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The heist was legendary, still talked about 20 years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help.

Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America's greatest cities, some of Louis L'Amour's most compelling fiction was set in his own time. Here are tales of innocents caught in the schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide more lies, gangsters and beauties, private investigators and cops. Here is a world populated by the kinds of people who risk their lives to right a wrong, make a buck, or save a friend.

A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons. Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken", is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria 20 years earlier. But back then, police were sure they had discovered the killer, a prestigious archaeologist who is currently in jail.

It’s spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch’s sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women’s lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or Steph, a decent student until she dropped out to start a family, would ever send a daughter to a place like Amherst. 

Nie hätte die Juristin Dana Marin geglaubt, diesen Tag wirklich zu erleben: Bei einem Besuch in Athen nimmt die griechische Polizei den Ex-Präsidenten der USA im Auftrag des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs fest. Sofort bricht diplomatische Hektik aus. Der aktuelle US-Präsident steht im Wahlkampf und kann sich keinen Skandal leisten. Das Weiße Haus stößt Drohungen gegen den Internationalen Gerichtshof und gegen alle Staaten der Europäischen Union aus. Und für Dana Marin beginnt ein Kampf gegen übermächtige Gegner.

Die Vergangenheit ruht nie... Naomi Carson war elf, als sie ihrem Vater eines Nachts in den Wald folgte. Sie vermutete dort ihr Geburtstagsgeschenk, ein neues Fahrrad. Stattdessen machte sie eine grausige Entdeckung, die ihre Welt zerbrechen ließ - denn ihr Vater war nicht der Mann, für den ihn alle hielten. Trotz allem wuchs Naomi zu einer starken jungen Frau heran und bereist heute als erfolgreiche Fotografin die Welt. Nun hat sie beschlossen, ihr unstetes Leben aufzugeben und endlich sesshaft zu werden.

When it comes to presidential campaigns, fiction can be more thrilling than truth. Such is the case in the extraordinary story of high-stakes presidential politics told in Richard North Patterson's No Safe Place.

Winter in South Dakota. Der Bus, in dem Jack Reacher unterwegs ist, gerät auf einer Brücke ins Schleudern und landet im Straßengraben. In der Kleinstadt Bolton schlüpft Reacher bei einem Cop unter - und erfährt, dass die Polizei eine Seniorin zu schützen versucht, die Zeugin eines Drogendeals wurde. Reachers Alarmglocken schrillen, als kurz vor der Gerichtsverhandlung eine Gefängnisrevolte ausbricht und ein stillgelegtes Army-Flugfeld vor den Toren der Stadt von Schnee und Eis befreit wird.

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.

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica. But Malone isn't the only one after the truth.

On the surface, Annie Powers' life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her.

The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the small towns dying and the people with them, you can hear the wind. And on the back of the wind is the sound of an old accordion—tangos—mingling with the lonely thump of a single drum in the nighttime and a far-off warrior’s cry. On the back of the wind is the smell of worn saddle leather and sawdust, of sandalwood, and smoke from ancient ceremonial fires.

Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects.

Meet the trophy wives of Presidio Terrace, San Francisco's most exclusive - and most deadly - neighborhood in this shrewd, darkly compelling novel from the New York Times best-selling author of In Her Shadow.

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at 32, she is about to be paroled, having served 22 months of a four-year sentence. Nord Lafferty wants to be sure she strays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, the gamblers.

Seit einem Unfall kann Amos Decker, der Memory Man, nichts mehr vergessen. Eine Eigenschaft, die ihn nach dem schrecklichen Mord an seiner Familie fast in den Wahnsinn getrieben hätte. Aber nun hat er ein neues Lebensziel gefunden: Innerhalb einer Spezialeinheit des FBI klärt er ungelöste Schwerverbrechen. In seinem ersten Fall geht es um Melvin Mars, einen ehemaligen Footballstar, der seit zwanzig Jahren in der Todeszelle sitzt.

Besessen bis zum Mord. Der neue große Stephen King. John Rothstein hat in den Sechzigern drei berühmte Romane veröffentlicht, seither aber nichts mehr. Morris Bellamy, ein psychopathischer Verehrer, ermordet den Autor aus Wut über dessen "Verrat". Seine Beute besteht aus einer großen Menge Geld und einer wahren Fundgrube an Notizbüchern. Bellamy vergräbt vorerst alles - und wandert dummerweise für ein völlig anderes Verbrechen in den Knast.

My name is Vincent Marelli, though most people call me The Wolf. You’ve never met me, and if you’re lucky you never will. But in more ways than you could think of, I own you. I run the biggest criminal operation in the world. We’re invisible but we’re everywhere. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however it is you spend your money, a piece of it lands in our pockets.

Wer den perfekten Menschen will, verliert irgendwann die Kontrolle über Gut und Böse... Der US-Außenminister stirbt bei einem Staatsbesuch in München, bei der Obduktion erscheint auf seinem Herzen ein seltsames Zeichen. In Brasilien, Tansania und Indien entdecken Mitarbeiter eines Chemiekonzerns Pflanzen und Tiere, die es eigentlich nicht geben kann. Zur gleichen Zeit wenden sich Helen und Greg an eine Kinderwunschklinik in Kalifornien.

Eines Nachts wird die kleine Olivia Zeugin eines blutigen Mordes und verliert auf schreckliche Weise ihre Eltern. Erst in der friedlichen Abgeschiedenheit von River’s End, weit entfernt vom Ort des Geschehens, verlieren die Bilder über die Jahre ihre bedrohliche Kraft. Aber Olivia muss noch einmal in ihre Vergangenheit eintauchen, denn sie kann dem Mann, der hinter dem Verbrechen steht, nicht entrinnen.