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In 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair run an antique shop. One of Rick’s shady friends offers him the deal of a lifetime on a large, beautiful hand that had been sculpted out of polished jade. The purchase drains their savings and incenses Rose, who is convinced this jade hand was stolen and that owning it will bring them nothing but trouble.

I det ensliga vita huset i skogen utanför Oslo får kvinnor ett gömställe från sina våldsamma män. Omgivna av jordgubbsodlingar får kvinnor och barn äntligen skydd och trygghet. Men någonting skrämmer. Varför är källardörren låst? Och varför finns det dolda övervakningskameror kring huset? Är det verkligen för att ingen ska ta sig fram till huset oombedd? Och vem är det egentligen som skyddas? Den unga polisen Snö får i uppdrag att utreda flera fall av saknade män. Också hon kommer till det vita huset i skogen och där går den ohyggliga sanningen upp för henne.

”Det lugna och vackra fjällandskapet utgör en effektfull kontrast till det moderna och brutala maktspel som skildras. Det rättframma och korthuggna språket ackompanjerar de bilder som frammanas, och det är lätt att svepas med. Helhetsbetyg: 4, Mycket bra ” Bibliotekstjänst DRAMATIK PÅ KALFJÄLLETVid drygt femtio års ålder står Cecilia Sandell på toppen av sin karriär. Hon har fått allt: makt, pengar och status. När forsknings- och energiföretaget, som har tagit nästan ett liv att bygga upp, expanderar till Sälen möter det starkt motstånd.

Gone Wild brings back Thorn, the haunting, quixotic hero last seen in the best-seller Mean High Tide. And in a novel filled with the author's signatures exotic locales, vise-tightening suspense, steamy sexuality, hypnotic prose, Hall introduces a bold new element: one of the toughest, most complex female characters in modern fiction. Allison Farleigh's desperate struggle to save the endangered orangutans from poachers—and to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder—give the novel its passion and its fire.

It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched. One steaming night an old thatched barn at Wild Thyme Farm is torched. The battle to put out the blaze rages. Detective Sara is on the scene when there's a horrifying discovery: there's a body in the embers. Sara and her team have been investigating a series of fires breaking out all over the county—but this is the first body. Accident or murder?

Livet har inte gått varligt fram med Jonatan Lindbäck. Minnen och ärr från det förflutna hemsöker honom och på nätterna ser han sin älskade Malin brinna, gång på gång. Hemligheterna från förr pressar Jonatan till kanten, och över. Samtidigt sker attentat på attentat mot forskningsanläggningen Wild Energy i Tandådalen någon har gjort det till sitt öde att stoppa uppförandet av vindkraftparken på kalfjället.

När kollegan Bengt dör åker Nina Storm till Dalarna för att delta i begravningen. Det är trettio grader kallt och begravningsgästerna håller på att förfrysa när kistan sänks i jorden till den sista vilan. Under natten sker ett kraftigt väderomslag och nästa morgon möts man av en makaber syn. Graven har fyllts med smältvatten och förvandlats till en sjö och längst upp guppar Bengts kista med de frusna blommorna fortfarande kvar på locket. De som får ärva Bengt beter sig alltmer besynnerligt och Nina börjar nysta i hans död.

Guilty or innocent? The verdict could go either way. Trying to deal with a difficult, evasive, entitled client and her overprotective uncle—Attorney Angel Cisneros’s senior partner who expects an acquittal—Angel fears he’ll lose the case and his job at the high-priced criminal defense practice where he works. Accused of stabbing a surgeon to death, operating room nurse Mia Stewart has a hard time telling the truth about what happened or her relationship with the surgeon. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelmingly against her despite Mia’s insistence that she’s innocent.

”Jag måste få prata med dig, Martin. Nu ska jag berätta det allra värsta.” Sexton år har gått sedan Kari Helene hittade sin lillebror liggande livlös på golvet. Tragedin avskrevs då som plötslig spädbarnsdöd. Nu får en vardaglig händelse Kari Helene att plötsligt minnas något helt annat. Något hon förträngt. Polischefen Martin Egge är en gammal vän till familjen och den enda Kari Helene vågar avslöja allt för. Men kvällen före deras avtalade möte blir Martin påkörd av en bil och kort därefter dör han på sjukhuset.

