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From the bestselling author of Devil's Breath, Jill Johnson is back with another gripping Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery... Betrayal is a bitter poison . . . After a nerve-racking investigation, Professor Eustacia Rose's life is returning to normal. She is finally back teaching at UCL and her...

When Chief Fox turns into an animal during a moment of passion—and I mean that literally—I'm desperate to restore him to his human form. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue how to make it happen. It doesn't help that I'm trying to hide my relationship with him. Let's face it, keeping a secret from my family is like walking a tightrope made of vipers. With Deputy Guthrie in charge of law enforcement and the chief unable to do anything except look adorable, my hands are full trying to keep the chief's secret and solve this supernatural puzzle.

Torben Helle - art historian, Danish ex-pat and owner of several Scandinavian jumpers - finds himself dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a ten-year reunion with old university friends. At the dinner table their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations. And when these are followed by an apparent suicide, the group faces a test of their wits...and their trust. Snowed in and cut off, surrounded by enigmatic housekeepers and off-duty police inspectors, not to mention a peculiar last will and testament, suspicion quickly turns to panic.

May 1381.The Great Revolt draws ever nearer. The Upright Men openly roam the streets of London, waiting for the violence to begin. Their mysterious envoy, the Herald of Hell, appears at night, terrifying those who oppose them. But who is he? When his chancery clerk is found hanged in a notorious Southwark brothel, Brother Athelstan is summoned to investigate. In the dead man's possession was a manuscript containing a great secret which he had been striving to decipher. Can he crack the code before the Great Revolt begins?

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realises that her sister isn’t avoiding her...she has disappeared. As she confronts Ísafold’s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Björn, and begins to probe her sister’s reclusive neighbours, Áróra is led into an ever-darker web of intrigue and manipulation.

Rose Gardner feels responsible for the death of a woman she tried - and failed - to save with her visions, and though she intends to do the “right” thing and tell James Malcolm she can’t possibly accept his offer of a relationship, she hasn’t yet mustered the strength. Worst of all, her sister is terminally ill, and there isn’t a thing she can do to save her. When a new case falls into Rose’s lap, she eagerly shifts her attention to someone else’s problems - except it’s Henryetta, and every person, and problem, is somehow connected.

Meet Sam Strait, the Flip-Flop Detective. He’s a former deputy who spends his life chasing the sun. Unfortunately for Sam, he keeps finding trouble wherever he goes. You’ll get the first, second, and third books in this digital collection. Strait Over Tackle: Sam returns home for the summer and finds a dead woman. He’s quickly embroiled in a mystery. Strait to Hell: Sam heads to Arizona for the winter. The murder of an acquaintance leads him to California in search of a killer. Strait Out of Nowhere: Sam is back home and in trouble again. He’s helping a woman accused of murder clear her name.

Ein atmosphärischer, wendungsreicher und preisgekrönter Australien-Thriller: Im Sommer 1999 verschwand Mina McCreerys Zwillingsschwester spurlos in den Weiten Australiens. Der Fall ging durch alle Medien und machte Mina zur unfreiwilligen Berühmtheit, für einige sogar zur Hauptverdächtigen. Heute lebt sie allein auf der abgelegenen Farm ihrer Familie. Als der junge Privatdetektiv Lane Holland ihr anbietet, den Cold Case neu aufzurollen, lehnt sie zunächst ab. Erst nachdem Lanes unkonventionelle Methoden rasch zu einer neuen Spur führen, beginnt sie, ihm zu vertrauen. Doch Lane hat seine eigenen, dunkleren Gründe, den Fall lösen zu wollen.

A young girl is found behind a dumpster and more have been found throughout the city, prompting a reformed hit-woman, who is seeking to redeem her soul after the bad deeds she has done, to find out why. She takes on the deepening mystery of who is doing this and why this keeps happening while no one is doing anything about it. Now, it is up to Layla Wilson, once known as the best hit woman ever to do the job, to now find out why the system failed these kids.

With bleached blonde hair piled on top, an oversized pocketbook to match every outfit and an insatiable appetite for snooping, the ever curious Ms. Aggie Underhill and her friends embark on an eight-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera...Come join Aggie in a fun-filled vacation where a kidnapping goes awry, several love affairs take place, jealousy rises, tempers flare, and a passenger goes overboard.

Sam Strait didn’t want to leave home early for the snowbird season, but the rules he lived his life by demanded it. When a relationship turned sour, the rules dictated he pack his bags and get out of town. He could have gone anywhere in the world, but Sam picked Phoenix, Arizona. With its beautiful women, fall baseball league, and warm winters, what more could a single guy ask for? When the death of a new friend brings violent strangers into his life, Sam is forced to make a choice—run out of town or find a killer.

Katy Green is a working musician in the years before World War II. It's 1939, and Katy tries to help a friend out of a jam at a classical music conservatory that ought to be a quiet oasis in Hell's Kitchen, New York's roughest neighborhood. But when Katy searches for the stolen manuscript of a string quartet by Paganini, what she finds is madness, mayhem, unexplained sudden deaths, and a fight for her very life.

Emily Bernal feels like she’s finally living her happily ever after. Weeks away from marrying her sexy boss and adopting the little girl who stole her heart, she thought nothing could break her stride. At least until a dead man faceplants into a novelty cake and Emily’s friend is charged with murder. As she follows the crumb trail of clues, Emily must infiltrate a cult and clash with her nemesis. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more her fiancé pushes her away. Emily wonders if the man of her dreams is holding back something far more sinister than three little words.

A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands. It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action - and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orleans homicide department, tipping Derain off to a grisly shooting on Tchoupitoulas Street. He grabs his camera and charges out the door.

Helen liest Marx in einer Ökobäckerei, Julius ist im Vorstand einer großen deutschen Bank. Sie ist neunzehn, er zweiundfünfzig. Eine ungewöhnliche Beziehung beginnt. Bis er ermordet wird. Bei einem Attentat, kurz nach dem Mauerfall 1989. Jahre später erinnert sich Helen, befragt Zeitzeugen und Stasiakten. Wer war Julius? Warum musste er sterben? Basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte entfaltet Tanja Langer den Roman einer unkonventionellen Liebesfreundschaft vor dem Hintergrund deutscher Zeitgeschichte um RAF-Gewalt und Mauerfall.