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Was kommt in Glücksburg an der Ostsee nach dem Tod? Eine Rede von Mads Madsen. Nicht immer leicht: Wenn einer stirbt, wird auch viel gelogen. Über die Toten nur Gutes, heißt es, aber wer waren sie wirklich? Für Mads oft ein Detektivspiel. Eines Nachts erreicht ihn eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft aus dem Jenseits: Sein alter Freund Patrick ist tot. Sein letzter Wunsch: eine Rede von Mads. Also begibt sich Mads, der seit Jahren keinen Kontakt mehr zu Patrick hatte, auf die Spuren der Vergangenheit.

'A fiendishly clever, totally moreish read with oodles of character and a hefty helping of sharp humour. A five-star whodunnit that kept me hooked right to the brilliant ending' - Gytha Lodge 'Another great and clever book from Jo Jakeman . . . I was completely hooked and loved every minute...

Kat’s journey into the afterlife she never expected, continues as she is made an intriguing job offer. Having escaped from Heaven, God and his awful angels, Kat is enjoying Hell. Satan is nothing like the evil being she was taught in church, but is instead a lovable, if not easy to look at, fallen angel. But he has asked her to return to the pious prison that is Heaven to rescue the other souls like herself who are miserable there. She accepts, albeit a little reluctantly at first...

Lauryn Harper had a plan. A high achieving, perfectly constructed, five-year plan. But after a (totally blown out of proportion) mishap at work that plan is put to the test. As punishment for her mistake she is transferred to the Ryser Charity Department, a branch of her corporation that just so happens to be located in the hometown she abandoned long ago—the same hometown that her powerful corporation is responsible for running into the ground.

Als ihre langjährige Ehe ein unerwartetes Ende findet, sucht Brigitte Trost bei ihren vier besten Freundinnen. Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid, denn auch deren Leben verläuft nicht unbedingt nach Plan. Nach etlichen gemeinsam geleerten Gläsern ›Eifelgeist‹ kommen sie auf eine Idee, vielleicht nur eine Schnapsidee, aber auf alle Fälle ein Abenteuer. Gönnt euch dieses herrlich skurrile Buch über Freundschaft, Dorfleben, und die Wehwehchen des beginnenden Alters, denen 5 Freundinnen mit Humor, Sarkasmus und immer einer Flasche ›Eifelgeist‹ in Reichweite, begegnen.

An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become “Death” for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: A reason to live.

Überm Sargnagel kreist der Pleitegeier, seit das Krematorium abgebrannt ist und die kriminelle Verwandtschaft sich selbst eliminiert hat. Es spukt, es geistert, es kracht gewaltig in Totenheim. Die Totenheimer Chronistin empfiehlt: Lest zuerst Sargnagel 1, bevor ihr euch mit den Helden ins zweite rabenschwarze Abenteuer stürzt.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE BRILLIANTLY FUNNY, ONE-OF-A-KIND PAGE-TURNER FROM AUTHOR AND BELOVED TV PRESENTER, STEVE JONES Introducing The Last Laugh Club. Four strangers who meet to discuss the one thing they don’t want to talk about. But sometimes, when it rains, it pours. Because retired...

One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year “Reading the novel is akin to spending time with a witty if merciless observer of other people’s idiocies. There’s something of a latter-day Holden Caulfield about the narrator…it possesses an enlivening, claustrophobic charge.” —The Spectator...

It's a Midsommar night's Scream in this blood-soaked thriller set at a remote healing retreat from horror author Brian McAuley. Hannah has been running from her demons ever since she emerged from a harrowing wilderness trip without her fiancé. No one knows exactly what happened the day Ben died...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat "A wry work of spectacular wit...

After his mother is diagnosed with dementia, Sunday McWhorter needs a job with flexible hours and a company vehicle. It just so happens that the local porta-potty company is hiring. The job stinks, but it’s a solid paycheck that allows Sunday to take care of his mom. Everything goes smoothly until Autumn and the beginning of county fair season, when people start going missing and body parts start being found…inside the very tanks of the porta-potties Sunday is charged with cleaning.

An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss's whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is...

💥 Don't miss this BRAND NEW, unputdownable, dark and witty crime thriller 💥🩸🤯 A must-read for fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent, Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient and true crime like Mindhunter. I’m psychologist Dr Emy Rose, but that’s not my real name. I work with serial...

Brought to you by Penguin. It's never too late to teach an old woman new murders...a razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Samantha Downing. You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet. She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting...

Ben Harper is determined to make it in comedy and music, but the world refuses to acknowledge his existence, leaving him to confront his past and the ever-present feeling of being overlooked. As he navigates the challenges of pursuing his dreams, Ben's journey becomes one of self-discovery in a world that often prefers to ignore the quiet and the broken. This novel is a poignant meditation on the human experience, using biting humor to address the struggles of fame, failure, and the search for genuine connection in a world full of facades.

From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love—and the many selves inside us sparring for control. Kinga is a woman who...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER "Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart...Her prose offers, in a single page, poetic candor, sly wit, dad jokes, and contemporary therapyspeak." ― The New Yorker “Her weirdest and funniest yet — in the best way possible.” ― Los Angeles...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times) “Here you’ll find that gothic horror...

When Cy Adler dies, it’s a shock to everyone, especially his daughter, Cammy. Almost thirty, slightly aimless, and stuck in a basement apartment in Queens, she’s forced to return to River Hill, her one-square-mile New Jersey hometown, to sit shiva. Cammy’s fraught relationship with her mother, Beth, has never been easy. And now, with her beloved father gone, she would rather be anywhere but back in her childhood room, in a house filled with guests noshing on snacks and offering their condolences. So Cammy does whatever she can to make it through seven turbulent days of mourning.