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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.

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?’

Eberhofer im Neubau, Birkenberger im Saustall und Susi (fast) im Bürgermeisteramt – und als wäre das Chaos in Niederkaltenkirchen nicht schon perfekt, geht auch noch die Oma auf Kur! Gut, dass die neue Haushaltshilfe Julika für Ordnung auf dem Eberhofer-Hof sorgt, während Franz sich wohl oder übel zwischen Susis Wahlkampf und dem neuen Hobby von Sohn Paul zurechtfinden muss. Als der örtliche »Steckerlfischkönig« plötzlich mausetot auf dem neu errichteten Golfplatz liegt, kommt das dem Dorfsheriff deshalb gar nicht so ungelegen.

Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak. You’ll hate Paul for what he’s done. Everyone said they were the perfect couple, always holding hands. They did everything together. But when you hear about their whispered arguments and the terrible lies they both told, you’ll be certain Paul is guilty. But everything you think you know is wrong. After all, behind closed doors every marriage has secrets. And some are deadlier than others.

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 is that Harriet is about to deliver the first ingredient in two new recipes (recipes for love and murder) and a whole basketful of challenges.

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.

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...

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...

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.

The earth never forgets. And some promises should never be kept. Frida Norrby has lived a long, quiet life near the ancient Roma church on Gotland. But when her husband, Helge, passes away, he leaves behind a burden heavier than grief: a secret buried decades ago in a field of stone. Bound by a...

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.

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.

A miracle is for sale. But the cost is paid in blood. For the elite clients of the Cheiron Clinic, the world-renowned fertility center is a place of hope and new beginnings. But behind the hospital's sterile, white walls, Detective Inspector Maria Wern discovers a much darker reality - one...

The past is a fire that never stops burning. At a desolate rest area in Kronviken, a woman's body is found - severely burned, unrecognizable, her identity erased by a melted blue cap. For Detective Inspector Maria Wern, it is a gruesome puzzle. For her colleague, Per Arvidsson, it is the...

'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...

In the digital age, your children are never truly home. When a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes on her way home from a school movie night, the illusion of safety in Kronviken is shattered. Her body is discovered the next morning in the frozen forest - a lifeless victim of a predator who lured...

'The ending of this suspenseful blend of scientific thriller and whodunit packs a real wallop.' - Publishers Weekly The panic is real. The cure is a lie. Gotland is known for its picturesque ruins and summer sun, but a shadow has fallen over the island. In this gripping seventh installment of...

Carlos was walking down the street minding his own business. It's something he tried very hard to do. Minding his own business, that is. That and staying under the radar. But what he saw, he couldn't ignore. A little girl was being dragged toward the open door of a van. The girl resisted. The kidnapper slapped her to the ground.

A ritualistic grave. A silent widow. A secret that refused to stay buried. Wilhelm Jacobsson was a man defined by his friction - a stubborn, fiercely independent farmer who spent his life at war with his neighbors. But when he vanishes without a trace from the Gotland ferry, his silence becomes...

The forest remembers. The caves never tell. And some secrets refuse to stay buried. At Katthamra Manor, the line between myth and reality is dangerously thin. In the forest of twisted trees, compasses fail, clocks stop, and the locals whisper of 'The Little People' who lure the unwary into the...