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Allie Lake is a scientist is on a held-up flight travelling home from a job when she is seated next to troubled movie star Milo Ford. She is in no mood to talk to him, whoever he might be. Her most recent project at a research station has just come to an end and she's about to move in with her sister and her love life is non-existent. As for Milo, he wants nothing more than to be at home hiding out with a little normality. Instead, he has to go and film a movie in the Romanian mountains... all the while, the press are getting closer, circling his most closely guarded secret.

Hard-boiled 1920s private detective Buck Baxter is used to solving crimes of passion, but when his latest client turns out to be his own boyfriend, Harry Hart, Buck discovers that nothing is what it seems when it comes to the mysteries of love.

With her twenty-plus-year marriage on the brink of collapse, bookish Natalie Daughtry immerses herself in her new bookstore job. When the mysterious Caspar gathers Natalie and her friends Everleigh and Brooke for the second time, she's ready for an adventure to disperse the turmoil clouding her marriage. Caspar enlists their help in searching for a rumored copy of Lewis Carroll's handwritten and illustrated manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Natalie is immediately enticed—this is the perfect distraction.

The only thing Detective Clint Wolf wants to do is spend a quiet Sunday with his wife and daughter. Unfortunately for him, fate has other plans. When a weekend getaway for a father and daughter turn deadly, Clint is forced to cancel his own family plans and launch an investigation into the brutal murder. Although more than sixty rifle rounds were fired in the senseless killing, there were no witnesses and no video surveillance, because the act occurred in the primitive camping area of the Waxtuygi Wildlife Nature Park.

It started as an investigation of a simple insurance claim, but soon the Continental Op is embroiled in murders, narcotics, a religious cult, and a supposed family curse. No one is who they seem, and the bodies continue to pile up.

Birgitta Björkhammar och hennes väninna Anita är ute och plockar bär i Svartedalen när de hör skott avlossas mellan träden. Det dröjer inte länge innan de hamnar i korselden, och när Anita träffas i låret tvingas Birgitta lämna henne för att söka hjälp. På sin väg genom skogen söker Birgitta skydd i en övergiven stuga, där hon snabbt inser att personerna som rör sig i området inte är okända för henne. De är kopplade till fall hon tidigare har utrett – och skottdramat visar sig ha starkare kopplingar till hennes eget liv än hon först anat.

Jette Johannsen erhält in der Redaktion des Sylter Inselblattes den Anruf eines Mannes, der sie um ihre Mithilfe bittet. Seine Freundin Viktoria ist auf Sylt verschwunden. Sie ist auf der Insel angekommen, jedoch nie in der Wohnung, in der sie gemeinsam ein paar Tage Urlaub verbringen wollten. Er möchte, dass die Zeitung eine Suchmeldung herausgibt. Da die Frau aber erst seit einigen Stunden vermisst wird, kann Jette nichts für ihn tun. Doch der Mann klingt sehr verzweifelt und seine Argumente überzeugen sie. Ihr Interesse ist geweckt und sie will versuchen, ihm zu helfen.

L’ormai famosa agenzia Strike ed Ellacott ha risolto molti casi inestricabili. Quello che rimane non risolto è il rapporto trai due soci, segnato da un’amicizia profonda e inquieta, tra slanci imprevedibili e sotterranee gelosie. Quando l’anziano Sir Colin Edensor chiede il loro aiuto per tirar fuori il figlio Will da una setta che lo ha plagiato, i due accettano senza esitare. In nome della lotta per un mondo migliore, la Universal Humanitarian Church allontana i suoi membri dai loro affetti e li induce a elargire enormi donazioni, diventando sempre più potente.

Erin McCabe’s years as a criminal defense attorney have prepared her for almost anything, except being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client—a successful financial adviser—was found stabbed to death on the beach near his palatial Jersey Shore home. The time of death is estimated to be during Erin’s one and only consultation with him, during which he revealed that he was secretly transgender. As the last person to see him alive, Erin’s now the prime suspect.

Auf einer Konferenz in London wird der geniale Ryan Greene ermordet. Der Attentäter hat es auf die Forschungsergebnisse des jungen Wissenschaftlers abgesehen, doch im allgemeinen Tumult verliert er seine Beute wieder. Ragnar, ein Freund des ehemaligen Soldaten Simon Stark, gelangt in den Besitz der Arbeit. Eine lebensgefährliche Verfolgungsjagd beginnt. Denn die brisanten Forschungsergebnisse könnten die Welt verändern.

