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Master of suspense James Patterson continues the Women's Murder Club series with this nail-biter of a sequel to 1st to Die. Four women - a police detective, an assistant D.A., a journalist, and a medical examiner - combine their efforts, risking everything, to catch a serial killer. "As with Patterson's best novels," Booklist says, "the surprises keep coming until the final pages."

Detective Alex Cross returns in his most harrowing case yet - one that risks the life of his closest friend and partner, John Sampson. Cross and Sampson go deep behind military lines to confront the most ruthless killers they have ever encountered - and their even more threatening controller. Discovering the identity of this lethal genius will prove to be Cross' most terrifying challenge ever.

When an attack leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before he hurts anyone else. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department try to stop a series of kidnappings: children and their nannies are being plucked off the streets.

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.

An unforgettable novel about childhood, family, conflict and guilt from America's greatest storyteller John Grisham. Thirty years have passed since 11-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs' golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged. Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back.

She’s a murderer. Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed? So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial. Coming back to the remote coastal village where she grew up was a mistake. She didn’t fit in then, and she doesn’t fit in now. That day is such a blur, she can’t remember clearly what happened. There is something she is missing, something important. She only knows one thing.

Als der notorisch erfolglose Anwalt Nicholas Meller die junge Nina empfängt, die sich bei ihm bewirbt, wird schnell klar: Nina sieht genauso gut aus wie auf dem Bewerbungsfoto, und – sie trägt einen körperlichen Makel. Ihr rechter Arm ist zurückgebildet. Ebenso schnell wird klar: Nina ist eine starke Frau, die kein Mitleid duldet und sich durchs Leben kämpft. Beide ahnen nicht, dass ihre Schicksale schon bald durch dramatische Ereignisse verschmolzen werden. Sie geraten in den Fall um einen unheimlichen Mörder, der seine Opfer mit chirurgischer Präzision einkreist und brutal umbringt.

Dallas, 22. November 1963: John F. Kennedy ist ermordet und die Hintergründe des Attentats auf den Präsidenten werden vertuscht. Ein junger Polizist kommt in Dallas an, mit einem Überstellungsmandat und 6000 Dollar. Eine höllische Reise durch die wildesten Jahre der amerikanischen Geschichte beginnt – eine atemlose Irrfahrt durch explodierende amerikanische Träume.

While Jake’s law practice is finally beginning to take off, at home, his marriage is crumbling. He has broken a solemn promise to Elena, his wife, not to defend drug dealers due to her traumatic experiences as a child in her native Colombia. When given the chance to admit what he’s done, Jake continues with the lie, again and again. Now with Jake facing imminent arrest and trial, Elena no longer believes in his innocence, and in fear for her safety takes off with the kids.

כשליה גרין פרשה מהפרקליטות בכדי לנהל פאב אירי בחור שכוח אל בגליל, היא קיוותה שתוכל לשתות כמה שתרצה ולחיות בשקט מיום ליום, ובעיקר קיוותה ש"הפרשה של המדינה" — היעלמותה של מאי לחיאני הקטנה ממלון בוטיק בצפון, שעל הדרך הרסה לליה ולשותפיה לחקירה את החיים — מאחוריה. שנתיים לאחר מכן נעלמת ילדה נוספת מאותו מלון בדיוק ביום השנה להיעלמותה של מאי. כל השדים מתעוררים מרבצם, וליה ושותפה הוותיק, מנו, נגררים מחדש בעל כורחם בחזרה לתיק הכואב והמורכב ולמערבולת של אנשי משפט, משטרה ותקשורת, כשהם לגמרי לבדם מול העולם. האם הפעם יצליחו השניים להציל את הילדה בזמן?

Attorney Kirk Hoffman only represents the innocent and works behind the scenes to help his clients. But when Dwayne Sachs, a contentious online influencer and the son of a former client, comes to Hoffman on a murder charge, he can’t say no, even though it seems like a simple case and there is little doubt Dwayne is guilty.

Eddie Flynn, ex con-artist-turned-defense attorney, has an impossible choice to make. His client, the widow of a man who died in a confrontation with a police officer, is seeking justice for her husband. The victim himself was accused of killing a man in a robbery gone wrong outside the St. Regis Hotel—his widow swears it’s not true, and the story’s not adding up to Flynn, either. But with his small and scrappy law firm on the brink of financial collapse, taking this to trial and losing could put them under for good.

Millionärstochter Lara Blum wurde entführt. Der Täter sitzt in Haft, verweigert aber jede Aussage. Sein Motiv ist unklar. Psychopath oder Terrorist? Die Medien überschlagen sich mit Spekulationen. Bei der Polizei herrscht Ausnahmezustand. Rechtsanwalt Pal Palushi wird zum Pflichtverteidiger ernannt. Da liefert ihm der Entführer einen versteckten Hinweis. Doch Palushi ist an das Anwaltsgeheimnis gebunden. Wird er seine Werte über Bord werfen und seine Karriere aufs Spiel setzen, um die junge Studentin zu retten? Er gerät zwischen die Fronten.

Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank "Tripp" Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises—arrogant, sexist, entitled—but it's her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.

Dr. John Havilland praktiziert als Psychiater, doch er führt ein Doppelleben. Er zeichnet sich durch soziopathische und psychopathische Züge aus, ist manipulativ und zieht seine Fäden wie ein Puppenspieler – wobei die Puppen in seinem Spiel tatsächlich Menschen sind. Diese Menschen, die ursprünglich seine professionelle Hilfe suchten, sammelt er als seine Anhänger um sich. Noch beunruhigender ist, dass er sie wie Schachfiguren, für seine eigenen dunklen Machenschaften einsetzt, indem er sie mit Drogen und Medikamenten gefügig macht.

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice.

Irina es una bella joven de turbio pasado casada con Miguel Tur, un rico empresario ibicenco. La desaparición de Irina y el inesperado desenlace harán que Ballesteros, el prestigioso abogado, y Álex Zarco, el extravagante detective, colaboren de nuevo para esclarecer lo sucedido. En esta ocasión se adentrarán en el mundo de la prostitución y de la jet set en Ibiza, en una peligrosa investigación en la que Zarco tendrá que emplear todas sus facultades deductivas para resolver el crimen.

Sharon, une avocate dans un cabinet sans envergure, est désignée par un homme étrange accusé du meurtre de deux enfants. Ce dernier clame son innocence sans en démordre, mais lorsqu’un troisième enfant est découvert selon ses instructions, séquestré dans le coffre d’une voiture, la police ne croit plus à son discours.

While vacationing at the Regal Isabela resort in Puerto Rico, attorney Daniel Mendoza witnesses what he suspects is an abduction of a hotel guest. He and his private investigator, Pamela Williams, investigate the suspicious activity to determine what really happened. After the trail goes cold, they both head back to Arizona where his team of attorneys are trying a wrongful death case filed against their client. Daniel, however, never arrives in court. Is he still on the case of the kidnapped guest? Or did something tragic happen?

Simon Latch is a small-town lawyer struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it. Once he's hooked the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar, even from his own assistant. But there are complications: other lawyers are circling his client like vultures.