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Stenhoog ist der Deutschen liebste Urlaubsinsel – gleich hinter Sylt, Norderney und Borkum. Auf jeden Fall ein schöner Ort. Weniger schön, dass man ausgerechnet hier den örtlichen Pfarrer tot aus dem Wasser gefischt hat. Wie sich jedoch herausstellt, handelt es sich bei dem Toten in Wahrheit keineswegs um einen Geistlichen, sondern um den untergetauchten Bankräuber Arnas Ramanauskas. Nach jahrelanger Fahndung ist er endlich gefasst! Nur leider eben tot.

When Detective Maria Miller walks up creaking stairs into the attic of the old brownstone she senses this isn’t an ordinary crime scene. The brutality of the murder is enough to shock even an experienced detective like Maria. But there’s something else. An unsettling presence seems to lurk in the shadows sending a chill through Maria’s bones, making her desperate to run back down the stairs and never return. The killing is identical to the murder of an actress sixty years before, a crime that tore a family apart and sent shockwaves through New York City.

Más de 1.000.000 de lectores El verano está terminando y la teniente Valentina Redondo está contando los días para empezar sus vacaciones. Pero algo insólito sucede en el centro mismo del pueblo costero de Suances: el jardinero del antiguo Palacio del Amo ha aparecido muerto en el césped...

Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. One Sunday morning, as Maria savours the breeze through the kitchen window whilst making apricot jam, she hears the screech and bump that announces the arrival of her good friend and editor Harriet. What Maria doesn't realise...

En el majestuoso Palacio Dorado, situado en el centro de Madrid, lo más selecto del mundo del arte se ha reunido para la inauguración de Pentimento, un museo que muestra reproducciones de obras de arte icónicas en el contexto donde se exhibieron por primera vez. Amanda Mendoza, la anfitriona, observa con desconfianza a uno de los invitados: el enigmático Dimas Chevalier, el ladrón de guante blanco más famoso de Europa, que, tras unos años en la cárcel, asegura que se ha reformado por completo.

Meet Tannie Maria, recipe writer turned crime fighter, who before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, finds herself embroiled in another mystery. A bushman’s life is under threat and Tannie is determined to find out who wants to kill him. But her boyfriend is keen...

Shortly before midnight, four teenagers broke into the old abandoned psychiatric hospital on Beacon Hill. Only three came out again. The missing girl—Riley Holt—is the seventeen-year-old daughter of the local police chief and she appears to have vanished into thin air. Called from Manhattan to take over the case, Detective Maria Miller and her partner Frankie Conroy uncover the sinister past of the abandoned hospital, which was once the hiding place of the notorious College Kid Killer, who never revealed the burial site of his final victim.

Every time I turn the corner towards home, I yearn for Ed to have returned. But he’s not coming back. The man I thought was my forever has been living a lie with me since the moment we met. I’m sick of hearing his voicemail message. I’m even more sick of the unanswered texts. He’s left me completely in the dark and I can’t even give our kids an answer to their never-ending question, ‘When’s Daddy coming back?’

When the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered in a rundown New York City hotel room, Detective Maria Miller is called to the crime scene. The best friends were supposed to be at a sleepover miles away in the suburbs. With no record of the girls checking in and the room on the thirteenth floor closed off to guests, what were they doing there? Sinister messages on their phones suggest the girls were lured to the hotel, using its reputation for hauntings as bait. The killer left no DNA behind and Maria’s efforts to trace their identity leads to a dead end. 

I stand at the front door and meticulously check my reflection in the glass. I must look perfect to meet Lou’s new boyfriend. I haven’t been invited but best friends don't require invitations, right? Scott's arrival coincides with Donna's, leaving me with no choice but to welcome her in, though I've made it clear she's an unnecessary addition to today's gathering. This meal is about introducing Scott to my mother and daughter – a fact Donna conveniently ignores.

Más de 400.000 lectores Oliver, un joven londinense con una peculiar situación familiar y una triste pérdida, hereda una casona colonial, Villa Marina, a pie de playa en el pueblecito costero de Suances, en Cantabria. En las obras de remodelación se descubre en el sótano el cadáver...

