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After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row, writing his life story. But his memoir is his one last chance to protect his brother. And, when it comes to his baby brother, Esau Till is a man without boundaries. When the genetic cards were dealt, Esau drew a genius IQ - and a crippled body. His brother Tory drew a slow mind - and almost superhuman strength. Very early on, Esau learned that the only way to guarantee his brother's safety was to make himself indispensable, so he became the top hired killer for both rival local mobs.

Chicago homicide detective Riley Walker is no stranger to death, but this case will push her to the physical and psychological limits. Following her wrongful removal from the elite Violent Crimes Task Force, Riley is demoted to working cases on Chicago’s South Side. It’s a tough beat for any detective, but it quickly becomes worse when she is assigned a maverick partner who has little respect for the rules. Now she must learn to work together in order to solve the most difficult case of her career, or it could be her last.

Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly—they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy.

When Julie Quinley wakes up after a night out with friends to find herself accused of murder, it proves to be only the beginning of her worst nightmare. Released by the police due to lack of evidence, Julie nevertheless faces the taunts and hostility of colleagues, as more and more people – including members of her own family – seem convinced she is a cold-hearted killer. Just when it seems as if all hope has gone, and Julie's mental state reaches rock bottom, her friend Vinny announces a breakthrough; something he has witnessed that could prove Julie's innocence once and for all.

Five years after the traumatic events witnessed by Rita and Yansis in Manchester, the couple finally agree to return with their young son, Daniel, to attend her brother John's wedding to the beautiful Paula. But memories are long on the Riverhill Estate, and when Daniel goes missing, Rita realises she has many enemies with a motive for taking her child. Once more she faces a race against the clock to unmask the perpetrators, but this time she has help in the shape of her Special Task Force brother, John.

It's 1991, and Rita is looking forward to her return to Manchester after a few years in Greece with her husband Yansis. But once back she finds a cuckoo in the family nest – a dope-smoking 'businessman' called Leroy. Worse, he is her sister Jenny's boyfriend, and father of her unborn child. Rita and Yansis retreat to stay with friends Julie and Vinny, now living in a comfortable suburb of the city. But Rita is anxious to find out just what hold Leroy has over her family, and she'll stop at nothing to find out.

Auf einen Nachtclub, den queere Partyleute gerne besuchen, wird ein Anschlag verübt. Ein Fanatiker, der sich in einem Bekennervideo als "Abgesandter" bezeichnet, hat Handgranaten in den Nachtclub geworfen. Fünf Menschen werden getötet und viele schwer verletzt. Kommissar Henrik Oksman von der Kripo in Pori übernimmt die Ermittlungen. Oksman war kurz vor dem Anschlag jedoch auch in dem Club - wovon niemand etwas wissen darf. Der Anschlag sorgt für große mediale Aufmerksamkeit.

Award-winning New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Diane Capri does it again in another blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher series novel.

Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has just restored order in his life, as well as in the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears—and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park's equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio: Why won't Suomen Leikki Ltd sell the new Moose Jump to Henri when he needs it for the park's main attraction? At the same time, Henri's relationship with the artist Laura Helanto is reaching a breaking point.

The voice was smooth, cultured, almost tender as it oozed from the phone into Connor Fraser's ear. 'I've heard about you, Mr Fraser, and I'm very impressed by your work. So I've decided to employ you. I am going to kill Father John Donnelly sometime in the next seven days. And you are going to stop me—or die trying. If you check your account, you'll see I've deposited £70,000. And, just to be fair, I'll give you an hour, starting now, to find Father Donnelly before the games begin. Refuse my offer, and someone you love will die. Good hunting, to both of us.'

Il rione Sanità è un’isola. Un lungo ponte lo divide dal resto di Napoli. Qui, i vivi e i defunti convivono da secoli e non vi è posto, più di questo, in cui morte e vita siano così strettamente intrecciate. Ed è qui che, dopo quarant’anni, due fratelli si rincontrano. Raffaele, dato in adozione giovanissimo alla morte della madre, ci torna come parroco della basilica di Santa Ma - ria alla Sanità. Peppino, invece, è il boss del quartiere. Due uomini che non potrebbero essere più diversi l’uno dall’altro.

