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Tot nu toe heeft het Eddie Spinola niet echt meegezeten, niet in zijn liefdesleven en al helemaal niet in zijn carriere. Op zijn zesendertigste kan hij als freelance copywriter net het hoofd boven water houden in de jachtige drukte van Manhattan. Totdat hij zijn ex-zwager Vernon tegenkomt, van wie hij een klein, wit pilletje krijgt. Net ontwikkeld door een groot farmaceutisch bedrijf, vertelt Vernon, maar nog niet officieel geregistreerd. Een zogenaamde smart drug, aangeduid als MDT, die je energie geeft en je creatieve vermogens stimuleert. Direct merkt Eddie het effect: hij voelt zich geweldig en wordt superactief, zowel lichamelijk als geestelijk: zijn intellectuele vermogens zijn zozeer aangescherpt dat hij in korte tijd in staat is een verbazingwekkende hoeveelheid complexe informatie op te nemen en te verwerken. Met MDT kan Eddie de hele wereld aan en door een macabere samenloop van omstandigheden krijgt hij opeens een aardig voorraadje: als Vernon wordt vermoord, is Eddie in de buurt en kan hij de hand op een paar honderd pillen leggen. Met zijn scherpe geest en zijn briljante analytische vermogens weet Eddie snel veel geld te verdienen en in stormachtig tempo maakt hij naam op Wall Street. Totdat verontrustende bijwerkingen van zijn verslaving de kop opsteken in de vorm van blackouts, stukken tijd waarvan Eddie zich achteraf niets herinnert. En waarin hij weleens gruwelijke dingen gedaan zou kunnen hebben...

Il ladro. Non aveva mai visto tanta ferocia. Ma non poteva muoversi, non poteva intervenire. Era invitato d'onore allo spettacolo della Vita Che Se Ne Va. Il presidente. La sua risata era inconfondibile. La risata degli uomini che non pagano per i propri errori. Il capo dello staff. "L'uomo che riesce a ingannare chi lo comanda dovrà affrontare i mostri che ha creato." Ma Gloria Russell non conosceva questo proverbio. La guardia del corpo. Era come un film già visto. Era come se già sapesse la fine. Quella folle esibizione del potere assoluto.

His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special trouble-shooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. Of course, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. If there's one thing Lucas Davenport knows, it's that for every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree, in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are those of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. 'Lynching' is the word that everybody's trying not to say - but, as Lucas begins to discover, the murders are not, in fact, what they appear to be. Neither are they the end of it. There is worse to come - much, much worse… Filled with rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.

Lucas Davenport knows why people kill. Some do it for thrills. Some do it for profit. Some do it because they must. But when his team guns down two bank robbers in the middle of a heist, Davenport falls prey to the purest, simplest criminal motivation: revenge.

The first body, that of a young woman, is found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Lucas Davenport, with the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, knows that whoever did this is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.The second body is found three weeks later in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display—except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two victims, nothing to indicate that the killings end here.“This guy…” Lucas says. He took a deep breath and let it out as a sigh. “This guy is going to bust our chops.” And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that…

Spanje is een natie die op het punt staat haar ergste interne strijd in eeuwen te lijden. Bepaalde goed geplaatste Spaanse diplomaten voelen het aan. De inlichtingendienst van Op-Center bevestigt het. Alles wat de Verenigde Staten en Spanje hoeven te doen, is een manier vinden om het te voorkomen. Voordat ze dat kunnen, wordt een vertegenwoordiger van Op-Center in Madrid vermoord op weg naar een topgeheime bijeenkomst. Nu zijn alle angsten bevestigd. Iemand zeer machtig wil een nieuwe Spaanse burgeroorlog - ongeacht de kosten.

'ANOTHER INSTANT COBEN BOLITAR CLASSIC' Michael J Fox For ten long years two boys have been missing. Now you think you've seen one of them. He's a young man. And he's in trouble. Do you approach him? Ask him to come home with you? And how can you be sure it's really him? You thought your search for the truth was over. It's only just begun.

Old crimes cause new murder in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Sandford. Before Lucas Davenport can find the answers, he will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.

The stunning new thriller from the New York TimesNo 1 bestselling author

Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents a moment's worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find that Haley didn't come home the night before. Three months quickly pass without a word, and everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to identify and bring down sexual predators via televised sting operations. Her latest target is Dan Mercer, a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens. But his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. CAUGHT tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realises she can't trust her own instincts about this story - or the motives of the people around her...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES! The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger takes readers into the heart of family loyalty in this twisty page-turner that proves that the darkest secrets are often closest to home. Paul Copeland, a New Jersey county prosecutor, is still grieving the loss of his sister twenty years ago—the night she walked into the woods, never to be seen again. But now, a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to the disappearance. The victim could be the boy who vanished along with Paul's sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family's past threaten to tear apart everything Paul has been trying to hold together....

