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George est radiologue, spécialité qu'il a choisie car il n'aime pas particulièrement le contact avec ses patients. Il a contribué à la création de l'iDoc, un smartphone qui permet d'ausculter en direct le patient, 24 heures sur 24, et de lui délivrer diagnostics et ordonnances. Un petit bijou, qui permettrait de réduire les coûts de santé aux USA de façon spectaculaire. Mais c'est trop beau pour être vrai. Quand, après sa petite amie, c'est son meilleur ami qui meurt sans raison, il se pose des questions.

Set in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved 10-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead detective. When she discovers irregularities surrounding the original investigation that make him a suspect, she decides to cover for him. She doesn't tell her boss about the family connection and jeopardises her career by hiding evidence.

Capitalizing on his heroic career as a World War I flying ace, Casey Lee agrees to pilot a plane across the Pacific as a publicity stunt for an American tobacco company. But his future as a goodwill ambassador between East and West takes a nosedive when the flight is abruptly canceled. Stranded in Tokyo, his bank account rapidly dwindling, Casey is approached by Mr. Moto, a secret agent with a job to offer.

Dhruv is the popular dashing guy in Nisha's office. His impulsive antics irk her, but also attract her. From the day Dhruv enters her life, she starts getting anonymous threatening late night calls and scary nightmares that seem too real. Who is this Dhruv? What's his connection with the strange happenings in her life? Can she trust him? Nivas is a guy you wouldn't notice in a crowd. Rimi is a chatterbox and the polar opposite. Naturally, Nivas is drawn towards her and gains the courage to propose to her, desiring more of her. Things turn ugly from then on between the two.

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily, but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on his hands.

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.

People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who is blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, 'Junior', and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his ex-wife than he ever did during their marriage.

The KGB decides to use agent Otto Reimann to seduce Elke Meyer, the personal assistant to a top West German Cabinet member, to give over classified information, but Moscow does not count on the unpredictability of love.

Addison Stern is unparalleled when it comes to spinning a story. A ruthless PR executive, Addison is the star employee of the infamous Ovid Blackwell Group where the rich and famous go to hide all their secrets. Connor Windell, on the other hand, is in the business of finding out information others would rather keep hidden. He used to be LA's top private investigator until a betrayal from his ex-girlfriend ruined his reputation and sent him into early retirement. That ex? None other than Addison Stern. Connor has one chance to redeem himself and salvage his career, but he needs Addison’s help.

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

Am Kreidemuseum in Gummanz wird eine Leiche entdeckt: eine Polizistin, die vor zwölf Jahren verschwunden ist, weil sie offenbar mit der Organisierten Kriminalität zusammengearbeitet hat. Aber offenbar hat sie immer noch Kontakte zur Polizei gehabt – ausgerechnet zu Jan Riechter, dem Chef der Polizei in Stralsund und dem Ehemann von Romy Beccare.

Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East, with Kris, the station’s brilliant but impetuous star photographer, she leaps at the chance. In the field together, Sami and Kris feel invincible, shining a light into the darkest of corners…except the newsroom, and the rest of the world, doesn’t seem to care as much as they do. Until Kris takes the photograph.

In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the US Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.

El cuerpo sin vida de Henrik Dahlman, un artista casado y padre de familia, aparece desnudo y atado a la cama en su casa de verano de Ljugarn. Las pistas apuntan a que el culpable quiere confundir a la policía sobre su identidad. Cuando otro hombre casado aparece brutalmente asesinado, Anders Knutas y Karin Jacobsson son conscientes de que se enfrentan a un homicida con un plan preconcebido que, además, cambia continuamente de aspecto.

En 1978 una joven llamada Maria Turquand fue asesinada en una habitación de hotel. Se investigó a los sospechosos, pero el culpable nunca apareció. John Rebus siempre tuvo la sensación de que algún detalle importante se le escapaba a la policía. Ahora ha decidido recuperar el caso y parece que eso aún puede acarrear imprevisibles consecuencias. No es lo único que le preocupa al exinspector Rebus. Darryl Christie, aspirante a controlar las actividades delictivas en Edimburgo, ha recibido una paliza que lo ha dejado fuera de combate.

En una tarde brumosa, cuatro turistas viajan a Ronda para admirar el Puente Nuevo, una construcción de casi cien metros de altura. Debido al mal tiempo, tres de ellos deciden regresar al hotel. El fiscal malagueño Álvaro Pérez se queda solo haciendo fotos, mientras su esposa sueca, Marianne, y sus amigos lo esperan en el hotel durante horas. Cuando al día siguiente su cuerpo aparece destrozado en un barranco, asignan el caso al inspector Héctor Correa, de la Policía Nacional de Málaga.

El cálido sol de septiembre brilla sobre Visby y sus calles empedradas. Los turistas se han marchado de Gotland y la calma ha regresado. Sin embargo, las desapariciones inexplicables de dos niñas pequeñas provocan un revuelo entre los habitantes de la isla. La subinspectora Karin Jacobsson dirige la investigación a un ritmo frenético, mientras que su colega Anders Knutas, recién divorciado, sigue luchando por recuperarse de una depresión. Karin, que por primera vez se enfrenta sola a un caso, intenta ayudar a Anders, con quien está empezando una relación sentimental.

Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: They were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them.

Dans le civil, c'est "Magalie Bouvet". Quadra, divorcée, un lardon. Au boulot, c'est "Madame la flic". Commandant au sein de la police judiciaire parisienne, au 36, et chef d'un groupe antiterroriste. Enfin, plus tout à fait. Ça, c'était avant. Avant que je m'en fasse virer pour une connerie, une mauvaise rencontre. Je ne regrette pas, pas vraiment, car ma reconversion forcée a ses avantages, dont celui de me faire voir du pays. Et puis l'action est toujours là. Je suis juste débarrassée des lourdeurs administratives de mes anciennes fonctions.