Jan Mellema Libri

Il detective Erika Foster ha appena ricevuto una soffiata che le indica il luogo in cui è nascosta la prova per sventare un grosso giro di traffico di droga. Seppure sospettosa, ordina la perquisizione di una cava in disuso alla periferia di Londra. Quello che non si aspetta è che, scavando nel fango, oltre alla droga venga ritrovato un piccolo scheletro, subito identificato. Si tratta di Jessica Collins, scomparsa ventisei anni prima all'età di soli sette anni. Il caso fece un grandissimo scalpore e il mistero dietro la scomparsa di Jessica non venne mai risolto. Cominciando a indagare grazie alle nuove prove, Erika si addentra in un caso difficilissimo, in un costante alternarsi di passato e presente. Dovrà fare i conti con i segreti della famiglia Collins, i rimorsi del detective divorato dal senso di colpa per non aver mai ritrovato Jessica, e un altro omicidio avvenuto vicino alla cava. Chi conosce la verità? E perché qualcuno non vuole che il caso venga finalmente chiuso?

* A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller * "Read the Orphan X series. You'll thank me later." --David Baldacci The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented - and most feared - men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it's Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max - and anyone he turns to - is in deadly danger. What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.

Joe Enders is een doorgewinterde soldaat die geplaagd wordt door een verschrikkelijk schuldgevoel omdat hij de enige overlevende is van een bloedige confrontatie met de Jappen. Ben Yahzee, een sympathieke, trotse Navajo-indiaan, is codespreker, die als een van de weinigen de geheime militaire code beheerst, die is afgeleid van zijn moedertaal. De Navajo-code is gebaseerd op een van de grootste geheimen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog: in juli 2001 kreeg de chief van de Navajo-indianen uit handen van president George W. Bush een hoge onderscheiding voor de verdiensten van zijn volk in de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Dietro le note agenzie di sicurezza statunitensi si cela un'agenzia segreta dedicata alla sorveglianza dell'intelligence e alla protezione dei cittadini. Un clima di allerta si diffonde quando il detective della polizia di Washington, D.C., Ryan Kessler, diventa il bersaglio di Henry Loving, un "lifter" spietato, noto per le sue tattiche di tortura e pressione. Loving utilizza rapimenti e minacce per ottenere informazioni dalle sue vittime. La responsabilità di proteggere la famiglia Kessler ricade su Corte, un ufficiale di protezione federale senior, che applica un pensiero strategico, simile alla sua passione per i giochi da tavolo. Il ritorno di Loving, che ha già torturato qualcuno vicino a Corte, offre un'opportunità di vendetta. Ciò che inizia come un incarico di protezione si trasforma in un duello ad alta tensione. Mentre Corte guida i Kessler verso una casa sicura, deve anticipare ogni mossa di Loving. Con l'aiuto dell'investigatrice Claire DuBois e dell'agente dell'FBI Paul Fredericks, indagano sui casi di Kessler per scoprire il motivo del ritorno di Loving. Con tensioni crescenti e legami familiari messi alla prova, Corte si trova di fronte a una scelta critica tra proteggere i suoi assistiti e cercare vendetta contro un killer implacabile.

Microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is sent with his fellow Covert-One operatives to discover why an American special forces team was savagely attacked and decimated by the normally peaceful residents of a farming village in northern Uganda.

Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing Prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...

When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away.

No ordinary cop, he's never happier than when he's working undercover, consorting with criminals and fighting to bring them to justice. What they cannot know is that their enquiries will take them both into the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs - and one of them into the rifle sights of the enemy.

Timothy Carrier, mentre si gode una birra dopo il lavoro nella taverna di un amico, si diverte a coinvolgere i clienti eccentrici in conversazioni divertenti. Ma l'uomo nervoso che si siede accanto a lui quella sera lo scambia per qualcun altro e gli passa una busta piena di denaro. "Diecimila adesso. Ricevi il resto quando lei sarà morta." L'uomo esce, lasciando una foto di una bella donna segnata per la morte e il suo indirizzo. Ma le cose stanno per peggiorare. Poco dopo, un altro sconosciuto si siede accanto a Tim. Questo è un killer spietato che crede che Tim sia l'uomo che lo ha assunto. Pensando in fretta, Tim dice: "Ho cambiato idea. Ti do diecimila—per non fare nulla. Chiamalo un compenso per non uccidere." Tiene la foto e dà il denaro al killer. Quando Tim segue segretamente l'uomo fuori dalla taverna, riceve un ulteriore shock: il killer è un poliziotto. Improvvisamente, Tim Carrier, un uomo comune, si trova al centro di un mistero di proporzioni straordinarie, l'unico che può salvare una vita innocente e fermare un killer molto più potente di qualsiasi poliziotto… e tanto spietato quanto il male incarnato. Ma prima Tim deve scoprire in sé la capacità di altruismo, resistenza e coraggio che può trasformare anche un uomo ordinario in un eroe, risorse interiori che trasformeranno la sua idea di chi è e di cosa significhi essere Il Bravo Ragazzo.

After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again.

A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and The Good Guy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here an innocent man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all… At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend, Samantha, and his life. One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and there’s even a chance of getting Samantha back in his life. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive in the mail—a heart pendant, a box of Valentine candy hearts. And, most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video accompanied by a chilling message: Your heart belongs to me. In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-eight-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest. And she’s come to take it back.

When Colorado carpenter Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Grady, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Grady and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.

Een Zuid-Afrikaanse forensisch psychologe krijgt naast haar bezigheden voor een documentaire over vrouwenhandel te maken met de moord op een aantal tienermeisjes in Kaapstad.

Twee mensen krijgen in de wildernis van Noord-Californië documenten in handen die het bewijs bevatten van misdadige bacteriologische experimenten.