Per Harry Bosch i casi irrisolti sono ferite aperte. Non importa a quando risalgano, il grido delle vittime che reclamano giustizia è troppo forte perché possa ignorarlo. Questa volta quel grido viene da lontano, ed è l'eco del crimine più atroce e spregevole: l'omicidio di un bambino. I resti della piccola vittima sono venuti alla luce fortuitamente in un bosco di acacie, dove giacevano da vent'anni. Emerse dal suolo scuro, come se avessero atteso con impazienza di essere ritrovate, quelle ossa sono per Bosch il segno di quanto la sua città sia marcia e corrotta. Ora tocca a lui scoprire a chi appartenevano, ricostruire un po' per volta quella vita spezzata, sfidando l'indifferenza della polizia, già pronta ad archiviare un caso che non ha più linfa, e cercando di tenere a bada il morboso assalto dei media, che sembrano andare a nozze con un caso del genere. Con l'ostinazione che una vicenda così ignobile gli detta, Bosch annaspa tra indizi contraddittori e lotta contro i suoi eterni fantasmi che risichiano di trascinarlo a fondo. Ma sa anche che quella è l'unica strada da seguire per consegnare il colpevole alla giustizia, facendosi finalmente beffa della sua prolungata impunità.

Matarese: una misteriosa, inquietante dinastia di origine corsa composta da potentissimi finanzieri e dai loro assassini prezzolati. Per più di vent'anni i migliori agenti della CIA e del KGB si sono coalizzati per distuggerla e alla fine ci sono riusciti. Ma ora, come una fenice che risorge dalle sue ceneri, la criminale setta torna a farsi viva e riprende a tessere le sue losche manovre basate sul delitto e la corruzione.

Bij haar New Yorkse appartement wordt Chloe Larson opgewacht door een man met een clownsmasker op. Hij verkracht en mishandelt haar en laat haar voor dood achter. Ze overleeft de aanval en besluit de stad te verlaten om in Miami een nieuw leven te beginnen. Twaalf jaar later zaait de seriemoordenaar Cupido angst onder de bevolking na een reeks verkrachtingen en moorden op jonge blondines. Wanneer Chloe, die inmiddels officier van justitie is, geconfronteerd wordt met de verdachte herkent ze de stem van haar toenmalige verkrachter. Ze zweert dat ze niet zal rusten voor hij in de dodencel zit. Vergelding? Of gerechtigheid? Maar Cupido is een genadeloze tegenstander en heeft nog enkele trucs achter de hand…

FBI Agent Smoky Barrett and her team are called in by the Director himself to investigate a murder committed on a flight from Texas to Virginia. They find that they are dealing with a serial killer who has already struck a truly horrific number of times. He kills people with the deepest, darkest secrets and is using them to target and destroy his victims. The case is about to go public, with all the accelerated power of the internet behind it and public hysteria is not far behind. Smoky is under intense pressure to get results, yet the team has never been faced with such an apparently insoluble problem. Who will the next victim be? Everyone in the world has secrets. Even Smoky.

A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and eight months pregnant . . . Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own . . .

First in a series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels, City of Ice portrays Montreal as a schizoid landscape, delineated by language, the playground of Russian criminals and American spies and a tough place for a policeman.

The school year is almost over. In these last pressure cooker months of high school, some kids will make the all too common and all too dangerous mistake of drinking and driving. But Myron is determined to help keep his friends’ children safe, and so he makes two neighborhood girls promise him that if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they will call him. Several nights later, the call comes at two a.m. The next day, a girl is missing, and Myron is the last person who saw her. Desperate to fulfill a well-intentioned promise turned horribly wrong, Myron races to find her before she’s gone forever.

With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Cohen explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller. Suburban New Jersey detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since his senior year of high school, when his twin brother, Leo, and Leo's girlfriend, Diana, were found dead on the railroad tracks-and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though he may finally find what he's been looking for. When Maura's fingerprints turn up in the rental car of a suspected murderer, Nap embarks on a quest for answers that only leads to more questions-about the woman he loved, about the childhood friends he thought he knew, about the abandoned military base near where he grewup, and mostly about Leo and Diana-whose deaths are darker and far more sinister than Nap ever dared imagine.

