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'Baldacci is the master of American detective stories' – Jeffrey Archer, author of Nothing Ventured Private Investigator and WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in Dream Town, a riveting thriller from international number 1 bestselling author, David Baldacci...

Sun-filled Sarasota, Florida, is up to its lovely hips in murder. Not the run of the mill household variety, these are vicious. Attorney David Winter receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a distraught woman worried about her missing son. He takes the case and he soon finds himself up to his ears in sex-trafficking, kidnapping, and hunted by the Arab Mafia.

The annual gathering of the book club at the start of December is supposed to be a time for relaxation and catching up. But this year, the convivial evening takes a sinister turn. Detective Barton is called to investigate, and he soon discovers the seemingly peaceful club harbours dark secrets and hidden resentments that go back years.

¿Dónde está Megan? La adolescente de diecisiete años Megan Carver ha desaparecido. No parecía el tipo de persona que se escaparía de casa: era una estudiante de excelentes calificaciones, provenía de un hogar feliz y rara vez se metía en problemas. Seis meses después, aún no la han encontrado. Desesperados, los padres de Megan contratan al investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker para averiguar lo que sucedió. Raker, que no es ajeno al dolor y la pérdida, sabe que para encontrarla tendrá que adentrarse en un mundo oscuro que podría costarle la vida.

Enterró a su hijo. Pero acaba de verlo vivo. Hace un año, se encontró el cuerpo de Alex Towne. Hace un mes, su madre lo vio en la calle. Hace una semana, David Raker aceptó investigarlo. Ahora, desearía no haberlo hecho. El hijo de Mary Towne, Alex, desapareció hace seis años. Cinco años después, se encontró su cadáver calcinado en un accidente de coche. El investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker cree que la mujer es incapaz de dejar marchar a su hijo, pero, atormentado por su propia pérdida, acepta a regañadientes reabrir el caso. Gran error.

Michelle Maxwell er indlagt efter de traumatiske oplevelser i forbindelse med hende og makkeren Sean Kings sidste sag. Mens Michelle kæmper med sine dæmoner, bliver King kontaktet af et hemmelighedsfuldt selskab, der vil have ham til at undersøge de mystiske omstændigheder omkring en af deres topmatematikeres død. Snart bliver Sean blandet ind i en verden af elitefysikere og -matematikere, CIA- og FBI-agenter, spioner, krigshelte og meget mere.

When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and a series of murders which get dangerously personal. Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it all behind. His years as a Washington, DC...

Over the years, David Winter’s seen his share of pain. Everything from arsenic laced potato soup to exploding outhouses. The latter wounded him and draped him in nightmares. He wanted to sell his firm and do nothing more than chase down dead-beat husbands for back alimony and live out his life in Florida, but fate turned him to Arizona.

Chicago, 1932. Mick Oberon may look like just another private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand. 

From the introduction by David L. Ulin: "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began."

Several years ago, Rushmore McKenzie became an unexpected millionaire and set about doing not much of anything. Now, showing up at his doorstep is the insurance company that paid the settlement that made him rich - and they want a favor. Someone has stolen a very expensive gem from a local art museum and is willing to ransom it back. The only condition is that McKenzie has to be the go between. And this is no ordinary gem - it is a jade sculpture with a history going back to the Qing Dynasty and a reputed curse that stories claim has ruined or killed everyone who has ever owned it.

Until he disappeared, Peter Black was Azrael. Master assassin. Now he spends his days hiding on a remote farm in northern Alaska. The same farm he was sent to at age 11 to be trained by the CIA. Peter only ever wanted a normal life and to be left alone. But the world refuses to leave men like Peter Black alone. An enemy like no other is coming. An enemy that has no mercy. No compassion. Only sheer ruthlessness of will.

Fanget i en rigmands soveværelse overværer indbrudstyven Luther Whitney et brutalt overfald og mord på millionærens unge kone. Overfaldsmanden er USA's præsident. Whitney flygter med en blodig papirkniv, der kan forbinde præsidenten til mordet, og snart er han jaget vildt. Jack Graham er en succesrig advokat for finansverdenens top. Alligevel bliver han blandet ind i den lyssky affære, da Whitney kontakter ham. Med kontakten følger et møde med Whitneys datter, en idealistisk kvinde og Jacks tidligere forlovede. Jack kastes ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at afsløre magtens korruption.

Året er 1949. Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Sam has finally accepted a position with Ron Thomas, Harry Winslow's former DHS Computer Wiz. He's now the Chief Investigator for Windlass Security Services, and his very first case is one of the most incredible of his entire career. He's got to solve the mystery behind the theft of one of the most innovative new technological advances in the world: a Brain-Computer Interface chip that can literally perform miracles. But this isn't science fiction; this case is coming straight out of the headlines of today.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

Tra colpi di scena e antichi segreti da svelare, un giovane archeologo si ritroverà suo malgrado nelle vesti di investigatore privato. Valerio Guerra è un giovane archeologo disoccupato che cerca di sbarcare il lunario con lavoretti precari. Quando viene rinvenuto il cadavere di una ragazza di un'importante famiglia del varesotto, gli inquirenti convocano Valerio per avvalersi del suo parere esperto: un misterioso anello longobardo è stato infatti ritrovato sul luogo del delitto e lui potrebbe rivelarsi utile alle ricerche.

In Bergoo, West Virginia, legends swirl and the past is never far away. A week away seems the best cure for what ails Dave Winter’s marriage. He can go fishing with an old Army buddy, Mark, while his wife can visit her family. Yet the town of Bergoo isn’t quite as welcoming as it first appears and it isn’t long before things start to go incredibly wrong. A night of Bourbon flavored reminiscing resolves in a morning with Mark gone, strangers in the cabin and the beginning of a violent and deadly adventure.

David Mason, up-and-coming detective in the Houston Police Department, has a career that's on a meteoric rise. Now he faces two of the toughest challenges of his life. First, he has to decide if he will violate the code that Texas police officers all adhere to, protect their brother officers. He believes fellow officers have committed a homicide. If he turns them in, he'll face the wrath of the officers in the department.

Why would a nine-year-old girl walk out of her parents' cabin in the middle of the night? Why would she abandon the warmth of her bed for the unforgiving cold of a Montana winter? And why was she never seen again? Twenty years later, her uncle is gruesomely murdered just as the remains of children are discovered hidden inside a cave a few miles from where she disappeared.