Roma. Quando tre netturbini, nel pieno della notte, incappano nel cadavere di una ragazza nigeriana, tutti i sospetti ricadono immediatamente sul tassista che la stringe fra le braccia. L'uomo, ricoperto del sangue di lei, è in evidente stato di shock, e continua a ripetere di essere l'unico colpevole. Paolo Proietti viene incaricato delle indagini: Ernesto - questo il nome del tassista - è infatti una sua vecchia conoscenza, anche se l'amicizia è naufragata ormai da tanto tempo.

In the swamps of North Florida, Remington James' camera captured the best of nature and the worst of humanity, and it cost him his life. Three years later, his widow turns to the one man who can answer her questions and solve the mystery of his murder—John Jordan.

Dieses Hörbuch ist anders als alles, was Sie bisher gelesen haben. Nicht, weil drei Autoren drei Helden in drei Thrillern auf drei irrwitzige Trips schicken. Sondern weil die drei Autoren dabei ihre Helden tauschen. Ja, Sie haben richtig gelesen. Das Ergebnis dieser ungewöhnlichen Idee: Drei Novellen, wie sie, abgesehen von den Handlungen, unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Mehr noch.

Monsieur Magloire, personnage énigmatique, vit depuis quelques années à Montélimar dans une belle propriété qu'il a héritée de son cousin et immédiatement vendue, en viager, pour vivre tranquillement de ses rentes. Un beau matin, il est retrouvé, par sa bonne, pendu dans son salon. Le commissaire de police mandé sur place découvre dans la poche du mort un bout de papier sur lequel est inscrit en rouge le chiffre 131.313. Monsieur Rosic, célèbre détective et ami du procureur de la République, est appelé sur les lieux pour démêler l'affaire du "Chiffre qui tue !"

Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The other was a wife and mother of two children and has Madison seeing a ghost from her past. She’s convinced the woman is her missing college friend, but why would she change her identity? And where has she been all this time?

À Rochebourg, Me Fouque, notaire, s'inquiète de l'absence de son clerc, Georges Vidal. Parti à sa recherche, il croise le chemin du docteur Fouace qui, apprenant l'étrange disparition, crie à l'assassinat et désigne, comme meurtrier, Jean Cabri, un marginal vivant seul dans sa ferme familiale. La police est rapidement chargée de l'affaire et le célèbre commissaire Rosic, de passage dans la région, est convié à participer à l'enquête. Tous les éléments démontrent la culpabilité du fameux Cabri et ce dernier est promis à la peine capitale.

À Rocheplate, Garnoulin est mort ! En rentrant du dîner posthume organisé en l'honneur de son défunt ami, Bastidon a la désagréable surprise, sur le chemin menant chez lui, de découvrir une chaussure... avec un pied à l'intérieur. Sans nul doute, la chaussure et le pied appartiennent à Garnoulin. Après les premiers émois passés, les autorités font ouvrir le cercueil du mort. Horreur ! Le corps trouvé n'est pas celui de Garnoulin, mais d'un jeune homme inconnu poignardé en plein cœur.

En fin d'après-midi, Gaston Boudouran, un riche négociant en bois, disparaît, à vélo, sur la route qui mène de Pierrelatte à Saint-Andéol. Le mystère s'épaissit quand la bicyclette de l'homme volatilisé est retrouvée près du cadavre d'une femme inconnue. Le Commissaire Rosic, chargé de l'enquête, penche très rapidement pour un rapt crapuleux, notamment, après avoir appris que Boudouran venait de retirer cent mille francs au guichet de sa banque et que ce dernier n'a pas été aperçu par le cantonnier travaillant toute la journée sur la fameuse route.

Stavolta l'investigatore Giorgio Martinengo - frutto della straordinaria fantasia di Borgio - non fa i conti con una storia qualsiasi: la vittima in questione, infatti, è Vittoria Squassino, suo antico amore di gioventù. Ingaggiato poco tempo prima dalla banca tedesca per cui Vittoria lavorava, Martinengo non ha mai creduto fino in fondo alle insinuazioni sul suo conto. Anche se la relazione che la donna intratteneva con Valerio Cortese (magnetico imprenditore in campo enologico, nonché, a sua volta, vecchia conoscenza del detective) sembrerebbe aprire un paio di piste interessanti.