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Widowed. Unemployed. Aged fifty-one. Mrs. Shim becomes a killer. In this savage and side-splitting literary thriller, an ordinary woman dives headfirst into a world of petty criminals, crooked cops, and accidental assassins. Around her orbit a washed-up fixer blackmailed by his boss's daughter, a policeman's wife undercover at a third-rate detective agency, a ghost marriage-broker with an attraction to hairdressers, and a son who unknowingly becomes her rival.

Wenige Jahre sind vergangen, seit Ex-Kommissar Alex Lindner einen brutalen Serienkiller überführte. Als wieder ein junges Mädchen verschwindet, droht seine Vergangenheit ihn einzuholen. Dieses Mal gibt es keine Hoffnung, es sei denn, er lässt sich auf die Hilfe des einstigen Killers ein. Doch die Bestie verfolgt ihr eigenes Ziel.

Ein Serienmörder versetzt das nächtliche Paris in Angst und Schrecken: Reiche Männer, die ihren Geliebten Schmuck bringen wollen, werden heimtückisch überfallen. Als der König sich an die geistreiche Dichterin Fräulein von Scuderi wendet, begegnet sie dem Fall zunächst mit einem Bonmot – bis sie selbst ein rätselhaftes Schmuckkästchen mitsamt Nachricht des Täters erhält. Nun wird ihr klar: Sie muss dem Geheimnis auf den Grund gehen.

Die 2001 erschienene Fortsetzung von »Der Talisman« erstmals als deutsches Hörbuch Ein Serienmörder treibt in einem kleinen Ort inmitten der Wälder von Wisconsin sein Unwesen. Als grausam verstümmelte Kinderleichen gefunden werden, wird Ex-Detective Jack Sawyer von der Polizei um Hilfe gebeten – und dabei von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt. Seit er vor fast zwanzig Jahren in den „Territorien" war, jener geheimnisvollen, fantastische Parallelwelt, steht er mit magischen Kräften in Verbindung. Um den unheimlichen Serienmörder zu stellen, muss Jack das schwarze Haus betreten.

Alexander Stevens, einer der bekanntesten Strafverteidiger des Landes, und Constantin Schreiber, Tagesschau-Sprecher, Bestseller-Autor und von Haus aus ebenfalls Jurist mit Leidenschaft fürs Strafrecht, befassen sich mit spektakulären und teilweise noch nie erzählten Mordfällen. Gemeinsam beleuchten und rekonstruieren sie diese aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, nehmen die Rollen von Anwalt und Verteidiger ein und fördern überraschende Wendungen, geheimnisvolle Indizien und verrückten Motive zutage.

In the gritty underbelly of late 1970s New York City, a chilling menace looms. Known only as The Nomad, a deranged serial killer casts a shadow of terror across the bustling streets. With a string of gruesome murders already staining the city's conscience, The Nomad turns his sinister focus on "Bony" Tony Charisma, once the pulsing bass player of The Funk Express. Anthony Martinez, better known as Tony Charisma, finds his life spiraling into a nightmare. The Nomad, driven by unfathomable insanity, brutally takes the life of Tony's girlfriend, shattering his world.

Drabsefterforsker Mason Teilmanns mangeårige søgen efter en berygtet seriemorder truer med at opsluge hans liv og rive hans verden fra hinanden. Masons instinkter vækkes straks, da Det nationale Cyber Crime Center afslører en hjemmeside, som har forbindelse til en pædofil trafficking-ring. Efterforskningen fører ham til Gayson Lopez, bedre kendt som The Wolf: Et navn, der har hjemsøgt Mason siden hans tid i New Orleans' politistyrke.

An innocent family are the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness. All hope rests on Special Agent Will Graham, who must peer inside the killer's tortured soul to understand his rage, to anticipate and prevent his next vicious crime. Desperate for help, Graham finds himself locked in a deadly alliance with the brilliant Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the infamous mass murderer.

Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He’s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likable: he only kills bad people.

Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who has finally met his number-one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life - just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on.

There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the killer is gettingmore confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evil - a tour de force of psychological suspense.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.

Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller. Food critic Dorothy Daniels indulges in her homicidal urges by murdering her lovers and devouring their organs in this intense, visceral, and lushly told tale of food, sex, power, and the pursuit of a very particular taste set between New York and Italy. Please Note: A Certain Hunger contains adult language and depictions of violence. Discretion is advised.

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.

Don’t look down.... Because you’re trapped on the 40th floor of a deserted office building by a psychopath called "The Butcher". Don’t look down.… Because you’re an ex-mountain climber and a fall from Everest left you with a bad leg and a paralyzing fear of heights. Don’t look down.… Because The Butcher hasslaughtered the guards an.d short-circuited the elevators - the stairways are blocked, and for you and the beautiful woman with you, there’s only one escape route. Don’t look down.… Because 600 feet of empty space are looking back at you.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

A serial rapist is kidnapping teenage girls. But he’s not interested in just any teenage girls - only virgins. He hunts them by following their status updates and check-ins on social media. Once captured, they’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready. He throws them away like pieces of trash after he’s stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive. Until Ella. She risks it all to escape, setting herself and the other girls free. Only the girl who's been captive the longest gets out with her. And soon Ella discovers her nightmare's far from over.

True crime writer Dougal Lachlan swore he'd never set foot in Twisted Cedars again. Not even for his sister's upcoming wedding. But an email promising the story of a lifetime pulls him back to his hometown against his better judgement. Thirty years ago, five librarians were murdered across quiet coastal towns in Oregon, leaving a trail of unsolved mysteries. All signs point to a serial killer. As Dougal plunges into the investigation, he enlists the help of local librarian Charlotte Hammond.

Es war Ende August, und bald würde der ganze Wahnsinn wieder beginnen. Es standen noch einige Weihnachtsmänner auf seiner Todesliste, die er gerne gen Himmel schicken würde. Das wollte geplant sein, genau recherchiert. Und das vierundzwanzigste Türchen war ja noch immer reserviert für die Eine: für Ann Kathrin Klaasen.