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There's trouble in paradise ... or is it murder? The third explosive Matt Standing thriller from the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series. The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said to have committed suicide in Thailand, red...

Fourteen long years have passed since Rain Dang's sister vanished without a trace. Now a seasoned detective, Rain is unexpectedly called back to the small town she once called home — not just to solve a murder, but to confront her past. As she delves into the investigation, the cold case of her sister's disappearance begins to heat up, intertwining with sinister secrets the town has long buried. But in a place where the waters run deep and the currents are treacherous, not everyone wants the truth to surface.

A young doctor gets caught up with the wrong woman and races to save lives and his career in this debut medical thriller. In a sleepy, small-town Arizona hospital, a thirteen-year-old boy lies in a coma after inexplicably suffering a cardiac arrest. His doctors are perplexed. Although emotionally disturbed Henry Rojelio was a frequent visitor to the emergency room—often for bouts of asthma, but usually just for attention—no one ever anticipated a battle with death.

Es ist kurz vor Weihnachten, als Hanna Ahlander, 34, von ihrem Chef dazu gedrängt wird, den Dienst bei der Stockholmer Polizei zu quittieren. Als wäre das nicht genug, verlässt sie auch ihr Freund. Das Ferienhaus ihrer Schwester in Åre, dem ältesten Alpingebiet Schwedens, kommt da gerade recht. Während Hanna noch ihre Wunden leckt, erreicht sie die Meldung über eine junge Frau, die nach einer Party spurlos verschwunden ist. Eine Suchaktion wird gestartet, bei minus 20 Grad zählt jede Minute.

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe...

After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it’s like to live with skeletons in your closet, and she’s sure Neve has a few of her own.

Keeping their search-and-rescue skills honed isn’t just a job requirement for FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk—it’s essential to saving lives. A water search training weekend in the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota has attracted participants from all levels of law enforcement, each vying to win. The races are challenging, the rivalry is intense, and Meg is already under pressure when Hawk alerts to a scent in the water—and discovers the fresh body of one of Meg’s fellow competitors.

“A killer of a thriller with a wonderfully human, perfectly rendered heroine at its center….A terrific read.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and The Given Day “First-rate crime fiction.” —Washington Post (a Best Book of the Year) The raves keep pouring in for #1 New York...

Since the disbanding of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, J. P. Beaumont’s biggest concern is pondering whether he and his wife Mel should finally get a dog. But one voicemail from his old friend Ralph Ames is about to change that. Through Ralph, Beau has become involved in an...

Eine kontrollsüchtige Mutter, eine Tochter, die den Druck nicht mehr aushält … und ein Bedürfnis nach Rache, das gestillt werden muss. Es ist ein schmaler Grat, der ein scheinbar normales Leben vom Abgrund trennt. Sabine kann sie nicht mehr ertragen: ihre Mutter, die sie ständig überwacht und die ihr, schon seit sie ein kleines Mädchen war, vorschreibt, was sie zu tun, zu fühlen, zu denken hat. Und die auch ihre erwachsene Tochter nicht loslassen will. Bis Sabine nur noch einen einzigen Ausweg sieht: Sie muss sich befreien. Ihre Mutter muss sterben.

Packender Krimi mit überraschendem Ende! Wohin geht man, wenn man nichts mehr hat? An welchen Ort kann man fliehen, wenn nichts um einen herum mehr sicher scheint, wenn alles zusammenbricht? Marcus Mathei flieht in das Dorf seiner Kindheit, in ein kleines Nest mitten in der Eifel, in dem sein Vater, der Dorfarzt, sich vor Jahren das Leben genommen hat. Mit ihm hält auch der Tod Einzug in der kleinen Ortschaft, die unter der Gluthitze des Sommers stöhnt. Eine übel zugerichtete Leiche wird gefunden, und es hat den Anschein, als würde dies nicht der einzige Tote bleiben.

Eleanor Harvey is being victimized at every turn. Sergeant Richard Marshall, or “Dick” as he is known by his friends, is a detective for the Boston Police Department. A survivor of a traumatic childhood, Dick hides his dark past by diving headfirst into his work. He has one stipulation, though; he will not work with a woman. Unfortunately, his new partner is a woman. As the monster is revealed, everything you thought you knew from Eleanor’s story will be turned on its head.

An expert falconer is shot in the back in the wilds of West Virginia. The police believe he was the victim of a hunting accident, but PI Frank Pavlicek, a falconer himself, isn’t buying the story. Beatings, bombings, warnings from the FBI, and the arrest of his best friend on trumped-up charges only strengthen Pavlicek’s resolve to follow a bloody trail of lies and corpses that leads to a chilling terrorist conspiracy.