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A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.

Règle N°1 de la meute : Ne jamais rien révéler à un humain. J'ai enfreint cette règle le jour où j'ai rencontré la belle doctoresse. Je suis peut-être un champion de rodéo, mais un seul regard sur elle et j'ai perdu ma concentration. Le taureau m'a éjecté et m'a encorné, et maintenant la belle femelle est après moi. Quand j'ai guéri en quelques heures, elle a su que quelque chose clochait. Mon alpha m'a dit de la surveiller. Aucun problème. Je la surveillerai comme il se doit. De très près. Je vais m'accrocher à elle comme de la Superglue. Et ces humains qui veulent sortir avec elle ?

Règle N° 3 de la Meute : l’alpha doit s’accoupler. Plus l’alpha est fort, plus le danger est grand. La folie lunaire risque de m’emporter d’un moment à l’autre, désormais. J’ai cherché aux quatre coins du continent, me suis rendu à des jeux d’accouplement, mais je n’ai toujours pas trouvé la louve qui m’est destinée. Je suis déjà devenu trop sauvage au lit. Je ne suis pas inoffensif pas pour les femmes normales. Et encore moins pour celle qui vient d’emménager dans le ranch voisin. Elle est beaucoup trop tentante. Et je suis beaucoup trop dangereux. Il faut que je garde mes distances.

Zelda never stopped loving Ari. She just got better at pretending she was over him. Then she ran into him again on the last normal morning in America. By the end of the day, he was missing along with her best friend. Now Zelda is searching the wreckage of September 11th for two people: her best friend, Charlie, and the man she thought she'd lost long before the towers fell.

He wanted power. He didn't expect to be owned. Kael lost everything the night his brother died. Now he wants revenge. And he'll do anything to get it. Even make a deal with something he doesn't understand.

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his...

Von einer schüchternen Bäckerin auf einer Versteigerung gekauft? Kein Problem. Auf der Hochzeit ihrer Schwester vorgeben, ihr fester Freund zu sein? Ich bin dabei. Ich kann den lieben langen Tag etwas vorspielen, denn ich bin Thatcher Manning, der Kerl, der keine Beziehungen führt. Ich werde...

He built his life on control. Then met the one man who could break it. Caleb Ward doesn’t bend. Not for temptation. Not for desire. Not for sin. Then he meets Julian Blackwood. Unapologetic. Unrestrained. The kind of man who doesn’t push—he waits. And Caleb starts to crack. What begins as tension becomes something darker. Something harder to fight. Because the more Caleb resists…the more he wants. And the more Julian watches…the less Caleb remembers why he ever tried to run.

The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is...

He was never supposed to survive. He definitely wasn’t supposed to be wanted. Kai learned early how to disappear. Stay quiet. Stay small. Stay safe. But someone sees him. Not the version the world tolerates—the real one. And once he’s seen…he isn’t allowed to leave. What starts as protection becomes something else. Something heavier. Something that tightens instead of loosens. Because this isn’t the kind of love that heals. It’s the kind that watches. Waits. And decides you belong to it. And Kai? He might not want to be saved anymore.

Règle N°2 de la meute : Protéger son partenaire à tout prixJ’ai protégé mon pays, protégé ma section. Et maintenant c’est elle que je veux protéger. Dommage que ce ne soit pas une option. Impossible de succomber à ce magnifique petit bout de femme. La petite sœur de la nouvelle compagne de mon frèreBien trop jeune. Bien trop humaine. Encore à la fac. Et quelle intelligence exceptionnelle. Elle a toute sa vie devant elle. Et les Bérets Verts qui veulent que je rempile. Mon loup… la désire. Et si je la laisse partir sans la conquérir,Je ne survivrai pas à la prochaine pleine lune…

Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they're not talking doesn't mean the killing stops. Someone is killing women. Women who bear a disturbing resemblance to Carol Jordan. And when the evidence begins to point in a disturbing direction, thinking the unthinkable seems the only possible answer.

Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.

Mon Alpha m’a dit de me débarrasser d’elle. D’être aimable et de découvrir si elle comptait vendre sa propriété. De l’empêcher d’amener d’autres humains à proximité de nos terres. Mais avant même de la rencontrer, j’ai humé son odeur. La pleine lune était là, et j’étais obligé de m’y conformer. Je n’ai pas pu m’en empêcher. Je me suis précipité en plein territoire humain, sur sa propriété. Je l’ai découverte en train de se baigner nue au clair de lune, et je lui ai montré mon loup.À présent, tout est possible.

The fourth thrilling novel in the DCI Karen Pirie series. 'There are lots of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a twenty-year-old...

THE TIMES AUDIOBOOK OF THE WEEK The bodies never stay buried forever . . .' On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace...

The second gripping thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. PI Kate Brannigan is hired to investigate a series of strange financial scams across Manchester. At first it looks like a discrepancy with the paperwork, but the deeper Kate digs, the...

Katrina Delmar has no idea that Milo, the charming guy she meets at a college party, was supposed to have died at sea 300 years ago. She only knows that she's drawn to him right away. But she’s also caught the attention of his crewmate, Bellamy, whose mysterious allure is hard to resist. Falling for undead pirates is the least of her worries when there seems to be something sinister lurking beneath the surface. When the ruthless captain of the ship discovers Katrina may hold the key to breaking the crew’s curse, he's hellbent on taking it from her at whatever cost.

Seren has survived nineteen years in the Hollow by keeping her shadows hidden. But when they take a life she never meant to lose, she’s dragged into the gilded city above — a prisoner of the very institution hunting her kind to extinction. Kael is a scholar of the shadows, sent to observe and contain. What he finds instead is a girl whose darkness doesn’t just answer her — it remembers something older than either of them. As ancient shrines awaken beneath the city and a goddess stirs in the dark, Seren begins to understand that her shadows were never a curse. They were always a calling.

Tragic, emotionant, tensionat si cu un final surprinzator, Sa nu ma parasesti este unul dintre cele mai bune romane al lui Ishiguro, nominalizat la Booker Prize, National Book Critic Circle Award si Arthur C. Clarke Award si inclus pe lista celor mai bune carti ale anului in The New York Times...