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It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But...

Adam Emerson always believed martial arts were about discipline, respect, and mastering the self—until he found himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy that demanded more than skill. It demanded survival. After witnessing a brutal crime connected to a powerful underground network, Adam is thrust into a world where political corruption, shadowy operatives, and ruthless killers collide. With danger closing in, Adam must rely on every lesson he’s ever learned—on and off the mat—to uncover the truth and stay alive long enough to expose it.

Adam is finishing up his last year of university with his four closest friends which includes his long-term girlfriend Mackenzie Ferrell. He enjoys life in every moment knowing he has his family, friends, and future career in business all lined up. Everything begins to unravel after the group of friends take a final spring break trip to Cancun. Adam is left questioning his family’s history, and the stability of his relationship with his friends and girlfriend.

Former detective Harper Adams is only days into sobriety when she realizes her mother’s car accident wasn’t an accident at all. The faded skid marks on the bridge. The drugs in her tox screen. The packed suitcase in the trunk, for a trip her homebody mother never mentioned. Something sinister happened—and Harper is determined to uncover the truth.

An innocent man doesn’t run. He fights. After two combat tours in Afghanistan, Adam Cash returns to small-town Pinyon, Texas, hoping for peace and a steady job as deputy sheriff. But his high school nemesis, Sheriff Griff Turner, has other plans and makes it clear Cash isn’t welcome. Still haunted by war—and by the heartbreak of walking away from his high school sweetheart, Edie—Cash launches a longshot campaign to unseat Turner and loses. When Turner turns up dead the next day, all signs point to Cash.

For five long years, Detective Barnes has been hunting the killer of the person he cared about the most. Now, the one man who could have revealed the truth is dead. His charred and blackened body is all that remains in his burnt-out flat. A week later, a desperate, emaciated young woman hammers on the door of a late-night convenience store. She speaks no English—but it’s clear that she’s terrified—and running for her life. It's only Barnes who connects the two events. He and his new boss, Superintendent Samson Kane, team up to uncover the truth.

Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance. With her father’s firm representing the missing man's wife, Harper seizes the opportunity to delve back into her investigative roots. Her search leads her back to James Malcolm, a former crime boss turned tavern owner, who has his finger on the pulse of every shadowed corner.

Jack Brogan earned his nickname 'Blood' on the icy shores of the Falkland Islands, a name forged in a conflict he'd rather forget. Now, in the quiet cathedral city of Norwich, 1987, he's just a Detective Constable hoping for a peaceful life. But peace is a luxury a serial killer won't allow. A shadow is stalking the streets, leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling calling card: a perfectly sharpened piece of flint. Each victim is a mystery. Each shard of stone, a silent accusation.

Es ist Abend, dunkel. Im Elbtunnel herrscht wie immer Stau. Plötzlich ein Schuss. Der Fahrer eines weißen Geländewagens sackt über dem Lenkrad zusammen. Der Täter entkommt unerkannt. Ein Amokläufer? Der Beginn eines Bandeskrieges? Alle Spuren führen ins Nichts. Und dann interessiert sich mit einem Mal ein amerikanischer Geheimdienst für den Fall. Hauptkommissar Adam Danowski gilt trotz seines jüngsten Ermittlungserfolges als unberechenbar. Auch diesmal geht er eigene Wege.

For some, a life at sea is all they want. That’s certainly the case for Adam Barrie. Out there, among the waves, he has a peace he cannot find on land. When tragedy strikes his family, Adam’s commitment to them has to become his focus. For him, it’s family before everything else, and his inheritance proves to be the catalyst to a new life.

Gillian Roberts’ witty, literate Amanda Pepper mysteries are irresistible. Following the adventures of Philadelphia’s finest English teacher/detective, the books crackle with humor and suspense.

Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción.

Adam Barrie has a gift – some would say a curse – and can see and communicate with the dead. When suspicious activity is discovered at the local girls’ boarding school, Barrie investigates. What he discovers shocks him to the core. Leonard Shaitan, a charismatic teacher at the school runs a cult and plans to unleash Hell. To do so he must sacrifice a special child. With the help of a vicar who has crossed paths with Shaitan before and a detective out of his depth, Barrie must stop Shaitan before it is too late. He is facing a cataclysmic battle. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

After a busy summer carnival season, Robin Wildwood is trying to take it easy. Her job as Head Witch tends to make that challenging, but she's keen to focus on her budding relationship with Harvey and her hopes of getting her dad and brother back in touch with one another. When a sinister new enemy shows up in Wildwood Heath and attacks a group of camping badger shifters, the peace is shattered. Faced with an invisible adversary, Robin is forced to turn to outside help in the form of the mysterious Reaper who just showed up in town.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley’s past… When Nick Vincent, producer of...

From the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and The Last Word comes a story of two friends who embark on an ill-fated caving expedition—and the dark truth of what happens deep underground. After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives...

When renowned professor Dr. Aidan Ryan vanishes without explanation, he leaves behind a haunting message revealing he has a new life and can never return. His devastated daughter Sofia embarks on a global search to uncover the truth behind her father’s disappearance. What she finds is more shocking than she could have imagined—a web of family secrets and lies that challenges everything she thought she knew.

Er weiß nicht, wo er ist, fühlt sich wie betäubt. Langsam tauchen Konturen auf: ein Raum, viel Technik, keine Fenster. Ein Rauschen. Der Boden schwankt. Kommissar Danowski befindet sich in der Gondel eines Windrades. Im Meer. Mit ihm eine Unbekannte gegenüber auf dem Fußboden. Zwischen ihnen befinden sich Vorräte für ein paar Tage und ein Zettel: "Alle Antworten sind hier." Stück für Stück kehrt Danowskis Erinnerung zurück. An die Leuchtturmkinder. An eine Mordermittlung, bei der es um Freundschaft, Familie und Verrat geht, und die ihn zwingt, sich seiner eigenen Vergangenheit zu stellen.

Danowski dreht durch: Fast 24 Stunden war Hauptkommissar Adam Danowski in der Gewalt eines entflohenen Straftäters - ein fehlgeschlagener Einsatz, verursacht durch seine Kollegen Meta und Finzi. Nun muss er in einer Klinik kuren. Doch Therapie ist nicht so Danowskis Ding. Er schließt seltsame Bekanntschaften, schwänzt die Wassergymnastik und sitzt in der Beschäftigungstherapie ratlos vor einem Klumpen Ton. Vor allem eine Frau nervt ihn: Mareike Teschner. Sie hat genau die positive Glas-halbvoll-Art, die Danowski nicht ertragen kann.

Robin Wildwood has always been the black sheep of her family… or red squirrel, as it were. She and her familiar, Tansy, left their coven to strike out alone, with no intention of returning home. The Wildwood witches are the best at everything they do, and their leader - who happens to be Robin's grandmother - is the Head Witch of the entire region. As for Robin? Screwing up is her only major talent.