L'Ispettore Capo Giovanni Di Falco, in servizio presso il Commissariato di pubblica sicurezza di una cittadina marinara della Sicilia occidentale, possiede un suo personale archivio. Si tratta di un armadio di metallo dove all'interno il poliziotto conserva gli incartamenti ufficiali, in copia, dei casi di cui si è occupato. Ogni caso ha una sua cartella. Per identificare l'indagine, sulla copertina di ognuna, di Falco di solito scrive una frase tratta del dialetto siciliano.

'Finally a novel I couldn't put down for an entire weekend' - Petra Hammesfahr, German bestselling author 'Anna Jansson is the new literary voice from the Nordic countries' - Berliner Morgenpost One forgotten grave. Two identical crimes. A killer who was supposed to be dead. Detective...

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

Ottenuto l'affidamento della piccola Paola, la vita di Teresa Maritano sembra finalmente aver preso la svolta tanto desiderata. Il suo passato nella polizia è finito, e ora gestisce un bar nella tranquilla provincia ligure. Eppure, come già successo in precedenza, l'arrivo del commissario Ardini rimescolerà di nuovo le carte in tavola. Tormentato da un trauma della sua infanzia, riflesso in un oggetto rinvenuto sulla scena del crimine del falegname Remo Valsi, Ardini è incapace di continuare le indagini.

As I walk into the pine-scented air of my seaside childhood home, gripping my husband Neil’s hand tight, I have a brief moment of hope. Maybe this Christmas will be different — for once my family might get on fueled by mulled wine and festive cheer. But the sound of happy carols are replaced by my older sister Christy’s over-loud laugh and slurred words. Rebecca, my younger sister, stalks out of the room as soon as I enter, as though I’m the Grinch here to steal Christmas. And their husbands, brash and arrogant, slap Neil’s back in a way that promises torment rather than welcome.

Monsieur le Commissaire und der Mord aus dem Hinterhalt. Nach einem Ritterturnier auf einem Schloss an der Loire machen die Gäste einen grausamen Fund: Ein Mann wurde von Pferden zu Tode getrampelt. Doch der vermeintliche Unfall entpuppt sich schnell als Mord, das Opfer wurde mit einem Pfeil erschossen. Die örtliche Polizei ist überfordert und holt sich Hilfe von Commissaire Philippe Lagarde. Kurz darauf ereignet sich auf dem Areal eines anderen Schlosses ein ähnlicher Fall.

Teresa Maritano si è finalmente decisa a lasciare la polizia. Abbandonato il suo ruolo di ispettrice, ha aperto un bar e trovato la tranquillità che tanto desiderava. Tutto però cambia quando riappare il commissario Marco Ardini, suo ex capo. Una bambina di nome Carlotta è scomparsa da giorni, una bambina che Teresa conosceva abbastanza bene. Deciderà quindi di aiutare Ardini nelle indagini. Queste porteranno i due a scavare in un caso torbido, che li condurrà dapprima a cercare informazioni su un'altra bambina amica di Carlotta, Paola, e in seguito sulla strana madre di quest'ultima.

After surviving a terrifying assault during her last investigation, Maria Kallio traded in her badge for a comfortable desk job. But when the head of social affairs for the Finnish Athletics Federation is murdered - the victim of an apparent poisoning - Maria is drawn back into a race against more than murder. A series of crimes has unfolded, and to Maria’s trained eyes, they look like the makings of a conspiracy. As Maria follows the track to a doping scandal, a money-laundering scheme, domestic abuse, and explosive death threats leveled against a sports reporter, she collects the pieces of a baffling puzzle.

After a student choir’s practice session at a Helsinki villa turns deadly, Detective Maria Kallio finds herself in the middle of the action - and her first murder case. Someone in the group wanted playboy Tommi Peltonen dead, but that’s one song these suspects refuse to sing. Behind the choir’s jovial facade lies bitter passion, and the victim’s seemingly perfect life hid a host of sins that made him a target of almost everyone in the villa. As a young female - and a redhead to boot - Maria knows that solving this case will help her overcome her perceived shortcoming in the eyes of her colleagues.