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It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope - only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty - except for the ominous bloodstain. The Swopes and their son have vanished into the sordid shadows of the city.

Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him.

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules... But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil.

A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal.

Exklusive XXL Hörproben aus fünf Hörbüchern der Bestsellerautorin Charlotte Link - lehnen Sie sich zurück und lassen Sie sich von uns vorlesen: Die letzte Spur, gelesen von Britta Steffenhagen: Mehrere Menschen verschwinden spurlos und werden ermordet aufgefunden - doch zwischen Verschwinden und Todeszeitpunkt liegt zu viel Zeit... Wenn ein Vermisstenfall zur spannendsten und gefährlichsten Story deines Lebens wird. Die Entscheidung, gelesen von Friederike Kempter: Selina hatte nach einem besseren Leben gesucht - und ist in die Hände skrupelloser Verbrecher geraten.

Die Zukunft des Landes entscheidet sich auf einer kleinen Insel im Wattenmeer. Sommerpause. Der Bundespräsident macht Urlaub auf Juist. Doch es gibt ernst zu nehmende Hinweise, dass ein Mörder auf ihn angesetzt wurde. Kriminalhauptkommissar Tinus Velten wird von Berlin auf die ostfriesische Insel entsandt, um das Sicherheitsteam vor Ort zu unterstützen. Und er hat noch einen zweiten, geheimen Auftrag: Offenbar gibt es einen Spitzel in den eigenen Reihen. Velten muss ihn so schnell wie möglich überführen - sonst wird sein erster Einsatz an der Nordsee tödlich enden.

When secretary Colleen Roper becomes pregnant by her boss, Michael, he whisks her away to Ravenwood, his opulent estate. Abruptly thrust into a life of luxury she’s never known, Colleen finds the immense house suffused with the memory of Michael’s wife, Joanna, who left months ago and haunts her imagination. With rooms she’s prohibited from entering and a staff that greets her with hostility, there is little room for a new mistress of Ravenwood. It’s not long before bones are unearthed in the grove across the street and Michael falls under the suspicion of detectives.

Cuervo is a pampered Nicaraguan moneyman, funding a guerrilla war from his cushy Miami penthouse. Sixto is his hulking, pistol-packing attendant, whose job satisfaction is on the wane. When an aging mobster enters their lives with a promise to help the rebel cause - with a planeload of chickens originally intended for voodoo sacrifice - a tense situation turns combustible. From the wickedly funny mind of Carl Hiaasen comes "The Edible Exile", a raucous story of sleazeball nihilists, lovable thugs, and jungle-weary freedom fighters who collide in a battle of wills, ego, and the almighty dollar.

Sam McCready has served with distinction for seven years as chief of the cover operations desk of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, a post that is the culmination of a brilliant career as an inventive and intrepid field agent. But times have changed. A high-level policy decision demands that the SIS strip away its old-style operatives, and the first to be targeted for retirement is the freewheeling McCready.

Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well-connected - and she needs Spenser's help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious golddigger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits the Boston P.I. to accompany her to her private island, Tashtego, for her daughter's wedding. Spenser is unsure of what his role as personal bodyguard will entail, but he consents when it's decided that he can bring his beloved Susan Silverman along.

Charlotte Arkendale was quite sure she knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a highly lucrative career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. But nothing in Charlotte's considerable experience had prepared her for the arresting stranger who appeared on her doorstep to apply for the position of her new man-of-affairs.He claimed to be a respectable gentleman - discreet, unassuming, ordinary to the point of being dull. Yet something about the set of Mr. St. Ives's broad shoulders and the unrelenting determination that smoldered in the depths of his amber eyes warned Charlotte to be wary. For the strong-minded beauty was already embroiled in a wealth of danger.Two months earlier, Miss Drusilla Heskett had become on of Charlotte's clients. Now the woman was dead, murdered in her own home, and Charlotte feared that the killer may have been one of the suitors she herself had advised Miss Heskett to reject. Still, with the right man by her side, Charlotte was certain she could uncover the truth and bring Drusilla's killer to justice. But was the enigmatic St. Ives Mr. Right...or Mr. Wrong?

Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach - with a push from local thugs. Soon, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, are on the trail of a mysterious woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and a shady plan to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. As alliances shift and twisted dreams surface, the Boston political machine looks to end Spenser's investigation one way or another.

Einst verschwanden ihre Schwestern spurlos. Jetzt leitet Hildur Rúnarsdóttir die Einheit für vermisste Kinder in den Westfjorden, und ihr altes Trauma holt sie wieder ein. Sie surft auf den eisigen Wellen des Atlantiks, umgeben von der rauen Natur Islands, um ihren größten Schmerz zu vergessen. Was wurde aus ihren Schwestern, die seit über zwanzig Jahren vermisst werden? Diese Frage stellt sich Kriminalbeamtin Hildur Rúnarsdóttir jeden Tag, wenn sie als Leiterin der Einheit für vermisste Kinder in den abgelegenen Westfjorden unterwegs ist.

Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. But until a new guest lands at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers, refusing to speak or explain her arrival, the sordid stories of unexplained deaths seem unconnected. Faith’s reticence is quickly interpreted as malevolence, setting the house abuzz with whispers of dark magic.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, listeners are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.’s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple–murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace.

Von dieser Autorin bekommt man nicht genug: Der "New York Times"-Bestseller von Freida McFadden, der für schlaflose Nächte sorgt. Eigentlich hat Eve Bennett ein gutes Leben. Sie ist Mathelehrerin an der örtlichen Highschool und verheiratet mit Nate, der dort Englisch unterrichtet. Doch letztes Jahr wurde die Schule von einem Skandal erschüttert, in dessen Zentrum eine Schülerin stand. Und dieses Jahr ist diese Schülerin in Eves Klasse. Addie kann man nicht trauen, sie lügt und verletzt Menschen. Aber niemand kennt die wahre Addie. Niemand kennt das Geheimnis, das sie zerstören könnte.

From FBI: Most Wanted’s Dylan McDermott and former FBI Special Agent Christopher Whitcomb, a revealing investigation into the disappearance of the Springfield Three, a cold case that has bewildered police officers, the FBI, and avid true crime followers for three decades.

"Sei ganz ehrlich: Wenn du dich nicht zwischen uns entscheiden müsstest, würdest du es dennoch tun?" Der Deal ist simpel: Ein Jahr lang soll die 19-jährige Cecelia zu ihrem entfremdeten Vater nach Triple Falls ziehen und in dessen Fabrik arbeiten, im Gegenzug erhält sie Zugang zu seinem Vermögen. Angewiesen auf das Geld, um ihrer kranken Mutter helfen zu können, willigt Cecelia ein – nichts ahnend, dass sie als Tochter des Chefs dort nicht den einfachsten Start haben wird. Doch das ändert sich, als sie Sean kennenlernt.

Er greift ein, als Scotland Yard versagt! Der Auftakt der neuen actionreichen Spannungsserie. Der ehemalige Polizist Robert Hoon kann kaum anders, als zu helfen, als ihn ein alter Freund bittet, seine Tochter zu finden. Immerhin hat ihm der Mann das Leben gerettet. Die Polizei hat den Fall bereits zu den Akten gelegt, solange es keine neuen Hinweise gibt – und die will Hoon nun liefern.

Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library’s popular Reading Buddies program. She has her hands full hosting the event. And when a guest at the gala drops dead, her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, will have their paws full helping her solve a murder.