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Filled with action, intrigue, and suspense, The Fourth Prophecy is a nonstop adventure that proves Glenn Cooper is a master at thrillers. A beloved professor of theology and archaeology at Harvard, Cal Donovan has achieved renown – but he drops everything when he is called by his friend Pope...

When the body of local architect James McCallum is found hanging in the grounds of his former school one cold, dark night, DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey suspect foul play behind his apparent suicide. To their astonishment, the trail leads to a 20-year-old cold case of a missing girl and a teenage party. But what was James’ fascination with the case, and how is it linked to his death? Secrets don’t stay buried forever - but the real killer will stop at nothing to hide theirs....

Una mort accidental destaparà els secrets més foscos d'un petit poble i els seus habitants. La novel·la comença amb un accident de caça que sembla desafortunat, on el jove Claudi, un noi deficient molt conegut al poble, mor. Els quatre implicats en l'accident intentaran desviar l'atenció de les indagacions policials, però a mesura que van apareixent les dificultats i els problemes, obriran la capsa de Pandora i alliberaran secrets que mai havien vist la llum.

There comes a time in some investigations where a cop should do the smart thing and cut his losses. The problem Detectives Bat Poe and Fran Gomez have is that they’re many miles beyond that point, and never noticed when it passed. They’re stuck chasing a gang of drug dealers they’ve been after for years and have finally pushed things to the point where failure might cost them their careers and lives. Join them on the bad guys’ trail in the summer of 1978, as what should have been a routine case devolves into a study in vendetta and survival.

En "Campo de muerte", Poe y Tilly están desayunando, preguntándose cómo pasarán el resto de sus vacaciones, cuando su presencia es solicitada en un aeródromo de Cumbria. Un aeródromo que durante la crisis de la fiebre aftosa de 2001 se conocía como el campo de la muerte... En "¿Por qué no encogen las ovejas?" una pandemia global obliga a Poe y a Tilly a aislarse juntos. Las cosas no salen bien. Discuten y están a punto de pelear cuando Poe encuentra un viejo expediente: un misterio en el que ha estado reflexionando durante años.

An American King unfolds during a violent rash of crime in Whicher's hometown. Working for the Abilene US Marshals Office, Whicher investigates a baffling murder, part of an outbreak of lawlessness that threatens to escalate out of control. Assigned a new partner to help work a case unlike any he's known, what starts in shadow soon burns a path across the city, ever closer to home.

In the highly competitive modern world, doing well in any competition is not enough. Being number one is what counts. This book traces the lives of five colorful individuals. They are winners in their unique ways from the early stages of their lives. We experience, intimately, the twists and turns that occur as they enter early adulthood and get embroiled in a contest anchored in the pursuit of business success and love. At some point, each character realizes that things can get highly complex, emotionally draining, and even dangerous when love is in the mix.

"En caída libre" supone el regreso de uno de los personajes emblemáticos de la imprescindible autora de novela negra Rosa Ribas: Cornelia Weber-Tejedor, inspectora de policía medio alemana, medio española a caballo entre sus dos raíces y la sangre mezclada que corre por sus venas. En esta ocasión, Cornelia tiene que infiltrarse en el complejísimo sistema del aeropuerto de Fráncfort, con 70.000 trabajadores activos y un trasiego de más de un millón de personas diarias, para destapar una turbia trama de drogas.

After vanquishing his enemies in Moscow, former Special Ops legend, Xander King returned home, finally feeling free of his violent existence. But, the next morning, when he is greeted by a blood-soaked tragedy and the shocking message that the woman he loves has been taken, his vengeful past pulls him right back in. Armed with only a cryptic text message from an unknown source, Xander goes on the hunt for revenge in Paris. It's a race against the clock to save Natalie, and the ransom is Xander's life for hers; a price he's more than willing to pay.

Desde el inicio de la alerta sanitaria, Manuela Mauri no ha tenido un respiro y por primera vez en su vida se siente desbordada por los acontecimientos. En medio del caos, un doble crimen ocurrido en Alcalá de Henares le quitará el sueño: Carlota, una joven de diecinueve años, avisa a la policía al encontrar a su padre y a su madrastra muertos a tiros en su casa. Una fiesta ilegal y el testimonio de diez jóvenes en guerra con la sociedad serán claves en la resolución del caso. Una novela policial que va mucho más allá de la investigación de un homicidio.

