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Pour la première fois dans sa calamiteuse carrière de petit consul, Aurel Timescu fait l’objet d’une promotion. Le voici en Europe ou presque. Il est nommé en Albanie. Cet État voisin de la Grèce et de l’Italie n’est pas un pays comme les autres. Son territoire somptueux entre mer et montagne donne une trompeuse apparence de paix. Mais il a subi au fil des siècles bien des invasions, souffert sous des dictatures terribles. Le peuple s’est protégé en se forgeant ses propres lois.

Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. The first story, The Arrest of Arsène Lupin, was published on 15 July 1905. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books.

Step into the shadowy, dangerous streets of modern-day Kiev with “Eastern Vengeance.” Meet Taras, a driven accountant thrust into a world of violence and betrayal. Entangled in a sinister web of corruption, he navigates a city where danger lurks at every corner, and morality is a luxury no one can afford. Meet Vlado, a hardened former sniper consumed by sexual desires at any cost. Finally, meet Masha, the cold-hearted assassin shackled with a deep resentment that can only be satisfied with sharp knives and explosives.

Weihnachten. Die perfekte Zeit für eine Fahrt aufs Land. Doch ein kleines Mädchen kehrt von diesem Familienausflug nicht zurück. Zehn Jahre später fehlt von Mille noch immer jede Spur.

Dacă vrei să supraviețuiești atât de mult ca mine în lumea în care trăiesc, trebuie să gândești ca inamicul. Am învățat lecția asta de la bandele care m-au urmărit când eram puști și am șlefuit-o în Cambodgia. Trebuie să-ți pui întrebarea: Dacă eu aș încerca să-mi fac rău, cum aș proceda? Predictibilitatea este cheia – geografică și temporală. Trebuie să știi unde va fi un individ și la ce oră.

All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her. Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy. But Sam has gone missing.

Un matrimonio de recién casados adquiere un piso de segunda mano en la localidad de Mataró (España), cuando él, policía nacional, es destinado a esta ciudad. En el trastero del piso hay pertenencias del propietario, fallecido diez años atrás, y la intermediaria de la venta (una amiga de la actual propietaria) les dice que, una vez adquieran el piso, se pueden deshacer de esos efectos.

Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension, Júlía snaps and abandons her husband Gíó on an uninhabited island in a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter. When she returns the next morning, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on Júlía. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in. Is Gíó alive or dead? In hiding or hunting her down? And can Júlía get to the truth before it destroys her?

A stranded diver. A fearless heroine. A daring rescue. In the midst of a terrible storm, treasure hunter Jonty Gladstone races rising waters. But a powerful draw brings him deep within a series of flooded caves, leaving him trapped. Courageous divemaster AJ Bailey could be his only hope — but the clock is ticking… Can she save Jonty before he’s claimed by a watery grave? Cavern of the Lost Souls is the exciting prequel novella to the adventurous world of AJ Bailey. Dive into this best-selling series set in the beautiful Cayman Islands.

Mandy Logan and her father Bear were hoping for a peaceful Italian getaway. Instead, they've stumbled into a web of conspiracy that stretches from the winding streets of San Gimignano to the hallowed halls of the Vatican. When Mandy befriends local twins Sofia and Lorenzo, she's drawn into the decade-old mystery of Lucia Moretti, a young girl who vanished without a trace. But as Mandy digs deeper, she uncovers an underground network of smugglers, spies, and sanctuary seekers that will challenge everything she thought she knew about right and wrong.

Drei atmosphärische Provence-Krimis in einem Sammelband. Mörderische Machenschaften: Peter Smith hat ein bewegtes Leben als Unternehmensberater, Kunsthistoriker und Geheimdienstler hinter sich. Der knurrige Brite beschließt, den englischen Regen zurück und sich in Arles niederzulassen, denn er sehnt sich nach Sonne, französischem Essen und Ruhe. Doch kaum hat Smith das berühmte Amphitheater nach einem Stierkampf verlassen, wird er niedergeschlagen. Als er zu sich kommt, findet er sich unter einer auffallend gut gekleideten Leiche wieder.

Father–son relationships are rarely easy and certainly not when the son’s first love is Shakespeare and the father is the kingpin of a drug empire. Esteban Velasquez, however, manages to forge a frosty détente with his father—he studies literature abroad while his father grooms his older brother as the heir.

In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences with the family in Paris begin to echo the troubles left in the Netherlands, Marie pushes on.

When American expat and bicycle tour company proprietress Sadie Greene guides a hard-to-impress group of sophisticated seniors on a stunning trip in northeastern France, she expects some twists, turns, and sudden stops to sip the Riesling. She doesn’t anticipate a detour leading straight to murder …

Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool’s errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed European ladies, Mary and Katherine, on a sight-seeing tour. And third: supervise the only police officer currently on Ovalau, an eighteen-year-old constable with a penchant for hysterics.

Han är regissören på gränsen till sitt stora genombrott. Snart ska han bli pappa och tillsammans med sin fru flyttar han ut till ett ensligt renoveringsobjekt på landet. En mörk kväll lämnar någon en låda med ett avhugget gethuvud utanför deras dörr. Varför? Under skrivandet av tv-serien Inferno har han gått med i ett hemligt sällskap. Till en början handlar det om research inför serien, men sakta men säkert blir han alltmer hänförd av de mörka sekteristiska ritualerna och framgången de lovar. När han till sist vill backa ur är det redan alltför sent.

Eine Lüge erfordert Einsatz ... Viele Lügen erfordern Hingabe ... In der archäologischen Grabungsstätte Branodunum, einem Römerlager an der Küste Norfolks, werden die Überreste einer jungen Frau entdeckt. DI Janssen und sein Team müssen herausfinden, wer sie war und weshalb sie hier begraben wurde. Um diesen Ort ranken sich Mythen und Geheimnisse, und an der Stätte fanden bereits mehrere Ausgrabungen statt. Aber seit wann liegt die Tote hier ... und wer wünscht sich, dass sie nie entdeckt worden wäre?

When sleeping dogs won't lie, an idyllic island becomes the devil's playground. Nora Sommer is finally living a peaceful existence on the perfect Caribbean island with a boyfriend she adores. But the past is never far behind, and when a killer shows up to even an old score, her world will change forever. Nora must fight her own demons to save herself and the man she loves in the prequel novella to the series. Finding Sommer bridges Nora's story in the AJ Bailey series to her new world wearing a Royal Cayman Islands Police uniform.

Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and as a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation. But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car... and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown.

When the body of a church warden is discovered, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances that led to his death. Whilst navigating the fallout from the conclusion of their previous case, the Norfolk CID team is under intense scrutiny with another police force investigating their recent conduct. Some people would like nothing more than to see the team fail. With no clear motive for murder or a reason to take his own life, the team have little to go on.