Tia e Mike Baye sembrano avere una vita perfetta con una bella casa, buoni lavori e due figli, Adam e Jill. Tuttavia, la loro serenità viene distrutta dal suicidio del miglior amico di Adam, Spencer Hill. Dopo la tragedia, Adam diventa sempre più chiuso e distante, spingendo i genitori a violare la sua privacy installando un software per monitorare la sua attività online. Un messaggio inquietante da un mittente sconosciuto conferma le loro paure: Adam sta nascondendo qualcosa. La tranquillità della loro cittadina del New Jersey, Livingston, si rivela solo una facciata. La madre di Spencer scopre dettagli scioccanti sulla notte della morte del figlio, mentre un cadavere di una sconosciuta viene trovato nelle vicinanze, rivelando segreti che scuotono la comunità. L'investigatore capo Loren Muse, con il procuratore Paul Copeland, si impegna a risolvere un caso sempre più complesso e inquietante. Con abilità, l'autore intreccia le vite dei personaggi, rivelando il loro lato oscuro e offrendo una miscela avvincente di suspense, rivelazioni e colpi di scena, creando un romanzo che affascina e sorprende i lettori del genere.

Una donna è assassinata da Pathe, un hacker diabolico che l'ha adescata infiltrandosi nei file del suo computer. L'uomo ha infatti un programma che gli consente di entrare nella vita delle persone che conosce in rete, per poi attirarle nella sua trappola mortale. Vuole fare il numero più alto possibile di vittime, a partire dal capo dell'unità di polizia di Los Angeles che indaga sui crimini informatici. Per fermare questa follia omicida, il detective Frank Bishop decide di ricorrere a un altro hacker, detenuto per reati analoghi a quelli di Pathe. Inizia così una partita mortale fra l'hacker "buono" e il sadico killer...

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance Jeff, the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved - her former fiance, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.

A solid lie can build a successful life, but when the truth comes to light, everything can be lost. The Stranger appears out of nowhere—in a bar, parking lot, or store. His identity is unknown, and his motives unclear, but the messages he brings change everything. At a lacrosse parents' meeting, lawyer Adam Price is approached by the Stranger, who claims that Adam's wife has deceived him by faking a pregnancy. The man provides evidence to support his claim. After confronting his wife, she disappears, only contacting him via text, asking him not to search for her. Adam and his sons are devastated. The Stranger reveals more secrets, and soon after the murder of Heidi Dunn, a friend of one of the victims, Detective Johanna Griffin begins an investigation. She uncovers a group led by the Stranger and reaches out to Adam. The lawyer and the detective join forces to find Adam's missing wife. As they uncover more about her life, Adam realizes that nearly everyone around him harbors secrets, and the only way to discover the truth is to find the Stranger, even if it shatters his orderly world.

The heart-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of the PREY novels

When an ex-child tennis star is murdered outside the US Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar finds himself involved in a conspiracy going back over 20 years.

Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.

Late afternoon, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US Senator named Lincoln Bowe, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know - but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she may be next. Hours later, Jake Winter's mobile phone rings. An Army Intelligence veteran, Winter specializes in 'forensic bureaucracy'. The Pentagon, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security - when something goes wrong, Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client, and the chief of staff is on the phone now. If Bowe isn't located soon, all hell will break loose. All hell breaks loose anyway when the blackened body shows up, barb-wired to a tree, missing its head. Just what did Bowe know that got him killed? And who exactly are the mysterious Watchmen shadowing Winter's every move? Can he survive long enough to find out?

The first Myron Bolitar thriller from the Number 1. bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once. Talent agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a footballer and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend-a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead-the deal goes dangerously wrong. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret, and a man's lies, Myron discovers the dark side of his business-where talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

Un barcone sul Mississippi e una splendida modella che sembra volare nella luce, avvolta in un vestito verde come la schiuma del mare. Questa è una delle ultime immagini di Alie'e Maison da viva. Poi Amnon Plain - celebre e provocatorio fotografo di moda - chiude il servizio e la troupe al completo va al party che ha tutti gli ingredienti per diventare memorabile in quell'ambiente: gente famosa, ricca e stravagante, droga, alcol e sesso. Divertimento facile, insomma. Ma qualcosa non va per il verso giusto, e la mattina dopo qualcuno trova in una delle camere il corpo della top model. Una seconda sorpresa aspetta poi il vicecapo Lucas Davenport al suo arrivo sul luogo del delitto. Nascosto in un armadio, giace il cadavere di un'altra ragazza. Davenport già sente i brividi della caccia, il pungolo delle domande. Perchè, per esempio, Alie'e non ha opposto nessuna resistenza al suo strangolatore, dimostrandosi una preda così facile? Chi era in realtà la seconda vittima? Mettendosi sulle tracce dell'assassino, Lucas scopre un mondo all'insegna dell'eccesso. E intanto un misterioso killer in nero incalza, trasformando gli indiziati in vittime... Un thriller adrenalinico, best-seller n.1 negli Stati Uniti, in cui l'autore orchestra magistralmente i vari livelli dell'intreccio e la strutturazione dei personaggi, in un crescendo di colpi di scena fino all'imprevedibile finale.

