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Jim McCann was a high school basketball star destined for the NBA. Then an injury shattered his knee and his dreams. Disillusioned, he cut ties with his stifling hometown. Years later, he returns for his father’s funeral. Finding that his mother has dementia, he reluctantly takes over the family propane business. But there’s a silver lining: reconnecting with Kyle, his childhood best friend, and meeting Kelli, the only one who understands his struggle to fill his own big shoes.

Love and danger. Sex and violence. The heart wants what the heart wants. When a couple on a crime spree slashes down the east coast into Florida, the perfect vacation goes horribly wrong. Armed robbery. Kidnapping. Murder. Innocent travelers get swept up in the violent wave. Desire runs from light to dark. Loving thoughts turn to dark fantasies. Ellie is a college student on spring break. After years living under the shadows of controlling parents, this wallflower is finally free — or trying to be. This vacation will be an inflection point in her life, she knows.

AUTRICE BESTSELLER DEL SUNDAY TIMES UN GRANDE THRILLER Un'autrice pluripremiata Tradotta in 20 lingue Oltre 1 milione di copie vendute Clara Benning è una brillante veterinaria, giovane, intelligente e appassionata al suo lavoro. Eppure è infelice. Un terribile incidente accadutole da bambina l'ha infatti lasciata sfigurata, facendo di lei una reclusa che da sempre cerca di limitare al minimo i contatti con gli altri esseri umani.

AUTRICE BESTSELLER DEL SUNDAY TIMES UN GRANDE THRILLER Un'autrice pluripremiata Tradotta in 20 lingue Oltre 1 milione di copie vendute Che cosa sta succedendo all'Università di Cambridge? Perché tante morti tra gli studenti? Quando una lunga serie di apparenti suicidi scuote il prestigioso ateneo, l'agente Lacey Flint viene immediatamente inviata sul luogo da Scotland Yard. Deve interpretare sotto copertura la parte di una ragazza vulnerabile che riprende gli studi dopo un esaurimento nervoso.

Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.

Det er Livias fyrreårsfødselsdag, og hun holder sit livs fest som erstatning for det bryllup, hun aldrig fik. Alle de mennesker, hun holder af, kommer, bortset fra hendes datter, Marnie, der studerer i udlandet. Men selvom Livia elsker Marnie, er hun i al hemmelighed glad for, at Marnie ikke kommer til festen. Hun er nødt til at fortælle Adam noget om deres datter, men hun har tænkt sig at vente, indtil festen er forbi, så de kan opleve disse sidste lykkelige timer sammen.

Rose Marlowe is a hard-working nurse, a loving wife, and a merciless killer. Or so she says. Despite her confession, it is hard to believe that this beautiful, kind woman could have killed her vulnerable patient in cold blood. Down-on-his-luck true crime author Theo Hazel is convinced that there's more to what happened than Rose is telling, and so decides to visit her behind bars to write her story. His first surprise comes when Rose reveals that the victim was not a stranger to her.

When Detective Morgan Brookes is urgently called to her Aunt Ettie’s cottage, hidden in Covel Woods, she rushes to the scene. Panicked Ettie is shaken having discovered the chilling remains of a woman in the river, one skeletal hand reaching out from the deep water. The unknown woman was dressed to walk the rugged trails of the Lake District, so Morgan’s team assume she fell in the water and was taken by the current. But thin diagonal bruises on her neck suggest something far more sinister.

Sierra Coleman awakens from a horrific crash, her mind a blank slate. But as she claws her way back to reality, she discovers her amnesia is just the tip of a sinister iceberg. Every "truth" she uncovers is another lie, every ally a potential enemy. With a daughter she can't remember and a life she doesn't recognize, Sierra is thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. As bodies pile up and shocking betrayals come to light, she realizes the key to her survival lies buried in her forgotten past.

My heart is hammering furiously as the bedroom door creaks open. The second I see my husband’s lifeless body, I know I have to run. And no-one can ever find us. There are three things I know to be true.

