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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.

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.

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.

Das Kinderheim „Frühlingssonne“ am Rande von Oslo hat einen neuen Mitbewohner. Dem zwölfjährigen Olav fällt es schwer, sich in die Regeln des beinahe idyllischen Lebens in der alten Villa einzufügen, und mit Erschrecken stellt die Leiterin Agnes Vestavik fest, etwas in seinen Augen zu entdecken, was sie bei einem Kind bisher noch nie gesehen hat: Hass. Eines Tages ist Olav verschwunden und Agnes Vestavik wird tot an ihrem Schreibtisch aufgefunden–erstochen mit einem Küchenmesser. Die frisch zur Hauptkommissarin ernannte Hanne Wilhelmsen macht sich auf die Suche nach dem Jungen.

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.

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.

Ed Loy hasn't been back to Dublin for 20 years. Now his mother is dead and he has returned home to bury her. He soon realises that the world waiting for him is very different from the one he left behind all those years ago. An old classmate, Linda Dawson, pleads with him to find her missing husband, Peter. She doesn't want the police involved.

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...

Inspector Carlyle has a new partner in crime . . . but for how long? When a fortune in uncut diamonds are nicked by a group of soldiers, Carlyle teams up with Captain Daniel Hunter of the Military Police to hunt them down. But Hunter has come up against this crew before and they are not going to...

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...

Nothing bad is supposed to happen in Palm Springs. At least that's what San Francisco private detective Tom Danzel and his partner, Stanley Korski, believe. But when their friend Chris finds a dead body in his hotel room bed, Tom and Stanley drive out to help the local police investigate. What they discover is a gangster's plot, a rather nasty green snake, and an elegant hotel that offers delicacies not usually found on a room service menu.

Eine alte Farm, eine einsame Landschaft, ein düsteres Geheimnis aus vergangener Zeit. Mit tödlichen Folgen für die Gegenwart...

Sandie will do anything for her brother. When he is suspected of murdering not one but three young women, she is forced to show just how far she'll go to prove his innocence. As Sandie uncovers the clues, she discovers the investigating detective may have an ulterior motive for placing the blame on Will. Desperate to find the actual killer, Sandie enlists the help of her trusty dog Marlowe and her boyfriend. Unfortunately, time isn't on their side.

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.

The bloody corpses in the broom closet of a Seattle School District building looked like a classic crime of passion, but 20-year-old clues point J. P. Beaumont to something much more sinister.

For twelve-year-old Martha "Sonny" Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family's cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land - hoeing, planting, picking - but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin - until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year's cotton crop.

When the ATF gets a lead on a much-sought-after cache of illegal guns near the Canadian border, they call millionaire private detective Rushmore McKenzie in to help them track down the gunrunners. Their only lead is a guy who is part of a small-time gang of armed robbers working north of the Twin Cities. Their idea is for McKenzie to infiltrate the group and wait for them to lead him to the guns. Which seemed like a bad idea to McKenzie at the time, but even he had no idea just how bad things were going to get.

Annie heeft het zwaar nu haar man is vertrokken en haar tienerdochter Isla een schim van zichzelf is geworden. Ze is doodsbang dat Isla zichzelf iets aandoet en dat ze haar óók zal verliezen. Dus wanneer Annie een video ontvangt waarop te zien is dat ze huilt op de begrafenis van haar dochter, is ze doodsbang. Verward en geschokt rent Annie naar boven om te kijken hoe het met Isla gaat, met wie niks aan de hand is. De video is vervalst. Maar wie heeft hem gestuurd en wat wil diegene van haar?

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.

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.