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Recht oder Gerechtigkeit – der neue Nr. 1-Bestseller von Nele Neuhaus. Hinter einem Marienaltar im Feld bei Schwalbach wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Der Körper ist mit einer Eisschicht überzogen, nachts hatten Temperaturen um die -10° C geherrscht. Die 16-jährige Larissa Jansen wurde erdrosselt. Pia Sander und Oliver von Bodenstein nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Durch eine DNA-Analyse gerät Farwad M. unter Mordverdacht, ein abgelehnter afghanischer Asylbewerber, der erst kürzlich zu fünf Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde.

Five years removed from a life as an apprentice to a group of heroes who battled supernatural evils, the once-promising student Janzen Robinson has become a package courier. He now works the daily grind, passing time at a hole-in-the-wall bar and living in a tiny run-down apartment on the south side of Cleveland, Ohio. Then from the ancient recesses of unyielding darkness known as the Abyss, a creature has been summoned: a Stalker, a predator whose real name must never be spoken. It's a bastardization of the natural order, a formidable blend of dark magic and primal tenacity.

A trip to the grocery store changed my life. That's where I bumped into my "straight" coworker and good friend, Jake Perez. I decided to invite him to my book club night, not realizing the chain of events that invite would kick off. Immediately our chemistry became too explosive, making our friendship and work relationship complicated. That same night, a bloody package addressed to me lands on my doorstep. Falling for Jake was never in the plans—then again neither was being targeted by a dangerous stalker. This was going to be interesting.

No one in Lochdubh expects Dorothy to stay for long... She is, after all, entirely unsuitable. She's an uptown girl, used to a fancy lifestyle in the big city of Glasgow. She'll never fit in. And how is that work-shy rogue Hamish Macbeth supposed to get anything done when his new assistant is...

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. So when Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a race against time to find out whether the monster is real or imagined. Little does she know that her story is going to lead her down a rabbit hole that will bring a monster right to her front door.

In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. A terrifying new thriller from Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of The Shining Girls. Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide...

Hannah Miles navigates the etiquette of monster hunting through the parlours of a magical Regency England. This collection contains: Manners and Monsters, Galvanism and Ghouls, and Gossip and Gorgons.

A flying monster bedevils Morgan Carter in the latest intriguing entry of this USA Today bestselling mystery series. Morgan, along with her boyfriend/new partner Jon, is called to Washington Island off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, to investigate a particularly baffling mystery. A man’s...

Alchemist Zoe Faust is no stranger to magical mayhem, but when her boyfriend's new tea shop is vandalized and his special tea blends stolen, she plunges into a baffling mystery to save him. The clues lead Zoe and her gargoyle sidekick Dorian to an eerie mansion high in the Portland hills, filled with creeping carnivorous plants and enigmatic topiary monsters. When they stumble across a corpse in the conservatory that appears to have been killed by sinister shrubbery, an estranged member of the family is implicated in the murder.

Brought to you by Penguin. Some mother-in-laws are hard. This one might be murder. Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. It’s not just a case of them rubbing each other up the wrong way – there is definitely something suspicious going on. But Miyako isn’t exactly what she seems...

Twenty-four hours after he walked away from court a free man, cop killer and gang leader Simon Talbot is found murdered. In his possession: the name of a protected witness from his trial. For DI Hannah Robbins, it's a race against time to find Talbot's killer and locate the bystander before it's too late. But as Hannah delves deeper into the past, she begins to question the integrity of the whole operation. Where do you turn when you can't trust the police?

Within the confines of Johnny's mind comes a twin sister named Joanny. Between the two of them, they go on a killing spree to right a wrong they felt. Will they get caught, killed, or escape?

Benton Bertrand is a banshee, cursed with the ability to sense death. Every time he sleeps, he becomes a trapped passenger within a murderer’s skin: able to hear, see, and feel every part of their kill. No matter how hard he tries, it always ends the same way - with death.

Beaten, bloodied, and barely alive, the survivors of Black River’s cursed families have been cut off from their bloodlines for violating old traditions. But they continue their battle to end the evil of the Bell Witch and release the town from her reign of terror. Pursued by the witch’s minions, the group takes shelter in the Leviathan, an abandoned opera house built a century ago. Its corridors exude supernatural power, and they soon discover that the haunted old building was designed for a very special purpose...to trap the Bell Witch within its walls.

Quinn: After Rowan and I escape Mercer’s hold, we have to get the pack somewhere safe, but my only option is a pride run by a controlling alpha. With everyone safely inside the walls of Winterhaven, Rowan and I attempt to search for the truth, but we’re being hunted and driven further from the answers we need. I want to do everything to protect my mate, but as I learn more about his past, I realize that I might need to protect him from more than just Mercer.

Børnepsykologen Alex Delaware bliver endnu engang bedt om at hjælpe politiet i deres jagt på en forskruet seriemorder, der hærger Los Angeles' gader. Efterforskningen fører Delaware og efterforskeren Sturgis til et fængsel for psykisk syge kriminelle. Seriemorderen, der stadig terroriserer byen, myrder efter et mønster, der minder om en af de indsattes fremgangsmåde i de forbrydelser, han sidder i fængsel for.

Without the threat of the Witch’s bloody harvest, the family elders have fallen into chaos. Internal squabbling has left them blind to this new enemy in their midst. Local legends have barely begun to fade when a group of tourists go missing. Some say the Witch has returned. But Basheba, Mina, and the others believe it could be something even worse. As the survivors dig deeper, they discover that one of their own may have been corrupted by an ancient evil - a power greater than anything they have faced before. But is the Bell Witch behind all this?

Luna Thorn’s past is a mystery...even to herself. She arrived in Detroit amid a swirl of lights and magic. She had no memory of where she came from. No idea why she was there. Years later, she’s established herself as a force to be reckoned with on the Detroit magical scene. She ingratiated herself with the local reapers. She set up a community called the Cathedral to help those who had been displaced from their homes and families, declaring that nobody would fall through the cracks. Still, doubt remains.

Als die Wildnisführerin Harper Ward in das Büro des Sheriffs der Kleinstadt Helena Springs in Montana gerufen wird, um bei einem Fall zu helfen, erfährt sie, dass der einzige Verdächtige in einem Doppelmordfall ein Mann ist, der als wild und unzivilisiert beschrieben wird. Während immer mehr dunkle Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen, wird Harper in ein Netz aus Intrigen und Bedrohungen verstrickt, das weit über alles hinausgeht, was sie sich je hätte vorstellen können.

The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Alex Delaware faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict...