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En ung kvinna påträffas misshandlad, skändad och död i Dalarna. Polisinspektör Henrietta Rapp vid Falupolisen får det operativa ansvaret. Hon bär på en mörk hemlighet som gör att hon inte skyr några medel i den intensiva jakten på gärningsmannen. Men ondskan har många skepnader och fallet blir alltmer komplext och utvecklas till en smutsig härva av sexuella övergrepp. När sedan rättssystemet sätts ur spel av den högsta polisledningen, upphör alla regler att gälla och kravet på upprättelse växer.

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.

London accountant Sophie unexpectedly becomes the stand-in mum for her estranged sister’s eight-month-old baby, Alana. She didn’t even know she had a niece! She’s wildly out of her depth. Then her life is turned upside down all over again by the appearance of a Thor lookalike on her doorstep. Apparently, six-foot surfer Samson is Alana’s father. And he also just discovered the existence of this adorable baby.

Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. 'Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary.' Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to End It All. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when she later foils the suicide attempt of another lost soul - Hugh Warner, on the run from the police - life begins again for both. But life also begins to throw up nasty secrets and some awkward questions: just what was Matilda’s husband Tom doing in Paris?

Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of...

Brought to you by Penguin. IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018 WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down! She's not who you think she is . . . 'I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn't that what...

Wenn eine Leiche das Buffet vermiest ... Der zweite Teil der humorvollen Cosy Crime-Reihe im idyllischen Cornwall. Nachdem der erste Auftrag ihrer brandneuen Catering-Firma eine mörderische Wendung nahm, ist Jodie "Nosey" Parker fest entschlossen, den nächsten Auftrag für das große Festival in ihrem kleinen Heimatdorf perfekt über die Bühne zu bringen. Doch der Fund einer Leiche am Fuß einer Klippe bringt sie auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück. Als ehemalige Polizistin befindet sie sich zudem schneller im Mittelpunkt der Ermittlungen als ihr lieb ist.

Anna was never anything like those "real" runners on telly, but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometer-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder...perhaps being a "real" runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colorful, and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story that will lead you on a roller-coaster ride through fear, vulnerability, courage, and failure. 

Random House Audiobooks present The Audiobook of the Year, written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish: James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber. In a year when much of the news was believable but fake, comes an audiobook packed with...

Savez-vous que les médicaments sont devenus la première cause de mortalité aux États-Unis? Qu’en France, ils causent au minimum 18000 décès par an et que les étudiants en médecine reçoivent par conséquent une formation à la prévention des “accidents médicamenteux”.

Hailed by critics as "monumental" ( Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" ( New York magazine), Véra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory, wrote his books first for himself and secondly for his wife.

The acknowledged ‘queen of Regency romance’, best-selling author Georgette Heyer, also penned a dozen delightful mystery novels. Included here are dramatisations of four of her finest stories from both genres, full of her characteristic wit, charm and period detail.

I am terrified. Yet my heart skips a beat. This man might be a monster, but he is my monster. Clara Graysword is Oricalis's most wanted. Hunted and cornered, not even her mastery of tarot can save her this time . . . until the mysterious Worldkeepers appear. This secretive order may hold the key...

Harness the power of your vagus nerve to reduce stress, overcome anxiety and release past trauma with the practical and empowering guide to somatic therapy, self-healing and reconnection. Feeling anxious and disconnected are signs of a nervous system that's out of balance. Something as small as...

SHORTLISTED FOR EVERY MAJOR SCIENCE FICTION AWARD IN THE UK: the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles...

One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever...

When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes to a thrilling conclusion his career-long, serpentine battle with the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla.

At age 20, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot. She knows Descartes and Kant. She knows academia and Oxford. She knows that the people who love you leave you. She knows how to be alone. But when Molly leaves England's gray skies behind to start a new life at the University of Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn - she didn't know a summer could be so hot, she didn't know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn't know just how much the folks of Alabama love their football.

Rachele sa bene che cosa va di moda e che cosa no, ed è da sempre una grande esperta dei trend del momento al punto che l’ha reso il proprio lavoro: nella Milano più divertente, tra un aperitivo con gli amici nell’ultimo locale aperto e un evento privato, lei scrive di lifestyle su una...