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For her husband’s 40th birthday, Lily Leonard books a table at the exclusive restaurant of Hector Bolson-Woods renowned celebrity chef. It should be the perfect evening for Lily and Stig, but not even a perfect menu can heal the cracks in the marriage. So when Hector invites them to dine with him privately, Lily is thrilled. Surely this will please Stig? Hector is charming and attentive – everything Stig is not – and she finds herself drawn more and more drawn to the enigmatic Hector.

Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget… Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die. Spooked, but not...

Six strangers. One invitation. A dinner no one will survive. Kelley Rowan is a high-end event planner who thrives on control. When an anonymous client hires her to coordinate an exclusive midnight murder mystery dinner in a secluded Upper East Side brownstone, she expects nothing more than an unusual job. But the guest list feels… intentional. One by one, the attendees arrive. Each receives a cryptic envelope. Each holds a secret they thought was buried. And as the night unfolds, it becomes clear this isn’t a game. The storm outside traps them inside. The power begins to fail.

A fatal accident during a Duluth blizzard is declared suspicious by Homicide Lieutenant Ernie Gramm in order to keep his people from having to do storm duty. The cops soon realize the made-up murder is the real thing. The motive may be revenge for an incident fifteen years earlier, but police consultant Milo Rathkey isn’t so sure. One thing everyone knows, freezing rain in Duluth in January can be deadly.

The internationally acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller, now in English “This rollercoaster of a novel is highly imaginative and totally unique. I devoured it — no pun intended! — in one sitting. By turns gory, shocking, macabre and often very funny, you won’t be able to put it down. Just...

Alte Freunde. Neue Lügen. Mörderische Wahrheit. Für ein Wiedersehen laden Jonathan und seine Verlobte Lotta die alte Freundesgruppe in ein abgelegenes Restaurant in der Eifel ein. Nur ein Platz bleibt leer: Vor fünf Jahren ist ihre Freundin Maria spurlos in der Nacht verschwunden. Um der alten Zeiten willen beginnen die Freunde ein Krimi-Dinner. Doch das Spiel verschmilzt rasch mit der Realität. Verstörende Erinnerungen kommen hoch und werfen Fragen auf: Wer lügt für seine Rolle, wer für sich selbst? Während draußen ein Sturm aufzieht, eskaliert das Spiel. Ist Maria noch am Leben?

Rochelle Hawthorne is good at gardening. She is good at everything. As she lifts a pointed shovel from the rack in the secluded garden center, she wonders if she’ll also be good at disposing of her husband’s dead body. All this time, Rochelle believed she was the one who was broken, her barren womb unable to hold a child, the only thing she’s ever wanted in life. Until she accidentally finds the crumpled and faded paperwork in her husband’s briefcase — the one that tells of a secret, a secret he’s hidden from her for eight years.

A group of old friends gather in a peaceful suburban street for a dinner party. They are expecting a fun evening of wine, food and pleasant company. But then they start to play the game… It’s about trust and dark secrets – it tests marriage to its limits – and none of them can begin to imagine its consequences. Because the next day, two guests are dead and the others are trapped in a nightmare.

Until the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers, but since surviving the downed helicopter, her nerves have been shot. Unwilling to submit to her anxiety, she goes back to work. The chef and owner of Paradise, an upscale restaurant in Berkeley’s so-called “Gourmet Ghetto,” is found on the floor of his own kitchen, poisoned by the soup he was seasoning.

It was the end of a Chicago era. Antonio "Tony Napoli" Sorrentino has finally closed his legendary restaurant in the heart of the West Loop. It has been a gathering place for prominent politicians, famous entertainers, renowned dignitaries, and, of course, well-known mobsters. Often dubbed the "Artie Bucco" of the Chicago Outfit, 87-year-old Tony Sorrentino has decided to close his celebrated restaurant after 57 years.