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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".

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.

The Western world has collapsed and the world is in a state of peril, with China being the world's lone superpower and its economic and military presence dominating the nations. Two young Jordanian IT professionals stumble across a top secret government file to end the reign of China's power. This leads to catastrophic consequences and puts them in a position where their lives are in immediate danger. The road to safety is long and the trip is full of treachery and adventure.

I had her and I lost her. That’s what pain and fear does to someone; they make someone run. And Alicia ran far.... Taking my heart with her. We agreed we both had things to work on, but to be honest, I didn’t know how to improve. She did. She fought for us. She got stronger. She did what she said. I lied.

People started dying, and personalities started to change. Who was murdering people and dumping their bodies in Queen’s Park near the café? Why were the bodies mutilated? What did any of that have to do with Sam? If you like your BLT with a side of murder, manipulation, and massacre, where the tip you leave just might be a part of yourself, then welcome to the Amazing Bee Café.

Seventeen is a hitman, the best in the world, so-called because there were 16 before him, stretching back through the decades. Every government organisation in the world wants his services and every other high-level hitman has placed a target on his back. Because to be the best, you have to beat the best. When Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, the hit goes wrong and hunter turns to hunted. An ultraviolent duel develops between two assassins at the height of their powers, but when they fight themselves to a standstill, the real target of the hit emerges.

I used to live in darkness, and a comet soared through my night sky. So I made a wish. Blood is my sanction. Pain is my salvation. Fear is what I instill. Especially for my Comet. The warm barrel of a gun against my head? It won’t stop me from protecting what is mine. Even if it means spilling more blood. My love for her has been tested and I’m furious. Seconds has turned to minutes. Minutes has turned to hours. And suddenly months have gone by without a change. Trying to make Daphne remember is getting us nowhere. It’s time to accept our fate. This is the new us.