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'One of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world' - Lee Child Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns to finally reveal the events of Roy Grace’s tortured past – the truth behind his wife’s...

Twenty years ago, Tatia was adopted into a well-off home where she seemed happy, settled. Then the youngest boy in the family dies in an accident, and she gets the blame. Did she do it? Tatia is cast out, away from her remaining adopted siblings Joel and Poppy. Now she yearns for a home to call her own. So when she see families going on holiday, leaving their beautiful homes empty, there seems no harm in living their lives while they are gone. But somehow, people keep ending up dead. Did she kill them?

A serendipitous crossing of paths between Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck job seeker, and Julie Forman, a personal trainer to an Olympic hopeful, forever changes the course of both women's lives. One winds up dead, and the other finds herself a fugitive, hiding behind lies as a cold-blooded killer methodically hunts her. Desperately trying to stay alive, the terrified woman enlists the help of Forensic Instincts, a rogue investigative team that clandestinely operates in the gray area between legal and illegal.

Five years on from the adrenaline-fueled days of the Cold Case Squad, PI Martina Monroe is now a managing partner at the renowned, Drakos Monroe Security & Investigations. She spends her days running the firm—a safe desk job—allowing her to spend more time with her sixteen-year-old daughter and less time in the line of fire. But her quiet life shatters when a meeting with the desperate parents of Katie Kimble, a young woman missing for two years, pulls her back into the fray.

When Brynn realizes she is being stalked, no one comes to mind as a suspect. But as her safety becomes threatened, her anxiety heightens. Without a name to look into, the police aren't able to open an investigation, causing Brynn to become uneasy everywhere, including her own home. But just as her suspicions arise, her stalker sets his long-awaited plan in motion, and Brynn is left to escape a dangerous future she never saw coming.

Después del éxito arrollador de El día que se perdió la cordura, Javier Castillo regresa con una nueva novela, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, que explora los límites del amor. Adictiva, trepidante y absorbente, El día que se perdió el amor es una inyección de adrenalina, una experiencia única para escuchar, un thriller diferente y adictivo que da continuidad al fenómeno editorial del año.

When attorney Elizabeth English and her husband, Paul, catch up to their energetic sons at the end of their hike, they expect to find the two boys waiting by their car. It’s been only minutes since Henry and Nick bolted ahead. But when Elizabeth and Paul emerge from the trail, Henry is gone, and all Nick says is that he saw a lone truck leaving the lot shortly after Henry went to the bathroom. Gritty park ranger Hollis Monroe launches a massive search and teams up with a local detective to investigate the possibility that Henry was kidnapped.

Ein Kind verschwindet, eine Stadt steht am Abgrund – Chris Whitakers gefeiertes Debüt. Tall Oaks ist eine perfekte kalifornische Kleinstadt. Jeder kennt jeden und das Böse ist hier unbekannt. Die idyllische Fassade bekommt gefährliche Risse, als der dreijährige Harry Monroe eines Nachts aus seinem Bettchen entführt wird. Trotz des riesigen Medienrummels und der verbissenen Polizeiarbeit bleibt sein spurloses Verschwinden ein Rätsel.

A State Department diplomat must confront the ghosts of her past as she searches for a missing American woman in New Zealand in this pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller. Lake Harlowe may not appear to be your typical State Department diplomat. With the number of skeletons in her closet...

May 2024: When an Iranian helicopter carrying the president crashes near the Azerbaijan border, the official story blames pilot error. But someone’s lying—and ex-CIA operative Michael Wolfe is about to find out why. Pulled back into the shadows by the suspicious death of a former colleague, Wolfe uncovers a hidden list locked in a bank vault. A list of names that includes his... and his wife’s.

Der zweite Fall der Polizeireporterin Gianna Pitti am malerisch-mörderischen Gardasee. Eine unbekannte Frauenleiche, ein Entführungsversuch und geheime Schriften Winston Churchills, die womöglich die Weltgeschichte verändern: Gianna und ihre Familie verstricken sich erneut in brisante Ermittlungen. Die junge Journalistin Gianna Pitti soll auf Bitten ihres Vaters Arnaldo, der zurück am See ist, einen Informanten am Ostufer treffen. Da scheint niemand zu sein. Doch dann sieht sie etwas im Wasser liegen. Eine Frauenleiche!