Torna la Nines, la recordeu? i més bonica que mai. I diu "Flanagan m'has de fer un favor", i el Flanagan, és clar, què ha de fer? I ja hi tornem a ser: corre-cuites i perills a dojo. Una parella de traficants de drogues de disseny, una parella de guàrdies civils enfurismats, una colla de pijos sense escrúpols. I el Flanagan en una moto sense saber conduir (no ho provéssiu mai!), i en veler sense saber com funciona... i sort que sap nedar! Sort d'això, perquè si no, no ho explica.

"Mightier than the sword" empieza con un atentado del IRA durante el viaje de inauguración del MV Buckingham a través del atlántico. ¿Cuántos pasajeros han perdido la vida? Cuando Harry Clifton visita a su editor en Nueva York, se entera de que lo han nombrado presidente de la rama inglesa de la asociación internacional de escritores PEN. De inmediato promueve una campaña para conseguir la liberación de un colega autor, Anatoly Babakov, prisionero en Siberia. ¿Qué crimen ha cometido Babakov?

Andreu Martín lleva años siendo testigo y notario de los cambios de su amada Barcelona a través de sus bajos fondos. De los navajeros del Raval a los despiadados banqueros de los fondos buitre, este escritor es el mejor desvelando el lado oscuro de la sociedad actual. En esta novela, la trama se dispara con la aparición de la cabeza decapitada de una mujer encima de un coche de lujo.

Un thriller oscuro y sangriento que desatará los secretos inconclusos del pasado de Zoe Natan. Zoe nunca se ha recuperado de la muerte de su hermano, asesinado diez años atrás. Pero cuando empiezan a aparecer hombres muertos y ahorcados, el pasado parece volver a ella con la fuerza contundente de un tsunami. La policía tendrá que investigar lo que está sucediendo y pronto verán el nexo en común entre los diferentes hombres muertos: todos acababan de salir de la prisión.

Harry Bosch, detective de la Policía de Los Ángeles, ha sido siempre un solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y quedó luego marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis le devuelve a su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran "ratas de túnel", ambos combatieron en los túneles del Viet Cong y ambos habían experimentado el horror del "eco negro".

Ironworker Wayne Colson and his spirited wife Carmen are witnesses to a shakedown scam — witnesses who must be eliminated. Enter Armand Degas (a.k.a. Blackbird), the brains of the operation, and his partner Richie Nix, an ex-con whose highest goal is to rob a bank in every state. After the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Security Program, a lively chase ensues — with two bumbling but determined killers on Wayne and Carmen's trail.

Sheriff Lance Tallbear’s half-blood Apache heritage leaves him struggling to find his place in a world where neither white nor Indian wants or readily accepts him. He faces the world his shaman father turned away from and acknowledges the one his shaman grandfather prays he’ll return to. Tallbear’s new case uncovers a mysterious plane wreck discovered in the Superstition Mountains that turns out to stir both his life decisions and ultimate direction. Along with his troubled FBI partner, Brad Hanley, they face a myriad of obstacles in their journey to the truth.

Lainey Frost finds herself embroiled in a dark mystery, one where choosing who to believe is paramount and putting her faith in the wrong person could turn out to be a fatal mistake. Can Lainey trust her haunted heart, or will that trust be buried deep in the cold, iron-hard ground to be hidden forever by the never-ending silent fall of white? After all, some secrets are never to be told.

You don't wake up one day and become a mafia hit man. It doesn't happen overnight. This is a story about how a young, football-loving American boy could end up a calculated killer, "strictly business". It tells of a long and dangerous journey to becoming an assassin. A successful professional killer is made, not born. You get to experience his thoughts as he tries to justify the world of blood, sex, and death. You will live what he and the people of his world lived, from a young teen to an older, wiser man.

