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Los Angeles homicide detective Dinah Marino may have a complicated relationship with her family, but her psychiatrist husband, Joe, makes her feel safe, secure, and happy. She couldn’t want for a more loving or trusting man. But throughout their ten-year marriage, she’s been keeping a secret from him—a secret she’d take to the grave. Dr. Joe Marino loves his wife more than anything in this world, but there are things he’s learned to keep close to the chest—including a few dead bodies.

Me and Will. Will and Me. A perfect match. He said he would always be there for me, but it’s been a year since he drained his coffee, walked out the front door and vanished. Did he leave me? Or did something terrible happen? I’m scared someone finally found out about what happened on the drive home that night...I lie awake at night trawling the internet for rental properties, desperate for an escape. Until I see my husband’s gorgeous face smiling back at me from a photograph on the fireplace in someone else’s home, and something inside of me snaps....

Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly...

Watching my beautiful curly-haired baby Ava play in the sand, I can’t believe how much joy she’s brought me. When she goes missing, it’s the worst thing that could happen… but perhaps the shared pain of losing her will bring my ex-husband and me back together? Jimmy is only just separated, but his devotion to his darling daughter made me fall in love with him in an instant. I consider Ava my child now. Her disappearance is my chance to comfort Jimmy. To show him the sort of wife I can be, and how much his ex has let him down.

Bazza Mackenzie, Pompey’s top criminal, is now beyond reach of DI Joe Faraday. Hungry for power and profile, Bazza decides to stand for Portsmouth North in the general election. And his campaign is taking the city by storm. But politics is an expensive business and so Bazza turns to ex-cop Paul Winter to call in a multi-million pound drug debt. Winter, though, is facing a nightmare of his own and knows his time with Bazza has to end.

Terry Davenport is new to the job as Walkerville's chief of police, but he takes his position seriously - even though very few things of note happen in the small hamlet. Walkerville may be boring, but Terry's personal life is anything but. When termites infest his house, Terry has no choice but to check into a local inn while his home is being tented. He chooses the Winchesters' bed and breakfast, of course, and he's hoping for good food and a modicum of entertainment from the young girls he loves so much.

Being left at the altar would have been better. Instead, I'm sent away to a secluded spot where I can't disturb the happy couple--on my honeymoon without a bride. Left to lick my wounds and recover from the ultimate betrayal, I do what I do best.

When Ama’s straitlaced boyfriend, Nathan, invites her to his secluded upstate New York cabin for the weekend, she can’t say no. It’s a chance for them to escape the city’s distractions, share intimate secrets, and take their relationship to a deeper level. By day, it feels like the perfect love story. But when Ama is awakened by strange events, she starts to wonder if she really wants to know everything about Nathan.

As a centaur, Deputy Jake Majoy (Deputy March) is immortal and has seen and done a lot in his 500 years; enough to know Everlasting feels like home. It’s been perfect for him to fade away and blend in; you see, the town is anything but normal - and the locals protect their own. So when a newcomer ends up in their midst at the same time things go missing around town, it’s his duty to step in to restore law and order. But the pull he feels to the woman is anything but part of the job.

***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION*** Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time “An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The...

Paranormal Security and Intelligence Operative and Shadow Agent Gram Campbell is not having a great year. So far this alpha-male wolf-shifter has had his heart and his body broken. Is he beyond repair, or will his destined mate bring much-needed healing to the man and the wolf within?

Hier werden Träume wahr: Der Auftakt zur neuen Wohlfühlserie von Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Bibliothekarin Nina weiß genau, was ihre Kundinnen lesen sollten, was gegen Liebeskummer hilft oder Trübsal vertreibt. Doch als die Bibliothek geschlossen und Nina arbeitslos wird, helfen Bücher ihr auch nicht weiter.

Held prisoner in a remote testing facility in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest, subjected to torture and abuse, shape-shifter and alpha male Wilson Rousseau has long since given up hope of being rescued. Days blend together until he can’t help but long for death. But he is saved from his isolated hell by a female’s distress call and feels an instant connection to her.

Jolene Bails may come off as a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense kind of woman, but underneath it all, she has a softer side. Now that she has a Secret Santa who seems to know her well, she finds herself opening to the idea of wanting more from life. But first, she has to figure out who is leaving her mysterious gifts and why it is Wil, her old flame, is acting so strange.

She comes home to mourn her father. She stays to uncover the shocking truth. When college student Berry returns to her family’s small Southern California farm after her father’s sudden death, she believes she’s coming home to grieve and reassure her mother that she’ll soon be back for good to run the farm. With farming in her blood, she is eager to bring new life to the failing farm through modernization and sound financial management after receiving her degree in agricultural economics.

Una rom-com che è molto più di una rom-com: Emily Henry torna a deliziare le lettrici con un romanzo destinato a diventare un classico del romance. Da quando si sono conosciuti, al college, Harriet e Wyn sono sempre stati “la coppia perfetta”: stavano bene insieme come il sale e il pepe, il tè e il miele, il pane e il salame. Poi, chissà perché, le cose sono cambiate. Eppure, nonostante siano passati già cinque mesi dalla rottura, ancora non l’hanno detto ai loro migliori amici. Ed è così che si ritrovano a condividere la stessa stanza (e lo stesso letto!) in un cottage nel Maine.

Bremen, Dezember 2023: In der Hansestadt geht ein Serienmörder um. Insgesamt vier Frauen wurden bereits furchtbar zugerichtet aufgefunden. Als eine weitere Frauenleiche entdeckt wird, werden Sophie Kaiser und ihr Team hinzugezogen. Die ambitionierte Profilerin des BKA, die durch ihren Autismus Zusammenhänge anders bewertet als andere, ist gerade erst ein paar Tage in der Stadt, da gibt es bereits das nächste Opfer. Dieses Mal wendet der Mörder selbst sich zeitgleich an die Medien und beschreibt detailliert seine grausamen Taten.

Lilah is back home after two weeks away from the big, bad beast that is New York City, and with Kane by her side. The minute the chopper touches down, her phone rings. It's a local medical examiner who has been stalking her online, but then, she soon learns, so is half the city. Seems an online forum has popped up to follow Lilah, her serial killer mentor, and her drug lord husband. Call Lilah irritated as Kane is no drug lord, despite the cartel's wishes that he follow in his father's footsteps, her mentor is dead, and no one knows but those who buried the body.

Along with the expected Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter, HellBound Books are delighted to present, among others, tales of terror involving Bastille Day (viva la Revolucion!), Saint Lucy Day (a Christian feast day celebrated on December 13th - St. Lucy is the saint patron of the blind and mentioned in The Nun 2!), Earth Day, and the delectable White Day (celebrated in Japan on March 14th - one month after Valentine's Day - in which folks return gifts presented to them on Valentine's Day).

After a successful blind date, Linda and Eric want to change the world. With fiery passion for both each other and their common cause, they hatch a twisted plan. The first step: to assemble a loyal team of hotshots, each with a specific skill set.