Thomas Caine has finally tracked down the corrupt CIA director who framed him and had his partner killed. But the cost of revenge may prove too high. His target reveals that Caine's partner had a son, now a young man named Sean. And Sean is in terrible danger. To save him, Caine must travel to the People's Republic of China. There, he and Sean find themselves tangled in a vast conspiracy. A deadly double agent is stalking them both from the shadows.

In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom. Ten years later, when forensic psychiatrist Dr. Vincent Blackburn discovers he and the Cajun Cannibal are more closely connected than he realized, he begins a case study into the sociopathy behind the killer’s grisly deeds.

Young doctor Edie Carter is bright, talented and ambitious. She is embarking on her dream career in anaesthetics and is engaged to a man who adores her. The one thing she doesn’t have is a childhood. Suffering from traumatic repression, large parts of her past are blank spaces. When an unidentified patient arrives in her intensive care unit with her name carved on his body, she realises that memories can refuse to stay buried. The man is unknown to Edie, but digging deeper, she discovers that the patient is Samuel Cox, a man imprisoned and brutalised over the last two decades.

A wannabe author. A narcissistic musician. A serial killer. An average girl. Someone tells the story. Someone is the story. Someone steals the story. Someone won't make it out of the story.

St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local girl infamously accused of the murder of her lover, political scion Landon Fitzroy, during Hurricane Marie in 1984.

In From the Dead, E. Nesbit crafts a haunting and poignant gothic tale of love, betrayal, and regret beyond the grave. When Arthur Marsh drives away his devoted wife, Ida, with cruel words born of wounded pride, he seals a tragic fate neither can undo. Months of heart-wrenching loss follow until a mysterious telegram summons him to her deathbed—but it is too late. Or is it? What follows is an unforgettable encounter between the living and the dead, where the heart’s deepest yearnings clash with fear, guilt, and the chance for redemption lost.

Der erste Locked-Car-Thriller: Originell, temporeich und absolut fesselnd – nach diesem Hörbuch werden Sie öfter in den Rückspiegel schauen! Ein kilometerlanger Stau. Im Auto neben dir sitzt eine Leiche. Der Mörder steckt in der Autoschlange fest – und du auch. Belinda Kidd, Kommissarin kurz vor dem Ruhestand, ist auf dem Weg vom Flughafen in die Londoner Innenstadt. Vom Jetlag geplagt, will sie einfach nur nach Hause – als der Verkehr plötzlich stockt und dann zum völligen Stillstand kommt. Grund dafür: eine Explosion in einem Tunnel. Geschätzte Wartezeit: mehrere Stunden.

Agosto 1990: Due ragazzini sotto gli undici anni, a distanza di alcuni giorni, spariscono misteriosamente dalla rinomata Foresta di Mercadante, alle porte di Cassano delle Murge, ridente paesino dell’hinterland barese. Nonostante le ricerche si protraggano a lungo per scoprire che fine abbiano fatto, nessuno dei due bambini viene più ritrovato. Febbraio 1991 – Giugno 1991: In circostanze misteriose si perdono le tracce di altri due ragazzi, coetanei di quelli svaniti sei mesi prima: il primo da un quartiere periferico di Bari; il secondo, ancora una volta, dalla Foresta di Mercadante.

Können die Beziehungen, die eine Gemeinschaft zusammenhalten, sie auch zerstören? Australien, 1979. Es ist Hochsommer, und in einem ruhigen Vorort schrubbt eine Hausfrau um 3 Uhr morgens Blut von den Fliesen ihres Badezimmerbodens. Ihr Ehemann verhält sich währenddessen bemerkenswert ruhig, wenn man bedenkt, dass er gerade ihren Nachbarn ermordet hat. Als die Sonne aufgeht, verbreitet sich die Nachricht von Antonio Mariettis Tod wie ein Lauffeuer unter den Nachbarinnen, und mehr als eine der Frauen ist fest entschlossen herauszufinden, wer Antonio umgebracht hat.

When a group of friends rent a converted farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales, they have little idea that this one weekend may change the course of their lives forever. While out on a walk, a storm descends and the friends take shelter in the mouth of an old lead mine. Inside, they discover a backpack filled with more money than they've ever seen. Of course, they agree, they will hand the money to the police at the first opportunity. But as the storm continues and time passes, some of the party begin to think again.