Slug Wiseman, Michael Flowers’ Jackal - intelligent, sometimes humane, ingenious, inhumane, Stone Age-ugly, a mystery, a rare breed, and monstrous - is the most wanted. In Michael Flowers' intriguing, spine-tingling thriller, Slug is arrested, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. But when Slug reaches out after death, determined to prey on those who have either endorsed or witnessed his execution, and his quest approaches its climactic horror, the nation is once again reduced to tremulous gibbering in what is set in the aftermath of a horrific execution.

Former police detective, Francesco Marchese, is called in to help the local police department figure out what ties these women together, and to help stop the ruthless killer before he claims his next victim. What Marchese doesn’t know is that he is being being drawn into an international conspiracy, one that takes him all the way to New York City. He finds himself collaborating with British Intelligence to protect the secret that the British Crown and the Vatican have been covering up for centuries.

Wie gewohnt besticht Lenz durch seine unverwechselbare Erzählkunst, die Volker Lechtenbrink mit seiner Stimme gekonnt zum Leben erweckt. Das Feuerschiff - ein Symbol der Sicherheit. Während es in der Ostsee vor Anker liegt, nimmt der Kapitän Johann Freytag Schiffbrüchige auf, deren Boot zerstört wurde. Wie sich rasch herausstellt, handelt es sich bei diesen Menschen jedoch keineswegs um Hilfesuchenden, sondern um eine Verbrecherbande, die schwer bewaffnet ist. Auf einmal wird die vermeintlich unerschütterliche Sicherheit gefährdet. Wird Freytag sich und seine unbewaffnete Crew vor den Gangstern schützen können?

World-weary detective Mike Mason becomes embroiled in the local politics of coastal preservation when he is called upon to explain his involvement with an environmental activist found murdered - the body of which was recovered from a local garbage dump. Joined by his partner, Joe Ballard, the two private investigators embark on a quest to find the activist's murderer and, in doing so, realize things are not always what they seem; that someone who had once taken only a keen interest in Mike Mason's life story is now becoming an active player.

James and Lianna Winn are siblings with a rivalry that began at childhood. Lianna was always the tattletale and James was always the troubled son. As children, Lianna, the good girl, would look for any opportunity to get her mother's attention and love, oddly enough, by tattling on her brother. This would cause him to seek revenge in this love-hate relationship. Time has passed and now as adults, things remain the same, but have turned into more than just child's play and tattling. Lianna's incriminating words have now landed her brother, James behind bars.

Award-winning producer Courtney Southerland turned down lucrative career opportunities to learn the truth about the legend of Palo Duro Canyon. Determined to track down the famous Black Panther and the girl that had been seen with it, Court devoted two years of her life living in caves and tents as she tracked the pair through the second largest canyon in the United States. She was about to relegate the panther’s legend to the category of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster when the girl appeared from nowhere to save her life.

Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: "On the night of October 26, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, 'Someone should kill that motherfucker.'"

When the last illegal arms dealer in the world gets tripped up by his own human compassion and the latest technology inside of a church. Sam Franklin, a.k.a. Tom Jones, lives in a small community in San Diego, CA. His life involves many things that the average person would never understand. The reason for the alias is that Sam has been wanted by law enforcement agencies from all around the world. He has been hiding in plain sight for a long time and is always one step ahead of the law, until today.

This tightly plotted mystery from E. W. Hornung tells the tale of Mr. Cazalet. Though he appears to be a globe-trotting adventurer without a care in the world, his past holds a dark secret - and he'll go to the ends of the earth to seek revenge. But when the object of his hatred turns up dead, Cazalet drops everything to figure out the identity of the murderer.

In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City, a charnel house is discovered. Inside are...

Audible y Planeta Audio, con la colaboración de Lorenzo Silva presentan la versión dramatizada de la segunda novela de la serie de Bevilacqua y Chamorro, "El alquimista impaciente". Esta novela inicia su acción con un cadáver desnudo que aparece atado a una cama en un motel. Por la situación en que se halla, sin marcas de violencia, puede ser un crimen, o no. El sargento Bevilacqua, atípico investigador criminal de la Guardia Civil, y su ayudante, la guardia Chamorro, han de resolver el enigma. La investigación que sigue no es una mera pesquisa policial.