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In the fourth installment of the best-selling Serenity's Plain Secrets series, Serenity must work with US marshals to uncover the truth behind a shockingly brutal 15-year-cold murder. Desperate for answers, Serenity finds herself in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she unravels secrets that threaten to tear her and Daniel apart. But digging up the past is dangerous, and the quaint Amish settlement isn't as safe as it seems.

Cold War Marseille is a city of shadowy alliances and loose morals, where a good man can lose sight of which side he is really on and evil men profit from the misery and confusion of others. It is therefore the perfect town for Ernst Ludwig, an East German terrorist who is sadistic beyond measure. But when Ludwig kidnaps and murders the wife of Alex Moran, the US intelligence agent hot on his trail, he sets off a blood feud whose violent shock waves will span decades and reach all the way across the globe.

Beth couldn’t be happier. She is eight weeks pregnant and married to the man of her dreams. But after returning home from a celebratory meal, she finds a wreath from her sister’s grave hanging above the bed and a kitchen knife embedded in her pillow. There are no signs of a forced entry. Nothing is stolen. And no one other than the cleaner has a key to the house. Then a campaign of terror begins. Beth becomes increasingly paranoid as it becomes clear that someone close to the family is behind these disturbing events.

It's the 21st Century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blonde, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill each other for sport and for the entertainment of the masses - until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes...as each of them seeks to kill their 10th victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters.

Ein Serienmörder treibt in Berlin sein Unwesen. Sein drittes Opfer, eine ältere Dame, wird in einem weißen Leinenhemd aufgebahrt auf ihrem Esstisch gefunden. Spuren gibt es keine, denn die Wohnung ist klinisch rein geputzt - ein Alptraum für jeden Ermittler. Das LKA Berlin steht vor einem Rätsel und die letzte Hoffnung, den "Putzteufel-Mörder" zu finden, ruhen auf Julius Kern. Schon einmal konnte er einen grausamen Massenmörder fassen. Doch Kern ist damals daran fast zerbrochen und beim aktuellen Fall führen alle Spuren scheinbar ins Leere. Während er nur langsam zu seiner alten Form zurückfindet, hat sein Gegner bereits das nächste Opfer im Visier und Kern muss erkennen, dass er den Mörder nur mit Hilfe des Mannes fassen kann, den er in seinem Leben nie mehr wiedersehen wollte...

A little sex. A little death. Most people would kill to live in glamorous Palm Beach, with its beautiful women, five-star resorts, and dazzling coast. But most people don't know what really goes on in the bedrooms of the rich and famous....Mark Durand did - and now the handsome high-class "walker," who escorted the wealthiest women to posh affairs, is dead, his beheaded corpse found in an abandoned cattle pen.

Ungemütliche Zeiten für Hauptkommissar William Wisting: Wegen des Vorwurfs, Beweise manipuliert zu haben, wird er vom Dienst suspendiert. Der Fall, um den es geht, liegt schon siebzehn Jahre zurück, gilt aber bis heute als einer der aufsehenerregendsten der Kriminalgeschichte Norwegens. Damals war die junge Cecilia Linde erst verschwunden und wurde dann ermordet aufgefunden.

Una joven salta desde el Puente de la Salve tras recibir una llamada de móvil. Aunque en un primer momento el caso se cierra al considerarlo un suicidio, todas las alarmas saltan para la joven forense de la Ertzaintza Natalia Egaña cuando nuevas muertes van uniéndose a este primer misterio.

¿Quieres unirte al equipo de investigación que tratará de atrapar a Caronte, el asesino en serie que enamora a adolescentes tímidas y solitarias a través de Internet? Los cadáveres brutalmente mutilados de varias adolescentes aparecen abandonados en parajes apartados de Vizcaya. No hay pistas sobre el asesino, nadie sabe nada del misterioso asaltante y lo único que tienen en común todas las víctimas es que son jóvenes solitarias. La investigación lleva a la joven forense Natalia Egaña y al inspector de homicidios Carlos Vega a descubrir que el asesino contacta con sus víctimas a través de Internet.

Les victimes du Corrupteur se font empoisonner à leur insu. Elles reçoivent un défi sordide, qui doit être accompli en 24 heures. Les victorieux se méritent l’antidote. Les autres subissent une mort atroce.

Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit und um das Leben eines Kindes: Sabine Yao löst ihren zweiten Fall - Gänsehaut-True-Crime mit der sympathischen Rechtsmedizinerin Die Spezialeinheit „Extremdelikte“ um Dr. Sabine Yao untersucht auch diesmal ungewöhnliche Todesfälle: Zwei in schwarze Samtkleider gehüllte und bizarr entstellte Tote, die im Wald an einem Gestell hängen, geben den Ermittlern Rätsel auf. Dann wird Sabine Yao an einen Tatort in einem heruntergekommenen Trailerpark gerufen, wo ein Toter zwischen Kinderspielzeug und Perücken liegt.

Ein bizarrer Mord sorgt für Aufsehen: Ein Mann wurde an sein Bett gefesselt und hingerichtet. An den Füßen trägt er rote Stöckelschuhe. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass er zuvor eine Drohung erhielt: ein Foto von sich selbst – mit dem Absatz eines Stöckelschuhs im Gesicht. Er ist nicht der Einzige, der solch eine Nachricht bekam. Sind auch die anderen Bedrohten in Gefahr? Gleichzeitig jagt das Team um Polizeichef Sandro Bandini einen Mann, der in einer Frauendisko in einem linken Kulturzentrum um sich schoss.

Die ungewöhnlichste Auftragskillerin der Welt: Violetta Morgenstern ist zurück Violetta Morgenstern, pensionierte Lehrerin und kreative Profikillerin, ist auf der Flucht vor dem Staat, als sie einen neuen Auftrag erhält: Mit ihrem Kollegen, dem Ex-Söldner Miguel Schlunegger, soll sie den mysteriösen Tod eines Journalisten aufklären. Die Spur führt in die finstere Vergangenheit, zum Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Das mörderische Duo findet heraus, dass sich ein furchtbares Ereignis der Weltgeschichte in Wirklichkeit ganz anders abgespielt hat.

The stunning debut from thriller writer Lloyd Otis. When a woman's body is found, a special team is called in to investigate, and prime suspect Alex Troy is arrested for the murder. Desperate to remain a free man, Troy protests his innocence but refuses to use his alibi. Trying to protect the woman he loves becomes a dangerous game - questions are asked, and suspicions deepen. When the prime suspect completes a daring escape from custody, DI Breck and DS Kearns begin the hunt.

"Thinnes specialized in homicide. He hated working rapes. Rape was more like a drive-by shooting than anything else because it was often a matter of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But drive-bys usually happened in the killer's neighborhood and were perpetrated against known enemies or at least innocent neighbors... With rape it was different. Rape hurt the victim when it went down, and again when the cops investigated - no matter how careful they were - Thinnes hated the whole thing.

Hattie Evans, a retired schoolteacher, isn’t one to fuss. When her husband drops dead of a heart attack, she does her best to move on without too many tears. After all, Jerome was 70 years old. But an anonymous note, asserting that her husband was murdered, shakes her resolve, and she seeks out help. The police are useless, save that they send her to Fred Carver - a former Orlando cop who turned PI when a bullet shattered his left knee. Her case takes Carver into the depths of Solartown: an old-age mecca where 70 is the new 40, golf carts are the only way to get around, and death from natural causes is nowhere to be found.

Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, Sam is a prime suspect. Throughout her investigation into the naked truth, Jill is sidetracked by a band of nude citizens protesting the citys new anti-nudity ordinance.

When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse. But Ghostly’s tale about a beautiful woman who fled for no apparent reason doesn’t quite convince Carver, who presses for more detail. Finally Ghostly admits it: His wife was beautiful, intelligent, and kind, but she was also a heroin addict. She fled their Florida home with half their savings - nearly $10,000 - and he’s afraid she’s going to put it straight into her veins.

Thirteen-year-old Anthony Faircloth hasn't spoken a word in almost a month, and with each passing day his near-catatonic state worsens. No doctor, test, or scan can tell Anthony's distraught mother what has happened to her already troubled son. In desperation she turns to Mira for answers, hoping her unique abilities might succeed where science has failed. At their first encounter, Mira is pulled into Anthony's mind and finds the child's psyche shattered into the various movements of Modest Mussorgsky's classical music suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia - with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.’s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he’d rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal.