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Es gibt nicht viel, wovor sich Lieutenant Eve Dallas von der New Yorker Mordkommission wirklich fürchtet. Jetzt aber verfolgt sie ein unbekannter Verehrer mit Briefen - und mit einer Serie entsetzlicher Morde und Bombenanschlägen. Das Spinnennetz des Killers zieht sich immer enger um Eve zusammen und bedroht schließlich das, was Eve am wichtigsten im Leben ist: ihre Stadt, ihre Familie, ihre Karriere. Eve schlägt nach allen Regeln der Kunst zurück und findet bei ihren Ermittlungen immer mehr Hinweise auf die Identität des Psychopathen.

Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan.

Five minutes until the interview begins. Fresh on the heels of her college graduation, Cameron Heart has landed an interview at a prestigious architecture firm. Four minutes until the interview. She knows she's only there because the owner, Grayson Cole, is her older sister's friend. Three minutes. For the last seven years, Grayson has been the most intimidating man Cammie has ever had the pleasure - or displeasure - of being around.

Seit der extravagante Hundesalon »Crew Ella« neben Robert Mondrians Buchhandlung eröffnet wurde, ereignen sich seltsame Dinge: Diebstähle häufen sich, und auf den Wegen an der Rems begegnet man so vielen Dalmatinern wie nie zuvor. Als ein Tierarzt im Salon erdrosselt wird, gerät schnell Besitzerin Ella Reitermann – stilbewusst wie ihre berüchtigte Londoner Namensvetterin und mit Dalmatiner-Faible – unter Verdacht. Nur hat sie ein Alibi. Doch manchmal beginnt die beste Spur dort, wo man am wenigsten Ahnung hat.

Evangelist Brock T. Hanson believes Colin Douglass to be the prophet he’s been waiting for his whole life, the man who will lead the faithful back to Earth and trigger the most momentous event since Creation itself. But there’s a problem. Actually, there are several. First, Colin Douglass himself doesn’t believe a word of it and is the kind of chap who’d rather stay at home with a nice cup of tea than cross the galaxy on some foolish, idealistic crusade.

Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all - a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school's summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting.

Brooklyn Manning thought her life was perfect in every way, until it crumbled down around her and turned into a dumpster fire. With her pride wounded and her tail tucked between her legs, she leaves New York and goes back to her tiny hometown of White Timber, Montana. No more 24-hour taco trucks, no more shopping at the best designer stores within walking distance, no more giving taxi drivers the finger when they angrily honk at her. She didn’t think it could get any worse. But then Clint Hastings walked into the room and insulted her.

When 27-year-old pop sensation Brooklyn Heart steps in front of a microphone, her love songs enchant audiences worldwide. But when it comes to her own love life, the only spell she's under is a dry one. So when her label slots her for a Grammy performance with the sexy and soulful Jason Monroe, she can't help but entertain certain fantasies...those in which her G-string gets more play than her guitars'.

It has always been John Omally's secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something. Talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into 'The Industry'. A band called Gandhi's Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein. It should be a piece of cake. But - and there's always a but - there is something rather odd about this band. Something other-worldly.

There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone. Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud, Dr Malone is cloning Jesus. And not just a single Jesus, he's going for a full half-dozen so that each of the world's major religions can have one. It's a really bad idea. In Brentford they've had a really good idea.

When ex-Special Ops bad-ass Mace walks into Needle's Kiss tattoo parlor, he never expects to find the girl who would turn his life upside down. Hard-as-nails Scarlett has been unlucky in love: She's been burnt, chewed up, and spat out. Reluctant to have another relationship, can she keep her wits about her when hot-as-sin Mace walks into her tattoo parlor? Or will he break her down and leave his mark within her ink?

Chester Pomeroy is a onetime rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.

Den Ring gilt's zu finden, den Mord zu ergründen... Beim Barte des Gandalf! Juwelier Gollmann ist fassungslos. Sein wertvollster Ring wurde gestohlen, und sein Mitarbeiter liegt blutend vor der Vitrine. Ausgerechnet jetzt, da Hunderte verkleidete Mittelerde-Fans anlässlich von Tolkiens 130. Geburtstag zum Cosplay-Event in der Stadt sind. Die Täterbeschreibung der Augenzeugen bringt die Kripo nicht weiter: Frodo soll's gewesen sein, unterstützt von Gandalf und zwei Orks.

For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country, with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship.

Kendra Syrdal is probably in a bad mood. Unless she's writing, making fun of something, or eating tater tots. In this collection of humorous essays, Kendra takes you along for the ride in the completely weird and sometimes messy (but always hilarious) life of another girl with a terrible case of resting bitch face. She writes for the inner Cathy comic in all of us - who just needs to say ACK!, be cranky, and hate on stuff sometimes.Except on tater tots, obvi. #yesalltots

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Es ist wieder kurz vor Weihnachten. In einer fernen Zeit weit in der Zukunft. Das Fernsehen gehört schon längst der Vergangenheit an und die Menschen möchten am liebsten von morgens bis abends Hörbüchern und Geschichten zuhören. In der Firma Ohrdebil.de drehen die Mitarbeiter gerade ein Grußvideo für ihren kranken Chef Herrn Debil als sie plötzlich einen Wal auf der Dachterrasse finden. Hat den Günni bestellt? Günni ist der Bruder von Herrn Debil, der nun während seiner Abwesenheit kommissarisch die Geschäfte von Ohrdebil.de leitet. Als Ramona, John, Alexander, Betsy und Flora gerade herausfinden wollen, was es mit dem großen Tier auf sich hat, klingelt es plötzlich an der Tür. Drei merkwürdige Gestalten bitten um Einlass: Faust (Goethes Faust!), Romeo (ja genau, der von Shakespeare!) und Fanny Price (die aus Jane Austins Mansfield Park!)...

In den zehn Jahren ihres aufreibenden Berufes als Lieutenant der New Yorker Polizei hat die gewitzte, mutige Eve Dallas viel Schreckliches gesehen und, für eine so junge, schöne Frau wie sie, viel zu viel erlebt. Doch sie weiß, dass sie sich auf eines garantiert verlassen kann: auf ihren Instinkt. Bei der Jagd nach einem grausamen Serienmörder, der New York in lähmende Angst versetzt, gerät sie an den undurchsichtigen irischen Milliardär Roarke. Alle Indizien weisen darauf hin, dass er nicht so unschuldig ist, wie er vorgibt zu sein. Doch wider jede Vernunft sprechen Eves Gefühle eine andere Sprache. Sie lässt sich von einem hinreißenden Mann verführen, von dem sie nichts weiß, außer dass er als Killer verdächtigt wird - und ihr Herz erobert hat...

Nominated for the prestigious 2010 CWA Gold Dagger award, Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London's Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to claim on his insurance. Which he would do - if he'd remembered to pay his premium.

Dermot McEvoy sweeps his listeners into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by the ghost of Bobby Kennedy, whose death he feels responsible for.