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When librarian Patton Harcourt comes under sniper fire in her rural North Carolina home, she is thrown together with professional assassin Nemo and into a web of international deceit. On the run from two German killers, Patton and Nemo discover a 75-year-old Enigma message, which leads them to Bletchley Park in England and a code breaker named Ruthie Drinkwater, an old flame of Patton’s. Unable to complete the job of code breaking at Bletchley, the trio leaves and is pursued by the Germans, who support a white-supremacist agenda.

In the dangerous waters of the Caribbean, one man reigns supreme as the most cunning and elusive criminal of them all: Julian, the last remaining brother of a notorious dynasty. With a vast fortune, Julian's power and influence know no bounds. But now, the Enigma Heirs, R-Group, and CATS team have set their sights on bringing him down, determined to dismantle his entire operation and put an end to his illegal drug and human trafficking enterprises.

Caspian Anderson, once a black-ops assassin known as Elias, now works for the Defense Clandestine Service. But unfinished business dies hard. Glimpsing a familiar face while tying up loose ends overseas, he swears it’s his lover, Liesel Bergmann—a German spy and erstwhile collaborator. But back stateside, he can’t ask her without giving himself away.

Detective Haldur Johansen confronts the chilling aftermath of a series of murders that shatter the tranquility of Miðvágur. Each victim bears a cryptic symbol etched into their skin, hinting at a connection to the town's shadowy past. As Haldur delves deeper into the case, he unravels a web of secrets and lies that threaten to engulf the community in darkness.

Într-o noapte de decembrie, la Palace de Verbier, în Alpii elvețieni, are loc o crimă, iar anchetatorii nu reușesc să ajungă la nicio concluzie. După mulți ani, în vara lui 2018, un scriitor venit în vacanță se cazează la același hotel, fără să-și imagineze că va ajunge să se lase absorbit de acest caz. Ce s-a petrecut în camera 622 de la Palace de Verbier? Cu precizia unui ceasornicar elvețian, Joël Dicker își duce cititorii în inima orașului său natal.

A panel from the lost Amber Room looted by the Nazis in 1941 comes on the London art market. Two mutilated bodies are discovered on wasteland in Moscow. Initially the two events seem unrelated. Senior Investigtor Nikishin, troubled by the recent loss of his wife and haunted by the presence of his dead daughter, is assigned the case. Then the murder of a specialist art thief in London and a Bond street dealer on his luxury yacht on the French Riviera set in motion a chain of events that find Nikishin, and his SPBR team pitted against the assassin known as the Caretaker.