The Only Truly Dead marks the thrilling conclusion to the Thirty Miles Trilogy as worlds collide. DI Madison is accused of corruption and her police career is on the line. She’s given one last chance to prove herself, by uncovering the criminal underworld’s latest secret – The Twilight Express. Detective Brendan Foley is still out of a job, but now he has even bigger problems – his eldest son has gone missing. Foley joins forces with Madison, to get to the bottom of both mysteries. What is the Twilight Express, where is it going – and what does it have to do with Foley’s precious first born?

Easy Rawlins, LA's most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Christmas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows this could only mean the ex-Marine Black is probably dead or will be soon. Blonde Faith: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!

Manche Dinge blieben besser begraben... Als Detective Max Craigie zu einem Leichenfund auf einem Friedhof gerufen wird, muss er fast ein wenig über die Situation schmunzeln. Doch bei der Leiche handelt es sich um das gefürchtete Oberhaupt eines der mächtigsten schottischen Verbrecherclans. Brutal wurde der Mann ermordet und anschließend in ein uraltes Grab mit steinerner Platte verfrachtet. Und nicht nur die kriminelle Familie des Toten erwartet jetzt so einiges von Max, sondern auch seine eigenen Vorgesetzten.

In 2005 London, two teenage boys commit a crime so horrendous that the entire nation is shocked and outraged. When Abigail Riley's body is found in an underground shelter, DS Fraser Harvey finds himself hunting her killers--whose depravity is matched only by their naivety. Eleven years later, when the young murderers are released to faraway countries with new identities, Harvey remains haunted by the case, convinced that one--or both--will kill again.

En hjemløs i Chicagos gader ser i en åbenbaring Jomfru Marias ansigt vædet med tårer af blod på en garagemur under et luksushotel. Og inden længe valfarter andre udstødte kvinder til muren. Men hotellet vil have fjernet de hjemløse, der virker provokerende på gæsterne, og beder hotellets advokat, Harriet Stonds løse problemet.

En kaiken? Hvad er det? Det er den dolk, samuraikvinder brugte til at begå selvmord. De skar halsen over på sig selv. Oliver Passan, Kriminalpolitiet i Paris, elsker alt der er japansk, ikke mindst sin smukke kone, som han har to sønner med. Nu har hustruen Nanoko imidlertid bedt om skilsmisse.

The phone call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August. Harry Starke hadn’t heard from his old school friend in almost five years, and he hadn’t thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet, and it wouldn’t wait until morning. But when Harry arrived at Sattler’s home less than an hour later, he found him lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to his head and .22 revolver lying close to his hand. Was it suicide, or was Tom Sattler murdered? If so, by whom and why?

While Sûreté inspector Gabriel Hanaud visits the London home of his friend Mr. Ricardo, they receive a visit from Carradine, a young socialite with a disturbing story. A beautiful young woman he met at a costume party has appealed to him for help. Obsessed with a rich American woman’s pearls, this young woman went to steal them from the American’s hotel room … only to find a gang of thieves, who overpowered her. She woke up hours later, alone in the room except for a dead body. Can Hanaud prove her innocence, and bring the real murderers to justice?

Johnny, a mysterious biracial man, and his Asian-American female friend visit a Virginia dirt track—as out of place as their fancy BMW out in the parking lot—but they aren’t there for the “redneck racing.” They’ve come to scout young driver Tony Trivette.

Er tötet und er tut es gern... "Ich bin längst nicht der Schlimmste von allen. Ich bin nur der Ehrlichste. Ich gebe nichts auf eure Moral. Ich töte, weil ich mich traue, vor mir selbst zu meinen Sehnsüchten zu stehen und ihnen zu folgen. Das ist alles. Was würdet ihr anstellen, wenn ihr mutiger wärt? Würden euer Chef, die Ehefrau, die Schwiegermutter oder eure Kinder diese Nacht überleben? Ich höre schon euren verlogenen Aufschrei: Natürlich würden sie das. Ja klar, behauptet, was ihr wollt. Ich weiß es besser. Und deswegen werde ich mir dieses Physio-Luder holen.