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He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him. What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will - one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future...

“My name is Abee Talent Normal. I live in the forest just outside of town in that house you thought was haunted.” Abee Normal gives up her dream of going to Princeton in order to stay home and care for her mother, Joanna, who has multiple sclerosis. Abee and her great-great-or-something-like-that-grandmother, Ma'am, travel around the United States investigating paranormal phenomena. Abee Normal is bright, funny, and hugely likable. Her Ma'am is...well, you'll just have to listen to find out. This case book is a collection of Abee and Ma'am's first six cases.

Well, Key West Normal is when two friends in need of a place to live drag away an abandoned hot dog truck in the middle of the night.... But an insomniac New Yorker has got himself trapped inside it while searching for his neurotic cat.... And the truck is the secret hub of a global smuggling operation and holds a stash worth millions.... But the tough guy sent to recover the fortune is way more interested in being reunited with his one true love.

Mardi Gras, the French Quarter. College-age women are turning up murdered, a new victim each night, and in this new series by number one best-selling and critically-acclaimed mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, Camille Grace, a rising star in the FBI’s BAU unit, must race to catch this diabolical killer—all while facing her demons in the one place she vowed to never return: the deep South.

Faites connaissance avec la famille Sandell. Le père, Adam, est un pasteur respecté dans la petite ville de Lund, en Suède. Sa femme, Ulrika est une brillante avocate. Leur fille, Stella, dix-neuf ans, s'apprête à quitter le foyer pour un road trip en Asie du Sud-Est. C'est une famille normale, une famille comme les autres. Et comme toutes les autres familles de la ville, les Sandell sont horrifiés quand un important homme d'affaires, Christopher Olsen est retrouvé assassiné.

Aba Abate è una donna normale. Suo marito Paolo, pubblicitario aspirante scrittore, è un uomo colto ma con scarso senso pratico. I suoi figli, Francesco e Cristina, sono adolescenti e, come tutti i ragazzi a quell'età, problematici e conflittuali. La sua unica vera amica sin dai tempi della scuola, Tiziana, ha una libreria e da single continua a cercare il grande amore. Aba si rivolge a lei in cerca di un aiuto per le aspirazioni di romanziere del marito. Aba fa di tutto per tenere unita la sua famiglia e i suoi affetti, ma non è sempre facile per via del suo vero lavoro.

"En realidad no sé cuál es el motivo de escribir este libro. Ni siquiera tengo la certeza de que llegue a manos de alguien. Lo único que tengo claro es que necesito contar esta historia. Me van a matar. Si os dijese que no tengo miedo os mentiría. Mi único consuelo es que sé que valdrá...

Adam y Ulrika, un matrimonio normal, viven con su hija Stella, de dieciocho años, en una zona agradable en las afueras de Lund. En apariencia, su vida es perfecta... hasta que un día dicha ilusión se trunca de raíz cuando Stella es arrestada por haber asesinado brutalmente a un hombre casi quince años mayor que ella. Su padre, un respetado pastor de la iglesia sueca, y su madre, una conocida abogada defensora criminal, deberán replantearse su paradigma ético mientras la defienden e intentan comprender por qué es la principal sospechosa del crimen.

Amber Pierce thought she'd planned the perfect family vacation. Seeking to mend the rift with her daughter, she books a camping retreat in the breathtaking Cascades . . . a trip that includes her ex-husband and his new wife. But hours into their first hike, the group takes a wrong turn. Days later, they're lost, hungry, dehydrated, and hope is fading.

Stan Turner is asked by the CIA to defend a woman accused of killing her alien husband and three children. What the CIA doesn't tell Stan is that the woman's husband isn't from Mexico but from another planet.

Russell Bricklin "Bric" Wahl and his girlfriend Karen Murphy are rich beyond their wildest dreams, but they have paid a price. After a faked drowning and new names, courtesy of the Witness Protection Program, they can travel all over the world and live the life of the rich and famous, but all they really want to do is go home. They know as long as they stay far from Key West they will be safe.

"Ho pensato ad Amina, la mia più cara amica. Durante tutti gli anni della nostra amicizia non ci era mai capitato di essere interessate allo stesso ragazzo. Però avevamo previsto che potesse succedere e ci eravamo promesse che nessuno ci avrebbe mai diviso. Ma stavolta era diverso, inaspettatamente strano. Era stata lei a vederlo per prima. Forse avrei dovuto farmi da parte, ma non ne ero capace. Non sapevo che le nostre vite sarebbero cambiate per sempre."

In this best-selling mystery series, FBI Special Agent Ilse Beck, victim of a traumatic childhood in Germany, moved to the US to become a renowned psychologist specializing in PTSD, and the world’s leading expert in the unique trauma of serial-killer survivors. By studying the psychology of their survivors, Ilse has a unique and unparalleled expertise in the true psychology of serial killers. Ilse never expected, though, to become an FBI agent herself. This killer is more deranged than Ilse could have imagined, but it’s up to her to figure out what his plan is—and why.

In the eighteen years since her father went to prison for killing her mother and brother, Della Stallings has battled a crippling phobia. Her fear only grows when her father’s released. She still believes he killed her family, but the police don’t have enough evidence to arrest him again. When new grisly murders occur - each bearing the telltale signs that seem to implicate her father - Della begins to wonder if the real murderer is still out there. Could her father have been framed?

Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest - and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away. After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father.

Diese stimmungsvoll-launige Kurzgeschichte führt den Hörer in Weihnachtstage von Simon Becketts Forensiker David Hunter, einige Jahre vor den Ereignissen von "Die Chemie des Todes". Natürlich gibt es auch einen Kriminalfall zu lösen, doch der ist - dem Fest angemessen - weniger blutig als sonst. Im Vordergrund steht aber David Hunter, seine Weihnachtsparty und eine Begegnung, die sein Leben verändern wird... Ein absolutes Muss für alle Hunter-Fans.

WAS IST SCHON NORMAL? Patrizia Fischers bipolare Welt gerät erneut aus den Fugen, als ihre Mutter ausgerechnet den Mann heiraten will, der sie jahrelang missbrauchte. Wieder setzt sie ihre Medikamente ab, steigt in die Achterbahn der Gefühle und ist PSYCHO-PAT, die Rachegöttin. Mit ihrem Bruder Alex crasht sie die Hochzeitsparty im ehrenwerten Haus der Familie Fischer und trifft Patrick. Mit ihm begann alles. Mit ihm wird es enden. Findet Pat den ersehnten Frieden oder stürzt sie für immer in die dunklen Abgründe ihrer zerrissenen Seele?