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FBI Special Agent Kim Otto is hot on Jack Reacher’s trail as he speeds away from Chicago. Since Reacher hooked up with escaped car thief Petey Burns in South Dakota, he’s had a steady ride. Destination unknown, but traceable. Otto’s manhunt is derailed when she learns Jack Reacher’s nephew is in trouble. Jake and his mother have disappeared, leaving a dead man behind.

Who is the criminal known only as "The Beast?" Too baffling for the police to solve, it becomes a manhunt in which detective Race Williams must track down "the most feared, the cunningest and cruelest creature that stalks the city streets at night." But it will soon become Race's most dangerous case as he tries to stay alive. One of the longest and best of the dozens of Race Williams adventures.

Van Harder, once a hard drinker, has found religion. But that doesn't keep folks from saying he murdered his employer, Hub Lawless, whose body hasn't been found. To clear his name, and clear up the mystery, Van asks friend-in-need Travis McGee to find out what really happened. What McGee finds is that Timber Bay is a tough town to get a break in when you're a stranger asking questions. But what he also finds is that, dead or alive, Hub Lawless is worth a lot of money.

USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes brings you southern and quirky characters in her mystery series. Her stories are charged with humor, friendship, family, and life in small southern towns. Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where NOTHING is normal.

Something evil is lurking beneath the waters of Mechant Loup, and it’s up to Clint Wolf to figure out what it is. In broad daylight on a calm, sunny day in August, a young college student suddenly disappears in Le Diable Lake and never resurfaces. Despite a desperate search by her boyfriend, she is not found. While en route to the scene of the disappearance, Clint Wolf and Officer Melvin Saltzman make a grim discovery that is seemingly unrelated to the initial report.

Da en 19-årig dreng, Jamie Mills, bliver fundet hængt i et træ i en lokal park, bliver hans død erklæret et selvmord. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stones mavefornemmelse siger hende, at der er noget galt. I forsøget på at opklare denne foruroligende sag følger Kim spor, der fører hende ind bag de gamle victorianske mure på klinikken, som drives af familien Gardner. Så bliver liget af en ung kvinde fundet. Hun er blevet kvalt, og hendes død er også iscenesat, så det ligner et selvmord.

El cambio transformará su vida... O supondrá su muerte. Cuando Jamie Mills, un chico de diecinueve años, aparece colgado de un árbol en un parque local, se determina que su muerte ha sido un suicidio. Tras un caso desgarrador que dejó su cuerpo y mente destrozados, la inspectora Kim Stone debería reincorporarse al trabajo de manera gradual, pero siente que algo en este caso no encaja, y cuando descubre que los padres de Jamie lo enviaron a una clínica para "curar" su homosexualidad, rápidamente toma las riendas de su equipo.

Broken Promises: When a woman suddenly shows up on their doorstep demanding her daughter back, Marcus and Charlotte O'Connell find themselves in a heart-wrenching tug of war. Having adopted Eva while Reine served her time, they never anticipated the emotional turmoil that would ensue. As secrets and lies collide, the O'Connells are forced to question what truly matters. This NY Times and USA Today best-selling novel by Lorhainne Eckhart explores the essence of family, love, and the weight of deep-seated secrets.

Wer diesen Anhalter mitnimmt, sollte nichts Böses im Schilde führen... Jack Reacher bemühte sich, harmlos auszusehen, was ihm mit seiner großen, massigen Gestalt und der gebrochenen Nase nicht leicht fiel. Umso dankbarer war er, als endlich ein Auto anhielt, um ihn mitzunehmen. Die Frau und die beiden Männer im Wagen waren Kollegen - zumindest vermutete Reacher das. Er wusste nichts von ihrer Verwicklung in den Mord, der nicht weit entfernt verübt worden war.

Abandonnée par son mari, Lisa Trammel n'a soudain plus assez d'argent pour payer ses mensualités d'emprunt immobilier, et la Westland National Bank menace de saisir sa maison. Affolée, elle engage l'avocat Mickey Haller mais elle est si révoltée par les saisies liées à la crise des subprimes qu'elle manifeste souvent et violemment devant la banque au point de s'en voir interdire l'accès par la justice. Malheureusement pour Haller qui espérait gagner du temps en faisant traîner la procédure, le dossier se corse quand sa cliente est accusée du meurtre de Mitchell Bondurant, un cadre dirigeant de la Westland retrouvé mort dans le parking de son agence.

An einem brütend heißen Sommertag wird Tobias Engelhardt von seiner Haushälterin tot in der eigenen Küche aufgefunden–ermordet mit zahlreichen Messerstichen, die auf ein Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft hinweisen. Sieglinde Becker ruft die Polizei, will aber auch unbedingt mit ihrem alten Freund Torge Trulsen sprechen. Der Hobbyermittler steht nach wie vor unter Schock wegen des Mordverdachts gegen ihn, der erst wenige Wochen zurückliegt, und verweigert seine Unterstützung.

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first love Shelby Dunston attends a public reading by a psychic medium with the hope of connecting with her grandfather one final time. Instead, she hears McKenzie’s name spoken by the psychic in connection with a huge sum of stolen - and missing - money.