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When the rules turn deadly, winning is everything. Only available from Audible, a gripping psychological thriller from the author of Silent Child, Saving April, and The Broken Ones. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell and Paula Hawkins. The perfect couple. The perfect marriage. The perfect game. Effie and Ben May have everything. Success. Beauty. Glamour. But beneath the charming smiles and expensive clothes, a twisted game is in progress. A game for which only they know the rules.

Kimera Davis finds comfort in dating married men. It's easier that way. Her needs are taken care of, and she doesn't have to give more of herself than she wants to. No messy feelings involved. But when the man she's seeing poses an unexpected question, Kimera quickly realizes she's not the only woman pulled in by his charm. Their new arrangement doesn't require much from Kimera, but she soon discovers someone else is pulling the strings. She's not looking for complications, yet she can't help feeling there's something devious at play.

While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. And why. Against his better judgment, Charlie takes the case—and when bodies are discovered, he suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim?

When Susie stumbles upon an old, unmarked game at a dusty retro shop, she never expects it to change her life—literally. At first, it seems like a twisted version of The Sims, allowing her to create and control digital people. But as she plays, the lines between reality and the game begin to blur. The characters she creates aren't just self-aware. They're real and when they suffer, they feel it.

Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4 The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten...

Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss 'Achingly tense scenes... and a masterpiece of a climax' Radio Times The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had...

Wenn der Spieleinsatz dein Leben ist, zählt nur noch eins: gewinnen.Ein fesselnder Psychothriller von der Autorin von Silent Child (Silent Child. Nur dein Kind kennt die Wahrheit), Saving April und The Broken Ones. Perfekt für Fans von Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell und Paula Hawkins. Bei diesem spannenden Hörbuch sprechen Alice Dwyer als Effie und Sabin Tambrea als Ben. Das perfekte Paar. Die perfekte Ehe. Das perfekte Spiel. Effie und Ben May haben alles. Sie sind erfolgreich, schön und glamourös.

Musik ist ihr Leben. 15 Songs entscheiden, wie lange es noch geht. Vor einem Monat verschwand die 15-jährige Feline Jagow spurlos auf dem Weg zur Schule. Von ihrer Mutter beauftragt stößt Privatermittler Alexander Zorbach auf einen Musikdienst im Internet, über den Feline immer ihre Lieblingssongs hörte. Das Erstaunliche: Vor wenigen Tagen wurde die Playlist verändert. Steckt in der Auswahl der Songs ein versteckter Hinweis auf Felines Entführer und den Ort, wohin sie verschleppt wurde? Fieberhaft versucht Zorbach das Rätsel der Playlist zu entschlüsseln.

On a stormy Chicago night, renowned semiotician Dr. Evan Wilding and his brother, River, who’s back from an archaeological dig, reunite in a mystery. A package addressed to both of them contains a hand-drawn maze, an ancient Cretan coin, and a cryptic greeting: Let the game begin. The opening move is murder. In a downtown alley, a man has been found nearly cleaved in two, a symbol drawn on his forehead and a savage rip in his throat. Given the clues, Evan sees a parallel to a fearsome Greek myth. Which means his friend Detective Addie Bisset is on the trail of a legendary flesh-eating monster.

A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files...

Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and The Butcher Game, comes a chilling, "Good for Her" revenge thriller that paints a searing picture of friendship, justice, and vengeance, both imagined and actualized, that will leave you questioning how far would you go to avenge your friend? Four friends...

A prequel to the horrifying tale of Play the Monster, this tale is about Maria. A young fitness influencer who wakes up in a horror maze being hunted down by an animatronic cat. Her and the other players called "Mice" must evade the killer cat for seven days. Can she make it? Only time will tell as each floor is a new horror in this multi-level maze of madness.

Addison is no stranger to life-and-death situations. She has seen her share of trauma as a critical care nurse, yet nothing could have prepared her for the cryptic words whispered by her John Doe patient just moments before he went into cardiac arrest. Exhausted and emotionally drained, she feels a strong pull toward his personal belongings, and with no family to claim them, she decides to take them home in search of answers.

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Since her husband's murder two years earlier, life hasn't been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She's selling her house and delving into new experiences, like learning trapeze.Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention where he served time for killing his abusive father.

When a copy-cat killer arrives in the small New England town of Edgeport, criminal psychologist Audrey Harte must use all her skill to solve the case. Audrey has been hired by the prosecution to help prepare for the trial of 19-year-old serial killer Ian "Boy Scout" Monroe. His one surviving...

Feline Jagow, 15 ans, s'évanouit sans laisser de traces sur le chemin de l'école. Alexander Zorbach, le détective privé chargé de la retrouver, tombe sur sa playlist. Et découvre que les titres préférés de la jeune fille ont été modifiés peu de temps avant son enlèvement. Ces chansons contiendraient-elles un message caché ? En les écoutant, Zorbach, lui-même hanté par la disparition d'un enfant, parviendra-t-il à découvrir où elle a été emmenée et, surtout, comment la sortir des griffes de son ravisseur?

Betty Rose Milenski dreams of Broadway. Talented, ambitious, and obsessed, she was the biggest fish in college. But New York is a harsh wake-up. Unemployed and ignored, she faces a career as cocktail waitress instead of on the stage. And the clock is ticking. She jumps at an internship at the country’s most famous summer stock playhouse, in spite of its bizarre, all-controlling reputation. There, she joins a family of eccentric and endearing fellow actors and bonafide stars, lorded over by the benevolent dictator Rex Terrell.

Some events in your life make a deep impact and make you rethink about what is going on. This book makes one wonder about what must be chosen between frustration and death. For all those who have faced the ups and downs of life, this motivational thriller will change your perspective forever!

After a fall off the bluff behind her house, 40-year-old pregnant Jude Black descends into a coma, confined to a hospital room. The identity of her child's father and the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy remain a mystery. As the play unfolds, the families of her best friend and her nurse unexpectedly collide, forcing them to uncover the festering secrets that bind them all. Yet, even in this twilight state, she comes to grips with the failures and traumas of her life that led her to attempt suicide.