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La psychothérapeute Frieda Klein découvre le corps d'un homme sous le plancher de son appartement. Il est mort, une jonquille à la main, les deux oreilles tranchées. Frieda affirme qu'il s'agit d'un ancien policier, tué par Dean Reeve, responsable d'une série d'enlèvements et d'un meurtre. Le problème c'est que ce dernier est censé avoir mis à fin à ses jours il y a sept ans... Puis, Chloé, la nièce de Frieda est kidnappée. La presse se déchaîne, la police est dépassée... Frieda et ses proches sont plus que jamais en danger.

Lorsqu'une ancienne relation de travail lui demande d'établir le bilan psychiatrique de Hannah Docherty, Frieda Klein se retrouve dans une situation délicate. Elle ne peut refuser de rendre service à ce collègue influent, mais elle éprouve un choc en rencontrant la jeune femme. Incarcérée depuis treize ans dans une institution douteuse pour avoir assassiné sa famille, Hannah n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Convaincue de l'innocence de Hannah et malgré les injonctions de la police, la psychothérapeute rouvre le dossier de ce crime sordide et met au jour des incohérences.

Five generations after Riley and Clay first set foot on Shiprock, the community is thriving. Liberated from the Breeders, the new society is free to live and love how they chose. Eighteen-year-old Meg is Shiprock’s apprentice gunslinger and wise-cracking security guard, keeping the people safe as she patrols the stony cliffs. She can hit a target at 50 paces with her eyes closed, and yet, she’s never ventured outside the sheer cliffs of her home. It isn’t safe out there. Marauders still roam, snatching up unsuspecting victims.

Il y a des vendredis où rien ne va. Comme celui du Dr Frieda Klein, appelée à reconnaître un cadavre repêché dans la Tamise. Cadavre qui porte un bracelet à son nom et qui n'est autre que celui de son ex-petit ami, Sandy. Leur relation s'était terminée sur une rupture plutôt douloureuse. Puis il y avait eu cette violente altercation en pleine rue. Lorsque la police retrouve le portefeuille du défunt dans l'appartement de la jeune femme, tout bascule. Devenue malgré elle le suspect n° 1, Frieda ne voit qu'une seule issue : prendre la fuite et mener sa propre enquête.

King Richard is dead, and John is king, a ruler ever-ready for more money in his treasury whether it comes there honestly or not. When the Baron Eric mysteriously disappears, the moody Sir Basil, distant relative and heir, has taken over the castle - and would not be pleased if Eric should ever return. In an unguarded moment of genuine gratitude, Sir Basil invites young Martin to come to the castle as a page and squire. Martin is swiftly drawn into Rosamund's troubles and into a few of his own before the tale reaches its dramatic climax.

Il y a vingt-trois ans, Frieda quittait Braxton sans un regard en arrière. Devenue psychothérapeute, elle pensait avoir tiré un trait définitif sur le traumatisme de sa jeunesse. Pourtant, les révélations de Becky, sa nouvelle patiente, vont rouvrir en grand les portes de son passé. Comme Frieda, Becky est une adolescente de Braxton fragile et incomprise. Comme Frieda, la jeune fille a perdu son innocence trop tôt, trop vite, dans d'étranges circonstances. Et comme Frieda, elle n'a trouvé personne pour croire à son histoire.

Decency, humanity, and humility don't live on the Darkside. Seattle's underbelly in a darker, grimmer future plays host to a collection of novellas, each exploring how people wind up in that forsaken hellhole - and what they're willing to do to prove they belong. This audiobook includes three titles from the Darkside Seattle series: Street Doc, Fixer, and Mechanic.

The masters of the Doom Eagles Space Marines Chapter descend upon the world of Tranzia to honour a batch of new recruits who will lead the Chapter into the next generation. As they make planetfall, the world rises up against them in a rebellion organised by the alien Tau. But something else lurks behind the xenos, a horror that has haunted the Imperium since its very beginnings. The Doom Eagles and their Adepta Sororitas allies are thrust into a race against time to discover the true architect of the Tranzia Rebellion.