A young woman is reunited with the famous father she never knew at a secluded lakeside community hiding nightmarish secrets in this immersive modern-day gothic for listeners of psychological suspense by Mary Kubica, Shari Lapena, and Megan Miranda.

When Chloe Macbeth begins to receive threatening letters, she has no doubt who is behind them: David Jarrett, languishing in jail for the murder of his adoptive parents. Jarrett is convinced that Chloe--out on parole following a conviction for GBH--is the real killer. But have the previous crimes in Jarrett’s past finally caught up with him? When a local businessman is stabbed to death in a street altercation, DCI Grace Swan and DS Terry Horton find themselves pitted against the most dangerous criminal they have ever encountered: the Mannikin Killer.

Twenty years after a murder, the convicted man walks free. His supporters claim a victory for justice, but for the murdered man’s friends, life implodes. Old lies resurface, and new questions haunt them. What really happened back then, in the student house they all shared? The house where Ben died? Anna was one of the victim’s housemates, back when they were students. Now she is a vicar, but back then she did media studies. When the case opens up again she finds all her old student films in the loft - films about her housemates - and she watches them with new eyes.

Some stories are all about the crime. These stories are about the maelstrom of what happens afterward. A hard-bitten crew of professional thieves pull of the score of their lives, coming away with millions in cash, enough to change their lives, make new identities, start fresh. But that's when the real trouble begins. In this linked anthology, we follow each member of the crew of culprits after the heist and watch as this perfect score ends up a perfect nightmare.

Nat lives a picture-perfect life, but it wasn’t always this way. A victim of horrific bullying when she was a teenager, she will do anything to keep distance between the girl she was before and the woman she is now. But when her best friend is murdered and people begin to point their finger at her, Nat’s new life quickly unravels.

Tod durch einen Sturz aus großer Höhe: Als erfahrene Pathologie-Assistentin weiß Cassie Raven, was sie erwartet, als sie den Leichensack öffnet. Trotzdem ist sie fassungslos, sobald sie die Tote sieht. Es gibt eine Abschieds-SMS, die nahelegt, dass Bronte mit dem Erfolgsdruck nicht umgehen konnte. Als dann auch noch DS Phyllida Flyte in den Fall verwickelt wird, die ebenfalls Zweifel hat, braucht Cassie gute Nerven und ihre besondere Gabe.

Am helllichten Tag wird die einjährige Lea aus dem heimischen Garten entführt. Die Polizei sucht fieberhaft nach dem verschwundenen Mädchen, muss die Suche aber ergebnislos einstellen. Doch Katie, ihre Mutter, fühlt in ihrem tiefsten Inneren, dass ihr Kind noch lebt. Ausgerechnet an dem Tag, an dem die Entführung sich wieder jährt, wird ihre Schwester Maren tot aufgefunden. Die Polizei geht von Selbstmord aus. Aber Katie ist der festen Überzeugung, dass jemand ihre Schwester getötet hat. Kurzerhand reist sie zu Marens letztem Wohnort nach Berlin.

Eine Mordserie an älteren, pflegebedürftigen Männern hält die finnische Kleinstadt Pori in Atem. Als Kommissar Jari Paloviita eine SS-Uniform in der Wohnung eines der Mordopfer findet, nehmen die Ermittlungen eine unerwartete Wendung. Es stellt sich heraus, dass einer der Ermordeten in den 40er Jahren freiwillig an der Seite der Deutschen gekämpft hat.

Spannend bis zur letzten Seite: der neue Tracy-Crosswhite-Fall des internationalen Bestsellerautors Robert Dugoni. Manche Dinge sind zu schrecklich, um sie zu vergessen; andere zu schmerzhaft, um sich an sie zu erinnern. Vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren verschwand die Reporterin Lisa Childress in einer dunklen Nacht nahe dem Hafen von Seattle spurlos. Ihre Tochter ist noch immer im Unklaren darüber, was damals wirklich geschah. Hat ihr Vater ihre Mutter umgebracht, was die Polizei nie beweisen konnte? Sie wendet sich an Detective Tracy Crosswhite, Spezialistin für Cold Cases.