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Everything changes in a heartbeat the night Conor and his girlfriend Paris Levinson come to us begging for help, their clothes spattered with blood. They say it was an accident, that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time… A mother’s intuition is never wrong, and I know there is more they aren’t telling us. But Paris’ mother Helen and I have to make a choice that will change all of our lives. Do we tell the truth, and risk losing our children forever? Or do we lie to keep them safe? We will do anything to protect our children, but one wrong move could cost us everything.

An old case from his LAPD past threatens Bosch's reputation in a gripping new thriller. Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him.

When a legendary ex-cop is murdered in L.A., the pressure's on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago. A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored - and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha's murder.  When he's asked to rejoin the force, Ash reluctantly agrees. Getting his badge back could give him the chance to find Latisha's killer. 

Ingrid will never forget what John did. The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him. Now he’s back. He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her. Would you trust him? The clock is ticking for Ingrid to decide. Because the killer is ready to strike again.

When private detective and former teacher Henry Kimball is hired to investigate an ex-pupil's cheating husband, he senses all is not quite what it seems, and before he knows it he's gotten far too close to the other woman. As the case gets ever stranger, he turns to the only person he can trust, Lily Kintner, someone with dark secrets of her own.

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

Brought to you by Penguin. Penguin Audio presents a compelling collection of four John le Carré novels, highlighting his modern classics that redefined the espionage genre. This collection includes the finest examples of his contemporary classics, written between 2001 and 2010, and contains...

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team. When a seventeen-year-old boy is found murdered in Hawick, Marshall finds a community on the edge. As his team struggles to connect the dots, what seems like a straightforward case unravels into something far more sinister – the details echo another investigation and Marshall finds himself following a trail of secrets hidden in plain sight.

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind. Now she has vanished, along with a potentially explosive set of papers, and disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to follow her trail to the South of France. But finding her is just the start of his problems. Soon, amid a cast of con men, secret agents and revolutionaries, he must decide whether to land the scoop of his lifetime - or follow Lucia into ever more dangerous waters.

What began as an innocuous advice column for Celeste Cleary has transformed into an all-consuming obsession, and her former existence as a scientist now feels like a distant memory. As she immerses herself in the troubles of others-at times solving their dilemmas with messages from beyond the grave-an ability that has invaded her life since the hit-and-run accident that nearly killed her months before, Celeste grapples with the news that the accident may have been attempted murder.

New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals...

Bewahre das Geheimnis! Sonst wirst du leiden… In einem kleinen Dorf mitten im Nirgendwo häufen sich brutale Morde. Die Opfer werden grausam zugerichtet und öffentlich zur Schau gestellt. Die Ermittlerinnen Charlie Bekker und Stella Meislow übernehmen den Fall und tauchen ein in eine Welt...

A Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb -- spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood -- is shaken when a small grave is...

Ein kleines Kind und ein großes Verbrechen. Der erste grandiose Solo-Fall von Volker Klüpfel für das ungewöhnliche Ermittlerduo Svetlana und Tommi. "Halt an, Tommi! Kind ist ganz nass bei diese scheußliche Wetter, muss sich doch kümmern jemand." Svetlana deutete energisch auf eine Stelle am Waldrand ... Die erstaunliche Svetlana liebt russische Literatur und Detektivgeschichten. Ihre Lebensweisheiten sind so legendär wie ihre Grammatik.

Perfect for fans of Richard and Judy picks The Silent Patient and He Said/She Said. What if the people you trust are the ones you should fear most? We all recognise them: those who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers, the liars, the manipulators. Those who have the potential to...

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

From highly acclaimed author Alice Henderson comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying fourth book in the Alex Carter series, in which the wildlife biologist encounters anti-immigrant vigilantes, rugged terrain, and threatening intruders in search of a sleek, powerful, and furtive...

Ein Mord mitten in der Hauptstadt. Das Opfer wurde erschlagen und gekreuzigt. Kriminalkommissar Henry Frei und sein Team ermitteln. Suse, heillos mit ihren Kindern überfordert, seit ihr Mann sie verlassen hat, ist in Panik: Ihre Tochter Jacqueline ist verschwunden. Die alarmierte Polizei glaubt der Mutter kein Wort. Wo ist Jacqueline? Wer zieht seine blutige Spur durch Berlin? Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt! Der erste Fall für Kommissar Henry Frei.

Kinder verschwinden. Während Hinnerk mit seiner Vergangenheit kämpft, ist es Bennet, der glaubt an seiner zu verzweifeln. Zu allem Überfluss geraten die beiden Polizisten auch noch aneinander, als sie unterschiedlicher Auffassung sind, wie sie den Fall anzugehen haben, der verworren und undurchschaubar vor ihnen liegt.

Die 16-jährige Danielle Ahlisch kommt vom Konzert ihrer Lieblingsband nicht nach Hause zurück. Kurz darauf wird ihre übel zugerichtete Leiche im Treptower Park gefunden. Ihre Familie, ihre beste Freundin und ihre Lehrerin sind fassungslos. Wer kann das freundliche, hilfsbereite Mädchen so gehasst haben? Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf die Familie Klewa, deren vierjährigen Sohn sie oft betreut hat. Erst kurz vor ihrem Tod hatte Danielle im Internet nach der Adresse des Jugendamts gesucht, weil die Eltern überfordert wirkten.