STOP PRESS NEWS! NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, AND OPTIONED FOR FILM WITH JULIA ROBERTS TO STAR IN AND PRODUCE If your husband was murdered And you were a witness How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam? You thought you trusted him. Now you can't even trust yourself. Dark secrets and a terrifying hunt for the truth lie at the heart of this gripping new thriller by the 'master of the double twist', Harlan Coben.

Ben Truman, Chief of Police, heads down to Boston to follow the few fragile leads he has in the case. With the help of a retired cop who knows all the angles, he becomes embroiled in an investigation which has its roots in a sequence of deaths which began twenty years previously...

Ad Amburgo vengono ritrovati i cadaveri di due donne in posizione "ad ali spiegate": come in un antico rituale vichingo, le costole sono aperte e sollevate, i polmoni estratti e disposti a forma di aquila. Un terzo omicidio fa sospettare a Jan Fabel, il commissario incaricato delle indagini, di non trovarsi davanti a un singolo individuo, ma a un gruppo ben organizzato di persone, gente potente con forti interessi politici ed economici.

Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York. But when a young man, Rudy, is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek, Tobin resolves to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him 'the Mayor of Lexington Avenue'. Heartbreak, tragedy, courtroom drama and the hope of redemption play out in this utterly page-turning, thought-provoking legal thriller.

Un giovane avvocato, dopo aver abilmente orchestrato la sua finta morte, è sparito con novanta milioni di dollari e con una massa di prove e documenti che potrebbero smascherare un importante caso di corruzione ai vertici dello stato. FBI e detective privati, uomini di legge e nemici che lo vogliono davvero morto, sono da tempo sulle sue tracce, e quando viene finalmente catturato, si scatena una battaglia senza esclusione di colpi, in cui è la legge lo strumento per nascondere le proprie colpe e l'arma per uccidere.

Winner of the ITV3 Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award; shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award, longlisted the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year, longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award.A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them.He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more?A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target:Lewis Winter.It's hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The second and third books in the trilogy: How a Gunman Says Goodbye and The Sudden Arrival of Violence - are out now.

Quinn Barry wants to become an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the Edgar J Hoover building. While testing a new program her computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders.

Mark Nelson è un giovane poliziotto, appena assegnato alla squadra di John Mercer, detective di provata esperienza, una leggenda in polizia. Lavorare al suo fianco è una grande opportunità per Mark, che, dopo la tragica morte della fidanzata, ha fatto del lavoro il suo scopo di vita. Viene subito messo alla prova. Il ritrovamento di un cadavere torturato e sfigurato, con l'inequivocabile firma della ragnatela tracciata sul muro, indica che, dopo due anni, è tornato in azione il 50/50 killer. E' l'assassino che tiene in ostaggio per un'intera notte una coppia di fidanzati, sottoponendoli a tortura fisica e manipolazione psicologica. All'alba solo uno dei due sopravvive. Con le indagini appena avviate, al comando di polizia si presenta un giovane, malridotto per le sevizie subite e in stato confusionale. Riesce a dire soltanto che la sua ragazza è tenuta prigioniera nel bosco, da cui lui è scapato. Ma gli investigatori sanno che, dandosi alla fuga, l'uomo ha segnato il destino della giovane. Se non riescono a rintracciarla prima dell'alba, sarà lei a morire al posto suo. Però, non tutto è come sembra...

After the slaughter of his girlfriend by an unknown assassin, Nicholas Newman wants only to start afresh. However, when a link is made between killings across Europe, he reluctantly agrees to help the police again. When attempts are made on his life, he realizes his nightmare has only just begun.

Elena Waldren has a secret that she's built fences around for the last twenty-nine years and kept from everyone. Through her work with an aid agency, her fears about the plight of a young girl placed with a nearby family finally set her on a quest to uncover the past that she's pushed away for so long. A quest that leads her into the dangerous heart of Montreal's leading crime family, the Lacailles. The Lacaille brothers are at odds over their business aims for the future. Caught in the middle is the money-man holding the key to legitimizing their enterprises, Georges Donatien. But as much as Donatien could be their saviour, he is also the last witness to a murder that could bring their empire crashing down.

