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Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky’s secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due.

Leo Balanoff is a crusading attorney with unthinkable skeletons in his closet. He's also a diagnosed pathological liar. When a predatory gangster with a long list of victims is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says in his defense. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the gangster's even more lethal boss.

Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened.

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emma's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison 'Books' Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected.

On a hot summer night in 1980, two-year-old Audrey Culter was snatched from her bedroom and never seen again. Twenty-six years later, her brother, Sammy, fatefully crosses paths with the man the police failed to convict for her abduction and murder. A few weeks later, that man is dead, murdered. Private attorney Jason Kolarich is engaged to defend Audrey's brother. But can he trust the people who hired him?

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multimillion-dollar beachfront house in the Hamptons, but its beautiful exterior hides a horrific past. This house was the setting for a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty and rumoured to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy has moved to the area to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks.

Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. But In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police....

Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez — a call that never came. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant’s murder as well. He can’t bring back his family, but he can find out who killed Ramirez and bring the killer to justice.

Attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who emulated the lyrics of a violent song to gruesomely murder six girls, including the daughter of billionaires Harland and Natalia Bentley. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders - and the grisly second verse to the song. Riley is the first to realize that the two cases are connected and that the line between copycat and cover-up has been blurred.

Three complete novels from the best-selling Jade Ihara Adventures series by David Wood and Sean Ellis!

Ben Casper n'aurait jamais imaginé retrouver le corps de Diana, sa meilleure amie, une agente de la CIA, au pied de son immeuble. Elle se serait jetée par la fenêtre de son appartement. Suicide. Affaire classée. Pourtant, Diana, dont Ben était secrètement amoureux, n'avait a priori aucun motif d'en finir avec la vie... Journaliste d'investigation, Ben pressent qu'on a cherché à la faire taire. Bientôt, il va mettre au jour un complot qui pourrait impliquer les plus hautes instances du pouvoir. Mais, à trop approcher la vérité, c'est sa propre vie que Ben met en danger.

„‚American Psycho’ läuft drohend, grollend wie ein Unwetter an, und plötzlich schlägt der grausame Blitz ein: Die Banalität des Schrecklichen, die wir verdrängen wollen, trifft uns und zwingt uns, das Unerträgliche wahrzunehmen: die Oberflächlichkeit, die Brutalität, mit der wir uns abfinden. In einer Medienwelt, die jedes Thema lächelnd in drei Minuten abhandelt - vom Holocaust über die Salatbar zum Krieg – ist dieses Buch ein Schuss ins Herz, Picassos ‚Guernica’ vergleichbar.“ Elke Heidenreich.

When Andrew Marsh takes a young woman out for dinner while his wife is away, he soon finds himself in big trouble. He falls under police suspicion when cheques from his missing cheque book start turning up in shops, signed with a false name. Suspected of fraud, Andrew decides to take action. Convinced that the cheque book was stolen by his dinner companion, Sheila Ramsey, he tries desperately to trace her - but she's gone. Things go from bad to worse and Andrew is soon suspected of murder after his car is involved in a hit-and-run. Is he being framed?

Er lebt in seiner eigenen Welt, abgeschottet, scheinbar ohne Empfindung. Doch dann wird der Kriegsveteran Tommy des Mordes an einer Studentin...

Detective Billy Harney hat über die Jahre viele harte Fälle aufgeklärt. Doch als in einem heruntergekommenen Viertel von Chicago mehrere Menschen erschossen werden, darunter ein vierjähriges Mädchen, ist selbst der hartgesottene Polizist schockiert. Alles deutet auf Gangkriminalität hin, und als Proteste laut werden, drängen die Behörden auf schnelle Aufklärung. Harney aber gibt sich nicht mit einfachen Antworten ab und gräbt weiter nach der Wahrheit. Damit macht er sich in einer Stadt wie Chicago, in der Waffengewalt und Korruption allgegenwärtig sind, mächtige Feinde...

Two thousand years ago, the legendary mathematical genius Archimedes was poised on the brink of the greatest discovery in human history when his life was brutally snuffed out. His murder has never been explained. While investigating the strange Paracas skulls - believed by some to be the remains of extraterrestrial explorers - archaeologist Jade Ihara receives an unexpected visit from an old foe seeking her help against entities he calls "Changelings".

When Navy SEAL Dane Maddock and his squad are sent to find the wreckage of a sunken World War II Japanese "Hell Ship", they find themselves caught up in a deadly race to solve an 800 year old mystery. Can Dane and Bones outrun, outfight, and outwit a cadre of deadly adversaries and find the key to unlock the deadly secret of the Knights Templar? Sunken ships, conspiracies, secret societies, historical mysteries, and all the action you can handle!

Jenna Murphy är en hård polis från New York, men när hon dras in i ett brutalt mordfall i hennes hemstad måste hon konfrontera ett förflutet som hon helst hade velat lämna bakom sig. Nya sanningar har dragits fram ur mörkret, och Murphy måste plötsligt omvärdera flera relationer i sin närhet. Och när flera ouppklarade fall visar sig ha samband med det brutala mordet, måste Murphy ta till alla sina förmågor för att själv inte bli ett offer för den brutala, knivskarpa mördaren ... James Petterson är världens bäst säljande författare just nu.

Jenna Murphy är en tuff polis från New York, men när hon i samband med ett uppmärksammat dubbelmord på en affärsman från Hollywood och hans älskarinna återvänder till Hamptons kan hon inte värja sig mot sitt trassliga förflutna. Inte nog med det så skedde mordet i huset där hennes farbror en gång miste livet. Jenna kommer närmare och närmare lösningen på fallet. Hon känner det på sig, för någonstans därute i skuggorna har en osynlig men ack så närvarande kraft börjat röra på sig.

The Hamptons utanför New York är en av världens vackrast belägna platser, men mitt i idyllen ligger ett gammalt hus som kallas för Mordhuset. Det är en plats som har ett fruktansvärt förgånget. Flera ouppklarade mord har inträffat där, och nu när ytterligare ett dubbelmord begås där dras New York-polisen Jenna Murphy in i fallet. Jenna är tillbaka i The Hamptons, och stadens förflutna börjar långsamt nystas upp. Mordet på hennes farbror som aldrig blev uppklarat har på något sätt med det nya dubbelmordet att göra, men Jenna lyckas inte förstå hur allt hänger ihop.