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'Sara! Remember! Victoria and Albert. All I can say. They're here. They're - ' These are the last words Sara Prior will ever hear from her husband. As DS Nathan Cody struggles to make sense of the enigmatic message and solve the brutal murder, it soon becomes clear that Sara is no ordinary bereaved wife. Taking the investigation into her own hands, Sara is drawn into a world of violence that will lead her in a direction she would never have suspected. For Cody, meanwhile, things are about to get personal in the darkest and most twisted ways imaginable.

On a bitterly cold winter's night, Liverpool is left stunned by a brutal murder in the grounds of the city's Anglican Cathedral. A killer is on the loose, driven by a chilling rage. Put on the case, DS Nathan Cody is quickly stumped. Wherever he digs, the victim seems to be almost angelic - no one has a bad word to say, let alone a motive for such a violent murder. And Cody has other things on his mind, too.

The inspiration for the hit ABC television series Big Sky. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Back of Beyond and Breaking Point and the creator of the Joe Pickett series is back. "If C.J. Box isn't already on your list, put him there."--USA Today...

The Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box delivers a thriller in Back of Beyond about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone. Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and...

"The world is big enough for us," Sherlock Holmes once told Dr. Watson. "No ghosts need apply." But amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his chronicler Jeff Cody don't have a choice when a popular TV reality show comes to Erin, Ohio, to record a Halloween special about the entity disturbing a local gastropub known as The Speakeasy. Jackie O'Brien was a bootlegger and speakeasy owner gunned down in 1920. Ever since, his unquiet spirit has been said to haunt the building where it happened — one which, after many transformations over the years, is once again a speakeasy of sorts.

An "Old Money" Family Meets MurderShakespearean scholar and philanthropist Ezra Bainbridge, patriarch of one of Erin, Ohio's wealthiest old families, lives quietly and happily at his Stratford Court compound with three triplet daughters until accusations of elder abuse roil the family. Amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his friend Jeff Cody are drawn into the controversy as objective observers but are soon ensnared in a puzzling series of horrendous murders, each one of which is marked by the presence of a flower.

Murder Among SupervillainsAs a professor of popular culture in his day job, amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe knows a bit about superheroes, supervillains, and the various graphic novel universes. But that's not much help when murder strikes at the Tri-State Comic Book Expo. Potential suspects number in the thousands, including some A-list Hollywood actors as well as comic book professionals and a collector. It all begins with Erin, Ohio-based artist-writer Parker Williams, creator of the superhero Red Falcon, being accused of plagiarizing the character of his newest supervillain, Queen Bee.

Auftakt der aufregenden Liverpool-Serie mit DS Nathan Cody: In Liverpool wird eine Frau durch ein anhaltendes Klopfen an ihrer Hintertür gestört. Beunruhigt stellt sie fest, dass der Übeltäter ein Rabe ist. Als sie versucht den Vogel zu verscheuchen schlägt der Killer zu... Detective Sergeant Nathan Cody, der immer noch die Narben eines schiefgelaufenen Undercover-Einsatzes trägt, wird auf den Fall angesetzt. Doch die Polizei hat keine Spuren, außer dem toten Körper des Vogels - und den fehlenden Augen des Opfers.

Mystery writer, magician, Sherlockian, and sleuth-at-large: that's Sebastian "Mac" McCabe. This collection introduces the series of light-hearted but mysterious adventures of Mac and his brother-in-law as they uncover small-town secrets to solve murders that would stump the great Holmes himself.

Der zweite Band der aufregenden Thriller-Serie um den Liverpooler Ermittler DS Nathan Cody: Auf dem Gelände der anglikanischen Kathedrale wird ein brutaler Mord verübt. Das Opfer ist die unschuldigste Person, die man sich vorstellen kann. DS Nathan Cody wird klar, dem Killer reicht es nicht, einfach nur ein Leben zu nehmen, er muss seiner unbändigen Wut freien Lauf lassen. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt, denn schon bald will der Killer den nächsten Unschuldigen auswählen.

She lives in a utopian town, where nothing bad ever happens. But when officers Zachary Leebow and Annalise Baker are invited to join a new special-task team, the Smoky Mountain Investigative Force, their lives become even more intertwined than before. With everything around them changing and an unnamed body on their hands, they must decipher the clues to their individual cases, before kidnapping turns into murder.

In the town of Stark, Texas, Tanner faces ghosts from his past as he tries to keep history from repeating itself.

When a young man with Down syndrome witnesses a bank robbery, Jessica Ramirez discovers that the detectives investigating the case are underestimating the most observant eyes in the room. As she gleans information from Cody Harris, the two perps begin to figure out that Jessica is working with the one witness who could send them to jail.

In Redbud Reckoning, the third book in the Cody Houston series, Cody Houston is enjoying life in Florida when a nephew he did not know he had shows up at his front door—with the equally surprising news that they are join inheritors of family land, an original Indian Allotment land parcel in Oklahoma. But of course their story does not end after they appear in court together to finalize the transfer.

Your Precious Possessions is a murder mystery that will deceive you to the end of the trail. It is about the love that the lucky few will find, the length that some will go to hold onto love, and the sins that some will commit in the name of love. It is about life. Everything always comes back to love.

"Sara! Erinnere dich! Victoria und Albert. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen. Sie sind hier. Sie sind..." Dies sind die letzten Worte, die Sara Prior jemals von ihrem Mann hören wird. Während DS Nathan Cody versucht, die rätselhafte Nachricht zu entschlüsseln und den brutalen Mord aufzuklären, wird bald klar, dass Sara keine gewöhnliche trauernde Ehefrau ist. Als sie versucht, die Ermittlungen selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, wird Sara in eine für sie völlig fremde und überaus gefährliche Welt hineingezogen. Und für Cody wird dieser düstere Fall überraschend persönlich.

Der dritte Band der aufregenden Thriller-Serie um den Liverpooler Ermittler DS Nathan Cody: Es heißt, man kann sich seine Familie nicht aussuchen. Aber stimmt das wirklich? Darf ich vorstellen: die Bensons. Ein wirklich nettes Paar. Sie waschen ihr Auto, mähen ihren Rasen und plauschen mit ihren Nachbarn. Und sie haben ein wunderschönes kleines Mädchen namens Daisy. Es gibt da nur ein Problem. Daisy ist gar nicht die Tochter der Bensons. Sie haben sie gestohlen. Und jetzt haben sie beschlossen, dass Daisy einen kleinen Bruder oder eine kleine Schwester braucht.