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Tim Rackley ist US Marshal in Los Angeles. Als seine sechsjährige Tochter brutal ermordet und der Täter wegen eines juristischen Formfehlers freigesprochen wird, gerät seine Welt aus den Fugen. Das Verlangen nach Rache wird übermächtig, und so schließt sich Rackley einer Organisation an, die sich das Ziel gesetzt hat, solche >Fehler< der Rechtsprechung zu beseitigen. Als skrupellose Mitglieder bei ihren Aktionen ein Blutbad anrichten, begreift Rackley, dass es eine Qual sein kann, sich zum Herrn über Leben und Tod aufzuschwingen.

Go on vacation with Allison Brennan’s Lucy Kincaid, where she saves a man from drowning, only to discover he is in far greater danger on land. Meet Roxanne St. Claire’s “bullet catcher” - bodyguard Donovan Rush - who may have met his match in the sexually charged “Diamond Drop.” Debut author William Simon shows us what happens when the president's granddaughter is kidnapped. And Lee Child’s pitch-perfect “I Heard a Romantic Story” puts a whole new spin on Love Is Murder.

With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it’s time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case - a speeding ticket - he’s convinced his career is over. But to his shock, his boss hands him a slightly more complex case: capital murder.

An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved", he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man with a murky past.

Investigating a crime seemingly unconnected to the Royal Family, Holmes & Watson uncover a conspiracy to kidnap Queen Victoria and destabilise the British Empire. With a ticking clock to her next public engagement, Holmes and Watson must discover who is behind the plot and locate her majesty, while Mycroft tries to keep the monarch’s disappearance a secret from the British people. At first, Holmes believes Moriarty is responsible for the abduction, but when the Napoleon of Crime is proved innocent, Holmes must work with his arch-nemesis to rescue the Queen.

Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she's become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who've never made it home.

At last recovered from a near-fatal gunshot wound, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky is back at work. But instead of returning to his old job as chief of homicide detail, he's assigned a desk job in the payroll department, where he has no business investigating murders -until his father's closest friend is shot dead in a downtown pawn shop.

Una mujer hermosa e ingenua que roba con destreza a altos ejecutivos, un pintor habitado por fuerzas misteriosas y un sacerdote que se enfrenta a un caso de posesión demoníaca en La Candelaria, historias que se tejen en torno a la de Campo Elías, héroe de la guerra de Vietnam, quien inicia su particular descenso a los infiernos obsesionado por la dualidad entre el bien y el mal, entre Jekyll y Hyde, y se convertirá en un ángel exterminador.

A deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series. Lucia - current last name, Rickenbah - has made a fortune by marrying rich men who tend to drop dead. But the superstitious blonde believes in more than money and murder. Nameless’s job is to scare a confession out of Lucia, and as the psychological warfare escalates, even he may be in for a shock.

When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley's testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences aren't far behind. Dex fears he'll get transferred from the Human Police Force's Sixth Precinct. Instead, his adoptive father pulls a few strings, and Dex gets recruited as a Defense Agent at the THIRDS. Dex is determined to get his life back on track, but his first meeting with Team Leader Sloane Brodie turns disastrous.

Aller guten Morde sind drei! Während seine Richterkollegen an den Folgen der schlecht geplanten Digitalisierungswelle verzweifeln, kann Siggi Buckmann über Schwierigkeiten dieser Art nur müde lächeln. Denn kaum ist er von der Hochzeitsfeier seiner Ex-Frau Britta zurückgekehrt, wird er beinahe von einem Auto überfahren, nur wenig später verfehlt ihn ein herabstürzender Blumenkübel um Haaresbreite. Während sein alter Freund Hauptkommissar Hiller an einen Zufall glaubt, ist Siggi sicher, dass es jemand auf ihn abgesehen hat.

At the dawn of the French Revolution, the men, women, and children of Paris have one hope to escape the guillotine: the masked and mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel. But who is this daring swordsman and quick-thinking master of disguise? London’s privileged, self-obsessed Sir Percy Blakeney. When his estranged wife, Marguerite, falls prey to French envoy Chauvelin’s blackmail, she unwittingly exposes the Pimpernel and imperils the covert league he commands.

Aller guten Morde sind drei! Während seine Richterkollegen an den Folgen der schlecht geplanten Digitalisierungswelle verzweifeln, kann Siggi Buckmann über Schwierigkeiten dieser Art nur müde lächeln. Denn kaum ist er von der Hochzeitsfeier seiner Ex-Frau Britta zurückgekehrt, wird er beinahe von einem Auto überfahren, nur wenig später verfehlt ihn ein herabstürzender Blumenkübel um Haaresbreite. Während sein alter Freund Hauptkommissar Hiller an einen Zufall glaubt, ist Siggi sicher, dass es jemand auf ihn abgesehen hat.

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.

The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver", is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril.

An enemy thought dead resurfaces. Soulless returns to wreak havoc as he goes after his enemies while seeking revenge, and Tanner is his main target.

Tanner and Soulless face off as they're each offered a contract to kill the other. However, the real threat comes from the person who is manipulating events from behind the scenes.

To her neighbors, Jennifer Johnson seemed odd, just a little off. How could she not? Her entire existence was a lie. While the child at her breasts was really hers, the husband by her side…not so much. John and Jennifer Johnson shared the same innocuous last name—second most common in the United States—but he was not the father of her son, nor the love of her life.

Ein Mörder, der straffrei bleibt. Ein Vater, der für Gerechtigkeit kämpft. Eine Polizistin, die alles aufs Spiel setzt. Als der 72jährige Volker März an einem kalten Herbstmorgen den Bahnsteig betritt, ahnt er nicht, dass er beobachtet wird. Der alte Mann gilt als dringend tatverdächtig in einem Mordfall, der vor 40 Jahren ganz Deutschland erschütterte: Im November 1981 wurde die 17jährige Nina Markowski auf brutale Weise umgebracht. Die Spuren am Tatort belasteten Volker März damals schwer, doch die Beweise reichten nicht für einen Schuldspruch.

Eiskalte Rache. Vanilleeis mit Kirschsauce: Die zwölfjährige Claudia stirbt einige Stunden nach dem Genuss ihres Lieblingsdesserts im Kreis ihrer Familie. Wer hatte einen Grund, das Mädchen zu vergiften? Diese Frage zerstört die Patchwork-Familie und drei Menschenleben, denn auf jedem von ihnen liegt ein schrecklicher Verdacht. Claudias Mutter braucht sechsunddreißig Jahre, um endlich die Wahrheit zu erkennen. Sie schmiedet einen perfiden Plan.