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On a foggy night in Hampstead, London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist match wits in a game of chess while Bruce Manaton paints the portrait. In the kitchen, Rosanne Manaton prepares tea for the charlady of Mr Folliner. When the murder of 'Old Mr. F' is discovered by his Canadian infantryman nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is called to the scene.

It turns that even a witch can't run from her past forever. A lesson I learned the hard way. But now I'm back home, and things are going well—or at least they were for about five minutes. With the town-saving fall festival days away and the inn's renovation falling apart, I'm run ragged and right into a crime scene. A suspicious death has sent gossip flying faster than you can say bibidi babidi boo, threatening to put Silverlake on the map for all the wrong reasons. It'll take all witches on deck to solve this crime and save Silverlake before it's too late.

Penguin presents the audio edition of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais. Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the...

Eigentlich sollte das frisch renovierte Mystic Inn rechtzeitig zum großen Herbstfest seine Türen öffnen. Stattdessen stolpert Angelica Nightingale zwischen tropfenden Wasserleitungen, chaotischen Handwerkern und einem überaus launischen Poltergeist. Als dann noch Silverlakes berühmteste Hexe, Sophia Emerson, unangekündigt eincheckt, ist das Chaos perfekt. Nach einem gemeinsamen Abendessen treibt Sophias lebloser Körper im See. Unfall? Ganz sicher nicht. Bald zeigt sich, dass jemand die Hexen-Ikone endgültig zum Schweigen bringen wollte.

Bishop men are a plague—murderers, liars, thieves. When Colum Bishop walked into our lives, I thought salvation had finally arrived. He was supposed to save us. Instead, he burned our world down. I should have died in that alley. Instead, I woke—broken, furious, and reborn with one mission: dismantle the name that ruined me. They call me Gunner Bishop, and the irony isn’t lost on me. My name ties me to a legacy of rot I never asked for. I was born to lead; my father made sure I’d be forced to destroy what he built.

‘Mezrich’s books are the sort of engrossing reads you pick up in the airport then find the blockbuster film on the plane’ – Evening Standard From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House comes this cinematic true story about the biggest scandal in...

Alice Chen doesn’t believe in true love, but she does believe in cold, hard cash. Buckling under the weight of student debt and her mother’s medical bills, Alice will do anything to make bank–even star on Dawn Tay’s Inferno, the hot new reality TV show designed to push couples to their breaking point. The show is Alice’s chance to sip cocktails on the beach and win a cash prize of a million dollars. But when her fiancé cheats on her with another contestant, Alice is faced with a choice.

Spencer Serrano is seven feet of trouble—loud, crude, and far more dangerous than his stupid jokes let on. He’s flirtation wrapped in muscle, chaos wrapped in charm, and he doesn’t take no for an answer. Abigail Rosa has spent her life in a protective bubble—put there by those who love her, kept there by her own sense of duty and respect. Safe. Sheltered. Untouched by men like Spence. Until the day he strolls into her shop with his filthy mouth and lack of manners… and turns her entire world upside down.

Haunted by the ghosts of past, present, and future spies, Aiken is trapped in a lethal battle with Havana intelligence officers desperate to discover the CIA's top spy hidden inside Fidel Castro's government. Aiken must betray Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop—exposing CIA operations that link Cuba, China, and Venezuela in a startling conspiracy—in order to rescue the woman he loves...all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation.

DCI Kenny Murrain sees, hears and feels things that others do not. It’s a gift but also a curse. When he wakes to the phantom sound of screaming, he knows a murder has been committed, but not where or why. Then a woman’s body is found in a Stockport hotel room. It’s a murder that seems both frenzied and carefully planned, the scene expertly cleansed of any evidence. 

Team Zeus was designed to love and protect me, and they swore that they would do whatever it takes to keep me safe, even if that means I would never forgive them. It's a risk they say they're willing to take. But I'm no longer the little girl they swore to protect. I'm all grown up and refuse to rely on anyone other than myself. After all, I had finally figured out all of the secrets and lies, but it was all ripped away, and my heart was left shattered in pieces. So I have no choice but to pull myself together and get the vengeance I deserve.

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly murderer, however, it is up to Cecily Sinclair to restore order before Scotland Yard steps in and shuts down her infamous seaside hotel.

Now living in Los Angeles with former Navy SEAL Nick Reno, artist Perry Foster comes to the rescue of elderly and eccentric Horace Daly, the legendary film star of such horror classics as Why Won’t You Die, My Darling? Horace owns the famous but now run-down Hollywood hotel Angels Rest, rumored to be haunted. But as far as Perry can tell, the scariest thing about Angels Rest is the cast of crazy tenants - one of whom seems determined to bring down the final curtain on Horace and anyone else who gets in the way.

Mr. Rook, eccentric billionaire and owner of the most exclusive island resort in the world, has a secret. Hint: Legends say it can make you young again. But when he's no longer willing to pay the dark price to keep eternal youth on the island's menu, the very thing that once kept him young is now turning on him.

Field reporter Lee Barrett is not happy that her hours are being cut back at WICH-TV, although it is nice to spend more time volunteering with Aunt Ibby, a research librarian. But Lee's least favorite task is going up to the stacks, a spooky, seldom-frequented upper section of the library. On this day she has good reason to be afraid - she finds a dead man, surrounded by hundreds of scattered books and torn-out pages. Her police detective beau, Pete Mondello, is soon on the scene, and the deceased is identified as a former minor league baseball player - and ex-con....

One of the new guests at Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast is a real jerk. Even one of the ghosts says so! Emily’s guests for the week are in town to revamp the abandoned hotel on the edge of town, but already they are making enemies all over Oak Hill. When Emily finds one of her guests dead inside the old hotel, she and her best friend, Sage, will have to unravel strange messages from the ghosts there to find the killer.

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was violent, subtly manipulative, and bordering on psychotic.

The number of Deryni was small, for they had been hounded for generations and kept their identities secret. Those who managed to retain their arcane powers concealed their background - for bitter persecution once again swept the land of Gwynedd, inspired by a raving fanatic sworn to destroy all Deryni in a final bloodbath.

Maud, 21 ans, mal dans sa peau et idéaliste, s'engage dans une ONG et se retrouve au volant d'un 15 tonnes sur les routes de la Bosnie en guerre. Les quatre hommes qui l'accompagnent dans ce convoi sont bien différents de l'image habituelle des volontaires humanitaires. Dans ce quotidien de machisme, Maud réussira malgré tout à se placer au centre du jeu. Un à un, ses compagnons vont lui révéler les blessures secrètes de leur existence.

A global mystery app chooses one winner every month, where the money acts less like a magic wand and more like a spotlight. The rules are simple: Join the app. Dream big. Then wait. Once a month, the world holds its breath as the global phenomenon Blank Checks selects one random contestant. The prize? A blank check. No strings attached. They write the number. Any number. Whatever they believe their dream is worth. No one knows who funds the app. No one knows how they choose. But every winner is real, and every story becomes legend.