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Dr. Autumn Trent hat nach ihrem ersten offiziellen Fall als FBI-Agentin noch nicht einmal alle Berichte geschrieben, da werden Sie und der Rest der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse in die Hauptstadt Washington gerufen, um eine Serie von Einbruchsmorden aufzuklären. Die sechs Opfer haben nicht viel gemeinsam, doch sie alle sind wohlhabende Ehepaare, die eine Dinnerparty geben wollten und kurz davor getötet wurden.

A chilly October morning. Detective Geldard is woken by a phone call. A woman’s body has been discovered at an archaeological dig near the pretty Norfolk village of Caistor St Edmund. Geldard races to the scene. The body lies in a shallow trench, arms crossed, a silver coin resting in the mouth. But the dental work is modern. This is no ancient death. Missing-persons searches throws up two earlier cases — one in Cambridgeshire, one in Suffolk — each body posed in the same macabre way. And another woman vanishes.

Whodunit? The answer is absolutely spellbinding. In this genre-blending collection of short stories, seven award-winning and bestselling fantasy authors work their signature magic on the puzzle-box plot. Whether unfolding in realities far-flung or deceptively familiar, these mysteries leave an...

Trickery in Toyland - It's the week before Christmas, and Abby and Lacy are on a mission—find the one toy Lacy's youngest wants more than anything. But when Toyland's long-awaited shipment arrives without the elusive gift, the pair jump into a high-stakes holiday scavenger hunt where the coveted toy is part of the prize package. What begins as merry fun quickly turns chaotic as half the parents in town seem to be chasing the same hard-to-find treasure… and some will do anything to win.

Four pulse-pounding mysteries. One unstoppable couple. The origin of the Thorny Rose. Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are brilliant, bold, and deadly together — the ultimate power couple in the world of crime-solving. But every legend has an origin story.

Three heart-pounding stories of courage and passion, where heroes fight to shield the vulnerable and find love amidst the chaos. Defending the Child by Sharon Dunn Caught in a mountain blizzard…with a child to protect. After Marielle Coleman’s foster son witnesses his mother’s murder, he...

When lives hang in the balance, three K-9 heroes fight to keep the innocent safe. Can love survive in the crossfire? Tracking the Missing by Sami A. Abrams A search for three abducted teens—and a K-9 on the case. After surviving a vicious attack in the woods, Tori Campbell awakes to her worst...

Love and loyalty take the lead in three gripping romances where K-9 heroes protect the vulnerable against deadly threats. Baby Protection Mission by Laura Scott When a baby is targeted, can a K-9 team keep him safe? When his sister is kidnapped, rancher Cade McNeal will do anything to prevent...

Passion and peril intertwine in these three romantic suspense stories featuring heroes, loyal K-9s, and fierce protectors. Can she trust the determined detective? After a betrayal that almost took his life, Detective Joel Standage is deskbound. A new assignment is his chance to find out if he...

Three heart-pounding mysteries where passion and peril intertwine, and no one is safe from the truth…or love. Her Darkest Secret When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he’s always wanted—her. The...

The erudite Dr Thorndyke returns in this next anthology of his many and varied cases by R. Austin Freeman. This collection includes the stories: The Blue Scarab: For what reason was a valueless blue-glass Scarab ornament stolen? Could it have any connection to a lost family legacy? The Case of...

This classic detective anthology by GK Chesterton, beloved by both readers and writers of crime fiction alike, narrated here by Michael Ward. Father Brown is a small, unobtrusive Essex parson, but underneath his wide brimmed hat, lurks one of the finest deductive minds in all England. Included...

Written by R.Austin Freeman, The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke (also sometimes known as The Singing Bone) present five tales of crime and forensic detection from the inventor of the inverted detective story: The Case of Oscar Brodski A lost diamond merchant chances upon the house of a fence and...

One of the most anthologized short stories in American literature, Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is regarded as a remarkable feat of genius, and has gone on to influence the likes of Ernest Hemingway and William Golding amongst others. A haunting exploration of death, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' masterfully blurs the lines between perception and reality in the final moments of a man's life. Set during the American Civil War, it follows Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathiser, facing execution by Union soldiers.

A hostage situation threatens to ignite a global crisis. A brutal raid in Africa takes an American hostage—Doctor Samantha Fremont—turning a regional strike into an international emergency. Because this captive isn't just any American—she's the daughter of a powerful senator. And the United States has one narrow advantage: her captors don't know who they've taken… yet. Fremont finds herself at the center of a criminal alliance between Mexican cartels and extremists in Africa's Sahel region. The trans-Atlantic syndicate keeps the drug pipeline to Europe flowing and reaps billions in profits.

Tra i vicoli stretti dei caruggi genovesi e le pieghe nascoste della memoria, ti avventurerai tra delitti irrisolti, confessioni tardive e verità che nessuno sembra voler raccontare. Tra giornalismo, amicizie complicate e amori sfuggenti, ogni storia è quindi un viaggio nel cuore di una città che non smette mai di sorprendere.

1889 was a full year indeed... Against a vibrant backdrop of world events, local scandals and the lingering aftermath of the Ripper murders, we find our heroes, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. WATSON racing through the gaslit streets of London, bringing malefactors to justice–and saving the innocent from iniquity!

Douze nouvelles. Un enfant de junkie disparaît du jour au lendemain dans un ancien quartier cossu de Buenos Aires, livré désormais à la drogue et à la violence. Des jeunes femmes se promettent dans le sang de ne jamais avoir d'amants et sont obsédées par la silhouette fugace d'une adolescente disparue. Adela, amputée d'un bras, aime se faire peur en regardant des films d'horreur jusqu'à en devenir prisonnière. Alors qu'il vient de devenir père, Pablo est hanté par la figure du Petiso Orejudo, un enfant serial killer.

În „Casa pustie”, Sherlock Holmes revine în mod spectaculos după dispariția sa de la Cascadele Reichenbach. Alături de doctorul Watson, el investighează o crimă misterioasă și întinde o cursă ingenioasă pentru a demasca un ucigaș periculos. O povestire captivantă, care...

Malcolm Crisp, the Worshipful Master of a small Masonic Lodge in Randolph County, West Virginia, is dead before page one. He maintained four interconnected systems that no one else knew were one system: the beehives as a communication channel between the living and the dead, the crows as surveillance from the far side of that threshold, a dead cedar hung with blue bottles as containment for what came back uninvited, and the Lodge ritual as the formal transmission protocol that gave the bees' messages their authority.