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Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

"Ainhoa Elizasu fue la segunda víctima del basajaun, aunque entonces la prensa todavía no lo llamaba así. Fue un poco más tarde cuando trascendió que alrededor de los cadáveres aparecían pelos de animal, restos de piel y rastros dudosamente humanos, unidos a una especie de fúnebre ceremonia de purificación."

A classic crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. The murder of old Mr Fransham while washing his hands in his niece’s cloakroom was one of the most astounding problems that ever confronted Scotland Yard. Not only was there a policeman in the house at the time...

People are dying in the West Yorkshire city of Fordley, from the kind of random, everyday accidents that happen in a busy city. Or are they? Forensic pathologist Elle Richardson, doesn't think so. She believes there's a serial killer, stalking the streets. But with no hard evidence to go on, West Yorkshire police are treating them as unfortunate deaths. Convinced she's right, Elle turns to her good friend, Forensic Psychologist Doctor Jo McCready. Working as a police consultant, Jo's methods have proved successful in the past. But this time, she'll have to go it alone.

I know you. I know you in a way you can’t even imagine. I have been searching for you in the years since you wrote that letter - the letter that told me you were looking for me too. But now that I’ve found you, I don’t know if I can say the terrible truth of what I am. It would ruin your perfect life. It would hurt your beautiful daughter. So, I hesitate - bide my time, for now.

Tensions between Pakistan and India are at an all-time high. To complicate matters, 12 American climbers have disappeared in the snow-capped peaks of Pakistan's Hindu Kush range. The president is demanding answers, but neither government is supplying them. In the wake of an unprecedented attack, Ryan Kealey's operation goes into high gear.

In a world where security cameras prove what you have done and databases define who you are, the few who know how to manipulate the technology can play God. They can change the future; they can alter the past. They can make big money, they can save the world, and they can get away with murder over and over again. Danielle Leaf grew up believing she was safe. Now she knows she was wrong. Award-winning author Jon Evans returns with a compulsive, fast-paced story that examines issues of Third World exploitation and the extreme edge of anti-capitalist activism.

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.

Recent events have struck terror into the heart of the Pentagon, and America is in a state of emergency. With conventional methods useless, out of fear, the White House turns to a top secret, unorthodox ghost team to stop a global threat. This exhilarating sequel casts the listener further into the furious depths of espionage, unpredictable deceit, and intense warfare. As the deadly vendetta between the skillful operatives somersault out of control, a frightful undercover agenda that even the operatives themselves are not aware of is revealed.

Thomas Philips was a happy man who could afford to retire at the age of 45. Old grudges were forgotten; the past was a lucrative memory. He scarcely felt the pinprick in his neck, and by the time the hand closed over his mouth, it was too late to do anything about it.

Lemmer se Eerste Algemene Wet: Moenie betrokke raak nie. Hy pas dit veral toe in sy werk as vryskut-lyfwag by Body Armour, waar hy laag af is op die pryslys, want hy’s die een met die kriminele rekord, die gebrekkige sosiale vaardighede en die baie kort humeur. Wanneer die mooi, ryk Emma le Roux hom huur en begin vertel van onwaarskynlike bedreigings en ’n broer wat sy vas glo ná twintig jaar soos ’n Lasarus uit die dood uit opgestaan het, stof hy ook ’n ander ou Wet af: Moenie klein vroue vertrou nie.

Barcelona. La noche del 25 de octubre de 1992, la vida de Miguel Montero, un chico de doce años, cambiará para siempre. Veintiséis años después, las heridas siguen abiertas porque el pasado nos convierte en lo que somos. Barcelona. Primavera del 2018. Sara, Simón y Pablo, con muchos...

When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, and outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to a matter of days.

En los márgenes del río Baztán, en el valle de Navarra, aparece el cuerpo desnudo de una adolescente en unas circunstancias que lo ponen en relación con un asesinato ocurrido en los alrededores de un mes atrás. La inspectora de la sección de homicidios de la Policía Foral, Amaia Salazar, será la encargada de dirigir una investigación que la llevará devuelta a Elizondo, una pequeña población de donde es originaria y de la que ha tratado de huir toda su vida.

Primero le quitaron su vida, después la identidad. Ha llegado la hora de vengarse de todos. Tras ocultarse en Portugal bajo su nueva identidad, Don regresa a Madrid para terminar con lo que empezó: destruir a los agentes del CESID que le arrebataron todo y recuperar a la mujer de su vida. Nadie conoce su nombre porque, oficialmente, está muerto. Un chivatazo le llevará hasta el contacto secreto de Vélez, el cerebro de la operación. Todo lo que necesitará para llegar hasta él. Sin embargo, la misión se torcerá muy pronto y los intereses de Don se verán mezclados con los de otros países y también con los de su hombre de confianza: Mariano.

They found each other. Then the killer found them. Detective Jackson "Jax" McKenna walks into a psychologist's office and finds that the doctor bears a striking resemblance to his first love, Lainie, who disappeared 10 years ago after their disastrous first date ended in violence. Dr. Elizabeth Parker is really Elaine Wilson, Jax's Lainie. She's been in hiding since the night that changed both their lives. Jax discovers the truth when the killer lets Lainie know he's found her.

Self-determined 15-year-old Becky lives a cozy, idyllic life with her grandma in a small northern town. Inspired by the numerous crime films she's watched on television, she's convinced that she could carry out a successful robbery and get away with it.

Aurora Ríos es invisible para casi todos. Los acontecimientos del pasado han hecho que se aísle del mundo y que apenas se relacione. A sus diecisiete años, no tiene amigos y está harta de que los habitantes de aquel pueblo hablen a su espalda. Una noche de mayo, su madre no la encuentra en casa cuando regresa del trabajo. No es lo habitual.

For over twenty years, Don held the line along an altered path. The calls, the chaos, the politics—he could stomach it all for one reason: raising his daughter. But now, with that chapter of his life closed, the job’s cracks are harder to ignore. The ones who wear the uniform but don’t live up to it. The ones who lower the standard while good people burn out trying to hold it up.

In this feverishly anticipated follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed The Boy in the Suitcase, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg doesn’t realize she is putting life and family on the line when she tries to treat a group of sick Hungarian gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. Nina has unwittingly thrown herself into a deadly nest of the unscrupulous and the desperate, and what is at stake is much more terrifying than anyone had realized.