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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.

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.

Scarlett verfolgt ein Traum: Vier Jungen versuchen verzweifelt, sie zu finden. Denn Scarlett ist die fünfte Auserwählte...

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.

M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. We're just going to bring forward this other chap you've been preparing. But you didn't tell me his name.' 'It's Bond, sir,' the Chief of Staff replied. 'James Bond.' One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. It's time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organised crime. It's time for James Bond to earn his licence to kill.

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.

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?

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....

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

Wenn die geheimen Tore sich öffnen, wird eine alte Macht wieder auferstehen und die Welt in die Dunkelheit stürzen...

Jamie und sein Zwillingsbruder Scott haben telepathische Fähigkeiten: Sie wissen immer, was der andere denkt...

It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks.

James Bond is back where he belongs. Anthony Horowitz's new novel is a thrilling tour de force, sure to delight fans of the original 007 novels and new readers alike. It also features previously unseen material written by Bond's creator, Ian Fleming. The story begins in the lethal world of Grand Prix and an attempt by the Russians to sabotage a race at Nürburgring, the most dangerous track in Europe.

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place.

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.

A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can’t control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's new thriller. Spread the word. The word is murder.

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.

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.

Thirteen-year-old David Eliot was a disappointment to his parents. But to be sent to Groosham Grange? Hidden away on a lonely island, Groosham Grange is a school that is unknown to the outside world. Pupils are forced to sign their names in blood. An English teacher is held together entirely with bandages. A soccer ball is made of ... well, you'd rather not know. What is the chilling secret hidden behind the headmaster's door? And why are students disappearing in the middle of the night?

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking listeners into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.