal untersuchen, dessen Kopf in einem Müllcontainer gefunden wurde.

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder - this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell - or was pushed - off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin’s murderer.