When ex-intelligence officer Jake Moran is hired by Kingfisher Aerospace to assist with a high-profile mission, he expects a standard rocket launch. But what he gets is far from routine—the Kingfisher Seven rocket explodes in spectacular and very public fashion. And billionaire owner Helena Nash wants answers. The explosion forces Jake and his team at Cascadia Information Systems to pivot from monitoring weather satellites to gathering intelligence. The clock is ticking, and it’s up to them to find out what—or who—brought down the rocket.

"Bachforelle zum Frühstück"„Mord, Lachen, Nordseebrise: Ein skurriler Küstenkrimi“Lachen und Verbrechen treffen in einem atemberaubenden Nordseekrimi aufeinander! Tauche ein in die Welt der bildschönen Spanierin, deren Mordfall eine wahrhaft kriminalistische Achterbahnfahrt auslöst. Begleite Dorfpolizist Vogtländer und sein schräges Team bei ihrem chaotischen Einsatz – von explodierenden Schiffen bis hin zu überraschenden Mordwaffen und dem abenteuerlichen Mischlingshund Tequila, der unter Flatulenz leidet.

It’s late, and Dez should go to bed, but instead, she keeps watching horror movies for the Mayhem & Madness Film Festival. She sees a new one pop up in her to-review queue: Adam. That’s a funny title, she thinks, since there’s another judge named Adam. But instead of watching, she goes to bed, and by the time she wakes up, the judge named Adam has killed his wife and himself, and the film, Adam has disappeared from the judging queue. In its place is a film called Grant — the name of another judge. Is Grant doomed to Adam’s fate? Will Dez see her own name as a film title?

It’s been more than thirty years since Special Agent Sandra Vos’s twin brother was shot dead, an innocent victim caught in a kidnap gone wrong. It devastated Sandra’s family, but it made her who she is today, one of the FBI’s most successful negotiators. After dropping her teenage daughter, Olivia, at school, Sandra is alerted to a potential hostage situation at her local grocery store and races to the scene. A man has pulled out a gun and is refusing to talk or let anyone out of the building until his demands are met. The fate of dozens of lives rests in Sandra’s hands.

In the Scottish Highlands, the Royal Artillery is testing a lethal new weapon. A Russian trawler fleet is nosing about in the Atlantic in entirely the wrong season. And a very rich Australian is using his financial power to put together an army. Mission-ready or not, Paul Chavasse must prevent the government’s deadliest missile technology from falling into enemy hands. An enemy who is one of the most dangerous men in the world. But once upon a time, so was Paul Chavasse.

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

Hank Mitchell thought he lived an ordinary, ordered life. But on one chilly afternoon, Hank, his brother Jacob, and Jacob's unsavory pal Lou, make a discovery that offers a chance for a life filled with riches beyond their wildest dreams. And in a fateful moment, Hank lays a plan to claim that life....and the horrific crumbling of his ordered world begins.

Unwitting time traveler Joseph Bridgeman is adjusting to life in the present and wondering if his traveling days are behind him. But when he’s contacted by the Continuum, an organized group of time travelers based in the future, he learns his career is just getting started. The Continuum needs Joe’s help. One of their operatives is missing, last seen in 19th-century Paris, and they believe Joe’s ability to see the past might be the only way to find him. Teamed up with Gabrielle Green, an acerbic, wisecracking traveler, Joe heads back to 1873 on his most dangerous mission yet.

The runaway international number one best seller that launched Tom Clancy's spectacular career and introduced his acclaimed hero, Jack Ryan, in the ultimate submarine adventure - now reissued with a new cover. Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia's ultrasecret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime.

Colombian drug lords, bored with Uncle Sam's hectoring, assassinate the head of the FBI. The message is clear: Bug off! At what point do these druggies threaten national security? When can a nation act against its enemies? These are questions Jack Ryan must answer because someone has quietly stepped over the line. Does anyone know who the real enemy is? How much action is too much? Which lines have been crossed? Ryan and his "dark side", a shadowy field officer known only as Mr. Clark, are charged with finding out.

Anne Beddingfeld is a young woman who is aching for adventure and that is exactly what she gets when she witnesses the death of man on the London Underground. Her notice of a mysterious man who suspiciously leaves the scene embarks Anne on a mystery that will take her all the way to Cape Town in South Africa. With a love interest also in her future, it will take all her faculties to set everything straight. The Man in the Brown Suit is an early publication in Agatha Christie’s long and illustrious career.