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Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend, Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted - but is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss her old life in London.

Der erfolgreiche Scheidungsanwalt Richard Pryce wird in seinem Londoner Haus in Hampstead Heath mit einer 2000 Pfund teuren Flasche 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac niedergeschlagen und mit dem abgebrochenen Flaschenhals massakriert. An die Wand neben der Leiche ist in grüner Farbe die Zahl 182 gepinselt. Die Polizei beauftragt den Privatdetektiv und Ex-Polizisten Daniel Hawthorne, die zuständige Beamtin DI Cara Grunshaw zu unterstützen. Hawthorne überredet den zunächst widerwilligen Autor Anthony Horowitz, ihn als Biographen zu begleiten.

Es beginnt an einem kalten Novembertag des Jahres 1890 in der Londoner Baker Street 221b. Ein elegant gekleideter Herr bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe. Er fühlt sich von einem Mann verfolgt, den er als den einzigen Überlebenden einer amerikanischen Verbrecherbande erkennt, die in Boston zerschlagen wurde. Trotz seiner legendären Methoden kann Holmes zunächst keine eindeutige Spur finden. Nur ein weißes Band am Handgelenk eines ermordeten Straßenjungen scheint als Hinweis brauchbar, aber das Ausmaß der dahinterstehenden Verschwörung ahnt nicht einmal der Meisterdetektiv.

Keine sechs Stunden nachdem die wohlhabende alleinstehende Diana Cowper ihre eigene Beerdigung geplant hat, wird sie in ihrem Haus erdrosselt. Ahnte sie etwas? Kannte sie ihren Mörder oder ist alles nur ein Zufall? Daniel Hawthorne, Privatdetektiv im Dienst der Polizei, nimmt die Spur auf. Aber nicht nur den Fall will er lösen, es soll auch ein Buch daraus werden, und dafür wird Bestsellerautor Anthony Horowitz gebraucht.

Evil has been unleashed on the world and only five children - with special powers - can save it. Matt and the other three desperately need to find Scar, the final gatekeeper, who has been trapped in Hong Kong, where puddles of water turn into puddles of blood, where ghosts, demons and hideous creatures stalk the streets. Matt has no choice but to follow her. Now, both imprisoned, their only hope of survival is to reach a secret door in the Man Ho temple. But even if Scar can find her psychic power, it may already be too late.

Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant new murder mystery, the second in the best-selling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. William Pryce is an elegant, smooth-tongued lawyer who has made a fortune out of celebrity divorces - and a lot of enemies in the process. Unmarried himself, he lives in a handsome bachelor pad on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Or, rather, he used to....

Alan Conways Krimis um dem Detektiv Atticus Pünd, der seine Fälle charmant wie Hercule Poirot zu lösen pflegt, sind absolute Bestseller. Doch als seine Lektorin Susan Ryeland den neuesten Fall "Morde von Pye Hall" zu lesen beginnt, muss sie feststellen, dass die letzten Kapitel des Manuskripts fehlen. Dann erfährt Susan vom Tod des Autors. Ohne sein neuestes Buch stünde das Verlagshaus vor dem Ruin. Susan Ryeland muss selbst zur Detektivin werden, um nicht nur den Fall der Morde von Pye Hall zu lösen, sondern auch den Verbleib von Alan Conway zu enträtseln.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years, and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway.... But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems.

Alex is trying to get his life back on track. But Scorpia has returned, and when you’re the world’s most successful spy, the only way out is to face your enemies. Alex’s final mission will be the deadliest of all.

Matt has always known he has unusual powers. Raised in foster care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a rehabilitation programme, only to find himself in the midst of sinister goings-on. Matt investigates and uncovers a terrible secret - eight guardians are protecting the world from the Old Ones, beings banished long ago by five children. But devil worshippers want to let the Old Ones back in....

They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.

The New York Times best-selling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.

London 1890: Der wohlhabende Galerist Edmund Carstairs fühlt sich von einem mysteriösen Mann mit Schiebermütze verfolgt...

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the best-selling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful.

Die Londoner Unterwelt ist in Aufruhr, die Gerüchteküche brodelt: Der gefürchtete amerikanische Gangster Clarence Devereux will seine Geschäfte nach England ausdehnen. Auch Professor Moriarty, einst der große Gegenspieler Sherlock Holmes', soll seine Hände im Spiel haben - aber ist er nicht tragisch ums Leben gekommen? Und welche Rolle spielt der undurchsichtige Detektiv Chase?

Ein dunkles Geheimnis umgibt den fünfzehnjährigen Matt. Die Alten, Dämonen aus einer längst vergessenen Zeit, versuchen auf die Erde zurück zu gelangen, um sie zu vernichten. Dazu muss sich ein lange verborgenes Tor öffnen. Nur die fünf Torwächter können die Rückkehr verhindern, und Matt ist einer von ihnen. Doch er weiß nichts von seiner Bestimmung und seinen übernatürlichen Kräften.

Having escaped from Hong Kong, the five gatekeepers - Matt, Pedro, Scott, Jamie and Scarlett - are lost in a hostile and dangerous world. As they struggle to regroup and plan their next move, the malevolent King of the Old Ones gathers his forces in Oblivion: a desolate landscape where the last survivors of humanity must fight the ultimate battle.

In the first book in the number-one best-selling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, 14-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.

Nevada, USA. Fourteen-year-old twins Jamie and Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation, Nightrise, kidnaps Scott, Jamie is left alone – and wanted for murder. He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign and breaks into the American prison system before being propelled 10,000 years into the past, where he encounters the other Gatekeepers and witnesses the creation of Raven's Gate – and the first fateful battle against the Old Ones. 

After his experiences at Raven's Gate, 14-year-old Matt Freeman thinks his days of battling evil are over. But he is pulled into another horrifying adventure when he discovers a second gate exists. Matt and his friend Richard travel to Peru and, assisted by a secret organisation known as the Nexus, follow a series of clues to the gate's whereabouts. But there is a traitor in the Nexus.... Richard is kidnapped. Matt manages to escape with the help of Pedro, a local boy.