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Sergeant Belinda 'Billy' Kidd is driving home from the airport, jet-lagged and ready to resign from a career that has left her traumatised. Menopause has robbed her confidence too - now she's a traffic cop who's afraid to drive. When brake lights haemorrhage up the motorway, the cars grind to a halt. Moments later she finds a dead driver in a black sedan. He has a metal skewer in his neck. But how? The killer can't have left the scene without being spotted by the dozens of witnesses - so he must still be there, among them.

From 14 best-selling authors comes a new crime thriller anthology guaranteed to keep you up all night.

Amanda Bonham moved halfway around the world to be with the man she loves. Although expat life in Singapore can be difficult, Edward Bonham is a dream husband and a doting father to his teenage daughter, Josie. But when their maid dies in an apparent suicide—and Amanda discovers the woman was pregnant and hiding a stash of drugs prescribed to Edward—she can’t help but wonder if her perfect husband has a fatal flaw. And if he can’t resist temptation under their own roof, what does he get up to when he travels? Camille Kemble also has questions for Edward.

American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot for Rose to get used to in Hurtwood. Like the family’s crumbling mansion, inhabited by Dylan’s reclusive mother, and the treacherous hill it sits upon, a place of both sinister folklore and present dangers. Then there are the unwelcoming villagers, who only whisper the name Kynaston - like some dreadful secret, a curse. Everyone knows what happened at Hurtwood House twenty years ago. Everyone except Rose.

Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children - until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost. Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that's protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge under her wing.

Crime writer Aggie Catchlove can never forget how celebrity author Kit Stirling stole her famous 'twist'. When fellow novelist Jakob Hök learns during the Crème de la Crime festival that Kit's next book is a rip-off of his long-running series, he and Aggie furiously plot the perfect murder of...

Der erste Locked-Car-Thriller: Originell, temporeich und absolut fesselnd – nach diesem Hörbuch werden Sie öfter in den Rückspiegel schauen! Ein kilometerlanger Stau. Im Auto neben dir sitzt eine Leiche. Der Mörder steckt in der Autoschlange fest – und du auch. Belinda Kidd, Kommissarin kurz vor dem Ruhestand, ist auf dem Weg vom Flughafen in die Londoner Innenstadt. Vom Jetlag geplagt, will sie einfach nur nach Hause – als der Verkehr plötzlich stockt und dann zum völligen Stillstand kommt.

It is 3pm on Monday. Emily Smith is summoned to her daughter's school, an elite hothouse where pupils work under exacting standards of grades and behaviour. She is reassured that Olivia isn't in trouble, but the news is even worse - her child is missing. As time ticks by and fear becomes unbearable, the real danger may not be the kidnapper but someone much closer to home...

VENERDÌ POMERIGGIO. E IL TRAFFICO È... MICIDIALE. UNA DETECTIVE IN MENOPAUSA. UN INGORGO INTERMINABILE. UN OMICIDIO SENZA SPIEGAZIONI. Il sergente Belinda Kidd - per tutti Billy - sta tornando a casa dall'aeroporto, stremata dal jet-lag e pronta a lasciarsi alle spalle una carriera che l'ha segnata per sempre. Ma il destino ha in serbo altri piani per lei. In un afoso venerdì pomeriggio, il traffico si blocca all'improvviso. Le luci dei freni tingono l'autostrada di rosso. Pochi istanti dopo, Billy si accorge che nell'auto accanto a lei c'è un uomo morto, molto probabilmente assassinato.