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The stationary was tinted pink, pulpy like craft paper, and smelled better than anything had a right to. It was a mail penned in letters so long and smooth, they could have hailed a cab. Since leaving the merchant marines, Mickey Fairfax had eked out a living renting dinghies to scuttle around Boston Harbor. When a wealthy acquaintance asks him to travel to Paris to deliver a blackmail payment, it sounded like a free vacation. But, when Mickey discovers he's given the money to the wrong woman, a hive of gangsters and the French police believe he's the key to finding her.

When a homeless man jumps to his death in Old Montreal, the police discover two wallets in his possession: one belonging to a retired psychiatrist who was murdered in a bizarre ritual, the other to a powerful corporate lawyer who has vanished. As Montreal police detective Victor Lessard and his partner, Jacinthe Taillon, work to solve the separate mysteries, a dark conspiracy begins to emerge.

A young couple on the run. A trail of death and destruction. Can DI Ruth Hunter stop Snowdonia's answer to Bonnie and Clyde before another innocent victim is murdered?

When a doctor tells you that you are ripe for the scythe, you begin to wonder about the harvest. And so began my contract with death itself. A contract that's led to a legendary healing artifact. An artifact that can give immortality. But immortality is a prize that destroys the winner.

Audible presents Klesh, an Audible Original.

Verheiratet mit einer Fremden. Ein Mann steht vor den Trümmern seiner Existenz. Hôtel Gardénia in der Nähe der Champs-Élyséess: In Zimmer 44 liegt eine Frau tot im Bett, sie trägt ein weißes Seidenkleid, in den Händen hält sie einen Strauß verwelkter Rosen, auf einem kleinen Tisch steht eine leere Champagnerflasche. Jeanne hat sich mit Schlaftabletten das Leben genommen. Und ihr Mann Bernard versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Was hat seine Frau in diesem Hotel gemacht, woher hatte sie das teuere Kleid?

Der Lehrer Steiner hat einen Turm bauen lassen. Angeblich für Vermessungszwecke. Doch im Wirtshaus erzählen sie sich, er beabsichtige, seine Frau dort hinunterzuwerfen. Aber dann liegt er selber unten, mit zerschmettertem Schädel und leeren Augen. Wer hat seinen perfiden Plan für sich missbraucht? Und wer erbt jetzt den Hof, den der Lehrer nie haben wollte? Seine Frau? Oder der ungeliebte Bruder, dessen Name voreilig ins Kriegerdenkmal gemeißelt worden war? Doch er kehrte zurück, und statt seines Lebens hat er nur einen Arm im Krieg gelassen - und jegliche Menschlichkeit.

Vigilante heiress Gia Santella has finally put her dark past behind her. Unfortunately, the past isn't done with her yet. Under the sultry Mediterranean skies, Gia thinks that she’s finally escaped the dark cloud that has hovered over her most of her life, but she is wrong. When tragedy strikes and she is left reeling, she is thirsty for vengeance. But in her efforts to see revenge and justice, she stumbles across a complex Sicilian underworld and finds herself face-to-face with a tangled web of deep dark secrets that threaten to destroy everything she ever believed was true.

Una novela de barrio en la que se dan cita el narcotráfico, el crimen organizado, el espionaje callejero y las dentelladas de una vida cruda y truculenta en los bajos fondos. En ella seguiremos las andanzas de Nene, un criminal de poca monta que se ve involucrado en un plan para transportar cocaína dentro de niños centroamericanos. La venganza, la traición y el peligro se cruzarán en su camino.

He woke up in a cave with no memory and smelling of sulfur. All he knows is that his name is Christopher and that he can see monsters. Now he's caught between humanity and the creatures of the night while he tries to find answers to the mysteries of his own past.

They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!” With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

The pressure is rising, the walls closing in. Terra must deal with a voice in her head. Can Terra find evidence against the police captain, Parker Garcia, or will she trip over rules and regulations in the process? For every fox, there is a bloodhound. For Garcia, she is named Terra Kris.

Los Angeles is not itself. Rain falls hard every day. Homeless men are set on fire in their tents. Detective Sam Carver chases leads into a maze of militias and neo-Nazis. But before he gets too deep into the case, a past that has haunted him for years returns in the name of Dylan Cross. The killer who got away. Carver knows she has murdered again, but no one believes him. She leaves him clues, writes him notes, tempts him. She wants him to betray everything he is. He is drawn to her by the damage and demons they both carry.

San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir—are on the hustle: they’re trying to open a driving school; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad.

Noviembre de 2013. Hannah Caswell, una adolescente de 14 años que había ido a visitar a su abuela, pierde el tren de vuelta a Scarborough. Temiendo que su padre se enfade, Hannah acepta que la lleve Kent, un vecino suyo de 19 años con fama de mujeriego. Cuando Kent la deja en la estación, ella intenta localizar a su padre para que vaya a buscarla, pero no lo consigue. Hannah decide entonces salir a la carretera y alguien la llama desde un coche. Desaparecerá sin dejar rastro.

The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law, and The Stranger at the Door.

Detective John Druitt is new to homicide. His first case is a young woman found in an urban bayou. He immediately sees clues that lead him places he doesn't want to go. But his own demons may be the clue to solving the mystery of the woman's death. And as the case widens, so do his new partner's suspicions about his past and motivations.

A fanatical religious cult. A growing list of missing teenagers. Can DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans uncover the dark secrets of Solace Farm before there is another ritual killing?

Una vida construida sobre mentiras. Una verdad que podría ser letal. Han pasado seis años desde que Jake Fisher vio como Natalie, el amor de su vida, se casaba con otro hombre. Seis años sin saber nada de Natalie, porque así se lo prometió a ella. Seis solitarios años como profesor de universidad, imaginándola feliz con su marido... Para descubrir de pronto que todo ha sido una gran farsa y que, buscando la verdad, su vida está en peligro.

A dangerous Islamic terrorist. A safe house in the middle of Snowdonia. Can DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans deliver the suspect safely before there is a deadly rescue attempt?