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DS Tomek Bowens Leben war schon immer kompliziert, aber seine Welt wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als er erfährt, dass er eine dreizehnjährige Tochter hat. Vom Dienst suspendiert und mit der Vorstellung der Vaterschaft kämpfend, wird er unerwartet zurück zur Arbeit gerufen: Ein Schulmädchen wurde entführt, nachdem es in das Auto eines Fremden gestiegen ist. Nun wieder eingesetzt, muss Tomek durch eine explosive Ermittlung navigieren und gleichzeitig versuchen, eine Beziehung zu dem Kind aufzubauen, mit dem er nie gerechnet hatte. Doch während die Suche sich intensiviert, quält ihn eine Frage.

Elli är 21 år och uppvuxen i Djursholm. Hon har allt man kan önska sig: ungdom, skönhet, pengar och status. Kompiskretsen är liten, men tajt. De gränser vanliga människor håller sig inom har suddats ut. Här är det andra lagar och regler som gäller. På egen hand ska Elli navigera en vuxenvärld där gränserna för moral och lojalitet är otydliga.

Die junge Britin Sanna Virtanen hatte sich geschworen, nie wieder in ihr finnisches Heimatdorf im Norden Lapplands zurückzukehren – zu groß ist der Schmerz aus der Vergangenheit. Doch als ihr Onkel stirbt und sie zur Alleinerbin einer kleinen Gärtnerei macht, hat sie keine andere Wahl und macht sich auf die Reise nach Finnland. Kurz nach ihrer Ankunft stirbt ein Mitarbeiter der Gärtnerei unter merkwürdigen Umständen – und als dann ihr alter Jugendschwarm des Mordes verdächtigt wird, nimmt Sanna die Ermittlungen selbst in die Hand.

A dark cloud has fallen over Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. For days, house chef Fritz Brenner has worn a worried expression, caused by the news from back home in Switzerland that his beloved cousin is missing. When a hired detective on the ground is unable to turn up any leads, Fritz takes it upon himself to return to Geneva and launch his own investigation. However, when Fritz himself goes missing, it’s up to Wolfe and his faithful assistant Archie Goodwin to travel to Geneva and save the day.

A Spanish woman trying to retire as an assassin, a French Foreign Legion deserter from Madagascar, a mysterious (perhaps CIA) woman from America, a billionaire military contractor, and a man wandering the seas alone on a sailing ship bump into each other in the Indian Ocean, and not all of them survive.

“I want to know what goes on in people’s minds. I suppose that’s why I love Georges Simenon so much. He was such a master of the small domestic situation.” —Ruth Rendell Tomorrow, at five in the afternoon, I will kill the clairvoyant. Signed,Picpus. This chilling message is seen...

“The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time.” —George Steiner Exiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There’s been a murder in a mussel farming village and its most respected resident, the former judge Monsieur...

“Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam Kirsch When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the...

China has a plan for the next hundred years, and they're making moves around the world for complete domination politically and economically. When this situation suddenly becomes clear to Jake Adams in a very personal way, he and Sirena are forced to depart their sedate life on Pico Island in the Azores. Jake quickly discovers that his life could change forever, or suddenly end, if he allows the Chinese to seek total hegemony. He must gather his strength for a life or death battle to counter evil forces. But China will not go quietly without a fight.

Jake Adams is living on Pico Island in The Azores with his girlfriend Sirena, the former Israeli CIA officer. When he is called back to work with Spanish billionaire, Carlos Gomez, Jake is not completely on board with this mission. Something isn't adding up with his job to track down a hacker last known to be in the autonomous Basque Country of Spain. Jake and Sirena quickly discover that they are not alone in search of this hacker who has been on the run for more than a decade.

