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A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine...boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call Kinsey off, an accusing husband surfaces, and a double murder turns the case sinister.

When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don’t know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex-social worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye. The local press couldn’t get enough of Luella . . . until she horribly bungled her last case and a murderer went free.

Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her 33rd birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Charles Boyer, Mickey Rooney, John Wayne, and many more.

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. Er soll seine eigenen Eltern ermordet haben.

Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the CIA. She fell so hard for M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost 300,000 dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser's card.

Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Africa, taken under the tutelage of gunrunners, and tortured by one of the jungle’s most brutal men, Munroe was forced to do whatever it took to stay alive.

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.

Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with big dreams of making it big as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later, she disappears from her apartment. Her family, former boyfriend, friends - and the police - have no idea where she is and no leads. Leggett's mother hires Spenser to find her, with help of his former apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, now an LA private eye. Spenser barely has time to unpack before the trail leads to a powerful movie studio boss, the Armenian mob, and a shadowy empowerment group some say might be a dangerous cult.

The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department believe it was just a simple accident: faulty wiring in a century-old building. But Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze, suspects arson.

Once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle, a beautiful teenage runaway who turned to prostitution to escape her terrible family life. Now, April Kyle's return in Hundred-Dollar Baby is nothing short of shocking.

When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual depravity and corporate corruption.

In 1974, a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade held up the old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveler's checks, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite security camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators have remained at large for nearly three decades. Now it's up to Spenser to solve her murder.

Einen verurteilten Verräter zu schützen ist seine einzige Chance, für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen. Der elfte dunkle Fall des Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und heute bin ich ein Wächter des Weißen Rats der Magier. Doch früher hat mir dieser Rat immer misstraut, und einige seiner Mitglieder tun es noch heute. Besonders Wächter Donald Morgan hat mich schikaniert und stets einen Vorwand gesucht, um mich als Schwarzmagier hinzurichten. Es zeigt, wie verrückt dieser Fall war, dass Morgan des Hochverrats angeklagt wurde – und dass er ausgerechnet mich um Hilfe bat.

In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. If they don't receive the money, weapons, and apology they demand, "Rose Gold" will die - horribly and publicly.

Anwalt Martin Benner liebt Kostbarkeiten, allen voran Frauen, Wein und Antiquitäten. Als sein Freund Henry stirbt, hinterlässt er Martin eine Überraschung - seinen Anteil an Henrys Antiquitätengeschäft in New York. Doch Martins Freude ist kurzlebig: Ein Mann sucht ihn auf, der behauptet, Henry sei nicht an einer Krankheit gestorben, sondern wurde Opfer eines Mordes. Bald wird Martin in eine fiebrige Jagd verwickelt, in der es die Wahrheit zu finden gilt. Wer war Henry Schiller? Und was ist an dem Tag geschehen, als er starb?

Mord an einem Filmset – kein Wunder: die Hauptdarsteller sind Vampire! Der sechste dunkle Fall für Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich bin der einzige öffentlich praktizierende Magier Chicagos. So kam es auch, dass ich den Filmproduzenten Arturo Genosa beschützen sollte. Der Mann war davon überzeugt, dass irgendjemand es mit einem magischen Fluch auf ihn abgesehen hatte – und er hatte recht! Das konnte doch nur etwas mit den Vampiren zu tun haben, die an seinem Filmset auftauchten.

Dieser bizarre Doppelmord wurde eindeutig mit Magie durchgeführt! Der Auftakt der erfolgreichsten Urban-Fantasy-Serie der Welt! Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Nutzen Sie meinen Namen auf eigenes Risiko für Beschwörungen. Erst wenn Ihnen wirklich sonst niemand helfen kann, rufen Sie mich an. Das tat auch Lieutenant Karrin Murphy von der Chicagoer Polizei, als sie vor den Opfern eines bizarren Doppelmords stand. Die Tat war eindeutig durch etwas Übernatürliches verübt worden.

PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals.

Die Toten wandeln in Chicago! Der siebte dunkle Fall des Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich bin ein echter Magier, kein Jahrmarktskünstler. Dieses Mal bekam ich es mit einer wirklich abartigen Magie zu tun. Totenbeschwörer rangen in Chicago, meiner Stadt, um ein mächtiges magisches Buch. Und es scherte sie nicht, was dabei zu Bruch ging. Wenn Sie mir nicht glauben, dass es kaum etwas Erschreckenderes gibt als Totenbeschwörung, dann gehen Sie doch mal ins hiesige Naturhistorische Museum. Vielleicht fällt Ihnen in der Dino-Abteilung etwas auf.