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A sixteen-year-old girl has abandoned her Mormon family for a pimp. Her father is devastated and asks his church’s elders to help hire a private investigator. It seems like an easy case for Dan Reno, except for one thing—the church bishop insists the pimp be put out of business permanently. As Reno searches for the pimp, he knows every day is critical, for the naïve teenager has thrown herself into the mouth of a monster. But the pimp lives off the grid, and without a digital footprint, he’s difficult to find.

Dan Reno claimed self-defense, but the prosecuting attorney had other ideas. The missing person case seemed wrong from the start. The client paid in cash, used a phony name, and his claim to be searching for his missing nephew didn’t add up. It doesn’t take Reno long to do the math, and he decides to return the money to the client. That’s when things go awry.

Humiliated by a serial rapist in court, South Lake Tahoe’s sheriff and district attorney turn to Dan Reno for justice. Dealing with his fiancée’s mental breakdown, Reno welcomes the distraction, but he knows the case makes no sense. Short of killing the criminal, what can he do? Regardless, Reno begins investigating. As he peels back the layers, he learns the rapist has a genius IQ and is the brother of a Silicon Valley billionaire. Traveling to San Jose, Reno hooks up with his partner, Cody Gibbons, who has little patience or mercy for sexual predators.

Melanie Jordan’s life seemed perfect. Until masked intruders arrive at her house, demanding gold she doesn’t have. A savage blow to the head puts her in a coma for four weeks. When Melanie regains consciousness, she learns her husband has been murdered and her ten-year-old daughter is missing. Private Eye Dan Reno begins investigating, but nothing about the case makes sense. Was there gold at the house or wasn’t there? Was Melanie’s husband hiding something? And what happened to Melanie’s daughter?

It’s a two-for-one deal when a pair of accused rapists from a New Jersey-based gang surfaces in South Lake Tahoe. The first is easy to catch, but the second, a Satanist suspected of a string of murders, is an adversary unlike any Reno has faced. After escaping Reno’s clutches in the desert outside of Carson City, the target vanishes. That is, until he makes it clear he intends to settle the score.

The system is broken - and it wants you dead! An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares. The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father." DI Thomas Ridpath is called...

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! FBI Special Agent Kim Otto picks up where Lee Child leaves off in novel #21 of the Hunt for Jack Reacher!

Vier Morde, vier meisterhaft inszenierte Tatorte – Berlin wird von einer rätselhaften Mordserie erschüttert. Kommissariatsleiter Christian Hartwich setzt alles auf eine Karte und holt einen mysteriösen Berater ins Team, ohne zu ahnen, wie tief dieser in das Netz aus Lügen und Geheimnissen verstrickt ist. Während Hauptkommissarin Stefanie Piehler dem undurchsichtigen Berater misstraut, wagt Professor Hornoff den riskanten Schritt in die Abgründe der Täterpsyche – und erkennt: Wer den Mörder stoppen will, muss das Kind in ihm retten.

A bioship has gone rogue, the crew are dead, and the survivors are lying. Open the hatch and climb aboard the CSS Ariadne, and remember: do not trust anybody.

I clienti eccentrici non sono una novità per Cormoran Strike. Ma la donna che lo accoglie nella sua fatiscente e isolata casa nel Kent, Decima Mullins, sembra un po' più che eccentrica. Visibilmente agitata, vuole che Strike indaghi sul cadavere dell'uomo che mesi prima è stato trovato, nudo e orribilmente mutilato, nel caveau di un negozio di argenti a Covent Garden. Il corpo è stato subito identificato dalla polizia, ma lei è convinta che si tratti di un'altra persona, più precisamente del suo fidanzato, di cui aveva perso le tracce proprio in quei giorni.

Der kleinkriminelle Fahrradkurier Nico hat nur ein Ziel: Endlich sein eigener Chef sein. Doch als er seinen besten Freund Dave tot auffindet, gerät sein Leben außer Kontrolle. Nico hat nur 48 Stunden, um herauszufinden, wer Dave getötet hat, bevor er selbst untergehen wird.

Man sagte von ihr, sie besäße ein so rassig-schönes, fast schon engelsgleiches Antlitz, dem kein lebender Mann jemals widerstehen könne. Doch davon war jetzt nicht mehr viel zu sehen. Denn das bizarre mexikanische Muster aus schwarzer und weißer Farbe, das sie wie eine Kriegsbemalung trug, verbarg ihre natürlichen Gesichtszüge. Die aufgemalte, furchterregende Skelett-Fratze war alles, was sie ihren Gegnern präsentierte.

It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by...

I stopped to get my shoes shined and disaster followed. The guy getting his shoes shined next to me is an ex-con, a street rat, and overall despicable human being. Yet he had plans for the perfect heist. Mastermind? Hardly. But the idea was sound. A bank is scheduled to be demolished. Inside is a long-forgotten secret—a lucrative secret. Empty bank, no guards, no alarms. What can go wrong?

Magazine editor and part-time archaeologist, Gill McArdle is getting it together. Or at least, he thinks he is, until the death of a friend throws his life into turmoil. He’s on Orkney, researching an elaborate stone carrying an ancient religious motif. But he’s perplexed as the carving long predates any previous incidence of the symbol’s first use. Either someone is tampering with Orcadian archaeology, or Gill is facing a puzzle that can’t be resolved.

A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo ‘Fitz’ Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It’s personal too—he’s been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman. The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria’s home makes Fitz and Anna Maria’s sister Carlotta wonder if she’s living some sort of double life, one Carlotta wants to know about before the police get wind of it.

Kay Sharp casi no ha tenido tiempo de acostumbrarse a su nuevo trabajo como detective en Mount Chester cuando aparece un cadáver en el río Blackwater. La víctima, una chica de diecisiete años, flota en el agua, con un medallón tallado a mano alrededor del cuello. Indagando en casos sin resolver, Kay descubre que Rose Harrelson, una niña de tres años, lo llevaba puesto cuando desapareció de su habitación hace catorce años. Pero la adolescente que han encontrado lleva muerta solo unas horas.

La Rochelle, mois de juillet. Une femme est retrouvée égorgée chez elle face à son fils de dix ans ligoté, qu’un bandeau et un casque audio ont préservé de l’intolérable spectacle. C’est la deuxième en l’espace de quelques semaines et les flics n’ont pas la moindre piste. Le...

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love...

It's 2032 and we live in the worst cyberpunk future. Kiera is gigging her ass off to keep the lights on, but her polycule's social score is so dismal they're about to lose their crib. That's why she's out here chasing cheaters with Angel Herrera, a luddite P. I. who thinks this is The Big Sleep. Then the latest job cuts too deep-hired to locate Herrera's ex-best friend (who's also Kiera's pro bono attorney), they find him murdered instead. Their only lead: a stick of Nag Champa incense dropped at the scene.