Lea flieht aus ihrer kaputten Ehe nach Irland. Im Galway County findet die erfolgreiche Krimiautorin ein Ferienhaus und sehr schnell Anschluss an die deutsche Vermieterin Karin und ihre Tochter Anne. Anfangs glaubt Lea, endlich Frieden zu finden, sie verliebt sich sogar in den attraktiven Landarzt Sean. Doch die Postkartenidylle trügt. Als eine Frau verschwindet, gerät Sean unter Mordverdacht. Lea beginnt mit eigenen Ermittlungen, die sie bald in Lebensgefahr bringen. Nachdem sie einen Unfall mit viel Glück überlebt, wird Lea aus dem Krankenhaus entführt. Wer hat ein Interesse an ihrem Tod?

DI Jade Tanner's new Complex Crimes Unit is finding its feet. DS Mo Uddin is settling into his new Scottish home, Dr Petra McBride has stopped receiving anonymous calls, and Jade is working to support her son over the loss of his dad. But then a mysterious crime is added to their workload. The body of a young man is discovered at the top of Dunsinane Hill, with soil from Birnam Wood in his pockets. The two sites are sixteen miles apart, so this is no fluke. Petra and Jade immediately spot the Macbeth reference.

Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled ride through a dark and treacherous world when Detective Emilia Cruz investigates Mexico’s most notorious true crime. “Astounding” – Nightstand Reviews. Emilia finds herself in Mexico City, part of a national task force examining the forced disappearance of 43 college students from a city in central Mexico. Despite its high profile, the task force is a paper exercise to cover somebody's political you-know-what. Nobody expects to find out how the 43 students disappeared. Nobody expects to make an arrest.

In Japan's high-pressure exam world, truth is the hardest test of all Eighteen-year-old Mana pulls an all-nighter at her juku, a private Japanese cram school that specializes in helping students pass the once-a-year exams. She failed the year before but feels sure she’ll get it the second time—if she can stay awake. The Japanese saying, “Four pass, five fail,” presses her to sleep just four hours a day, and study the rest. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, head pillowed on her notes, she takes a break down the silent hallway.

Superintendent Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell are in desperate need of a holiday—and the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John seems the perfect choice. Their neighbour, retired journalist Wynne Carter, is as convivial as the village itself and, over a glass of blackberry wine, indulges in her latest obsession, Olivia Smeaton, a racy old lady whose life—and death—she is convinced are not all they seem.

Ex-Secret Service operative turned world traveler, John Beckett planned to marvel at Venezuela’s majestic Angel Falls. Instead, he’s thrust into a nightmare when rebel guerrillas capture his tour group. In a jungle prison camp rife with danger, Beckett allies with Vanessa Adler, a CIA officer with her own motives, to orchestrate an escape. As rebel tensions explode and a monstrous enforcer takes control, Beckett must navigate a deadly web of bloodshed, betrayal, and survival. But with his identity a guarded secret, even from those hunting him, every decision risks exposure and disaster.

All it takes is one fateful flight for Jake Mercer's day to shift from standard protection detail to a full-blown survival mission.

Jack Kovar spent years operating in the gray zones of international intelligence. Now living off the grid, he is dragged back into the world he escaped when a Hollywood starlet becomes the target of a calculated smear campaign. What looks like a tabloid scandal quickly reveals itself as something far more dangerous: a coordinated operation stretching from Los Angeles studios to corporate boardrooms to the upper floors of the nation’s capital.

The delegates—or as Kirill thought of them, “The Seven Deadly Sins”—were not people who had brought happiness into the world. For the sake of his own survival and longevity, he had to remain on guard for the entire duration of the conference. Some periods in life are quite literally life-or-death moments, and this conference would be a long series of such moments.

Richard Hannay is an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances. A bored expatriate returning to London, he finds his life upended when a mysterious American stumbles into his flat with a terrifying secret—a secret so dangerous that men are willing to kill for it. When the man is murdered, Hannay becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to flee for his life. Pursued by both the police and a shadowy network of spies, he races across the rugged landscapes of Scotland, deciphering cryptic clues and dodging deadly enemies.