Toby Hennessy, 28, hat immer gedacht, dass das Schicksal es gut mit ihm meint. Er führt ein unbeschwertes, erfolgreiches Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts von Einbrechern in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp; er ist körperlich und seelisch versehrt, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Es erscheint ihm wie eine Zuflucht, in das alte, von Efeu umrankte Haus seiner Familie zu ziehen, um sich dort um seinen sterbenden Onkel Hugo zu kümmern. Doch dann wird im hohlen Stamm der mächtigen Ulme im Garten ein Totenschädel gefunden.

For the first time, get seven classic audio dramas from the Horus Heresy in one fantastic collection - including a brand-new audio drama edition of Dan Abnett's short story 'Little Horus'. If you don't know where to start with Horus Heresy audio, this curated collection is the perfect beginning - and if you just want to reexperience these exciting adventures, this is your chance!

C'était la famille parfaite... mais un meurtre va tout ébranler. Quand elle rentre de l'école, ce mercredi-là, Dora Lennox trouve une maison en pagaille, des biscuits brûlés et un cadavre, celui de sa mère, sauvagement assassinée. Épouse et mère aimée, aide-soignante charitable, voisine exemplaire : pour l'inspecteur Karlsson, Ruth Lennox avait pourtant tout de la femme sans histoire - jusqu'à ce que les langues se délient. Et, face à des proches meurtris, qui mieux que la psychothérapeute Frieda Klein pour déceler les noirs secrets de l'âme ?

Un homme nu, assis dans un fauteuil, une pâtisserie à la main...et pourtant bien mort. Voilà la découverte que fait l'assistante sociale chez une de ses patientes, Michelle Doyce. Celle-ci, pourtant, ne peut dire aux policiers d'où vient cet homme, ni qui il est. Face à ce mystère, l'inspecteur Karlsson fait appel à la psychothérapeute Frieda Klein et à son incomparable capacité à sonder l'âme humaine. Car pour découvrir le meurtrier, il faut d'abord connaître la victime.

Discussions about the fate of Africa have long had a cyclical quality. That is especially the case when it comes to the question of how to explain the region’s persistent underdevelopment.

Dolores and Victor are both successful, both Americans living alone in England. They meet and fall instantly in love, only to discover they agree on nothing. From the start they know they have only one year together. Their affair is sometimes bitter, always passionate, and, in the end, an extraordinary revelation for them both.

Famed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death or recovery. Elizabeth, cold and calculating, fights hard for every success and pays a high price; beautiful Mary has always needed a man to support her tastes, but time is catching up with her; Alex can't remember her childhood and wants to know why; and Ronnie, illegitimate and proud, refuses to acknowledge her feelings for the man they all love and hate.

In 1992, Marilyn French was told she had one year to live. A smoker of 48 years she was diagnosed as having cancer of the oesophagus, a cancer which is almost always fatal. Five years on, having battled with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a heart attack and her back breaking, she is very much alive. And - astonishingly - her body shows no sign of cancer.

After four marriages and numerous affairs, famed author Hermione Beldame doesn't expect real life to play out like her bestselling romance novels. So she's stunned when she meets George Johnson at a party and the Louisville journalist sweeps her off her feet. The handsome, seductive younger man is the epitome of southern charm. Suddenly, Hermione, who never believed in happily-ever-after, is passionately, obsessively in love.

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial markets.

Rick cannot get a break. He's overworked, underpaid, and has no time for much besides long hours at the office. A sudden corporate merger throws his work into a tailspin. To accommodate new deadlines, Rick is joined by a flirtatious recent grad named Devon. He's a dynamo. With Devon close by his side, Rick might meet his deadlines. Or perhaps discover an exciting performance goal he wasn't expecting. Bottom Line is a steamy gay romance short with lonely, overworked office workers staying late and giving one another a hand to get things done.

Like stars twinkling out of existence at dawn, Peter's memories fade. Only in his dreams can he see the dark, violent events that have imprisoned him for centuries. A chance encounter with a stranger leads him down a path to freedom as he risks everything to quench his thirst for love and break the chains which bind him to the creature who holds the keys to his past. Blood Dreams is a steamy paranormal gay romance with vampires lusting for blood and hunting for love.