Hij bindt ze vast op bed en laat ze zonder eten of drinken volledig aan hun lot over. Wanneer nietsvermoedende vrienden contact opnemen, beantwoordt hij hun berichten zodat het lijkt of er niets aan de hand is. Zodra de jonge vrouwen overleden zijn, stuurt hij diezelfde vrienden een laatste bericht: jij hebt haar laten doodgaan... Detective Sam Currie moet de zaak van deze seriemoordenaar op zich nemen. Een van de verdachten is Dave Lewis. Dave heeft nog meer zorgen. De dood van zijn broer werpt nog steeds een schaduw over zijn leven. Ook zijn grote verloren liefde Tori laat hem niet los. Als zij in het ziekenhuis belandt, neemt Dave zich voor haar niet meer zo snel uit het oog te verliezen, ook als is hij intussen een voorzichtige relatie met internetdate Sarah begonnen. Dan blijkt Tori het volgende slachtoffer te zijn...

No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years... Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 ~

A daring journey of adventure, courage & romance, traversing the world from Casablanca to Lisbon to New York to London to Prague & then Paris, expanding & intensifying the classic movie Casablanca.

Na een vrijwillige ballingschap in Engeland is historica Gale Grayson teruggekeerd naar haar land van herkomst, de Verenigde Staten. Daar, in de broeierige dorpsgemeenschap van Statler's Cross, Georgia, wordt zij al snel geconfronteerd met een hele serie excentrieke bloedverwanten. En met een moord die alles met een tragische gebeurtenis in het vereleden te maken lijkt te hebben... Want al generaties lang gaat het verhaal van Linnie Glynn, de vrouw die in 1925 haar zoontje op zijn paasbest kleedde, hem opsloot in zijn kamertje en vervolgens zichzelf ophing aan de notenboom in haar tuin. Nooit kwam haar geest tot rust en nog steeds waart zij door het dorp. En nu ligt Linnies kleinzoon daar, met een kogel door zijn hoofd. Was het zelfmoord? Wraak? Of een lang uitgestelde afrekening? Om hierachter te komen moet Gale diep graven in de duistere geheimen van Statler's Cross, en ook in haar eigen pijnlijke verelden...

The 8th April 1996 was a bad day for Karen Sharpe, the eighth anniversary of something so deeply buried she had hoped to forget it ever happened. Each year she tries to cope in whatever way she can. Most years she turns to booze. But this year that wasn't going to work. Sometime after midnight Phil Leech, her DS and partner, is executed in a military style killing, whilst Fiona Mitchell, his pretty 21-year-old informant, ends up on a South Pennine moor with bullets through her face and chest. Karen had been due to meet both when drink and memories intervened, preventing her from getting there. As the investigation begins, odd details keep forcing Karen to examine her own unclear memories. As she follows her instincts, and some very disturbing clues embedded in her own secret history, she must confront her past and act quickly if she is to prevent the seed of destruction planted eight years before from wreaking devastating and brutal consequences.

In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the twilight of Deng Xiaoping's rule, the U.S. ambassador's son is discovered dead, frozen in a lake. Simultaneously, off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark uncovers the body of a Red Prince, a member of China's elite. The U.S. and Chinese governments suspect a connection between the two deaths and decide to collaborate for justice. In Beijing, David partners with the unconventional detective Liu Hulan. Their investigation, which ignites a strong attraction between them, takes them across China, revealing a complex web of human trafficking, drug trade, and governmental betrayal that stretches from the Forbidden City to Los Angeles. The narrative intricately portrays the stark beauty of Beijing and its landscapes, while also capturing the essence of two distinct cultures. The story paints a vivid picture of modern Chinese life amidst significant societal changes, blending murder and intrigue into a compelling thriller that both informs and entertains. Recognized as a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery and a New York Times Notable Book, this work offers a rich exploration of a vast nation undergoing transformation.

Douglas Armstrong stevent af op zijn 35ste verjaardag. En aangezien alles wat tot nu toe misging in zijn leven, misging in een jaar met een vijf erin, bereidt hij zich voor op het ergste. Temeer daar zijn veel jongere vrouw Donna daartoe ook nog eens extra de aanleiding geeft......

Een Australische chirurg die vanwege het aanhangig maken van illegale handel in menselijke organen voortdurend in angst leeft, bouwt in zijn geboortedorp een nieuw bestaan op als criminoloog.

Twee jonge paleontologen gaan op zoek naar hun verdwenen professor, die in Rusland sporen van nog levende Neanderthalers zou hebben gevonden.

Een psychologe en haar zuster, die privé-detective is, proberen dertig jaar na dato uit te zoeken of hun vader hun moeder heeft vermoord.