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Beth Rivers is on the run - she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic’s obsession. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hide out, and she feels safer than she’s felt since Levi took her. That is, until she’s told about a local death that’s a suspected murder.

When the body of an elderly woman is discovered propped against her bedroom door clutching her heart, locals are saddened but not surprised. But when the body of a man is discovered in the house, it falls to Freya Bloom and her team to investigate the suspicious deaths. However, piecing together the life of a woman who neighbours refer to as Mad Alice will not be an easy job, and if Freya is to solve the mystery she must question her own sense of reality.

OSBI agents face three of the most challenging cases in their history. Book 1 had a killer who kills from the need for blood. Book 2 finds a killer killing young prostitutes. Book 3 find a killer burning young adults. Each audiobook not only keeps you breathless at the rapid pace and suspenseful writing, but you will also follow a journey of spiritual awakening for one OSBI agent. Share her journey from a life trapped behind hard emotional walls, to one of freedom.

When DCI Freya Bloom and DI Ben Savage are called to an abandoned farmhouse in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, they expect the worst. The caller to emergency services had reported finding a man’s body. Yet, except for an old tent and a few personal possessions, the old house is empty. The investigation comes to a grinding halt before it’s even begun. With no body, there is no crime, and Freya’s efforts to quietly pursue the incident stall when another call comes in.

When the Zakro Corporation attempts to build a mammoth supermarket outside Cherringham, the whole village is up in arms. But the accidental death of lead environmentalist Sam Lewis seems to hand victory to the developers. Could Sam's opposition to the project be the real reason he died? When Jack and Sarah take on the case, they will learn that what looked like an accident was - in fact - one very wild murder.

The members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the case again when a dog walker is found dead. The method of the death is odd...the killer had no way in - or out - and the dog is nowhere to be seen. But the 'hows' and 'whys' of the murder are not the only mysteries, and it seems very likely that the killer is preparing to strike again.

When DCI Freya Bloom is called to a crime scene early one Sunday morning, little does she know that the friendships she has counted on so many times will be called into question and her time in the Lincolnshire fens could be coming to an untimely end…along with her career. The victim, a retired woman named Linda Wilson, lies at the edge of a small forest atop the Lincoln edge, a steep escarpment that runs throughout Lincolnshire.

When a young girl vanishes one dark night in Lincolnshire, her father refuses to worry. Even the mother thinks she'll be home in a few days. But the few days become weeks, the weeks become months, the months become a year, and the year becomes five. And then Deborah Jarvis shows up in the last place anybody expected her - beneath the floor of an old house in nearby Haverholme Park.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

Erneut widmet sich Oscar Wilde den Akten mit den ungelösten Fällen. Dabei weckt der Brief eines Inspectors Willer aus einer Kleinstadt in der Nähe von London sein Interesse. Vor einigen Jahren ist es dort zu einer auffälligen Häufung von unerklärlichen Todesfällen gekommen. Mycroft Holmes hatte sich um Verstärkung für die Polizei bemüht und nie wieder etwas von dem Fall gehört. Neugierig sucht Wilde den Polizisten auf. Tatsächlich ist der Fall gelöst worden.

"I see murder in this unhappy hand...." When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "Murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen "victims" begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag....

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet, when the body is found, there are lacerations on his neck put there by a human hand. He is involved in a land dispute and his wife claims to be the benefactor on his behalf. Picard's mistress emerges to stake her claim then a third woman—wife of the deceased original owner of the land—comes forward. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret have three human wildcats trying to tear out each other's throats.

In dem kleinen Örtchen Griffin in den schottischen Highlands wurde eine riesenhafte Gestalt gesichtet. Die Bevölkerung ist in großer Aufregung, denn vor einigen Jahren ging schon einmal eine Bestie in den Wäldern von Griffin umher. Damals fanden zwei Menschen den Tod. Auf Bitten des Bürgermeisters von Griffin reist Oscar Wilde gemeinsam mit dem Großwildjäger Hawthorn in die Highlands.

Here are ten more traditional tales spanning Sherlock Holmes's illustrious career. Beginning with “The Matter of the Missing Mortician,” which London’s greatest detective solves without ever leaving his Baker Street sitting room to “The Conundrum of the Disputed Canvas,” which brings Holmes to Richmond Hill to resolve the authenticity of a painting of questionable origins. In between, an audacious new rival rises up to challenge Sherlock Holmes over two vexing cases. Then, an old enemy cleverly strikes at the hated detective from afar in “The Difficulty of the Distant Antagonist.

With Christmas on the horizon, they call OSBI agents Carrie Border and Lainey Tate to a case in Southeastern Oklahoma. The area is home to the legendary Robber's Cave in the center of dense forest, cliffs, and mountains. Local law enforcement have found three burned bodies and turn to the OSBI for help in finding the killer. Carrie and Lainey fall into false leads and backwoods locals who do not want their nefarious crimes revealed.

Irene Adler, Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes stehen nach dem Mord an Mycroft Holmes unter Schock. Nur mit Mühe gelingt es ihnen, sich auf die Ermittlungen zu konzentrieren. Während Irene Adler einer neuen Spur im Fall der Grabschändungen folgt, setzen Sherlock Holmes und Oscar Wilde alles daran, den Mord an Mycroft Holmes lückenlos aufzuklären. Erste Hinweise führen die beiden in die unmittelbare Nähe des Königshauses und plötzlich müssen sich die Sonderermittler die Frage stellen, wem sie überhaupt noch vertrauen können.

Die Suche nach den Worten der Macht ist für die Sonderermittler bisher eine einzige Enttäuschung, immer wieder scheint der Zirkel der Sieben ihnen ein Schritt voraus zu sein. Endlich bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die Bemühungen des Geheimbundes zu durchkreuzen. Die Hinweise mehren sich, dass ein weiteres Artefakt im Himalaya verborgen liegt. Oscar Wilde bricht zu einer Expedition auf, die ihn auf das "Dach der Welt" führen soll. Noch ahnt niemand, welche Gefahren im Hochgebirge lauern. Denn für viele, die den Pfad der Toten betreten, wird es eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr.

Die Leitung des British Museum ist elektrisiert. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass ein außergewöhnlicher Fund unweit des Polarkreises die Welt der Forschung auf den Kopf stellen könnte. Die Menschheitsgeschichte müsste neu geschrieben werden, wenn es tatsächlich eine unbekannte Hochkultur in Nordeuropa gegeben hätte. Eine Expedition wird ausgerüstet, um für Klarheit zu sorgen. Doch die Forschungsreisenden verschwinden spurlos, unter ihnen der einflussreiche Sohn des Finanziers und Ausrüsters. Mit seinen weitreichenden Kontakten gelingt es ihm, Mycroft Holmes zur Mithilfe zu bewegen.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal detective returns for ten puzzling cases ranging from his earliest career to his final bows.

A steeplechase at Bangor races...after a mile, a horse suddenly goes wild and smashes through a fence leaving his jockey, Eddie Malloy, comatose. This is no freak accident. In the following weeks, more horses go wild during races. Fortunes are won and lost on them, and the only consistent clue is that Eddie Malloy rides in every race where the horses hit blind panic. The racing authorities want Eddie grounded. The police want to use Eddie to nail an 'uncatchable' crime lord.