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Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.

Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident...and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with 24-hour care.

Under a sweltering July full moon, the daughter of a Russian vodka magnate is savagely murdered in Washington, DC. Detective Captain Alexander Strange arrives at the crime scene and knows he's seen this brutal style of killing before—25 years ago, as a Force Recon Marine in a Central American jungle.

I haven’t been back to Eos since I first met my step-sister, Lex. It’s been twenty-five years since that summer. Since we went from strangers to sisters. Since Abigail went missing. Since we told the first lie. Now we’re back together on the island. So much has changed since we were teenagers. We’ve both tried to move on from the past – from each other. But the island won’t let us escape our secrets. Only me and Lex know the truth about Abigail. We’ve been living a lie for so long. And if the truth comes out – neither of us will survive it…

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The moment I first gazed into Alex's soulful gray eyes, I knew I'd met the man I wanted to spend my life with. And I was right. When my beloved sister vanished, Alex put up posters and wiped away my tears after bad dream—she put me back together. But when police pull a crumpled photo from my dead sister's pocket, and I see my husband's familiar face smiling back at me, my perfect world shatters.

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Eine Frau und M., ihr Geliebter, verbringen das Wochenende in einem einsamen Chalet. Doch mit einem Mal ist M. tot. Außer sich vor Schmerz bleibt die Erzählerin mit seinem Körper zurück. In den Tagen, die folgen, weicht sie ihm nicht von der Seite. Schläft bei ihm, spricht mit ihm, fährt mit ihm auf dem Rücksitz durch die Berge. Dabei blickt sie zurück auf ihre ersten Beziehungen, auf Männer, die sie kleinhielten, verletzten oder missbrauchten, auf ihre eigene Schwäche. Und auf ihre Liebesgeschichte mit M., die frei und großzügig war.

Myron Bolitar in seinem persönlichsten Fall – ein totgeglaubter Freund soll ein perfider Mörder sein. Ein grausamer Doppelmord erschüttert New York. Schnell präsentiert das FBI einen Verdächtigen: den berühmten Ex-Basketball-Profi Greg Downing. Als der Privatermittler Myron Bolitar davon erfährt, ist er vollkommen fassungslos. Denn Greg – sein ehemaliger Klient und ein guter Freund – ist seit drei Jahren tot. Von Gregs Unschuld überzeugt, steht für Myron fest: Er wird nicht eher ruhen, bis er die Wahrheit herausgefunden und den Namen seines Freundes reingewaschen hat.

Es ist jemand im Haus. Eine Mutter ist allein zu Hause mit ihren beiden Kindern. Draußen tobt ein Blizzard. Als sie ihren Sohn ins Bett bringt, hört sie ein Geräusch. Ist es das alte Haus, das im Schneesturm ächzt? Bevor sie hier eingezogen ist, haben die Leute sie davor gewarnt, dass es in diesem Haus spukt. Doch sie glaubt nicht an Monster. Da hört sie wieder das Geräusch. Es ist der Klang von Schritten, ungewöhnlich schwer und langsam. Sie kommen die Treppe hoch, immer näher.

Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the listener to examine what it means to be a good neighbor.

“As far as I know, you can only die once…” But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she’d never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note is the darkly enigmatic love letter of Kenji Okada-Caines, a petty criminal who once exposited on English literary classics and now, marooned on his native isle, nurtures an obsession with Aetna’s writing.

Nervenzerreißende Spannung in der Toskana. Hasserfüllt beobachtet er die Autorin Rina Kramer bei ihrer Lesung. Jedes Wort von ihr macht ihn wütend. Sie hat ihn bestohlen, hat seine Ideen und Gedanken geraubt. Er reist ihr nach, findet sie in ihrem idyllischen Landhaus in der Toskana und mietet sich bei ihr ein. Wie ein harmloser Urlauber, aber besessen davon, sie zu vernichten. Rina ahnt nicht, was der eigentümliche Gast plant. Als sie endlich die Gefahr erkennt, ist es bereits zu spät.

Rita Marsh is a good woman. By day, she's an ordinary small business owner running her late parents' care home, working gently with the elderly and infirm. By night, she's a vigilante, posing as young girls online. She snares the men who prey on them, exposing them for what they are. Rita has successfully kept her two lives separate for years, but when an old classmate returns from her past to tell her a years-old secret, her two worlds start to collide. With both of her selves unravelling, Rita will have to choose between justice and vengeance.

Mina is a professional pickpocket and thief for a huge South Korean conglomerate (chaebol) into which she was born. Having brought great shame to the chaebol as a teenager, she is obligated to work as a criminal for them. This chaebol is also a crime syndicate. She desperately wants out of her dangerous and depressing existence. She sees a ray of hope in the character of Sienna who is the complete opposite to her. She becomes obsessed with Sienna to the point she complicates things on a truly horrific scale.

Military intelligence colleagues summon attorney Craig Malcault to testify against his client, a sensual, provocative socialite with a suspect divorce case. But he decides to destroy her file and risk all he's got to guard her secret. Craig was chasing informants a decade ago when his client built an international conglomerate and founded Ara Pacis, the code-named territory in Latin America, with the two men in her life as protection against threatening extermination. The bloodcurdling discoveries Craig now makes about her case are a human rights attorney's stellar dream come true.

The Hunters appear to be the textbook definition of a perfect family leading a charmed life. When the enigmatic Olivia West befriends teenage daughter Eliza, Olivia becomes one of the family—an “honorary Hunter.” Here’s what they don’t know about Olivia: she’s planning a murder. And whether they like it or not, every member of this family is going to become an accomplice.

On a spring morning in Manhattan, 1982, the newspaper headlines report the latest homicide: a young scion of finance found strangled in his elegant high rise. When Sheila Ross, copywriter by day, would-be stand-up comic by night, learns of Craig Vitale's murder, her blood runs cold. He was her client. As she reads the details of Vitale's killing, traumatic memories of her brother's death flood her. Ten years ago in their sleepy hometown Delmont, Iowa Sheila's brother was murdered; strangled like Vitale. His killer was never found.

From the author who brought you the jaw-dropping twist of I Let You Go, the gasp-out-loud ending of Let Me Lie, and the loveable, unpredictable Ffion Morgan in The Last Party and A Game of Lies.

Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town—a town so small that every store opening and DUI is considered newsworthy. But when Roman's longtime girlfriend, Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realizes he had no idea what was really going on in her life. And when he starts asking questions, he’s not prepared for the answers.