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When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London’s busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and the guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire between a tech-savvy terrorist cell and a revenge-seeking...

Old Harms, New Threats When the decapitated ghost of a witch hires The Porter Agency to find her murderer, Max and the gang are thrown into the middle of the raging witch war. An ancient spell built on a puzzle, blood, and the heads of enemies leaves no room for error, and there are more...

Twenty years ago seven students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the number-one bestselling author of Man and Boy. Emma Moon is out. She’s served 16 years for a notorious armed robbery that left two men dead – and enriched many more...

Zimbabwe, 1981. An airliner crashes killing nearly everyone on board. Among a handful of survivors, former Special Branch officer Max Seager quickly realises that it was no accident—and that no one can be left alive. But as the army patrol dispatched to complete the massacre soon learns to its cost, Max was no ordinary policeman.

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Max Ringo was once a courtroom star at an elite law firm. Then a car accident left her addicted to painkillers, and her life dissolved into shambles. Now fresh out of rehab and making a comeback as a mediator, she gets her shot at redemption when she is appointed to handle a high-stakes divorce. But as Max begins negotiations between the two notorious power players, the trap is already sprung. The husband kidnaps her teenage son, Nathan, and gives her a chilling ultimatum: settle the case on his terms…or the boy dies.

Vicar Max Tudor, reveling in his new-found personal happiness with Awena Owen, feels that life at the moment holds no greater challenge than writing his Easter sermon. With Awena away, he looks forward to a dinner that includes newcomers to the village like West End dramatist Thaddeus Bottle and his downtrodden wife Melinda. But when one of the dinner guests is found dead in the pre-dawn hours, Max knows a poisonous atmosphere has once again enveloped his perfect village of Nether Monkslip.

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...

The end of civilisation, as Peter Maxwell knows it, is just around the corner. It comes in the form of Fiona Braymarr, the new superhead. She is a new broom, and she sweeps good people along the way. And the odd thing about her? She has no past. And within days of her arrival, two local women have no future; one is found dead in a car showroom, the other is stabbed at the foot of her own stairs. Two murders so closely linked in time and space must surely be connected.

Zane Holden, the founder of Stonewall Investigations, has been haunted by the same case for years. He's had loved ones taken by the serial killer known as the Unicorn, and his drive to find the monster is higher than ever. Finally, he feels like he's getting close. Something else that's getting closer? His wedding day to the man of his dreams. Lorenzo De Luca found the love of his life in Zane. He's the happiest he's ever been. His career as a high-powered defense attorney is at a peak, and his daydreams are filled with wedding bells and honeymooning.

Attorney Max Ringo fought her way back from drug addiction to reclaim her career—and the son she nearly lost. Now the past returns with an impossible demand. Max’s former best friend, Judge Caroline Parker, has been arrested for murdering her secret lover, a decorated general deep in Huntsville, Alabama’s defense contracting world. Cornered and desperate, Caroline blackmails Max into defending her, dangling secrets that would bring them both down.

Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter “Mad Max” Maxwell finds himself facing yet another year at Leighford High School. His wife, Jacquie, is further annoyed when a family holiday quickly becomes an impromptu Year Seven trip to the Isle of Wight. The situation takes another turn for the worse when the wife of Tom Medlicott, the new Head of Art, goes missing.

When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle Madison’s life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next is unthinkable. Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister, Melanie. Six months later, the family is a shadow of its former self: Melanie...

The Truth Doesn't Always Set You Free. In 1987, the dirty war that will last twelve years and kill thirty thousand Peruvians finally reaches up through the Andean cloud forest for Nina and her family. Nina's father is shot by soldiers, her mother raped, and her brother lost to the shadowy ranks of Shining Path guerrillas. And when Agustín Malqui, the village pastor, files a legal complaint against the military, it's no surprise when he disappears in the middle of the night - just another casualty of the military regime.

Seine Zeit beim KK 11 in Düsseldorf ist Geschichte. Jetzt fängt Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff an der Polizeihochschule in Köln neu an. Bildet die aus, die so gut werden wollen wie er. Aber die Fälle finden ihn trotzdem. Als ihn der Vater der seit sechs Jahren verschwundenen Leni Benz um Hilfe bittet, will Max sofort ablehnen. Aber er merkt, dass er es nicht kann. Zu viele Fragen sind ungeklärt im Fall der Grundschülerin, die auf dem Schulweg verschwand und nie mehr gesehen wurde.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hostages introduces Maxine “Max” Walters, whose background and world experiences make her the perfect CIA analyst to work with the operations side of the CIA on special missions. Growing up as a military dependent and having traveled extensively...

Der Anruf kommt unerwartet. Eine Ex-Kollegin bittet Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff um Hilfe. Ihr Neffe wurde des Mordes beschuldigt und hat sich daraufhin das Leben genommen. Mit 22. Ein Schuldeingeständnis? Oder die Tat eines Verzweifelten? Max sichtet die Fakten, die Beweislast ist erdrückend, aber nichts passt zusammen. Kein Motiv, vollkommene Willkür. Und dann die vage Verbindung zu einem anderen Fall. Ist das der Durchbruch? Max Bischoff lässt nicht locker, aber das Finden des Mörders wird zu einer unerträglichen Herausforderung, die ihn bis an seine Grenzen bringt.

Fresh out of school, Dr. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters. As Max weaves himself into Crane's life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins?